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Tales from the Renovation Track: One Woman's Experiences of Being a Renovator: Part 10
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On one of my recent jobs I had the task of replacing the siding on the front wall of a commercial space.2009 © Janice Bell
It seemed a straightforward job at first, but as renovations go, the Construction Demon reared its ugly head early and threw a batch of carpenter ants into the mixture, necessitating the removal and replacement of the 4 front windows, and of the well rotted OSB. And of course most of the tunneled studs, along with the interior electrical components, door bell, outside lights, eaves troughs, insulation, vapour barrier and drywall and trim had to be removed as well. Did I mention I had to do the siding too? Goodness!!
The electrician came by to unhook everything, and out of the one wall plug box flowed the black and lifeless bodies of an exceedingly large number of dead carpenter ants. This happened right in plain view of the customer. Her shoes were close enough to the carnage that a couple of the small black bodies rolled to rest by her toe.
"I guess you'll be needing a vacuum cleaner?" the customer remarked to the electrician. Well I just about laughed out loud when he shot back "NO! ... but YOU might!"
Well the rest of the reconstruction was luckily unremarkable until it came to the point where the siding had to be painted then installed.
Now let me tell you, you need intestinal fortitude to do construction for a living because you always have to be brave enough to try new things. And be prepared to fail as well during the learning process. Such was my relationship with spray painting at this point.
I was at the phase where I was bound and determined to get my spray painting down pat, and I decided that this would be the perfect job, as there were 3 coats to go on. There was a lot of siding waiting for an extreme makeover.
The customer had chosen a maroonish barn red, so I purchased the paint and got down to work. I obtained a whack of 2x4's for dunnage, and laid all the siding out on top of it in the gravel parking lot out back.
I added some Floetrol to the latex exterior paint because it gives the paint a better consistency to be sprayed. As I poofed the first few boards, I noticed with a kind of sick feeling that the color was a bit off. But since this was the first top coat after the primer, I decided I might just as well give one good coat to all the siding because then the color would be consistent throughout the siding. I would also consider it somewhat like a colored primer. So away I went.
That job finished, I then started the clean up. I tried to unhook the spray gun from the air line, but they just wouldn't separate. I pulled on it like a robin on a worm, but it stayed together. Buoyed out of sheer frustration, I gave it one final hard yank and suddenly the paint came spraying out of the severed connection and wallpapered me like a gunshot victim, all over my grey and white striped coveralls, or should I say coloralls.
Pink!! It ended up drying pink instead of maroon. That horrible so not siding pink! The arriving customer's eyes grew very wide indeed as the shock of the visual experience registered. And pink was on my colouralls! Remember ... discharge the airline first .......discharge the airline first……
Back to the paint store where the staff gazed at my coveralls with thinly disguised hilarity and pity. The more courageous one approached me and asked me what happened. I just told her the truth, that I had busted an artery, sewn it back up with rebar tie wire and was back working. Once the tsunami of laughter calmed it was discovered that the color had been incorrectly mixed. With my arms full of new maroon barn paint, it was off to do more spray painting.
Ah! That color was more like it. The spraying went fabulously well, and I spent more time cleaning the spray equipment then I spent painting.
All of a sudden, a crack of thunder roared its presence over my head. I looked up and saw the swelling influx of angry grey clouds collecting overhead. I was still not too worried for having grown up in this area, I was used to rains taking a while to manifest, and I thought by then, a skin would have formed over the paint and protected it.
Crack - a quick boom of thunder, a flash of lightening and down she came, not a mere 8 minutes later. I very quickly put my spray equipment inside and ran like the devil to the dryness of the customer's porch.
The scene before me is forever etched in my mind, as I watched white dots start to appear all over the siding, like colorless measles. They grew bigger as the siding got whiter and whiter down to the primer. The thin rivers of maroon paint flowed away and then disappeared into the thirsty gravel.
I just laughed ... nervously. There was simply nothing I could do but wait and start over.
