The Bank Vole

Col got some great sightings and shots of the Arundel Bank vole the other day - see his blogpost:
http://colinknight.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/bank-voles-and-wren.html

When I have gone there to see them, its usually been nothing, or a quick flash of fur as one darts from one hidey-hole in the log pile to another. They really posed for him this time.

Woke up to find that the English Channel had been stolen!   However, panic over when the mist cleared and it re-appeared.   It was Field Service at the Kingdom Hall this Saturday, so I took us to the Hall, and Jean and I were given a Crescent of our own to do. We managed to do quite a bit of it - and had some good calls.   It was such a lovely morning.  Sunny, but with a slight mist coming and going.  At one point some tulips shone in the misty distance like jewels.  And the blossom!

Our last call was on a gentleman who assured us that the Bible was outdated, old-fashioned, and of no relevance.   "Have you studied it much?" asked Jean, gently.  It turned out he had only ever read bits of it.

Please don't make up your mind till you have studied it.  If it is as it claims the Inspired word of the Creator of this amazing planet, set in this awe-inspiring universe, then the proof lies within it.

We just have to hope that the doubting doorstep gentleman will change his mind before too long.

We had lunch at the Hall - then the April broadcast - then I drove my passengers home.  A nice day.

But a sad and frightening day news-wise - with the attacks on Syria, and the seeming return of the Cold War.  Our April  Awake!  magazine is so relevant.

I read one lady - a grandma looking after her grandchildren - these two verses which are quoted in the last article, and she took the magazine:

“[I have] thoughts of peace, and not of calamity, to give you a future and a hope.”​—Jeremiah 29:11.

AN END TO WARFARE: “Jehovah . . . is bringing an end to wars throughout the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the military wagons with fire.”​—Psalm 46:8, 9.

https://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/awake-no1-2018-mar-apr/way-of-happiness-hope/