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Date: 26 February 2007 17:36:52
Today has been spent entertaining the Troublesome Trucks. Thankfully most of this has been done by FW. They helped her to weed the flower trough outside the patio doors. They then took credit for all the additional work that FW did after they'd come in complaining of boredom.
We also took them to feed a horse that lives in a field not far from our house. We have a choice of several fields with horses near us and chose the one in the quietest area. It's always fun watching kids feeding carrots to horses. You tell them to hold the carrot on the flat of their hand but they still feel the need to hold it lengthways.
Then we went to the chip shop to get their lunch. For some reason all they ever want to eat when they visit is fish & chips or fishcake & chips. As they're going to football training tonight it wqas thought that a main meal at lunchtime would be better for them.
Even though I'm officially on holiday for the week I still had a few things to do for my 2 customers, so I've spent part of the day working to get as much done as possible.
Tomorrow we're off to Swansea for Mike's memorial service. We have to stop at my company's Cardiff office as I'm having Microsoft Project installed on my laptop, I've only been waiting 18 months for it to be done.
I only met Mike once, not long after FW and I met, but from what others have told me I think we'd have got on well together. The amazing thing of all is that he managed to pack so much into his life. Would anyone bother having a memorial service for me? Probably not as, even with a 19 year headstart, I've done nowhere near as much.
I'm not going to remember someone I knew well. I'm not just going to remember someone that touched the lives of people I know. I'm going to celebrate the fact that he did what many of us have never been brave enough to do - he did God's work in a very practical sense. He did what many people only talk about doing. Now we have an opportunity to thank him and to ensure that his work does not end here.
He was one of those few righteous men who didn't allow evil to triumph.