I sprayed it again after it dried. Good! Finally! Yippee!!
I installed all of the siding, but the very next day I noticed begrudgingly that the brownish knots of the pine had started to appear through the paint. I had used the recommended primer, but it didn't work. And don't let those weekend shift hardware workers tell you that white shellac seals knots either because it just doesn't!!
After some experimentation, I found a primer that actually worked, and spot primed this new white primer over the maroon siding on the front wall of this main street business. Like a white-on-maroon impressionist painting, those dotted patches of primer advertised my misfortune in a big way. The other local painters would drive by with knowing pity and "had it happen" looks carved into their passing smiles. The patches were finally painted over, and no one but the whole town knew better. This trying renovation was finally over.
After that, the local Chinese restaurant down the street started serving misfortune cookies!
Happy Renovating!
Janice Bell
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Tales from the Renovation Track: One Woman's Experiences of Being a Renovator
Part 1: All in All
Part 2: Weld on Fire
Part 3: They Were Nailed
Part 4: It Pays to Be Honest
Part 5: Rural Renos
Part 6: Messy Is Costly
Part 7: Door Hell
Part 8: Just Where Do I Stop?
Part 9: Dressing for the Trades
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GPs hit with breach of contract notices after NHS England checks up on practices closing early over Christmas
NHS England has issued breach of contract notices to 12 GP practices in London for closing early on Christmas Eve and is preparing more notices for those who were closed on New Year's Eve, Pulse has learnt.
NHS England's local area team in London said that staff rang round 238 GP practices in the capital after 3.30pm on Christmas Eve to check they remained open. As a result of the calls, NHS England found that 12 practices had transferred calls to an alternative provider and has subsequently issued them with a breach of contract notice.
It repeated the same exercise on New Year's Eve and told Pulse that further breach notices 'have been or are in the process of being issued'.
Londonwide LMCs said it had initially reached an agreement with local managers to allow GPs to close early on Christmas Eve but that this offer was withdrawn by NHS England in London after national primary care chief Dr David Geddes sent a strongly-worded letter informing practices across the country that remaining open during core hours would be 'non-negotiable'.
A spokesperson for NHS England (London) told Pulse today: 'From 15.30 on Christmas Eve we called 238 practices in London. 12 practices were found to be closed and were issued with a breach of contract notice before New Year's Eve.
'On New Year's Eve we repeated the process and further breach notices have been or are in the process of being issued.
'We undertook this exercise as we wanted to ensure that patients in London had access to the primary care services they are entitled to and that GP practices had signed up to deliver.'
At the time of writing, NHS England was unable to confirm whether this exercise had been repeated in other areas of the country.
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But in a statement, Londonwide LMCs said they were clear that the practices had not breached their contract by transferring calls to another provider and it would be supporting practices if they wanted to challenge the notices issued to them from NHS England.
The statement said: 'The GMS contract is non-specific on hours of opening on Christmas Eve and requires only "reasonable access to services". It is the firm opinion of Londonwide LMCs, the GPC and BMA Law that the GMS contract does not require that practices are physically open during all of core hours. This was made clear in guidance issued by the GPC and Londonwide LMCs.
'Last year one of the PCT clusters objected to this but LMC negotiated a reasonable response. A similar compromise was negotiated with NHS England (London) early in December but following a letter from Dr David Geddes this agreement was withdrawn and practices were told they were expected to remain open until 6.30pm Christmas Eve.'
'Londonwide LMCs are contacting affected practices and offering support and guidance if they wish to dispute the breach notices issued by NHS England (London) and we are liaising with the GPC to ensure their resources are adequately mobilised. Because this is a national issue, Londonwide LMCs will be working with other LMC leads across England.'
'It is Londonwide LMCs' view that NHS England (London) have wasted valuable resources in contacting so many practices and [we] view their action as mean-spirited and vindictive with no benefit to patient services.'
