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L’Introduction

Published March 27, 2008 About Me 22 Comments

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  1. 1 Spurgeon's Pupil March 27, 2008 at 20:25

    Well done on getting a blog together! I have been really digging http://www.challies.com He does a lot of good book reviews and other musings. I am sorry about England old friend. I think they need to retire Beckham and use an entire different formation. France was in control the entire match. Your thoughts….

  2. 2 Katie Ravenscroft March 27, 2008 at 21:24

    Simon~ you sound like Frasier!:)xx

  3. 3 Daniel Story March 27, 2008 at 21:33

    Hello Simon Ravenscroft, age 22. I’m damn excited you started this blog. Here’s to many engaging discussions. If you were here right now I’d gently toss a pint of old speckled on ye. (That’s meant to be an endearing remark!) I expect my future comments to be infinitely more worth reading than this. Until next time…

  4. 4 Old Timer March 27, 2008 at 22:35

    As possibly the oldest likely blogger, I’m honoured to be first “on site”!!!

    Literature and music I can go with. Current affairs of a moralistic nature could be interesting.
    Quality beverages sound interesting, but frankly I don’t believe a 22 year old would know what they were??!!
    And football – c’mon – there’s more to life than Spurs!!!

    God bless and enjoy!!
    David N

  5. 5 timmy March 27, 2008 at 23:39

    Simon, Simon, Simon you old dog! I would be delighted and greatly honoured to participate in this new venture of yours. I not only be a regular visitor to this page I will also be a regular contributor to it. I look forward to the many discussions that will follow.

    I would just like to make a comment re. the football. I watched the highlights of yesterday’s match between France and England and I thought the performance was very disappointing. The bewildering thing for me was that Fabio Capello congratulated the team on a ‘good performance’. Now I’m not quite sure what game he was watching but it wasn’t the one I and the rest of England was watching. The team created little in the way of opportunities so I think it’s safe to say that Mr Capello has got some work to do (if he notices, that is). As for David Beckham, well I think he has come to the end of the road. A great ambassador for the country and a decent man but he lacks pace in an area that certainly requires it. That’s not to say that he must be ignored altogether since I believe he could certainly be useful as an alternative. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see…

    And Mr Neve, I would be greatly interested to hear your own interests in the area of ‘quality beverages’…

    OK, that’s enough from me for now. So until next time, ciao:-)

    Tim

  6. 6 A. C. Rathburn March 28, 2008 at 00:20

    Nice work, Simon. Welcome to the blogosphere.

    Now that a handful of us have blogs, our blogs can engage in proper blog-dialogue. Or perhaps you could say, a ‘blogalogue,’ if you will.

    Chachi

  7. 7 Dave Tonks March 28, 2008 at 09:48

    Very Simon !!!

    I will not get started on football just yet as I don’t want to be the first person to have a post deleted!!

    Dave

  8. 8 Sam Begdouri March 28, 2008 at 16:07

    May I also continue the good resposes by adding what a brilliant idea this is. However simon, for someone so academic, so smartly dressed, and so organised, where is your sense of organisation. You need a file and folder system. As you state, your topics of choice and interest are (and I quote) “I will be using this blog as a kind of public soapbox (!) for topics ranging as widely as literature, music, quality beverages, current affairs and football.” If all you topics end up all on this page it will be a complete catastrophe.

    Imagine if you don’t sort this out simon. The whole world will be effected in a negitive manner and it will all be down to the fact you didn’t organise you topics in an organised method.

    Apart from that, I am looking forward to contribute to the site.

    So, it’s goodbye from begers belief and I’ll catch you soon!!!

  9. 9 James Pearson March 28, 2008 at 19:48

    Hello Simon. This blog looks good and I’m looking forward to the future, although you need to stop using clever words like ‘conducive’, as myself and Dave will struggle to keep up being born of lower stock. My suggestion for your first blog is “Do Pastor’s always have more attractive wives?”

    Oh and by the way Tim, Beckham is still one of the best crossers of the ball in the game, and to leave him out of the team would be plain silly. He’s just being too scruntinized, where as some players have been consistently gash (Lampard) yet retained their place without question.

  10. 10 Scott March 28, 2008 at 20:46

    Yay, Simon. I can’t believe a cussword was typed up on this blog! And we all know a pint of Fosters is better then a half-pint of Old Speckled Hen.

  11. 11 Dave Barnes (Barnsey!) March 30, 2008 at 18:24

    well done on your initiative on the ‘in’ way of letting us know how you are doing. We look forward to future updates with anticipation.
    The Lord bless you always

  12. 12 A. C. Rathburn April 7, 2008 at 15:17

    Come on Simon, it’s time for a blog post. I’ve been staring at your little face on there for too long now ;-D.

  13. 13 Simon Ravenscroft April 7, 2008 at 15:24

    Haha! Patience is a virtue Mr. Rathbun. And my face is pleasure enough to look at for now ;o)

  14. 14 A. C. Rathburn April 8, 2008 at 16:06

    Touché, your face is indeed pretty =).

    Speaking of, our little portraits stacked atop one another in this thread look a little peculiar, hehe.

  15. 15 Simon Ravenscroft April 8, 2008 at 16:10

    Ha! They do indeed. So I’ll add another one.

  16. 16 Stephen B April 11, 2008 at 22:47

    This is my first ever visit to a blog – no doubt I will now become a blogaholic.

    I doubt very much that I will be able to compete with Simon’s intellectual capabilities and prowess but I will have a go and contribute where I feel I have something to contribute. That’s a bad start – I have used the same word twice in the same sentence!!

    As to David Beckham well any decent manager would have given him the opportunity to gain his 100th cap – a decent and gracious thing to do. But I wonder if he will ever pick up no 101. But I take off my cap (sorry hat) to him!

  17. 17 Scott June 3, 2008 at 21:44

    Hi Simon. Hope all is well as you come down to the end of your BCW degree. Hope you can post some more stuff on here after you have finished and have a little more time.

  18. 18 Simon Ravenscroft September 23, 2008 at 14:10

    What a small world we truly do live in.
    You know how it is one day your at work a little bored so you google yourself.
    Now living in Nottingham with a name like Simon Ravenscroft you only expect to ever find one but hey look another one.
    Or is it you
    Or me
    Na “Ohi”

  19. 19 Simon Ravenscroft September 23, 2008 at 16:15

    Ha, that’s funny – I always I had quite a rare name. Oh well!

  20. 20 Simon Ravenscroft September 23, 2008 at 16:15

    Sorry – …always *thought* I had a rare name.

  21. 21 Simon Ravenscroft September 23, 2008 at 17:27

    “donc a fait je”
    There is another one in Burnley
    I recieved confirmation of his holiday booking by email, Happy days I’m off to Majorca

  22. 22 Simon Ravenscroft September 23, 2008 at 17:29

    Sorry “your” off to Majorca


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