Chasing Butterflies

Today I wanted to chase a butterfly but couldn't find one. Oh well,I guess Spring isn't too far away now.

Glitter Ball

This weekend Ang and I were involved with the Glitter Ball - an event for the youth of Cambridge to come and celebrate Christmas in a safe environment. It took place in the buildings of St Andrews Street Baptist church which gave us 3 floors of space to play with. The middle floor was where all the action took place with a disco and bouncy castle for everyone to enjoy. The picture below shows some of the great lights that were used in the event.


Ang and I helped with the entertainment on the ground floor. There was a cafe complete with live magic and karaoke... but we were involved with taking photos in the lift (below) which we'd decorated with gold glittery hanging things! Basically, I took the photos of all the young people and passed the memory card to Ang who printed them off straight away. We ended printing over 125 photos!!

We were asked to help with the event by Tim Yau the youth worker at our church, St Barnabas. The evening was themed 70s and Tim and his wife Debs really dressed up for the evening. Tim was in charge of the top floor which was set up as the chill out room.

Ang and I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and we hope that we helped some of the 100 young people to enjoy themselves too!

Test with a picture

This is a test message with a picture.

Beginners Luck

We went bowling lastnight and I got two strikes in a row with my first two balls. It was down hill from there though, and I only just managed to get over 100. Oh well. Twas fun though.

Very Naughty Vectra

Yesterday our car number 1 started playing up again. The Vectra kept sputtering and stalling at random times. So annoying. We've now got to book it in so that it can be looked. Thank God for car number 2.

Helping Horses

On Sunday as we were driving back from church complete with Christmas tree in the boot we saw some traffic ahead of us on the A10. As we got nearer we saw a horse box with two people clambering around. As we we were about to overtake one of them shouted out... "help, help!"

Ang quickly jumped out of the car as I pulled over andput my hazards on. Basically the partition at the back of the horse box had broken and so was banging into the horses as they were driving along. Now they had to get the horses out to help them calm down - but we were on a busy road!

For the next 15mins we helped stop the traffic and protected the huge horses from the passing cars. What fun! The best mini adventure I've had in a while.

Free Gig!

Yesterday Ang and I went to a free gig in London organised by Radio 2. It was there special Christmas eve live recording that would go out at 8:30pm on Christmas eve!

What a fantastic evening! It was hosted by Jamie Cullum and on stage for most of the evening was the London Community Gospel Choir who were amazing. As it was Radio 2 there were numerous acts that took it in turns to first sing a solo and then perform with the choir. Highlights of the evening included Beverly Knight, Lucie Silvas, and Jamie Cullum. Other artists included G4, Liberty X, Simon Webbe, David McAlmont and someone else.

The music was great and has put us in the mood for Christmas!

My new phone

This is a test post from my new mobile phone!

It is Finished!!

.... well, nearly anyway. Wednesday night saw the first big change to www.alandang.com since its inception in 2001. To save costs and increase flexibility I have decided to move where it was hosting and it has worked pretty much seamlessly. There are a few things that will need changing including our news letter signup and guestbook, but hopefully by the end of the weekend everything will be set up correctly. I have been very pleased over how well the transition has gone.