Glorious Holidays

Just returned from the most relaxing 5 day camping trip to Putty Beach with Jules.

...Julia & Hayley

We had a fantastic time away - A typical day would consist of reading, eating, swimming, day dreaming, enjoying nature, meeting other campers, finished off with a little more swimming, eating and reading.

We had a lovely 5 man tent for the two of us (thanks Guy & Sam), a small gas stove, stove top espresso, good coffee, toaster, awesome menu (good work Jules - we even made Sushi for lunch one day), great comfy chairs, folding table (thanks Guy & Sam), esky, gas light ... all the modern conveniences - just NO shower... eek! But hey, the Beach was right on our doorstep or tent flap... so lovely!

...making sushi

We had many bush turkeys sharing our camp site, which you sort of got used to by day 2. We had a possum visitor each our food on the first night... 'yes, Dad we should have put the food box in the car'... We felt at one with nature, dirt by the end of the week was no longer an enemy but a friend.

...mmm coffee

Preparing for dinner one night, Jules was trying out her new can opener, sitting there with the instructions - she just couldn't work it out! Just didn't seem to open the can? So I said I would have a go... so I turned the can the other way around thinking it could be part of the problem and so i started screwing the can opener around and then PLOP all the contents came out from the bottom - Jules had been able to open the can but neither of us thought to take the can lid off... so all the corn was on the dirt ground... instead of chucking it in the bin we scooped it up and washed it off in the ever useful strainer... waste not want not, right?

...the beach

I finished reading The Narrow Road by Brother Andrew, churned most of my way through The Revelation of God by Peter Jensen, got through another Eugene Ionesco play The Chairs and listened to John Dickson 5 part talk series on his book Promoting the Gospel.While reading Jensen I realised that my vocabulary is not quite that of an academic... many words Jensen used I had no idea about or I thought I had a vague understanding of what it meant but when put in the context he used it I had no idea.

Anyway, I decided to compile myself a little list of words that I needed defined and so here are all the words, with my guessed meaning and then the real meaning - hopefully you too can grow your vocab. I don't think I did too badly in coming up with a meanings but nevertheless...

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Praise God for the time spent with Jules: sharing life, praying, discussing God's words, dreaming and having fun. Am really thankful to God for the friend I have in Jules.

Thank God for the refreshing time away, camping really allows you to stop, have no technology to distract you - just get back to basics and nature!