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Blessed

Tomorrow will be my birthday… I can’t remember the last time I had a proper party (possibly my 21st?), but as this is a milestone year (50 – yay!) I thought I’d have an afternoon tea. As tomorrow is Monday I decided on today. Sundays can be much busier than we expect… thank you to all those who came 🙂 .
I had a lovely afternoon!
Talked with friends I hadn’t seen in a while, and others I’ve seen more recently. Enjoyed seeing everyone chatting with people they hadn’t met before. Ate cake. Received lovely gifts, from people who had considered who I am, and chosen accordingly (so – books, colour, music and fandom…)
I am blessed with good people in my life, and I loved having the chance to catch up with some of them today!

I wanted colour on the tea table…

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…as well as on the cake.

Rainbow! 🙂

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We went to church in the evening, and I think I might choose one of the songs as my anthem, as I move in to my next decade…

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on February 3, 2019 at 11:36 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: 50 years, Hillsong, New Wine

Song For The Morning

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Song For The Evening

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on January 14, 2019 at 10:09 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Aint No Grave, bethel music, Molly Skaggs

Hello, 2019!

Last day of the year!
I was talking to my Babe this morning about the past year… we agreed it’s had its ups and downs. It didn’t go the way we thought it would… some of that was good, some not. We will focus on the good and look up.
So – a new year. What’s to come? Nobody can say, really, so it’ll be interesting finding out.
I did one of those “word of the year” things recently. My word is apparently “courage”. I’ll see how that fits with the next year! All sorts of possibilities – different paths to follow, new songs to sing. I see new colours to come… new voices. I have some plans, but I’ve never been too good with New Year resolutions.
Here’s a few songs I’ve been listening to the last couple of days – maybe the start of a new soundtrack…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 😀

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on December 31, 2018 at 10:23 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: bethel music, Dayspring Word of the Year, Jesus Culture, New Year

Merry Christmas!

And a Happy New Year!

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on December 25, 2018 at 12:03 am Leave a Comment
Tags: Chris Tomlin, Christmas

Waiting

We’re in the season of advent – a time of remembering and celebrating the birth of Jesus, and expectant waiting for when He comes again.
In just one week we’ll be celebrating Christmas Day. It’s worth contemplating the first Christmas, and remembering that
the Light has come…
Rejoice!

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on December 18, 2018 at 9:36 am Leave a Comment
Tags: Advent, Christmas, sarah reeves

Clowns And Carols As The Rain Came Down

We’ve been to two carol/Christmas services today – I’m feeling very festive!
It’s been raining most of the day, so the cheer had a faint dampness about it… not enough to dampen the fun, though. The journey to the service tonight was a bit dicey – at some stages we could barely see ahead through the rain – but we got there safely.
I AM SO GLAD WE WENT! 😀
I have been doing so much better this year, but I still have bad days. On a bad day the thought of going to not one, but two, biggish events would seem almost impossible – even if I got there, I may be too fatigued/in pain to enjoy it… Today was just right. Lots of joy and reflecting on Christmas truth. Lots of singing! The morning included drama, littlies banging drums or singing (while Mary swung poor baby Jesus round, sometimes by his head), and some great singing. The evening included drama/comedy, clowns, a full choir and band…and some great singing.
We paused to take a breath amidst the bustle of the season.
And remembered the baby, born to be King.

Here’s the story (in the words of children) that was played during the service this morning.

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on December 16, 2018 at 9:21 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Carols, Christmas, Southland Christian Church

Rhapsodising

We went to see Bohemian Rhapsody earlier in the week. Loved it! Here’s the trailer – watch it and then go see the film. 😀

We took Sweet Bean along, even though it was still school time, and he had some exam/assessment work to do (which he finished well by the end of the week). We had the chance to go, so we took it – I’m putting it down as music history 😉

It’s an experience. We went in the afternoon. This was the cinema when we went in –

We did get some companions by the time it started. Only around ten people. That’s one of the perks of going during the day in term time…
This was the first time in a long time I’ve been to the cinema where everybody has stayed in their seats until the credits finished – no-one wanted to go.
One question for anyone who goes to see it – how long did you last until you began to sing along? I held out till this…

I may also have cried…

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on December 9, 2018 at 9:20 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

Cold Day

No, not the weather! Although I have had the air conditioner on for a little bit tonight… I’ve had a bit of a cold this week, which got better mid week, then mutated to a minor chest infection over the last two days. This has meant I haven’t done anything too strenuous lately – just catching up with some stuff. Not the mending. What is it about mending? The more I do, the more it seems to multiply when I’m not looking…
Part of my non-strenuosity(?) has been listening to some new (to me) music. For King & Country is playing at Riverlife Church at the end of January – there were still tickets available as of today, but get them soon before they sell out! Here’s some songs.

I have also been trying to figure out what we need to organise before Christmas… I not only need to get my ducks in a row – I have to work out how many ducks I’m supposed to have! I’m looking forward to Christmas this year – just have to find where all the carol services are! 🙂
Another song to finish with – and good night ❤

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on November 16, 2018 at 11:09 pm Leave a Comment
Tags: bethel music, For King & Country, Riverlife Church

Fourth Time’s The Charm…

Finally (finally!!) succeeded with my mending. When I stopped to think about it I realised that this is the fourth time I’ve tried various ways to fix it, without success (until now). While I love to reuse and repurpose, sometimes it’s necessary to get something new. We went down to Spotlight this morning to get some heavy duty hooks and bars to replace the broken zipper from yesterday. We also got a packet of safety pins – why do safety pins seem to vanish? Do they go where pens and single socks go? Picked up a latte with Turkish Deight syrup as a treat…

One of the good things about using a Keep cup is that you tend to get slightly more than you would with a takeaway cup. Some places still refuse to use my cup, but most will… even so, they tend to overfill it. I don’t mind! 🙂
My day has been better than yesterday, but still climbing out of the abyss. The cream you can sort of see to the left of the cup is a hormonal balancing cream I used to use all the time, but haven’t been able to afford for a while. Got some this morning – slathered it on straight away. The boys are calling it my “happy cream”…

My fingers are quite sore from all the sewing, and there will be more to do – just not today! I sat on the patio with it and listened to music – some old, some new – just taking YouTube’s suggestions to see what I could find.
This one I knew, but it suited this morning.