Before Christmas Pulse revealed many GPs were planning to defy NHS England's guidance on early closure over the holiday, supported by guidance from the GPC and LMCs.
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What a complete farce. Number of calls after 3.30pm on Xmas eve is always vanishingly small (I took NO calls in this period this season as I was on call for my own practice). Did anyone else try to ring Dr David Geddes at 4pm on Christmas Eve at NHS England HQ where it was one of his regular working days?
What hypocrisy! Before criticising practices for alleged minor infringements of their contracts, NHS England might like to reflect on the fact that it doesn't seem to be able to arrange for practices to be paid on time (in defiance of the government's promise to pay small businesses within 28 days). Some of this money is, I understand, 6 months overdue and practices have been threatened with bailiffs as a result of the cashflow problems this has created.
My suggestion to NHS England is simple - put your own house in order before you dare to criticise anyone else.
Has NHS England nothing better to do than ring around 237 practices; this is fiddling while Rome burns. We were open until 6.30pm with four doctors on duty and we received only one call after 3.00pm, plus two drop ins to pick up previously ordered prescriptions; thereby saving the NHS from multiple A&E attendances – not!
I assume NHSE will have to prove inadequate cover was provided as per our contract. Unless these practices were silly enough not to arrange an alternative cover, this is impossible to prove (unless they can identify patients who actually came to harm).
So I wouldn't worry about it though personally I think they should have just kept the practice open with minimum staff in order to save themselves the unnecessary trouble.
P.s. I did actually referred a patient to 2ww clinic and admitted another on Xmas eve, injected a knee and did a few private medicals on new years eve so it wasn't a complete waste for me!


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Dibble (6) Competent but his distribution was too often poor.
Carrington (7) Our best RB for the last few seasons. But whilst he does get forward he lacks the pace to get past their LB.
Pearson (7) Better performance but he was partly at fault for their first goal and then had a tirade against the ref and should have been booked.
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Summerfield (5) For every good thing he did, he would then commit a howler. Cannot control the midfield.
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Tollitt (7) Our only attacking threat. But we are back to last season, when he has to do it all on his own. Overheard on a conversation on the way home, claiming he is a disruptive influence in the dressing-room. Well, he is disruptive to the opposition on the pitch, which what counts!
Rutherford - Lots of effort but little or no quality.
McIntosh - Struggling to cope with the physicality of the game.
Redmond - Lots of ability but he has to toughen up if he is to become effective.
The ref (5) - I have seen worse but she allowed them far too much time-wasting, and she never once allowed play to flow by giving the advantage.
Maidenhead - A poor and cynical team who got lucky with an OG and a worldie that would normally end up on the Kop. But we again failed to beat an average team which, sadly, makes us no better than average at the moment.
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Ghost Recon Premiere Event Livestream: Start Time, How To Watch
Ubisoft appears to be preparing for a big Ghost Recon reveal, with a world premiere event being streamed on Thursday, May 9. If you want to see what's next, you can watch it all go down right here.
The event teaser was light on details, but it doesn't appear to be tied to Ghost Recon Wildlands. That game launched in 2017, and it has been supported with a steady stream of downloadable content and live events ever since. In fact, Wildlands just received another dose of content last week. The distinction from Wildlands suggests the event will focus on something new for the Ghost Recon series, possibly a full sequel.
The timing of this event is conspicuously close to E3, where Ubisoft has a press conference scheduled for Monday, June 10. Scheduling a reveal event now could either set the stage for a more in-depth look at E3, or just give the company more time to focus on other parts of its lineup.
Wildlands received a mixed reception at launch but has fostered a devoted following through continued support. Ubisoft has shifted toward long-term support for many of its games, including multiplayer titles like Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor along with single-player games like Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
"As only the second open world game in the Clancyverse, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a middlingly safe tactical shooter and a slightly wasted opportunity given the ambitious scope of its seemingly boundless map," Miguel Concepcion wrote in GameSpot's review. "While its main strength is its mission diversity, it doesn't take long to lose the motivation after reaching El Sueno's doorstep. Even with a foursome of highly trained friends, Wildlands eventually reveals its diminishing returns. The feeling of positive immediacy and dopamine hits begin to wane sooner than you expected from a game with such a large and diverse world."
