We all knew it was coming.

Today’s lesson was CH (chick, punch, check etc) and this picture was the one that confused us. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to access the answer booklet so I haven’t been able to cheat like I did last time and find out once I got home.

I honestly don’t know what the heck this is. A man. In a hat. With a whistle. In front of a game of noughts and crosses. To go from bad to worse, this could well be part of the "No, this does not involve the CH sound" group, so it could be absolutely ANYTHING!

Ideas?

Ok. Seriously. I am completely out of ideas for music to post on this blog!

I have posted all my favourite songs, and all the songs I’ve come across on blogs that I have discovered that I like, so I need some help. I need you, my lovely blog readers, to tell me your favourite song/s! I’m pretty much open to anything, except for songs with overly offensive lyrics or themes.

I’ll probably feature most/all of your suggestions at some point, so they have to be suitable for what I consider to be a PG-rated blog. :D

It’d help a lot if you could give me links to Youtube videos of these songs, but if you can’t, don’t worry, I’ll find it myself!

So…what’s your favourite song!?

I had an audition today, for a variety show with the same company I’m currently doing Oliver Twist with. I don’t know much about the show yet, mostly because not much has been decided, since the director was waiting to see what kind of people auditioned for it before deciding exactly what to do, which makes a lot of sense!

In other news, I bought a book today. The one pictured at left. I’ve been working on my uni assignment and so I haven’t read it yet, so I can’t write about it, but for those who are interested, here’s the book’s blurb…

Charismatic, driven and self-righteous Neville Cooper set up his own brand of Christian utopia on earth: a reclusive community on the West Coast of New Zealand. For the 400 inhabitants of Gloriavale, his word is law – despite his 1995 conviction for sexual abuse.

Phil Cooper, as headstrong as his father, had to escape. But Phil’s wife Sandy was bound to the will of Neville and his brand of eternal salvation. And so began the monumental tug-of-war between father and son: a son who wanted to give his children a chance in the world.

This is a true story of power and control, of abductions and night raids, of heats broken and those trying to mend. It’s the story of the long shadow cast by the unyielding vision of one man, and the hope and resolve of one family to restore its shattered past.

I’ve read other books by Fleur Beale before, and she’s quite a well-known author here in NZ, so I’m quite curious to see her take on this situation! I visited this group about this time last year, and when I got back I posted a blog entry about them, writing about the experience and the things I had observed, and learned from the Q&A sessions we participated in.

Unfortunately the group did not appreciate this, and upon locating my website via what I suspect to be a Google Blog Alert email, contacted my lecturer telling him to tell me to remove what I had written. I was astounded by this. So astounded in fact, that I complied. Later on, having thought about it some more, and discussed it with various people both online and off, I came to wish that I hadn’t taken it down. I still maintain that absolutely nothing I did was wrong.

Either way, this is the blog I posted at the time, explaining what had happened, and, in case you think this whole situation is so crazy that I made it up, it seems I’m not the only person who has fallen foul of this particular group. Shops stocking the book have had some problems too.

Should be some interesting reading. :)