It was nice to have a sunny warm day today for a change. For the first evening in ages, the kids played outside till late and then came in exhausted, hungry and filthy. It is incredible to think there is such a bad drought in the States and so wet here. ?Lots of farmers have all their stock in and no silage cut which means they are either finishing off last year’s silage or buying some which is going to [...]
10 Years – a whole Decade, it is ten years this weekend since we moved from Salisbury in the UK, we moved back on 14th which was yesterday and it was early on a Sunday morning when our best friends in Salisbury, Jo and Craig, came to wave us off from 5 Lower Road. Will had arrived 2 weeks late and was only 3 weeks old when we came back. I had been teaching at the Peter Symonds sixth form [...]
Days out tend to be pretty precious around here – partly because Brian’s only half day off tends to be Sunday afternoons although he usually does try to get the occasional day off during the school holidays. Bad weather means he is busier than normal and means that we don’t necessarily have as much enthusiasm for trying to get away. It’s like we need sunshine to put a spring in our step!
I recently met two friends at Russborough [...]
What a week of weather – our fields are saturated and yet the American midlands are experiencing severe drought – isn’t it mad! ?The good news is we had a clear TB test today – always a relief! But it seems ?insane that the kids were inside today watching a Harry Potter DVD ?(instead of being out in the sunshine) while the rain beat against the window.
It’s been a busy few weeks – putting the finishing touches to the little book for ‘Mayo 200’ to mark the 200th anniversary of our church. It ended up being 18,500 words over 68 pages with photographs dotted throughout.
The children acted out their play during the service too and it received great praise. Inspired by the visitations that Scrooge [...]
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