An English summer

There is nothing quite like a English summer when the sun come's out and stays out. It's amazing that everytime we have travelled (I don't think we've been to many country's, more this last year than at any other time) the sun we look at is the same sun. Yet it gives of such diffrent levels of heat and intensity, depending on where you are, yet remember it's the same sun.

Eileen's (My mother-in-law) garden has an air of the tradtional English garden, again my favourite thing is a real old fashion English garden, I used to have one in our second home as a married couple,(and a few people reading this blog will remember kipling rd.) Eileens garden has a cattery in the back of the garden, but there is a patch for flowers in the front of the cattery, and if you take a moment to look at it..... well its wonderful. The honeysuckle swaying in the breeze gives of it's scent as you walk, I often linger as I walk by, I,m trying to remember the smell for when I go back to China. The roses are beautiful and rambling along the garden there carnations and lillies and other plants I do not know the names of. I wish I knew more plants names than the few I know.
I know antirrhinum's .. when I used to work in the nursing home I used to take one unsettled lady out to the gardens and she would settle and tell me the name's of a few flowers that were there.. and the one that stuck to mind was the antirrhinum.. Or for every one else
THE BUNNY RABBIT :)


Eileen's front garden has more sentimental value, half of it is a rose garden and beautiful it is, the roses are left to grow as they please, they are not stopped and kept as the owners would like but left to grow into who they are. In there, there are two roses, they are mine and Dean's. They are a memorial for the kids. The first one was when we lost our first baby, the second was when we lost Gabriel. We stopped at two, not because the other kids wern't important but because Eileen and Merv's garden was running out of room lol, also those two plants are for all our kids. There is a bench in front of Gabriel's rose and just on that odd occassion I sit there .. It's a beautiful spot whether you know what the roses are there for or not. Its just such a beautiful spot.

Another place I love to go in the English summer is the New Forest. Have you ever been, well it's a must.
There's so much to see and do .. but for me its those places where you stop off and have a little walk and find a nice stream to sit by and have a picnic and maybe even see the horses and donkeys walk by. The lovely forest at the back of you and a piece of grass to sit on.
One thing I have missed is mum talking about bluebell woods and how it was her favourite time of year, how even on her days of feeling so ill we would always go at least once and drive by some       where she could see them..

The other thing I love is walking along the sea front, on a blustery day, the wind in your hair,
 the crashing of waves. There is such freedom of walking by the sea as it keeps going forever, I always have a sense of feeling closterfobic when I get back from the sea.






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But this is my beautiful England xxx

SSSSSsssssssHHHhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Yess SShhhhhh !!!! No NO No sorry I didn't mean every one reading this...This is ment for my lovely husband Dean.




( no this isn't Dean as a baby, just a ramdom pic of shhh)


If you didn't know he is on a sponsored silence. Which he himself is calling a miracle.


The reaso he is doing this is to help relocate and support us as we go into China as full-time missio**naries. We have also been invited to go to Cambodia as a team to pr**each the wo**rd to a village that does not know our Lo**rd.
We also plan to donate 10% of everything raised to go to help a childrens centre in Africa to place sola panels on the roof of the buildings.

So from last Monday Dean went quiet and is staying quiet for 5 days.
Probably everyone reading this will have heard me say this, but here goes again. I will miss Dean not talking to me......no not in a sarcastic way but in a loving way, I love it when Dean talks to me, especially about our future and what Go**d's got planned for us, I love his voice. I guess I just love him full stop !!! Mushy I know , but true :)

We have been very bles**sed with people putting there names down on the sonsor form, and you know if you haven't and want to there's still room on the sheet :)

Things to pray for: we need to get our business visa for China which we will be appling for this month. We need to get these to be able us to stay in China full-time.

Also, that the min**istry in China will get a full-time transaltor.

We will also be doing a small talk on China at Eastleigh Bap**tist Chu**rch, Wells place centre. In the room called Fairoak  from 7.45 pm on the 20th July. Please come along .We would love to see you there...

So can't wait for Friday at midnight when I will hear Dean's voice again..

Another step

So we have been to China yea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was fab !!! there is such a sense of change of atmosphere as you cross the boarder, from the husle and busle of hk to china. We did cross the boarder at a quiet time, it was quite straight forward, there's a few different crossings and some of them are mad.

During the week we stayed we saw Gods favour over church leaders, we saw doors open, that was amazing.

We stayed in the apartment we shall be living in and we decorated one room. the apartment may not look like much outside, but inside the rooms are large and tall ceilings. When we started decorating we wanted to keep it the same but freshen it up.
We repainted the walls white and put our curtains up from hk. It looked clean and fresh .
It will take some cleaning to get the floors to look good, at some point we will need to be blessed to put a kitchen in, at the moment theres just an electric hob to use which is absolutely fine.. But I love to cook, and want to cook for our new friends over there.
I think I have said it before but it's an amazing feeling when you walk into what God has planned for you .

And this is our means of transport!

I never thought I would scooter again :) we havent got a photo of us both on it, but we had a great time :)

We hopfully will be seeing most of you as we get back to the uk. and will fill in the details.

These are a few shots of villages we drove through