tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108466262011-06-18T08:17:14.089+08:00<a href="http://www.fodey.com/generators/animated/ninjatext.asp"><img src="http://r1.fodey.com/1d81bb6040c1446ceaee8feeea9f87764.1.gif" border=0 width="574" height="119" alt="Ninja!"></a>Marcushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15190110095059499431noreply@blogger.comBlogger14411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10846626.post-1163948533583474372006-11-19T22:59:00.000+08:002006-11-19T23:03:45.350+08:00

The new address for Marcus' Blog is www.holtpress2.blogspot.comJust click on the link and it will take you to my new home.

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I've just tried to switch to Blogger Beta for the second time, and was unsuccessful again. It appears my blog is too big. I guess size does matter.I have created a new version of Holt Press with the new version but won't be able to transfer my history to the new blog which is a real shame. I will leave a permanent link on here so that my readers (all four of you) can find it.It is still called

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Holt Press7.30 Big Brekky, reasonable crowd, cooked eggs on barbie for first time.11.00 Funeral at Dunsborough, quite different to Wednesday's, very sad1.00-4.00 Recruited camp staff, 5 knock backs, three acceptances (2 definite, one conditional), phone calls and emails4.00 Outward Bound meeting, sharing ideas about Amazing Race style camps.6.00 Start cab shift (earnt over $250 for the

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 Modest as our laundry may be, it is vastly improved since I completed the makeover tonight. The cupboard I assembled yesterday has replaced the original which was twice as big. The dryer has been relocated above it, it used to be on the right above the trough and was a head hazard. I put up the duel shelves and even hung the cottage craft calendar. Carolyn's happy, not only because it's safer

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 Well, it is for a no tool-guy like me! For Birchy it would be a 5 minute kob with his eyes closed but for me, correctly interpreting and following instructions and wielding tools is a challenge! See post below for background info about the cupboard!And No, this is not a slow news day at Holt Press, quite the contrary, I just wanted to celebrate a little masculine achievement! 

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 I'm pleased and relieved to report that the funeral service went very well this morning. The setting was stunning, the weather was perfect and the mood and tone of the service was great, despite the obvious sadness of the occasion.Nathan's family requested people to wear bright colours, or at least not dress in black, so I wore my brightest shirt, a lovely yellow number. Further to the casual

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 Tomorrow I'm conducting Nathan's funeral service. I spent much of today preparing for it and have just finished the final draft of my message. Carolyn read the first one and made some helpful suggestions and helped me soften and lighten the tone of the first draft. The funeral is at 11.00 followed by a wake, also at Meelup Beach, then later in the afternoon the committal and cremation in Bunbury

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Holt PressBefore anyone complains, yes I know the font in the post below is hard to read! It looked better on Word when I previewed it but on Blogger everything is reduced in size and thus it's become hard to read.Sorry.For those not prepared to persevere with it, here it is in plain text!I visited both the families of Nathan and Bianca today, the young couple killed in the Dunsborough fire. They

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I visited both the families of Nathan and Bianca today, the young couple killed in the Dunsborough fire. They were not as desperately sad as they were last week thankfully and have received a huge amount of support and care from the community. The outpouring of love toward them and their children has given them a great deal of comfort to help them cope with their grief.I spent about an hour with

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Holt PressFor regular visitors (G'day Pop) who may not scroll down, I've added some explanatory text to the Jack and Harry picture from the other night. A plug for me and a plug for them.It's Sunday night and the weekend is winding down. I slept in this morning while Carolyn and the kids went to church.Watched the episode of House I recorded on Wed night.Had a phone call from Walter who has

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Holt PressI drove the Maxi Taxi tonight, a 14 seat min-bus used to take bigger groups of customers.It tends to get the big jobs. An average fare around Busselton in a normal cab is about $10.Tonight I had fares of $64, $69, $70 and $125, the last one being to take a group of young women to Bunbury so they could go night clubbing.$125 is a lot for a taxi fare but split between a bunch of people

