Monday, October 22, 2018

The changing world (190) Mar 1996

Mar 2nd Session with AH invited along. Visit to SS respite care Northolt. Merry Widow at Greenford hall.
3rd         Preached How 3-6. Paul on worship in evening then took Mr O back to Potters Bar. This was to become a regular pattern when he ho longer had a car. he would come to us by train, have roast lunch and I would run him back.
4th         Deb helped in the pharmacy in the afternoon.
5th         Katy to orchestra. Me to prayer meeting led by Bob Heppe.
6th         I think it was a council colleague who gave me his season ticket to see QPR 1 Leeds 2, Yeboah scoring.
7th         Police consultative committee Southall. The Asian locals there prefer to be policed by whites as we have no favourites. The police have no problems there except at religious festivals when groups come in from other towns.
9th         Session early morning.
10th         Preached Hosea again. Andrew are and fiancee Nicki to lunch.
11th       SS director before work. Deb helped in afternoon. SS group in evening.
12th       SS committee.
13th       Thomas Hamilton kills 16 five year old children and their teacher in Dunblane. It turned out the police had not vetted him properly for gun licences. Parliament was as a result to introduce such repressive legislation that our Olympic pistol shooting team had to go to France to practise.
Met the MD of Brets the council contractor. He is a Christian. Front of the Fiat's radio stolen when parked by the Common.
14th          Elders prayer early morning. EVSC Acton.
15th          Whole country has grief over Dunblane. Major and Blair visit together.
17th          Preached How 11-13.Treated Katy and family to Mothers' day lunch at Pizza Hut.
19th         With Randy to Kingston for presbytery. Ranald told she is not happy with Liphook over baptism and we tried to tighten the conditions for baptist elders.
20th          To funeral of Harry Gaskin our former neighbour at 73 Lee Road. He had been involved in building the houses here in the 1930s and ought his when newly built.
22nd          With Katy to get Rachel from Canterbury.
23rd           Kary, Deb and Rachel to 'Joseph' at the Apollo.
24th           Led morning service. Braithwaite's and Mr O to lunch. Stephen Green of Christian Voice in the evening.
25th           Rachel got some work experience arranged at Georgian House,
26th           Katy to orchestra.
27th           SACRE not quorate due to Anglicans not attending.
28th           Elders prayer before work and housegroup after.
29th          Mad cow scare but no cheap meat to be found.
30th          West London Synphonia, La Boheme at St John's.
31st           Rota. David and Jane arrived. I preached evening Palm Sunday sermon.



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