Since I last blogged Mum and I have been to the Forces Festival in Amesbury and despite the bad weather and the car breaking down between Salisbury and Southampton, managed to enjoy the weekend. Here's a picture of the Human Pyramid perfomed by the Royal Signals motorcycle stunt display team The White Helmets.
So I went to work on Friday 9am - 6pm as is the usual for a Friday. I stayed for a drink after work, also not unusual. Except, I couldn't get away! Drinks kept flowing and we all kept drinking them and then at 11pm (knowing I had to the same hours the next day) I thought it would be a good idea to head home. The guys had promised me a taxi home - at their expense - if I stayed, so I did. So I got a nice warm, dry taxi the 0.4miles and 3mins to my house from work. Aren't they nice!?!? It was absolutely heaving down in the way that it can do only in the middle of summer - reminded me a bit of our Dubrovnik downpour, just without the danger of being swept in to the sea!!
So I was back in work the next day bright-eyed and bushy tailed. Sunday, on the other hand, was the day I felt the effects of Friday. That was not a good day. Enough said about that, the better.
So I'm back in work tomorrow, not sure if I'll stay for a drink though. We'll have to see...
I've also bought my tickets for the train for Keswick. A day return to London with my Young Persons (which runs out 3 days afterwards), a single to Stoke and then a single from Penrith all the way home. Lovely. That little lot cost me £105. This year we also have to have new tshirts and we have the option of hoodies for Kids Team. So I've just ordered a new polo shirt and a hoodie...now to see what they actually look like!!
So with all that, you'd think it was certain that I could actually be on team wouldn't you? Well not so fast!! The Keswick office had a few problems when it came to checking my reference and then I heard no more after a brief phone call with them. So I emailed Tom and basically asked if I was on Team or not. He said I could be, but we HAD to clarify somethings IMMEDIATELY, all surrounding my church attendance and spiritual life.
Basicaly that was very scary and I was like "what do I say, what do I do, argh, oh no..." etc etc. Then I decided that to save confusion, assumptions and all other issues I would just write the whole story down from start to end and email Tom the whole thing. So it was about 2.5 pages of A4 buuuut now Tom has read it, he understands me and my situation entirely. Obviously he has to check and make sure because we have access to young people and are charged with their care and spiritual education during Keswick. I'm glad now that I was honest, that Tom knows the whole story, that I can go to Keswick and that I trusted in God to sort the whole thing out!!
We have exactly one month until I get on the train and head for Stoke to overnight with Ruth and head up to Keswick the next day. Well excited! The Training Day in London is in 9 days time and I'm looking forward to seeing as many people as I can there. Its also nice that we kind of get the big catch up out of the way so that we can also focus when we arrive, on getting ready for the Convention.
I'm even more excited to stay for Wk2 and attend the convention as a conventioner, as I'll get to partake in everything. Happy times ahead.
As I draw this short entry to a close, I'd like to acknowledge how awesome God is: in whatever ways He chooses to act and that has been apparent very much so over this past couple of months. I am reminded that He knows the Big Picture of my life, not me, so to leave the worrying to Him is clearly the best thing to do.
Well I'll leave it there for now. Have a happy weekend.
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