July 31st and Lainie is 15.

Up at dawn and off to Cornwall services at Victoria to Breakfast here.

Thanks to Sue taking her camera we were snapped enjoying a right sumptuous meal.




After that it was shopping in Bodmin and Back to Lanson for a bar-b-que at ours.

I started cooking and Stacey took over as the old guy had a funny turn. Thank you Stacey.


I will finish with Photos of Lainie and Levi (her boyfriend).

Lainie 15 today.

Levi.

Another one bites the dust!

I must be getting old! I have taken up doing jigsaw puzzles.
Mind you I only occasionally venture above 500 pieces and that is to the dizzying heights of 636!  Well they do keep me awake! Lol.
Here is the latest that I have just finished and a few that I have done earlier.

Ah so which one to do next? Better search the multitude waiting in the wardrobe!
Many thanks to Sharon and Syd, her father-in-law for the provision of the above.
Decisions, decisions, decisions!

Question, why do today's young people seem to think the older generation owe them a living?

I am just reminded of something that happened recently. This is just one of recent incidences to illustrate what I mean.

As usual I will start at the beginning.

A visit to see friends in Wiltshire was arranged recently. Of this on talking to one of our grandchildren he suggested we meet up at a local Wetherspoons for a meal. On his arrival (he was late) I suggested that as it was both of us I would not expect him to pay for us all so suggested that either he pay for the food or the drinks. As the drinks were inclusive with the meal deals we separated the 2 prices and it was agreed that I would pay it all and he would transfer the cost of the drinks £6 or £7 into my bank account.

We went to get the drinks and order the food and while waiting for the food to arrive he transferred the sum into my account (or said he did). Needless to say it failed to arrive, although I did not know this at the time as I never checked! Well he is our grandson!

Forward now to when we got home on the Monday. I looked at my bank account as there had been a problem with the card machine at the bakers we called in on on the way back home. I noticed the payment had not arrived so I contacted him and he stated that "I must have entered the details wrong as it has been pinged back to me". So I sent him the details again having checked that it was correct.

It is now 12 days since that happened and sad to say that it has failed to arrive.

I don't think I would mind so much if it had not been for the fact that he invited us to meet him for a meal and that I had always paid before when we had met. Then it was us that asked so I would expect to pay. Yes it is only 6 or 7 quid but that is not the point!!!

I do not think I need to say more than that but it does illustrate the point! I do not intend to press the point further with him but it is the sort of thing I would have expected from his father but not him!!!

Any answers or comments in the usual place below please.....

Facebook have BLOCKED The Last Reformation film "THE BEGINNING"!

As many of you no doubt are aware I have been involved for some years now with a group called The Last Reformation. We go out onto the streets healing and praying for people, evangelising and generally spreading the Word of God!

I was gobsmacked this morning on learning on facebook that the movie made by The Last Reformation entitled The Beginning has been blocked by facebook as "going against their community standards" I am posting it on here so that you can make up your own mind and if you find it interesting, helpful or even offensive please post in the comments to let me know?

I did try to post it to facebook myself just to be sure and this is what happened as I took a screenshot of it!

Torben Sondergaard and The Last Reformation do sterling work that needs as much publicity as they can get. If you use facebook please try to post it and object to the blocking! Thankyou.

When I tried to post it I was taken to an area that allowed me to voice my objection to the removal of what I was trying to post. This I did in no uncertain terms! 

We must try to stop this devious work that can only, I feel, come from Satan himself as we know how he hates any work by God's people that make a difference!

SO WATCH THIS SPACE!!!

Tyler is to be a father.

Tyler and his partner Bethany are to become parents in August and Sue, myself, Stella and Lainie are all feeling the lack of communication quite markedly at the moment!

As was stated in the earlier post about control Nicky and Mark have separated themselves and ultimately their children from all of us (including Lindy and family).

I sometime ago composed a letter to Bethany (sent via facebook messenger) as we have no idea what she has been told as to the reasons that there has been no contact with us since Mark, Nicky and the boys moved a couple of years ago? The reason being that we were never given a forwarding address!

The letter is as follows word for word.

"Dear Bethany,

We have never met but I am Tyler’s grandfather and I am desperate?

Myself and Mark’s mother (your child’s great grandmother) are gutted not to be able to be involved with your expected child. This is through no fault of our own. I do not know what you have been told about why we have nothing to do with Tyler’s family, this is very definitely not our choice, so perhaps I should give you a little bit of the history of events leading up to this time?

