This morning a surprise letter arrived in the post from my Romanian doctor friend, Laura Ciobanu, announcing that she'll soon be visiting Cardiff again. Her message was written inside this card.
'Martie' is Romanian for March. In this month, the little painted chalk butterfly is meant to be hung on the first blossoming tree in one's garden, then brought indoors to bring Spring blessings in with it. Such a delightful thought. The rosemary's been soldiering on all winter with some little blue flowers. We have a few buds, but it will be a few weeks before the apple blossom appears on our tiny tree. Let's hope most of it doesn't get swept away by the wind this year as happened last.
This afternoon we had a long and difficult meeting with representatives of other Business Crime Reduction Partnerships in South Wales. I was pretty tired when I got home, but cheered myself up reflecting on the season of Spring in scripture and writing it into my Lenten blog.
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