Some Routine At Last!

After 9 weeks of living out of suitcases, routine is starting to come back to our lives.

Jack and Anna have finished their assessments at school and have started on their normal work. Here they are on their first day, posed with our rental Passat in front of the Granary (where we are staying in North Somercotes).

More routine on the way – we found out today that we have finally got the rental house we applied for in Saltfleet! It’s fully furnished, so all we need to organise is pillows, sheets and phone/internet connection. We hope we’ll be in the house by the end of next week.

Most of this week has been running errands, doing shopping, organising for our stuff to get shipped from Australia, etc. But, we have managed to visit Grimsby – it sits on the south side of the Humber and is best known as a fishing port. Elton John also recorded a song about it once, although I can’t remember how it goes. The trip to Grimsby was mainly to get hold of a mobile broadband thingy. It’s very slow here (no 3G reception) but at least we can send and receive email from this place.

Carolyn and I also went to Lincoln today to return the beloved Passat and exchange it for an Astra for the next 4 weeks. It’s a lot smaller than the VW but big enough to get us around until we can buy our own car. While we were there, we went to Lincoln cathedral, which is quite spectacular. It’s one of the 3 biggest cathedrals in the UK and one of the oldest – the original building was started in 1072.

Lincoln was originally a Roman fortress and was occupied by the Romans until the 4th century AD and there are many Roman, Norman and Tudor structures around the cathedral area, especially in Steep Hill Street.

 

 

 

 

 

We also had a very encouraging meeting this afternoon with the Pastor of the Kings Church Marshes, Stephen Franklin and his wife, Mandy. We spoke a lot about their vision for the church, our reasons for being here and common elements for each of our families on our journey to this area. They told us about how they had been led to pray for people from the North, South, East and West to come to the school and church – they were unsure about praying for people from the East as this area is on the East coast. As it turns out, that prayer was made on the day that we had felt led to change our destination from Yorkshire to Lincolnshire. More confirmation for us that we are in the place God wants us to be.

Finally, a couple of sunset pictures, looking over the fields across the road from our accommodation. Keep in mind that these were taken at 9.30pm. More Lincolnshire pictures soon!