Archive for 11 April 2012

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• Sunday in Windhoek: Quaker meeting and walking the dogs 12 May 2013
  Sunday 12 May 2013 – Thomas Sunday At 6:30 we went for a walk round the Avis Dam with Enid and Justin Ellis; they take their dogs for a walk there every Sunday morning with their friend Helen Vale, a retired English lecturer from the University of Namibia. After breeakfast we went to Helen’s house … … Continue reading →
• Windhoek: family and old friends 10 May 2013
  After taking two days to travel to Windhoek, Namibia along the Trans-Kalahari Highway (which you can read about here and here), we spent our first couple of days (8 & 9 May) looking up old family in the archives, and seeing old friends. We are staying with Val’s cousin Enid Ellis and her husband Justin … … Continue reading →
• Palm Sunday 2013 28 April 2013
  We, and our Mamelodi congregation, were invited to St Thomas’s Orthodox Church in Sunninghill for Vespers of Lazarus Saturday/Palm Sunday. Fr Pantelejmon arranged with one of his parishioners, who runs a taxi business, to send a 16-seater Toyota Quantum to fetch people from Mamelodi, and some brought members of their families who had never been … … Continue […]
• Click “Like” if you know someone who has cancer 19 April 2013
  An increasing number of my Facebook friends seem to be falling for “Like” scams, and I’ve probably done so myself. The trouble is, it’s increasingly different to tell the genuine from the false on Facebook, because much of the false stuff is propagated by friends. Some of the scams are easy to tell, as this … … Continue reading →
• Racism and Volkskerk: debate in the NGK 11 April 2013
  There’s an interesting debate going on in and about the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK), the largest of the three white Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa. It won’t make much sense to you if you don’t read Afrikaans, but if you do you can follow it more closely by clicking on the links. It started … … Continue reading →