nothing of any real interest has happened here for a while. spurs beat charlton 5-1 which was propbably the highlight of my week. premiership football is great all the games are live on tv every weekend. problem is they all start at about 10pm at night which is rubbish if you have to get up for church, which starts at 9am...
ive been thinkin about trying to learn the violin for the last few years. now i have the time and the petience to do it i thought id give it a shot. isabelle a frenh lady who runs the kids work at the church might be getting a job at logos school a christian school in the city and apparently they have some good music teachers. hopefully my parents are going to bring one over in january so i can spend a bit of time practicing more then.
living in the flat on my own is quite difficult, im not really made that way, i like to think im more of a social person. having said that i have ESPN so i havent really thought about it too much ive just sat around watching sport with all my free time. biggest problem at the moment is the wildlife, i keep finding droppings on the kitchen worksurface, so i shoved a mat under the door where i recon they must be coming from only to find half of it eaten and all over the floor in the morning. so im going to go out and get some big 'im going to kill you' looking mouse traps. it does provide a certain amount of entertainment. rats on the other hand are a whole different game, really you need a little cage but im not sure i want to catch them alive, steve says they catch them all the time then drown them, although this approach did originally appeal to my evil sense of justice, i realise now that i wouldnt want to go anywhere near a rat that has been locked in a cage all night and desperate to escape. knowing my luck i would probably get eated by it or something...stranger things have happened. i will up date you on what happens, maybe i shold catch them then strap them to my moto's wheels? that would be fun...any suggestions would be much appreciated, also if anyone has any good rat catching stories or any family techniques that have been passed down the generations that might be useful i wold love to hear them.
my favorite one was when dad caught a mouse by its tail in a trap then put it in a shoe box and reversed over it. that always brings back fond memories and maks me laugh!
im off to kill me some rodents.
over and out.
Ben.
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- king ben
- Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- 20. Christian. always hungry.
Romans 5:7-8
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrated his love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
2 comments:
Hey Ben,
I've been enjoying reading your last few entrys, though looking forward to some more pictures.
Find it interesting that even being a missionary on the other side of the world is still a normal life in a way, where you have to get to grips with day to day stuff and can actually watch TV and all those things.
We had a rat in our office at work recently. My colleage had a box of instant cappucino sachets in her drawer, and somehow the rat got into the drawer and ripped all the sachets to shreds and munched all the instant coffee. I was quite surprised that rats like coffee, so maybe you could use coffee as a kind of rat trap, though I hate to think what the coffee's like over there. I bet they don't have Cafe Nero or whatever.
By the way, you should definitely get a trip in to Japan next year if you can. I'm sure Tom and Julie would have you to stay in Nagoya, where the church plant is launching next Easter. There are some lads going out to help with the church plant. I may even be there, who knows!
gosh ben,
i know you may be more of a socialite than a lone-living kind of guy, but to get the 'woe is me' violin out? i mean, is that not just one step too far. haha.
looking forward to starting a jazz band with you [now i have piano lessons with pam]
Nicola
xx
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