A very wet miserable day today. As the weather forecasters predicted a low pressure area over the south of England has produced cold wet weather. Sara joined me at West Dean Parish Church today where I was preaching at the Harvest Festival service with Andrew leading. We had a congregation of about 15 today and the service was warm and friendly. Andrew led the service in a lovely friendly manner and my sermon seems to have been received well with most people commenting upon it favourably afterwards. No gardening today with all the awful weather so I cooked Sunday lunch - tagliatelle bolognaise - and afterwards watched the Liverpool v. Manchester United game. The start of the game was very emotional with the singing of You'll Never Walk Alone as 96 balloons were launched - each one representing somebody who lost their life at Hillsborough in 1989 - and the spectators spelling out "Justice" and "96" with red and white pieces of paper. Unfortunately, Liverpool lost the match 1-2 and with Norwich also losing against Newcastle at St. James's Park, Southampton actually went up a place in the table tonight to 16th! The win against Aston Villa with such a good goal margin has pushed them up from 20th to 16th in a matter of 24 hours! Tonight James and I attended Evensong at Farley with a guest preacher from St. Nicholas's Hospital in Harnham. A very good sermon in spite of the fact that the preacher had left his notes at home. With the weather cold and wet I am having an evening in writing up my blogs followed by an early night.
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