We had a talk at church yesterday (Easter Sunday) which talked about how the disciples must have felt on Easter Saturday - the despair they must have felt at the centre of their lives being ripped away –  but also that from our perspective we can look at Good Friday and Easter Saturday with the knowledge that Sunday’s coming [Continue]

Life has been quite busy and stressful for us since about last June/July really.  We have managed to clock up 6 p/t or self employed jobs between us, we’ve been trying to fight the Badman stuff and obviously HE , do Learning Zone and church things as well as normal stuff with our lives. In [Continue]

We have learnt that pretzels are traditionally made during Lent. Apparently some monks used to pray by putting their hands on their shoulders, left hand to right shoulder and vice versa.  They made pretzels to remind them of the shape the arms made and hence to be a reminder to pray more during Lent. You make the [Continue]

Took the kids to youth night at our church this evening. Ruth was demonstrating her skill/lunacy on the bouncy castle – the picture below is 100% genuine, and correctly orientated. Unlike Ruth who is, obviously, upside-down. This is in fact true in so many ways… Strange children… [Continue]