so i haven't been blogging here much lately - largely it's because tbV and i have been doing transcription work for the HSRC which takes up a lot of our time and involves a bigger lot of typing - listening to interviews on audio and typing them out and some of them are not very clear so it's a lot of focus and listening and scribing and so i guess i get a bit overtyped [...]
so yesterday's "this is what the andersons are going to be up to" bloggage received a lot more attention than i suspected it would, and pretty firmly divided into two groups of responses: those who knew us, who said nice things about us and wished us good times and most importantly got excited with us for this adventure that we are about to embark on those who don't know us who by and large said [...]
so after weeks and months it is finally official - the beautiful val and myself received an invite letter from the simple way to join them by 15 june to start a 19 month job slash ministry... for those of you who don't know anything about the simple way i suggest you get hold of a book called 'the irresistible revolution' by a guy called shane claiborne - one of my top three books ever [...]
hm. you know, having had a bit of a chance to think about it [once i crawled out from under the pile of stones] i think there is some point to the judgements that have been made. i say 'judgements' because they have come across like that which i find very sad. maybe it's in line with the fact that it's virtually impossible to read tone into emails and so someone might be saying 'hey, [...]
this might sound like a devious marketing scheme, but it's not - everybody should do the TheatreSports course, everybody... for those of you who have no idea what TheatreSports is, where have you been? Only Cape Town's longest running live show [and best kept secret it seems way too much] TheatreSports is our local 'Whose Line is it Anyway?' type improv comedy show where absolutely everything is made up on the spot - two teams [...]
so yes, this week has finally arrived [in the haze of the bigger picture of "what are you doing this year brett?" having resigned from my job at vineyard church end of last year after 6 years of student/youth ministry due to it being the end of a good season and being in a place of waiting on God for the next plan of action...] and the plan for this week is to try and [...]
if you haven't yet, first read the previous blog link to the shane claiborne article on prayer - and then check out this site which appears to have a prayer or prayer list per day - i think this is going to be something that will help direct my prayers as i think i am a particularly bad pray'er and something like this to stimulate and direct and get me started might be just what [...]
so yesterday morning the beautiful val and i headed out to muizenberg for my super surprise birthday morning where we weere met by one of my best friends rob lloyd and his wife nicky and went for an hour's worth of blokarting on the beach which in a nutshell is like a combo between windsurfing and go-karting and a whole lotta fun. you get a three wheeler cart thing with a huge sail and armed [...]
in terms of life catchup and our favourite question of ‘so what are you doing next year?’ which has suddenly become ‘so what are you doing this year?’ [wow, so quick] the answer is that my wife - the beautiful Val – is finishing up her thesis – handing in second draft this week and final draft second week of feb – and we are still waiting on God and trying to listen and hear [...]
i gather a lot of people out there will have known settlers of catan but i imagine a lot fewer of you will have heard of this gem - Carcassonne - or as we like to refer to it "Kucky Sahn" in the slightest bit similiar to settlers in that the board is different every time (thus each game is vastly different unlike a risk, cluedo or monopoly which have a relative sameness to them) [...]