Our last Sunday at St Mark's until December

I'm feeling very blessed. Our St Mark's church "family" prayed for us in church today, and we said our goodbyes to most of them. Tonight Boak's officially "On Leave". It feels as if we're going for such a long time.

We had eight to lunch afterwards, so they could meet (retired Bishop) Brian King and his wife Pamela who are going to help look after the parish while we're away. We're almost ready to start packing, but there's one more - very important - event to take place. Sarah's 24th birthday tomorrow, and a family dinner.