relationships : Brett Fish

What my Single Friends would like their Married Friends to know: Meet Chris Jacobs

Where do you even begin to describe the real challenges associated with singleness vs. marriage? I run the risk of making myself incredibly vulnerable by the detail I share in this post, but to most of your readers I am a “relative stranger”, so whilst there may be some risk, I believe sharing may benefit some and in turn out-weight the associated risk. I’ve been reading through your, and everybody else’s posts and have found [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-25T05:08:33+02:00November 25th, 2014|friends and enemas, relationships, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|3 Comments

Friendship – Thoughts and Stories and Words and Things

One of the most important relationships one can have is friendship. Family is family but you get to choose your friends, and all that. i have a crazy amount of good friends who i thoroughly appreciate and thought it necessary to have some posts looking at how we can make good friends as well as be good friends to those around us - i hope you enjoy: Cheering Section: The Art of Mentoring - I [...]

By brettfish|2014-11-17T01:14:56+02:00November 17th, 2014|friends and enemas, relationships, Uncategorized|2 Comments

To Be A Mum [she’s Australian!] – meet Bek Curtis

I am 'Mum' to three amazing biological children. Sir J, aged 14, Lady M aged 12 and Little Miss 7. You can stop pulling that face, these are not their real names, just how I refer to them in order to respect their future online identity and privacy. My initiation into motherhood didn't begin with a pretty white dress, two rings on my finger, a Christian husband who'd vowed to love me for life, or a [...]

By brettfish|2014-10-15T02:46:07+02:00October 15th, 2014|family, inspire-ations, pain and Hope, relationships, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|4 Comments

Marriage Year 33: Meet Jo and Ollie Prentice

We met at UCT in 1975, followers of Christ and both students. Already - two keys to a long-lasting relationship - our Christian faith has held us in good times and difficulties; our keenness to learn and be curious about life, has kept our relationship interesting. After completing our degrees in Education and Librarianship , we decided to work for a year before making a firm choice to get married. So we had actually been [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-21T17:47:39+02:00March 21st, 2014|love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Taboo Topics: Singleness – Meet Beverley Rufener

Love (along with dating and of course mating eek) is a complicated beast, even more so when you are a Christian trying to forge a life(style) for one in a world that feels like it’s mostly built for twos. Navigating rights and wrongs can be enough to derail any fledgling flirtation and the pressure us singletons put on ourselves to ‘get things right’ can be so overwhelming at times because when really is the right [...]

By brettfish|2014-03-06T18:03:02+02:00March 6th, 2014|love and chocolate, marriage, pain and Hope, relationships, thorts of other people, Uncategorized|2 Comments

Best of the Mash

So my other blog, The Weekly Mash [and Peace!] has been running for close to 3 months now and it's interesting to note what the most popular posts have been so far - as each day has a different theme i thought it would be good to look at the top performer for each day in terms of visits, reads and shares and so here they are: Monday = Fun Day - Humour: It amuses [...]

By brettfish|2013-06-06T09:05:06+02:00June 6th, 2013|activities, and other animals.|0 Comments

Saturday Round Up: The week that was: Episode 7: of harmless chess pieces, cicadas, forgiveness poison and the importance of Together

Another week, another 'The Weekly Mash [and Peace!] - see what's been happening this week on the other side of my blog garage... Monday saw some Buttersafe cartoonage depicting the ridiculousness of chess pieces and the trap of the workplace Tuesday saw us take a look at the boy who couldn't be buried, the incoming plague and the no celebration relay team orders Wednesday saw some more cartoons with a simple yet powerful contrasting of [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-11T05:28:28+02:00May 11th, 2013|and other animals., challenging thorts, local news, people, relationships|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage – Meet Helene Scalliet

And now a glimpse into the story of Steve and Helene from Helene's side: I will start with the here and now – Steve and I have been married two and a half years and together six years. I feel very blessed and fulfilled by our physical intimacy, and am looking for many years of exploring what that will look like in the various seasons that await us. Knowing where the other comes from with [...]

By brettfish|2013-05-01T05:54:29+02:00May 1st, 2013|challenging thorts, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage – Meet Steve Graybill

Val and I met Steve during our time at the Simple Way and although we have spent a really short amount of live time together, he has quickly slotted into my folder of 'Favourite people.' Steve is someone who really strives to live out the Good News of Jesus practically and is an absolute inspiration. He jumped at the chance to share his story here and I hope that it will encourage and challenge many [...]

By brettfish|2013-04-29T18:25:35+02:00April 29th, 2013|challenging thorts, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|0 Comments

Taboo Topics: Sex in Marriage [Intro]

Wow! So this one should get people clicking on it. It may seem like a bit of an unusual topic to list under 'Taboo Topics' which after all was a series designed with the aim of talking about some of the issues that are very prevalent in the world, but that the church [and often even the outside-of-the-church world] rarely speaks about, or into. But think about it for a second. Preaching about sex in [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T16:21:58+02:00April 29th, 2013|challenging thorts, God stuff, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, love and chocolate, marriage, relationships, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|5 Comments