Friends and fellows

Last day of school holidays…at 11.30 we went out to town, for lunch at Sally’s. It was a gorgeous day, with clear skies, and it was so wonderful to be outside. Nick decided to take the boys out swimming later in the afternoon, as the sun had been shining all day. While he was out, Jean Gurr popped in, and she had no sooner arrived than Nick and the boys came home, after a short swim. Jean wanted to run through the songs for Sunday on the organ next door, so she left quite quickly, but came back again once she had finished, and we caught up with her on their time away – they’ve just been for their first holiday back home, although she said it was frenetic and not much of a holiday. At 4.30 we were all due at Ann’s Place for a presentation about “Images of St Helena” – a photographic representation of the island at this period in time. This project is being run, in conjunction with the Museum, by an American, Kyle Williams, who is here with his family for about two months – they leave again at the end of August. They have a teenage daughter and two boys, aged 10 and 6, who had a great time running around Castle Gardens with our boys. I met Kyle’s wife Genevieve, as we sat next to each other and chatted. They are also homeschooling their kids, for much the same reasons we are. They attend a Pentecostal church in the States. We’ve made a date for Wednesday afternoon for the boys to come here and play, since they obviously hit it off so well!