Travel

An African Morning

by Eddie 26.01.2010

It’s been two years since I was last in West Africa. They call this time of year cold season in Ouagadougou. That is to say that the temperature is in the high thirties (centigrade) during the day and drops to around twenty at night. This means that it is just about cool enough for me [...]

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Visiting the Coal Face

by Eddie 23.01.2010

I spend most of my working life sitting at a desk doing stuff in England that makes it possible for people in other parts of the world to translate the Bible into minority languages.  However, at the moment, I’m in Burkina Faso with my colleague Phil, exploring ways in which translation work here can be [...]

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I finally Arrived

by Eddie 20.11.2009

My travel saga yesterday went on and on. After an hour and a half, we all trooped back to the gate and through the security check, only to be told that there would be another two hour wait, that turned into a four hour wait! We finally took off ten hours after the advertised time. [...]

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Blogging a Conference

by Eddie 01.04.2009

I mentioned yesterday that I was I had been listening to my friend Roger give a devotional talk; and today I’m providing photographic proof (if anyone needs it). It’s not that I’m being rude and blogging during his talk (I wrote this beforehand and just have to add the photo) but I’ll be giving a [...]

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Life in the Fast Lane Will Surely Make You Lose Your Mind…

by Eddie 11.12.2008

Today, my colleague Kent and I went to Dudley (about ninety miles away) to shoot a few minutes of video for a Wycliffe promotion with Saltmine.  Everything went well and we were soon ready to head home. Unfortunately, there was an accident somewhere on the M40 and we got caught up in a 14 mile [...]

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Cold!

by Eddie 02.12.2008

At the weekend, Sue and I attended the Wycliffe Scottish prayer conference. It seems that a good time was had by all, but as I was the main speaker, it is a little hard to give an objective view of how things went. The conference was held in the town of Dunblane, a place I’ve [...]

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More on the Conference

by Eddie 07.11.2008

People who follow David Ringer’s excellent The Translation Beat blog may be wondering why he has not posted for a number of months. This picture of him during one of our outdoor meetings this week may give a clue to his level of activity. Another blogger who has been at our meetings is Heather Pubolls, [...]

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Communications Conference

by Eddie 06.11.2008

This is a rather relaxed conference, which is rather nice. Yesterday afternoon we sat outside in the shade rather than in a conference room. The view from where we were sitting was stunning. Today we had to sit indoors because we were having a video conference with colleagues in the US. We used Skype for [...]

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Wednesday Morning

by Eddie 05.11.2008

I’m in the Philippines for meetings about how to communicate the work of Bible translation to the church worldwide. Though, looking out of the meeting room window to the wonderful mountain scenery, I could almost be on holiday. The meetings start this morning, and I’m desperately trying to stay awake after only an hour or [...]

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When Am I?

by Eddie 03.11.2008

There where is easy: I’m in a guesthouse in Manila. But when? My computer says it’s just about midday, the clock on the wall says it’s eight pm and my internal clock is just plain confused. I must admit, I don’t do jet lag well. Yesterday morning, far too early for a Sunday, Sue dropped [...]

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From Tulear

by Sue 21.10.2008

It’s been a long time since I had to do so many things by candlelight. I can remember struggling to do my homework during power cuts due to strikes back in the 1970s, trying to read by the light of a paraffin lamp when we lived in Ivory Coast in the 1980’s and 1990s. Right [...]

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I’m So Glad This Never Happened to Me!

by Eddie 27.09.2008

From the Daily Telegraph: Those travelling on a Chinese Shandong airlines flight were asked to get out and push when their plane broke down after landing. The CRJ7 plane with 69 passengers and seven aircrew flying from Guilin in the south of China to Zhengzhou broke down before it could taxi to the arrivals terminal. [...]

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