We are about half way through our time in Sicily, and with visits to family, friends and church (plus the usual end of year activities) we have had just two free nights so far, and maybe just one more for the rest of our stay. So in that respect it is not too much different [...]

We have arrived in Sicily, although we did not make arrive on Saturday as I was hoping, but we were three hours late at 2am on Sunday. This was mostly due to the ferry to Sicily being more than two hours later for no visible reason. The most interesting part of the trip was however [...]

I have finished my public work for the year (although their is still a lot of administrative and computer work to do yet), and today we are busy finishing things up and packing. Tomorrow we leave for Sicily, and it will be a very long day – we leave at 1am, and should get to [...]

As a have often said, can’t have a meeting in Italy without eating, and so that has been big on the agenda in the last couple of days at our house. On Saturday night there were 13 here for the second combined meeting of the young adults and teenagers (plus three more who turned up [...]

It’s Thursday, so I’ve finished my three Bible studies for the week. Although tonight it is Pinuccia’s turn to go out, as she will be going to a church leaders’ training meeting, and I get to look after the children and put them to bed.
Saturday is a public holiday here, but it will be a [...]

My shift at the bookstall on Saturday morning went well – after almost two hours of not much happening at all (since it was still too early in the morning to have many people pass by), the last half an hour saw three interested people come to the stall to talk and take literature, including [...]