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   When we went to the Show last year we met Mervyn Davis, author of a book called "Jack & Harry" which he and his brother Barry were selling. They travel around the country to shows and fairs selling the book which tells the story of two boys who run away from home after being falsely accused of stealing a bike and end up having an amazing adventure which takes them through the heart of

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Just Finished the late late shift in the cab, I saw the sun go down at the start of the shift and saw it starting to come up again by the end of it!!Tonight was Busselton Show Night, one of the busiest nights of the year in our small town so the cabs were all working flat out.My last fare of the night was to Capel, about 24km away, so it was a profitable trip.I start again at 5.00 tonight so it's

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 Wow!! My son's a star!!We've just come home from his school production of The Pinafore Pirates in which Jordy played the role of Sam O'Nella the irish cook on a pirate ship full of women and he was wonderful! I had no idea he would be so good. He maintained a great Irish brogue all the way through, even when singing his solos. He was the comic relief and the crowd laughed appreciatively as he

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Blogger is really giving me some grief lately, posts are just disappearing into the ether!Did some drug ed seminars this afternoon, trying to convince 15 year old kids that getting drunk is a bad thing! They didn't seem convinced!Saw The Departed tonight, a violent film with the biggest line-up of stars since the last planetary alignment!

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Holt Press I spent this morning visiting the two families of the young couple killed in a house fire in Dunsborough yesterday. Both visits were difficult. The families were as you'd expect, numbed, shocked, and devatstated. Their pain and grief was overwhelming as they talked about the respective son and daughter they had lost.I found myself in tears as I listened to their story and we all held

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Holt PressThere was very sad news for our community on the radio this morning. A young couple died in a house fire in Dunsborough, a neighbouring town. They both had younger brothers who go to the high school. Tomorrow I will go and visit both families to offer my condolences and support. I can only imagine how they are feeling and how their world has come crashing down.There are two devastated

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 The days of running amok and committing acts of vandalism in the name of leaving rights are thankfully past. Schools have learnt to manage the process of students finishing high school pretty well, ala the Yr 12's last day at Busso on Friday. A sausage sizzle and a fancy dress day kept everyone happy and entertained.They're a good bunch of kids and I got to know several of them through things

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Holt PressI'm not happy, I've "posted" 4 pictures tonight via Picasa and none of them have made it through cyberspace to appear on my blog!!!I spoke at Dunsborough this morning and it seemed to go well, people laughed at the right times and gave me a warm response and compliments afterwards. I got the kids painting a banner while the service was on, it was messy but they enjoyed themselves.Spent

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 I love what can be done when an artist takes "non art" materials and creates something that really works, like this concrete pipe inlaid with pointy tiles which I discovered at the Fremantle Arts Centre. 

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 Some of the art on display at a school in Perth that I visited last week. I've always liked art, without taking a strong interest in it, just enjoying and admiring the the things people create, I've been to plenty of galleries in different places and am always impressed with what I find. But now that I've taken up painting it's a bit like buying a new car and you suddenly notice the same model

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    Several of these pieces are outside the Busselton police station and courthouse and the others are in Fremantle. 

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 Guaranteed to confuse! 

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Holt PressWe're home again after a very long day.I "dozed" in the car on the way to Mandurah then much to my surprise managed to stay awake and mostly alert throughout the whole training day which finished at 7.15pm. Everything went well, we had a really good turn out and we got lots done. Birchy came to his first meeting, he and Katherine and the kids are coming to Augusta to be on the team for

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Holt PressJust finished a 9 1/2 hour shift in the cab, have to be up in 3 1/2 hours to go to Mandurah! Carolyn will drive, hopefully Ill sleep!

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 Some of the year 11 girls helping me count the money raised for the 40 Hour Famine, I banked just over $3000.Funny how having your hands on that much cash brings a smile to your face. 

