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Lily Cottage News

3rd June 2026, Buying some fabric today to make summer

dresses for my daughters in heaven, on my new sewing machine. 

They are not for sale though, they are gifted to friends.

  

14th May 2026, Two beautiful rainbows over our town late afternoon,

I managed to take a photo of them, heavenly, thank you Father God for all your

beautiful promises in our bible, to keep forever with Lord Jesus Amen.

April 2006 Bought a heather plant for our garden, hope to make some dye from this plant for

my sheep fleece, kindly given to me from a lady's flock of rare breed sheep, should come out

a very light pink, will show you this when I have spun it up on my drop spindle.

February 2026 England is flooding again, very badly in places, many wildlife animals would not have coped with this and many may need help with loss of their habitat that God provided them with. Our village did not flood, we had one day and one night where a few roads were not accessible by car into our village, leaving only one road to get through, Thank You Lord Jesus.

1st December 2025, preparing our garden for growing crops in the spring, we are going to try growing sweetcorn for the first time, so many things you can make to eat  with sweetcorn.

We can pray to Lord Jesus to help protect our crops from the rain,

sweetcorn does not  do well with a lot of rain.​

Have been given some of my children's Grandad and Grandma's things from my ex partner,

that they lovingly bought together over the years. My children's Granddad said,

I could have anything from his house, I just liked a beautiful painting of horses he had

and some special things for my children, precious. 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 box,

it has little pieces of ribbons placed between some pages,

that he and his wife may have read together, I had no idea he had a bible,

will try and read this bible, especially the pages that

they have put ribbons in, so lovely.

2025 I purchased a very beautiful piece of sheet music, for piano and violin to play

for Lord Jesus,so happy to have found it. I am very out of practice with my violin playing

and my skills on the piano are non existent at the moment, hope he likes it. I learnt to

play the violin at primary school, my mum very kindly bought it for me, my music teacher brought

it to class to show us all and asked if anyone would like to buy it, as her daughter did

not want to play it. I told my mum all about it and was so excited to be able to buy it, 

I continued to play the violin at high school, my heart really was for the piano by then,

my violin teacher insisted I had talent in playing the violin, and he stormed off to our

headmasters office, to insist I was made to practice more. I was asked to play a piece for my

friend who played the violin with me and was leaving school to go abroad, I was asked to

play it three times, it had to be perfect, it was my favourite piece of music, it was slow my

friends heart was for playing the guitar. After my divorce, I found a student music

teacher in the village where I worked, who liked to play slow tunes on the violin,

I was invited to play a stringed quartet with her and fellow students at their very old tiny house,

that had belonged to a famous composer from the 1700's, we had sandwiches

for lunch in their little garden, such a beautiful sunny day.

I never thought to play songs for Lord Jesus on my violin.      

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 bouquet.

 

​ A new idea on its way, "Heavenly" to put your bible in.

It took me five years to learn how to crochet, I only practised a few times over

those years, I decided to have one more try at it,

was not good and that was it, however I tried once more and got it,

 a very basic granny square, currently working on blankets for family​.

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​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 Aquafar

(Under Ground Well) 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. ​

My youngest 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 a way to put a weight in his plaster cast to help keep the break in his arm straight, our surgeon was surprised to see on the X Ray at how quickly his new bone was growing,

to cover the break on his arm and all is well. Thank you Father God.

Piano arrived for my children, it was given to us by a lady who wanted to have her old piano back, was able to see this piano, when visiting her and her husband for tea and cake, it really was sweet, a small piano and sounded beautiful and thank you to the kind company in our village who helped deliver her piano to us. My children are both blessed with playing this instrument, and enjoyed their lesson at primary school with their music teacher and they were doing very well. My children's 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 started to learn 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 and we have forever with Lord Jesus to

play our instruments, in heaven, how wonderful, thank you Father God

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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 to the old police station, we should keep

praying for them to Jesus if this happens and try not be sad. Lord Jesus will move

all kinds of animals in the wild, on land, in the air and in the sea, such as Elephants, Whales and Penguins,

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.​ We can ask Lord Jesus for anything in prayer to him in his name,

he said, as we can read in our bibles. ​I have asked Lord Jesus in prayer for them to be in a beautiful place in heaven, we have so much to look forward to, thank you Father God. Lord Jesus will also work on your pets, to warn you of a medical problem, needing help with a doctor, or something in the environment, such as an earthquake, or flood or something in your home and so on, many ways Lord Jesus will try

and alert you to help you, through animals and your children and to help cheer you up also,

to let you know he is with you, from heaven.

