Purposes...

Welcome to the blog...

Just to clarify something before I start, I have no idea where all this will go. But I want to chart the progress of the next few months/maybe years somewhere, as well as get up to a few other things, so a blog seemed the most natural place to start!

This'll probably end up being a rather eclectic mix of everything that makes up my life - writing, youthwork, music, campaigning, comedy, faith (I hesitate to use the word religion, because I don't like what that implies), and of course, the looming event which will force me to grow up once and for all - the start of a family.

I wanted to start it now because it's a unique time in my life - we're a little under five months away from finding out what the little person growing steadily inside Nikki's womb will be like, and it also sees the start of a project for me, which will come up again later on in the blog, which I am hoping will prove too much for just me and more people will become involved.

My background, briefly, is this - I live on the green edges of South East London. I am a civil servant, currently working for DCMS, and am engaged to Nikki.
I worship in Orpington, at St Johns United Reformed Church, and am a volunteer youth worker for both them and Christ Church Petts Wood.
I'm 25 - well, 26 in about two weeks, and at the moment, living at home with my parents and brother. But that is going to change, because despite all the obstacles, Nikki is expecting our first child in October, so the world seems to be turning a bit faster than I can cope with at the moment!

Thankfully it's all good news though!

Well, that's something about me. Enjoy the blog.