Beware of anyone who calls on you, informing you that your roof, guttering etc., is in need of repair, that they can see to it straightaway for you. If they offer this service, they for one are very likely not to do the job correctly plus they will charge exorbitant prices, leave well alone as they are more likely to be Rogue Traders. There have been instances of this occurring recently in Glyn Ceiriog.

Hello everyone, as you will have seen the new Centre is up and running and open for business, but we are still relying on volunteers to help run it, clean it and fund raise to make ends meet! We would like to know if any of you would be interested in helping out at all.
We have bi-monthly work days when odd jobs are done by willing volunteers who are duly rewarded with a bacon buttie and a mug of tea! (vegatarians catered for too!). We are compiling a list of such people and if you would like to help out please leave your name and telephone contact number on the answer phone at the Centre 718200 and we'll get back to you.
If you would like to help in any other way, raffle prizes, donations, ideas or anything else please let us know, after all it is YOUR Centre.

The Cheshire home report has been written by one of our residents Miss Diane Gittins.
It’s autumn already, this year is flying past we will soon be making preparations for Christmas so can you all get your thinking caps on about the Residents Christmas Party and food for Christmas .
Our Summer Market was great and it was nice to meet in the flesh our very own Glyn News editor and wife, he looked a lot different than his emails.
On Tuesday, 18 September evening Robin Jones is entertaining us and if anyone else wants to “Do a Turn’’ you are very welcome and we will serve beer, wine and soft drinks and scampi or sausage and chips. So put your order in to avoid disappointment! All we charge is £2.
Two ladies are going on holiday to Llandudno for a long weekend; lets hope they have a good time and better weather.
We are loosing a long term and very valued member of staff on the 28 th as Kath is retiring after working at Dolywern for nearly 20 years. You do less time for murder ha ha. And on the 30 th Nao goes on a continental holiday before going back to Japan . We are looking forward to seeing an old friend who is coming back for a while and that is Yukari who is going to Yale to study English for some months to come.
Hope this month goes well for you all, bye for now. Diane Gittins.

August has been a considerable improvement, but I don’t think hosepipe bans need worry us yet! Have you noticed a number of unexpected omissions in the birds in the length of the Ceiriog valley. We seem to have no kestrels, rooks or collared doves, yet all occur commonly around Chirk. I wonder what subtle difference in the environment causes this, or is it just at this time and they were and will be again in this valley.
Watching a wood pigeon at work on an elder tree made it quite clear where all the berries had gone. It’s head was sweeping side to side harvesting them at an incredible rate. A good fat layer before winter seemed assured.
Although still summer if you look at the ash tree’s twigs you will see next years leaves developing in the coal black buds, yet it will be the last tree to burst into leaf next year.
I have still not seen a Humming Bird hawk Moth this year but a few Red Admirals have appeared. Let us hope next summer will be kinder to them.
A reader from only a mile and a half away rang to say that they had loads of house sparrows and a lack of tits. It always astonishes me how observations can change so much with only a small change of position. Nature doesn’t organise itself for our benefit and our observations only matter when many are added together. For this reason I will fill in my bird watch diary again next year along with tens of thousands of others
Tom Baker, Hyfrydle, Hen Ffordd, Dolywern. LL20 7AG Tel. 712835

A great evening for all ages! Join us at the Ceiriog Centenary Hall, Llanarmon DC , for an evening of light-hearted fun on Saturday, 27 October at 7.30 pm . Tickets are £7 for adults, £2 for children, or £15 as a family ticket. Enquiries and bookings to 01691 600629 or 600295, or pay at the door. Supper is included and you need no experience to dance to the music and caller of The Border Band. Proceeds for the Llanarmon/Tregeiriog First Responders Team. Note your diary now! See you there!

Fifteen pupils from Year 6 have moved on from Ysgol Cynddelw this term. They were Jessica Butler, Lucy Jones, Daniella Loosemore, Louise Orritt, Coral Perrin, Amy Savage, Rhys Davies, Josh Lloyd, Sam Martyn, Steffan Newell, Richard Newbrook and Connor Rogers, who have gone on to Ysgol Dinas Bran, Llangollen with Llio Davies, Guto Davies and Simon Simon going on to Ysgol Morgan Llwyd, Wrexham.

