les Davey de France

Buying breakfast cereal you have to read the label. Catrin's favourite cereal was suddenly available in a huge box and not quite twice the price. Must be better value ! Ah no - the big box contained 650 grams versus the 500 grams in the smaller box. They must think we can't read. Hmm. No. They think we don't read, and often they're right. Buying mobile phones get them from the operator's shop if possible, but not from the supermarket. We bought a mobile phone from a supermarket and it's just gone wrong for the second time just as its year-long guarantee runs out. The first time we took it back with the till receipt and they sent it away for repair. It took four weeks to come back. Could we borrow a phone in the meantime ? No, we don't have any loan phones ! So we used an old phone from the bottom of a drawer. No loan phone ? Of course not ! The supermarket doesn't care whether you make calls or not. They got their money when they sold you the phone. The...

Gwilym has a kitchen table in his room to use as his desk. The church needs a kitchen table for the kitchen to use as a kitchen table. Gwilym could do with a desk, or at the least a computer workstation for his room. IKEA has a sale on. And so it was that we bought a massive heavy wooden table to replace the plastic patio table we've been using for almost 4 years now. It was a bargain, and there's good wood in it ! But we still need to find a desk for Gwilym. Hmmm.

Sam Waldron has been learning lessons from Calvin as a Pastor and Expositor for what seems like a Very Long Time. Some of the lessons he draws are gems. For example : Humility and appreciation for others. Aiming to be useful. Accepting God's plan. Having a simple aim.

Saturday was a day for comings and goings. Our friend Chrissie arrived for a fleeting visit on Saturday afternoon at Gare St Jean. It was great to meet her. Then we'd invited a variety of folk to come and eat at our place on Saturday evening. It clashed with a fair amount of other things and some folk were ill, but in the end a nice little gang gathered to eat pizza, Japanese curry and nice cake. Meanwhile I went to Gare St Jean to collect Catrin from her school trip to Paris. It was good to get our girl back and to be back at full complement. Sunday began bright and early with set-up at the church. We were a decent number and the service seemed to go OK. Then home for pizza and Japanese curry. Some Griffins came leaving the halt, the lame and the blind back at barracks. I got ready for the English evening service and we loaded into the car taking Chrissie back to Gare St Jean en route. For the evening service we were about 12-ish, I think, and again we sang very well and we read a...

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Amazing

at the main railway station in Bordeaux at 05h50... then pinched ourselves to keep awake during the UFM Team prayer meeting etc... Meanwhile some of Gwilym's teachers are not there tomorrow so he gets to roll into school at 10h45 !