Winter Chill

While some are sweltering under the African sun, we are toasting ourselves by our 'real' fire because its decidedly chilly outside and in the morning we will need to scrape the ice off the car. Not a lot happening here in some ways. My 87-year-old cousin says the way to keep young is to find younger people to be friends with. Too true. But where are they? It seems that most of the families with children are too busy doing their own thing to attend community events, so it's more old fogeys wherever we go. And they are the ones organising everything too.
Having said that, two couples are going to start a Sunday School in the village church next week, which is great. But how they'll manage in a necessarily quiet, cold and loo-less side chapel, I can't imagine.
Our rector is retiring, so this week we have initiated a prayer meeting for God's will to be done and the Right Person to come. It's a promising development.