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 After breakfast we discussed the day's plans, 10 pin bowling was abandoned in favour of a movie but we still had at least 2 hours until anything opened. I took the boys for a drive up to Kalamunda then down the zig zag road and parked on the 2nd zig in order to walk up to Statham Quarry, a place I used to often take groups abseiling at. They are adolescent boys so of course there were various

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 An action shot from the Chaplains Cup yesterday, played at Fremantle Oval. The Kelmscott player dropped the mark, the Busselton player behind seems to be grasping at thin air rather than the ball. That's sort of how the day went for the boys from Busso. We played 4 games, and in a very consistent display, lost all 4 of them.I only got to see 2 of the games because by then we had 2 players

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Holt PressToday is Chaplains Cup Day, an inter-school football competition for year 10 students, being played at Fremantle Oval. I'm driving a bus load of 15 year old boys to Perth this morning, pray for me!!!!They play football all afternoon and don't finish until 8.30 tonight, with the finals played under lights. Then we're camping in the gym at Kelmscott High School before coming back to Busso

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While driving around Perth yesterday working on the camp I found myself on The Boulevarde in Mt Hawthorn, a street I once lived on while sharing a house with BB The Accountant and a friend of his in the early 80's. I literally lived on the street because I had an old caravan that I parked on the grass verge next to the house and I lived in it, with a power lead running out from the house to give

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 I don't seem to have time to blog these days, this is just a quick post before bed. I pulled up to take this picture at Ballajura High School this morning only to realise I'd left my camera at Letchie's place, just as well I discovered it then and not half an hour later when I was on the other side of Perth. Isn't this a great sculpture? Even more impressive on closer inspection which reveals

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Holt PressI've just finished a 3 hour meeting with the Augusta Beach Mission Exec team, a productive and enjoyable time with some very good friends.I'm off now to have dinner with an old mate, Hugh, who has just returned from a school trip to Italy so I look forward to hearing some of his stories.Tonight I'm staying at Letchie's place, and hopefully watching Spurs beat west Ham on Foxtel.Tomorrow

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Holt PressOnly a few minutes to blog before I go and start my shift in the cab. I had a profitable night last night but the late finish meant today was pretty low energy.I put the final coat of gesso on my 10 boards so they're now ready to paint on. Took Sport Boy and his friend into town looking for a toy he wanted to buy with his pocket money.He's not feeling well now and has been having

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Holt PressBig Brekky this morning and taxi driving tonight meant I've been working for the best part of 21 hours! Carolyn is away on an overnight ladies retreat with church so I'm really hoping the boys will be quiet and well behaved in the morning while I sleep! It was a pretty good shift, not least because I made about $90 in tips! but I'm apalled by some of the attitudes of customers,

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 Jordy is a great kid, and even though he's showing increasing signs of teenagerism, there is still a lovely spirit of generosity and compassion in his heart, he laughs a lot and enjoys his growing friendships. He is a smart kid with an interest in, and a developing sense of awareness of the world around him. He reads voraciously which is a great habit to develop when you're a kid. He does a junk

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Holt PressOur second son and third child, Jordan, turned 15 today.Happy Birthday Jord.

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Holt PressI'm just about to leave for a Youthcare/Rotary Chaplaincy Forum and dinner at Geographe Bayview Resort. It's a promotional exercise to raise awareness of chaplaincy in the region and seek financial support.3 boys from school put together a DVD for the occasion, they just finished it this afternoon! There'll be 5 of us, chaplains, talking briefly about our work in the local primary

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 Sophie threw aside her caution and reluctance to try new things on Sunday night and launched into her first painting. As you can see she's made a good start. It's based on a picture she found on the internet which she enlarged with a free hand sketch on the canvas. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product. 

