Check this out – Shirls cat Gemma is learning new forms of armoured attack…
…I tried to edit the video file but had no joy, so watch it in Real Player (there’s a free version on their site if you don’t have a copy already) and skip to about half way through.
Category: Life
Visitation
Just had the delightful Mr Shawn Cardwell, inventor of schmicroprizes and lead designer of the lego scale model of PNCA, visiting me in Reading.
After Shawn’s maths and the arts conference at University College London, it was great just to spend time catching up with each other. Shawn is from Portland, Oregon, and we first met through friends at the Downtown House of Prayer a couple of years ago. Anyway, enough background!
Reflection
For some time now, Shirley and I had set aside last weekend as a time to be quiet before God. Somehow life seems to crowd out such times to the point where I need to book them way in advance to make sure they happen. But when they do happen, they’re so good.
We took it easy in the morning , and then headed up to Douai Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery just to the south west of Reading. After a nice little picnic, we spent 3 hours or so just praying, listening and reading in the beautiful abbey church.
Convinced?
Whaddayoureckon? Convinced?
Is this any more convincing? Do you like the catalogue pose?!
Great fun was had with power tools this last weekend. Check out Shirleys more detailed analysis here. There was actually real work done. No, really…
Walkies
Went for a lovely walk in the countryside just north of Reading the other day, to the top of Streatley Hill. What the map doesn’t show you is quite how glorious the view over the Thames Valley is from the top – its got to be one of the high points in the area. I was walking with Shirley and her mum, who had stopped off for a few days on the way back to South Africa from the States.
The wildlife was behaving nicely, and I got a couple of great shots of butterflys and ladybirds. Oh, and you can see the latest addition to Shirley’s household if you click on the link too; Gemma the kitten. Very cute. Very sharp claws!
Be strong!
Just an update on an earlier entry for those of Papish tendencies 😉
The words read something like ‘Be strong in your faith!’
Read my blog or the bunny gets it
A couple of amusing animal stories courtesy of The Register.
Actually, the bunny gets it regardless of whether you read my blog or not. Those of a nervous and bunny loving disposition need not click on the following link 😉
Polska
Shirley and I just returned from a wonderful trip to Poland. Until we started planning the trip, I hadn’t appreciated exactly how huge Poland really is. Its almost the size of Germany!
I always think that the best way to see a country is with a local, and Shirley’s friend Casia looked after us even better than we could have hoped. Had we not been staying with her, we might never have discovered the likes of Pierogi, a wonderful dumpling like creation that I’d certainly never heard of before. Yum!
A good way and a bad way
OK, so this afternoon showed me how you can start off a holiday in a good way and a bad way. Thankfully I was on the good side of the equation, whilst a South African guy on my flight definitely was on the wrong one…
For Ian’s sake…
OK Ian, here you go…
Easyish way up Great Gable, but pretty steep on the way down and back up Kirk Fell!