Mrs. Robinson’s Blog

Current mood: excited

It’s come round again – can you believe it? New Wine 2006.

Thousands of Christians lumped together in a field…..

Yeah Baby!!

Here’s a bargain if ever I saw one:

New Wine Deluxe Camping Kit

Available 22-29 July at the Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet

Kit includes:

1 three-room, four person tent

4 sleeping bags

2 roll mats

1 double airbed

16 marshamllow hot chocolate mountains

3 rude awakenings by loud snores

4 occasions when you trip over guy ropes

1 huge moan about not having a hair dryer

3 trips to shower block in the dark in pyjamas & cagoul with umbrella

6 torchlit stumbles back to tent

2 slight panic nearly getting lost from Big Top to tent

4 BBQs

10 glasses of wine in plastic glasses

3 trips to the ice block

3 new books and 2 CDx bought at the Market Place

1 early morning prayer meeting

1 pub visited for lunch on day off

7 hours spent waiting for kettle to boil

2 times of losing the washing up bowl

2 great worship venues

4 old friends bumped into

1 water fight

30 speakers to chose from

5 seminar venues

4 children’s groups

1 opportunity to turn up to Mark’s seminar and embarrass him

3 cabaret acts watched

2 nights pretending you’re still 17 at the late night gigs

25,063 cubic metres of fresh air

2 long chats by lamp light in the balmy summer evenings

Countless opportunities to be prayed for and to move on with God….

Am so up for it this year. So grateful for the time out to refocus on why I choose to follow Jesus and what he has in store for me. Plus some mates are going who have never been before and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do in them.

Please let the weather stay like this! I love my cagoul…but can live without having to wear it…really I can……

Current mood: satisfied

So Saturday morning me and the girls decided to embrace the geek side and go to the London Film and Comic Con at Earl’s Court.

We couldn’t hang around for long, but we made the most of our time!

Abs made her way straight to Elijah Wood’s area (he was all behind screens and stuff – fair enough for photos – but for autographs?! What’s all that about?!)

Carolyn and I managed to lurk in a convenient place and see the moment when Abs got her photo taken with him (thanks to kind security guy!). Did feel for the poor guy, posing for the same photo over and over again…

Got a little stressed as time ticked past and realised my place in the virtual queue to meet Nathan Fillion was never going to come round in time before I had to go at lunchtime. Carolyn proved why she is one of my bestmates by going and having a word with the queue guy and he let me join the end of the queue early! (see convention people are really nice! Living up to their fab tee shirts ‘I’m (name of person), I’m here to rescue you!’)

So there I am….and I get to the front and Nathan flashed me this big smile and asks my name. I tell him, he replies with ‘Hi, I’m Nathan, nice to meet you.’ and shakes my hand…with a double handshake…both hands wrapped round mine…..In two seconds he officially becomes a contender for my laminated top five! He then grabs my camera and says something like ’give me that let’s get this done right now’. So we pose for pic…..

I point out my ‘crazy friends’ to him and they oblige by grinning at him and waving. He enthusiastically waves at them and asks them why they’re not queueing and tells them to get in line!

Whilst he’s signing, I ask him which was more fun, being a cool space cowboy captain with his own spaceship or being a psychotic priest who gets to beat up Sarah Michelle Gellar. After a bit, he says that Captain Mal Reynolds is the coolest and best written character he’s ever played and had so much fun playing him…..or something like that. I joined in with an appreciative ‘you’re SO right’. Then he gave me another double handshake whilst looking me right in the eye and telling me that it was a pleasure to meet me (!)…seriously he could shake my hand all day…

Then it was all over and I thanked him and grinningly went back to the girls. Sigh…..

Everyone’s a little bit geeky sometimes…..right?!