Castel Matters, Issue 22 - Winter 2019 / Spring 2020
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curve ball at you. When that<br />
happens there is only one of two<br />
choices. You give up, or you get<br />
up. In my case, it was the lights that<br />
went up.<br />
Sometimes it’s difficult to find that<br />
tiny seed of benefit, it’s impossible<br />
when life really seems to have it in<br />
for you, but it is still there. The good<br />
news is when the environment is<br />
right, it will show itself. The bad<br />
news is, only if you are looking for it.<br />
I had a new dream, an educational<br />
Plant Centre. Create a Floral Island.<br />
A lady stopped me in a supermarket<br />
car park and she started to tell me<br />
her mother was terminally ill and<br />
had not left her house for months. I<br />
didn’t recognise the lady and I was<br />
wondering why she was telling me<br />
about her mum. She continued to<br />
tell me that she had passed our<br />
Christmas lights on her way home<br />
and had managed to persuade her<br />
mother, with the family to come out<br />
and see the display. Her mother<br />
had died soon after. The lady had<br />
stopped me because she wanted to<br />
thank me for putting up the lights.<br />
She said they all had been left with<br />
wonderful memories after the visit.<br />
This was only a few weeks after the<br />
first lights went up. If I think this will<br />
be the last time, I think of that lady.<br />
What I have learnt, is that good can<br />
come from bad but you just have to<br />
hang on in there.<br />
Christmas for me represents new<br />
life and new opportunities no matter<br />
how bad this year has been. New<br />
opportunities are here in Guernsey,<br />
you don’t have to travel the world.<br />
If I was to recommend one book<br />
that helped as a perfect inexpensive<br />
present, it is the short book written<br />
by Russell Conwell, Acres of<br />
Diamonds. This Christmas, get out<br />
and look around this beautiful Island<br />
and yes, you too will realise, we<br />
really are living in acres of diamonds.<br />
The design and putting up of the<br />
displays over the last few years are<br />
thanks to our two sons Steve and<br />
Rick, along with Joe who works<br />
with us at Queux, ably assisted by<br />
Dan Billien.<br />
Merry Christmas and best wishes<br />
for a healthy and wealthy new year<br />
from all at Queux Manor.<br />
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