Jan 1st Burroughs here. R&A to tea too. JMBH left after five days here.
2nd Phone from Derick J who says he is dying of pancreatitis.
3rd PL helpful on Rs1. I did 1Sam 9-11.
8th To Leapers.
9th Wilmslow. Us, Rodney, Elizabeth, Jack, Ena, David, Joe, Lucy and Hazel buried grandad's ashes. I prayed. Wake at Enas. Home.
10th Took communion to Cath Benton
11th Led for PB on Ps2. Structured and clear. PL Joh 1. Lacked application.
12th Elders and deacons. Katy has dry macular degeneration not the more dangerous wet kind.
13th Prayer meeting better attended. Shipman commits suicide.
16th G&S here.
17th To Dover and D&E.
18th Dick Lucas Ps3. PL pm but not thrilled. Attendance improved.
20th Roofers finish repairs.
21st Encouraged by Levys at housegroup.
22nd Katy at new IPC Kids Club 16.
24th To Nick's, nee Braithwaite, for her parents 60th birthday surprise. A foreign office EU lawyer there to whom I did not speak.
25th Evening servile number now twenty.
27th labour majority of 160 down to three over variable tuition fees. We are ruled by unrepresentative Scots.
28th Katy off work with prolapsed disc. Immobile. pain not relieved by diclofenac. Snow blocked ballads lane. Home 7:45 pm.
29th Katy a little better with diazepam. Elders prayer encouraging.
31st Quiz night for Choices at St James. 4th out of 22 tables but first of four from IPC.
Feb 1st Finding PL lacks application. Kirsty to lunch.
2nd Looks like we need to replace out flat roof.
7th Bought new 23" TV.
8th Lad am.
10th Beer and Bibles at Drayton Court. Pleased Dan there.
11th Katy in more pain.
12th K took MB to hospital.
13th IPC overseas students reception at YMCA. 73s leaving party. Selling to a landlord. He turned out to be an Iraqi on Teeside who tried his best to redevelop.
14th Wells here for day.
15th Dopey in sermons. I wondered if it was a spiritual battle but later diagnosis of sleep apnoea. This explains may diary entries where i complain of tiredness and think it may be depression. It might have been but also the sleep problem. It explains the snoring problems too.
17th Talked wills with Mark Harvey. DB had promised me one in an auction of promises years back but he never produced. It became an example of the need to forgive meaning you should not keep bringing it up in your thoughts.
18th J&co here.
20th 73 came for supper. He drinks too much.
21st 215 miles to Harrogate via M1. Dorothy's 60th at the George, Richmond. Very posh.
22nd RGW preached Hamstwaite Methodist. A1 home.
23rd Session at Levy's. Bill tells of troubles with Henk Bouma.
24th GP tells me to lose weight. haematology said my white and red counts are up.
27th Gibson's Passion of the Christ provokes much debate.
Mar 2nd Session to Larson's interviewing them about Afghanistan plans.
5th Session thinks they have a deacon problem. I do not. Suggested I take a three month sabbatical.
6th Took Pat McKernan to La Traviata Richmond. Daft plot.
7th Preached forgiveness at Liss. Pot luck.
9th Four Muslims released from Camp Gitmo in Cuba had been captured in Afghanistan.
10th Led prayer meeting for PL who is bothered by City of Peace.
11th Nearly 200 killed by Madrid bombs.
13th Presbytery examined Joel Rinn and Nick carrels and appointed commission to sort City of Peace.
14th Three Chinese and Mark from SA to lunch.
20th Importance of being Ernest at Richmond.
21st Awful Great Shelford family service. Mothering Sunday. Hannah dedicated.
25th The Passion of the Christ. Not as gory as expected. Too much Mary but a good supernatural film. Followed the RC way of concentrating on the physical suffering while we Protestants emphasise the spiritual agony.
31st Fields to dinner. John with the usual name dropping.
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