A speedy Sunday
Well the children had a good time on their weekend camp sleepover thing. It rained pretty well all weekend so the fact that there's no outside area to play in near the church made little difference.
My morning began with a panic - we had no bread for communion ! I should have checked earlier in the week but our routines are all to pot... Anyway I thought "no problem - the baguetterie round the corner will be open for this emergency". Not at Toussaint, they weren't ! So I scuttled off to get J-P. He lives in one of our seven high rise blocks of flats, which is also where the highest concentration of muslims in Pessac live. Their baguetterie was open so I queued up to buy a "déjeunette". Then hared round looking for J-P who was not in his usual place because I was not in mine. Then off to church.
What with everything we were ... well we were late. And I had the videoprojector, the videoprojector table, the PC with the hymns and songs, the bread and wine for communion AND the previous day J-P and I had studied the book fo words for the heating and worked out how to turn it on and off...
Anyway you'd be amazed how quickly we can set things up, once we've kissed everyone of course, and the heating was on and everything.
After church a long wait for how's your father and discussion about the evening service, then home to whip up "Saucisses de Strasbourg aux pâtes et petits pois", light the stove, then off to Blaye.
The service at Blaye seemed to go OK, though their attendance is struggling a bit with the cold and rain and possibly the afternoon start. I discovered that Georges sings bass so we harmonised for "Torrents d'amour" (O the deep deep love) and so on. Afterwards we chatted about his war service - Indo-chine and Algérie. Read up about the late 1950 and early 1960s in France. It makes your hair curl. Or watch the film 'The day of the Jackal" - the early one with James Fox.
Back to Bordeaux through traffic jams and accidents (caused by the wet roads I expect) to catch the end of the evening meeting and take J-P home to Pessac.
Today is gentler and slower. The biggest drama will be Pat's visit to the doctors. We'll shuffle through the rain-drenched streets for her 16h45 appointment.
My morning began with a panic - we had no bread for communion ! I should have checked earlier in the week but our routines are all to pot... Anyway I thought "no problem - the baguetterie round the corner will be open for this emergency". Not at Toussaint, they weren't ! So I scuttled off to get J-P. He lives in one of our seven high rise blocks of flats, which is also where the highest concentration of muslims in Pessac live. Their baguetterie was open so I queued up to buy a "déjeunette". Then hared round looking for J-P who was not in his usual place because I was not in mine. Then off to church.
What with everything we were ... well we were late. And I had the videoprojector, the videoprojector table, the PC with the hymns and songs, the bread and wine for communion AND the previous day J-P and I had studied the book fo words for the heating and worked out how to turn it on and off...
Anyway you'd be amazed how quickly we can set things up, once we've kissed everyone of course, and the heating was on and everything.
After church a long wait for how's your father and discussion about the evening service, then home to whip up "Saucisses de Strasbourg aux pâtes et petits pois", light the stove, then off to Blaye.
The service at Blaye seemed to go OK, though their attendance is struggling a bit with the cold and rain and possibly the afternoon start. I discovered that Georges sings bass so we harmonised for "Torrents d'amour" (O the deep deep love) and so on. Afterwards we chatted about his war service - Indo-chine and Algérie. Read up about the late 1950 and early 1960s in France. It makes your hair curl. Or watch the film 'The day of the Jackal" - the early one with James Fox.
Back to Bordeaux through traffic jams and accidents (caused by the wet roads I expect) to catch the end of the evening meeting and take J-P home to Pessac.
Today is gentler and slower. The biggest drama will be Pat's visit to the doctors. We'll shuffle through the rain-drenched streets for her 16h45 appointment.
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