Shall we Sing a Song for you?

The day after the wedding was the Lord’s Day, but failing to find a church in the morning we just had an improvised Bible study type thing ourselves.

And then after lunch we headed back to Pretoria for the evening service in Central Baptist Church (where, as Walker informed me this week, ML-J once preached)

…Avoiding the hijackers but hitting a traffic jam and getting there in the middle of whoever was preaching, but we got to chat to Pastor Charles for a good while after.

The next morning, following the advice from Pastor Charles, some of us went to the Vortrekker monument, not sure what the others did!

Every year on the 16th of December (The Day of the Vow (or Covenant), celebrating the victory of 464 Voortrekkers over 10,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River),

The Trek

Then it was time to go shopping for a few football/rugby kits (about the only thing you can’t get cheaper in SA!), head to the airport, leave off the cars, say Dubai for a final time and arrive home in time for Joel to graduate. And to start the longest running series in SWS history!

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So finally it was time for the reason we were all out there!

“Left a bit”

Above is lunch on the day of the wedding (I think). Me and Simon had a bit of craic helping Kate’s dad and some of the workers bring chairs and the piano from Kate’s old school.

All set

Anticipation

Arrival

Mr and Mrs Walker:

And family:

The rest of us:

Pete from Bristol, big fan of Ivan Sproule, on the right (Pete, not Ivan)

Parkhills

The Norn Irish, and hangers on. Steve pretends to be Walker

The reception:

3 words: Cold

Signing the guest book

And that was about that! Just about got it done within the year. Happy Anniversary Walker and Kate!

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Update: You can view the presentation online at rpc.org

Might as well put the proper title (catchy as it is) seeing I’m doing this in a semi-official capacity! (as in I was asked to help publicise it, which I’m even more willing to do than I would have been anyway after some rousing speeches in favour of the conference at Synod!) And although the name has already caught on, I dunno if we’ll be able to maintain calling it ‘TermonScotland’ for another year! Especially if one happened to be living in Scotland! So ‘Gartmore’, anyone?

Anyway. You can download a powerpoint presentation on the Conference here (80MB – if you don’t have powerpoint you may need the free Powerpoint viewer), so please do so for your own use and any chance you get to show it at church / CY or anything. And most of all, apply to go! Prices have been slashed! The craic will be 90! I’m so excited I might just go over now!!

Clearly the American contingent

I can see Harry Tadley! Anyone spot John S?

According to this, I’ll be taking Pete and PMO to the grave with me!

Haggai – rad!

Please Note: Shall We Sing A Song For You is not responsible for the use of the American style RP banner on promotional literature. While not wanting to promote intra-worldwide-RP-family disharmony in the lead up to the Conference, SWS also cannot help but take this opportunity to point out that it has recently come to our attention (admittedly perhaps through excessive (as in more than 1 sermon) listening to Matt Chandler) that Americans cannot use the phrase ‘couldn’t care less’. Instead they say ‘I could care less’. Which means they do care about it. Which is the opposite of their intention upon using the slogan. Please correct this by next summer. Thank-you.