Spring Harvest Day 3

Today was a confusing and challenging day as is often the case at Spring Harvest. Today we were moving from “Learning” to “Living” as Apprentices. We only managed to get to the last ten minutes or so of the Big Start and then met Klynn for a coffee in the Skyline. I decided to join Sara and Maxime for the Bible Study in the Big top – labelled for pragmatists and was so pleased to do so. Ruth Dearnley and Jeff Lucas were excellent presenters – both with humour and a serious message to give us. Afterwards, Mary and I went into Minehead to buy birthday cards for Sara’s 50th Birthday next week. The weather was absolutely glorious and quite hot. We sat outside a fish and chip restaurant with the sun beating down on us as we had a lunch of excellent cod and chips – beautiful fresh fish. We stopped off at the penny arcade on the way back and spent a £1’s worth of 2p pieces on the penny falls. Mary loves this and had a few good wins before returning all the 2p pieces back to the arcade owners. It was probably a good job, therefore, that I was going to a seminar on addiction in the afternoon! We each had a lovely locally produced ice cream on our way back to the Butlins’ site. After attending the addiction seminar I joined some of the other male attendees watching the football results – Grimsby lost at home again 0-1 (against Accrington Stanley) but fortunately so did Chester. Supper was bangers and mash. The Big Top event this evening was fantastic – uplifting songs and another excellent talk by Ruth. We left the Big Top feeling so elated. We spent the rest of the evening at Hamish and Nicola’s discussing the events of the day with me describing how uplifting I had found the day and also considering what we can do for our church going forward. Plenty of wine was drunk too. I returned to our chalet and watched with Sara the last part of a thriller staring Bruce Willis. With some more lovely red wine (addiction?). We went to bed feeling mellow and relaxed after a great day.