Mark had always been very close to his mother as he always had been as growing up it was just being the 4 of them with Ron, Freda and Tony. That was basically the whole family unit.

About 18 years ago Nicky lost her mother very suddenly. Around the time that Corben was born.

Shortly after this we noticed that we were hearing less and less from Mark and Nicky. There was a noticeable distancing between us all as a family, less and less contact was very much in evidence. We tried our best to keep in touch even to the point of arranging holidays in Cornwall in 2007 and 2009 to try to keep the family unit together.

The trend was very noticeable and mystifying as when on the odd occasion that we did see them and met at family events (funerals, weddings etc.) it was as if nothing was wrong and everything was hunky dory?

Hearsay is that Nicky was jealous of Mark’s relationship with his mother (as she had lost hers) and at one time it came to her giving Mark the option of “Nicky and the boys or his mother”. (this came from Mark via Stella I think).

We have never in any way done anything to upset or offend Mark or Nicky and as far as I know there has never been a cross word said between any of us?

We do find it very hurtful and upsetting that after the last house move from Edgell Road we have never been allowed to have the contact details, neither address or telephone numbers of where they have moved to and so have been unable to send presents or even cards to anyone, especially Tyler and Corben! Stella and Lindy both feel it is not their place to pass them on to us as they also do not want to upset Nicky!

Every 12^th January, Mother’s day, 24^th May, Tyler and Corbens birthdays and Christmas I have tears to deal with from Sue. She feels it very deeply and is feeling very sad to be excluded from the excitement of a great grandchild.

I know this is not your fault but please do not look too badly on us for trying to keep the peace in Tyler’s family. Really we do not know which way to turn for the best so up to now have just kept quiet!

Please give our love to Tyler & Corben and much love to yourself.

Glyn Xxxx"

As of this date this post the letter has not been seen as far as we are aware? At least there has been no response so watch this space!

What is wrong with me? Do I have something that is catching? Am I going to taint their children?

I am becoming increasingly aware that my daughter Elizabeth and her family are getting more and more distant from me. It is like I am tainted and this hurts me immensely! (See previous post about control)

When Alice had her graduation last year I was somewhat disappointed that I was not invited to it even though it appears they had a spare ticket! I did voice my disappointment!

WELL THEY HAVE DONE IT AGAIN! What is the first I get to know about it, a post on facebook with some pictures!!! Am I never to be allowed to be a part of their family?

All I can do is from a distance wish Alice all the best for the future and send her lots and lots of love!

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CONTROL, one persons control over another and how it impacts on us and others?

I know it is a strange subject but alas it is one that seems to keep rearing its' ugly head more and more of late.

Firstly I must say that I will be mentioning people that are still alive today by name and if they stumble across this blog one day by accident they will perhaps understand a little about how their actions, thoughtlessness and selfishness have impacted on us and hurt us and others around us. So for this I make no apology!

So how did it come to mind now? Mainly a visit we made to friends over the weekend where the wife has total control over her husband.

Let me go back oooo some 53 years to 1966 when I first got married. My first wife was it seems very jealous of any time I spent away from her, be it with family, friends or anyone that kept me away from her. Also it seems she wanted me to herself so even if I was with family and she was there there was always a noticeable atmosphere that she created by being lazy and offensive! My mother was the first one to notice this and pointed it out and after that I was always alerted to it!
  It never changed and she succeeded in losing me any friends I had but the one thing she could not come between was me and my family! It was not for the want of trying I can assure you!

Now I am going to list those that I will be looking at in this post, the list is quite long and I will list them in the measure that their actions have affected us!

1. Mark and Nicky.
2. Liz and Brendan.
3. Ben, Kayley and Kath (Ben's mother).
4. Mike and Jane.
5. Sharon and Peter.
6. Rob and Sarah-Jane.
7. Danny and Angela.

So the best place to start is the top!

Nicky Atkinson and her control over Mark. 