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    The kids and I had a lovely afternoon on a family outing on Sunday. Carolyn wasn't well enough to join us unfortunately but we still had a good time, starting with ice cream and chocolate fudge at a picnic table, a visit to Steve's place to pick up my paints which I had accidentally left in his car after I borrowed it to go to Perth a couple of weeks back, then a drive towards Yallingup. We

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 David and Jo are not big footy fans, why else would they choose Grand Final day for their wedding? But they are good sports and appreciated the humour of my footy wielding bouncedown to commence the service. Considering David got married in green gym boots there was never any doubt they'd take it in good spirit. They also had the decency to have the service at 9.30, leaving the guests free to

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 This is a practice run for a larger one I'm planning to do. Today I got some boards cut at Bunnings and tonight I put the first of 5 coats of Gesso on them, to prepare them to be painted on. The Gesso will give them the same sort of surface to paint on as canvas. I needed specially cut boards in order to fit the frames I've been buying, it's easy to find frames, and easy to buy pre-made canvases

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 Grant and Jillian and their two boys William and Daniel were my hosts on Friday night.I feel very fortunate to have such a wide range of friends to stay with on my frequent trips to Perth. It keeps me in touch with lots of people and means I'm not too much of a burden on anyone in particular.Attentive readers will remember that Grant and I went to the Dockers V Melbourne final at Subiaco a few

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 Tryhards coach and 2006 CFFL premier Grant Collo Collins enjoys the spoils of victory, a flambaed lobster dish at The Dons restaurant, and nearly sends the rest of the league broke! The Tryhards name will be added to the trophy, making them the 5th different team to win the premiership in the 5 years of the league's existence.Letchy and Broady shared the Brownnose medal when their players

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 I didn't know that many of the group on the retreat this year, or rather, none of the people I'm closest to attended, thus I had the opportunity to get to know some new people. Of course, Heather, the Mother of all Chaplains was there, and Alison my area chaplain, but I hung out with Mark, Ben, Andrew and Matt a fair bit. I'd point out who's who but Picasa is not being all that cooperative at

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 I was doing some reconnaisance for the Cool School Race Camp, taking pictures of interesting and unusual items around Perth, statues, artworks, monuments, signs and buildings. I was on a back road somewhere between Armadale and Fremantle when this caught my eye on a property I was driving past. I knew I had to take the picture for my Dad, even if it doesn't get a gig on the camp. For the

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Holt PressI had a long and at times frustrating night in the cab. I started at 4.00 and didn't finish until about 2.30 and didn't get a break. The best I could manage was to order a pizza on the phone, pick it up in between jobs, and try and eat it without making a mess. I failed dismally in the last task.Unfortunately Carolyn has not been well tonight, suffering from a migraine, complete with

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Holt PressHome again after 4 days away, just time to blog for a minute before I have to go and drive the cab.I was plagued by cold showers and lousy internet connections while away,I sat for an hour at New Norcia yesterday afternoon waiting in vain for the computer to let me log on to blogger, had to give up in the end cause I was due back in Perth.I did 4 and 2 1/2 paintings while I was away, it

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Good news everyone, I'm back! My two day blogging exile is over. I was sitting in the common room painting when Matt walked in and said he'd been to the monastery library reading and using the internet. "Internet?" I yelped in a slightly too eager voice, causing several people to look up from what they were doing! I downed my paint brush and set off for the library post haste.I did try and blog

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I'm just about to leave for Perth. Tomorrow I'll spend doing preparation and leg work for the Cool School Race Camp. Wednesday to Friday I'm going to the annual chaplain's retreat at New Norcia where I suspect I will be out of blogging range, though I'll be trying to find access to a computer somewhere.Friday night is the highlight of the social calendar, the CFFL Winners Dinner, a post season

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 History was made at the Holt Press Home today when our children got pet rabbits! I was about to say they got their first ever pets but Sophie did have a brief flirtation with a budgerigar a few years ago until a friend who was looking after it while we were away let it escape. I'm not a big animals person, I've always preferred to eat them rather than play with them so it's no surprise we didn't

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 I did my second nightshift in the cab tonight but it was very quiet, much quieter than last night, thus I only made about half what I did on Friday night. I get 45% of the take for a nightshift so the busier the better.I am amazed at some of the behaviour, especially the complete disregard for others. The level of swearing is astounding, from the complete range of customers, old blokes to

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I've just gotten home from my first night shift driving the taxi. It went well although it's a long shift. I made more money because at night the drivers get paid a percentage of the take rather than an hourly rate. I had my fair share of drunk passengers but thankfully no-one gave me any grief and I made over $25 in tips to boot. Just as well I'm earning some extra money because Sport Boy and I

