What an incredibly busy day today - back to back appointments starting really early with the Annual Men's Breakfast at the Village Hall. The speaker was Roger Hutchings a Methodist minister who, for many years, was a producer for the BBC religious affairs department and he had many anecdotes about his time in the media. I had to dash off whilst he was taking questions to get into Salisbury to attend the Service for the Ordination of Priests in the cathedral. I parked the car for 3 hours at Crane Street and arrived at the cathedral at 10,25 a.m. sitting down with our two retired clergy members, Gordon and Roger. The service was very long as today sees the retirement of the present Bishop of Salisbury and this was, in effect, his "swan-song". I saw Jane being ordained and took communion from her before having to leave before the end of the service to avoid a parking ticket. I returned to the car with two minutes to spare! I certainly didn't want to get a £25 fine. After calling in at Waitrose for fuel and money I returned home in time to get dressed into cooler and more practical clothing and driving up to Morning Star for the Hog Roast. "Dorothy" had been cooked to perfection with lovely crackling and on the instructions of Bev set about carving it up with Dave serving the 90 or so guests. It was extremely hot weather and were not in the shade so I got incredibly "warm" by the pig roasting equipment. Sara's puddings were a delight and I rushed one day before driving back home to get dressed up again in smart clothing to drive over Dean Hill to Whiteparish for Jane's first Eucharist. A lovely light evening and Winterslow was represented by about eight of us which she really did appreciate. After chatting with a few people I raced back home over the hill to catch the second half of the Paraguay (0) v. Spain (1) match. With Germany surprisingly thrashing Argentina 4-0 this afternoon (doesn't make England look quite so bad) there are now three European sides in the semi-finals - Holland, Germany and Spain. The fourth place going to Uruguay.
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Mens breakfast - Jane's ordination - Morning Star's hog roast
What an incredibly busy day today - back to back appointments starting really early with the Annual Men's Breakfast at the Village Hall. The speaker was Roger Hutchings a Methodist minister who, for many years, was a producer for the BBC religious affairs department and he had many anecdotes about his time in the media. I had to dash off whilst he was taking questions to get into Salisbury to attend the Service for the Ordination of Priests in the cathedral. I parked the car for 3 hours at Crane Street and arrived at the cathedral at 10,25 a.m. sitting down with our two retired clergy members, Gordon and Roger. The service was very long as today sees the retirement of the present Bishop of Salisbury and this was, in effect, his "swan-song". I saw Jane being ordained and took communion from her before having to leave before the end of the service to avoid a parking ticket. I returned to the car with two minutes to spare! I certainly didn't want to get a £25 fine. After calling in at Waitrose for fuel and money I returned home in time to get dressed into cooler and more practical clothing and driving up to Morning Star for the Hog Roast. "Dorothy" had been cooked to perfection with lovely crackling and on the instructions of Bev set about carving it up with Dave serving the 90 or so guests. It was extremely hot weather and were not in the shade so I got incredibly "warm" by the pig roasting equipment. Sara's puddings were a delight and I rushed one day before driving back home to get dressed up again in smart clothing to drive over Dean Hill to Whiteparish for Jane's first Eucharist. A lovely light evening and Winterslow was represented by about eight of us which she really did appreciate. After chatting with a few people I raced back home over the hill to catch the second half of the Paraguay (0) v. Spain (1) match. With Germany surprisingly thrashing Argentina 4-0 this afternoon (doesn't make England look quite so bad) there are now three European sides in the semi-finals - Holland, Germany and Spain. The fourth place going to Uruguay.
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