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About sarahcondie

I am a Christian, a wife, a mother, an ex-librarian, a minister's wife, a women's Pastor, a quilter, a reader, I enjoy thinking about things slowly, I love cups of tea, I love sitting at my kitchen table in dappled sunlight and chatting with my friends, my children's friends, my family abut anything and everything.

Alice’s day

Posted on July 11, 2012 by sarahcondie

On 4 July 1862 Charles Dodson, an Oxford don, took Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating picnic up the River Thames from Folly Bridge in Oxford. To amuse the children he told them a story about a … Continue reading →

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Two different worlds of Oxford

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sarahcondie

Depending on who is walking, it takes from ten minutes to twenty minutes to walk from our apartment to the Radcliffe. The Magdalen Bridge crosses the Cherwill River and you come to a giant roundabout called The Plain. We are … Continue reading →

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Oxford

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sarahcondie

We have been in Oxford for a week now. We have had no trouble with how to fill our days, however, how we fill them is quite different. This is where Keith spends his time: The Radclife Camera. One of … Continue reading →

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The Magic Faraway Tree

Posted on July 6, 2012 by sarahcondie

One of the hard things about excellent adventures and travelling is what you leave behind. In this case, I have left my three adult children  and I miss them. Our son Johnny is in Fiji on a short term mission … Continue reading →

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Matters of the heart

Posted on July 5, 2012 by sarahcondie

– from the top of a London Bus – the Elephant and Castle!   Can you see them?  This is directly opposite the Metropolitan Tabernacle – Spurgeon’s church. Yesterday, I read in a book “the Psalms are a jewel, consisting … Continue reading →

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Streets of London

Posted on July 4, 2012 by sarahcondie

A couple of months ago we went to hear Ralph McTell perform at the Balmain town hall. The audience were mostly our age and older as we all relived our youth and listened to him play his wonderful ballads. One … Continue reading →

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Elephant and Castle

Posted on July 2, 2012 by sarahcondie

Names are evocative. We have just spent a week staying in Elephant and Castle in London – it is inner city, grimy, traffic gridlocked but very quirky. Opposite Elephant and Castle station stands the Metropolitan Tabernacle – the place where … Continue reading →

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Caleb’s Crossing and other random thoughts

Posted on June 20, 2012 by sarahcondie

I resisted reading Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks for nearly eighteen months.  It has sat at the bottom of a pile of books beside my bed and never quite reached the top.  I took it away with me somewhat reluctantly … Continue reading →

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Letters mingle souls

Posted on June 19, 2012 by sarahcondie

As part of Keith’s PhD research, he uncovered some letters written between Richard  Baxter, an English 17th Century Puritan minister and writer extraordinaire and Katherine Gell, a wealthy woman who was a committed Christian, wife and mother.  She lost an … Continue reading →

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A time for cycling

Posted on June 18, 2012 by sarahcondie

It has been a number of years since I have been bike riding.  A few months ago, I thought about our five bikes sitting unused in our shed and decided its time…. We got them serviced, bought a bike rack … Continue reading →

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