For those of you who want to know more about me, here are 25 random facts about me:
- I love the West Wing – the realism and the drama.
- I’ve been married to the wonderful Hannah for 5 years.
- I wish I was more disciplined, but find the lack of patterns in my day make it nearly impossible to form disciplines.
- I much prefer writing in blue than black.
- I hope that I will be in face-to-face youth work for many more years to come.
- My waist line is increasingly at a rate of knots – I hope to stop this soon.
- I am very particular about my cereal: Weetabix in the morning, Corn Flakes in the evening.
- I am energised so much by being around other people.
- I am soon to be a dad for the first time.
- I support Liverpool Football Club – you’ll never walk alone.
- I was very involved in student politics.
- I enjoy cycling and running.
- I have 1 brother and 3 sisters.
- I once was a very talented choir boy.
- My favourite recent books include The Organic God by Margaret Feinberg and Francis Chan’s Crazy Love.
- I became a Christian because of a talk about football fans by Steve Chalke.
- My best GCSE result was in Food Technology – I got an A!
- U2 and Coldplay are always near the top of my music to listen to pile.
- I first met Hannah my wife at Carroty Wood, eleven years ago.
- I try to read at least 1 book per week.
- I am very competitive – to the level that I normally don’t play games with Hannah’s family as it only ends in tears.
- I’ve only been abroad 4 times – two to France, once to Guernsey and once to New York.
- Tony Hawks is one of my favourite authors – Round Ireland with a Fridge is a fantastic book – read it if you haven’t.
- I am spectacularly bad at DIY.
- I desperately want to bring hope to hopeless people and communities.
