Thursday, May 15, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
2 books on the way - phew!
Well lads - we are there two new books coming out later on in the year one with pictures one without!
I will post up some visual book pages when i get them :)
Shabba!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Lee and Baz are collecting photos for their new visual book...
Donate your photos by adding them to our 
group and you could be in our next book!
Easy!
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Fathers for life campaign...
This looks really interesting guys, a sort of code for fathers...
http://www.mightymenofvalour.com/30421/info.php?p=7&pno=0
I can feel a talk coming on!
Lee
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Why so few men in the church?
Friday, February 29, 2008
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Drop in suicide rates for young men
Press Assoc. - Friday, February 15 08:17 am
The rate of suicide among young men in England and Wales has fallen to the lowest level for more than 30 years, according to new research.
A study by the University of Bristol's Department of Social Medicine found the percentage of men aged 15 to 24 who take their own life has almost halved since a peak 18 years ago.
In 1990, there were 16.6 suicides for every 100,000 men aged 15-24 but by 2005 the rate had fallen to 8.5 per 100,000, the lowest level since 1974.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, said catalytic converters on cars have reduced the number of lives taken using poisonous exhaust fumes but there has also been a fall in suicides by other methods including hanging - the most common method used by young men.
Researchers said factors which create an increased risk of a person committing suicide, such as unemployment and divorce, also decreased during the same period.
In men aged 25-34, the rate fell by a third from the peak rate of 27.8 deaths per 100,000 men in 1998 to 15.7 deaths per 100 000 men, the lowest level since 1978.
The report, entitled Suicide rates in young men in England and Wales in the 21st century: time trend study, said from 1950 to 1998 rates of suicide in men aged under 45 doubled in England and Wales, while rates in women and older men declined.
During the 1990s, suicide accounted for about a fifth of all deaths in young men.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Monday, January 14, 2008
Paternal instinct?
BBC World Service Newshour takes up the story. Interviewing Lee Jackson!!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Cut to the Chase audiobook now available in three flavours!
You can now get our book 'Cut to the Chase' as an audiobook in three manly flavours...
You can get it as...
- Four audio cds in a dvd style case for £12.99
- An MP3 data disc for ipods and MP3 players (including id3 tags, artwork and lots of extras) for £7.99
and
- As a direct download for ipods and MP3 players (including id3 tags and artwork) from our audiobook server for only £6 :)
All three are available now in our shop here all major credit cards and paypal accepted
Over four hours of audio read by Lee, Baz and their friends.
Hearing the book read out loud in northern accents (!) really does bring it alive and of course its ideal for a mens book as most blokes don't read :)
Spread the word...Lee and Baz available now on your car and train journeys! Scary stuff.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Ship of Fools: Kitschness of Christmas is a big issue...
Ship of Fools: Kitschmas the problem with sweet sweet nativity stories
THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE of America was up in arms in 2002 about an exhibition in Napa, California, which included the "caganer", a traditional Catalan figurine who is placed squatting in the corner of the Christmas crib, trousers around his ankles.
Perhaps predictably, the Catholic League was offended by the presence of a defecating peasant in the holy stable. What it didn't appreciate, however, is that the Christmas story is supposed to be offensive, and that the caganer is a reminder of the theological revolution that scandalized sophisticated opinion of the first few centuries of the Christian era: that God became human, that the sacred was no longer to be protected from the profane....read more click the link above
Also the classic 12 days of kitschmas
Friday, December 07, 2007
Dave is here!
Here’s an event CVM is putting on in Bath that you may like to encourage some men you know to come along to in the New Year.
DON’T MISS OUT! A DAY WITH DAVE - is designed to encourage and fire up guys in church as well as challenge church culture, motivate the guys and inspire thoughts.
The day will be relaxed and fun.
David Murrow has written the greatly acclaimed (and by some greatly irritated!) book “Why Men Hate Going to Church”.He lives in Alaska and CVM has persuaded him to come to Bath on 26 January 2008.
Talk Titles include:
Why men hate going to church
How to disciple every man in your church
10 ways to make your church man friendly...
Optional seminars will be on offer during the day.
Bring a group along from church and be encouraged in your Christian faith. Enjoy worship, training and take back some great ideas for encouraging your church in it’s work and witness among men.
