les Davey de France

Again there's been discussion of the rich profusion of public holidays in May. This is a particularly propitious year because the 1st of May falls on a Friday. This means that if you take off either the Thursday or the Monday you can have a four-day weekend and faire le pont . Not only that but the following are also public holidays : Friday 8 May - Victory in Europe (another chance of a bridge) Thursday 14 May - Ascension Day (see a bridge here?) Monday 24th May - Pentecost (we'll cross that one when we come to it) If one does not make any bridges then that leaves 17 working days in May. If you were able to make all the bridges you could cut that to about 13 or so. Every year people moan about this, like they do about daylight saving time.

Well the lad is home and the home is loud and all is back to normal for a while. Gwilym and Catrin plus a couple of the students, some guitars and the place is, as they say, buzzing'. I went off to the Maison de la Bible, where I served some splendid folk looking for Bibles and New Testaments to give to different people. I bought from U a chicken tandoori sandwich and a cake that turned out to be something like Greggs would do with a slice of swiss roll. Let's not despair. I'll get the hang of lunch-buying again soon. Afterwards a meet-up and a walkie-talkie up to the Palais Gallien, see below. Today I'm back in the garden doing the old slash and burn (minus the burn), then I hope to meet up with one of the Chinese students who could do with a meet-up. Meanwhile Mrs Davey is at MB and the kids are at the cinema watching Marvel's the Avengers.

the fatted calf has made good its escape and is nowhere to be found

Read this . UFM, meanwhile, runs excellent short-term mission trips to accomplish real construction projects, well-digging, etc.

Patricia being in London to celebrate her sister's birthday, our Australian friends being in Aix, Sally being in England and sundry others flung to far corners of fields French and foreign, it was with a certain feeling of fewness that Catrin and I went to Dan yesterday evening. When the service started we were, indeed, few. But then who should arrive but - friends from Nigeria, Rwanda, China, Canada, England, France, Australia, New Caledonia... In the end we were a respectable number. And some had got off the plane, onto the bus and come straight to Dan without first going home. Quelle assiduité! Psalm 19 - General revelation, Scripture revelation - and last but not least, God's revelation to and of the heart...