BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

Peeling is occurring in the kitchen

So I'm drinking a cup of tea while the rest of my lovely family sort that part, since I can't do that bit

We've got a slow cooked lemon and herb chicken in the slow cooker (I did that), a [heavily reduced] joint of beef being seasoned and put in the oven too (so glad we forgot to take any food out for yesterday evening, cos we loads, and loads, of ace bargains at our local corner shop from their reduced section, which we helped clear a bit ;-) )

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!

Christingle with the BerryBunch, 2021

https://youtu.be/PmOd8L6mrC8

This year, JoJo is joined by Dave the Dog who shows us how to make a Christingle, well -Dave the Dog style!

Dave the Dog collected up all the elements of a Christingle as instructed by Andy B and asks JoJo to put it together for him. As far as Dave is concerned his Christingle is the same as Andy’s, but JoJo has her doubts, see what you think!

Christingle is the good news of Jesus in a nutshell – well in an orange – or in Dave the Dog’s case – in a lemon – Don’t ask, just watch this year’s Christingle

The BerryBunch

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our studio is now packed. which is sad...

but!!!

the BerryBunch Studio, version 3.0 will be coming back real soon.............we're moving from a 7'6" square studio to a room that is 14' squared...........and we're very much looking forward to that space (which will also house 3 desks for the boys to do their home education)

well, we hope to have the studio back up and running properly sometime February or March 2022 anyway

and we aren't exactly the sort to go silent. not even covid did that!! i've got a podcast i've been asked to for someone, 2 books to edit, and Andy B 2 Minute Videos as I'm inspired

and talking to @Olamide and @MaryMamuzich and many others here on DingDash 🙂 but of course

and i'm doing more cooking again, and i have some mouths that will be wanting their dinner in an hour or so

Andy B

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!

Crafty Christmas 2021

https://youtu.be/WFzxX0zrsUM

For the Berry Bunch Crafty Christmas this year, JoJo and Andy B talk about the Christmas Story and encourage us to make the Nativity scene using toilet rolls. There’s method in their madness as Andy reveals that the toilet roll characters in the Nativity will be something of a launch of Toilet Roll Tales for Little Blessings Online in the New Year!

JoJo and Andy introduce the main characters in the Christmas story, including angels, Mary, Joseph, Shepherds, animals, wise men and of course the most important person -Jesus as a baby.

You may need to check the bible for yourself for a more, full, and accurate account of the birth of Christ, but you’ll get the gist of it with JoJo and Andy B!

Why not make your very own Toilet Roll Nativity scene with all the key characters and some animals thrown in. You could use real straw or yellow paper and finish by decorating with lights, after all – Jesus is the light of the world!

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/

Crafty Christmas 2021, Blooper, Audio Test

https://youtu.be/D4snt_stnqA

We hadn't been able to film for nearly 2 months, so thought we'd test the audio so our middle son could sort everything out after such a long break.

But being told to just talk normally for a while, usually doesn't work out as he hopes it will.

So we had some fun!

The BerryBunch

Did some baking today 😊 Another first, since October.

One for a colleague of Jo's who took on a bunch of Jo's work so she could have less t so, due to me being ill

Managed to hand it to her this evening, when I dropped off Jo at work.

Baked a second one at the same time for us. Gonna ice that one shortly for the morning tea and cake moment we can now have 🙂

This time next month we should, God willing, be getting ready to be unpacking the vans at our new home.....