Order your tickets NOW: www.puratickets.com - instant online booking www.cvmen.org.uk - for postal booking (download a form) then send in your cheque to CVM
Why not arrive overnight Friday – Bath offers accommodation from £13/bunk at the very clean YMCA to well over £300/night if you go posh! Bring a friend the family, make a weekend of it - Bath offers great culture and shopping. For links to venue, directions or parking – click link
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
CHRISTMAS BY NUMBERS....
YOU will all eat 14 brussel sprouts over Christmas, many of you will wrap up a present for your dog, and some of you (yes, you know who you are) will spend Christmas filling in your tax return online.
MATT ROPER'S festive figures will have you totally fascinated...
£30 million - the amount spent each Christmas on Brussels sprouts.
7,000,000 - the number of real fir Christmas trees sold in the UK every year.
4.2 million - the number of credit-card users still paying off their bills from last Christmas.
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7 - the number of white Christmases in Britain during the 20th century.
7/10 - the number of British dogs that get Christmas gifts from their owners.
100 million - the number of turkey sandwiches we will eat between Christmas Day and New Year's Day.
1932 - the year King George V made the first Christmas broadcast.
NONE - the number of other countries in the world that eat Christmas pudding.
£28million - the amount spent on Christmas cakes each year.
85 per cent - the percentage of four-year-olds who believe in Santa
1,000 - how many of the first Christmas cards, printed by Sir Henry Cole in 1843, were sold for 1 shilling each.
15 - the number of hours each person takes to complete their Christmas shopping.
£7 BILLION - the amount Britain's shoppers are expected to spend on online gift purchases this Christmas.
£262 - the average amount Britain's parents will spend on each of their children.
4 billion - the number of sprouts bought in the week before Christmas.
£33 - the average spent per person on last-minute panic purchases.
EIGHTYTHREE square km - of wrapping paper will end up in UK rubbish bins - enough to wrap up the island of Guernsey.
3 million tonnes - of rubbish will be thrown away after the festivities.
£20BN - the amount the UK spends on Christmas, with £1.6bn going on food and drink.
1957 - the year the Queen's Christmas Day speech was first televised
1.7 billion - the number of Christmas cards sent in Britain every year.
1984 - the last white Christmas in UK.
Seventeen - the number of years Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas for in 1643.
NONE - the number of Oscars won by the ultimate Christmas movie, It's A Wonderful Life.
£1.2bn -the amount that will be wasted in the UK this Christmas on unwanted gifts.
1841 - the year Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert introduced Christmas trees to the UK.
10,000,000 - The number of turkeys eaten each Christmas.
Three thousand nine hundred & twenty one - the world record for the most people dressed as Santa, set in Liverpool last year.
59 - the number of years Norway has given London a Christmas tree for Trafalgar Square in appreciation of our help in the Second World War.
6th - the day in January that marks the official end of Christmas and the day decorations must be taken down.
1224 - the date the very first nativity scene was made, by St Francis of Assisi in a cave outside Greccia, Italy.
four hundred and forty - the date December 25 was first celebrated as the birthday of Christ.
832 - the number of homes Santa must visit every second to deliver all his presents.
£100,000,000 - the number of sales of the biggest festive single ever, Bing Crosby's White Christmas, from 1942.
25 - the percentage of Christmas shopping time spent in queues.
220 per cent - increase in church attendance in the UK at Christmas.
200,000 - the number of trees felled to make all the UK's Christmas cards.
three hundred and sixty four - the total number of presents given out in the Twelve Days Of Christmas carol.
750 - thousand the number of letters sent to Santa by UK children each year.
115,000 - the number of Britons who will be spending Christmas on the beach this year, with Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote the top three destinations.
14,000 - the number of babies that will be conceived in December.
FOURTEEN - the number of sprouts eaten by an average person over Christmas.
1843 - the date the first Christmas card was designed by J C Horsley.
1937 - the date the first Xmas postage stamp was produced in Austria.
31 PER CENT - the percentage of more diamonds that are bought at Christmas than any other time.
£35 - the value of unwanted gifts we'll all receive this year.
25M - the amount of Christmas puds scoffed every year.
FOUR - the highest-charting position for Wizzard's much-loved 1973 festive single, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day.
270 - the number of people who spent last Christmas Day filing their tax return online. A total of 6,000 used the internet to do their tax returns over the holiday. January 1 is this year's deadline for filing returns.
