We've had a fantastic day today - done loads and now I'm exhausted!

We started off with visiting the Portsmouth & Hampshire Art Society at the Portsmouth Cathedral - there were some fantastic pictures there and Abi enjoyed it particularly the boat pictures. Then we had to dash off to a Kati, Dillon and Duncan's birthday party that Abi had been invited to, which was really nice as there were lots of our friends from church there and Abi had lots of fun playing with the other children.

After the party we went back to Stef and Gerard's house to borrow a thing to put on the side of Abi's bed so that she doesn't fall out, and we ended up staying for quite a while. Abi had fun playing with Tyler, Laura loved holding their little baby Daniel and I had a good chat with Gerard.

This afternoon we went down to Gunwharf Quays to get Abi some new shoes and decided to go up the tower as well. As there's a "Meet the Navy" event on at the dockyards, we had really good views of all the extra boats that are around the harbour for that. Abi had great fun up the tower, and loved the glass floor - she walked very confidently on it, laid on it and even stayed there when people were jumping right next to her!

Then we finished off the day with a barbecue.

This morning Laura spotted a spider in the bath and asked me to remove it. I picked up the spider and showed it to Abi. I then took the spider outside. Abi slammed the door behind me and screamed in protest.

When I came back without the spider and shut the door, she held out her hand as if to hold the spider and said "Abi loves spider"

This blog has been through various different iterations mostly based on custom written code- I tried Wordpress for a while, but didn't get on with it - it was too complicated for what I wanted, and I got too much comment spam (mostly filtered out, but still a lot to check it wasn't filtering valid comments).

A while ago I decided that I wanted to include content that I'd created elsewhere into my blog, so initially attempted this with the timeline approach - however this took the content too far away from the front page. In this latest iteration, all content is included in the main flow of the blog with different rendering styles for different types of content.

The content currently comes from twitter, flickr and from my own post form. These get updated using an ajax call once the front page of the site is loaded to ensure the content is up to date. At the backend, this is written in PHP and stored in a MySQL database, with each type of content having a PHP Class which controls how it is displayed.

Update:  And I'm back to Wordpress again!

Update- Download day is today! - go get Firefox...

When Firefox 3 is released, the Firefox team are attempting to set a world record for the highest number of downloads of a piece of software in 24 hours - why not join in?

After we read the story of Cain and Abel with Abi this morning:

Me

God sees everything including what you are thinking

Abi

Don't worry

The other night when Abi was in the bath, she decided to do some swimming. She went down onto all fours, and then lifted her feet up to float along the surface of the water. Like this she 'swam' lengths of the bath with her hands on the bottom.

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For a short while when we've been having our morning family devotional time together Abi has been repeating a prayer word by word after me - usually something intended to be like "Thank-you Lord for mummy and daddy" but usually when she's said 'mummy' and I say 'and' she adds 'Abi' but this morning I asked her if she wanted to pray and said 'repeat after me', and she says:

Thank you Lord for work work work > >

Amen

Just recording this so I can find it again!

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Just had the first session entitled 'What is the gospel?' looking at Romans 1:1-6. Go Paul's introduction to the letter there is a nice summary.

From God...about Jesus...for everyone

The talks were all very good and left me with lots to think about.

I was particularly struck by the talks about heaven and hell, which gave a really clear explanation of the motives for evangelism. As when we die we are faced with either eternal life or eternal punishment as the situation is very serious. The last talk was very encouraging and challenging looking at sharing our faith with friends through the bible after prayer.