The Greens

Time continues to pass quickly and yet again I can’t believe I’m writing a newsletter to update all our friends near and far on our progress here in Cambridge. Kerry and the kids are enjoying life in Cambridge and making lots of friends. Bethya’s potty training is going really well and she is really starting to get the hang of it, which is a real relief (excuse the pun). Nate is huge! The 91st percentile for his weight and 99th percentile for his height, he’s at the limits of his car-seat and many of his clothes. He’s not yet crawling but is starting to shuffle around on his bottom and is certainly enjoying mucking about with his sister. It’s already noticeable how much of a boy he is, loving rough and tumble and rougher games than his sister ever did when she was younger. There are now just three weeks to go to the end of term and the end of my first year here at Ridley Hall. I completed all my essays and handed them in on Monday just gone. I’ll have to wait a little while to hear the results. In the meantime, I have various ’short courses’ ahead of me that Ridley put into these end of term weeks to cover stuff that doesn’t fit well anywhere else. Forthcoming subjects include managing pressure, faith and business, why men don’t come to church and funerals! Eclectic mix, I know! Of course, it’d be nice to imagine a nice hugely relaxing summer like our student days of the past with nothing to do and lots of time to do it in. Sadly though, a hectic summer awaits the Greens with a lot on our prospective plates. After the term ends here, the whole family is dashing to Kent the next day because on the Sunday I start work on a month long placement at All Saints, Crowborough, who have been kind enough to allow me to come and work with them for four weeks. The day after that placement finishes, we dash back to Cambridge so that I can start the core module for the Masters that I am taking next year. That core module is done intensively over ten days in August and then we get a couple of weeks off before I’m off to the RAF in September on placement with them and their Chaplains. I’ll be coming back to college for a break, I think, after all that. We hope in the midst of all that we’ll get a chance to see you all. While I’m at All Saints, Kerry and the kids will be in Kent and, no doubt, enjoying catching up with everyone and while I can’t fit in New Wine this year, I know Kerry is looking forward to seeing everyone down at Boulder Gang too.