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 This afternoon I was the guest speaker at the Busselton Branch meeting of the CWA (Country Women's Association) and as you can see, they were a lovely bunch of young ladies. I spoke to them about my work in chaplaincy and they gave me a lovely warm reception, asked questions, and indulged me as I shared a few extra stories and anecdotes. Their newest member is a sprightly 94! No kidding! She's

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 Anyone who knows me knows I have no affection or taste for Country Music, the matching twanginess of country style guitar playing and singing are usually sufficient to put me off. But. There are exceptions to most rules and there is to this one too, I like Johnny Cash. In fact, I've always liked him and his music, ever since I heard "A Boy Named Sue" back as a kid in the 60's. The whole idea of

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A quiet day, mainly devoted to working on the fish project. I collected some of the money promised by "investors" when I was lobbying around town, and had a meeting with Ray from Pro Busselton and Barb from The Mail to work out what needs to happen next. To my relief they are going to pay the outstanding accounts, $2000 for transport and $500 for loading. (Thanks for the tip re Jayde Transport

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I had my first shift in the taxi today as a practice run for Saturday night. It went well, with an interesting mix of passengers, lots of elderly people, pick ups from medical centres and the hospital, shopping errands, people going to work and so on.But, one fare was quite out of the ordinary!A young bloke in his 20's got in at the taxi rank and proceeded top make a call on his mobile phone.I

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 This very cool T-shirt was my present! If you don't know why it's cool you haven't seen the cult comedy movie, Napolean Dynamite. If you haven't seen it be warned, it's an acquired taste, a truly polarising movie which you'll either love or loathe. 

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 A scale model VW Kombi. He thinks The Gardener will be impressed. 

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 Jordy is home from his shopping expedition to Sydney and Canberra. He went under the guise of it being a school trip but as he pulled the evidence out of every pocket and cranny of his bags it was clear what hie priority had been!! The ever diminishing bank balance had been transformed into loot, clothes, CD's, badges, hats, toys, wristbands, belts and assorted other trophies of teenage

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The enclosure set aside for Cam and I, the only two people barracking for Sydney!Watching the footy with a bunch of very nervous/excited Eagles fans.A familiar sight on the way home, stopping to refill the radiator every 20 minutes!d;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3709/856/320/100_9818.jpg" border="0" alt="" />Birchy and I in unfamiliar garb, prior to the wedding.The Birch's "ferocious

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 Check out the green sneakers the groom and best man wore, very cool!Also the football I held aloft to start proceedings.It was a relaxed and enjoyable service in a lovely setting and as I mentioned the other day, the weather cleared up just in time as we requested.Joanne looked lovely and a special touch was that she was accompanied down the aisle and given away by her 9 year old son Joshua,

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I had a rotten day!I packed up and loaded all my stuff in the car (Mum's car) for the trip home and left in good time to get back to Busselton for Brendan's memorial service which was being held down at the foreshore at 2.00pm. Unfortunately I never made it! The car played up all the way home, turning the usual 3 hour trip into a 7 hour marathon! It was losing all the water in the radiator and

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It's been a big day as predicted.The wedding went very well this morning although the signs were not good early, it rained the entire time we drove to the service. The wedding was being held outside,under cover but not exactly weather proof.Darren and I sat in the car and prayed for the wedding, and asked God to clear the weather in time for the service! The bride was 10 minutes late, but one

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Holt PressLast day of term, two weeks of school holidays, that's always a pleasant thought, and although I still have work to do during the break there is a chance to rest and recharge and a change of pace and scenery.I'm back up in Perth, staying at Birchy's place. Tomorrow morning we are doing David and Joanne's wedding service out in the Swan Valley. I've just been putting the finishing

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While I'm not claiming a miracle of Biblical proportions, I am rejoicing that for the first time in two weeks I can walk again!Two painful and awkward weeks on crutches has been frustrating but today saw a big breakthrough.I had my second physio appointment this morning and it was torturous as the physio aggressively massaged the fluid out of my swollen and bruised foot. Ultrasound and

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Holt PressI don't know what the deal is with YouTube. It's great that it allows you to put videos on your blog, but it's pretty poor that they only play back 2 seconds at a time!!!! At least that's what it does on my computer!! I wonder if it's any better/quicker for you? See what you think with the post below.

