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FOOD BANK

The recently released statistics show that in 2022 our local Food Bank supported 264 households, including 150 with children.

Please continue to give generously – special request made for UHT milk, tinned meat, pies, rice puddings and fruit and also toiletries – shampoo, shower gel and household items – loo roll, washing up liquid.

Our next collection from the church porch is on Wednesday, 14th June.

 

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WE’RE GOING ON A BUG HUNT!

Join us on Saturday morning, June 10th at 10:00 am to assist in this year’s  “Churches Count on Nature” – will we have ladybirds in the churchyard?

Please let Debra know if you can spare some time to assist in the count or come along if you are just curious to see what we find.

The full list will be added to the nature notes on the stand at the back of the church.

Debra
tel.: 823910

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CHURCH NEWS – JUNE

CHURCH ROTAS

Church cleaning:  Jacky Morrell; Julie Hoult
Church flowers:  Jan Powley; Sue Hatcher; Annie Harvey
Front of House Rota:  Annie and David Harvey; Louise and Steven Fox; Richard and Debra Thatcher; Ruth Lees

 

THE BIG HELP OUT

A huge thank you to everyone who rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in with various jobs in the church and churchyard – a proper spring clean.  All the better for being serenaded by the band of bell ringers ringing to mark the Coronation.

 

ROGATION SERVICE

Our thanks to Rev Jes Salt for leading our Rogation Service and also to Dawn and Russell for bringing a ewe and two lambs to the service – we have some good photographs!

 

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BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

It was a joy to re-read “The Diary of a Provincial Lady” by E.M.Delafield written in weekly instalments in Time and Tide magazine. A quiet humour pervades all four books contained in the volume and encapsulates provincial living in the 1930s and at the start of WW2. Life lessons for all us – remaining cheerful in the face of adversity, being anxious not to offend – and amusing descriptions of social relationships – “our vicar” and “our vicar’s wife” regularly referenced without mention of their names.

Best known for “Cider with Rosie” Laurie Lee also wrote essays, some of which are gathered together in “I Can’t Stay Long”.  Divided into sections, starting with reflections on his rural childhood in Gloucestershire, moving onto visits to Aberfan a year after the tragedy and travel writing, long before the advent of package holidays.

Just enough clues to work out what might have happened – was it an accident, suicide pact or murder?  –“Elephants Can Remember” by Agatha Christie, a recommended read.

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BOOKS! BOOKS! BOOKS!

A mixed bag this month – Kate Mosse’s “Labyrinth” – a large tome but a great read.  A combination of 2 stories, one historical and the other a thriller set in modern France.  Thoroughly enjoyable, well plotted and written.

The next is another thriller – Nevil Shute’s “Lonely Road”.  Persevere through the first chapter – it’s worth it.

“Sorry, I’m British” – an A to Z, allotments to zebra crossings, an entertaining view of all that is British with some good cartoons

and finally, another of M.C. Beaton’s Hamish Macbeth series of murder mysteries “Death of a Scriptwriter”.

 

Grateful thanks extended to Margie for assistance in filleting the books and moving them from the back of the church to under the Ridlington display stands.

 

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ROGATION CHURCH SERVICE

Join us on Sunday May 14th at 9:30 for our Rogation Sunday Service to be led by Reverend Jes Salt – asking for God’s blessing on agriculture and industry in the Parish, its inhabitants and celebrating every endeavour to promote the common good.

Light refreshments will be available after the service.

Debra

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ANNUAL PAROCHIAL CHURCH MEETING

We have our Annual Parochial Church Meeting on Sunday, 28th May at 11:00 in the church.

In readiness for the meeting Dawn has prepared our accounts for the last calendar year and Martin Hickman has independently examined them.

Attached is a copy of the examined accounts.  A copy will also be hung up in the church porch.

Ridlington_PCC_FY2022_Financial_Statements reviewed and signed

Further reports will follow so that people have a chance to read them prior to the meeting.

Debra

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AN EVENING WALK IN MAY?

Fancy a walk one May evening to make the most of the light evenings and to celebrate late spring?

Let Debra know on telephone number – 01572 823 910  if this would be of interest to you and what evening would work best for you.