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She is a stunner!
30/11/2008 by Ted.
Thanks, Andrew, for the “piccys” of Nadia.
What a beautiful grand-daughter you have.
You made our day.
Love to you all,
Ted and Grace.
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Pray for Janette’s healing
29/11/2008 by Ted.
Hi Andrew and Janette.
Sorry to hear that Janette is still not well - but she will be - guaranteed!.
Our whole faith in Jesus rests on the promises He gave to us.
Many, many of the Lord’s promises assure us that whatever we ask, if we ask according to His will, we have it.
Jesus demonstrated many times that healing sickness is according to His will by curing any who came to Him and asked Him to heal them - or someone they brought to His attention.
We therefore know that healing Janette is something which He, if He was still walking the earth in human form and we took Janette to Him, would certainly do. He never turned anyone away.
There is abundant evidence that Jesus still exercises the same healing ministry today for all who ask Him. The only condition is that when we ask Him we have to believe that He will honour his promise.
Janette knows He will, you know that He will and so do I.
One of His promises is, If any two of you (people who trust Him to honour His promise) agree on earth touching anything (according to His will) you shall have it.
We have more than two agreed already, so we have, even now, more resources of faith than we need to get the job done. However, there can never be too much faith at work.
It is therefore just a question of time before you are able to post your blog to say that He has answered our combined prayers and Janette is now perfectly well. Because it will happen.
I invite other family members who have confidence in Jesus’ promises to join us in our agreement and add their request to the Lord for Janette’s healing until it comes. A quick blog to say, “We are with you, Andrew and Janette”, would be nice.
After you have asked (prayed) create in your mind a picture of Janette already in perfect health just as you have asked. That is the expression to Jesus of your confidence in His promise. That promise is gold-lined - your picture of Janette will happen. So thank Him in anticipation. Then keep on asking and picturing and thanking until we see Andrew’s blog to say she is in perfect health again.
And to everyone else I say, join with us if you are able, but certainly ”watch this space” until the answer has come - and be a witness that Jesus does answer prayer and honour His promises today.
My love to everyone,
Ted.
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Half term holiday
29/11/2008 by Lord Fly of Bogland.
Greetings from Lord Fly,
I have not posted anything on the blog this week because, together with the elected polititions of this realm and my fellow peers in the House of Lords, I have been on half term holiday.
It was a nice suprise to find that we had a half term holiday.
I am told that it is to enable us all to do our Christmas shopping so that we don’t have to interrupt our soon to start, much longer Christmas holiday doing it.
Hope to be back soon,
Lord Fly of Bogland.
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Ruffled feathers
29/11/2008 by Andrew.
Hello everyone
Cuisse de grenouille - what a cracker. ROFL
I appear to have ruffled a few feathers with my comments about winter holiday.
Let me say that this is how “I” feel about Xmas (I did not suggest that anyone else should do likewise) which is why I did not present any reasons why I feel this way.
I remember mum getting indignant when she encountered the word ‘Xmas’ remarking that they should “put Christ back into Christmas”.
The truth is that He was never in christmas.
Everything about christmas is of pagan origin, and was an attempt by the early Roman church to convert the people to christianity telling them that they could keep thier heathen festivals intact, but give them a christian flavour. I am not going to go into great detail, as the web is certainly awash with info on this subject for anybody who wants TRUTH not tradition. Nobody knows when Jesus was born as God chose not to reveal this in the scriptures (for a good reason). December 25th was the roman festival of “Saturnalia” and involved human sacrifice and other depraved practices which God hates. Traditionally in earlier centuries it was a time when “the church” ridiculed and persecuted Jewish communities even to murdering them.
When the reformers supposedly reformed the church, christmas, easter, the priesthood and laity and a dozen other things should have been discarded with the other stuff as it is just a heap of deception. This mixture is a stench in God’s nostrils and remains to pollute the true body of Christ.
Even our modern version of Christmas is at odds with God’s will for us involving drunkeness, excess and materialism and as such in my opinion dishonours the name of our Saviour. This is why I have discontinued the use of the word in favour of winter holiday.