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UCLA Senior, Stella Savvidou, underwent a third surgery on her wrist on Monday.
Savvidou stated on Twitter that as of now, she is focusing on healing up and it is unknown if she will be returning to competition in 2019.
Savvidou previously underwent two other surgeries on the same wrist during her Junior year.
After attempting to return to competition during the 2018 season, Savvidou and the coaches decided it would be best for her to redshirt the season to allow her wrist to fully heal, as the healing process was not going as hoped.
If Savvidou does not return to competition in 2019, the Senior will still be eligible to compete for the Bruins for two more years.


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For ACC's Global Community Service Month, the ACC Greater Philadelphia members volunteered on September 5 at Cradles to Crayons, an organization that provides children from birth through age 12, living in homeless or low-income situations, with the essential items that they need to thrive — at home, at school, and at play — for free.
Volunteers processed and packaged donations at the organization's warehouse known as The Giving Factory. Afterwards, ACC Greater Philadelphia members headed over to Jasper's Backyard for the chapter's Meet Your Counterpart event for an afternoon of drinks, food, and networking.
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There are at least two 'Colours of the Year' promotions currently running campaigns on social media.
The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2018 is Ultra Violet, described in very purple prose, as
' ... A dramatically provocative and thoughtful purple shade, PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet communicates originality, ingenuity, and visionary thinking that points us toward the future. Complex and contemplative, Ultra Violet suggests the mysteries of the cosmos, the intrigue of what lies ahead, and the discoveries beyond where we are now. The vast and limitless night sky is symbolic of what is possible and continues to inspire the desire to pursue a world beyond our own ...'The Pantone Colour of the Year is used across a very wide range of products.
The Kona Colour of the Year is much more narrowly focused, promoting Robert Kaufman Fabric's Kona Cotton Solids, via a limited edition colour that will be available for one year only. A 'look book' of quilt patterns commissioned from well known designers for 2018's Tiger Lily is available here.
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Kona Cotton in Tiger Lily will be available in quilt stores in the New Year.
We claim to be well ahead of the trend, with our raffle quilt 'Marmalade', made for our 2014 Quilt Show, and the quilt recently finished made from the marmalade offcuts:
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A Global History of Architecture
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How do we understand architecture? One way of answering this question is by looking through the lens of history, beginning with First Societies and extending to the 16th century. This course in architectural history is not intended as a linear narrative, but rather aims to provide a more global view, by focusing on different architectural "moments."
How did the introduction of iron in the ninth century BCE impact regional politics and the development of architecture? How did new religious formations, such as Buddhism and Hinduism, produce new architectural understandings? What were the architectural consequences of the changing political landscape in northern Italy in the 14th century? How did rock-cut architecture move across space and time from West Asia to India to Africa? How did the emergence of corn impact the rise of religious and temple construction in Mexico?
Each lecture analyzes a particular architectural transformation arising from a dynamic cultural situation. Material covered in lectures will be supplemented by readings from the textbook A Global History of Architecture.
Join us on a journey around the globe and learn how architecture has developed and interacted with the world's culture, religion, and history.
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This Pumpkin Bundt Cake tastes JUST like the seasonal cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes! The cream cheese frosting is to die for!
