Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nintendo DS Lite, Brain training, Sight training on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Finally got my games for my Nintendo DS Lite (in pink) and got quite a shock when it told me my Sight age was 80s and my Brain age was 80 too. I blame it on the Pimms. Must try harder today.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Family on December 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Lovely quiet drive to the airport yesterday morning to pick up Son #2 from Oz, via Singapore and Heathrow. He is looking very tanned and handsome - about the only person in Oz with a tan as their skin cancer rate is 1 in 2. (And yes, I did advise him to use Factor 30 [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Christmas, Church, Family on December 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Some congregations are midnight people and some are day people. Apart from my curacy in a certain cathedral, all the churches I’ve worked in have been midnight people and I’ve been hard pressed to get more than single figures for Christmas Day. Yet, there is nothing quite like getting up and going to church on [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Christmas, Church, crib on December 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Merry Christmas to all Blog readers!
Let me share with you some thoughts on last night’s extravaganza…
Firstly, it helps if you know what time the service begins. Yes, I know I printed the posters, cards, service sheets and put the article in the magazine but still my brain was insistent that it started at 11.30pm. It [...]
Posted in Church, tagged choir, Christmas, Church, Lessons and Carols on December 24, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I have come to the conclusion that when we get to heaven there will be the sounds of choirs singing descants to Christmas carols. There is nothing quite like it for making the hair on the back of your neck stand to attention.
So it was last night at our first Festival of Lessons and Carols. [...]
Posted in Church, tagged children, Christingle, Church, Nativity Play on December 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, we couldn’t have squeezed another person in to church yesterday morning for the premiere of Michael Mouse, the nativity play. The costumes were wonderful, the acting heartfelt, the sentiment sublime. We couldn’t hear everything that was said, even with a mike being held to nervous lips, but we got the message. There will be [...]
Posted in Church, tagged Advent, Christmas, Church, Family, photocopier on December 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Busy morning at church making it all spick and span ready for the baby Jesus to come. Stable, pooh. Our place smells of polish and bleach. Will he recognise it, I wonder?
But just in case you thought it was all done, have no fear. The church may be all sparkling and clean but there is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Flowers, Post on December 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
As I was driving off to celebrate the Holy Mysteries yesterday morning I saw the Postie waving at me. I couldn’t get the window open for the ice so we had a loud conversation and he informed me that there was a parcel waiting for me at the Sorting Office and he thought it was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, time on December 19, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Got the shock of my life last night when I realised that Christmas is next week. That’s right! Next week. Not the week after. Somehow I thought there was an extra week tucked in after the 4th Sunday of Advent. So now it’s panic stations chez Rev Ruth. So much to do and so little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged furniture, Procrastination on December 18, 2007 | 7 Comments »
While I have been off sick I have managed to get my pew sheets done for the next month. I have even got the first draft done on the Midnight Mass sermon. What I should have done was my Income Tax but it is still languishing half done in the In-tray and really has to [...]
