It's ok I am Alive

Wow, a whole month and a bit without posting. That has to be one of the longest breakdowns in Blogging in this little fraternity of blogs.
The main reason i have not blogged is that I've been a busy boy working. I've been working on an event called Spring Harvest, for those of you that don't know what that is its the biggest Christian conference in Europe, split up into 7 6day weeks across two butlins sites. thousands of Christians go to it every year. We (elucid8) provide AV for two of the venues on the minehead site.
Another way of describing the event would be " a month stuck in butlins with thousands of Christians with most of the bars shut!"

So permit me if you will, while I sit here eating my Easter egg to tell you briefly about my time away.

week one,
I really quite enjoyed the start of spring harvest this year - we had quite a relaxed setup over a couple of days, Me, Matt, Phil and a couple of others ( a badger and a gangster) had the chance to go out for a couple of meals and spend a relaxing evening in the local pub.
then the event started...
the first week was good, the main two reason for this were that Jo was there for the week working on the youth team and I knew I was going home at the end of week one! - it was good fun hanging out with some friends too, Sandjea and the taylors.

Week two,
I really enjoyed this week, i was back home... Need I say any more?! The long weekend involved visiting family and knocking down Lloyds shed.

Week three,
this was another good week, not as enjoyable as the first week - but I think that was mainly due to the fact that I knew I wasn't going home at the end of the week.
again got to spend some time with some good friends, the Electralyte massive. Mr and Mrs White, the Grinnells and a few others.

Week four,
Now this was "interesting" technically we changed events for the fourth week. All things spring harvest quickly turned into all things Elim. I'm not going to comment much on this event as I wouldn't want to misstakenly offend any Elims out there who may see this blog. Lets just say that the Elim conference had a very different way of working to spring harvest and other Christian events such as ROOTS.
We (tom and I) had a fair amount of time on our hands during this week which felt very strange in that setting. Normally at these events you get up very early, leave your accommodation and don't get time to visit it again until the small hours of the following day when all you want to do is sleep.
this week still had the early starts, we had a prayer meeting at 7am every morning but we were finished each day between 4 and 5. Needless to say I got chance to see a few frames of the snooker world championship.
on one of the days we had a big game of cricket (we being all the sound/AV/lighting engineers) who all seemed to have the whole afternoon doing nothing. It felt a little weird, and perhaps a bit naughty to spend several hours playing cricket but I thought, if the head technical person is fine playing cricket, then I was too!
we had two very nice meals out paid for by spring harvest and BHsound thanking us for our work at the elim conference (it was kind of them to include the Elucid8 two).

the whole event finished a day earlier than expected so Tom and I spent a lot of time on our own in butlins watching it transform back from Christian conference venue to the Stag and Hen weekend which by now will be in full swing.
I arrived home last night at about 10:20, its nice to be home. Roll on ROOTS!