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Easter 2007

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After brunch

Originally uploaded by Mister Tim.

What does Easter mean?

It’s the celebration of Jesus’ death, for the sins of all, and his resurrection, proving his power over death and setting the scene for the eventual resurrection of all who have believe him.

I’ve put up a set of photos on Flickr demonstrating what Easter meant for us this year. I don’t have photographic evidence of Jesus’ death and resurrection (sorry) but it gives a summary of what we were up to.

What Easter Means to us – a photographic essay

We had a pretty good time at Easter over all. We had a great time in Sydney with my family, good fellowship at church on ther morning of Good Friday, and a relaxing day on Monday. Unfortunately, our good friend Ed died on Friday – we received the phone call letting us know while we were on our way to Sydney – so that put a dampener on the whole weekend. I don’t know if it was that or being away from home in a less comfortable bed, but neither of us were able to get a lot of sleep.

Stupid Camera House in Canberra City

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Apart from taking photos with our digital camera, I have really got back into film recently – I’ve discovered the joy that is professional quality film and I bought a second hand Canon EOS 30 last year, which is a rather excellent film camera and a decided improvement on my Dad’s old Pentax SP1000 which I had previously used. Using great film like Fuji Velvia or different varieties of black and white film gives better colour and tonality than in digital format, and I can scan them in on my computer to get a digital version afterwards. I have many photos displayed on my account on Flickr taken with film – you can particularly notice the black and white ones and the ones taken with Velvia, which have such wonderful colour.

I took a roll of black and white film into Camera House in Canberra City (Civic), which is right near my work, the other week to have negatives developed. I normally go to another excellent photo shop a bit further down the mall, but it was raining and I didn’t feel like running through the rain.

I should have braved the rain.

The shop called me back an hour later to say they had accidentally put the B&W film through the colour development process, which had the effect of wiping my film – the negatives are almost completely clear. You can imagine how massively upset and angry I was about this. The people at the shop apologised, gave me a new film and offered to process it for free – which is something, but still left me feeling sour.

I got my next B&W roll developed to negatives at my usual place today (it looks great) and I was re-reminded of how disappointed I was about the loss of my previous negatives. I not only lost photos from our holiday to South Australia (taken on the way back between Nerrandra and Canberra) but also more photos than I thought of friends in Sydney. So, Mandy, Byron, Jess, André, Charmaine – I’ve lost my photos of you. Mind sitting for me again next time?

Two signs that the drought is really hitting here

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  1. The playing fields across the road from our house appear to contain no green whatsoever – it is all brown.
  2. There are kangaroo droppings on our front lawn, meaning that there is obviously not enough grass for the kangaroos to eat elsewhere in the area. While we’ve seen them in the area before, we’ve never before seen roos on our lawn. Note: our lawn hasn’t been watered for two months.

Blogging or “The Future of This and Other Sites Based Around the Written Word of Tim”

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I might be posting a bit less often to this site (if that is at all possible) in the future as I have started up a new blog: about Christianity in a Democracy, which can be found at http://christianity-democracy.blogspot.com. In that blog I’ll be posting thoughts, ideas and trying to provoke conversation around the role of Christianity in Australian politics – which are individually two things I’m very interested in, and I’m even more interested in exploring how they work together. If that at all interests you, I hope that you will check it out and participate in discussion there. I’ll still update this site with bits and pieces of news about Tegan and I.

On the other hand, having started another blog might lead to this site receiving more frequent updates for one of two reasons:

  1. Because I’ll be writing more anyway, I might be prompted to write more here in addition to what I write over there
  2. It might prompt Tegan to fill the gap and post here more frequently

I’m not sure if either of those possibilities will actually come true, but let’s see how we go.

Open letter to idiot driver

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To the idiot in the car on Limestone Ave yesterday morning who bumped into Tegan and knocked her off her bike:

  1. Bicycles have the same rights on the road as do cars under Australian road rules
  2. If you ignore a cyclist signalling to change lanes and you also change lanes behind them, that’s your fault – don’t get angry at them
  3. If you hit someone and don’t stop – that’s actually a criminal offence, commonly known as ‘hit and run’ – it potentially carries a significant financial penalty and gaol time
  4. Everyone else around at the time thought you were in the wrong and an idiot

And to any of our friends or family who are reading, it’s not as serious as it sounds – someone clipped the rear wheel of Tegan’s bike while she was riding to work yesterday morning, knocking her up on to the median strip and off the bike. She’s basically ok though – neck and shoulder muscles are a bit strained and copped a bit of a scrape on the arm, but otherwise ok. She was pretty shaken up at the time though – her hands didn’t stop shaking for some hours afterwards.