You Can Never Be Too Careful

Last Sunday was a significant event at our old church in Chesham. We were visiting, and so were 5 other Mission workers from around the world – Ghana, Thailand and Bosnia.

It was 7 years ago when our possessions went into store – and this week they were delivered to our new home in St Neots. The removal lorry, big enough to carry the contents of a 6 bedroom house, was full – which is a bit of a problem as we only have a 3 bedroom bungalow!

To manage the move we stayed at Malcolm’s sister’s in Boston. Helen  had recently returned from working in Ghana. His elder sister, Margaret, and her husband came round for dinner. As Margaret is a doctor they wore the appropriate garments when visiting those returning from Africa! 

Winter Tour 2011/12 - A bunch of pirates?

24 hours flight, 24 hours driving, 1 birthday party, 3 different beds and a brokn car!!!!!

It seems more than a week since we arrived back in the UK. the flight was not as bad as expected despite a 5 hour stop-over in Addis Ababa and we spent a pleasant weekend recovering in Chesham and meeting friends from our church. And then more travelling.

Briefly:

- we had Sunday lunch with our son, David with his wife Sarah and her parents in Smallford, Herts

- we spent 6 nights in Plymouth with our other son, Staphen, wife Lara and grandson Jonah where we celebrated Jonah's 4th birthday, and witnessed Stephen dressing up as a pirate for a Halloween day at the Infant School he is teacher training at

- we have arrived in Newcastle under Lyme to see our youngest daughter Pamela and meet friends from Malcolm's work here.

The one drama is that within 5 miles of leaving Plymouth the brakes on our car seized up with clouds of smoke coming from our front wheel (despite a new brake caliper being fitted 23 months ago) so a 5 hour journey became 10 hours - thank goodness for Recovery services. The silver lining was that because of a major accident on the M5 no-one could tow as on to Newcastle so we have been given a courtesy car.

After couple off days here, Birmingaham, Amersham (to get brakes repaired) and Milto Keynes!!!