Preaching day in Peterborough

Hopoefully we have the new blogger set up so we can go straight in. We took the service in the UCA at Peterboroughthis morning, good service and had time with some of the ex baptist folk over a cuppa tea. We were still able to get back and spend time with the Orroroo people. Rang Lindy last time all is going well the winter is starting to set in with snow on the higher ground Light snow where they live last week but melted in the rain. Have a trip to Adelaide on Tues, driving Cynthia Ploenges and Les Cottrell down to Enfield so they can attend a funeral then off to Laura to have the car serviced on Wed. will go to Pirie for the day in a borrowed car while they do the service. Photo of the Bundaleer Reserviour between Jamestown and Spalding They have just cut down all the Pine trees around so first time in years that you have been able to see the reserviour from the road. Have a good week.

At last

So I finaly sorted out the pasword bisso and signed up to the new blogg too. The sunset photo we took on our way home from Orroroo and the creamfight photo and others are self explanitary.We've had lovely holiday times with Mike around but he is back to work next week :(. Having breakfast at the market was one of the nice things, fireworks and swimming on New years eve was good too! I think new photos are still on the camera so more to come.
Glad you has a good b,day Dad and hope all others are keeping well. John and Jessie hope going back to school is good! :) Take care all. Love Kezza xx

Its been a good day

Thanks for all the blog cards and best wishes. IT has been a hot but good day. We upgraded to a new Next G mobile phone that will enable us to make calls while we are overseas and I guess overseas from here if we have too. The orange bean is a little massage machine. The Chiropractor said my neck muscles were very tight and some massages should help. time will tell how good it is. First go is very promising.
Mainly for Lindy's benefit we went to Clare for some shopping and lunch at the pub and called in at Jamestown on the way home to put in your cheque for #300.00 from the Lighthouse church and to give them your Tax File number. We then picked up Grandma Jeanie and went to Maggie's for a Coffee. The big question is "WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME WHEN I'AM 64"
I think we can say we have upgraded to the new blog.

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!

Happy Birthday Grandpa/Dad/John!!!

We Love You Very Much

Jessie had great fun creating this card for you Grandpa. It is all her own creation, a graphic artist in the making if you ask me. We are hoping you have a lovely day with some special treats along the way. ANNNND, Happy New Year to you all as well. I have had no internet connection for the past 6 days so it is a bit late. We have had a manically busy holiday but it has been lovely! Lots of friends and fun (and food, but we are getting over that!) and now it is back to school tomorrow for the kids and I am down in Tyre for the day. Lots of love to all!!!!!!!!!

(By the way, Stu, I have already changed over Blogger!)

Migrating to New Blogger

You will have noticed (when you log in) that you sometimes have the option of upgrading to New Blogger. (It doesn't appear everytime, because Blogger is staggering the migration.) It would be good if everyone can do this when they get a chance, because if I move the Blog over before people upgrade, then they won't be able to access the blog. I'd like to make this upgrade later in the week, so if you see the option to Switch - please take it up. Happy New Year, btw. (That answer your question Kerryn? If you look in Blogger Help, there is a section on "My password wasn't sent to me when I forgot my password.")

Our Christmas So Far

Happy Christmas everyone!!!!!
Well, it has been a busy weekend but a good one. The concert went really well Sunday night and apparently we are famous now!! : ) We had a nice evening with Wadih's family at Graces house and then I went to our Midnight Mass service for the first time. It was really lovely, communion by candlelight. Unfortunately, Wadih's van wouldn't start so I had to leave a bit early to go rescue him and the kids and it was about 1:45am before we all got home. Christmas morning was a very family friendly church service, with stories and pass the parcel!! (See the church blog allsaintsbeirut.blogspot.com) Then we went to Nigel and Annettes for Christmas lunch with 22 of us. That was lovely fun and the kids slept over. So now Wadih has gone off to some work!!!!! Yay! and I need to go get the kids. We have a party at 4pm and another one at 7:30pm, but that one is minus the kids so they will sleep over at Tata and Jido's. (That's Adel and Doha) Looking forward to talking to you all tonight. Lots of love.

