Lily Cottage News
1st Decembwer 2025, preparing our garden for growing crops in the spring, we are going to try growing sweetcorn for the first time in our garden, so many things you can make to eat with sweetcorn. We can pray to Lord Jesus to help us, to protect our crops from the rain, sweetcorn does not do well with a lot of rain.
August 2025 Rare Breed sheep fleece has arrived, very kindly gifted to me from a local Shepherdess. I have been learning how to spin sheep fleece, on my very beautiful traditional spinning wheel, these past few years. I started with a drop spindle and still use this, It really is a matter of practising and practising. I am hoping to get some flowers growing in our garden, that you can use to dye sheep fleece with, I purchased a book from a book store all about how to do this, it was the last one and I was given a discount on it.
Have been given some of my children's Grandad and Grandmas things, they never got to meet their Grandma, we are not to get upset, all is well with them in heaven, thank you Father God. Thier Grandad said, I could have anything from his house, I just liked a beautiful painting of horses he had, I was also given a bible, that may have belonged to his Dad, it is a very old and a very large bible in a very old box, it has little pieces of ribbons placed
between some pages that he and his wife may have read.
Was going to make a dress from a very old pattern I purchased, had a change of heart and will be making a simple dress, from a sketch I am working on with help from Father God, so excited, God I love you, then I will use some paper used to line baking tins with, to make a pattern for the dress and apply this to some old curtain lining fabric to make a sample of the dress, before committing it to some fabric, that I hope to buy, I would have made this for one of my daughters, had they have been with us. I asked the nurse if she would pray for Autumn, her name I had not chosen at the time, the nurse said I always pray over all my little babies, that was very comforting to me. The midwife helping me and was hoping everything would correct itself with Autumn, came and sat on my bed and prayed to Lord Jesus, that I would bring a baby safely into the world. I was so greatful for the portable ultrasound scanner from the Registrar, who applogised that it was not very good, I was able to see my daughter in her last few hours with me because of this portable ultrasound scanner, I thought I had lost her forever, as I had no understanding about this in my bible,
I was able to have a beautiful funeral conducted for her, I was not able to have this for my twin daughters Summer and Winter. I was due my first ultrasound scan with them, when my friend phoned me out of the blue, on that very morning, asking if I was ok, I said I am not sure, she said she was on the way, the moment she stepped foot in my flat,
the unimaginable started to happen to me, I phoned my doctor and my ultrasound scan was canceled, we waited for him to phone back, my friend was getting worried, my doctor suggested for my friend to take me in her car, as it would be quicker than an ambulance and my friend got me to hospital in her car just in time. I had no worship music playing to God and Jesus and no one praying with me to Lord Jesus.
My children are all safe in heaven with Lord Jesus and I am very blessed
not to be sad anymore about it all.
Thank you Father God and Lord Jesus Amen.
2025 I purchased a very beautiful piece of sheet music, for piano and violin to play for Lord Jesus, I am very out of practice with my violin playing and my skills on the piano are non exsistant at the moment, hope he likes it.
Making a pastle pink flower broach, "Jemima," a gift you could
give for your mother-in- law to be,
on your wedding day, mother-in-laws are precious, especially with your children.
September 2024 We have a Yellow and Amber weather warning for heavy rain today and going into tomorrow, from the Met Office, for parts of England, our water levels in our dikes and river are all very low at the moment.
Our village has not flooded.
August 2024... A cake for a Summer wedding, this is made with a simple
plain sponge, with no butter cream, as weather too hot, so just using a apricot
jam filling, hoping to make this today and a Summer wedding boquet.
A new product on its way, "Heavenly," to put your bible in.
It took me five years to learn how to crochet, I decided to have one more try at it, was not good and that was it, however I tried once more and got it,
all be it a very basic granny square, currently working on blankets for family.
October 2023 Storm Babet, flooded our village very quickly and badly,
we had no time to prepare. The river had burst it's banks, our roads became
like rivers and no transport could leave or get to us. Parents were telling me the challenges they had picking their children up from Primary school the water came up so
quickly they said. We were in an extended drought for our area, that could only be lifted
if we had a significant amount of rain fall. I would think our Aquafas
(Under Ground Wells) that provide us with water a gentleman was telling me,
I think they would all be topped up now, which is a blessing from God.
Our village has flooded twice more since storm Babet,
not as badly though.
