About a week ago Ying, Asher and I got together with Kristian, Adrian and Anthony (from left to right).
Unfortunately Sue, Adrian’s wife, didn’t make it into any photos this time. We went to La Porchetta’s in Doncaster. Last time I had dinner with Kristian he was much younger - and really into reading at the time! This time he’s a teenager. He’s polite, easy to get along with and has a great sense of humour.
Great to have lunch with Peter’s (that’s Uncle Peter to Asher) family the other day! Here’s Sandy and Harry chilling out with Asher.
Hi all,
Well, I leave for Jinan this evening. I’m mostly packed and am trying to think of things I shouldn’t forget.
On the way home, God willing, I’ll be meeting up with my friend Peter and going to a few cities in China, as well as Singapore.
Don’t forget you can still contact me on Skype while I’m away. My login is jamesrlforsyth. If you’re a friend from Australia or around the world, you’re welcome to contact me for a chat. If you are from China and are reading this, remember that my default Skype language is actually Chinese. So if you’re from China, and I don’t know you and you contact me in English then it will be a very short conversation (or language lesson!)
Yes. I’m already homesick, and I haven’t even left yet.
Peter is a close friend of mine from Church (and also outside of Church). One of the things we like to do together is go to the gym.
Here are a few pics of Peter that I took this evening when he came over for a workout (shame he didn’t get any pics of me, who spent most of the time sitting around goofing off).
Peter thinks cardio training is far more important than weights. I personally reckon cardio is good for getting slim quickly, but body building increases the muscle ratio in your body and burns fat long-term.
This is a photo of Nick, Rhiannon and Ying (background) and me (foreground).
Nick was my best man when Ying and I were married, nine years ago. Three years later I was Nick’s best man. Nick and Rhiannon have been great friends of ours for many years.
Asher hadn’t been born yet when this photo was taken. Ying just reminded me that she was pregnant at the time and that I was lying on her tummy. 
Most of the photos on this site so far have been a bit blurry. Our camera’s getting a bit old - but I’m also using some fairly unfamiliar software to resize the images and make them web-friendly.
Dimitri and Asher called each other up before last night’s get-together to check what they were wearing. They really are a trendy pair.
Asher still has a bit of separation anxiety when it comes to us leaving him in Sunday School, so one of us needs to hang out with him while he’s there. It isn’t a problem in childcare, because he knows there’s no other option, whereas in Church we’re just in a nearby room.
It is very important to us that we give him a good start with making Christian friends. People we are friends with from an early age can become very close friends later in life because the common past is shared with very few people.
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