Don’t misunderstand me, we still have a nice family time with the usual things and our Lord Jesus is still the centre of attention (as He is everyday) bless His precious Name. Rather than give gifts to each other I am trying to encourage our family to help the poor and needy like aids orphans in africa etc. as this is God’s will for us. Blessed is he who considers the poor.
Consider this:- We are never exhorted to remember Jesus birth, only His death and future return in the breaking of bread.Why?
Anyway I hope everyone is in good health and happy. Janette is still afflicted with her dizziness and the doctors etc have pretty much given up saying she will have to learn to live with it. We however have not given up hope and every day we anoint her with oil and pray for her healing according to the scriptures. I am sure that when God’s purpose is fulfilled that He will set her free in His tender mercy.
All our love
Andee & family XXXXXXX
PS for Smokie
Hi big bruv. It was not my intention to make anyone feel guilty about not posting. As I stated, I am the worst culprit. I just wanted to encourage us all to keep in touch a bit more and to value what we have available.
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Cuisse de grenouille
26/11/2008 by Ted.
Click on the thumbnail.
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Well done, Peter
25/11/2008 by Ted.
Wow! Aren’t they beautiful children?
Well worth the effort Peter and Barbara.
Thank you.
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He’s done it at last! Posting a photograph to the blog.
25/11/2008 by PeterJohnson.
Peter has at last taken the plunge and produced a photograph of the boys
for me to upload. He hope it works?? We have thousands of photographs of the boys but this was only taken two weeks ago and is the latest one. Thank you for your colour instructions, but, as a mere OAP (female), I have lost the ability to do two new things at once!
By the way, we celebrate Christmas, celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus as the greatest gift from God, and the words “Winter Festival” are banned from our household. Let us rejoice in this fact as a family.
Must close now. Our love to everyone, be in touch soon,
Barbara and Peter xxxxx
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This morning around Millom
25/11/2008 by Ted.
Double click on the thumbnails to make them MUCH LARGER and better to see.
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25/11/2008 by Bob.
Hi All again sorry there was no captions to the pics. I did put them there but they escaped. the first pic is Chilli and our grandaughter Kopkhun (Kopkhun means Thank you) The second pic myself and Kopkhun, third myself and Grandson Ted, fourth Chilli. fifth Chilli and myself.
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Home
24/11/2008 by Bob.
Hi one and all. have returned, to the UK arrived home. arrived back in Bridlington. (Siberia) on Saturday after a struggle through heavy snow and three foot drifts on the roads. avoiding cars and vans that had come to grief, what a shock to the system coming from 30 degrees C to minus 1 C. it was a shock to me so I am sure you can imagine the shock it would be for Chilli. her first time of seeing snow and a UK winter. more a culture shock, felt like jumping back on a plane to Thailand, and getting back to the warmth.
we had a beautiful time on a tropical Island called Kho Kong. an Island off the coast of Cambodia, lots of swimming and Scuba diving, it was amazing to swim with the fish, so many different species. the water so warm it was lovely, the food was excellent well served with good service, the Chalet was a original Cambodian , thatched with coconut palms, that was the only danger , coconuts falling from above, the wildlife on the island was amazing, the Lizards there are beautiful, some growing to a great size. we had a big one as a shower partner one day, it was quite funny. I managed to get it out of the shower before they came to catch it and eat it. Its a cambodian dish they delight in eating.
Well Folks I will close this and add a few pics, Take care all, love to everyone. Bob and chilli.
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One picture is worth a thousand words!
24/11/2008 by Ted.
Ziggy by Tom Wilson.
Click on the picture.
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Lost photographs
24/11/2008 by Ted.
Hi Richard and family, I have had a rummage in the bowels of the blog to see if I could find the lost Nathan photographs. I found one which I think you published and a couple of non-Nathan photos which I hadn’t seen before. I am blogging these so that anyone who has lost them can claim them.
Here are one or two others which I recognised.
PS.Wonderful to hear from you and to know that you are all well.
My love to you all,
Ted.
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HELLO EVERYBODY IT’S US(or Greetings from Worcester)
24/11/2008 by Richard.