The first Whist drive to be held at the Canolfan Ceiriog Centre took place on Tuesday, 4 September and was a great success, resulting in £149 being raised for the Dyffryn Ceiriog group of Riding for the Disabled. The organisers, Mr Riv Carter and Mr Rhys Hughes would like to hank all the visiting 'Whisters' and all those who gave donations and raffle prizes. The organisers hope to hold further Whist Drives at the Centre on the fourth Friday of each month throughout the year, which will be in aid of various local charities.

Dymuna Gwen Bonc ddiolch o gallon i'r teulu a ffrindiau am bob cymwynas a Dymuniadau gorus a dderbyniodd wedi iddi dorri ei braich. Gwen Bonc wishes to thank everyone for all the kindness she has received after breaking her arm.

Once again I am deeply grateful to so many of you for all the 'get well' cards, phone calls,visits, gifts received while I was in hospital. And also the sympanthy you all have shown after the death of my father. He will be very sadly missed. Many thanks again for your thoughts and kindness. Phyllis Morris and family.

A growing number of people find that wearing a pedometer helps them increase their level of daily exercise. The step counting devise is both a recorder and a motivator for them. Knowing how many steps they take encourages them to walk more.
One woman whose goal was to take 10,000 steps a day, began parking farther away from her workplace and doing more active tasks around the office. Her awareness of the pedometer helped produce a lifestyle change.
Observable reminders have a place in our walk with Christ as well. When God instructed the Israelites to keep His commands in their hearts. "These words which I command you today shall be in your heart." (Deuteronomy 6:6) He also told them to make visible reminders of the Word. "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates" (Deuteronomy 6:8-9). The purpose was not physical decoration but spiritual deliverance: "Beware, lest you forget the Lord who bought you out of the land of Egypt , from the house of bondage" (v12)
Words of Scripture on a plaque, a memory card, or a calendar can turn our focus toward the Lord throughout the day. These visible reminders of Christ and His Word will encourage our steps of obedience to Him. Let us store the Bible in your heart, not on the shelf.
Yours in Christ Glyn
Rev R Glyn Jones, Bryn Glas, Glyn Ceiriog, Llangollen, Ll20 7EU Tel 01691718086 or 07760328752

Gone are the days when a real person greets you on the other end of a phone call. It seems as though whenever we try to reach out and touch someone we are greeted with a computerized voice.
I am glad this isn't true of our Father in Heaven. He is always there. No voice mail boxes, no press 2 for more grace and no "call waiting" interruptions. Thankfully, "Call to Me , and I will answer you" from Jeremiah 33:3 has not been replaced by "All lines are too busy. Your call is important to Me. Please stay on the line"
Yet I wonder what kind of access He has to us?
Communication with God is a two way street. He speaks to us through His Word when we come attentively before Him in prayer and through the clear voice of the indwelling Holy Spirit. He paid a great price to keep the lines open so that we can experience th joy of being still long enough to know that He is God (Psalm 46:10). As a popular hymn "In the Garden" says:
And He walks with me , and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
The joy of hearing His voice is a call you don't want to miss! Joe Stowell
Is God getting through to you ? You can read more from Joe Stowell at www.getmorestrength.org .
Be blessed. Yours in Christ Glyn
Rev R Glyn Jones, Ceiriog, Llangollen Pastorate, Bryn Glas, Glyn Ceiriog, Llangollen, LL 20 7EU
Tel 01691 718086 or mob ; 07760 328752
AN OLD MAN'S PRAYER — December
Have you heard the story about the 85 year old man who was arrested for praying ?
You probably have. That's the story of Daniel, an elderly Jewish resident in Babylon sentenced to death for faithfully talking to God (Daniel 6)
Although the prayer that sent Daniel to the lions den is his most famous talk with God (Daniel 6:11), it wasn't the only time we see him in prayer.
In Daniel 9:3 , we read an example of how he prayed, 'I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications'. Daniel had been reading in his scroll of Jeremiah that the captivity of his people would last 70 years and the people were 67 years in excile (Jer, 25:8-11) He was eager for it to end.
God had called His people to live righteously, but they weren't doing that . Daniel decided to live righteously despite their lack of faith. He began to pray that God would not delay the end of their captivity.
As he prayed, Daniel focused on worship and confession. His pattern of prayer gives us an important insight into talking to God. We are to recognize that God is "great and awesome"(verse 4) and that "we have sinned" (verse 15) In prayer ,we praise and confess.
Let's follow Daniel's lead. To him, prayer was as vital as life itself. Lets remember that no one stands as tall as a Christian on his knees. The Lord's Prayer is in Mathew 6 and visit www.disciveryseries.org/hj891
Be blessed Yours in Christ Glyn
Rev R Glyn Jones, Bryn Glas, Glyn Ceiriog, Llangollen, LL20 7EU Tel 01691 718086 or mob 07760 328752

