Tuesday August 31st 2010.
Here we go again another month has passed into oblivion, Autumn now is truly with us, soon the leaves wil be falling, I can see already they are beginning to turn into their glorious colours that herald in the coming of another winter, Yesterday's blackberrying showed me even though I managed to pick quite a crop, that they are now passing their best, but made a huge pot of apple and berry which will last more than a few breakfasts with my home made yoghurt, as fine a gastrical start to the day as possible.and very enjoyable to. Cathy visits today,with her news of her little family at brixworth.lookforward to seeing her, Sheila we shall be thinking and praying for you as you visit the doctor today. I say this on here as my Gmail is yet again playing up so no out going or incoming mail other than that which comes through Barnowl, my man is on honeymoon in majorca so await their return before he will fix it. a lovely sunny start that fullfills the forcasters prediction of a wee (dare we hope for) what we call an Indian summer, I think we may, so all set to enjoy all we can, I feel due another visit to my dear brethren at "The Jesus people" so hopefully this Sunday evening shall see them once again and share with them a time of great joy, love and praise, they are a very special bunch to me always a great joy to visit them and as such look forward to renewing old aquaintances once more, so life is still so full and overflowing, praise God. cheery by for now PtP

Monday august 30th 2010,
Bank holiday today, the sun was shining early, BUT after yesterdays bright start that later brought us heavy rain showers,not to hopeful for today,great pity for there is much happening around us, it is a day of outdoor events covering every pleasure imaginable,with much thought and planning gone into by so many, we have nothing planned, a quiet day seems in prospect,no home group today being holiday time when many are with or visiting their own families, have to make one short visit downtown and hopefully a few more blackberries to pick for personal cooking,we shall see great day yesterday at fellowship, we shall be getting excited about this coming weeks "Pastoral dedication" and family meal, next Sunday, a great time is envisaged with much to do later in the week, I am going to try and get a visit to the cinema, to see the 3D, version of the "Toy Story three"at sixfields, I love theses films really good entertainment, and so well made, PtP

Friday August 27th 2010.
At last the rain has ceased, well for the moment anyway, but at least the weather kept me indoors, so i trust I put it to good use. cleared up on the jam making for the time being, I shall be doing more, sometime soon, but have turned my attention to "Chutney's"etc, I have three jars I did recently "Apple celery and sultana. which taste quite good, so now will try and make a few more jars of other types, the library book is a wealth of goodness, one of which caught my eye. "beetroot and blackberry"both in abundance at this time,Eileen did some beetroot and apple, which our Cathy tried and said it was marvelous. so of we go, but not today as it is the day for our AUTUMN seniors luncheon at Church, so not a lot will get done today, our team of young cooks have prepared a veritable feast for us,Of that I am sure, it gets better all the time, they are a great bunch of kids, with two or three adults to guide them, we get a good time of fun with a quiz or something similar to keep us occupied, plus the usual chit chat which we as elders always have an abundance of, it goes wiyh the territory, praise the Lord for all His goodness, PTP.

Thursday August 26th 2010
WET, WET,WETTER, whow When will it stop,a day in today seems to be the call, so can really sort out my jam making, have reached the stage when i believe I have enough for the moment, but I am when the weather permits me to going to have a go at crab apple jelly, I recall our neighbour a young lassie in the early days when we lived in Ash rise made some and kindly gave us some it was delicous, Close by brixworth their is on the main harborough rd, the remainsof an old orchard, which I have often stopped and picked some very good apples, in days gone by, they would I believe go towards making a very nice "superior type"of the recipe so till then my thoughts are turning towards making more chutney we both made some earlier this with good results,,
so am studying my library book(I have borrowed it since May time) and am renewing it today, my librarian says unless someone else request it then one can renew as many times as one likes,
Take advantage of reading it and the weather, lets make chutney, loved a programme we watched on BBC tv last night called "The great British waste menu" remarkable but sad to realise just how much food is wasted here in Britain just because so much is considered that, it just is not good looking enough, to big, or to small to meet the rigid demands of so many of the major supermarket chains, big business etc, tragic in a world were so many are dieing through lack, what a srange world WE make sometimes very illuminating, the banquet was given to an invited audience of somewhere around two hundred or so, with food that was all taken from supermarket refuse, restaurants.aand even ordinary homes, it was very sad but with much to think on particuarly in these days of recession,where all are looking to cut costs, much food (No pun intended) for thought very very interesting indeed, one of tv's better proggies, tatty bye for now PtP.