February 2022 Storm Eunice arrived in England, with a red weather warning
danger to life, from the Met Office, so we were able to prepare for this,
our village survived with very little damage, really did not think it would,
thank you God and Lord Jesus.
My son suffered a broken arm in a very awkward place, I was not keen for him to have surgery on this. Our surgeon said he would have a crooked arm for life without surgery, I was not keen for surgery, and our surgeon found away to put a weight in his plaster cast to help keep the break in his arm straight, our surgeon was amazed at how quickly his new bone was growing to cover the break on his arm, on the X Ray and all is well, all straight, Thank you Father God and Lord Jesus.
Suffering with a condition called frozen shoulder, I was offered steroid injections or an opperation, the physio said they could not do anything and said it can last upto 18 months,
I chose to hope it would get better on its own and 18 months later it did.
2019 My children's very first holiday abroad, and there was a storm stopping
the plane from landing, the pilot said that in all his years of flying
he had never had to divert so far away from the airport before, I had my bible with me,
the plane was eventually able to land. We were going to be toured around an Island we visited in the Bahamas, by a beautiful horse I found, the horse was in need of resting, so we were toured round by car. Our tour guide was playing worship songs to Jesus in his car, he was playing one of my favourite songs, he told my children all about the history of their country and was excited about his future wedding, he took us to a church, that I was hoping to show my children, the service had just ended, we were made so welcome though and were blessed with some gifts from their church, a storm was starting on the way back, our tour guide was worried they would flood, all was ok, and their Island survived a hurricane later on in that year, we were all praying for their country to Lord Jesus
Thank you God and Lord Jesus.
Piano arrived for my children courtesy of a couple in our village, the wife was desprate to have her old piano back and was offering this one to a new home, it has a beautiful sound, they are both blessed with playing this instrument, and enjoyed their lesson at school
with their music teacher and they were doing very well. Their Grandad on their dads side of the family played the piano perfectly so beautiful, l was so pleased to have been able
to hear him play one sunny afternoon. My dad also learned to play the piano in his retirement years, so it really is never too late to learn, he really was doing very well,
reading the sheet music. We will have pleanty of time to learn to play musical
instruments in heaven, to God and Lord Jesus also.
New vet arrived in our village, a lady said to me, that she saw a Deer
run into the vets car park, with her baby and the baby Deer was limping.
The vet was not there, they were still moving in, we should keep praying for them to Jesus if this happens and try not be sad. Lord Jesus will also move all kinds
of animals in the wild, on land and in the sea, Elephants, Penguins, Humpback Whales, badgers all kinds, to where it is safer for them to be and he will move them, to where they can hopefully have help from us, if they need it, and if it is safe for you to help them,
and try not get upset if you can not help them, give them back in prayer to Lord Jesus. You can pray to God and Lord Jesus about your pets, give Jesus their names and tell him everything about them. Lord Jesus may also work on your pet animals to alert you to something, perhaps a medical problem, needing prayer to him with a doctor or an environment problem, floods or earthquakes needing prayer to him and keep a prayer journal, to help you with your daliy walk with our Lord in your bible, writing down your prayers request to Lord Jesus to give to Father God on your behalf and scripture verses that Lord Jesus will bless your heart with, to help cheer you up
and do not be upset if Lord Jesus corrects you about things in your life,
as you read your bible with him, he loves you and would llike you to keep well.
Tonsilitis...Our village had one year of rather a lot of children and adults coming down with this virus. I almost lost my eldest Son at 7 years old with this, he suffered 8 days with persistant high tempratures and had a slight rash on his chest incredably red cheeks, on the phone to the doctors it was a virus, on the phone to NHS Direct, the nurse said it was medical emergency, off to A&E they said it was a virus and back home we came,
the NHS Direct nurse said he needed antibiotics. Back to the doctors it was a virus, on the morning of his 8th day of having this I thought he was going to die, I was praying and praying to Lord Jesus, my son just curled up in bed and did not want any help, then he sat up in bed to my relief and said, "I would like something to eat,"
Thank you Father God and Lord Jesus thank you.
I phoned the emergency doctor to try again to get antibiotics for him and for his brother whos symptoms were a lot milder, the emergency doctor took his temprature and it was slightly up and he had an ear infection and we were given antibiotics, my son's slept very well that night. The NHS Direct nurse helping me on the phone said antibiotics are
the only thing that can get a temprature down with that and they would
not have let that go on longer than 3 days, staff are overwhelmed with all our problems.
