Life of Wiley

Having had excellent service from Amazon in the past I am at a loss to find why I’ve had such poor service from them over a Netgear Wireless Bridge device. I ordered it over a month ago where Amazon set the expectation that I’d have it within 2 weeks. After two weeks I got a notice saying it’s been delayed by 4-6 weeks and now that time is up and I’ve just had another notice saying that it won’t be available for another 4-6 weeks.

So I’ve looked up another cheap supplier, Comms Express and they’ve turned it around in a day. So what’s up Amazon, why can’t you get hold of any of these things?

On Monday we were supposed to be taking Euan up to his grand parents but he’d decided he didn’t want to go! I suppose he’s feeling maybe a little bit vulnerable now that his little sister has turned up.

Anyway, we all went to Chalfont Fair instead where, coincidentally, the band were playing. It was really odd being at a band engagement without playing and quite frustrating too, especially as the band were really putting in an excellent performance that was going down well with the crowd.

My playing’s taken a dive over the last couple of weeks due to the change in family circumstances, but I’ve now been practicing quite hard in preparation for our big charity concert on Saturday. I’m really looking forward to it, it should be a corker.

For the first time since Eva was born we all attended church. Our friend Alison was the preacher for the morning service which was celebrating Pentecost.

During the service Alison used a very powerful mechanism for getting the point across about the Spirit speaking to all present at Pentecost, she had the lesson read not only in English, but also in Chinese and the Bemba language of Zambia. Care needs to be taken when using this to not use too many speakers otherwise the effect is to muddied.

But if it’s muddied you want then this will also work well for illustrating the story of the Tower of Babel too!