No I don’t have a guilty concience Andrew,this is my third attempt at writing a piece and actually managing to publish it.Somewhere in the ether are two photographs of Nathan complete with accompanying scripts so if anybody comes across them let me know.Everyone here is in fine fettle I am glad to say and looking forward to CHRISTMAS with our little Nathan.He is really starting to be a little boy now (no longer a baby) and is full of the wonders of growing up.He spends a lot of time with us, as Lucy is back at work(needs must when you have a mortgage round your neck),and we love every minute of it,He is such a good little soul,never cries and is never miserable.(obviously does not take after his grandad).We also have the pleasure of looking after Jacob (Rebeccas dog )while they are at work so between the two of them Linda and I are kept rather busy.Lynda from Brid can you phone us, as my dear wife would like to talk to you about ginger biscuits and how to make them like Little Prue.For some reason they are not quite right.Ted has our number if you haven’t got it.
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Uploading photos - for Peter and everyone.
22/11/2008 by Lord Fly of Bogland.
Click on this one for a laugh!
Greetings from Lord Fly,
Barbara made mention of the perceived difficulty in uploading photographs to the blog.
Happily this is not so, and I will explain the method.
First, click the “Write a post” tag as normal.
Scroll down the page until you see the line “File”.
At the end of this line is the “Browse” tag.Click on this and locate your “Pictures” or equivalent Folder.
Open this folder and find the photo you wish to upload.
Click on the photo and then on the “Open” tag on the Pictures or equivalent folder. This will place the location of the photo in the “File” line on your blog.
Then click on the “Upload” tag just below the “Browse” button on your post.
The photo then appears in a new field below your post.
Leave the black dots in the “Thumbnail” and “File” sections as they are and click on “Send to Editor”.
The photo then moves up to the Post area.
Click on “Publish” to publish your photo to the blog.
The photo will appear as a small thumbnail, but a click on it on the blog will enlarge it to its original size.
Try it and see.
Lord Fly of Bogland.
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Saturday again!
22/11/2008 by Ted.
Click on the tree to see it sparkle.
Hi families,
Don’t the weeks fly round? Today I woke up and it was Saturday again just like it was last week - but this one seems to have got here very quickly. It feels like “Sunday, Monday ….. miss a few ….. Saturday”. And now the shortest day and Winter Holiday are creeping up at a great rate of knots.
Nice to have a post from Barbara this week. Hi kid! Lord Fly was delighted to explain the colouring and font size thingy - he has hardly stopped since saying what a nice lady you are. I think that is because you wrote something on the blog. I was speaking to another family member this week who said that they don’t blog because no-one else does and they feel (like Lord Fly and myself sometimes) that we are just blogging to ourselves. I know a lot of family members look at the posts but it would be really nice if everyone just said, “Hi, it’s me” now and again. Which reminds me of an audio recording our dad (Edward Sherratt) left years ago, and the details of which I will now thrill you - or not - with.
The local C of E vicar noticed that, every morning, a young chap named Jim popped into the church, stayed there about two minutes and then popped out again and went on his way. After a while the vicar was so curious about the daily occurrence that he waited outside the church one morning and accosted Jim as he came out.
“Hi Jim”, he said. “I notice you pop into the church every morning for a minute or so and then pop out again and go on your way. What do you pop in for?”
“I go to pray”, Jim replied.
“But you don’t take long”, said the vicar.
“Well”, said Jim, “I go in and say ‘Hello Jesus. It’s Jim’, and then I come out again”.
Satisfied, the vicar left it at that.
A while later the vicar noticed that Jim was not making his morning visit to the church. He made enquiries and discovered that Jim had been taken into hospital. He decided to pay him a visit.
At the ward he got into conversation with the sister who told him that she felt sad for Jim because the vicar was his very first visitor since coming in. The vicar felt sad too.
During their conversation the vicar mentioned the lack of visitors visiting Jim.
“Oh, but I do get visited”, said Jim.
“Really?”, said the vicar.
“Oh yes”, said Jim. “Each morning Jesus comes, pops his head around the door and says ‘Hello, Jim, It’s Jesus’”.
Nice, eh? And that really made Jim’s day.
And that accompanies my favourite saying which is “If you see someone without a smile - give them one of yours”. Ahhhhh!
Anyway, that is all it takes very often, so why not just stick your head above the parapet, take a look at us all and say, “Hi, its me!” It will work wonders like it did for Jim.
My love to everyone ,
Ted.
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