Up at 6.50am.
Kids (with their guests - Sophie's Livne and Alexander's Logan) called at 7.20am.
Drop-off for Livne at 8.20am - then to church.
9am - practice for service - complete with candles and incense.
10am - service including prayer for yours truly, a "blinding" sermon by Paul Fletcher (people actually applauded!), an extended improv time for the musoes and communion - long service.
12.45pm to Grandma's for photos (these become harder and harder to take the larger the Baxter family gets!).
3pm off for a walk round the Hillsborough bays.
5pm time for a spot of gardening - Lois collapses in a heap (fatigue? stress? illness?).
7pm - dinner of sorts (all make do - I manage to microwave an egg!).
8.16 this post brought to you, dear readers/followers/friends/etc.
A few more bits'n'pieces to read, then to bed to dream about E.R.O.......
G.
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It WAS a long service - esp. after Fred's comments last week! I nearly came up the front for your prayer but didn't know if I should.
ReplyDeleteWe have ERO in Term 4.
I will come and see that yellow sub - sometime soon that suits us both.
Have a good sleep and a good week.
Luv'
C.
Hm... Methinks a certain someone never quite introduced the person sitting between us yesterday morning. Or I'm shockingly bad at names.
ReplyDeleteYes, that sermon was grrayt. It combined a lucid cultural analysis with relevant practical application. And delivered in a wonderful accent.
Has Lois uncollapsed yet?
Coralie, you are welcome to pray for me any time!
ReplyDeleteAnd to visit the yellow sub any time as well - indeed, if borrowing it is useful, that could be arranged too!
Had a good sleep.
Dreamt I was in JAPAN!!
Ian, be more specific about the intros thing. Was it me or Alex or someone else who forgot?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget also the Glaswegian Maori accent!
G.
When I sneaked into the back row late* I didn't give the person along from me a second thought, as I thought it was someone else that I did know. Later on, though, (after I had shuffled along to make room for people who were even later than me!) I realised that he wasn't who I thought, but that he was clearly related to your son, who was on the other side of him (and whom I had recognised). Introductions were pretty much limited to "This is the guy who takes me caving." Very one sided.
ReplyDelete* That's what I get for phoning someone before church to get a report on the caving he did the day before. He was taking a heathen day, and of COURSE, with the subject of caving, we weren't going to talk for only 5 or 10 minutes. BTW, just after I got to church he sent me a text message. When my cellphone went off I was glad everyone was singing loudly enough to drown out the silly tune I have set. (It interrupted Paul in the evening a few weeks ago.)
...true confessions of a caver!
ReplyDeletesomeone had a vision they shared with me on Sun, of me coming out of a cave carrying lots of treasure!
I think this is probably one of those metaphorical visions from God...
still, makes a change from being in Japan!
G.
Sounds like a positively awesome vision. Of course, you've got to GO caving to be able to carry the treasure out of the cave. Hm, there are quite a few analogies we could draw from all of that.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of caving, I'm reading Below by Tim Corballis. The plot is centred on caving, but I'm half way through and wondering if it's going to go anywhere other than transcribing the disjointed mental processes of the main character.
Good book? In Das Rheingold, the giants have just entered. Exciting!
ReplyDeleteG.
What's Das Rheingolf? I mean Rheingold?
ReplyDeleteA type of beer.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Giants in a beer?
ReplyDeleteI will explain in a later blog!
ReplyDeleteG.
Uh-huh. Haven't you ever heard of the Great Beer? There's even a constellation named after it. ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou must be drinking something, Ian!
ReplyDeleteBut be patient - an explanation is coming!
G.
I can barely wait.
ReplyDeleteOr should that be beerly weight?
ReplyDeleteVisited your old school today - it's big!
G.
Beerly weight is where most centralised weight comes from. In guys, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThere are almost exactly twice as many students as when I was there. I don't know where they fit them all, but there's no front hockey field any more. There was a story that someone got skewered with a javelin on that field, before my time, though.
Long, huge buildings.
ReplyDeleteI first arrived at Denbigh Ave, but saw that they lock the gate there at 4 so drove all the way around.
G.
That doesn't sound very friendly, but I suppose it's necessary these days.
ReplyDeleteWhat school?
ReplyDeleteThe school is so large! I think it saves caretaking costs.
ReplyDeleteSophie, we are talking about Mount Roskill Grammar School, which is on a shared campus with the primary and intermediate schools.
ReplyDeleteDo you mean economies of scale or the practice of simply covering all the bits that could be mowed with classrooms and astroturf?
ReplyDeleteNo, I was referring to why the gates are locked. That way you don't pay your caretaking staff for the extra hours.
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