First of all, Happy September. Now, onto the news! It’s here! What’s here? Our new washing machine. Yippee! Outwardly I haven’t seen overly excited. But truly I am pleased. Since it was ordered on 27th July, we’ve been waiting patiently for the delivery of our Bosch washer. We were told it would be a …
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 …
“Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of wintesses [who have boren testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sine which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and staed and …
Some people are very disciplined in their life-style. Once they make up their mind to do something, they let nothing get in their way of doing it. Some people do things in “fits-and starts” as it were; I am one of them. Life is full of diversion, distraction, and interruptions. So my plans to faithfully …
It was never intended that five weeks should go by without me writing a blog. But it happened… The Maverick began complaining of a sore throat about the Tuesday after the Jubilee weekend (5th of June.) He struggled with it a few days, and it began to clear up. But not before he’d …
It’s been a weekend of parties–a four-day celebration. Even I, an introvert, have been to three events over the weekend. Much celebration was appropriate as Queen Elisabeth II is celebrating serving her country for sixty years. On Saturday Christ the Worker Church hosted a Fete with a barbaraque/cook-out. Allowing myself only a small allowance, I …