I arrived home this morning at about 3:00AM for reading week. I had expected to arrive at 10:00PM, but there had been a derailment between Preston and Lancaster, which led to a whole series of hold-ups. Just about everything seemed to go wrong and, instead of taking five hours, my journey took ten hours. God was good and I actually quite enjoyed the journey, despite all of the hassle. I was able to get some good reading, Bible study and even some Hebrew revision done on the train. Arriving back I found out that some kind person had bought me Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value and Eco’s Serendipities from my Amazon wishlist. That really made my day.

It has been encouraging to be back with my family again and to hear how God has blessed each one of us in so many different ways. I am a bit tired today, but it has been great to catch up with my brothers. We spent the last hour or so working on the allotment, which was good fun. This evening we are planning to have a bonfire, to which the members of our church have been invited.

I don’t expect that I will be posting much over the next week. I do not have the same ease of access to a computer and I want to focus on some reading. I plan, among other things, to read Hart’s The Beauty of the Infinite from cover to cover, which should be a challenge. I started it a while back, but got distracted by other things. I thought that reading week would give a good opportunity to do this.