Tueusday 24th August2010.
Yesterday was the wedding of our youngest grandaughter Sara, and her betrothed James, while they have been Partners for a number of years yesterday they "Tied the Knot" it was very good she looked absolutely radient in her wedding attire as did James to, it was super to see them take the first dance and how much they loved one another was evident by their body language, God bless them is our prayer for their little family of two children Adrian and Alex, they are flying of to majorca on friday Sara says this is her first flying edxperience and she is terrified by the thought , but am sure she will cope, a wonderful sight and it was good to see all the family on Janes sidce there and enjoying it all, back down to earth today must get on with my jam making which if I say so myself is going superbly hope to have around 15-20 jars ready for our church craft table in early Sept, so on with the mottley hurrah PtP ps I reckon it tastes great !!

Snday 22nd AUGUST 2010
Today looks like the last of the dry ones for a wee while, so we must make the best of it while we can, Blackberry time is on us I have been ot twice and picked around ten pounds of them, already made ten pots of jam, some of the next will be diabetic jam for yours truly i love them, so will use my diabetic sugar, it works AS I have tried it successfully before, whether it is truly diabetic I cannot be sure but I am trusting cant just give up everything, Plums to are in at the moment bought some beautiful "Victorias" from Smiths garden centre, on the way home, plus some green gage to, so will be picking up more on Monday .we sat yesterday afternoon after I came home from blackberryingand ate around two pounds fresh they were gorgeous, yum yum, must get more fo more jam, well done you Aussies looks like you are saddled with a new government like ours, (Sorry mates), I didnt realise your vote thought is compulsary, not to sure about whether thats good or bad,but at least you cant blame any one else might be good idea all round.
Pictures of the pridigal son and his wife were great, tell them from me they dont know what cold is, but they looked really well,loved the shirts. glad to hear that Chloe's Birthday went well, Glad she recieved our wishes and love tell her we still are Praying for her, Mum and Dad to, not to forget grandad,and grandma as well Enjoy this lovely day, we are of to our grandaughers wedding tomorrow and their post celebrations at the restaurant she used to work at "The Church " used to be the old St Johns church in days past, looking forward to that very much, God bless , keep on keeping on PtP.

Saturday 21st AUGUST2010
The end of a very busy week came together today, went down the church early to help John our caretaker to get the sanctuary ready for Sunday, and allthough I knew he was leaving us I hadn't realised today was is last one ,so very pleased I made the effort, I have enjoyed working with him, he is a great guy, but shall be seeing both him and his dear wife as they come along to our Seniors lunches" so its not totally good bye, he has served us as a fellowship well,and will be missed, I do know the new chap, again a very old friend i have known from way back, so the "show must go on" as it were, 0 Sorry I cant always get a word on your blog sheila,(my fault, my compie doesn't always like it??) but thought the photo was great. I have been working on one myself tonight" I take a load of pictures at our Holiday club and then put a collage together for the rest of our fellowship to see what has taken place, what has been happening, just finished ready to take in tomorrow morning, dont forget to vote SIS hope you get a better govt than we did. its for you to decide so get out and do it tatty bye lopves ya both. PtP

Thursday August 19th 2010.
Final day for "the holiday club"today, which will be our dressing up day in line with our this years theme, "movie world" a real fun day full of surprises for all involved, I can honestly say I believe this years has been the best I can recall, a full compliment of children,and we have not lost one to date, very well organised as usual by our wonderfull youth leader, and well supported by the whole Church, I have taken a considerable number of photo's, from which I make a collage for the whole Church to see on Sunday,we praise God for all the seeds sown and look to Him for their growth and
their well being in His good way and time, this has, as allways, been a good work by all involved, unto Him be praise for it all, we as leaders will be feeling a wee bit tired, but very happy and satisfied,so thats it for this year, roll on the next,!!?? PtP

Tuesday August 17th 2010.
Holiday club starts today, whow another year has slidden away, only three days, this time the theme is "The film world", the sanctuary looked like a new place when we finished last night, some of the young ones have obviously spent many hours making giant camaras, huge oscar figures, and all the glitter that goes with the industry of the big screen, it looked good, so off we go with a full intake from around the area plus many of our own youngsters, with a very full programe lined up great excitement in the air, probably be shattered by four o clock time when we send them home to their mums and dads, all great fun but with an aim in mind, we commit all to him who has commited everything to us. PtP

