E- Postcard from us!

Hi All, 

This is our little cyber postcard from our hols! Having a great time over here: 

• On route, we managed to check out Bristol : lovely city. Love the accent  'morning me Lubbers!' lol!

• Had a fab Shabbos with Esther and family: great to see them & to share some homemade cider!

• Went to the fantastic Eden Project on Monday (got me thinking about a short story of a moon colony or something like that!)

• Saw Ruth on Tuesday, had a long conversation over a pot of tea

• Yesterday we sat on the beech and as we'd brought a board and wet suits we did some surfing, which was very cool, although neither of us managed to stay on the board for very long! ] We even got chatted up by some 'surfer dudes'; they were well and truly lucky to meet a pair of lezzas (lol!), although after some tentative discussion we realised they were also MOT !

• Today we are on the beech again. We are thinking about going to St Michael's mount, Land's End and to get a boat to do some wildlife watching!

Hope you are all OK! See you in a week's time! 

Hugs and Kisses Hannah and Sarah xx (: ! 

Also a thought from  both of us, via a picture Sam shared last week : 

Reading and other activities for this month

Hi All,

Well tomorrow me and Sarah are going to see my sister Esther for a weekend (and then down to Cornwall for a week). So I shall be quite busy for a bit. Tomorrow is also the 4th July, so I wish our American readership & friends a happy Independence day (even if it was Independence from such a cool country as Great Britain!). So given that I'm busy and David & the rest don't post as often as me, this will also be the week's Shabbos reflection thread as well. Clearly there is much to pray and think over this week, as well as our 'usual' (but in no way insignificant activities and prayers). I am sure that you know what I mean here, if you read the news and this blog regularly : pray for the families and friends of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, for the Israeli response and for peace generally.

As we are now into the summer months, which include holidays & vacations, I do seem to read more.Whilst my leisure and fun activities include playing  the piano, running, swimming , stargazing , cooking  & having  a couple of glasses of vinto tinto with friends, it also includes a lot of reading.  So July's  reading, alongside Torah study, is:

'The Challenge of Creation: Judaism's Encounter with Science, Cosmology and Evolution' by Rabbi Natan Slifkin

'Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-first Century'  by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks 

'Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel' by Professor Michio Kaku

'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee

'A game of Battleships' by Toby Frost

I'm also writing a discussion paper for a club I run [ Hannah & friends Thursday club]  which is titled 'On Liberty verses the Guide for the perplexed : John Stuart Mill & Moses Maimonides go head to head over a pint : Discuss' .

What do you guys do for run and leisure? What are you reading or have you read any of the books above before & have anything to say about them and do you have anything you wish to share.

Red Dwarf ...

Hey Dudes and Dudesses ,

Classic British Sci- Fi comedy -

Which I was banned from watching when I was part of that wacky cult- because it was 'against Jesus' - which almost destroyed my life. 

-So now I'm free from all that crap & I'm now moved from my bro's house to my sister's pad , who's gone out for a smooch with her girlfriend, I'll watch it some more now!

Its cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
I'm all alone, more or less.
Let me fly, far away from here,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.

I want to lie, shipwrecked and comotoase,
Drinking fresh, mango juice,
Goldfish shoals, nibbling at my toes,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.

I'll pack my bags and head into hyperspace
Where I'll succeed at time-warp speed
Spend my days in ultraviolet rays
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.

We'll lock on course straight through the universe
You and me and the galaxy
Reach the stage where hyper-drive's engaged
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun,
Fun, fun, fun, In the sun, sun, sun.