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Fairtrade tea party

Tonight we had a fair trade tea party/goodbye to Chels party. She leaves for ozzy in the morn and Ryan left a few days ago, it's a sad day but i'll be over there in a couple of months with federer and jon h so its all good!!
Oh yea so fairtrade I joined as a member of the co-op today because they're really good with ethics and fairtrade as well as community projects so I'm now a member and thinking about opening a bank account with them also... They actually have credit cards that you can have pay a percentage to a chosen charity as gift aid monthly from your interest! Pretty cool so yup i'm thinking about that for when I get dome income... But for now goodnight.

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the.coopers.at.electric.picnic

So the coopers took to stage tonight at Abundant Life Church, Bradford to do a set piece, and then hit the stage at 'electric picnic' it was a great night good turn out and lots of fun, so for the gig we hand made 12 limited edition cd's to sell and i thought i'd share them with you... well the pictures of them anyway.

also we saw starling at the frontier tonight which was the perfect way to end a night, those guys are amazing great friends and awesome musicians!!!

<<< here they are!

coopers.at.the.roadhouse

So last night we the coopers had our second gig as a full band in Manchester at the roadhouse. It was,by a great turn out but the important thing... We had fun!!
After soundcheck we went into the streets and busked acoustically to get people to our gig which worked well 'cept the majority of those came late or got turned away because they had no I.D.
So we had fun and realised that if anything we made some contacts and got a good report from the management.
So yea that's the coopers at the roadhouse.

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make.yourself.at.home

//Make yourself at home

We can get so caught up sometimes with where we've been or where we want to be that we miss where we are now. We're all on a journey that is shaping us more and more through every situation that we come face to face with and although we might not be in the ideal situation that we would love to be in I think God asks us to pause... to stop for a minute and consider that if we stop living to achieve what we would love to do and to just make a choice to love what we have been given to do then the truth is that we will be a more productive contribution to what we do, and on a journey the truth is that your going there but you live it when its here for now you have this. its a selfless act. "give away your life" we are so much about us and our dream sometimes that we just keep breathing in more of what we want more to better me, more to grow me, more, more, more and we keep breathing in life pumping ourselves up with air, but never giving out, and pretty soon we blackout we live so much for us and our breath that we forget to breath out to others.

Others...
live to better the life of another, and enjoy doing it