{"id":2058,"date":"2011-08-10T14:07:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2011-08-10T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T15:15:51","slug":"acting-independently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Acting independently"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2062\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/andrewinterton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2062\" title=\"andrewinterton\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/andrewinterton1-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/andrewinterton1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/andrewinterton1.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew at Winterton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew is safely back in Coventry, and The Langleys have just rung to say they&#8217;re getting him a new bus pass and would like his National Insurance number. The rest of the weekend passed in a bit of a haze as far as I was concerned. Three of us made it to a really excellent meal at the Rushcutters (Andrew, Phil and myself). Dot was too ill with tonsillitis and is only now on the road to recovery, having been to see a nurse practitioner on Monday morning. The latter was shocked at the state of Dot&#8217;s throat and prescribed her some penicillin, which she has been taking and which seems to have worked efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>It was with some trepidation that I embarked on Sunday. Phil didn&#8217;t feel able to take Andrew to Surrey after their plumbing ordeal had left both him and Joy very tired; so he came with me to St Augustine&#8217;s, and this went surprisingly well, even though I was the sole member of the worship group as well as preaching and leading the intercessions. He sat himself away from me and chatted to other members. I didn&#8217;t feel I had prepared the sermon very well, but I got a good response from people, so I presume God had been acting independently of me, as it were. Spent the rest of the day looking after Dot and Andrew, though he and I did venture out for a walk up to the Rosary. Didn&#8217;t walk very far, but he seemed quite tired.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday after taking Dot to the nurse (which consumed over an hour), I took Andrew for a drive to Winterton. We fitted in a two-mile walk, but again he seemed tired, which is surprising for someone who apparently does long walks at home. Phil had recovered enough to drive us to Coventry, which was a bit of a relief, and the roads were good, probably because we didn&#8217;t leave till after 3pm and had a meal at Thrapston; so our return journey was in the evening, and traffic was light. On the way out we dropped off some sugar at Ethel&#8217;s. Sweet, or what? She looked surprisingly well.<\/p>\n<p>Worked on financial matters most of yesterday, but did manage a two-mile walk. I&#8217;m trying to fit in a walk every day: today I went to the bank and would have taken a more circuitous route home if it hadn&#8217;t started to rain. Dot is up and has done some washing, but I am keeping a close eye to make sure she doesn&#8217;t overdo it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew is safely back in Coventry, and The Langleys have just rung to say they&#8217;re getting him a new bus pass and would like his National Insurance number. The rest of the weekend passed in a bit of a haze as far as I was concerned. Three of us made it to a really excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=2058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acting independently<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[871,993,1613],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew","tag-ethel","tag-tonsillitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}