We're enjoying our time here in Wales very much! The 'Reunion' meeting last Saturday was good and it was great to have friends with us from as far away as Chester.
The picture of me, Len, by the little lake at Llyn Mair was taken on the way back to our log cabin after I had preached Sunday morning at Capel Fron, Penrhyndeutdraeth.
On Tuesday we visited the old copper mine at Sygun which we enjoyed very much, see picture of Phyl inside the mine, and when later in the afternoon we called in at the Glaslyn RSPB reserve we were thrilled to see the female Osprey on her nest. She had only returned from Senegal a day or two earlier. We watched her through the telescope and when later were watching the nest camera picture on the screen, we saw the male return with a fish for her. Apparently this is part of his courting procedure. She is not expected to lay eggs for a couple of weeks yet and all this time the male will 'spoil' her with food and when she is off the nest exercising he will rebuild it and line is with fresh grass and moss ready for the eggs. It was great to see. You can google Glaslyn Ospreys for more information. We've also enjoyed watching birds on the feeder outside our chalet: blue tits, great tits, coal tits, siskins, green finches, gold finches, chaffinches, great spotted woodpecker, robins, dunnucks, sparrows, and black birds.
God willing, we return to Ashford on Friday and are back in Utzenfeld a week later.
Since being away we have been saddened by the sudden homecall of Tim's mother, Eunice Brooks. We had actually called in to see her a week before she died. Tim & Deb and family will be leaving for UK the day after we get back, in time for the funeral and to see other relatives and friends during the school holidays. We shall miss having them over our Easter Conference weekend and would value prayer for all the Brooks family at this time and for ourselves in Utzenfeld.