The Côr Meibion Dyffryn Ceiriog, Annual Concert was held at the Oliver Jones Memorial Hall on Saturday, 25 August 2007 . The choir was conducted by Mrs Iona Jones and accompanied by Mrs Brenda Cassidy and Mrs Sarah Morris; the compere was Mr Idris Davies. The soloists were Trystan Lewis and Aled Wyn Davies. A vote of thanks was given by the choir chairman, Mr David Cassidy.
The choir is now preparing for another concert to be held at the Oliver Jones Memorial Hall on Saturday, 29 September, when they will be joined by the Great Sutton Male Voice Choir.

Win Pierpoints Coffee Evening to raise money for Alderhey Children's Hospital and Ronald McDonalds House, has brought in £445.62
Win would like to thank everyone who helped in any way, who attended and friends for their donations.
Thank you all very much.
Win Pierpoint

Extract from Edith Holden's 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady' with acknowledgment to Rowena Stott, Edith Holden's great niece and published by Michael Joseph Ltd, 52 Bedford Square , London WC1B 3EF 1977.
October
The eighth month of the old Roman year. By the Slavs this is called 'Yellow month' from the fading of the leaf; to the Anglo-Saxons, it was known as Winter fylleth, because at this moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin.
Days of Note:
October 18, St Luke
October 28, St Simon and St Jude
Mottoes:
'By the 1 st of March the crows begin to search,
By the 1 st of April they are sitting still,
By the 1 st of May they are flown away,
Creeping greedy back again
With October wind and rain.'
'In October dung your field
And your land it's wealth shall yield.'
October 1: Warm, bright day. There are not many wild flowers left in bloom now, I gathered some Scabious, and Red Dead nettle today, and saw some White Convalvulous on the top of a hedge. Blackberries are plentiful, and there is a rich harvest of berries of all kinds. I brought in some long necklaces of the bright scarlet berries of the Black Bryony, and some boughs laden with Chestnuts, to paint.
2: Rain and wind from the south-west.
3: The Swifts have all disappeared and for some days I have not seen any Martins flying about. Long before I left Perthshire, every morning I used to watch the House Martins from bedroom window, collecting in great flocks on the house roofs, preparatory to their departure.
There are still some Swallows to be seen, but the greater number have gone south.
The Robins are beginning to sing again.
5: Today I was watching a number of sparrows and Tom-Tits fluttering round and hanging on to, the heads of the Sunflowers that are all gone to seed in the garden. The birds have evidently discovered, that the interstices between the sunflower seeds are a favorite rsort of insects, more especially beetle and ear-wigs. The weather still continues close and showery.
10: Walking through the fields today to Elmdon Park, I saw numbers of the little blue blosoms of the Field Speedwell, these, and Mayweed, Pink Campion and a few belated Blackberry blossoms were the only wild flowers Isaw. The Campion continues to show stray blooms all through the winter, whenever there is a mild spell of weather The Wild Service trees in Elmdon Park ate a gorgeous colour new, the upper part of the foliage crimson and scarlet and the lower deep orange. A few of the other trees are beginning to turn colour, but green is the predominating tone of the foliage as yet. I brought home some of the fruit of the Wild Service tree and some Acorns, to paint looked for Crab Apples but could not find any, although there was a quantity of blossom in the Spring. Probably they have all beengathered. The hedges are gay with berries of all kinds, Hips and haws, Elderberries, Bryony, Bitter-sweet, Guelder Rose and Blackberries and the birds were busy feasting among them. Was caught into a thunder-storm on the was home.
Mr sister sent me some lovely crimson toad-stools with white spots, this morning from Keston Common. Though a good deal damaged by the journey, all the heads of the toadstools being severed from their stems, I managed to make a sketch of one or two.