Thursday, January 24, 2019

The changing world (303) Jul-Sep 2012

Jul 1st Mehnaz back to Leicester with Farsi Bible. Dick Lucas pm. HIRC Eph 1.
3rd      Wedding suit fitting.
6th      Elissa's Oldfield International Fayre.
7th     J&co here.
8th     Preached twice at London City Presbyterian and astonished not to be offered lunch.
14th   K at hen party for Emmanuelle.
15th   IC good twice on 1 sam.
17th   CR ELT Is 41.
19th   Harrow Prezza lunch with Littles.
21st   To Lowick farmhouse with Deb and D&co.
22ns   Woolwer Evangelical. Painted school at Ford. Found great grandparents graves.
23rd    Crabster. Dunstanburg castle. Went to see cousins, Halls.
24th    Cragside mansion.
25th    Seahouses. Warne Islands. Seals, puffins, arctic terns very noisy.
26th    Berwick records office. Dickensian.
27th    Holy Island. Olympic opening ceremony.
28th    Home to hotter London.
29th    IC 1Sam particularly good on Saul and Jonathan. HIRC Eph 2.
Aug 2nd K&D to Olympic hockey.
4th          To Braithwaites and a walk by river in Bedford.
5th          M Fox am, P Mienrs pm. Eph 2 HIRC.
6th          Dismantling shelves in Blue room. Diabetic retinal screening Greenford.
7th          M Durham ELT.
9h           Bella Italia for anniversary meal.
10th        Luke Jenner took Halifax wedding rehearsal for Emmanuelle and Simon. Dinner ar his mother's. Bradford Hilton hotel.
11th        I played father of the bride giving Emmanuelle away and speech at reception. Many there from IPC.
12th        Home. End of Olympics. Preached on faithfulness.
13th        Down. K&D painting blue room.
15th        IC has the money to buy the Coach House.
17th        Deb to Wales joining Littles on holiday. Bought book shelves where I hate, IKEA.
18th       With K assembled two shelf units.
19th        PM preached Ps 77.
20th        Completed shelving.
22nd       J brought and left the girls.
24th        Took girls to excellent renovated Brentford Musical Museum. Deb back from Wales.
25th        J&M picked up girls.
26th        IC twice. Lloyd, Paul H and Kramens to lunch. IC excellent pm on 1 Sam 20 David and Jonathan. Ps 77 at HIRC.
27gh       Down. Deb at IPC for HBC preparations.
28th        HBC started. ELT Haggai.
29th        Visited mahands.
31st        Day night ODI beating South Africa at Oval.
Sep 1st   End of HBC champ challenge. Picnic.
2nd         Adult SS trinity. PL Ten 1 and Rom 11. Ps 119 at HIRC.
3rd          Heathrow to Dusseldorf. Anthea mistook her timing and was late collecting us.
4th          Anthea took us to see where my grandfather was in the army of occupation, 1918-19. All but one place cognisable from the postcards he sent home. But Duren had been destroyed by RAF bombing in WW2.
5th         Anthea took us to a pretty medieval town.
7th         Anthea took us to picnic by a town on the Rhine then we took her to dinner as Graeme was away.
8th         Yet another quaint town, I cooked tandoori dinner.
9th         Dusseldorf Anglican church.Picnic by Rhine. Flight to Heathrow.
10th       Session concerning Amjad and Chris Cradock.
11th       IC at ELT.
12th       Presbytery at Drayton Hotel. Ian Hamilton excelled on spiritual gifts. Ranald on pietism.
13th       Larsons to dinner.
14th       Good chat to new neighbour, Hindu at 69.
15th       Dele phoned. He had sent us an invitation letter for visiting Nigeria back in July but it had gone surface mail.  The first of two planned return visits to be frustrated.
16th       PL Gen 42. Mullahs from Ilford to lunch. He is MBB, she Brazilian. PL Rom 12.
18th       Early IPC prayer. ELT.
19th       New at housegroup Ruth from India and Witse from Holland.
20th       Bella Italia lunch with Littles.
22nd      J&Co here for him to go with us to Paul Clowney's memorial service.
23rd       Dis adult SS on trinity. PL pm Rom 13. I did Had 1 HIRC.
24th       Down. Session. AR talks a lot.
27th       Dis Mk 1-2 at Kingsdown Methodist.
28th       CSSI curry night at IPC.
30th       PL Joseph. PM good on Rom 13. Had 2 at HIRC.




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