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August 08, 2007

Post Wedding Update

Brief roundup of events since I last posted properly:

1. Got married as planned (see photos). This (on balance) has turned out to be (in 1066 parlance) a Good Thing. Hooray.

2. Went on honeymoon to Scotland - a nice town in the highlands called Pitlochry. We walked and went horse riding and ate salmon and saw Pitlochry's famous fish ladder.

3. Went to Lowestoft for a church week away. Swam in the sea (brrr) and learned this wonderful worship song and this one, and enjoyed a talk by Major General Tim Cross on the subject of courage. He said that courage is not bravado - it is like a reservoir that you can only fill up by prayer.

4. Family visits: Chichester, Abingdon, York. Walked around this scenic village whose name makes me laugh: Hutton le Hole.

5. Now we're back in London - living in Battersea High Street, looking out over tangled rooftops, listening to the traffic, painting (walls), writing (Timbuktu Enigma) and settling into married life. I like London very much, and just know that our month here will fly by.

6. Went to Andersen Press tonight for a drinks party and came away wholly unexpectedly with a contract for Sophie and the Pancake Campaign. So Sophie is now a trilogy! But it won't be called the Pancake Campaign - apparently children don't buy books with pancakes on the cover.

7. We've set a date for going back to Burkina Faso: Saturday 27 October. Apparently, rainy season in Djibo is going well so far. We continue to pray for our co-workers there and for the Precious Girl team in Cambodia.

Posted by sahelsteve at August 8, 2007 11:25 PM