When Life Interrupts- introducing Jenny Madalo

I am so sorry for all the silence and tumble weeds you have encountered in this blog lately without any explanation.  The simple reason has been that life interrupted. Six days ago we were blessed with the birth of our first child – Jenny Madalo (Madalo means Blessings in Chichewa).  During the period waiting for [...]

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When too much information is a scary thing

Last night was the first night of antenatal classes. Seven couples gathered in a dimly lit room in the hospital with wind chime music tinkling in the background. Each couple expressing their nervousness and excitement about the immanent arrivals. As the evening progressed past the deep breathing exercises (which nearly caused me to sleep except [...]

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Trusting 2012

  I’m a bit of a scaredy cat really. You’ll not find me bungee jumping or even jumping from the highest diving board. I will do everything possible to avoid taking part in a ‘Trust Fall’. But I think my issue is not heights, my issue is control and trust. I like to be safe [...]

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Living in my rear-view mirror

  This weekend has been a little bit frustrating. Whilst my car has been fixed and no longer makes scary squealing noises as you break and neither does it creak around corners the rear-view mirror has become dysfunctional. If you try to adjust it or if you hit a little bump in the road the [...]

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Don’t break the Baby!

    Last week I went for a check up and got to see a glimpse of Baby Soko again. This is the third scan now and each time she is proving to be camera shy. For the ‘big scan’ at 20 weeks she wrapped herself in a ball and refused to budge – to [...]

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Sin Flambé

We watched with amusement across the restaurant. Someone had ordered some kind of flambé steak so the chef came to the table and made a big show of setting up a little stove and setting the ablaze – flames shot up and every ohhhed and ahhed. But pretty soon the waiter had to spring into [...]

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Lord, I just don’t get it!

  Sometimes I just don’t get life – If understand why things happen and why something don’t happen. This weekend I was going over my notes for a class that I’m about to start teaching on Acts and came across a little verse that gave a sigh of relief. The Apostles have now spend three [...]

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Detective Novels, Harold Camping and time

  There seems to be a common thread in the conversations in our house – time. We are both getting older and many of the things we thought we would accomplish by now haven’t happened yet. PhDs are unwritten, babies not yet born, job with prospects not yet acquired. Both of us are getting grey [...]

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Lightning, pink elephants & control

I don’t remember ever being scared in thunder storms – perhaps I was but don’t remember. I do remember my mum and Dad teaching me to count pink elephants between the flash of lightning and the rumbles of the thunder to work out if it was coming towards us or going away. Last night I [...]

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Good bye 2010, hello ??

As the days of 2010 run out I have reflected a bit on the year and all that happened. I must be getting old as I really can’t remember what happened in what year – they have all started to blur at the edges – was it this year or last that Michael Jackson died? I [...]

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