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Take this Pumpkin Bundt Cake to your next holiday gathering and you will have people hunting you down and BEGGING for the recipe. This cake is so moist and the frosting is to die for! I based this recipe off of Our Version of Nothing Bundt Cakes' Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cake. I have made that cake several times and it always turns out AMAZING. For this cake I subbed in spice cake mix instead of devils food cake and pumpkin spice pudding instead of chocolate pudding. Pumpkin spice pudding is only available during this time of year so I always make sure to stock up on it whenever I see it in the store.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
...Now here's an interesting Heideggerian theme. It turns out that there has been some recent neuroscience on memory that shows that a lot of it is proleptic. In other words, memories are used not to dredge through the past, but to anticipate the future. The brain is futural. HT Dirk Felleman.
Posted by Timothy Morton at 7:25 PM
ecology, philosophy, culture, science Heidegger, John Protevi
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- Bill Benzon said...
Oh, yes yes yes. The brain is an anticipatory machine. For one thing, you move through the world, right? That means that what you see will change as a function of your movement. Well, vision is enormously computationally expensive. So the visual system is primed to anticipate changes in visual input attributable to your own motion. That lessens the computational load on 'bottom-up' processing. And more.
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Creekfield Energy and Services Limited aspires to be a leading name in the Supply and distribution of petroleum products not in Nigeria but in the West African sub-region. Pursuant to the realization of this aspiration, Creekfield Energy and Service Ltd has commenced the construction of a 70,000 metric ton petroleum products depot in the Export Processing Zone in Calabar at a cost of $20million. All the mandatory statutory Geotechnical tests and E.I.A studies have been carried out successfully.
For the availability of petroleum products, the company is into importation of petroleum products and with the acquisition of and or leasing of filling stations which have geographical spread in terms of their locations, even distribution is assured. These filling stations will be in our branded name. The company will enhance profitability by having her own trucks for the distribution of products.
We have signed an MOU with Siraga of France for the construction of a Liquefied Gas Bottling Plant at the cost of $18million. In the nearest future, Creekfield will be among the leading providers of LPG gas not only in Nigeria but in the West African sub-region.
REFINERY:- Creekfield Energy and Services has commenced discussion on the possibility of building a 50,000barrels/day close to the products tank farm since modulated refineries are good managers of space. Surely Creekfield Energy and Services will own a refinery in the nearest future.
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The Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship is intended to support early career playwrights who demonstrate extraordinary potential, artistic vision, and a commitment to spending a year in residency in Minnesota developing their work. Fellows receive an $18,000 stipend in addition to $2,500 in development support. Fellows spend a year-long residency in Minnesota (July 1, 2020-June 30, 2021), working in an individualized and hands-on way with the Playwrights' Center artistic staff—some of the most experienced and connected theater professionals in the country. Beyond the financial stipend, the value of fellowships is more than doubled with the year-long support the Playwrights' Center adds through workshops with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors and through the connections the Center makes between playwrights and producers of new work. This holistic and customized combination of financial support, access to talent, and professional connections is career-changing for most playwrights.
Applicants must reside in and have the legal right to work in the United States during the fellowship term. Applicants may not have had more than two different works fully produced by professional theaters at the time of the application. Fellows commit to spending the 12-month fellowship period in Minnesota and actively participating in the Center's programs. Housing and travel are not provided. Playwrights may not receive more than two Jerome Fellowships. A previous Jerome Fellowship recipient applying for a second fellowship must submit a different play than the play that accompanied the successful previous application. Recipients may not receive any other Playwrights' Center fellowships or grants during the fellowship year.
The Playwrights' Center has awarded these fellowships in partnership with the Jerome Foundation since 1976. Past recipients include Lee Blessing, Mia Chung, Lisa D'Amour, Kristoffer Diaz, Dan Dietz, Sarah Gubbins, Jessica Huang, Naomi Iizuka, Melanie Marnich, Anna Moench, Joe Waechter, Rhiana Yazzie, Martín Zimmerman, and August Wilson.
I know I've grown deeply as a person and writer this Fellowship year. I understand myself both creatively and personally in a way I've never experienced before. It feels like a rapid-pace experience of the self: the gift of solitude, searching, space to work, think, breathe, understand what I'm interested in writing and sharing with the world. The art I wish to create and consume. I've learned more about myself as a person and a writer than I have in my entire life.
