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New 2021 Fitness Challenges
January 8, 2021Two new fitness challenges will make 2021 an interesting year for maintaining my fitness level. One of the challenges is for cycling, and the other for walking / running. For around 10 years now, I have been cycling regularly. It all started with a move to Nowra, NSW (Australia), where I would commute to and from work by bicycle – around 10km each way – on a 24 speed foldable bicycle. When I started I wasn’t very fit, and had to stop to rest, especially at the top of the major last hill on the way home. Over the next…
Hebrew Place Names
In a previous Hebrew related post, I wrote about a number of Hebrew names and their meanings and how they are related to other Biblical Hebrew (BH) words. In this post, we will look at place names, and their meanings.…
Keeping Away from The Virus
Since my last travel related post, there has been a wave or two of the COVID-19 Coronavirus in Australia. And it still isn’t under control in some parts of Australia. So when I booked three weeks of annual leave for…
Hebrew Personal Names
In a previous blog post about Biblical Hebrew (BH), I wrote about some of the BH words denoting family relationships and some related words and their meanings. In that post I also introduced a few personal names and gave the…
Hebrew Family Relationships
In Biblical Hebrew (BH), like any other language, there are a number of words used to describe relationships between people. In this post we will explore the significance of these in BH. The consonants in BH carry their own meaning,…
Why learn Biblical Hebrew
The catalysts for me to learn Biblical Hebrew was my experiences in reading old English Bibles, computer languages and a quotation from Martin Luther. Why would an English speaking Christian decide to learn Biblical Hebrew (BH)? When I told some…
What is Biblical Hebrew
What is Biblical Hebrew and how is ancient Hebrew thought and concepts different to ours? Hebrew as a written language has been around for more than 3000 years and the spoken language is a member of the North Western Semitic…
Biblical Hebrew opens a New World
For me, Biblical Hebrew opened a whole new world of meaning and depth to Bible study. A number of years ago, I started on a journey to learn Biblical Hebrew (BH). When I decided to learn BH, it was influenced…
3 States in 3 weeks
The railway related post for this blog post is available at my Jim’s Model Trains website. In March 2020, I had 4 weeks of long service leave and as I still had a month or so left on a 6…
A Broken Hill, Low Scrub & Bush, The Hunter Valley
13-10-2019: For the start of this holiday, I arrived at the railway station in the town we live in a bit before the time the XPT train to Sydney was due to arrive at 12:21pm. I waited. And waited. And…
An Island Holiday
Monday 7th October was the start of 3 weeks of annual leave for me. And the start of 1 week of annual leave for Rebecca. As I had 2 more weeks of holidays after this week, this week of holidays…
