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Well, I should be in bed already.  I’ll be leaving the house at 0345 tomorrow morning to go to the airport and board my plane to London.  I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve had with my Mum, Dad and brothers but have really missed my wife and kids.

Today, Mum and Dad took the day off work and we headed to the Ulster Folk Park in Cultra.  Here’s a small video slideshow of some of the photos.  The full photo album can be viewed here.

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1 In that day you will say:
“I will praise you, O LORD.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away
and you have comforted me.

2 Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and not be afraid.
The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation.”

3 With joy you will draw water
from the wells of salvation.

4 In that day you will say:
“Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.

5 Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things;
let this be known to all the world.

6 Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion,
for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”

Wahey! Our new church website is up and it looks great! Check it out!

http://newhorizonchurch.tv/

I just completed a survey on the Wordpress dashboard tonight.  It seems like they may be contemplating adding adverts to our blogs.  It seems there will be probably be an paid option for removing the adverts from your site.

To be surprise, at the moment Google ads are displayed to a small number of visitors.  I didn’t realize this was happening, but it doesn’t bother me too much as Google ads tend to be unobtrusive.

However, an increase in the adverts might change things.  I can not imagine we would have control over what was advertised from our blogs.  That does bother me.

I’ve been recently thinking about using the Wordpress software on a self-hosted site.  I was trying to think of a good enough reason to go through the hassle of moving everything.  This might just be it.

We had a BBQ at my Dad’s church last night and a sing-song time afterwards (as is traditional). It was fairly relaxed so I played through a few songs that we sing back in North Carolina. Healer is pretty much taking the worship scene by storm at the moment.

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North Carolina must be on my mind today.

2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 teaspoons baking powder
5 tablespoons shortening
1/2 to 2/3 cup milk

Combine flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in shortening until mixture is as fine as meal, then add milk, mixing until soft dough is formed. Place on a floured board, knead lightly for 25 seconds. Roll dough to half-inch thickness and cut with floured biscuit cutter. Place on greased baking sheet. Bake at 450 degrees for 12 minutes.

Yields 12 biscuits.

(optional - but recommended)
When baked, cut those biscuits open and stick in a breaded chicken breast! Yummy. I’m going to make some this week.

My mum bought a new guitar yesterday from 2 Mac Music in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.  Here she is, all proud as punch with her new Avalon Silver Series DS-100E.

It’s a great sounding guitar and is lovely to play.

These are photos I took using a compact camera (Samsung Digimax D73).

Well, I did it.  I met up with that bloke I met online.  Everybody warned me not to go.  “You get all sorts of people on t’internet these days…”, they said.  You do indeed get many people out there pretending to be someone they’re not.  Not in this case.

I met up with Ally Simpson and his wife Cherith tonight up at Starbucks in Ballymena.

I can’t remember how we first hooked up online (think it was facebook), but I’ve been reading Supersimbo.net for a while now and bantering with Ally on Twitter.  We talked about various things - our backgrounds,  why we blog, our current church life and so on.

It was all over too soon.  Obviously we could not part without a photo to prove it actually happened.