Fab weekend!

Just back from a great weekend in Liverpool. It was such a privilege to be asked to be a godfather to Zak:



and great to have the excuse to get up to Liverpool for his and 3 other little ones dedication service this morning. (4 couples, all friends of ours from our sending church in Liverpool, had babies within 5 weeks in June-July this year - and people comment on the number of arrivals at Ridley!!) The service was a great celebration and the church was jammed - so good to see. Good to see that the high standards on the bring and share lunches hasn't slipped as well!

Over the weekend we managed to catch up with a lot of friends and family - on Saturday we met up with my brother, sister in law and nephew no.1 (Benjamin) as well as my sister, brother in law and nephew no.2 (Nathaniel). It was really good to see them all - hadn't seen Pete, Lorraine and Benjamin since July, he's now flying around their flat on all 4's and dancing to 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'; Louise and Kevin seem to be settling back in at home after their round the world adventures and Thailand birth experiences and Nathaniel seems to be doing really well now, growing well and more alert all the time.


(Louise with Nathaniel and Benjamin)


(Louise, Kevin and Nathaniel)


(Lorraine and Benjamin)











Went out with some friends on Friday evening for some food, and again with some other friends on Saturday night - for anyone reading this who lives in Liverpool or happens to be visiting we can highly recommend the new Thai restaurant Chilli Banana on Lark Lane, and not just for having such a cool name! The food was fantastic and reasonably priced. Even managed to fit in a bit of shopping at the local outlet village and in Liverpool city centre - much to Lisa's delight, though pretty typically I actually ended up finding more things I liked and buying more than she did! All in all a great weekend!

(Ref my posts last week - notice how I've now got my priorities right, no mention of silly games with 22 men chasing a round bit of leather around at all!! Of course that has got absolutely nothing to do with embarrasment at yet another completely inept goalless away from home performance by the Reds again - honest!)