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 Sport Boy's nervous excitement was well placed it seems because he did very well at the inter-school sports day at Bunbury. By the time Carolyn and I arrived he had competed in his first event, the Turbo Javelin (throwing a turbo ball javelin style, definitely a safer option for kids, as it would have been for the sports official on the news tonight who was speared through the foot by a javelin

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Sport Boy had trouble getting to sleep tonight because of his nervous excitement about going to Bunbury tomorrow to compete in the inter-school sports carnival for the first time.No nickname was ever more apt than Sport Boy!I dubbed some old home video yesterday of him when he was just a toddler, watching a football game on TV with Sophie and he was so excited and into it, yelling out, running

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I spent all day flat on my back in bed with my leg raised in a concerted attempt to reduce the swelling in my foot.I took the day off work.I slept.I read.I listened to music on my MP3 player.I listened to the ABC news hour on the radio.I sent texts to my wife.I ate cereal and biscuits in bed.I put the cryo-cuff ice pack on.I struggled to find the right level of tightness for my compression

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 The kids at the camp I've been speaking at the last few days. Tonight's topic was September 11 and responses to terrorism, a pretty heavy subject I know and I'm not sure how well it went but the kids are great and the camp seems to be going very well.Here they are garbed in their Survivor bandanas.Mr G their teacher is in the right hand corner of the pic, a good bloke and the kids seem to

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Holt PressThe phone woke me this morning, that's never a good experience, either there's bad news or I'm so late getting up other people have already reached a point in the day where they think it's safe to telephone people. It was a Sunday morning too, no longer sacred.The bad news was that my 11.00am speaking engagement was being brought forward to 10.30.After the long day and night on Saturday

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Holt PressWe've just arrived home after a VERY long day.It started with a 7.30 departure for Mandurah, via Australind to pick up 20 boxes of fund-raising chocolates, and the Augusta Beach Mission training day. The training day went well although our numbers were down with many people not able to make it today. There was the usual mix of program overviews, discussions, planning times, team

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For regular progress reports and some very funny accounts of Jordan's school trip to Canberra go here.

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I spent a very miserable day today, following a very uncomfortable night.I woke up at about 3am with my foot hurting dreadfully, the worst it's been since I injured it a week ago.In the end I had to take two lots of painkillers just to be able to get some sleep, something I never have to do normally.I don't know for sure why it was so bad but I may have brought some of it on myself in an attempt

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In the end the experience and skill of Sydney overwhelmed the inexperience of Fremantle, but it was a good effort and an impressive achievement for a club and coach roundly criticised and condemned half way through the season.

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Holt PressThe Dockers had a great 3rd quarter yet Sydney still outscored them!!! Just shows how good a team the Swans are.Come on Freo!!

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Holt PressThe Dockers are about to start the biggest game in their history, the AFL preliminary final against the Sydney Swans at Aussie Stadium in Sydney.Carn the Dockers!

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 This is Woobla, the team who beat us in the semi-final last week following my ankle injury. We were 2 sets to 0 up at the time but Woobla came back to win 3-2!Fired up by this good fortune Woobla went on to beat the more fancied Breakaways in the prelim final on Tuesday night.Thus they are set to play the Grand Final tonight against 6 Pack, the hot favourites, having lost only one game all

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Today was my first day back at work since I hurt my ankle so of course I had to answer the same question 27 times “what happened to you/what did you do?” It’s fascinating to see different people’s reactions, especially those who upon hearing that it was a sports injury seem to dismiss it as self-inflicted nonsense! Most people were sympathetic and suitably impressed upon seeing how swollen and

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Holt PressMum rang tonight from Germany, they're having a wonderful time.She hadn't had any news of the footy scores and asked me how the Eagles game went.Siezing my opportunity I told her the Bulldogs had played brilliantly and won by 10 goals! Wonder how long it will take her to find out the truth?!! I expect I'll hear about it moments after she does!!! hahahahahaha!I did tell her before she

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 Literally!Despite my warnings one of the boys did manage to drop a bowling ball which bounced onto Sport Boy's toes!! 

