Canterbury - 14th January, 2006

Somethings have changed. In comparison to our life in London . . . . . .

• We have NO night time meetings at all.
• We have not entertained anyone in our home (except Christmas) since October.
• We are not in a house group (yet).
• The phone rings only 4 times per week on average (outside our working day).
• We have only been in one traffic jam in 20 weeks.
• We do not work at the weekends (yet).
• The boys do no organised extra-curricular activities at all (outside school hours) - it is not recommended by the school. (They do enough).
• We have only had three sets of visitors to our house in 20 weeks.
• We do not have a land line telephone.
• The TV is only 14" (diagonal) and is on only 6 hours per week (for videos only).
• We have spent hours and hours and days and days together as a family.
• Our accommodation costs us £600 per month (half London cost) - including utilities and taxes.
• We listen to at least 10 hours of story tapes per week.

This is not a comment but just a reporting exercise ("The facts mam, just the facts"). This will not last for much longer and neither would we want it too but it is interesting (for me at least) comparing it to our "4 nights a week out, busy, entertaining full time lifestyle" as we knew it.