this week (and the past few months) have seen the rekindling of a childhood love affair between me and a great dame called 'peanut butter', this all started years ago way back before we had met but after my 'nutella' addiction. i spent some time in rehab getting over that one only to stumble into a short fling with someone know as 'rasberry jam', that was short and sweet. after several years of the sober lifestyle i finally felt free enough to make myself another sandwhich. hence the peanut butter. its been a long and winding road but i feel i have come out of the tunnel a stronger person and now i want to settle down.
...speaking of love affairs, i just had a pretty eye opening conversation with Sothy about this girl at uni who appears to be in love with him. he said it is a massive problem for him because she is rich and her dad works in the government and he is not rich or handsom (his words). he told me that if he wanted to marry this girl her parents wouldnt allow them and they could even have gangsters come and kill him. i know this all sounds a bit extreme, when he said that last bit i nearly laughed, but i can assure you he was deadly serious...i advised him out of my vast experience and knowledge in the subject and decided that my work was done. then i saw that it was good and rested.
i found out today there is a music school here in PP that charges $10 for a month to study music and $5 to learn guitar. this is an hour lesson every day of the week for a month for the equivelent of 5 pounds. when i told Sothy my guitar lessons in england used to cost $30 (15 pounds) for just one hour he couldnt believe it, then when i told him that was cheap he was amazed. the contrast is incredible, yet if you consider that a lot of people earn $50-$100 per month the relatively speaking it is probably more expensive here...crazy.
isaac offered me a job the other day. we were just casually chatting and he dropped in the conversation 'if you want to stay here, man, you can run my restaurant' in his west coast accent. to which i laughed and said 'i think i would bankrupt you', this is almost certainly true. nice to have the offer though! i always thought running a business would be good fun.
im off to buy some more rat traps!
3rds the one with the hairy chest.
Ben.
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- king ben
- Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- 20. Christian. always hungry.
Romans 5:7-8
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrated his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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Hi ben,
if you leave your email address as a hyperlink on the blog you will get lots of emails from people offering you pills for erectile dysfunction.
If you remove the "mailto:" clause and leave it as normal text people can then just copy and paste it. Most MSN users will have to do that anyway!
Keep it real,
Oliver
hi ben Maria here, finally got around to contacting you i hope this program has aspell checker as typing and spelling are not my strong points. I must say though I think writing is one of yours. just because i have not written does not mean you are forgotten. thank you very much for your letter, we were all pleased to recieve it, i did not know people still actually wrote real letters so it was a real treat. I had a nice chat with your mum and sister in the hot tub at david loyds this week, she was saying what a great time they all had when they visited with you. and it all sounds like you are really enjoying this second half of your trip, make the most of it it will be june before you know it! Etahn has just started looking healthy again after his week in the flat, I think it was good for him, although he is still convinced you all have a coushy life, and that your mums secretly do your washing and cooking.It was really nice to spend time with matt and luke, matt is still calling terry dad and i'm still catching up on my sleep as you know luke does not need much, i have told him he is going to live half a life more than the rest of us. ethan has had a french boy[friend of john and liddies ] staying all week, which i think he enjoyed he misses your times together, matt has not found anyone esle i guess you are irriplaceable! Hannah has gone to milton kynes today for the newday global auditions,she is hopeing it is going to be a bit like pop idol.i have been busy with work and we have a big exhibition for link romaina next friday hopefully that will go well , also doing some new stuff for the church. I guess you heard Terry had his debut long Sunday preach he did really well, and has had lots of positive feed back. any way i hope this sends ok, i really like peanut butter the wholenut variety which is really nice with natella on toast. any way ben hope you have a great week keep up the good work maria
ps give my regards to steve and midge maria
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