Posting from Greenbelt - well, I am not telling the truth already. Am in the Esporta Gloucestershire which is only a 15 min drive away, and we have thoroughly used the facilities included in our membership, this is a delightful club which has a swimmnig pool just how I like them - new, clean and big. No veruccae to be spotted bobbing about in the shallows. The girls are on a bouncy castle, thoughtfully provided as there were lots of children around. The Hampshire could learn a thing or two.

Greenbelt has been good so far, in that there has been no daytime rain, so immediately it is a good festival. We have skived off the morning service, which for many is the highlight of the festival. Don't know where they spend the rest of it - cleaning the loos? Anyhow, its long and boring and you have to sit on the grass and smile at nutters in jumpers with teddy bears on them, or wearing a hat only Robin Hood should go out in. Last night I saw 2 men walking around dressed as knights. Would they go out like that at home, I asked? Well, would have done, but they had sharp looking bits on their belts.

Anyhow, the reason for my urgent posting is to tell you the register of the kids in my team, as of course, it is a busmans holiday and I am doing kids work. It reads like a march through the saints and prophets. Joshua, Josiah, Joseph - ok so far, Wilfred, Columba ( boy) and 2 Ronans show a bit of a Celtic twist. Miriam, 2 Ionas (girls) like that name - but great for jokes as in I own a ....as modelled in the Family Twist by the funny Paul Cookson. Then there's a boy goes by the name of Amos, and a girl called Clementine. She was born at Christmas, luckily, or she would have been called Satsuma.

the Family twist is brilliant comedy. Basically its a couple of performers who play impromptu accordian and tell poems, and then kids put their names down to do acts, tell jokes. So we found ourselves singing 'give me oil in my lamp' to the cornet, watching a 6 year old breakdancing to accordian music, and listened to many awful jokes, and a few good ones. They got the accordian guy to play a medley of the A team, Hallelujah chorus and Dr Who. Awesome musician to pull that off.

All you people who I keep telling to come, COME NEXT YEAR! Your kids will love it! If you have a slight tint of the hippie in you, you will love it! Even R loves it and he's not remotely hippie! H and A are sporting tattoos which is just one of those things you have to do at a festival. I haven't seen a drunk person, only seen one person smoking a cigarette, its so polite and friendly and full of the fringes of Christianity. All the speakers ( with exception of Rob Bell) are people you would never of heard of, who are doing the stuff, and there is room here for every shade of christian, except perhaps the fundamentalist, who would be spitting blood and coughing at the fact that Roman Catholics, gay priests and random people dressed as knights are all managing to coexist peacefully with a few MPs, some Swedish death metal group and a couple of little girls with tattoos on their faces. Bless them all!