A different weekend. Changed the fork oil seals on Bertie the BMW - much easier than I was led to expect by my local expert, but idscovered a stripped thread on a brake caliper, so will need to replace that. Difficult Sunday morning telling my little congregation I had decided to finish there in August. Evening was first event at Costa Coffee. Great fun, but not sure if it will be viable long term. We need to buy enough off them to justify them opening extra hours, but not sure we can get enough people into the bit of the shop we use to make that happen. But terrific fun, and great to see youngsters from church taking a lead so us old fogies can sit back and not look too out of place with our mops of grey.
Mind you one lady who came was nearly 90, with more life about her than many teenagers I know.
Monday 11 June 2012
Monday 4 June 2012
Jubilee weekend
I love it when invitations to do things come out of nowhere. Saturday we were at a wedding at Rutland Water; I knew the bride when she was an adolescent in church youth club, and they asked me to do a wedding blessing. Great to do soemthing vaguely spiritual with a whole load of people who don't go to church.
Sunday was also interesting - preaching in a parish church for the jubilee service, not before taking some flak that I wasn't preaching at my own church on such an auspicious occasion. I began my sermon to the Anglican folk by pointing out that for most of the first 100 years of Baptist church life (the tribe I belong to) a succession of monarchs supported by the established church did their best to wipe us out. But I graciously forgave them.
Then a community lunch - we invited the neighbours - and served over 100 lunches to people, and the church bought a tv licence so we could show the river pageant on the big screen in church. This was a great success. Sunday evening back to preach on "work" and listen to my erstwhile shy as a mouse wife talk with great confidence about her work helping people stop smoking. So proud of her.
Yesterday off work!!! (more or less) and to Crick boat show where we managed to resist putting an offer in on a delightful little narrowboat we fell in love with.
Another day off today - to a National Trust property or should I replace the oil seals on my BMW K75 forks before any more oil seeps down onto the brake discs?
Sunday was also interesting - preaching in a parish church for the jubilee service, not before taking some flak that I wasn't preaching at my own church on such an auspicious occasion. I began my sermon to the Anglican folk by pointing out that for most of the first 100 years of Baptist church life (the tribe I belong to) a succession of monarchs supported by the established church did their best to wipe us out. But I graciously forgave them.
Then a community lunch - we invited the neighbours - and served over 100 lunches to people, and the church bought a tv licence so we could show the river pageant on the big screen in church. This was a great success. Sunday evening back to preach on "work" and listen to my erstwhile shy as a mouse wife talk with great confidence about her work helping people stop smoking. So proud of her.
Yesterday off work!!! (more or less) and to Crick boat show where we managed to resist putting an offer in on a delightful little narrowboat we fell in love with.
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