Good news, bad news
May baking. I am still on a biscuit kick so I made some orange crisps, which are sugary orange-flavoured biscuits and they taste lovely. Even though they’re sugary, they’re not overwhelmingly sweet and they’re really light so they’re good for people who don’t like desserts much or don’t like anything heavy. They’re pretty similar to the lemon biscuits I’ve made before. Pretty tasty, I liked them and Anthony did too.
More good news on the Stepdad-in-Law front. He was able to go home from hospital over the weekend which says a lot about how steady his condition now is. Hopefully he’ll stay stable and not nosedive again so dramatically. I know his dog will have been pleased to see him and I just hope Mum-in-Law isn’t overwhelmed by having him home. My Stepdad-in-Law is lovely but he does rather expect his wife not to have a life outside of him, he doesn’t like her going out without him for example and as she works from home, it’s rather suffocating for her sometimes. Thanks for all your prayers and good thoughts.
I’ve heard the sad news that the company I initially moved to the area to work for has closed down, all due to funding issues of course. If I hadn’t heard one of their number speak at my university Christian Union, I wouldn’t have heard about their internship programme and so wouldn’t have moved to Southampton in the first place. I wouldn’t have met Anthony or made the friends I have here or had my life enriched. So all the love to that company’s founders who after over twenty years of that ministry had to make all their staff redundant and are now thinking about starting again. I saw them last night at church and they were definitely down and shaken by the whole thing. They’re wonderful powerfully driven and inspired people and I hate that this has happened to them. I know they’ll rebuild, they’re too determined not to. I just hope they don’t suffer any more knocks, this one has been brutal.