Good to see that Phil Baker from Riverview Church got a positive write up in yesterday’s Sunday Times.
The story was in STM (Sunday Times Magazine).
Good to see that they even gave his blog a mention. If you haven’t been to Phil’s blog before, take a few minutes to check it out.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
It’s been a very busy Easter for our family.
On Friday I joined a group of cyclists who were part of the Perth to Hobart ride last year. We also had a few ‘support crew’ following in a bus and a couple of new faces on bikes. We cycled to Moora, a country town north of Perth. The ride was around 145 km for most. I cycled around 20 km to the starting point so ended up doing just under 165 km.
Pauline and the kids drove to Moora to pick me up.
From there we drove straight to Moore River. My 3 brothers and 1 sister were there with their families. We stayed in a holiday home overlooking the mouth of the river and the ocean. It was our first family holiday together since we were kids. Our last holiday would have been around 30 years ago with our parents. Now our parents are gone and most of us are parents. It was great seeing our kids playing together.
We left on Sunday afternoon to come home, leaving most of the family back at Moore River. Our little family returned early to go to Pauline’s parents’ place to celebrate Easter and for Pauline’s mum’s birthday.
Now it’s Monday. The last day of the Easter long weekend. I was going to cycle to Fremantle for coffee but I was a couple of minutes late and missed joining the bunch that was riding down there.
I’m sure it’ll be another busy day. Later this afternoon I’ll be getting together for prayer with the 3 other guys that make up our accountability group.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
It’s Friday Five time.
1. What do you do for a living?
Organise fund raising bike rides for the Bible Society.
2. What do you like most about your job?
Getting out and challenging myself through cycling. Seeing others reach their goals. These can be physical goals, spiritual goals, emotional goals, fund raising goals or others.
3. What do you like least about your job?
Administratoin work.
4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…
I haven’t got myself organised.
5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
I’ve been involved in media over many years and there’s still a real excitement every time I walk into a studio or sit down to write something for use in the media.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
There are a lot of useless tests on the net so I choose the ones I take carefully. As a writer, I take great care in trying to ensure I communicate what I want to communicate. With that in mind I decided I’d take the grammar test.
While I don’t consider myself to be any kind of god – the test obviously does. Below are my results.
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!
How grammatically sound are you?
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If you take the test, let me know how you get on.
Here’s the sign I mentioned yesterday.
I just love it.
UPDATE: The sign has now been there for around a week, which means that not only is the time of the accident in doubt, so is the particular Saturday in question.
Rodney is a husband, father, cyclist, blogger and podcaster from Perth Western Australia.
He previously worked in radio for about 25 years but these days he spends his time at Compassion Australia, working towards releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name.
The views he expresses here are his own.
