Lots of clearing up in the garden yesterday: a gloriously sunny and warm Autumnal day. Bushes cut back, some moved, front flower beds weeded. Lots of leaves already down now so spent much time sweeping up; a tiring yet satisfying task. I have yet to store 'Tilly Mint', the settle, garden tables and chairs as we already have had night frosts.
Harvest Festival at the 10am Family Eucharist this morning, along with the traditional, well-loved harvest hymns. Good turn-out of everyone. During the Offertory hymn folk queued up in the central isle to take foodstuffs, mainly tinned, for donation to asylum-seekers locally. £700 was also raised by the southside churches last week for the same cause. We learned that many folk from Europe now live nearby and had been attending Eastwood C of S Parish Church and had many children baptised there. They are mainly Orthodox Christians from Poland who now seek their own priest. Said goodbye to Bernadette and Bob who have been re-located by the Allied Irish Bank, to Brighton, Sussex. Said hello to Debbie ( new member ) and her boyfriend ( he is C of S. He didn't receive HC but was encouraged that he could do in future ). Then met a couple who are Tamil Malaysians from Edinburgh, staying with Rachael and Raj in the Mearns. Joel is Anglican and his wife Karen is RC. Karen received HC and I was pleased for her but did not comment to her. We discussed the complicated history of their Tamil people who all came originally from Sri Lanka but were employed in the rubber plantations by British employers and how the end of the colonial system has changed the people's self-esteem. Latterly I put up my new Fire Drill notices which Laurence had laminated for me, and posted the October church calendar. I am going to have a busy month or so with Vestry meetings and the forthcoming church AGM in November.
Sunday, 7 October 2007
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