BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

We're back - well we never left DingDash, but the BerryBunch.family are back following our house move! It makes sense, really...

The BerryBunch.family Recording Studio Mk. 3.0 is up and running (although we need to tweak the audio a little) and we've started recording new material again. And we need to find some rugs!!!

Anyway, we've got a 60 second update video coming REALLY soon, and an Andy B 2 Minute Video all about Beards and Spiritual Growth...yes, really!!

Our house move went really well, and we're loving the space of the new place, especially the room we now have as our studio, and the amount of room we have in our studio - we're no longer squishing into such a tiny space, and don't need to practice our gymnastics just to move around!!

Win win

The BerryBunch

#berrybunchfamilyfive #beard #60secondupdate #motivation #weareback #backatit #videos #newmaterial #spiritualgrowth

Made the lounge

Found some wood and got a fire going

Watching a movie

Chillin time

Moving day went well today, despite some fears I struggled to shake off

Left the old house at 0945, and drive to the new house, arriving around 1715

We unpacked both vans by 2130, and had a simple dinner from some tins and packets, that was very welcome

All lur beds are made. It's 0100 in the morning and wet off to our bed now.

Tomorrow we return the vans and drive back to our new home...a 12 hour day, almost entirely driving.

Even managed to get the heating working - the controller unit is complex!! But downstairs is now warmer than our fridge, so that's good!

Thanks for your prayers

Andy B and the BerryBunch

A beautiful walk around our village, with the mist coming down - with Peter by my side.

Freezing cold!!! But very enjoyable

And possibly our last opportunity to do so.

Andy B

Dave the Dogs travel crate is sorted and we're just 6 days from the most demanding move we've ever had...kind of feeling prepared, and our current house certainly isn't feeling like home anymore

Missing filming and editing, and very much looking for to getting that back into our daily routine sometime next month!

A slightly restful weekend, having made much good progress with oacking so far....Jo's last Saturday at work - which I think we're most excited about right now

Andy B

PS look really carefully and you can see part of the cover for a book I've been working on for a while...that's nearly ready.......

Some days God's goodness knocks for six. It's always overwhelming and amazing

But some days even more so!!!

Happy Thursday people of the Ding (love Olli D's greeting so I'm nicking it!)

Andy B

My hand made gift for Steven, made with my fair hand, pipe cleaners and a lollipop sticks (with a panic stricken Jo in the background, in case I cut myself with the sharp metal ends at each end of the pipe cleaner)

A Zimmer Frame for his advancing years 🙂 (old persons walking frame)

His face says it all

Andy B

@Olamide this is the gift I mentioned

@StevenBerry 's Birthday Breakfast...the steak went down exceedingly well. Even with @TakeN who doesn't usually like steak!

It truly is the perfect accompaniment to a cooked breakfast

@bethany Babylon Bee have a worship song name generator 🙂

https://babylonbee.com/worship-song-generator#generator

@StevenBerry turns 18 in about 50 minutes (5th January)

He's an awesome man, friend, brother and son.

From a precious little bundle of just 7lbs 14ozs, he's now become a super fit cross country runner.

We're super proud of what he has already accomplished, and are so excited for the plans God has for him in the future.

He's handled disaster and ruin and serious illnes with elegance and confidence and peace and many other stupendously well rounded qualities.

He's a better man at 18 than I was, because he can cook brilliant tasting meals, clean the house, and he has a godly wisdom that surpasses most people I've met.

He's an utter privilege for us to have raised this far (and that is never over) and while 18 is just another number, and turning 18 is just another day, he is no ordinary 18 year old. He is really rather exceptional.

Happy 18th birthday son!!

Mum and Dad

PS personally I blame his parents for such an awesome upbringing - they must be something proper awesome! 😂😜😃😉☺️

Here's one I made earlier 🙂

Andy B

Sunday afternoon baking 🙂

Definitely got my making groove on today

Yummy biscuits (with golden syrup in them) and still hot, with a fresh mug of tea 😊

And a Victoria sandwich cake just gone in the oven

Andy B

#baking #berrybunchfamilyfive #familytime #bakinggroove #relaxing #chilling #kitchentime #downtome #English #British

The 4th episode of our Marriage Matters Podcast is out this afternoon, from 4pm: "Don't awake love before it's time".

It was recorded at the end of October, and we think it's a good one on a hot topic...but, like in life, sometimes our best laid plans go to the wall!

The challenge is to keep going and do what we can when we can.

God isn't looking for a happy marriage. But He is looking for how we do marriage; how we do life with our spouse. We can't control them, or be responsible for them, anymore than they are for us. But we are responsible, before God, for how we treat them and love them.

Happy Thursday peoples

Andy B

I do so love our joy bringing little Peter.

Creativity is through the roof.

When we told him we had no money for Christmas this year, so wouldn't be buying presents, he took it with a smilez and the challenge was set

Then he went about and created his own range of Christmas presents for us.

An R2D2 pencil pot (for Steven), a spaceship (mine), Ewok (Jo's) and BB-8 coasters (Nathan's)

He's been stock piling old hot chocolate tins...and put them to good use

Merry Christmas my lovely DingDash family

We started with bacon and scrambled egg, and opened the crackers - which Jo made from scratch since we couldn't get any.

She found the jokes online - apologies in advance. They say much of our collective humour I guess...so sorry in advance

Also, some riddles :-)

Have a fab day. Currently midday here in the UK

Andy, Jo, Steven, Nathan and Peter

(The ring photo is because me and the 3 boys saved up from May 2020 to our 25th Anniversary in November 2021 to replace Jo's engagement ring, to buy food, which we had to sell, back along - when we were both without work: I wanted a new photo for my phone home screen)

4 weeks of blood thinners = 4 weeks with a beard.

Found some beard oil, and I'm now oiling and combing it most days

The barbed wire that was growing out of my face has now softened a little too

Andy B

@Olamide ?

@DevotionalTreasures @bethany a British baragain??

Christmass tree unwrapped

And the tree only cost us £1.00

Lights we had, and I got clearance baubles for £3.50 🙂

Andy B

I feel all exposed

The giant frame and curtain we made, is now packed....

The one with me and Jo is the before photo!

When Saul allowed David to go fight Goliath, I imagine him taking many deep breaths, perhaps hyperventilating and wondering if he'd actually just handed his own head to the enemy.

Who can you give authority to, so they can be [further]empowered to do Gods will?!?

When David went to face Goliath, he stripped off the armour that the King gave him, so that he could fight his own way; so that he could fight the way God had trained him to fight.

Where is God stripping away your armour so you, too, can fight His way?!?

As we face up to another house move, I miss the home we owned, that we sold so we can live by faith - over 15 years ago.

It was a huge piece of armour! And yet, we have fought many battles, since, that that piece of armour would have prevented us from fighting.

So, where is God stripping away the armour you value - so you can fight God's way, in the way He has already trained you?

Andy B

PS Philippians 4 v 10 and 13 fit in well here too!

Christmas Special Editions, 2021

Much like the story of Mary and Joseph, our best laid plans don't always go the way me might have hoped.

Mary, I would imagine, would quite possibly have preferred a fully staffed hospital with midwife support, over a stable possibly stuffed full with smelly animals, and her nervous husband doing what was needed.

And, as a family, we would have preferred not to have lost most of November and December to illness, hospital stays and plenty of other life related stress events that managed to cram themselves into an insanely tiny amount of time!

But, it is what it is!

READ MORE - https://www.berrybunch.family/christmas-special-editions-2021/