(moderately) High Tea

Yesterday afternoon we launched our Community Day with an afternoon tea. It was FUN! Some guests dressed for the occasion (note the hats, gloves, stoles and flowers in the hair) and many did their best poshy accent... well... here and there during proceedings.

Her Maj., Q.E.II was disappointed not to be there to launch the event but she sent her best wishes and may turn up for the odd game of cards on a Wednesday when Phil is out of town.

It was great to have one of our expats join us (in her fallout chair!!!) from the Nursing Home where she now lives. Apparently, she received the invitation and was determined to come so she hired an access cab! Good for you Ruth!

Here are some piccies and the invitation we snail mailed to everyone: [click on the invitation for a bigger view]

Here's a thing...

From the Advertiser on Monday, June 14th. [Click on it for a larger image with more readable text.]

Been a while... Not really sure what to put up here and what not to. However, last Sunday which was Pentecost, I made a little video to go with the reading from Ezekiel and a couple of people said "you should put that on the web for other people to use" so... here 'tis:

You can also find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18VdGnMY8Y

Here's the reading about Ezekiel's vision from the Hebrew Scriptures (New Revised Standard Version) Ezekiel 37: 1-14

The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry.
He said to me, "Mortal, can these bones live?" I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know." Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD."
So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them.
Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.
Then he said to me, "Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.' Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act," says the LORD.