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December 5th 2012
Published: December 5th 2012
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The title of this blog is perhaps a little misleading. Whilst we have been blessed with the company of old friends in the last few days and are spending today "chilling" before moving to New Zealand!, it is anything but chilly outside with temperatures in excess of 30 degrees. Unlike at home, it would seem.

It is so good to be with faimily and friends, something we are apt to forget in the pressures of everyday life. Joe and Gemma took us to lunch yesterday where we ate more than we had anticipated. Then on to dinner with Colin and Ann by the river where we caught up on news and shared our hopes for the future along with samples from the delightful Asian food menu.

Today was particularly memorable. Nic Forshaw left my geology class and St Bede's in 1989, 23 years ago, to continue with geology at Birmingham University. Had we known then that our next meeting would be in the very grand setting of the Empire Hotel in Borneo neither of us would have believed it. Our brief chat over coffee lasted two hours and was only curtailed by the sunset when Nic, and his lovely
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Nic and Alison at the Empire Hotel & Country Club
wife Alison, had to relieve the baby sitter. I do hope that Nic has the same experience of meeting with his former pupils one day. We spend our lives helping to nurture the next generation who then fly the nest and no longer need our guidance. Rarely do our paths cross again and that is how it should be. But it is so good to know that the seeds that were sown in days long forgotten have, with God's grace, flowered to produce the sowers of the next generation.

It is also lovely, and very humbling, when one of those, who has been particularly touched with grace, is able to return to say thank you!


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The class of 89 reunited after 23yrsThe class of 89 reunited after 23yrs
The class of 89 reunited after 23yrs

Never mind that...what about that homework you still owe me!
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Paradise

An unforgettable day
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Sunset over the South China Sea

"I've seen it rain fire in the sky"


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