more spring in the city

Thanks daffodils for coming out and painting this whole place in all shades yellow xx

Easter week

and this is how fast a whole week has gone by without me even noticing...

I'm camped out, once again, in the great SW of London this week. Lots of family time and fun with the Zekestar who is really into wrestling at the moment, Alarm!!!

On Sunday I took him to the most fun playground at Hyde Park - pirate ship, treasure chest, etc it's awesome. We climbed the look out and got to the treasure, while Zeke circled the chest I jumped onto it.

Zeke: Good boy Yaya.

Yaya: I'm not a boy Zeke, I'm a girl...

Zeke: Good man Yaya!

Love him to pieces!!!
Life has been great and I'm loving the warmer weather, the new flat, all the lovely people I get to work with, church and God has been opening up doors I never knew existed. Feel spoilt and immensely blessed.

it will be quiet for a bit

I moved over the weekend and as the new place does not have internet right now, blogging will be a bit more sporadic.
It's annoying how dependent we're all on the internet nowadays. People lived for millennia without any of that crap and our generation seems unable to do so. There's something wrong here!

Anyway before I head home now, Johanna and Reini welcomed their first baby this morning.

Welcome to this world Liah Madeleine, love you already xxx

beautiful London town

I think I've said this before, but this job comes with this amazing chance to get to know London on another level.

This week I've been running around Kensington. A lot. If I could I'd bring my camera and capture as much as possible. The mews, street lamps, doors, cobble stones, alleys, boot cleaner at every house, etc... These details are gorgeous and make me loathe modern architecture. Everything is built as cheap as possible, and has no charm at all. 

Bring back aesthetic!!

This is Spittalfield markets when they were closing down. Equally beautiful although the modern version haha

random things happening to your friends

One of my favourite Brazilians ever ended up on Jimmy Fallon last night :) Go and check it out here.
It is actually a hilarious story and something I think could only happen to Alex. The team went round the audience and picked out musicians before the show, they had to form two bands and in 20 min come up with a band name and song. You have to watch it to believe it.
As a youth pastor I reckon he just scored a couple of cool points with his youngsters haha.
Thanks Lidia and Jess for letting me know!!

birthdays and other treats

Lots of birthdays this week.
This lovely little lady had her first party this morning, which I missed of course as I was flyering my way through Kensington.

Happy birthday Evangeline. (Zeke was actually going to hug her, but my old old camera is too slow to capture moments like these haha)
Lee is turning 30 and will probably dance the night away :)  Love her to pieces and wish we could hang out more!!! Happy birthday lovely xx

Third person in the birthday ranks is the fun Dr Schmidt aka Sebastian. He's probably got other things on his hand as his wife should have their first baby any second now :) Happy birthday friend

lately

Not to much happening this side of the planet apart from lots of work.
HIWTHB will be released in early April in the States, so I've been trying to start a buzz about it across the ocean. Get excited America, the boys will come and get you :)
Zipcar is going nuts over the next two weeks, we're spread all over London and might make an appearance at Whole Foods over the weekend. As this is still my happy place - yippie yeah.
Life has been great, got to see my bestie and the other girls (Judith, Isa, Lydia and Dagmar - who came over for 2 days from Amsterdam!!) over the weekend. Heard lots of stories from Worship Central, it must have been amazing, and after church Sunday night we all went out. what followed was girl madness - wont get more fun than that!!
Now lots of things ahead for me. It will all start with packing my bags yet again and moving house, more work, Easter - we'll have our first Film & Arts Festival this year, and what I can't hardly wait for...

Colour 2010 

It'll be here in almost 6 weeks. Joy and excitement abound and God's girls will take over the Royal Albert Hall. Orphans to rescue, sisters to come alongside, nations to believe in! It will be phenomenal and if you're missing out, your loss!
Can't wait what God's got in store this year. For highlights from Sydney click here.