Well I'm almost as bad at updating our blog site as I am at developing our website, but new things take time to become habits. I've added a counter today to see if anyone is actually viewing our blog site - got to remember to deduct the number of times I check!!

Beth has started her A-level exams and I cooked our first barbecue of the year today! We got the details from Coralie's secondary school today - lots more expense on uniform etc.! She is looking forward to it, but will miss her present school, I'm sure. They were one group responsible for the village's first 'Party in the Park' last Saturday - an excellent day - afternoon of stalls, concerts and Morris Dancing, including the large scale 3-D map-model of the village the school kids had made. Anne got roped into the Morris Dancing! Then in the evening a local 'blues' band played [mostly R&B/popular rock but a bit of real blues too] - very good - just Anne and I went, and danced the night away!

We are gearing up to new cars next week - well we've had the Espace [our 5th] since we moved to Silsden 6 years ago, and no longer need such a large vehicle - so getting a Grand Scénic - still 7 seats but smaller - Anne chose red - so having had the Espace and current Mégane in Lazuli Blue, I thought I'd get a matching car [not new!] off the used car lot - +/- same Mégane [2 years newer] - but in similar met. red. Anne doesn't know about mine yet, so keep it quiet till after next Wednesday - she'll not read this page before then, I hope!! Till next posting, Adieu! Paul

Tonight, what with Aidan being at college, and Beth, as usual, sleeping over at a friend's house in Otley where she goes to church tomorrow, and Nathan, unusually, sleeping over at a friend's, we have only two children in bed here today - last time that was true it was Aidan and Beth, and they were nearly five and nearly three - for those of you with ONLY two children this is not strange, but it is unusually quiet!!

The party for the folk leaving us for Bonnie Scotland [nr Castle Douglas] was nice, and we saw a few mutual friends we don't see too often, so that was good too. One friend did a very highbrow game - lots of what SHE thought were common proverbs and sayings reduced to the initial letters of each word - e.g. N.L.A.G.H.I.T.M.!! Very hard I can assure you. Well goodnight to all our reader!

Hi, following the lead of Missionary friends in Brazil [Andrew and Cora King], we think there may be two or three of you out there who'd be interested [and amused if we can be witty enough] in hearing our news more frquently, so here is our Blog Site. Easier to organise and maintain than our still-undeveloped website, so maybe we'll keep it updated.

Today all bar Aidan [in Lancaster] met Grandma Severs for her 81st birthday today. Nice lunch in La Piazza in Skipton. Some friends from our church [Hall Green Baptist Chapel, Haworth] are about to move to the wilds of Scotland and are hosting a leaving party at church this evening. They had months of frustration with the Scottish 'sealed bid' method of house-buying, but just as their sale approaches completion this week, they have at last been successful in buying! God's timing is perfect, as usual.

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