Hello All,

As many of you know I retired on the 1st May. Also many (if not all) of those who have had the privilege of retiring say you never know how you fitted in time to work. That seems like May for me & June is filling out fast, but I am trying to take time out to do some walks. I succeed on doing this the 1st week of retirement by taking a walk from my house to the White Swan Mansbridge. The weather was sunny & I walked along riverside park as many of you may have done. I have never seen so many Geese & their goslings sunning themselves on the grass & swimming in the river in a line behind their mums, watching as dogs on leads walked passed & hissing madly warning them to stay back but surprisingly ignoring my friend & myself. It was beautiful to see & watched them for ages.

We also noticed inside the children’s play park at the back of the social club someone had planted some wild seeds, all flowering again looking so beautiful with mixed colours blues, whites, yellows I had never noticed before. As we walked there was a section where all the tiny bits of cotton (as I call them) blowing off the trees making it looked like it was snowing. All of this reminded me of God’s creation & the services we have heard recently in our church. How much notice do we take when we walk around at God’s work & creation. How many times do we say when did that change, I don’t remember seeing that before & it may be 6 months or 2 years. Let’s look around in all our local areas & places we go on holiday & say thank you to God for all that we see.

Enjoy your Spring & Summer.         
Sue