We can pinpoint the time it started, that it seems is the time that Nicky lost her mother with whom she was very close. We think that it was decided by her that as she had lost hers Mark also must lose his?
Mark up to that time had always had a very close relationship with his mother Sue. We noticed from this point on that after perhaps a year or so contact with them started getting less and less from them to us. Although it was still normal the other way.
Slowly the contact from them drifted off to nothing!
Strangest thing was that when there had to be contact through family things such as weddings and funerals it was as if you had only seen them the day before and everything was hunky dory!
Two joint family holidays were arranged in 2007 & 2009 to try to repair the damage or at least try to air what the problem was but to no avail!
Forward to Lindy's wedding in 2014 when all contact was NORMAL!!!! It is totally beyond all our comprehension or understanding?
Lets move on to the present day? It seems that Nicky has now come between Mark and his sisters, Both Stella and Lindy it seems have no contact with them now.
They are about to have a grandchild, this would be our great grandchild and not only have we not been informed but we do not even have an address for them as when they moved a couple of years ago no details were passed on to us!

Liz and Brendan Ricketts and the total control of their children.

This seems quite an odd one, well it seems that way to me! The way that their total control of Alice and Emily have robbed us of any relationship that we could have had with them. 

This has been going on for years, ever since the children were small we were never permitted to spend any time alone with them. It seems to have been a conscious decision by Liz and Brendan as it stretched to the whole of our family, or at least Liz's?

I do not know if it was only "The Cotterill" family that there was a problem with or if it was the same with "The Ricketts" as well? We have never been left alone with the children long enough to find out!

I think that it is possibly not the case as when we lived at Saltford they would pass where we lived several times a week to visit "the Ricketts" family and also the fiasco at the 50th birthday BBQ where Liz's family were invited to a totally separate party than Brendan's family and their friends!!!! YES THAT HURT! And I never even went to it but felt for my children and grandchildren that did!

Ben and how he seems to be controlled by his girlfriend and mother!

We have a great granddaughter called Thea-Paige. We are not allowed to see her though due to lies and deceit by her parents and her fathers mother. 

I am not going any deeper than that but as they are only an hour and a quarter away seems such a shame and Richard is extremely hurt by this as are we. 

Jane and how she controls Mike.

Mike met Jane just before he came on holiday to Scotland with us in 2011. Sue and I had become quite close to Mike since he lost his wife Sue to cancer in 2007. He had spent a lot of time with us both in Wales and after we moved to Cornwall. 

The first sign was his beard vanished for the first time in many a moon soon after his return. Then he was on the move to another flat in the same complex. Well then they got married in 2012 and we saw less and less of him. We soon noticed he was seeing less and less of his children especially after she got him moved to Cheddar!

Update to today. We only see him if he comes to Cornwall on holiday or if we make the effort to go to Cheddar! C'est la vie.

Sharon and Peter.

This is really only noticeable when you stay with them and seems to work only in the evening? 

Peter has a real problem with drink and drugs, Sharon now only with drink. During the day they seem to strike a happy medium but as soon as Pete gets home from work the whole atmosphere changes.

Rob and Sarah-Jane.

Who knows how this one works? SJ cut herself off from our family immediately after their wedding. I think I have seen her about 3 or 4 times since and Rob about 3 times as much. I have had the feeling that our family is so much below hers in status that we have never been worth bothering with!
They have 2 children that I think I have met 2 or 3 times at most?

Angela Greatwood and her control of Danny.

Well that is a whole other story that I will do on another post and another day!

Stella's itchy feet strike again! or is it painful knees?

When Stella moved here She seemed quite settled in the jobs she had had. Always very loyal to her employer and hard working in the things that she aspired to!

Since moving here however I think she appears to have been quite unsettled in the jobs she has had but still very loyal. Well needless to say--- 

Here we go again..........Lol!

Firstly I will list the jobs from moving here in May 2012 to present:-

June 2012 to Sept 2015 care assistant at Kernow House.

Sept 2015 to Oct 2015 Sales person at Carpet Right.

Oct 2015 to Aug 2016 back at Kernow House.

Aug 2016 to July 2017 Care assistant, challenging unit on nights at Bowden Derra Park.

July 2017 to Aug 2019 Supervisor at a Cooperative Store.

As of the 1st August there is to be a total career change! Stella is going to work in an office as a receptionist! It is back at Bowden Derra Park, Polyphant.

Let us go back a couple of years.

As those that know Stella will be aware of a certain joint weakness in her knees. After two years of constant pain and many tears she has come to a realisation that boredom is better than pain? Well we hope so as it is full time Mon-Fri days (I think possibly for the first time in her life) should be better for both her home life and most certainly for Lainie.

Sue and myself  wish her all the best in her new career and we are sure that it will be for the best in the long run. 💘😉😀
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Weekend in Holt Wilts 12 - 15 July 2019

Had a lovely weekend visiting the Greatwood's home.

