Last Fund Raising Event for the Calendar Girls

A day at college today continuing my studies on Interpreting the Bible.  today our tutorials were at the Diocesan Education Centre and not Sarum College.  We started at 10 a.m. and went right through until 4 p.m.  A good session learning about Amos and Hosea through an entertaining and informative tutorial from David Bacon, the Team Vicar at Forest and Avon within my own Alderbury Deanery.  A really good speaker and teacher whom I found quite inspirational - especially in the area of trying to make church more interesting and challenging.  A real boast to my spirituality which I needed.  He acknowledged that many in the Church of England are happy with just attending a standard church service every Sunday but also acknowledged that there are many others who require more.  He stated that he is quite prepared to move people out of their comfort zones even if it means preaching for much longer than a congregation expects or is used to.  I felt a great affinity with David's views.  Southampton FC notched up another fantastic away win by beating Watford 0-3 at Vicarage Road.  With West Ham only managing a draw themselves, Saints are tonight top of the league again by one point with West Ham now only having one game in hand.  Birmingham lost today also so Reading are now in third place, five points behind Southampton.  Tonight Sara and the Calendar girls put on their last fund raising event at the Hook & Glove in Farley - a dinner and tombola.  The event raised another amazing £700 or so - still need to total it all up.  It was an absolutely glorious night outside with Venus, Jupiter and Mars all very prominent and I found myself giving mini star-gazing lessons to some of the guests. Sara gave a really good speech and in return was well applauded for all her hard and motivational work in getting the project completed so successfully.  A really lovely evening.  Back home, I watched Match of the Day and the League Show before going to bed at 1 a.m.