BerryBunch Family @Berrybunchfamily@dingdash.com

Hey up DingDash family. How y'all doing?

England is a tad gusty where we live.

We've been busy getting back into BerryBunch.family videos this week, with a 60 Second Update coming back today, and we've got a brand new series of Endurance with @StevenBerry and @TakeN this Sunday from 4pm, another Marriage Matters episode on Saturday, from 4pm - where Jo and I look at Date Night.

Dave the Dog is wanting to do more, but we're frying to figure out the best of working with him - he needs some more house training!

I'm currently working on another transcript, so you can watch the video, listen to the podcast version, or read the transcript of what is being said 😊 and all, as ever, for free.

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Frustrations that shouldn’t be, S4, E33

https://youtu.be/WYXPG8NYx3w

Andy’s always been careful with mobiles phones (cell phones) and his current phone has - like so many before it - got a screen protector to protect the phone’s screen from scratches, chips or cracks.

But, ever since he added his current protector, it’s been on a little wonky. Sure, it’s been put on straight, but it just isn’t centred.

Which has irked him quite a bit!

Sometimes things can come along which simply annoy, when they really shouldn’t.

Andy’s been wanting to replace the screen protector ever since he first fitted it, and now he needs to, but is annoyed having to.

So, why do some frustrate us, when they really shouldn’t?

Just a thought…

For a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-frustrations-that-shouldnt-be-s4-e33/

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Sunflowers And Reaching For The Sky, S4, E32

https://youtu.be/nqox-ruQwQI

Sunflowers always make me smile. They always do! There is something truly happy about a sunflower.

And much like sunflowers, we need to try and track the sun. In our case, the Son of God. Little but of wordplay, but you get the idea.

Because we can sometimes feel like God has gone cold either on us, or at us. Either way, we’re wrong – if you’re feeling like you’ve lost the warmth of God’s face on yours, make like a sunflower, and track His face to feel His warmth once more.

Just a thought…

For a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-sunflowers-and-reaching-for-the-sky-s4-e32/

Andy B

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Marriage Matters, S1, E5, In Sickness And In Health

https://youtu.be/Nw5uPzmTbwQ

Introduction

Andy B and Jo talk candidly about their own experiences of sickness in their marriage from Andy’s hospitalisation on their honeymoon, various ailments, and illnesses, through the years and, more recently, Covid affecting the whole family.

Looking again at marriage vows which call us to commit to each other through the good times and the bad, Andy and Jo focus on health-related issues in marriage.

As always, Andy B gives us direction in this area of marriage through the scriptures, beginning with a favourite at weddings: 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 – all about love - ties in nicely with Valentine’s Day! And Andy B reminds us of how there is no greater love than when someone lays down their life – like Jesus did for us – Romans 5:7

Andy and Jo

For a full transcript, listen to the podcast or watch the video, visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/marriage-matters-in-sickness-and-in-health-s1-e5/

How's everyone after the wind yesterday?

Very cold here, so had to light the fire at 9am when I went to fetch Jo her morning coffee ...14 degrees is a tad cooler than normal! Heating is fine, just VERY cold downstairs today and the heating doesn't do much for the wonderfully large space that is our lounge and dining room (so glad the double sided log burner works so very well!!).

Thankfully the studio is warm enough 'cos today is our whole family filming day for Endurance, with a new addition (that'll be out next Sunday), Marriage Matters (latest episode is already scheduled for 4pm today - In Sickness and In Health), 60 Second Catch-up, an Andy B video or two, new audio for some adverts, and more filming for other new adverts. Plus planning for next week's episodes, some prayer, and working on the monthly BerryBunch newsletter.

Oh yes...after our cooked breakfast in a wrap to get us going!!

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Snakes and Ladders, and God’s Goodness

https://youtu.be/QC27yzm5axs

If you have ever played Snakes and Ladders it is a super simple game. Shake your dice, move the number of spaces you’re told to move and the basic goal is to never land on a snake!

Ladders help you jump up the game, to get nearer to the end (first one to the end wins!). But, land on a snake, and it takes you back the way you’ve just come.

But, I wonder if we sometimes thank that God is sitting there just wishing and hoping for us to land on a snake.

But, that simply isn’t God’s nature.

Actually, neither is helping us get to all the ladders. Because, if we rush through life, never having to face problems two things will happen. One is that we’ll get bored real quick. The second is that when we miss a ladder, we’ll have no clue what to do, because we’ve been avoiding life’s difficulties.

For a full transcript, or to listen to the podcast visit our website – https://www.berrybunch.family/andy-b-2-minute-video-snakes-and-ladders-and-gods-goodness-s4-e31/

Andy B

Hey up DingDashers. It's Friday morning here - how's your week gone?

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Prayin' and Textin' - it ain't all good... S4, E30

https://youtu.be/YkT5UzbBt2U

Andy B is a champion multi-tasker. When you look after children, or the home, it’s just something you become quite good at!

You also get very good at it, when operating a lorry mounted crane with 7 controls – and you’re using 5 of them at the same time – and while offloading an abnormally large item, with pedestrians who seem to be rushing to their own end, and ignoring any number of safety warnings, barriers and people you’ve put in place to keep them away from what you’re doing! That one might just have been more specifically a regular situation Andy B encountered as a truck driver – it may not something you’re likely to encounter when you’re popping to the shops!

For the rest of this post, to read the transcript or listen to the podcast, visit our website - www.berrybunch.family

Andy B

Andy B 2 Minute Video, Change Is Good! No, Really!! S4, E29

https://youtu.be/n6i-k7BG2RQ

The word ‘change’ can often conjure up our worst nightmares.

It means letting go of things. And learning new things.

It means we won’t be able to use that remote control from memory – we’ll have to stop and look for the buttons we want, that are no longer there, because now they’re in a different position, have a different shape and have a different word – so we walk over to the TV and turn if off by hand.

You know, that kind of change!

But change doesn’t have to be bad. In fact, change is great. Just like the weather and the seasons. We don’t want 12 months of summer, or 12 months of winter. Otherwise, crops wouldn’t go, we’d get fed up, and things in the world would not be so good.

So change is a necessary part of our life, and change is something we should celebrate. Unless it’s the TV remote, then it’s a whole other thing to work out!!

Just a thought…

Andy B