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Two lovely services this morning at which I preached. Delighted by the positive response to my challenging sermon…
First Reading: Acts 10.44-end
While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter said, 'Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?' So he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they invited him to stay for several days.
Gospel Reading: John 15:9-17
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. 'This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
We are the family of this Church. It's my third sermon and I've said that little phrase in each of them. I rather fancy it as a sort of catchphrase. And I feel now like I should explain why that phrase is quite so important to me. Many of you are aware from my first sermon in January that the phrase was spoken by Fr Simon as the congregation stood together in a circle on my very first Sunday here in 2009, but the phrase "we are the family of this Church", does not to me just refer to the people who come every week to St Michael & All Angels Church in Bramhall. If it had meant that, then that first time I came here I would have in a sense as an "outsider", a newcomer, felt rather excluded. What that phrase said to me was, you are welcome. Here celebrating God's presence in our lives, Love's presence in our lives, we warmly acknowledge that all of us are brothers and sisters of the same family.
I came back the following week, and have rarely missed a Sunday since. But even if I hadn't come back that day would have completely changed my perspective of life, of religion, it would have reminded me that despite the chaos of religious wars going on in the world, it is not all like that. It would have told me that there are religious people that love. As a student of Marple college I have found that my "missionary work" if you want to call it that, has not come in converting the students to Christianity. It has come in me raising their awareness. In my first English Literature class I was seated with some people who have become quite close friends. And all of them were then either agnostics or atheists, or I should say, anti-theists. They completely opposed religion, even the agnostics who thought there could be a God, because they saw religious institutions as oppressive, archetypal chaos. As I had done before I met all of you. Now, those in my Literature class have a changed attitude to religion. They see that some Christians actually love people rather than condemn them. The Church of England is far from perfect. But there is a great deal of beauty in it, and I have hope for the future. So the phrase "we are the family of this Church" taught me about community, about peace.
Now then, what do you all think of the baptism services here? Do you love coming to them? Do you write the date down from the noticeboard in your diary with eagerness and show up early to get a good seat? Or, do you actually write the dates down so as to remember not to come that day? That would sadden me, because I think we all should come to them. Once a month in alternate services is not a lot to ask for. And before you start creating a counter-argument to get me with next week when you see me un-robed let me present you with this thought: do you remember my baptism? Were you there for that? The date of my baptism was not up on the noticeboard, whether or not that's why the 9am congregation showed up for the service I'll never know. I had one row of supporters from outside this house. Just one row. Imagine what it would have been like for me if you'd all noted down the date and not showed up. Imagine how alone I would have felt, how much I would have doubted that the family of St Michaels Church cared.
Now many of you are thinking ah well that's different, you'd been coming for a few months before then, the usual baptism crowd is huge and doesn't actually care about Church. But that can't be right can it? Otherwise they wouldn't have been there. At least the parents of the child being baptised must care a bit. And if the rest of them actually wish they were still in bed or watching the football highlights because they don't want to be at church with a bunch of grumpy people that don't want them in their church, that frown upon them as outsiders, that make assumptions about them, then maybe we should be showing them that we do want them in our church, that we are nice, friendly people, and even if they only come once we should show them that they are welcome in our family.
Why am I talking about baptism? Well it's in our first reading today from Acts, and there was a baptism here at the 10:45 service 2 weeks ago, after the Newala breakfast – I had a sausage butty, it was delicious. It was a lovely baptism service. I wouldn't want to be at a baptism service every week, but every month or two, as it is, is great. There were two young boys sat in front of me. At one point they both ran off to the corner to grab a box of goodies. It was as the service ended that one got hold of a whiteboard and a pen, and he didn't draw a giraffe or a dog. He drew a cross with stars around it. He grinned as he showed to his parents, and then just before I left he showed it to me. Pointing he said "the light of the world". You know, I think that even if they all didn't that boy cared about Church.
