Category: Personal
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Head Above Water
Just a quick post again to say that I am keeping my head above the water! Lydia is now ten days old, I can’t believe how fast the time has gone. This week I’ve been gently trying to ease my way back into college life, which has gone fairly well. Lydia is beginning to get…
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Waiting Over
Just a very quick update to announce that the baby we have been waiting for… has finally arrived! Our daughter, Lydia Jean Sacre, was born yesterday at 9:26AM weighing 7lb11oz. We can’t believe how blessed we are to have such a beautiful baby girl, what a gift! Praise God. At some point I may write…
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The New Term… and the waiting game
As I think I mentioned last time, term started at Oak Hill last week. The first three days were spent doing various intro events, meeting lots of people and generally being busy! As of tomorrow evening we will have completed one full week of lectures. This term I am studying the Doctrine of God; General…
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Before the Storm…
The last three weekends have been pretty busy for us – we’ve been up in Colchester (or thereabouts) for various reasons! We had a great time seeing friends and family and generally catching up with people. However, as of yesterday Mrs Phil is 37 weeks pregnant – which means that, if the baby is born…
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Just what is a ‘babygrow’, anyway?
As I mentioned a few months ago, Mrs Phil and I are expecting a baby at the end of September. Phil has now finished work (scary!) and so this week we have finally got round to actually thinking about the kind of things we will have to get for the baby, as well as sorting…
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Richard Dawkins on the ethics of Stuart Broad
If you haven’t been following the Ashes over the past few days, you may not have heard about the mini furore created by Stuart Broad last week. Broad is a batsman for England who was caught out fairly and squarely, but refused to ‘walk’, leaving the decision down to the umpire. There has been a…
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Quick Life Update
It’s been a funny old month. Quick a lot seems to have gone on over the past month or so: Phil and I had our 20-week scan. My Mum died, and the funeral was last Friday. On top of all that, I’ve had a ridiculous amount of work to do college-wise. At the moment I’m…
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Mum [1945-2013] – A Tribute
As some of you may have seen on Twitter and Facebook, my Mum died yesterday. She lost her battle with lung cancer, which I’d written about previously. The picture on the left was taken at Christmas last year; it’s probably one of my favourite pictures of her. It’s amazing to think how much things changed…
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Not dead!
That’s right. Just wanted to post up to say, I’m not actually dead! I’m just working very hard. Things have been pretty mental at Oak Hill this last term. I’m working on a seminar for John 19 at the moment (well, not right at this moment, obviously. Not today, even. But you get what I mean.)…
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A time of Expecting…
After all the heavy stuff I’ve been talking about over the past few weeks and months, it gives me great pleasure to announce… we’re expecting a baby! 🙂 We had the 20-week scan today at the hospital. Everything was fine, the baby seemed to be doing well, the heart is beating fine, and it was…