Home very briefly!

We arrived back home just over a week ago and I've been catching up with sleep, washing and post!  On Wednesday I had to go to London for my first Methodist Women executive meeting.  We met for a meal at Wetherspoons and celebrated the engagement of the daughter of our president Anne with some prosecco!

After a long day of business on Thursday at Methodist Church House, Anne and I headed south west on the train and had an interesting experience.  A Hungarian lady with very little English realised she had got on the wrong train...she wanted to go to Hungerford but the train didn't stop until Taunton.  Anne and I tried to help her work out which train she could catch to get back from Taunton using the Internet and were able to give her a little encouragement using Babelfish to translate a message (technology can be amazing!).  The young ticket collector could not have been kinder or more helpful to the poor, distressed lady.  She arranged staff to help her at Taunton station, got the lady into first class on a train to Swindon and organised a taxi for her from Swindon to Hungerford.  On top of all that she gave Anne and I a bottle of prosecco each for helping out!

We were blown away by her kindness and customer service and I have written to GWR to commend her. When you hear so many dreadful stories about immigrants being treated badly it was so heartening to see a visitor to our land being treated with such dignity and love.  It made me think of those words of Jesus, 'Whatever you do for the least of these you do for me.'  I'm sure he must have been smiling yesterday evening! 😃

Celebrating with the Methodist women...any excuse!