Jan 1st Over the New Years Eve we has Rob, Christine, Jane, Deb's friend and Grandad overnight. Braithwaites here. Owen Horton from South Africa stayed overnight.
2nd With Deb to Brentford. £1600 spent on G3 Mac, 17" screen, scanner and hard drive mostly for Deb. Gough hat trick in Ashes, Sydney.
3rd Led for SC Ipet 4, Millennium resolution. Had sermon before hymns as elders want to encourage promptness in an unpunctual congregation. Prayer meeting evening. Rachel took her granddad back.
4th Walked bt the Thames at Henley before Linette martin's funeral at march parish church. Over 100 there. Deidre Ducker and Sylvester Jacobs spoke. Joy's reading and a Nigerian woman's tribute brought tears. Linette wanted all traditions in the liturgy and that included incense. Why does it pong so? I said I'd have a cigar smoked at my graveside. About twenty at the grave half of whom came for refreshments at the house.
5th Visited my old shopped the health centre. Starving Marvins for lunch.
6th Katy back to school but no Metro for her. It is in for repair. Applied to pay off the mortgage. Housegroup here included Cath Benton. David and Rachel to another group. Deb back to college but missing the Skiotis twins. Hottest London January day for 150 years.
7th The Gazette not interested in reporting a 300% pay rise for councillors.
8th James York born. Joe Marin stayed overnight. Here for an LBC overseas students conference.
9th Took Deb to old Greenford parish church to sketch windows.
10th Good morning service with sermon first. David n led for SC on marriage. Our David led at local Perivale church in community centre.
11th Lunchtime enjoyed a savanna gifted by Elliott. Katy to new orchestra.
13th The boss told me to recruit Theresa as staff. She would not have been my choice. Very rough and ready mother to three teenage boys ask with different fathers one of whom pay a penny and one denies paternity though his parents are happy to be grandparents.
14th Took staff to lunch to mark Sabine's leaving. Metro in for repair again so katy to cello lesson by bus. Enjoying Brown's tobacco from Sandwich, my favourite.
15th Last day for Sabine. dale taken into care as his mother's flat is filthy. This despite all the help she has had from church to look after it. He was eventually put with Asian Muslim foster parents before adoption.
16th Big shock at session. Lawlers may want to leave and Constables to go in June. Trepidation.
17th Terry Seaber lad for SC on spiritual warfare. Again, sermon before singing.
18th Theresa Cullen started work. Surprise WE 6th former Mohammed.
19th Katy picked up £3500 cello from Southall to test.
20th Took Rachel's Fiat to work as she was in Ealing hospital for wisdom teeth extraction. To Deb's college and met her tutor who says she is top of her year, all meets except one distinction and a pass from one lecturer who never gives merits.
21st Dr Sundera tells me to slim and exercise more.
22nd WE Mohammed's last day and he bought us biscuit tin.
23rd Took Deb to draw the outside of St Johns.
24th Rachel to Anna Court for the day. SC good on foolishness from 1 Cor. Evening MTW speaker best I have heard on baptism.
25th Did circle of the park at lunchtime. Evening dinner at cafe UNO - conservative group farewell for Liz StClair-Legge. Good chat with Tony Brown on standing for MP in Leicester.
27th Keeping up lunchtime walks in the cold. Jul house for housegroup at ours.
29th Stock take done by specialists.
31st Visiting World Harvest American speaker not very good.
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