Ten days ago, on Saturday, 4th August, I joined the group from Langley Parish on a trip to Portsmouth. The Christ the Worker congregation organised the hiring of a coach/bus for the trip. Being unsure of how long I would need to walk to the church, I left home about 7:50 am—to make sure I …
Just a note: in the “No Cooking Tonight” post, I wrote that Alice was from Shang Hi. I need to make two corrections. 1) Shang Hi was incorrectly spelled. Thank you Alan N. for bringing this to my attention. The correct spelling is Shanghai. 2) Alice is not from Shanghai, but rather Beijing. As a …
My alarm went off at 7:00 am. I wasn’t deep into a dream, yet it always takes a few minutes for the fog of sleep to thin sufficiently for me to get up. In bare feet I padded into the kitchen to take my morning medicines. Looking out the kitchen window, seeing the sun and …
“I don’t have to cook dinner tonight….I don’t have to cook dinner tonight…” When I woke up on Wednesday, 11th July, that was the first thought on my mind. I was looking forward to an evening out. Not going to a restaurant, as pleasant as that is. Rather, it was a Chinese meal …
In May, whilst writing about line-drying clothes, I wrote: “It could be worse, I know. At least The Maverick isn’t asking me to wash all the clothes by hand in our bath tub! “ Little did I know that might become an eventuality; not The Maverick asking me stomp the dirt out of the dirty …