MERRY CHRISTAMS

Merry Christmas my lovelys!
i have nothing else to do so i thought i would share my thoughts with you lovely people who i know!hmmm hmmm hmmh mmmmh mmm hmmm mmhmm well write now im humming along to a song called be my escape hmm hmmmmh hmhm hmmm hhmmmm(thanks to Debbie Stuart Natalie and Calvin!!!!♥)(i hadnt heard of relient k b4:S) hmm hmmh mhhmmmh mmh hmmmh mmm<"and ive been locked inside that house while you hold the key">hmm hmmh mhmmh mhmmhmhm <"i......... got to get out of here... and i'm beging you im beging you to be my escape">hmmmh mhmmh mmhmm oh well enough of that ummm there isnt much to say hmmm.......... i love listening to music hmm hmmh mmhmm ok thank you if you have kept on reading because i dont mind if you stop now because i'm just writing everything that gose though my head laal lla la llalalalalal alal lala now im listening to running by evermore <"running...... running....... running... runnning......................"> <"you dont need a broken heart to know know a heart can be broken..... you just need to open your eyes...."> woaahhh woaaah woooah woaah woooooooooaaaaaaaah( arent i just a great singer!!!!!lol) RAchel slept over last night after she had been to the basketball and the 36ers lost so i think there out forever im not sure :S!!!!! hmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhmhm <"cry to my daddy on the telephone hoe long now">hmhmmhmhm<"THE SAINT ARE COMMIN THE SAINTS ARE COMMING">(((new song by the way you can probably guess))) <"and the magnolia trees... child on a roof top mother on her knees please.....please..."> hmmh mhmhm mhmmmhm mmhmm mhmhm hmmm hmm ohhhhh the playlists over oh well thats probabaly best because i could be going on forever!!!!!ooo dads cleaning the windows....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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hmmmm im going to eat an apple <><><><><><><><><><><><>>>><><><>its a big red apple oh and dont expect me to be writing for awhile because this is mabye 3 or 4 days worth of blog writing! ok ok now i'm completly blank theres nothing else in my mind just the cruning sound of me eat an apple and i dont think you need to hear about that because it would just take up another 2 pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so im leaving now
GOOD BYE
♥ annie

Our Christingle Makers!!

Okay here is a Christingle. If you are wondering about the story behind the Christingle, it originates in 18th century Europe. Four poor children wanted to bring a gift to go under the church Christmas tree. All they had between them was an orange, a red ribbon, four smooth sticks and 8 sweets. They combined them to make a Christingle and took it along to church. When the local children saw it they laughed at the poor gift, but the vicar took the Christingle and told a story. "The orange is round like the world God created, the red ribbon reminds us of Jesus and the blood that He shed for our sins, the four sticks represent the four seasons and the fruits that we get are shown by the sweets. There is just one thing missing." He took a candle and added it to the top of the orange. "The candle represents Jesus, the light of the world." That, is a Christingle.

Mary comes to town.

Last night was the annual pageant night up the street and Natalie got to be Mary in the float that Lynne Gibb arranged on behalf of our church. As you can see it came together very well. They used props that Di Scott had used as part of her lights display a few years ago. The Ambulance crew thought it would be a good idea to display the changes in uniform over the years hence the line up of different coloured uniforms. It was a good night although the numbers were down a bit on some years.

Shopkeeper for a Day

Yesterday we had a small truck and a 4 wheel drive with trailer arrive with about a tonne of goods from City Baptist churches for us to distribute to people in our community.
This afternoon we set up in the town hall and by 4.30 we had handed out 21 food packs that we had put together. reckon we have about 50 to go. hope to hand them out before Christmas eve.
The packs in the back of the Ute had been put together by people in Adelaide and contained mainly over the counter pharmacy goods plus a few others things like Tee shirts hats and film. We received 50 of them. As well as leaving stuff with us they dropped off goods at Clare, Laura and the bulk of it is going to Hawker and beyond. They are predicting heavy rains tomorrow so the team could have a few exciting stories to tell when they get back.

HeY AgAIn!!!

Hello again
Sorry but im not very good at writing on the blog everyday but i will try and keep you up to date with my holidays. I went to my friends party on saturday and that was great fun because and made friends with her neighbours who are very nice. I slept over her house but we didnt do much after that. Today i went to marion with my friends and we were going to see a movie but there was nothing on so we went bowling and tried on lots of clothes. Ummm i cant htink of anything else to say so merry christmas and i might write soon!
♥mwah♥

Crazy Hair Day

No this is not John's usual style for going to school but today they have Crazy Hair Day as the beginning of a week of silliness before the Christmas Holidays. Tomorrow is Pajama Day, then a bake sale Wed, Red Day on Thursday and then Friday, Christmas Party last lesson.


We had a great Carol Service last night and were able to meet in the church building. First time for a few weeks so that was pleasant. Not quite the usual numbers of 250 but still well over 150 I would guess. And for once, everything worked, the power point was fine, the playback worked, the readers did well (John was one!!), the singers sounded wonderful (I was one!!, but everyone else said we sounded wonderful so it's okay!), the food was enough and quite tasty, nobody had too much of the mulled wine! ; ) All in all it was a roaring success.

Just two more things to get through and then we can enjoy Christmas! We have a Crib and Christingle service Saturday and then Sunday evening our choir is having our concert which will be televised live for Christmas Eve. What fun!! There is nothing worse that cameramen all over the place when you are trying to do your thing!

Okay, Cheery bye for now.

Hello, Hello

Well I am finally back online with access to the blog so I thought I had better write something. We are madly getting ready for the onslaught of Christmas events coming up. I have nearly finished baking my second lot of 100 mince pies, (the last tray is in the oven as I write, hooray!) I've discovered that I quite enjoy baking which is a good thing as I also did a hundred or so sugar cookies and ginger snaps. These are all for our Carols by Candlelight service this sunday afternoon. We are working on the presumption that all will be calm and quiet and we will be able to get to church without any problems. The kids have both been quite sick this week. There is a very nasty flu bug going around and though they have been back at school for a couple of days now, Jessie still has a horrible sounding cough!