Tonsillitis, we had lots of adults and children, coming down with this in our village very badly, one of my eldest son suffered very badly with this twice, the doctors thought it was a virus, the NHS direct nurse on the phone, said it was a medical emergency, off to A&E, they said it was a virus and back home we came, he had a slight rash on his chest and high temperatures mostly at night, back to the doctors, it was a virus, on his 8th day of having this, I thought he was going to die. I was praying and praying to God that morning, my son sat up in bed and said "I want something to eat," he was very weak, I was so relieved, thank you Lord Jesus.

I called the emergency doctor, his temperature was slightly up and he had an infection in his ear, I asked if we could have some antibiotics, I asked for some for my youngest son who's symptoms were a lot milder, they both slept well that night. The NHS direct nurse helping me on the phone said, they would not have let that go on longer than 3 days and antibiotics are the only thing that can get a temperature down with that.

You can ask your doctor to do a swab test for this tonsillitis, it can be a bacterial infection or a viral infection,

 a mum in our village told me this, as her daughter suffers repeatedly with tonsillitis. If it is a bacterial infection you are to have a 10 day course of a special antibiotic for it.

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February 2008  We had an earthquake, 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 countries abroad. Our house had a faulty supporting wall, the builder working on it, informed me of, the house survived.

My Son was trying to help me pray to Lord Jesus about this,

I did not realise this at the time.

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 2005 ​Tried to make the special Passover meal, that Lord Jesus shared with his precious

disciples 2000 years ago, live on television from the upper room in Jerusalem.

Jesus likes for us to remember him with this meal, we raced to the shops in our car to

buy everything, it poured down with rain and a beautiful rainbow appeared.

We still have our pretend wine glasses from this meal and continue to use them,

to share in this special passover meal, as we can read in our bible

in the book of Luke, a disciple for Lord Jesus.

Moved into a very old cottage​.​​

Wedding plans called off with my partner, I sought my bible for help with this, and read

a page that I could not understand. I have had this bible with me since I was 11 years old,

gifted to me by one of my older sisters, I have made a beautiful fabric

cover for it. I eventually found a church to help me

with understanding my bible.​

 

My marriage ended in divorce, I continued to be frightened of God,

my doctor tried to help with this, he said all you need is your bible, I had it with me.

I gave him a sketch of a foal I had drawn from an art book, my mum had given me, when I was 12 years old,

I called it Moonbeam, it was not drawn from my heart though. My first and last sketch of an animal was

of a dog, it was from my heart. I simply just drew it, it was perfect, God was helping me,

I did not realise this at the time though. I gave the sketch to my mum and it upset her.

My oldest sister informed me a few years before my mum went to her new home in heaven,

that mum would not stop going on about a dog she had lost in a awful way when about 4 years old.

It probably saved her life, God was trying to help me cheer her up with my sketch, to let her know it was fine in heaven. I got back into horse riding after my divorce, my favourite mare was sold by the riding stable.

I was very upset, I would take her out into the beautiful countryside every weekend on my

own and tell her everything. I would keep her on a long rein as she suffered a problem with

her neck, the stable owner and his wife,  would let me help with all the horses.

He said he liked me taking the horses out as I did not bring them back sweating.

 I eventually learned how to do intermediate cross country on her

and show jumping, dressage was not really for her. 

We collided at a jump in the indoor menage on one occasion, my riding

instructor said, one minute you were fine and I turned around to see you tumbling over her head,

she went down so gently on her knees for you. Her new owner took a lovely photo of her for me,

and prepared her beautifully for me, to ride off into the countryside for the last time,

her last words spoken to me were so encouraging and kind,

she was suffering with an incurable illness and wanted to

learn as much about horses as she could.​

 

Suffered with exhaustion, when 18 years old. I started to not be able to walk

and talk properly and my vision was going, I did not have my bible with me. I told the nurse in charge everything and asked him to go and see my mum and bring me my cat, he was so kind. He did not bring

me my cat, I was beside myself, I thought God was angry with me, I was so frightened of him. 

 I tried to find my sister who was working on another ward at the hospital, and she was not there.

A nurse came from another ward came out of the blue with leaflets for us to go to a concert for Jesus,

I was so pleased to have this, I sat on my bed and tried to pray to Jesus, I just called

out his name, that was all I could do, I almost died. Eventually my legs and arms

started to relax, such a calm feeling came over me, such a peaceful moment and

brightness around me, I did not realise God was helping me at that moment.

My stepmother came to visit me, and said my dad sat up in bed

and called out my name. The nurse in charge came back and was very upset,

about my cat, he had to go on holiday, I said I was fine and did not want him to

be upset about it. My friend came to see me with a lovely surprise when I came out

of hospital and let me ride her beautiful horse. I had to ask her to put me

on a leading rein, as my legs and arms were weak.

Susan and Family​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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