The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17
Another month comes to a close
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| Bananas growing on a tree at our last home |
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| We brought the green bunch of bananas with us to our new home! They have now all been picked and shared, with some of them frozen. |
Hello to the readers of this
"one-year-blog".
Well, that is the intention!
Welcome to new blog readers from Russia,
Germany,
Germany,
United States,
South Korea,
South Korea,
United Kingdom, Ukraine
and of course, Australia.
The fourth month of 2013 comes to a close, and I continue to enjoy writing this blog -
covering lots of topics with a Christian perspective......
*A January theme of garden plants, plus doing a daily “tidy-the-house-thing”,
*A January theme of garden plants, plus doing a daily “tidy-the-house-thing”,
*A February theme of more garden plants with their amazing medicinal and culinary uses, and doing a daily “who-am-I-thing”;
*A March theme of discovering bush tucker and edible weeds, and doing a daily “pack-an-item-in-a-survival-bag”
*An April theme of looking at our new home, and giving a daily retell of the “coast-to-coast-walk” from hubby’s diary.
I look forward to May which I hope will be a tribute to
mothers,
plus all of those wonderful people who nurture children.
plus all of those wonderful people who nurture children.
I will be taking snippets from my own mother’s recipe scrap book and from her personal memoirs.
Our Guest of the Month is Jonathan
Eight years ago, Mum and Dad had the great idea of carrying out the Coast to Coast hike in England – a hike from St Bees to Robin Hoods Bay. Hiking was something that we enjoyed doing as a family, and we looked forward to the occasional day hike. However, the Coast to Coast isn’t simply a short day hike. It is a 309 km hike which usually takes 2 or 3 weeks. Somehow we managed to do it with 15 days of hiking. It was tough and I remember wanting to give up on a few occasions, however I’m very proud that we stuck it out.
Positives of the trip: Getting to camp in a tent all to myself, the incredible scenery from the three very different national parks that we passed through, very comfortable boots, reading the map for the second half of the hike and eating some very tasty pub meals (which tasted all the more amazing after eating porridge and more porridge!
Negatives: I can only think of two negative moments from the hike. One of them was staying in a camp ground that was literally swarming with midges. They were getting into our eyes and mouths – all we could do was dive into our tents and pull our sleeping bags over our heads to get away from them. The other was one particularly tough stage of the hike which is usually split into two days – it took a lot of determination from all three of us to keep plodding along, until we finally reached our destination.
Other than those two moments I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I am incredibly proud of Mum, Dad and myself for completing the Coast to Coast. It is something I will always remember.
A journey's end leaves us able to begin a new journey....
when we are ready!