Kerryn you have said in the past that you want to see a picture of me smiling. I was in a good mood the other morning so here is a picture of me. Yes Michael, that is a smile!

Hey Debbie, maybe you could add this to my profile for me. I tried it once before without much luck :>

Much love to you all. Take care of yourselves

ME & LUCY

ok stuart, I will try to write everyday but there is nothing to write about! Ummmm..... let me see. My friend lucy is here with me and were going to marion with some friends (aka, lots of boys)lol! We dont know what were doing yet but i need to get a prezzie for my friend shazza because its her birthday party this saturday! There isnt anything else to say so good bye!

ME & LUCY

ok stuart,
I will try to write everyday but there is nothing to write about!
Ummmm..... let me see. My friend lucy is here with me and were going to marion with some friends (aka, lots of boys)lol! We dont know what were doing yet but i need to get a prezzie for my friend shazza because its her birthday party this saturday! There isnt anything else to say so good bye!

Need some more blog action, I think

I reckon that Annie and Isaac should keep the rest of us informed about how Hip and Happening kids spend their holidays. So here is a challenge for you: Seven blog entries each week. Could be something funny, something interesting, something odd your parents did, or even something like a diary. How does that sound? Are you up to the challenge?

What do you think?

We have been off the air again for over a day so unable to check on what has been happening. On Friday your mother went for a hair style and colour. How do you like the results.
This morning was Desley's last service with us. The carriers are loading her furniture this afternoon. Jan & Gus provided a Barbecue lunch which we had at our place for Desley, Dawn & Lawrence, Bryan & Bev joined us. (Had it here to make it easier for Desley to be here for the carriers.) Had a good service lead by the men of the church which was well received. Off to Port Pirie for a ministers gathering tomorrow before a barbecue tea out at Fromm's for the Ambulance crew and families.

Well It's not so bad......

Hello all thanks for the goodies and best wishes, I have had a lovely day starting with the kiddies bringing breakie in bed and some pressies, then a walk on the beach and lunch with Miriam and yes we did see Moria :) then coaching Zacs b,ball game which they won then a bunch of friends around for pizza tea that was lovely.
So only 6 mins of birthday left then tomorrow I'll see how I go playing b,ball at 40!!Goodnight
Love Kerryn

It was always my plan to back up my data on other people's computers. Honest.

As we continue our hunt for an Intel 865 PERL motherboard (supplier number 1 realised that they no longer have any, and now we are waiting for supplier number 2 to decide whether or not they have any in stock) we've decided to start preparing for the worst. (This is for if Plan Z doesn't work.) (Plan Z involves sending our hard drives to Dicko the friendly IT consultant in Melbourne, who has a mate who bought an 865 a few year ago, and letting him work his magic.)

So, it would be excellent if you could have a look at your computers, and the CDs that you've got lying around, for any collections of pictures that you might have got from us. I reckon I saw a few folders on John's computer last time we were up at Orroroo. So, if you've got any folders of our photos, I'd really like to know that, just in case we aren't able to get the RAID Array to rebuild when we attach it to a new controller.

The third part of this message is to encourage everyone to backup everything on their computer that they would not want to lose, and KEEP TRACK OF WHERE THE BACKUPS ARE KEPT! When our computer comes back to life, and we realise that we haven't lost any data, we will laugh, and then spend the next day (and 80 DVDs) backing up EVERYTHING, regardless of the fact that "I'm about to buy a 300GB drive to use as a more convenient backup, so there isn't really much point doing it now.)

Bother. Bother. Bother.

We are okay!

Helloo everyone. Just letting you know that we are all alright, though once again things in Lebanon are not. The internet access has been very sporadic of late and that has not helped in my communications. (Good excuse huh!)

I went down to Tyre on Wednesday afternoon as I usually do but this time I took the kids with me as I knew they had no school Thursday. At 10pm that night it turned out that Tyre did not either so the kids all enjoyed a day together and it was good to just visit with the Whites. We did watch all the funeral and rally and thank God that everything stayed calm and peaceful. It will be very interesting to see what happens over the next week. Do keep us in your prayers.

The kids are back in school today and I am madly trying to contact all our church members to let them know that because the Marathon has been postponed, our service will move back from 8:30am to regular time of 11am (Just in case any of them read this!!!)

I will try to post more regular updates as internet access allows. Good or sad to hear that harvest is over already, depending on your point of view. Glad there was at least some thing there. Trust the Kitto's are all upright and okay and your computer problems will soon be solved. Hello to Hogbens, good thing you do not have any major news, unless it is something happy, like you are coming with Mum and Dad next March!!!!!!!!!! Mum, I didn't even know that you were going to have some bits chopped off but I'm very glad they didn't have to do that.

Love you all very, very much. Someone please give Grandma a hug from me.