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Will we ever see the sun again?

At last … the sun is shining in Dumfries. Everyone round here has suffered the constant cloud hanging over our area this week. I’ve been asking, “Will we ever see the sun again?”. We all know the answer and in … Continue reading

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Trouble with this site

Hi – we apologise for some difficulties we had over the past month. Someone hacked into our site and planted malicious code here. Nothing too dangerous, but annoying nevertheless. We had to take the site down for a few days … Continue reading

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A Message To The Grumbling Christian

Helen found this at: samuelatgilgal.wordpress.com. It made me laugh, because it is so poignant! The message is very clear: An eminent and well-known English preacher was approached by a congregation member who complained about some aspect of church life. It … Continue reading

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The Marriage Course

So we’re blogging our news and thoughts again, after a bit of a break. With Facebook, Twitter etc., it seemed that we were letting the whole world know what we are up to already, but it seems that people want … Continue reading

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They come … they go

You might already know that we have five, yes five kids; well, kids might not be the right word to use, seeing as the youngest is 19 years old. This week we’re losing our youngest, Beth, to Uni in London, … Continue reading

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Sorry, but we haven’t been ignoring you!

You might notice that all our posts are rather old. There are two reasons for that – we haven’t been posting much, but we also lost all the recent posts we had actually made because of a server problem which … Continue reading

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What an amazing wedding!

So it all happened! Rebecca and Emile are well and truly married. Two ceremonies – one a low key CofE marriage service in St Matthew’s, Fulham, the other, a big celebration in The Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell, Central London. … Continue reading

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Well Fed

Mark, Helen & Bethany happy now! Still in Nandos.

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In Nandos

Helen looking hungry, Mark spinning!

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Four days and counting

We’re on the final countdown to Rebecca and Emile’s wedding. And it’s getting really exciting now! Off to London today, to help with preperations there – wow; it really will happen! All the costs of financing your daughter’s wedding are … Continue reading

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