Vuvuzela Alarm Clock!

Have learnt how to put an album of photos on Facbook! So you can see 20 pics of our time at Fairview Wine Estate yesterday celebrating Catherine’s birthday. There were about 25 of us on one huge table and the food was excellent. It is just sooooooooooooooooooo beautiful here. I want to bring you all from England (and Turkey) and have a huge table with you all. We would share a wonderful meal, wonderful wine and we would have such a time of fellowship. You would meet all our new South African friends and we would have such a happy time. Heaven!
Now what did I last write about? Did I tell you about our trip back to Somerset West and Gordon’s Bay on Thursday? The weather was beautiful and we had the most incredible view of the mountains. Are they the Wemmershoekberge Hills I wonder? We’ve been looking at our map!
We sat outside opposite the bay in Gordon’s Bay and had lunch and a chilled bottle of white wine. We met Lawrence who tried to sell Duncan a pin cushion! His mother supposedly made them and he only had one left! Lawrence had seen better days and was in need of a good meal and a bit of a fettle! We didn’t take his last pincushion but we did give him a few rand.
I went to the public toilet and met Margaret. I asked her if she lived in Gordon’s Bay and she pointed to a sheet of cardboard on the grass outside the loos, and said she lived there. You can see her photo above.
We are very privileged.
We got home and had a quick turn around, only time to clean our teeth and grab our bibles and off out – to a Nigerian church in Cape Town where Andre was preaching and Harvester Worship Band were leading some of the worship. Nigerians are LOUD! They equate the anointing with the volume! The worship was fantastic and most of the church there got up and joined the dance. Some photos above too! The service was looooooooong though. We were tired when we got home. We drove Andre home and he told us of some of the meetings he went to on his recent trip to Nigeria. One was in a small classroom where people were crushed in and it was very hot and sweaty and the microphones were on full tilt and the noise rebounded off the walls. For three hours! He said “Welcome to the life of a missionary!”
Yesterday morning I was going to the Women’s meeting at Nola’s. Duncan dropped me off but there was a last minute change of plan as Hilton needed a new passport and Nola had to be with him for him to get one. So we turned around thinking the meeting was off. I got a phone call: “Oh Bev, I thought that you could lead the meeting as there are women who have come!” said Nola.
Erm, erm, gulp, ok!
Stressed or what!? No time to plan. Oh, thinks I, Chantal’s coming so she will lead.
Got in the house, went up to Nola’s sitting room – no Chantal.
Text from Duncan – Chantal not able to come!
Aaaaaagh!
So this is when you just have to depend on God! We began to talk about when we had been saved and had given our lives to Jesus and then God took the reins and did some deep and incredible work in our hearts! Thank you, Lord. We had words for people there and I had a picture that really spoke to some of us.

Then on to Fairview with Nola and Colleen. Hilton got his passport and will be setting off (in 5 minutes) on his surfing safari with his friend and his parents.
We are having a chill day. We were awoken at about 7.45am by a solitary vuvuzela being blown repeatedly by someone on the beach! The joy of the World Cup has begun!
I need to write a separate blog of the Bookshop we found in Gordon’s bay!! Incredible and you need to see several pictures, so....later. XX

P.S.Happy Anniversary to Margaret and David for yesterday XX

Sorry photos are a bit mixed up:
Duncan, Jenny, Lowrence etc worshiping in the Nigerian Church, Cape Town
Duncan looking down on Gordon's Bay
The congregation in Nigerian Church
Margaret- Gordon's Bay