The continuning holiday happenings of a non-university based chaplain

Why doesn’t grass die???

I mean if you leave it to grow then it becomes very long and then it gets these seed things on the top and that the grassy next generation, isn’t it? But we never let it get like that we mercilessly mow it down in the prime of life so it never gets a chance to breed.

So surely after cutting, cutting, cutting and walking on it…it must die. Yet my lawn has been here since my house was made 20 years ago and its still going strong.

As is everyone else’s.

Clearly grass is immortal.

Church of England Chaplain Simon Stevens Yellow Grass

Troopers

Like many of you I've been spending far too much time downloading from You Tube.

Today's offering wins the award for most amount of effort put into making a short not-for-profit film but then that what you expect from Star Wars fans!

Yellow

The Best of Google : "Yellow"



A touching story of one woman...a wifi conection and a yellow chair.

Watch the movie here

The interesting thing is that she uses virtual space to create actual realtionships. She is trying to make friends with her neighbours and so uses the internet. Of course she could have just knocked on their doors.

I guess this movie makes a point that she does not, which is that is all well and good to go on about 'virtual' community but that is no replacement for the real thing.

I suppose I hope that by putting chaplaincy into the virtual blogsphere I hope I am also creating a real community that actually meets from time to time.

One final thought I do like the idea she has of a shared folder. I wonder if we need this on the chaplaincy web site.


Church of England Chaplain Simon Stevens Yellow

A levels

So the A level results are out and they are good. Loads of people are calling for a debate on why they are so good.

Half those people of course are living in the past. They want an elitist system to provide a free ticket on the gravy train for the chosen few. The rest of us, who live in 2006, should not be surprised that in a knowledge based economy that more students aspire to have A-levels and work at them and get better results.

When I was Chaplain to a sixth form college A-Levels results day used to be good bye.

"Now it brings several thousand students my way.


This time last year I had never met the people who now form such a significant part of my life. People like Tom Tarling then just another sixth form student, now president of Boldrewood Tunnel Soc.

And even as I sit here typing this I know that there will people who are opening their results and they will be on their way to Southampton University and I know that some of them will be part of what happens to me in my job some of them will be in SCM some of them will be in CU some of them are going to be BELL RINGERS....I don't know what they are going to bring to us but I am very much looking forward to meeting them.

This is how the University of Southampton year 2006-2007 begins...

Exciting isn't it?

Church of England Chaplain Simon Stevens Yellow

Simon Stevens

Call me vain but I did a search yesterday on my name. I did this on Google.

I say my name obviously I mean my legal name which is 'Simon Stevens' rather than the name I'm actually using at the moment which of course is 'Yellow'

Here is the search


In fact I'm there down the bottom. Item 10. Though yesterday I was on the second page. Clearly Google doesn't think this page is about Simon Stevens. Clearly this page doesn't mention Simon Stevens enough. Google thinks if you're looking for Simon Stevens, then can't be after the Dark Side of the Moon Chaplaincy. You must be after another Simon Stevens. There are a few Simon Stevens in the world and Yellow isn't one of them. Here have some other Simon Stevens.

Of course one way I could fix this is by putting the name Simon Stevens on my blog a few times. But why would anyone (called Simon Stevens or anything else for that matter) do that? That would just be silly. No I wont do that or my name's not Simon Stevens. (Which of course it isn't - it's Yellow.)

Which makes me wonder what you get if you type yellow into a search programme. Then I decided what to do with my holidays. Random internet searches. I wonder what gems you will get when you enter a random word into google. This week the best of 'Yellow'

Church of England Chaplain Simon Stevens Yellow

The Daily Show

Chaplaincy Web

I'm on holiday at the moment and where else does one's thoughts turn when on vacation that to the chaplaincy web page.



What is it about this site that is so very, very shite??? I can't quite put my finger on it. I think its probably the complete lack of student appropriate content.

But then again...I could be wrong. I frequently am. So lets open it up to disscussion please help me out here, post your responses in the comments section as to what should we do with this site. Am I wrong? Is this the best of the internet or are my instincts correct.

Here to help you are several other chaplaincy web sites.


Reading for example. I like this web site it even has a section for registering if you are a new student and even better a guide as to what to do in Reading during the summer. WOW...life in Reading. Only minus point on the site is the large quantity of images of an empty chaplaincy captioned with stuff like "The Meeting Room - Buzzing!"

I know and like the Reading Anglican Chaplain. He also has a personal website which is slightly lacking in content. Especially the bit marked my friends...Whoops!!

Maybe I need a personal website. Maybe I need some friends then I wouldn't spend my holidays worrying about the chaplaincy web site.


Staffordshire nice looking with a minimal amount of information. Nice cartoon of a chaplain doing sod all. Clearly it's not just Southampton Chaplains who do this for a living.


UWE pretty octagony shapey thingy.

(Added bonus here for anyone interested in history, check out their latest news 'Chaplaincy Hot Spot' and find out what they were up to last year.)

Anyway that's enough chaplaincies....your comments please.

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Truly Random

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...Off in the distance a dog barks

Church of England Chaplain Quack