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Date: 24 October 2004 15:45:00
Updates will be sporadic this week, so I'm posting now despite having not hugely thought about what to say. Just bounced for thirty minutes on a trampoline (we have a 12 foot trampoline in the back garden to keep my son amused. He's autistic and believe me looking after him can be tiring! that said the point of the trampoline was that he would bounce around and we would watch. Nowadays he demands company when he's jumping up and down and we end up as shattered... ) so my brain is shaken around.
Ok sort of gearing up for wednesday (interview with Mike Rimmer), still looking forward to it loads. However getting more and more nervous about it. The last time I was feeling this nervous was directly before the concert launch of the book where I ended up sitting by the river next to the church hosting it thinking I was going to be very sick. I didn't get much time to try and calm down, loads of people coming to the night came over for a chat and there we go I was back into the chaos... Survived the night, wasn't sick in the end and had a whale of a time. That's what i keep trying to say to myself now.. However it's the nervey feeling that's there, not the calming down.
Also have loads of other things on my mind, chief of which are two illnesses. If anyone feel so inclined to say a quick prayer as they read could you be thinking of Rob and Paul. Rob is a lovely mountain of a man who's body has a rare and unique illness. his blood slowly becomes more and more full of iron and twice a month.. well, I won't say what but it's a lot to cope with for him and the family. He's just had his second child baptised today and yesterday looked less well than normal, we had a chat about it but what can you say? Basically as much prayer as people feel happy to do please do... Paul is my nephew, a fantastic fella on all counts. He was taken to hospital late last night because of spontanious vommiting which had traces of blood in. Of course he and all of the family are worried and again prayer would be welcome. Tests this morning came up with no conclusion so more tests to follow poor lil fella.
On a different subject attended a mens breakfast at my church yesterday morning and we had a wonderful time. The speaker was very good (someone from my church but different service so hadnt had the chance to chat before), clear and concise. I'll admit I had low hopes when he said the talk was called 'it's life Jim, but not as we know it... ' which is unfair of me, but sounded like a 30 minute long cliche to follow. In fact it was a fascinating fifteen minutes with fifteen minutes of questions to follow. Excellent and the bacon, eggs, sausage and etc was (to mix a mess) the icing on the cake.