Attention flagging?

Oh dear!  They showed the South Korean flag on the giant screen when it was North Korea on the pitch!  Did the person in charge of the screen miss day one of the flag recognition course?  Given the degree of 'friendship' between the two neighbours it was fairly disastrous.  I wonder if anyone today is looking for a "New Korea"?  (best to say that out loud to get it, by the way).

And another thing, whilst we're talking about the Olympics.  I read in the paper that half of our athletes won't be out at the opening ceremony.   Now I've done no research on this, but wasn't the idea that the opening ceremony was about the contestants from all the countries parading together to start the games?  But now there's so much emphasis on the 'extravaganza' that the fact that 50% of the athletes won't even be there doesn't seem to matter.  Sad, really, isn't it?

And finally, in honour of the games, I'm thinking of changing our answering machine so it kicks in after five rings ...

Retiring, but not shy!

Hi everyone!  I've just retired so I've dcided I ought to start blogging again!  Having said that, we are moving house soon and BT can't come and fix up our new telephone line until 20 August, so I can't do much until then.

It's was quite an emotional weekend, especially with a special service at Laindon on Saturday, where people from previous churches spoke; then on Sunday, a baptismal service, which was a very exciting way to end my ministry at Laindon.

There was a retirement cake, of course, which had decorations including an armchair, slippers and a Bible.  The previous week I'd had a birthday cake and the decoration on that was a vicar!  So we thought we'd sit him in the chair - see picture!

Unfortunately as we are moving house, there's not a lot of sitting around at the moment!

P.S. I know I need to update my profile, it's in hand!