I would like to say that September/October have not been the most fun times Lizzie and I have had in Caerleon. Sadly it's not been fun for a variety of reasons. To start off the people we're staying with have been ill and they have passed it on to us. To be fair to Ruth & Owen one of their friends who were staying with us shared it with them. It has been since shared and shared alike, so a few others in the church have been ill too - to the extent the youth club was cancelled due to a lack of leaders.
The youth club has since been 'modified' as part of an updated strategy. Modified is a funny word for cancelled and suspended but it's not all doom and gloom. Yes the Wednesday club is no more but we're starting a new church youth night on a Wednesday and we're refining the Friday night group with an official relaunch in January. This was brought to fruition by a culmination of events since July. There had been issues with a small minority of the kids who had been coming along with the final straw being a few of them running down the road damaging the church's neighbours' gardens and kicking their front doors. I'll fill you in as we move forward towards Christmas and the new year.
Sadly Ruth's (the lady and her husband we're staying with) dad had a heart attack at the start of October. Away from the Lodge Farm and life in Wales there have been 3 deaths in our extended families during 2012.
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