First stop was NTE (or should I say SPRTE) in Canberra. Fun times! Great to catch up with lots of old friends (including heaps who live in Sydney!) and meet some new people. A highlight was going up Black Mountain Peninsula with my strand and some Tassie people... found myself getting quite emotional, looking down at Canberra after 2 years away! So many cool things happened to me there.
Got home and straight into preparing a talk for a women's gingerbread house Christmas event. I spoke on the topic "What would Jesus say to Santa Claus?" and really enjoyed that. It was also so fun to make a gingerbread house, I could have done that all day! We're smashing it tomorrow, will put some photos up later I hope.
Part of the tragedy of coming home was returning to this sorry plant. Why don't green things stay alive in our house? I even followed the directions on the tag! Also I thought it might sense the Dutch connection and perform well for me. But alas, it did not. Sniff sniff.
The next stage of holidays is Christmas-card-making (I have a love-hate relationship with this art form) and other adminny types of things, punctuated by Scrabble (except finding a playing partner is proving tricky) and visits and snoozes. Also getting started on Hebrew readings - yay! And soon, very soon, we shall begin our migration north for a family Christmas.
Bye for now!
