The ship came back this morning. I went out for my walk, and then went and sat on a bench at the docks to watch her arrive. It’s always thrilling to see her appearing around the corner! While Nick was out swimming, I had a call from Social Services, and they have reinstated Paul Stroud in community service until they can find meaningful employment for him. Lucky for his, his community service is happening in our back yard! He started with the capping of the knocked-down wall today, and I think tomorrow he will be able to finish it. Nick helped too. They had to go and buy a bag of cement, and mix it up and cart stones from the school yard. Paul knows what he’s doing, thankfully!
A very quiet day otherwise. Yesterday was not at all worthy of an e-mail. We stayed at home all day and did very little memorable. Lunch was more or less of a flop, with fried chicken drumsticks (that was quite nice, though I’m not quite in competition with KFC yet), and fried rice, which was more of a minty pea mush. Even I couldn’t finish it, although inexplicably Nick thought it was nice. The day before, I made another disaster, which was fried steak in bite-sized pieces, with a carrot and tomato accompaniment over pasta. Unfortunately it just didn’t work well together – the carrot and tomato would have worked with mince, but with the bigger pieces of meat it was all wrong. So tonight, to avoid another cooking debacle, I stuck to good old tuna casserole and carrots, which even I can’t muck up. It was delicious!
In devotions, Aaron prayed for Colin (the boys both pray for him regularly, to stop drinking and become a Christian and GROW UP). Tonight Aaron prayed, “please help Colin to stop drinking the bad drinks, and drink good drinks, like juice and water”. It was so cute. Then he rambled on about helping everyone have enough money so they can go to the shops and buy lots of things and be able to pay the person who they have to pay the money to. I think he was trying to fill up a self-imposed quota of prayer time.
A very quiet day otherwise. Yesterday was not at all worthy of an e-mail. We stayed at home all day and did very little memorable. Lunch was more or less of a flop, with fried chicken drumsticks (that was quite nice, though I’m not quite in competition with KFC yet), and fried rice, which was more of a minty pea mush. Even I couldn’t finish it, although inexplicably Nick thought it was nice. The day before, I made another disaster, which was fried steak in bite-sized pieces, with a carrot and tomato accompaniment over pasta. Unfortunately it just didn’t work well together – the carrot and tomato would have worked with mince, but with the bigger pieces of meat it was all wrong. So tonight, to avoid another cooking debacle, I stuck to good old tuna casserole and carrots, which even I can’t muck up. It was delicious!
In devotions, Aaron prayed for Colin (the boys both pray for him regularly, to stop drinking and become a Christian and GROW UP). Tonight Aaron prayed, “please help Colin to stop drinking the bad drinks, and drink good drinks, like juice and water”. It was so cute. Then he rambled on about helping everyone have enough money so they can go to the shops and buy lots of things and be able to pay the person who they have to pay the money to. I think he was trying to fill up a self-imposed quota of prayer time.
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