Pentecost Sunday saw our church having a celebration in Queen Elizabeth Gardens and baptising people in the river! The idea for this came form our rector, apparently, some time ago. He managed to rope in the suffragan Bishop of Ramsbury; so they did baptisms, renewal of baptismal vows, confirmations and combinations of these. They chose…
Category: Things to do
Changes!
New managers at the Coffee Shop/Community Centre and at the Charity shop – both within a month! Mind you, the Coffee Shop had been working with only one part-time manager for a month and the Charity shop has had an acting manager and assistant manager for about a year, so the changes were not unexpected….
This and that
So what have I been doing? This and that! Usual weekly activities – charity shop, choir, community café, church, gym (but not much/enough of the last). Also “helping” with a “Community Alpha Course” (Youth Alpha adapted for adults) and now “Christianity Explored”. Extras like coffee with friends and progress on the jumper I am knitting….
Family lunch
As my nephew and his family were over from Spain for a fairly short time, it was decided to have a family lunch so everyone could meet up and see them. A venue was decided on which was not too far to go for anyone – a problem when Cambridge and Bristol (with a bad…
Too much cake!
So – it was my birthday again…..on Saturday. The Tuesday before, in the charity shop, I was given, among other things, an individual cake with a candle on top. On the Thursday, I was given (along with cards, flowers, a plant) a sponge cake – with one candle on top. I took it home as…
Celebrate Christmas
This started with the bhf shop Christmas meal, held on the 16th December, at the Avon Brewery pub this year. We had a…… ……set out with our place names (and on the back what we had ordered). Some people had 3 courses, but I only had 2 – duck then a panna cotta with raspberry…
Put up the Christmas Tree
So on Wednesday 2nd December a friend and I go out and buy our Christmas trees – hers is a big one with no pot and mine is a small one in a pot that I hope will last at least 2 years and possibly 3 or 4. Together we put hers up and then…
Go to a funeral and a Christening in one week
Funerals and Christenings are not regular activities so to have both in one week was “different”. Lesley was a “gym changing room buddy” from about 12 years ago, but I lost track of her when I moved away and failed to meet up with her again when I moved back. It was a shock to…
Look at the blood super-moon!
I think that was how I heard it described. Basically it was an eclipse of the moon, when the Earth comes between the Moon and the Sun. Light is refracted round the Earth and the Moon appears red. The “super” bit is because it occurred at a time when the Moon was closest to the…
Go on (part of) another university reunion.
This year the reunion was at a hotel in Birdlip – the highest point of the Cotswolds, I believe. I only went for part of it as it was quite close – only about 1½ to 2 hours drive away – depending on how many tractors and horse boxes one gets behind. Most people went…