Saturday !4th August 2010
Back to work after a very peaceful and invigourating rest at our second home of Pakefield, the weather was reasonable wet and dry, but we cant do anything about that so "on with the mottley"
as the saying goes,? (whatever is a mottley???) goodness knows, we enjoyed ourselves Eileen didn't gooutside a lot but busied herself wilth her knitting, sewing and reading, which we both did quite a lot. I have quite a number of books some boughtat faith camp that I am pushing on with, one a very beautiful book with superb illustrations and writings of some of our great hymnalists of the past which is very rewarding and stimulating, the other a new picturesqe new edition on the Welsh revivals, with partiticular reference to the great 1904 revival, amazing. this has always held my great interest and I love to look into the situations that both existed and were changed because of theat great intrusion of Gods close involvement at that time, and the revel;ance towards todays Church in particulkar and the nation generally, we have lost so much by the "churchiness" of recent decades and NEED to look again at His word afresh and with renewed urgency and these books help us do just that,providing we read prayerfully and expecxtantly. We had a bonus this time in that unbeknown to us we had accidently bookes the week of Lowestofts famous Air show, and it was free and magnificent, allthough on the Thursday Ihad walked the mile or so along the beach to lowestoft and was really being thrilled by it all when we had a cloudburst, Thunder lightening and Hail that for a few moments turned the beach white, it was amazing and fun, to despite the wetting of us all, a great sight to behold, and as i say a real bonus, culminating in a absolutely tremendous finalle by the Red rrows incredidible sight with such a closeness it was almost frightening the raw power of those machines is awesome. back to the mold now keep on keeping on PtP

Famriday August 6th 2010
Arrived home around Twelve thirty after a glorious time at "Faith camp" my last visit this year, tired but greatly elated in mind ,body and spirit, there is something very special about gathering with those who feel the same as oneself, just to praise ,worship and pray together, there were probably around four thousand or so this year and I have a few momento's as reminders, so now back dowm to the general way of things till we all meet again, there is a large conferance in November at Horsham the centre of "Kingdom Faith church, that i am very interested in so maybe shall go there in due course, am booking up for Northampton ameteur operactic companies, Autumn rendering of one of my favourites "Jesus Christ Superstar" to be shown in late Autumn at "the Cripps centre" so that to I shall look forwardto immensely, Shop and visit my siter later today so off we go PtP

Wednesday4th August 2010
Great day on Monday spent with all the brethren at Peterborough "Faith Camp" we set of early so we could participate in the full day of Praise ,prayer worship and teaching, and enjoyed it all immensely leaving there at around eleven thirty pm arrived home just after twelve thirty ish tired but blessed and very elated, praise be to God. we shall we trust,be returning tomorrow for a similar day, so am looking forward to that, Today Eileen and her craft group at home so my task is to suplly them with a nice tea and somethimg half way through, early shop, then a odd job day in preperation for tomorrow, the Week end and then a break next week to recuperate and rest hoping to visit our first Pastor who lives in that vicinity who now is in his nineties but still remains and always will "our Pastor" at heart for ever, PtP.

Sunday August 1st 2010,
First Sunday of our five week period when we meet for worship and fellowship and the meetings are open for all to contribute in whichever way the feel led to do,many on holidays at various camps and their own personel breaks. lt gives our pastor a time to rest within the meeting and leave the opening and closing by one of our five Elders, always a very good time of relaxation for us all with endless opportunity to share in body ministry, through the summer recess, I am travelling with a couple of our fellowship to Peterbough to have a day with "kingdom Life"sponsored FAITH camp, a coming together for around a thousand or so to enjoy differing worship and teaching sessions throughout every day with a major internationa speaker fo the three hour evening session of teaching praise,worship healing and prayer, so looking forward to that and another visit on Thursday when our particular group from BBC, hold a bbq there is usually around sixty or more who spend the whole week under canvas, but I know my camping days are done, so settle for this instead, Eileen will be at home as she cant face the hustle and bustle now, but I shall be able to bring a little of the blessing home after the evening sessions on both days,, carry on carrying on. PtP