My first post...

Well this is it... I finally got round to Blogging.

I am going to use this space on Blogger (thanks, Blogger) to keep a record of all the things that make me feel alive - New stuff that interests me:
* inspiration from God,
* funny things my wife or the kids have said or done,
* cool CDs from Fopp or
* new products from Apple
...that kind of thing.

What's on the radar for this evening? My wife is at church - we worship at the Salvation Army in Bellshill, Scotland - and I am looking after my two girls (6 & 4). My eldest is surfing the net on an old but reliable iMac DV G3 and my youngest is hustling for sweeties. I'm going to tidy up the house, get the girls off to bed and then I am going to chill (hopefully with my wife home at a reasonable time...)

What I will be doing tonight is recording a radio show off the web - My wife plays in the Bellshill Salvation Army Band and sings a wonderful solo on their first CD "The Call of the Righteous" called "Written in Red". This song is being played on the SA's 30 minute slot on the community radio station www.yourfm.ca at 2030hrs their time (approx Monday, 0130hrs GMT).

I am using a wonderful piece of software called "irecordmusic" - it records radio shows broadcast over the internet. I bought it specifically to record "the Blue Room" and "Worldwide with Gilles Peterson" on Radio 1 - they are on at silly times (0500hrs Sat and Sun, and 2300hrs Sun respectively) and its easier for me to record them and play them back on my iPod at my convenience. I don't share them or anything and tend to delete them after listening (just in case the Radio 1 lawyers find my lowly blog).

Anyway, back to "Written in Red" - my wife sings beautifully and I don't say that because I am biased - I have always loved her voice. She chose the song after hearing Janet Pascal sing it on a Gaither Homecoming video. It is a lovely song! Sometimes I think that my wife and I are the youngest fans of Gaither Music but it is suprising who likes their stuff.

More on that some other time...