Today was a very good day ![]()
We had our morning “church service” at home, just talking through somestuff my dad had been reading, and praying together. It’s awesometo have a family that can do that kind of thing together!
I went out for lunch with Katie, Maggie, Michael and Darren, and we had fun making fools of ourselves ![]()
Katie and Maggie with the massive spoons!
Michael “Pillowman”, with his slicked back hair.
Yes, this is Darren chugging the pitcher of water!
And Darren pouring the chocolate sauce attaya-style.
I got this cheese pasta dish that looked good on the menu, but ended upbeing full of Blue Cheese!!! Yuck. Not one I’ll order again![]()
Then straight from there, Darren and I took a taxi to our mission’scentre for our monthly meeting. Because I was playing the guitarfor it, I had brought it along to the restaurant, and got some weirdlooks walking in the door with it! My playing went really well,it was the first time I’d done it in front of anyone but myfamily. The whole evening thing was done very well, the music wasgood, and they had several small symbolic activities rather than asermon. One was picking a stone to represent something you werestruggling with and placing it at the foot of the cross. And wealso wrote things we were thankful for on paper “stones” to make apile. I put music because I love prasing God with music ![]()
Then we had a barbeque together, and Jonathan, a Brit and I had a hilarious verbal exchange that went on for about twenty minutes. It was a battle of wits, and we were both speaking in Old English, metrying my best to put on a British Accent. It went something likethis:
Why you incompetant fool!
Me, a fool! You underestimate me, oh friendly enemy!
*both crack up*
You have errors in your diction.
I do not derive my honour from my diction, but from my eloquency.
etc, etc, for 20 minutes. Great fun!
I also found some scary old pictures of me, so I thought I’d post oneseeing as I specialise in making myself look like an utter fool 

Thank goodness I don’t look like that anymore! 
Taken tonight:
Good night, morning, afternoon, or evening, depending on where you happen to be situated in this world’s complicated timezones.