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38th Wedding Anniversary
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It was our wedding anniversary yesterday (27th) and we spent time being guided around Botany Bay and Crunolla here in Sydney. Beautiful. Just as so much stems from Cook reaching Botany Bay so a great deal stems from the day, aged 18, when I first walked into the manse front room in Buarth Road, Aber.
Midweek Meeting August 26 2026
A bit different this week as I was at a prayer meeting of Kogarah Bay Bible Church, Sydney, led by one of their deacons, Isaac Yakoubi. About 20 gathered. We sang a hymn, read Scripture and then worked our way through a printed prayer list section by section. It was a joy to be there.
Rainbow Lorekeet
I look through the window this morning and the first thing I see is a rainbow lorekeet. The parakeet of suburban Sydney it appears.
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| My own pic |
ⱯIꓶⱯꓤꓕSꓵⱯ WOꓤℲ SꓨNIꓕƎƎꓤꓨ
˙pǝʇsod noʎ dǝǝʞ oʇ ƃuᴉdoH ˙ǝuɹnoqlǝW uᴉ ʞǝǝʍ ǝuo ɹoɟ puɐ ʎǝupʎS uᴉ ʎluᴉɐɯ ǝq llᴉʍ ǝM ˙ƃuᴉɹǝʇsᴉuᴉɯ ʎlɟǝᴉɥɔ sʞǝǝʍ ʍǝɟ ɐ ɹoɟ ǝɹǝɥ ƃuᴉǝq oʇ pɹɐʍɹoɟ ƃuᴉʞool ǝɹɐ ǝʍ puɐ ǝuᴉɟ llɐ ǝɹǝʍ (ǝɹodɐƃuᴉS ɐᴉʌ) sʇɥƃᴉlℲ ˙ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uᴉ pǝʌᴉɹɹɐ ʍou ǝʌɐɥ ǝʍ ǝǝs uɐɔ noʎ s∀
On our way to Australia
We left London Monday morning and are getting ever closer to our final destination. Bumped into a ministerial friend (Mark Mullins) on the way to Singapore. Small world.
Trip to Australia
I am planning to be in Australia soon. In Sydney, I will be speaking at a conference in St John's Park Baptist Church on the priesthood of all believers. We will also visit Melbourne.
10 paintings of potato pickers
This was prompted by a question on a recent University Challenge.
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| David Thomas Robertson (https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-Potato-Pickers/F480408DC5A285BB45E8383422599F96) |
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| Ralph Hedley (https://shop.artuk.org/potato-gatherers-northumberland-36012.html) |
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| Maurice de Vlaminck (https://www.wikiart.org/en/maurice-de-vlaminck/potatoe-pickers-1907) |
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| Jules Bastien-Lepage, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Evelyn Mary Dunbar Potato SOrting, Berwick (https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/potato-sorting-berwick-204892) |
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| The King Everywhere, Robert Müller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Ernest Higgins Rigg (https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-potato-pickers-23550) |
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| Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| Jean-François Millet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
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| László Pataky, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons |
Lord's Day August 23 2026
I need to stop saying "my last Sunday in Childs Hill". Anyway on one of my last Sundays yesterday I thought I'd round off with a look at Ecclesiastes 3:1 in the morning and then went to Isaiah 35:3, 4 in the evening. Decent number in the morning, even though some are away. Into double figures in the evening, which is good these days. A lady who has been before came with her visiting sister wuite late on but I hope they got something.
Thames Path South 17 - More Pics
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| Canary Wharf form the Southbank |
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| Nelson Dock |
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| Animal Procession (Surrey Docks Farm) |
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| Greenland Pier |
Thames Path South 17 (Surrey Water Quay - Greenland Pier)
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| Obelisk Near Pageant Stairs |
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| Globe Wharf |
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| Free Trade Wharf from the Southbank |
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| Surrey Basin Bascule Bridge |
Did another section recently. Went to Bermondsey once again and had a coffee in J'Amocha then got a bus back to where I left off last time. One or two dead ends in this walk so only one section covered.
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