Jan 21st Visit from Peter and Elizabeth Clark
22nd Elders away day at Martins planning.
24th Wendy Barber to dinner.
Feb 5th Geoffrey and Sara visiting
7th Nicki Merritt to dinner
Mar 20th Opened new Greenford recycling centre
May 9th Ealing Abbey civic service
11th Annual council and I left being chairman of environment for the back benches for the only time
25th Presbytery
Jun 27th 11:30 to 12:30 rota duty at Mattock Lane pharmacy. An occasional Sunday chore. Babcock family to lunch.
Jul 3rd Elders and deacons retreat
9th Elders planning day
10th Dominion Centre, Southall, Indian ex-servicemens' reunion. Former members of the Indian Army. The British Legion does not admit them. Racism?
13th Larry and the new Mrs Terri Beckler to lunch
21st Ealing Voluntary Services Council AGM at The Polygon
24th Start of two weeks in a caravan on the Isle of Wight. Enjoyed Needles battery, Carisbroke castle, Osbourne House, Cowes regatta,
Aug 8th Barry led for Paul Clowney
15th Neil led for David Barnes
22nd Randy preached. Pot luck lunch.
23rd Elders meeting
24th Zoe Gregory and Miriam Burrough ate with us. Miriam's first visit as Jonathan's girlfriend.
29th Larry preached.
Sep 3rd Church barbecue.
12th Paul Clowney preached
14th Presbytery at Kim's Kingston
19th Paul preached
Oct 1st Elders meeting
3rd I led for Greg Bahnsen preaching. He gave me his book on homosexuality.
10th Larry preached
13th Free Church federal Council at Greenford baptist
16th Ealing Junior Music School quiz supper.
17th I preached.
14th Preached again
27th My father's birthday. We did not know it would be his last.
30th Lunch at Braithwaites
Nov 4th Elders meeting
6th Bonfire night. Was this the time I lit a roman candle under a big fir at church and set it on fire briefly. Anther memorable night the guy went missing. dear Mike Rudd had removed it. He like Fawkes was an old bot of St Peter's School York so objected to an old boy of their school being burned in effigy.
7th Randy preached.
9th Pharmaceutical Society branch meting at Ealing hospital so my dinner was the buffet there
12th Evening at Babcocks. Gordon introduced me to the delights of single malts.
14th Stephens family to lunch. He was a GP who like civil war history, she had escaped from the killing fields of Cambodia. Two Gray boys dined too.
19th Family ate at the Mylett Arms for Jonathan's birthday
21st Larry preached. Barnes, Grass and Miriam Johnson joined Debbie's birthday party at Macdonalds. We had one unwelcome visitor.
23rd Dad entered Northallerton General for bilateral knee replacement. he was never to get back on his feet or return to his bungalow.
25th Enjoyed too much hospitality from Bob Wilson at his funfair on the common before the Thanksgiving meal at IPC.
27th Synod then we went to Carmen opera.
28th Larry preached then pot luck.
Dec 2nd Elders and deacons meeting
3rd To Thirsk
5th Back home
9th Elders meeting
10th To the Leapers
11th I did not get to Jeremy Hinds' memorial service. The only missionary I know to have his obituary in The Times. Those days Twas a regular reader.
19th Joe Martin preached at carol service
21st Twyford carols
24th Thomas Wirth from HOST, a German with us for the holiday
25th Phoned Dad in hospital.
26th I led for David Barnes
28th Thomas Wirth left.
31st Working at Mansells pharmacy, Uxbridge Road my usual one day a week instead of my mattock lane. There one had to dispense methadone etc for addicts. At Mattock lane I kept no controlled drugs.
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