Hi Jeanie

LOL I’m not sure having 5 makes me a good dad though I do try to be. Plenty of really bad dad’s have lots of kids. We would have had one more but life had other plans, we’re a bit old now anyway so 5’s our lot. It’s a mad house around here at times and you should see the tribe of us heading out camping our outback touring with the 4x4 and the camper, it’s quite a circus. Just need to get them to pull a little more of their own weight. Oh well, the challenges of parenthood.

I don’t think I’d make a good Mormon, I have a habit of speaking my mind about things that make no sense to me. That doesn’t seem to fit too well into most church groups. They don’t like hecklers even polite ones especially during the sermons when I’m most likely to find fault. One of my friends invited me to an Alpha course he was running for his church but thought better of it when I read the program and asked him a few difficult questions about how it was framed. For example I pointed out that day one was an exploration of the question “Is there is a god” and day two was to discuss what he was like. I just suggested that that was kind of presumptuous and that once we’d worked out there was no god that maybe day two could be better spent swimming down the beach or getting out in the bush enjoying all that nature has to offer, something productive like that.

Did I mention that I’m trouble?

All the best

Russell