Lent

For lent I decided that I would give up being negative and that I would read some books instead of sitting on my bum. I soon realised that these were crap things to do for lent and so I have also decided to sign up to the Church of England's primary coloured, smiley faced, Danny Wallace-alike, Love Life Live Lent scheme and to report on this here blog, whereby I am accountable to those who read. See following link: http://www.livelent.net/

The basic premise of this is that each day over Lent you are encouraged to do a random act of kindness for yourself, someone else or for the planet.

I am behind so far but here are the first 7:

1. Make someone laugh. In response to this challenge I sent the following joke to a friend:

Why did Graham Norton cross the road? To buy a car from a shop, a car however which he could not operate, being a gay man. Before leaving he made a cock joke to break the obvious tension given the mistake he had made.

At other times in the week I did make people laugh but I couldn't think of a specific example. I appreciate that obscure jokes about a gay Graham Norton are not really in the spirit of Lent, but I panicked.

2. Go to a party. See below post!

3. Spend some time in silence. I did do this on Thursday whilst walking to work and I had some actually God time yesterday evening before I even looked at this list. Brilliant.

I still have 4 from last week to do this week. One of them I can do today.