Easter report
Easter weekend began with the Good Friday service at 6pm at the church. But not for us ! As I made my way home just after 5 I saw that the rocade was completely blocked in the Bordeaux direction and Pessac centre itself was pretty impassable.
The problem ?
Three things : 1) end of working day. The rocade is always a problem around that time 2) beginning of Easter hols. People hit the road for Spain and the sun on Friday evening. 3) a trailer load of wood had caught fire on the Pont François Mitterand.
So no Good Friday service for us !
Easter Day began bright and early at church for the setup and the service. The folk from Blaye were there and together with some other visitors we were pretty full. Sammy preached from the Emmaus Road and Romans 6 on reckoning yourself dead to sin and alive to righteousness.
Pat had invited three families back for lunch and we press-ganged another friend into coming too. This is what enormous slow cookers were invented for. So we ate chilli and sticky thai rice (I think we overloaded the rice-cooker) with chocolate mousse, Vienetta and chocolate nests for pud.
At lunch we talked about all kinds of things, among them one friend's breadmaking machine. "I use any old flour - the cheapest", she said. The bread was fine. Boulangers who make their own bread from flour are dying out. "All the chains use frozen baguettes that they just thaw and bake, apparently, and even the proper boulangers use frozen croissants now", said another friend who should know because he delivers to them all.
I confessed to our non-French ways. "We buy cheap baguettes in the supermarket and freeze them", I said. "So do we", quoth the multitude, "it's good bread. They bake it from fresh".
The English service. Well I must post separately about something in particular, but we were about 15. Some old friends were not there but we had some new faces. I preached on Emmaus and how Jesus had to suffer and enter his glory like the Old Testament says. It was a good time together.
The problem ?
Three things : 1) end of working day. The rocade is always a problem around that time 2) beginning of Easter hols. People hit the road for Spain and the sun on Friday evening. 3) a trailer load of wood had caught fire on the Pont François Mitterand.
So no Good Friday service for us !
Easter Day began bright and early at church for the setup and the service. The folk from Blaye were there and together with some other visitors we were pretty full. Sammy preached from the Emmaus Road and Romans 6 on reckoning yourself dead to sin and alive to righteousness.
Pat had invited three families back for lunch and we press-ganged another friend into coming too. This is what enormous slow cookers were invented for. So we ate chilli and sticky thai rice (I think we overloaded the rice-cooker) with chocolate mousse, Vienetta and chocolate nests for pud.
At lunch we talked about all kinds of things, among them one friend's breadmaking machine. "I use any old flour - the cheapest", she said. The bread was fine. Boulangers who make their own bread from flour are dying out. "All the chains use frozen baguettes that they just thaw and bake, apparently, and even the proper boulangers use frozen croissants now", said another friend who should know because he delivers to them all.
I confessed to our non-French ways. "We buy cheap baguettes in the supermarket and freeze them", I said. "So do we", quoth the multitude, "it's good bread. They bake it from fresh".
The English service. Well I must post separately about something in particular, but we were about 15. Some old friends were not there but we had some new faces. I preached on Emmaus and how Jesus had to suffer and enter his glory like the Old Testament says. It was a good time together.
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