Apples and tomatoes

I’ve just finished doing the bulletin, and now it’s photocopying. Our copier is running low on toner, and we are expecting another one from England soon, but until then we have to keep an eye on it.

Last night was our bible study braai (barbeque), which was a great success. I think in all we had over 30 people, including kids. The food was good, and the conversion was merry, although I didn’t join in much, being too tired. At one point Nick and I were both sitting here in his study while everyone else was downstairs enjoying pudding, and since some people were inside and some were outside, no one noticed that we were missing. We debated going to bed and letting them lock up on their way out, or having a rest and then reappearing when they showed signs of leaving, but we didn’t go with either plan. Eventually got to bed around 11 pm, but then Caleb was crying in his sleep again so that kept us awake a while longer. But it was good to sleep in this morning! We only had to be up at around 7 am for Nick to get ready for the prayer meeting, so that was really great. The boys got to bed at 9 pm last night, but Aaron was awake and ready for the day at his usual 6.30. Caleb only woke up at about 8 am! I asked Caleb if he remembers crying in his sleep, and told him that he must stop this nonsense because it is keeping us awake. He thought about that for a little while, and then apologized for it! Shame, that took the wind right out of my sails.

Today, then, I rushed off to Spar shortly after 9 because Brenda had mentioned that they had finally unpacked their fresh fruit, and it was going to be like a gold rush. Well fortunately it wasn’t too bad, but everyone was very excited about the fruit. I bought four apples only, because the peaches looked a bit green. 20p per apple. I went back to Spar later, on our way to the pool, because they had unpacked their tomatoes then too, so I picked up six firm ones from SA, and only 56p for all of them, which I thought was very reasonable, especially when compared to the 17p I paid for that horrible local one some time ago! Good News Club was at 10, and as we had hoped, a lot more kids joined than usual. We were happy with the numbers. Nick is doing an 11-part series on the 10 commandments, so that takes the pressure off the rest of the teachers for the next while. Some of the girls hung around again after the GNC, which we didn’t mind tooo much, although they never seem to know when to leave, so they just stay and stay until one of us really has to be firm and kick them out. It gets annoying, because one really does want a start time and an end time to ministries. Still had a lot of cleaning up to do, both from the HBC and last night’s do, so really wanted to get stuck in.