Sometimes you write about “How different views of the Millennium express themselves politically”, and sometimes… well… you make a snakes and ladders game with a mate that also manages to teach a Biblical Theology of Mission to primary aged kids!
Sometimes I really love this college.

The game Dan & I created has a case. That case has a cover. The cover has this picture on it. Of course, we are not supposed to identify ourselves in our essays, so we stick bits of paper over our eyes with our student numbers on them. Surely they wont be able to work it out will they?

I want to take more portraits.
I’d love to do a class sometime.
I wish I had more time & more willing subjects.
Thank God for young kids & care free Canadians!

JTB. She has been a willing (and beautiful) subject from day 1! (OK, about day 140 something, cause I was busy breaking my leg on a US summer camp when she was born).

Dylan. Canadian? Yes. Hobo? I suspect either he was or he will be! But we love him anyway.

Is this the Bunny or the Bethy?
More things to write about & less time to do it. This is why I want to change this site as soon as I have a spare moment & turn it into a photosite!
Easter was great. A couple of church services & then off to the Hunter with Shona. The whole family was there! Phil, Kristin & Charlotte. Amy, Andrew, Joss, Tobes & Bethy! I am not sure, but I think the parents may have been more excited about all the chocolate than the kids!!!
Well, another pic or two for you, & I’m off to bed.

Charlotte had a vice-like grip on her little bucket of eggs!

It was awesome to have the whole family together!

I’m not on top of everything yet.
I can’t yet sit down & write about something meaningful.
I can, however, post a couple of photos. Firstly, Simon, a guy from Dan’s “Buck’s night”, and secondly, Dan & Dave. I would note though, that despite their look, Dan & Dave were both very happy about Dan having just got married! I just think they look like good cop & bad cop together, so I always get them to do this pose!


Night night kids. Two posts in two days! You are lucky!!!!!

(I’ve been told the big cloud looks a little like a giant bunny crossing the sky! Hoping you’ll get some eggs, boys and girls?)
I have a lot to say, but I don’t currently have the time to say it.
A week away in Wee Waa was both fun and challenging. Debrief to follow.
Today Dan & Harriet get married! Debrief to follow.
Wedding plans coming along. Debrief to follow.
I got to catch up with some Uncles & Aunts in Coonamble! Debrief to follow.
Easter this weekend. That means time in the Hunter with the family (after having discharged my church responsibilities). Debrief to follow.
Will I get to them all? We’ll just have to wait & see!

So, last weekend, we had Revive come and play at church not once, but twice!
It’s always nice to see the boys & it is particularly great to see how they are just going from strength to strength in terms of their songs & their performance! It’s pretty cool to hear about how they got to open for “Third Day” a couple of times. I am sure if they make it to the US (and therefore to a legitimate Christian market) they will big be big!
And when that happens, I will be the one seeking vicarious fame as I claim “I knew them when” or “I beat two of them at virtua tennis so emphatically that I suspect they will never play again”.
Sunday night’s gig was cool & it is was an interesting night for me too. Fergus & I decided fairly last minute that it might be best to change the passage that was being preached on (James 5 is a bit full on, especially when you are hoping to have lots of people come for the band) , so on the Friday evening I started writing a first person narrative from Thomas’ perspective, based on John 13-20.
I was quietly soiling myself with nervousness. That concern increased when, with 2 minutes before the service my powerpoint wouldn’t work. Fortunately, thanks to the cool head of Fergus, and his always-able son “Juniour Burger”, we were able to resurrect the computer & breathe new life into powerpoint.
The narrative went really well. I did it almost without notes, and am sure enough that with enough prep I could do it totally so next time. I got good feedback too, so that was appreciated.
Here are a couple of pics from the friday night.

The Crew!

Dave takes it up a notch.

Thomo gives me his best Gene Simmons impression.

Auld Reekie is another name for Edinburgh.
I really love that city.
I have this little dream of moving back there, or maybe into country Scotland in the future!
Did I mention that I am going there for my honeymoon?
What a sweet deal! Shona’s sister & bro-in-law (Hi Maret & Tim, Charlotte & Will) moved there a couple of weeks ago, cause Tim got a job there. Unfortunately They wont be able to make it back for the wedding because of their two young kids, so, Shona & decided to bring things to them! (thanks to some assistance)
So, July 1 it is back to Auld Reekie for a week, followed by a week through the highlands & lowlands of Scotland & then topped off with 4 days in Paris! Let’s hope that Shona doesn’t read this, so I can get away with saying “think of all the great photos I’ll be able to take over there!!!!”
Meanwhile, it is full steam ahead at college & Church. We’ve got Revive coming to play at Youth Group on friday. I am preaching on Sunday, plus there is the usual load of assignments (I finished an essay 4 whole days early!) and a mountain of prep for Mission which is in a week and a half!
I’ll still try & blog at least once before I go.
Meanwhile, here are a couple of old pictures of Scotland. So much to look forward to!

Doune Castle, near Stirling is the place where they shot 3/4 of “Monty Python & the Holy Grail”

This is a little house just before you reach Glencoe. Imagine having a back yard like that!

The Clava Cairns are 6000 years old! Lovely looking things.

I really do love this place.
I am not going to leave it to often over the next month. The mother load of tasks for mission, plus the essays due, plus other bits & pieces, have all arrived.
SMBC, you are my home!

All thought going into work. You’ll have to make do with just a photo.

OK, so it really BUCKETED down at Jody’s wedding, and it has pretty much been raining ever since. You wont see a Sydneysider complaining though.
I got to sleep with a blanket on last night! Sweet, blessed rain brings cold!
Well, I have class in a minute, so I will leave you with a couple of photos.
Firstly, a rare shot of Shona & I (She’s not easy to corner for a photo! Go figure?)

Then the second cab off the rank is a photo that really didn’t work at all in colour because of overexposure, but but it in B/W & then amp the contrast a little & I really like it!
It’s from Sam & Arend’s wedding.

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