Easter

Easter! What a wonderful time to spend with family and to celebrate the centre of the Christian faith, particularly while we’re back in the UK and it’s sunny! For us it started with a lovely weekend with Matt’s family in Faringdon. We spent our time enjoying family activities, eating outside, going to Easter services and a party, enjoying the sunshine and a chance to chill out with a book and in Matt’s case: playing lots of Wii with his sister and watching a football match with his dad!

After our roast lamb lunch on Sunday we headed down to Devon to be with our other parents. It was lovely to have a day with my brother and sister-in-law and then the rest of the week relaxing with mum and dad. This time was at a slightly slower pace (as is usually the case in the West country!). We enjoyed doing some short excursions in the mornings, such as pottering around the shops in Ashburton, exploring a nearby woodland, Iron-age fort and chilli farm and meeting a friend from Tanzania in Totnes. The afternoons were a great time to rest and enjoy the garden. Of course, our week concluded with watching (at least some of) the Royal Wedding before heading back to the Wycliffe Centre!

So now we’re back ‘home’ again for another bank holiday weekend before, on Tuesday, Matt gets started on the final taught module of his MA. We can’t believe it’s come around so quickly but he is very much looking forward to studying Multi-Lingual Education in some depth. After the end of taught classes, at the end of May, he will be settling down to dissertation planning, research and writing. This will require some time of field research in Tanzania and will keep him busy at least until Christmas. More on this another day I think.

In other news: I have got an appointment with an Occupational Therapist to advise me on managing my ME well. This is scheduled for the 18th May and we are very glad that this next ‘step’ is in the diary now. We look forward to this consultation and hope that there are positive repercussions from it for my life and energy levels.

Finally it’s been far too long since we last uploaded some pictures, sorry! A few from the last few weeks are below, but two new albums (‘Winter turns to spring’ and ‘Easter 2011’) are also now online. Just click here to take a look.