You can ask your doctor for a swab test with this tonsillitis, as it can be a bacterial infection or a virul infection, a mum in our village told me this, as her daughter suffers repatedly with tonsillitis, and you are to have a special type of antibiotic for 10 days. My son went on to get this a second time more seriously with a rash all over him, again off to the doctors it was a virus. I phoned the doctor the next day and he asked us to get to his surgery, it was a bacterial infection and he said you can get kidney failure with this and we were given antibiotics there and then at the surgery, as our pharmacy in our village would have been closed by the time we got back to it, I was trying to pray to Lord Jesus. My son went on to have some serious skin peeling mostly on the palms of his hands and fingertips, he went on to have this a third time and the nurse at our surgery said they usually wait for three days before giving the antibiotics, the nurse gave them to him on his second day of having it
and he had no awful symptoms.
Thank you Lord Jesus
August 2010 We had a tornado over our house, I was not aware it was, seriously thought
the roof was going to come off, it hovered over the house for at least 10 minuets or more with a howling whistling wind, The tornado damaged some buildings in the next town to us. My children slept through it all and I was praying to Lord Jesus.
April 2009 A new virus called swine flu arrived in our country,
my eldest son sufferd with this, I had a nurse from NHS Direct as it was called back then helping me on the phone and did not think he had it and was told to keep him proped up in bed with pillows, if he starts coughing, and keep him off school for three days to just be sure, he started flagging on his 5th day of having it, I phoned the doctor, whom felt he was just coming out of it and he was too late to have the tamieflu,
which is an antiviral medecine to help with the symptoms of a virus, my son had some worrying symptoms. I was not praying to Lord Jesus,
not sure how to, all very overwhelming.
Moving from our very old rented cottage. My children suffering with chesty
whooping type coughs, we were on a heavy traffic road, with a bus stop outside
our house and it was impossible to keep the fumes out of our home.
My children had their first MMR Vaccination done privately,
one at a time, so this would have helped, they continued to have episodes
of persistant coughs for a few years, the nurse said there was
a coughing virus that can last upto 8 weeks.
Tried to make the special Passover meal, that Lord Jesus shared with his precious disciples 2000 years ago, Jesus likes for us to remember him with this meal. I was terrified when preparing this, so many things God requires for you to do perfectly, as we can read in the old covenant of our bible, I really did not prepare this very well, my children really did not enjoy this, they thouroughly enjoyed the next one a few years later, we still have our pretend wine glasses from this meal and continue to use them, to share in this special meal to remember Jesus with, as we can reaad in our bible in the book of Luke, a disciple of Lord Jesus who wrote this for us to read, in chapter 22: 7 onwards, of our bibles.
February 2008 We had an eathquake, in a very old cottage we were renting.
My youngest son came to me one evening and said "Mum I have brought you your boots in case you can not find them in the morning," I thought to myself odd thing for him to say and do. Our house wobbled that night, I discovered on the news in the morning, that there had been a 5.2 magnitude earthquake, that had affected nearly all of England and some countrys abroad. Our house had a faulty supporting wall, the builder working on it, informed me of this, the house survived. My Son was trying to help me pray to Lord Jesus about this,
I did not realise this at the time.
Moved into a very old cottage.
Our prayers were answerd, I went for my first ultrasound scan and the sonographer focused on my baby all perfect, then she said, there is the other one, we both burst into tears, I have always hoped to have twins. One of my twins was poorly a few days after being born, the staff were amazing and had the equipment needed to help him, I was playing songs in hospital, they were not for Lord Jesus as beautiful as they were, I should have been playing worship songs to Lord Jesus and I did not have my bible with me in hospital. My other twin was looking peaky on my last day in hospital, we stayed for two weeks, I asked the peadiatrician to look at him, all ok, then after a week he was not doing well, he would some times go blue in his face when layed down flat on his back, on the phone to the hospital, back and forth to the doctors, they were not sure what it was, my health visitor thought it was a bug, he was not in a good way at times, two months later my health visitor said it was acid reflux and he would never be able to lie flat on his back again, back and forth to the doctors. I was trying to pray, could not read my bible and was not playing any beautiful worship songs in our home to Lord Jesus and God, I did not have any.
Lord Jesus was helping me, I did not realise this though back then.
Susan and Family
