We arrived in Dubai from Cape Town at 5 am last Thursday morning. The real reason for our being here is because of leadership changes that are taking place in the Dubai Church. Clive and Heather Cernic who have done a brilliant job over the last 4 years are moving on and Steve and Heather Oliver from South Africa are coming [...]
In England you think Tesco, but in Cape Town you think Pick and Pay. A brand new Pick and Pay supermarket opened shortly before our arrival here and it is just a 5 minute drive away - very convenient. It’s situated in a complex that includes other shops, a gym, some residential flats and a car park. [...]
We’re off to Dubai for about 10 days. This is a bit of a surprise for us, but we’ve been asked to go for a ministry visit and the circumstances are such that it certainly seems the right thing to do. By a cruel twist of fate we fly out next Wednesday at 6pm just [...]
Our TV is broken. As we have no radio here but quite a full TV package we’re rather dependent on it for the news; to which I am somewhat addicted. Our excellent flat agent after struggling for a couple of hours last evening with 3 handsets and thousands of buttons is planning to send it to [...]
South Arica is looking forward to hosting the Football World Cup in 2010 and so there is a lot of preparation for that event taking place right now. The Airport in Cape Town is being largely reconstructed and there are some huge projects taking place on the road systems as attempts are made to improve [...]
