ACTING

DAUGHTER

PARTY ANIMAL

Warwick went on his first foreign holiday to Tenerife. We have pictures of him on the beach at 2am, on the floor in a bar, dancing with two young women in a nightclub and fast asleep in the middle of the day. So there's all the evidence of a normal summer holiday in the Canary Islands.

He also went away on another outward bound holiday at Kielder Reservoir in Northumberland, but the weather was poor and he only really got out for one day.

Next year he's moving into a larger room at his shared house. Two of his friends are moving out into sheltered flats, so he can expect new faces at home at some point too.

We have adopted a young actress. She's Ellie who's part of a Riding Lights Roughshod Company. It's a one year course to develop the skills of aspiring Christian actors. She's away on tour most of the time, but comes back to live with us when the company return to York for rehearsals or shows. They spend most of the time working in schools, prisons and churches. To us it's like having a daughter and she seems to treat this as home when she's here.

FINAL YEAR

UP POMPEII

Matthew is coming to end of his final year at Bradford. He won a first prize for his results last year. Mum and dad were very proud of him.
If Matthew was proud he didn't show it! He also has a job with a small 3D Graphic Design company doing some marketing for them one day a week. It's good experience and will enhance his CV when he goes looking for the next step after his finals. At the moment Matt is talking about enrolling on another course, specialising in 3D graphics. It seems to be the part of the course that he's most enjoyed.

Barrie and Joan's summer holiday took them to Italy. They stayed in Sorrento in the bay of Naples for a couple of weeks in August. Highlights were Pompeii, Herculaneum, Capri, Vesuvius and the Amalfi Coast. Low point, Naples and the intense heat. Even the Italians were complaining about the temperature in the mini heat wave.

INCARCERATED

Barrie and Joan were locked up in a prototype cell for twelve weeks this year. They had committed no crime and there was no evidence to convict them. The cell is part of the church structure and refers to the basic building block of the body. The prototype group was set up

to explore new ways of involving people in the church. It was an interesting time but not a lot different to some of the things we'd done in the 70s and 80s in Harrogate. The big questions now are - did it work and where do we go from here?