Hello everyone, Thank you all for your messages on the message board-its really good to hear from you all and to catch up on your news :-) Good to hear the services that the A team did went well Margaret, Gay and Alison. I was thinking of you all at church as I sat in the Iona Abbey last night for their evening service. It is truely an amazing place with a real sense of community. It was a commitment service last night and we lit tea light candles and p...

Dear all, Just a quick postcard tonight to let you know I am just back from my tour of the highlands and Orkney islands and had a really wonderful time. We were a group of 17 including our very knowledgeable and humourous guide Jack. We represented 10 different countries which was really great-lots of fun and we had some fantastic evening meals (we cooked together) with Malaysian, Spanish, German and Scottish cuisine to name a few. I'll post more detail...

Well after spending the morning at the Indian Consulate General Office submitting my visa application for my trip to India in December (they told me it will take 5 weeks to process the application so cross fingers and toes it doesn't take too much longer than that. At least I could submit my application in person and not have to send it my post which I thought I might have to do) I decided to head out of the city and spend a bit of time in the countryside of the ...

Hello everyone, It dawned sunny and windy this morning so I got myself into town and had another walk around. The layout and street names remind me so much of Dunedin-Princes St George St, Queen St, Leith, York Pl, Musselburgh etc etc and the outlook over the Firth of Forth from Castle Hill reminds me a bit of looking over Otago Harbour. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and I can understand why the early immigrants to Dunedin wanted to remind themselves of the ...

I guess I knew the sunny weather couldn't last too much longer...it was misty in Edinburgh yesterday and it was cloudy and trying to rain in Glasgow today (although the sun did try to shine coming back into Edinburgh)-still its reasonably mild and hasn't stopped my sightseeing! Dean had the day off yesterday so he showed me around central Edinburgh yesterday-we walked up to the castle and down the Royal Mile. Some really lovely architecture and old buildings...