First went to Saltford for a concert by Bath Community Gospel Choir to which Danny and Angela belong and participated in. Well true to say I went while Sue had a lovely afternoon watching the Tennis!

Next on to Sunday and a Bar-B-Que in the garden with musicians, friends and acquaintances of our hosts. Sue had a lovely afternoon watching Wimbledon! Lol. 

Our very good friend Danny who it is fair to say never stopped smiling all afternoon!

Launceston MVC 2014 - 2019

There are too many concerts and trips to record but here is a selection of pictures to cover the time.

Just three of the highlights.
You can find a lot more here which is my YouTube channel.

Atlantic Village Bideford November 2014

Wells Cathedral April 2016

Men of Cornwall Tour of Northampton October 2017

St. Chadd's Cathedral Birmingham (top)

Rugby Parish Church (middle)

Northampton Baptist Church (bottom)

Link to watch the Tour on YouTube.

My discipleship with Christ 2014 - 2019.

Much has happened over the 5 years between then and now!

I have changed church for 1 thing but let me start at the beginning.

As you will have seen in 2014 I had skin cancer on my face well over the next few months I developed cancer in my throat! This was miraculously healed by God via a man called Don at church one Sunday morning. In fact it was 2 days before I was due to go the hospital to have it dealt with. Well I went and nothing was found!!!! Healed, totally clear and never had any problem since PRAISE GOD!

This in turn made me start seeking to learn more about healing and was led to a man called Torben Sondegaard and The Last Reformation (TLR) who were having a weekend seminar in Leicester that they called a "Kickstart". Going out onto the street and healing on there.

I attended and everything just fell into place, everything made sense in that Jesus Christ not only died on the cross for our sin but also to be healed.

I think the biggest revelation to me though was the fact that when God sent his Spirit at Pentecost it was to ALL men who are His receive it at baptism! YES, I WAS GIVEN THE SAME POWER TO HEAL AT PENTECOST THAT WAS GIVEN TO THE DISCIPLES WHO WERE THERE!

Well to cut a long story short the church that I belonged to at that time did not seem to recognise this and I started to find a level of control by the leadership of that fellowship that disturbed me greatly, to such an extent that in the end I felt that I had to distance myself from them!

So for the next 3 years or so I drifted meeting where I could with friends for study and going out onto the streets with TLR both in Launceston and other west country towns. I never at any point though lost any of the unshakable faith I have in Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour!

Well needless to say eventually God found me a church in the local area (in fact it is the closest to me) called Bridge Church and so last September I tentatively attended for the first time with a friend who was also seeking a church. Well as soon as I walked through the door and climbed the stairs I felt right at home. I have now settled into fellowship there and the church has since moved into a much larger space in the warehouse next door and is growing and developing all the time! They are a church that trust God to supply everything, if they feel God is speaking to them they get on with it trusting God to provide the means, and so far He has! The Church even has a door now!

I am happily serving on the prayer team and Sue and I help with the after school club for 4 to 11 year olds on a Monday.

Watch this space!

5 plus years!!

Has it really been 5+ years since I last posted on here?
So much water has gone under the bridge since then but I will get around to telling you all in due time as being of the elderly mind I have to recall all in time? Does that make sense?

Life has moved on so much and so much has changed in that time.

I think the best way to go may be to list events and then cover those I remember! Lol

Visit to see Danny 10 to 12/05/2014

Got up quite excited on the 10th as off to Holt to get re-acquainted with Danny Greatwood after about 48 years and to meet his wife of 45 years for the first time.

Decided the day before that as we could not arrive until after 1800 that we would pay a long awaited visit to Tyntesfield House, a National Trust property near Bristol on the way.

Unfortunately the weather had other ideas and it was a really horrid morning with really heavy April showers, the fact that it was May seemed immaterial ha ha! So we decided to abandon plan a and do a plan b and divert to Frome and see if Mike and Jane were up for lunch at the Frome Flyer? They certainly were so they booked a table for 1300 and we arrived at the same time as them, after having a coffee break on the way, at 1250. A wonderful lunch was had with lovely company and then we just had a couple of hours to kill until we could get to Holt!

We went and had a cuppa in the garden centre at Studley then had a drive around stopping at Bradford-on-Avon for a comfort break before arriving at Holt at about 1810.

Had a lovely time and as it is now July 2019 and I have just found this I am guessing I should put it on and perhaps add a picture or 2 from the visit!