This week in addition to four guests we are pleased to have a good friend from Wales with us helping practically with the completion, we trust, of an en suite bathroom in staff accommodation on the second floor. We value greatly this form of voluntary practical help as there are a variety of jobs needing to be done. We would like to get some trees felled this year so any experienced voluntary help for this would be valued!!
The installation of our new boiler is going to scheduled. We were relieved that they managed to get us hot water by Friday evening and now Monday should see the central heating radiators warm again. Thankfully the weather has been mild and we have our wood fired tiled oven downstairs which has maintained some warmth in the house.
It was good to have the café open over Easter and the warm sunshine enabled us to have tables outside which attracted several passers by. Two-tone yellow pansies in our car-park flower boxes are giving a nice splash of spring colour while in the forest it's good to see new growth driving away the drabness of winter and wood anemones, violets, celandines and ladies smock adding their colour to the fresh green of the opening leaves. However a little higher up the valley there is still snow up to your knees as I discovered with Tom and Esther when we went searching for frogspawn earlier in the week.
We are sorry that the Bible ministry planned to begin this Thursday has had to be cancelled due to Peter Ninnis suffering a minor stroke. He and his wife Marion have still been able to come to us as planned but it was considered wise to allow Peter a complete holiday rather than the seven nights of Bible ministry he had hoped to give us. Our times are in God's hands!
Len & Phyl & Tim & Deb
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