40 Dei - Monday March 16, 2009

Walked to work. In the 50 minutes it took I counted only 20 people over the age of 30 and several hundred under the age of 30. No wonder services like education are struggling!

So, onto the second half. Danny had learnt all the lines for the first scene already, the prison scene and it’s a lovely piece of writing. At least, when you know what the writer feels about justice issues, it is exciting to see the other viewpoint given an equal if not stronger argument!

The bust up from Friday had to be dealt with after lunch and as usual in these situations a lot of painful things were said by all parties. But so they have been countless times over 20 years and we’re still together; perhaps because we lance our boils. A word of thanks here to Michael Taurakoto , our governance manager , who always gets dragged in to chair meetings. I remember your early days, Mike (2000?), when you professed to being totally terrified by these strong meetings that WSB seems to hold but you have become such a marvelous mediator! Sorry I behaved so badly in today’s.

We had an hour left and ripped into the title song 40 days. A barnstorming song , which we enact with a female Jesus and Satan climbing on benches three tiers high for the tempting!

A young white couple befriended a part timer who has joined the play. The woman claimed she was from everywhere and as a follower of God had no possessions. Our part timer was prevailed upon to take them home for the weekend. Said parttimer and husband took the white couple swimming. The woman much to parttimers husband's amazement took all her clothes off and dived in. Parttimer made husband avert his eyes.