MANDY'S BIRTHDAY A TRIP TO MARKS & SPENCERS!

Still a frost on the cars this morning but it brightened up for the rest of the morning although later it was rain clouds once more. We cleared the DVD orders which probably took longer than anticipated then after breakfast we popped into the post office then paid the deposit on the Reunion holiday rental for November and other banking for PMP and ourselves then headed out to M&S at Handforth Dean where the traffic was getting to bank holiday proportions. We bought me a new jacket and shirt and Mandy got a new pullover which probably isn't what it's called but as near as I can describe, also it was yellow which with blue are my favourite colours. Time seemed to whizz by, I managed to get a few clips from Egyptian trucks taken 1996 up on to Youtube then vicar Jane called round to edit films for Sunday but her motherboard on her laptop had gone and the website to download one of the films from was down, really no progress on that but there is all day tomorrow.

Later on I got the marks for my latest assignment on the ministry course which was a good clear pass but way below the mark I'd expected and seemed to miss all the guidance from the proposal submitted and accepted, in fact it seemed to turn round all the advice I'd been given on it's head. Perhaps not surprisingly it's an ex teacher who marked it, another with an anal fixation on punctuation even when my pal Keith who is OCD on such matters had checked it through. Discouraging though and just another hoop to jump through as our tutor Lyndon says but why is it all so inconsistent, perhaps I should appeal it but then the only person who died in the story is being remembered this weekend and our vicar Jane has already incorporated some of the more contemporary liturgy I've shared with others in our course group into our own sometimes archaic services so something good is coming out of it.

Not sure what I can bring you by way of photos this evening, I think I've gone through enough from Immingham so having looked at Egypt some shots from there plus the latest DVD covers