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I know it’s been ages since I wrote anything here - I should get back into the discipline of it, but life has been a bit full lately.
Since the last post I have completed my third Around the Bay in a Day and been ordained as a Baptist Minister by my denomination. Having the title […]

From October, every time I walk into a room, you will have to bow down in front of me and call me Reverend.
Well, not really, but I will be ordained by the Baptist Union of Victoria as a recognised and accredited minister of the gospel.
It’s staggering who they let in these days!
Seriously, it’s nice to […]

Well, it seems that that the epidural injection, as fun as it was, hasn’t worked and I’m back to square one with my back.
The pain is progressively becoming worse and a few times today I endured spasms that more or less paralysed me.
Needless to say, I’ve returned to spending most of my time flat […]

Well, I’ve survived the injection, but only just…
I went into the surgery and the doctor laid me face down on the bed before giving me a little anaesthetic in the lower back. With a kindly, “This might hurt a little,” he started to give me the epidural injection.
Well, the pain was excruciating. For the next […]

So, the back is getting no better.
I’m still here on the floor, swimming in pain killers thankful for a wireless network so I can still sermon prep and the like.
I saw my doctor on Wednesday morning, who then pulled some strings and got me in to see a neuro surgeon on Thursday, who then promptly […]

um…my wife asked me to post this.
Does anybody know how to get a mid-stream urine sample from a two year old that isn’t yet toilet trained?!
I can see a few golden showers coming my way.

The four year old son came into my study tonight and asked:
“What holds God up?”
“What do you mean?” I replied.
“If God doesn’t have any bones, then what holds his body up?”
Sheesh. This boy thinks too much.

So I go into the post office today to submit my forms for the ‘Working With Children’ check.
The woman takes one look at my photo and says, “We can’t use that. You look happy.”
Obviously the government only wants miserable people working with children. Anyway, that’s a side issue…
She takes a new photo then starts working […]

On Sunday night I bacame an uncle for the seventh time! My little sister had her second child in Melbourne and all is well.
Welcome to the world Liam!

Thomas: Mummy, does God have a telephone?
Mummy: No, you just talk to God normally.
Thomas: Then why doesn’t he talk back?
Ouch. How do you answer a four year old who asks such things?!