A big thank you to all the people who have started to give me a fiver for the Leprosy Colony to buy blankets. I need a big bag of money to do all the things that need to be done in India. See my article on the church home page. We’ve raised to date around £170 I’ll keep you up to date as we go along. I’m hoping to raise £1250 by the end of next week, so that I can forward it to India before the winter really sets in. Its certainly beginning to feel like winter here in Scotland. especially since today is “Guy Fawkes”.

There is a kind of soundtrack that goes with the cold nights. Fireworks exploding in the distance and rockets whistling as they fall from the dark winter sky. I remember as a kid in Glasgow you’d start saving up the firewood for the bonfire a few weeks before, however today that kind of project is frowned upon. Too many fires have gone out of control and too many children and adults have been injured. Just think of the millions of pounds that will go up in blue smoke tonight, and what that money could have achieved. I do think we are all bonkers! Maybe its time we drew a line under the whole gunpowder plot affair. What do you think?

Anyway winter is well and truly here and I’m glad I’ve got a coat to wear so i hope i can raise the money to help the men and woman in the leprosy colony get a blanket to wear.