Big Nosed Ugly Guy and family

The day started with jane going off for a long run and me promising myself to get out of bed before 7am to get myself in the rhythm for work.  jane’s run was successful.  i got up at 8.30.

church was good this morning with the talk being an overview of the chronological ‘story’ of the Bible and why that’s relevant for our understanding of scripture as we read it.  excellent stuff.  watch out for it on the church podcast in the next few days.

It was our first sunday serving too as jane helped at the kids club which is in holiday mode at the moment.  And another first for us was taking along friends to church – the Dunning were coming round for lunch and afternoon fun, so decided to come along to our church too.  Although Buzz (aka Big Nosed Ugly Guy – BNUG) has been along to Shore a number of times, Wendy and the kids haven’t been along as they go a church local to where they live. 

After church we all came back to ours for lunch on the deck, but not before Buzz and I had spent a happy hour comparing notes on Canon cameras.  Buzz has just bought a camera similar to mine so i was able to share some of the tips and tricks i’d learnt from courses i’ve been on.

after lunch we headed out for a walk round the neighbourhood having decided that the botanical garden was too ambitious a destination on a hot afternoon where all the people under 35ish were very tired (and those over 35ish were too)

we did a couple of geocaches on the way and generally had an excellent time

after they’d gone we had steaks off the barby and then watched what looked like a very very early episode of The Goodies.  Kezia decided she didn’t want to watch Piha Rescue (documentary series about life saving at a local surfing beach) so she and I read a story instead.  This turned out to be a good plan as it was a particularly gruesome episode.  And i don’t think esther or jane will ever put a toe in the waters at piha beach again !

sadly that’s the end of the summer holidays for me. there’s a bank holiday in a couple of weekends time though i think.  and the summer weather should stick around for a couple more months so we can enjoy going to the beach in the evenings etc.

this week the girls are doing an intensive swimming course thing, so more on that tomorrow from jane.  toodle pipkins for now though.