Car

I have a new car to replace the dead "Red Lemon". It is an Alfa Romeo 33 ie 1990. Tis very nice. Looks nice, sounds nice, goes nice, is nice. Nice is such a naff word. But I shouldn't say that it wasn't very nice. Well have a nice day.

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier



Lou and Peanuts

Louise accidentally tasted peanuts (subtly hidden in a sauce on some dinner that people brought round for us today. Now she is at the emergency doctor. Raaaa! Did I or did I not say our family is having a rough time. Mum however is feeling quite good after the surgery yesterday. Awesome.

Touch Rugby

We had our first practice for Tip Top touch rugby team tonight. It was really choice. And then to cap it off I played touch with the boys back in Rewa. I'll keep ewes updated on our progress. Next week is the first real game! Wowsers! It's good for the ol' fitness.

Criticism

I don't like criticism! It can be so discouraging. Sometimes it's fair and other times it is not. Nevertheless that is not why I am writing. I found a great quote today. I shall share it with you.



To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard



Criticism is part of being a person of opinions ideas and action! If you want to be loved by all people all the time, wake up, or have no opinions, and make no contraversial decisions. It's also a sure-fire way of never being famous/successful/useful to society.

Our family seems to be feeling God's hand heavily at the moment. Everything seems to just be getting worse. It's like you wake up and think, what can make today worse than yesterday. And I don't like living like that. I just want to hibernate and get away from everything.



(Maybe I shouldn't say God's hand, although I do believe in God's sovereignty, it seems that he is allowing our family to undergo many trials)



Well anyway, I'd like to register my sincere disapproval if that counts. I know it's meant to be good for you, but right now it feels very not good.



ok thats me for today.

TT Super Coffee Solution

At Tip Top we use a coffee solution to flavour some of our Ice Cream Products. Anyway it has a reputation for never getting bacteria counts in it. Yesterday I conducted a test on it. I innoculated a straight (and diluted) solution of it with Enterobacter aerogenes, and then plated it with various agars. Violet Red Bile Agar (VRBA) takes 24 hours to incubate, so I was able to check my results to day. There were no colony forming units on the VRB plates, which means that the coffee killed the bacterial solution that I added to it. needless to say, I am conducting further tests, which I will brief you on as results come to hand.



Prayer

Today I left my Greek notebook in a plastic bag in the lunchroom. Last time I did this (yes I had to write all my vocab out again) it got chucked in the bin. I only realised I had done this at the end of the day when I cam to collect it from my locker. I quickly walked down the corridor heading for the stairs to the lunch room, praying as I went. I prayed that God would have preserved my vocab book, as I was praying, a guy came out from one of the side doors and said "Hey Scott" and handed me a plastic bag containing my notebook, and my keys! God is so good. He answered my prayer as I was praying it. I was so grateful.