The Gospel reading today is divine, and I think sums up why I love the phrase "we are the family of this Church" so much. Jesus said As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments – to love God and to love ourselves and one another – you will abide in my love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
Rowan Williams recently preached in Canterbury Cathedral about the divisions in the Church. And he said that what we need to do, is make the walls that divide us into windows. What he meant was, the walls, the divisions we have between one another, between churches, between religions or none, we don't all need to suddenly become the same kind of person. What we need to do is look through the windows into one another's different world views, and we need to communicate. Then the windows can become open doors, and to borrow another of Rowan's phrases, God can become the framework of our beautiful world, rather than an idea we make an unclear mess of. God can become the framework. A surrounding, encompassing, ever-present embrace, that holds us all together in love.
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. That was Jesus' commandment. He wasn't about laws and oppression, he was about openness and compassion. May we really live to be the family of this Church. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. We are the family of this Church. The Lord be with you.


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Our intrepid writer and reviewer of all things Vendeen is now back in his mansion (Chateau) in the south Vendee and this year he has new wheels to get about so we are sure to have more and varied reviews.
In the following article Tate explains more about his new found wings which will be followed by articles on how the handicap see the Puy du Fou and La Rochelle.
Thunderbirds - R – Go
It's May 2009 and after a long cold winter in Blighty, I'm finally back in the Vendee, but this year there's a difference, this year Thunderbirds are Go.
I've been caught in the diminishing mobility spiral for some time. It may come as a surprise to some, but this is not due to me being rendered legless through an over indulgence in alcohol, it is rather as a result of limited mobility. This has lead to a lesser ability to exercise promoting weight gain producing further limitations to my mobility etc. etc. The upshot of all of this has left me spending less and less time out and about and doing things while in the UK and more time at home. The problem has been less prolific in France as when the weather's good I can spend my time next to and in the pool and as most of my friends have accessible dwellings with plenty of parking, visiting here is much easier. Nonetheless I have still been severely restricted in what I could and couldn't do, so late last year I bit the bullet and bought myself a Mercury Neo 4 Mobility Scooter, known hereafter as T8 (Thunderbirds 8) and just like that my life was transformed. Places that had been entirely out of reach were now easily within my compass, it didn't get me dancing but it did get me in the ballroom.
I knew that just buying the scooter wouldn't be sufficient, and that I would need to get it close enough to places to be able to use it effectively, after all scooting to Tesco's from my house was one thing but scooting to the house in France was way beyond the scooter's capabilities. Now those of you who are old enough to remember the 60's TV series Thunderbirds will know that their transport vehicle was Thunderbirds 2, my T2 is a converted Mercedes Vito Van. As in the series everything is remote controlled and automated. The rear doors open electronically and the Ricon lift folds out like a flower opening at sunrise it then lowers seamlessly and I am able to drive T8 onto it. Another touch on the remote and I'm levitated and able to scoot into the belly of the beast, with the lift folding back into the van and the doors closing and locking themselves. The wonders do not end there as I have an electric driver's seat, some of you out there (Stephen you know who you are) might say better that it was an electric chair. In addition to the numerous Mercedes gadgets on the seat it is independently powered and moves up and down, forward and back and swivels, I'm still looking for the Tea's made which I'm sure must be concealed somewhere within.
Since arriving in France I have been to several supermarkets and 2 major DIY warehouses, "Whoopee" you might say "Big deal" well actually when you've been unable to do these things for as long as I have even the most mundane of tasks takes on an almost spiritual quality, add to that days spent at the Puy du Fou and La Rochelle, both of which I will cover individually in separate articles, and I hope you can see that this has given me back a degree of freedom that I thought I'd lost forever. All in all these truly are very impressive pieces of kit. I may not have the slide away pool or the fold down palm trees of Tracy Island but in all other respects
Thunderbirds really are Go!!
Tate 7th June 2009
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