by Julie Turner | Mar 3, 2017 | What's Happening
One of the key aspects of Lent is a desire to re-establish God’s priorities in our lives. Life can be so busy and frantic these days that God often gets squeezed out in the everyday rush. We all have the same number of hours in a day, but many of us live trying to...
by Julie Turner | Mar 2, 2017 | What's Happening
After New Year’s resolutions, ‘giving something up for Lent’ has become a fashionable way of disciplining our appetites. What we give up is often connected with food (chocolate and alcohol are perhaps the two things most frequently renounced over Lent), and certainly,...
by Julie Turner | Mar 1, 2017 | What's Happening
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the period of 40 days which leads up to Easter. 40 is a significant number in the Bible, with the Israelites spending 40 years in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land, and the 40 days of Lent reflects the 40 days...
by Julie Turner | Feb 28, 2017 | What's Happening
Today, S & G Electrical finished the installation of the fire alarm. First of all, they had to fit a dialler (so that if the alarm goes off, we are contacted…) Here is Dave fathoming the instructions: Then he had to drill to connect cable to the landline:...
by Julie Turner | Feb 28, 2017 | What's Happening
When I learn German, I enjoyed finding patterns in irregular verbs and had to learn from a table listing all the different tenses for these. Beginning with the infinitive, I would learn the different forms for that verb, listing the 3rd person singular in the present...
by Julie Turner | Feb 27, 2017 | What's Happening
S & G Electrical returned to continue work on the fire alarm today, working in the children’s room: … and on the stage: Tidying, touching up and putting fronts on the conduit also took up time: We also got the clock...
