Preached at this church last Sunday

Had quite a good response and several people signed up for this prayer bolg.

Off to London next Saturday & trip to Australia

 My very artistic younger brother, Keith , with the Ferro cement bird, called George.
He got the kids at the Bruny school ( Tasmania ) to make him. George has 2 heads.

 My son and grandson on Morton Bay , Brisbane. Two more generations of Smith fishermen.

 I got to take two grand - nephews fishing for the first time and they caught about 20 fish in 30 minutes.

 My first catch of fish , these took about 2 hours to haul into the boat.

Keith had me helping to stack timber to work off my " free" accommodation.

Here I am on the wood splitter doing the firewood. Home made splitter worked well.

On Sunday 8 Jan I shall be preaching in an Anglican church in London. Have other meetings in London that week.

Off to Aus. ( but not in the boat )

Good news I have purchased another outboard for "ma wee boat".  She will now plane which is a bit scary . Note the nice big heavy chain to deter thieves.

Tonight I head off the Australia for a 4-week vacation to see family and friends from the land of my birth. Please pray my case gets on my plane OK at Heathrow.

Good news from the USA , a pro-life president elected and Republican  House and Congress in Washington. My work at the UN should be more effective in the next 4 years Lord willing.

You may see some " modest " photos of  fish caught in the next 4 weeks.

Last day at the UN for 2016

Today is the end of two weeks at the UN following the third committee of the General Assembly. Got to meet new delegates from friendly countries. Got to listen to a lot of very questionable stuff that is mean to be human rights. Felt sick when Mr Waleed Sadi of Jordan , the Chair of the committee on Economic Social and Cultural rights banged on about a right to abortion. He is very fortunate that his mother did not have the same view as him in 1939 , or he would not be here now.

As you can see from the above photo I got into room 1 at just after 9am , and got a bit of peace before the start of the proceedings.

United Nations

Tomorrow I fly off to New York for a 2-week stint at the UN.

Please pray for my sanity as I will have to spend many hours in the UN basement.

God bless and thank you for the prayer support.

The boat

 On Friday evening I went to the Boat club in Irvine to discover that thieves had made off with my outboard, that is the 15hp Yamaha.

 But I used the 4 hp auxiliary , set the crab traps Friday evening , and took out Phillip Anderson and his sons in the boat Saturday morning. We got 15 crabs and 8 mackerel.

A very tame magpie tried to commandeer my boat.

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