Carbis Bay & Passover = Shalom!

Home Again!

Sorry that my blogging has been a bit patchy over the weekend, all these hotels promise broadband but it’s always a pain to get on line.

As I said on Sunday the Boskerris Hotel; in Carbis Bay was fantastic. One of the best little hotels we’ve ever stopped in, perfect!

On Monday we all met up at my Granddad’s house and then drove down to the chapel where the funeral was held. The minister did a great job, my dad gave the eulogy (which was brill and no notes!), I did a reading. The singing was great we had ‘Abide With Me’ and ‘And Can It Be’ and raised the roof (nothing worse than a funeral with lacklustre singing!). He was buried at Phylack Churchyard which is literally in the dunes. The grave is dug in the sand and the sea is just a stones throw away – quite a spot. After that we all went (along with guests) to the Carbis Bay Hotel for a ‘bit of a do’ and a good old reminisce. The view from this place was amazing , right across St Ives Bay. It was great to catch up with my Grandma’s old friends. She died in the 80s when I was at Cliff College and I’d not seen many of them since I preached at the chapel when I was 16.

After the wake we invited everyone back to our hotel for drinkie poos at our hotel before all going out for a bracing walk and Italian meal in St Ives in the evening. My mum and dad and auntie and uncle left the ‘youngsters’ – all the cousin in St Ives.

We set off at 8.00 am this morning and were back home by 2.00 pm. I picked up Rosie, unpacked and made dinner. Off tonight to help lead our fellowship’s youth group (XLR8) we doing a Passover Meal with it being near Easter and all. Don’t worry, I’m not doing too much I slept from St Ives to Bristol (3 hours!).

I'm feeling OK, a bit sick and not too much in the way of an appetite as the day goes on but generally OK.

I let you know how the Passover went tomorrow.

Shalom.

Dave