SEPTEMBER RADIUS – From the Vicar
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core …”
So wrote John Keats in the first stanza of his poem “To Autumn”, which some of you may have memorised at school. We all have our favourite seasons and Autumn, unashamedly, is mine; …

Dear Friends,
Here is this week’s Parish Diary 22nd August 2010
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For the last 24 years I have been co-ordinating our Baptism Visitors scheme.
I am now passing that “hat” on to Nicci Vesey and taking a new role in the church.
How did the Baptism Visitors Scheme start?
Bert Allwood and I were given Baptism Follow-up as a PCC responsibility. Anniversary cards and Garden Party Invitations were being delivered through the Young Wives groups usually by different people each time and often no contact was made with the families. We took what was already there and extended it:
• Each family was allocated a member …

The summer holidays often afford us a bit more time as everything winds down and people go on holiday. It is at this time of year that people are often after a good book to read as they laze by the pool with a drink in hand. None of this fits my experience but I always enjoy a good read when time allows!
At Costa Coffee in July a few of us met and shared books that we have enjoyed reading and I suggested to people a recommended summer read. …

Dear Friends,
Here is this week’s Parish Diary 8th August 2010. (See page 2.)
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