Building

Knocking down walls. This is what HoF has been up to.

Making a way between the laundry room and the back of the garage

And building walls. Across the garage, so that the laundry room is bigger.

Have now had three prayer meetings. For those of you for whom these are commonplace or even boring, you've probably no idea how refreshing and novel it seems here. We hope that we are both knocking down and building up.

The Light that came into the World

I went out to photograph the marvellous light but only managed this fleeting glimpse on the hills before the clouds came. It symbolises something more for me, as last week we had our first prayer meeting in the village. We've prayed at other times, but never before got a nucleus of 'one accord' together just to pray for light to come into our patch of the world. Feeling hopeful, which is good because the weather is gloomy and cold today and HoF is snuffling, and shuffling between bed and rest of house.
I have a new role. I am the future editor of the village rag. Bit scarey.

Blaise Hamlet

On Monday we had a Saga Day out with brothers and wives. One cheeky niece remarked that she hoped we all turned up! Really! Courtesy of the net I organised a good place, though I say it myself. I even used another blog, called Heatheronhertravels, which came up when I put Blaise Hamlet in the search engine. We used her ideas although the weather wasn't quite up to scratch for walking. We met at the cafe in Blaise Castle car park, walked to the Hamlet and then had lunch at Kings Weston House where the tearoom was a little disappointing but it did have a real fire and the meal prices were good.
Blaise hamlet is owned by the NT and was built for pensioners of a grand estate many moons ago. Just look at those wonderful chimneys. He must have been quite some lord of the manor to build houses like these for his aged workers. It's the sort of place I'd like to take American visitors to. The nine or so cottages are not open to the public, but you can walk round the green.

Did you see what I saw?

Spotted on our way back from Bristol and should be still visible this week, cloud permitting. Occultation: a new word to us, which means that the moon passed in front of Venus. Wish we'd got a photo because I haven't seen as good a one on the web as what we actually saw.