I’m feeling quite proud of myself after fixing the doorbell this afternoon! I had a look at it on Saturday, and discovered that a fuse was blown, so tried to find the right fuse on Saturday, but without success. Bought a few more today at different shops. Tried an unmarked one first, and lo and behold, the doorbell made a ding noise, but no dong. After some thought, I realized that the current was too strong…it works on some kind of electromagnetism, pulling a dinger from one metal bar to another to produce the noise. Too much current was causing the dinger to get stuck on one side and not released. I tried a different fuse, and hey presto, it all worked. Also on Saturday, we changed the lock on the glass front door, because we’ve never had a key for it. Kind of annoying when you go out and shut that door, and can’t get back in, and have to ring the doorbell for someone to open up (or bang on the glass if the doorbell is broken!). So now we can both ring the doorbell and open the door ourselves.
This morning Nick had to take the assembly at Pillings Primary, across the road. He drafted me to help with some singing, so at 9 am we walked across to the school, with the boys, and joined the assembly. The kids all sit on the floor in a very colourful small hall, grouped in their classes, so Caleb and Aaron sat right in the front with the other kids, looking quite like part of them. I sat on a chair in front with the teachers, and Nick pretty much launched into his talk as soon as assembly began. He shared the gospel, although left out quite an important part of having to accept the gift of salvation! We knew a lot of the kids from GNC, and were pleased that a couple of our GNC kids knew the answers to questions about salvation and forgiveness. After Nick had finished his presentation, we sang two items, and then got them to sing a song, which was great. One of our songs was almost a disaster, because I didn’t quite get my note coming in, but I just asked Nick to start again, which we did. No problem. After assembly the kids all filed out, and Caleb and Aaron would have gone right to class with the kids their age if we hadn’t stopped them!! I must say that I did feel a little sad for them that all their friends were there, in school, and we came home to have school on our own. But they didn’t express any kind of longing to attend that school, being under the impression from the kids there that it’s a “stupid dumb” school.
We harvested beans this afternoon, picking enough for supper. I was hoping that the novelty of having home grown veggies might entice the boys to be more open-minded about them, but it was the same story at suppertime…the teeth were VERY long!
I didn’t catch the news today, but I understand that the RMS is still in Portland, waiting for a part. Still no one knows what’s happening with the schedule, but it’s been rumoured that a Cape Town voyage may be cancelled. You can imagine what kinds of problems this is creating with hotel bookings and airline bookings and so on for people booked on the ship in the near future. It should have been back here this coming Saturday, leaving for Ascension on Monday, so now people who were on that voyage with connecting flights are being put on a cruise ship which arrived today, leaving tomorrow, at Andrew Weir’s expense. Hotel bookings on Ascension are also at their expense. It’s a complete and utter gemors!!
This morning Nick had to take the assembly at Pillings Primary, across the road. He drafted me to help with some singing, so at 9 am we walked across to the school, with the boys, and joined the assembly. The kids all sit on the floor in a very colourful small hall, grouped in their classes, so Caleb and Aaron sat right in the front with the other kids, looking quite like part of them. I sat on a chair in front with the teachers, and Nick pretty much launched into his talk as soon as assembly began. He shared the gospel, although left out quite an important part of having to accept the gift of salvation! We knew a lot of the kids from GNC, and were pleased that a couple of our GNC kids knew the answers to questions about salvation and forgiveness. After Nick had finished his presentation, we sang two items, and then got them to sing a song, which was great. One of our songs was almost a disaster, because I didn’t quite get my note coming in, but I just asked Nick to start again, which we did. No problem. After assembly the kids all filed out, and Caleb and Aaron would have gone right to class with the kids their age if we hadn’t stopped them!! I must say that I did feel a little sad for them that all their friends were there, in school, and we came home to have school on our own. But they didn’t express any kind of longing to attend that school, being under the impression from the kids there that it’s a “stupid dumb” school.
We harvested beans this afternoon, picking enough for supper. I was hoping that the novelty of having home grown veggies might entice the boys to be more open-minded about them, but it was the same story at suppertime…the teeth were VERY long!I didn’t catch the news today, but I understand that the RMS is still in Portland, waiting for a part. Still no one knows what’s happening with the schedule, but it’s been rumoured that a Cape Town voyage may be cancelled. You can imagine what kinds of problems this is creating with hotel bookings and airline bookings and so on for people booked on the ship in the near future. It should have been back here this coming Saturday, leaving for Ascension on Monday, so now people who were on that voyage with connecting flights are being put on a cruise ship which arrived today, leaving tomorrow, at Andrew Weir’s expense. Hotel bookings on Ascension are also at their expense. It’s a complete and utter gemors!!
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