January - March 2006

Well I havent posted for rather a long time. I have discovered that the longer one leaves it the harder it is to restart. Indeed I have little doubt that what readership I could perhaps once have laid claim to has whithered to nil in the interim. Nonetheless there is no point having an old blog and as such I shall endeavour to recommence my ramblings.

Of course it is rather difficult to sum up three months. The trip to Ireland, referred to in the post below, proved most enjoyable. Our time was divided between studying Galatians (an experience which really brought to my attention the need for a thorough approach to bible study and in particular the need to be disciplined in devoting generous amounts of time to it) and reading (I rounded off War and Peace and can say that it is the best novel I have read yet. If you havent read it I would heartily recommend it though best to wait until you have a good chunk of time to commit. Gripping). I also spent quite a lot of time fishing. Unfortunately, as with my attempt in 2004, I failed to catch a single beasty. I got one bite from a mackerel but this jumped off the hook leaving a meagre portion of its mouth so small that one could not cook dinner for a mouse from it. Still I found it a peaceful pursuit on the whole, despite some alarming pranks performed by various seabirds who kept diving within the vicinity of my line.

Further entertainment was found in late night walks across the island. In particular on New Years eve, when we walked the length of the island under an amazing sky and in the face of a howling gale. A quite extraordinary experience. Less extraordinary was the rope on the ferry taking us back to Wales, which tore a chunk out of my exhaust pipe as I drove over it.

Since the New Year I have been very busy with work, partly because the sheer number of cases has increased, and also owing to the fact that I have started doing small claims trials which involve a lot of preparation.

No sign of a pupillage yet

I have been getting pretty involved in York Evangelical Church too, which is fantastic. Saturday mornings once a month are taken up with the excellent 'Bible Basics for Believer's' course, and what with this, busy Sundays and meetings on Wednesday evenings, I am finding myself increasingly rooted in York.

If all goes to plan the allotment is about to take off. We are rearing some broad beans and potatos in the house ready to go out in a couple of weeks, and the rabbit fence is very close to completion.

Andrew has now more or less left the house as he has gone on a placement in Scarborough and after that he plans to move down to London to teach. Rebecca was on placement for a few weeks but is now back.

Well, thats a very rough update on events in the last three months. I hope to get back to including more detail and some photos by writing a bit more regularly!