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 They had a great time bowling, and they competed over everything, which ball they would use, what order they would bowl in, where they would stand while waiting for their next turn,how many spares or strikes they got and of course who was winning!They were glued to the overhead monitor throughout and 3 of them complained to me that their score hadn't been added on properly. I had to placate them

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 Celebrating a strike! 

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 I had my foot x-rayed today which revealed no brake, good, but 5 days after the injury it is still massively swollen and badly bruised and very painful, none of which are good signs, and may in fact indicate ligament damage. This I am informed by more than one person can be worse than a fracture, requiring longer rehabilitation and less certain recovery!!The plaster was taken off for the x-rays.

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Holt PressHaving spent all day at a pre-driver safety education course called Keys for Life learning how to teach high school students how to be safer when they start to drive, I figured it would be inappropriate if I were to crash the car on the way home due to fatigue so I have stayed in Perth for the night and will head home in the morning.This has enabled me to visit two lots of friends. I'm

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Holt PressBlogging in from Birchy's place at Banksia Grove.After church this morning Noel made an announcement on my behalf requesting the loan of an automatic car that I could drive to Perth for a training course I'm doing tomorrow. Three different people came and offered me the use of their cars. I swapped mine with Steve's Nissan for the next couple of days. We headed up to Bunbury for the

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Sport Boy on the Ranger at last year's Busselton Show

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For those who haven't heard, I injured myself badly at volleyball last night and have a suspected broken ankle so getting to the footy and in and out of the ground was going to be harder than normal.Tom was extremely helpful and friendly, transported me to my seat, checked in on me at half time and came back at the end of the game to wheel me out and around the ground to rendevouz with my

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There are some compensations for having a broken ankle and at the footy in Perth tonight I was given excellent treatment and assistance so that I could enjoy the game in comfort.I never would have made it up the three flights of stairs or into the narrow aisles and confined seats of the grandstand so I rang Subiaco today and requested their help with my predicament.They were very helpful and

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I went to the game with my mate and fellow chaplain Grant Collins who got the tickets via a friend who is a member. As you can see he was very happy with proceedings!Freo Heave Ho! 

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The banners and flags enveloped Subi Oval as the siren signalled Fremantle's victory over Melbourne, their first ever win in a final. It was great to be there.I went to every derby for 6-7 years just waiting for Freo to win their first one, and have seen them win several since. Carolyn and I were there the night they played (and lost to) Essendon in their first ever final. But tonight was the

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Volleyball semi-final, Miffy the Cow v Woobla.Things were going very well in tonight's game, until....!!Let me start from the beginning.Admittedly we started shakily, falling behind 8-1 in the first set, but a time-out to regroup and re focus helped us begin to get back into the game and we clawed our way back to level by about 15-all. It was neck and neck for a couple of minutes then it was my

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Holt PressTonight is semi-final night in the local volleyball competition and my team, Miffy the Cow play Woobla in the 1st semi 45 minutes from now. The winners progress to the prelininary final, the losers hang up their knee pads until next season so it's do or die tonight. We've beaten Woobla a couple of times this season but they beat us last time we played. It should be close. We can win but

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I went to high school at Carine with Jill in 1978-79 (stop counting, you don't have that many fingers and toes). We now both find ourselves working at Busselton. A couple of months ago she asked me whether I'd be able to do their wedding service in January next year. I was of course honoured and delighted to oblige. Tonight I went round for dinner and to talk with them about the wedding. We had

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Holt PressAs I write this I've had 9997 hits on Holt Press (about 500 of them have been mine!!)If you happen to clock it over to 10,000, leave me a comment to celebrate the milestone!Here's to many more posts and hits along the way!

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