Archive for August, 2007

SA citizen no longer

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

The sad day finally arrived last month when I could procrastinate no longer… I had to say goodbye to my South African citizenship.
After the mistakes made when getting my British citizenship, I couldn’t renew my South African passport which expired last month. And with a trip to SA coming up soon, I had [...]

Ancient documents

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Last Saturday, we had a very exciting outing to the British Library that fulfilled a long held ambition for me.
One of the great things about Christianity is that it is well supported by the available evidence. In particular, the events described in the New Testament of the Bible are very difficult to explain unless [...]

6 weeks on

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Six weeks old, and I think you could call our “at home” routine fairly established. No two days are ever the same for Jon and me, but the average weekday goes roughly like this:
06h40: Alarm goes off. Cue lying in bed for another 10 minutes.
06h50: Tom gets up to make breakfast and, most [...]

Dummies for … errr … dummies

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

We’ve cracked it!
For the last few weeks getting Jonathan to sleep during the day has been getting increasingly tricky. This is not to say he isn’t tired – we’ve been giving him extra awake time. He’s not hungry or wet or dirty or sick… It’s just that he doesn’t like being put [...]