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Just back from holiday now. I hate that feeling as you return home from holiday that it is all now over, and work begins! For me, that's today at church. Thankfully someone else is 'doing' the service, so I just have to 'be'.

The BB training week was fantastic. It was great to work with so many enthusiastic young people. One of the students on the course received some bad news during the week, and the rest of his group immediately wanted to pray for him. It was lovely to see, and take part in that very moving time of prayer after our course communion service.

It was good 'doing' communion with the other chaplain, a Methodist minister. We thought we had sorted everything out beforehand, but as we participated together I realised that we were doing it just slightly differently according to our traditions... the half of loaf he distributed was almost finished when he got back to the table, whereas mine was barely touched! Something about the generosity of God there...

Spending time with so many young people means that there is now a dramatic increase in the number of photos of me on facebook. Hmmm. Look if you dare!

Wales was good. Not much sun. Plenty of rain. But then, that is Wales! It didn't stop us doing anything though, in what I reckon is our best family holiday yet. Jonathan is nearly 3 and Reuben nearly 5 now, so they were both independent enough for us to do a mixture of walks, visits and play. It was lovely. I feel quite refreshed now. I'm trying to ignore the mountain of post and the e-mountain of e-mails!

Just reading through Hague's biog of Wilberforce at the moment. It's fantastic. last night I got to the point when the Abolition Act went through Parliament and received the Royal Assent just before the Grenville government collapsed. Riveting stuff.