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you now have some additional background to the situation we
were in, let us go back to the Chapel to finish this tale.
Our local Methodist Chapel had dry rot in their floor. It had
to go and be replaced by new timber and the contractor
engaged to do the job needed somewhere to dump the rotten
old flooring and joist beams.
Keith Gyler the Senior Chapel ‘worthy’ asked me if I had any
ideas or indeed any space to dump the material!
Our situation was precarious as you now realise; we had no
money for fuel of any kind, this being by now January and the
coldest part of the Winter was about to unleash itself on us. I
think I actually wept to think that this amazing ‘gift’ should arrive
at the hour of our greatest need and Keith Gyler really had no
idea what he had done for us.
Within a matter of days the yard next our house was heaped
with tipper truck loads of broken floor boards and joists all as
dry as dry could be. There was sufficient scrap timber to keep
our wood burner central heating and cooking stove roaring for
virtually six months.
Looking back on the situation the timber was ‘heaven sent’
and helped to truly cement our existing religious faith. It was
actually only the first in a line of ‘miraculous gifts’ which we
were most grateful to receive during the years to come.
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Books Three and Four will see the light of day sometime in
2017.

Keith has also written the “Sammy the Shire Horse”
Books for Children. Available as audio mp3
downloads,
low cost Ebooks and or PDF downloads through our
own
website :

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