The joys of moblogging

Typepad, the most popular provider of blogging services, is great. It allows you to blog by email, which means that those of us with fancy phones can blog from pretty much anywhere. I'm currently being driven back from a fine stag weekend in a convertible peugot 306- hood definitely down! I've had a great weekend. Yesterday.was so much fun- monster trucks, quad bikes, four by four driving, bbq and curry... But now it's all over and as I return home in a car that matches the value of my salary I am aware of how much disposable income has been spent over the past forty-eight hours on the luxuries of life and I feel a bit uncomfortable about it all. Of those who came on the weekend few would understand my reservations and certainly there's been no discourse About whether such spending is 'right', but in hindsight maybe it should have been-maybe I should have said something? I'm hopefully going to St. Toms with zoe tonight and one of the values of their Order of Mission is simplicity (an update of the historical vow of poverty). I like that. In a world where we are fully aware of the squalor of other, to maintain integrity I think being church must involve living in a simple way. But I guess we must also avoid getting obsessed with all this. I think it was leo tolstoy who took christ's teaching on all this literally and gave away the rights to his books and choseto live in poverty even though he had a wife and thirteen children to look after. The question is in a polarised world, where we get richer and the poor die, where do we draw the line? How well can we live without such a lifestyle undermining our faith? How much should I be spending on an incredibly enjoyable stag weekend? Wherever the line is, we must always acknowldge its existence- perhaps especially those of us who have been quick to point the finger at the hypocrisy of others because the extravagance of this weekend hardly reinforces any of my campagining on issues of social justice. That's one spin on the weekend and it's spending however it's much more likely that my distress about the weekend's spending is because i'm a bit tight and hate spending money on anything but the necessities of life.