Photo update

Hi guy's,

I just wanted to let you know that I've updated my photo blog with some new pictures.

Check it out by clicking the link below:

http://mlk30.blogspot.com/

February in J'bay!

Man, it’s been hot!

I've heard all about how hot February can be here in SA but this is my first real encounter (last year it was wet for half the month).

I still love the hot weather but now I can actually understand why the locals are always so thankful for cool wet days, when they come now even I feel the relief they bring. So with this in mind, my trip to the UK and cooler weather might actually be quite refreshing in more ways then one.

I can't believe that in a week I will be in there.

I was actually talking the other day with Louise and thinking about how different I feel about life here in Jeffrey’s. If Louise and I had gone to the UK at Christmas, I'm not sure that I would have wanted to come back. Now things seem to be changing, theirs an expectation in Church which I'm buying into that has me very excited. Strange, but I almost feel like I'm going to miss something while I'm away. So now I'm set and ready to experience the UK in a way I've never done before. It’s not my home now, I love family and friends there but SA is home now. Will my trip confirm that fact or what?

The front of our home is having something of a face lift! We are putting up a wall. We decided to use a local company to do it, they have a team of guys who have been doing all the grafting (rather them then me in this heat!!) I’ll put some photos on my photo blog when it’s all done (http://mlk30.blogspot.com/).

God Bless Ya!

UK..... am I really going?

I've been booking travel tickets for my trip to the UK. Louise and I are going to my dads for a week; I managed to get a coach ticket for £1, that's pretty cool eh? The plan is for Louise to come back via Bath Spa where she is getting together with her good friend Desi. I’m well pleased that they will be able to touch base.

So what’s it going to be like going back to the UK after nearly two years?

Will there be loads of changes? Will I seem different to friends and family? Will they seem different to me?

I was saying to Louise the other day that I can’t actually believe that we are going to be walking around in London together. I know it sounds silly but doing so is going to blow my mind some what, I’ve kind of gotten use to life in the Bay and the streets of London are very very different. I’m going to feel like a tourist in my own country, that’s weird man!

Trev just sent me a picture of a curry and a nice cold pint of Caffreys, wow, I’m really looking forward to sharing both with you Trev, I hope your buying!!

God bless you all.

Away hey!

Thankfully I've been able to renew my visa. So I'm here in SA for at least another couple of years, what a relief to have all the application stuff behind me.

Things seem to just get better for Louise and I at the moment, her passport is here and within hours of picking it up we had booked our flight tickets for the UK. I'm looking at a month their with Louise joining me for the last two weeks. We're going to have something of a full program with a visit to my dad's among other things. Wow man, I can't wait to catch up with everyone.

Life here in the bay has been nice, the weather has been cooking, hitting February means hot hot hot, not something an Englishmen is really used too eh? Our Associate Pastor is here and settling in nicely in Church, its great to have someone who has a real passion to reach young adults, a group our Church is really short off. I'm very much looking forward to working with him.

Recently Louise and I had a nice proper date night, its been sometime since we've really done so; we went to a restaurant called "Three fat fish", a nice restaurant with an outside deck area where we enjoyed dinner together.

That's about it for now.