do something memorable every week

Saturday 24th – 350 Day of Action

24th OCtober was the 350 Day of Action global series of events. http://www.350.org/ Claire and I had organised two events for Torbay – and this was certainly the most memorable aspect of my week!

The event at the zoo wasn’t very successful… but the kite-flying on Goodrington green was fantastic!! I borrowed a friends kite, but several people had made their own kites. One woman had used an old carrier bag and broken windscreen wipers to make hers!! Fantastic!!

The kiteflying was great fun, and we also had the Herald Express write about it on Friday and then again on Monday! They had sent a photographer over too, so that was fantastic. I feel close to tears when I look at the thousands of pictures from all over the world from actions that all took place on the same day! It’s beautiful to think so many people in the world were working together all at once. :)

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Flying-kites-climate-message/article-1447249-detail/article.html
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Soaring-climate-change-message/article-1451665-detail/article.html?cacheBust=4ty6MQzONSej&authid=4pqIiS3lANuJL21lFhoQO4C2dIySLXaLEsOwjrAImKnQ4S1h1256766211534&successModeration=true#community

Wednesday 14th – RNLI ducks!

Started out the day by going to Dartmouth. :) We bought 4 RNLI duckies… 2 of which we wrote messages on! We used Bible quotes and personal messages!

We then went out to Dartmouth Castle. We climed around to the rockpool bits by going across the BEAUTIFUL beach! We threw the duckies out as far as possible and they headed down the River Dart! It was all very exciting!!

We then realised that we’d made ourselves stranded because the tide had come in whilst we were out on the rocks!! So we had to climb right up the rocks and jump over the barbed wire fence, into the Castle grounds that you aren’t allwoed in. Oops! We had SUCH a beautiful view of Dartmouth though – truly magical! From there we had to sneak around this mini cliff edge without any one seeing us and then climb up and walk along some wobbly wall of rocks and jump down into the part of the Castle you’re allowed in if you’ve paid!! It was such a fantastic morning!

Saturday 10th – ZORBING

Despite it being October, the weather was fab! We took our long drive to Dorset and got to Hollow Hill, where they kindly let us use both our rides one after the other. Zorbing was ACE!! We dived into the zorb ball with warm water, rolled down laughing and loving it!! We hopped back out and the truck took us straight back up the hill to have our second go!!

After the good old zorb sesh, we took a wonder into Dorset. I loved it! I thought it was another really sweet city; it took us a good hour or so to find any form of fast food ~ and it was only Subway! They had a proper town cryer too.

We then went to Warmwell to a holiday resort to do some skiing (but couldn’t) so we hired out a couple bicycles and I relearnt how to do it!! I had an AWFUL bike! But I had a really good time. The best bit was when we ended up in some woods (we deffinitely got lost – I was stook in some mud with a sign next to it saying “Quicksand”!!!) but the woods were great! I felt like one of those hardcore bikers! Best bit was catching up Joe to find his bike on the floor and him doing some sort of rain dance round this tree!! We cycled around for hours because of getting lost ~ I think we went through about three towns?? Then we had to go some of the main road bit ~ which I refused to cycle on so we took forever! :P

After all that adventure we went back to a Wetherspoons in Dorset and had a lovely huge dinner. Fantastic! :)

I’ve just started a course called Growing Leaders which is focused around becoming a good Christian leader, and we had the first 24 hour session at the weekend!!

Saturday 3rd – Sunday 4th – We all had an excellent weekend, staying in a large house in Brixham! :) I actually am already friends with everyone else on the course except one person who I didn’t know directly, so it was great to further build up my relationship with each of these people! There was also a lot of support over the weekend to grow in my relationship with God, so that certainly has made this week memorable! I have now started reading the Bible every day again with mixing and matching things to form a new hopefully successful strategy. :)

Two main things to start off the goal with!! :

1. Monday 21st – Attended Gobal Wake Up Call in Totnes. A demonstration which was part of thousands of events world wide going on across the globe to wake our world leaders up to climate change!

1. Sunday 27th – Me and Joe went out on Chris’s boat which was SO cool! We went right the way round to Dartmouth to a tiny little island where I saw three seals up close! I hadn’t ever seen anything like it it was beautiful. :)