Happy New Year

Well, yesterday was all a bit of a cloud.

On Friday, Evo1.2 was chasing Evo1.1 down the stairs and caused her to fall down the bottom couple of steps. She complained about it being a bit painful but as true caring parents, we told her to belt up and get to bed. Well, yesterday it was still hurting her a bit across the top of her foot so I took her to casualty.

Four and a half hours later, it is confirmed she has a broken metatarsal - or near there anyway. No PE for a couple of months and potentially no school for a few days.

But after four and a half hours in the waiting, you are sort of confronted with these weird thoughts of satisfaction. Imagine If we'd waited that long and nothing had been wrong? At least we didn't waste our time.

Oh well, she seemed very pleased with her break and couldn't wait to tell all of her friends about it.

I can't remember this, can anyone else?

Oh well, perhaps it is a girl thing.

Happy New Year to all from all at Evoland.

And a merry Christmas from me

I know I haven't been very active of late, but here I am with a proper catch up blog. You were wrong Karin ;) and a merry Christmas to you - btw, the village of generosity seems to be offline?

Right, where to start. In the world of work, I have had a very busy time of it. I have been working on a deal which has lasted nine months and in the end needed to get done otherwise the buyer would have gone bust - and it happened with just a day to spare. And since I only get paid if these things happen, the same could be said for me too - but after working 20 hr days for the last week or two, I am now able to relax again and think about other things. Well, almost. I am still working on two other deals which are meaning I have to drive down to London on a fairly regular basis but hey ho, they are coming along nicely so the stress levels are acceptable.

I meant to report on this a long time ago but have not been able to, but what have my youth been up to. They have been making me very proud is what. The Gospel truth is something which is most easily given to people who understand life as we do. Someone from the slums of Hull does not want to hear holier than thou details from a person with a posh twang to their accent - it just don't work. And similarly, school children react most favourably to their friends. Well, my youth - by their own intiative have staged an evangelistic event to their non-Christian school mates - with only the smallest of help from me.

I was pretty worried that they would have put a lot of work into it and then nobody would turn up and they would be disappointed. We had a live worship band, doughnuts, marshmallows and hot chocolate and chat, testimonies from the kids themselves and a guest speaker who plays for the most succesful football team in Hull - Hull City!

And when the night came, I needn't have worried, in our small to medium sized family centre, we had 120 teenagers crammed in - it was awesome indeed. And the night went precisely to plan, apart from the speaker who was arriving at precisely 830 to give his talk was still not with us when we began the song that should have been right before him. I was expecting that I was going to have to get up there and give a message to all of these hungry kids myself and was a bit worried they might have eaten me alive - but after getting the band to play just one more song, I popped out and found our footballer and thankfully brought him in.

His testimony was powerful and the whole room were mesmorised by his witness. Some of the things he said were challenging to the extreme and I could feel the tension in the air as the young people thought through their own lives. 20 people made a decision to accept God into their lives that night. Everyone considered it. I'll leave it there.

I can't help remembering that last year at this time, I couldn't walk and I weighed 3st more than I do now. Very glad to be on this side of the tunnel.

Just finally to say that, if we've argued at all this year, I'm sure it was mostly my fault. I don't really mean it - I'm sorry! But don't worry, I'm sure normal service will soon be resumed.
xx

We wish you a merry Christmas

A quick new post.

They do say that all the funniest material is written by children.

And here is Evo1.3 at his inimitable best.

The lovely young geezer just crayoned in a picture for me and on the next page he wrote me a lovely message - and I quote:

"Dea daddy I wish you w merry christmas"

As in, "We wish you w merry christmas, we wish you w merry christmas, we wish you w merry christmas etc etc"

Mrs Evo didn't get it, I loved it :)