Dear Friends

I hope this e-mail finds you well. It is a particularly mild day today and very pleasant to walk Bean.

It reminded me that we have our Community Dog Walk on Saturday starting from St Mary’s, Gilston at 2.30 pm and I hope some of you will be able to join us. Christine and Rosemary will be providing their yummy cake as usual (not to be missed) for us at the end of our walk around 4.00 pm. If you don’t want to do the walk but would like the fun of the café, and catching up with friends, please come along – it will be great to have you with us.

I also attach the flyer for the St Botolph’s, Eastwick churchyard tidy up. We will be putting it to bed for the Winter and the hope is we can leave it in good order and have fun working together and I am hoping to persuade Peter to create hotdogs again as a snack for the workers. Please join us if you can and bring your own garden tools and gloves!

As we think about this weekend, this Sunday we will be commemorating Remembrance Day in both parishes.

We will have our usual service at 9.30 am with communion, at St James, High Wych, which will have a Remembrance theme followed by hot drinks and then a gathering by the war memorial from 10.45 am for the usual Act of Remembrance.

At St Botolph’s, Eastwick at the War Memorial at 10.45 am we will have an Act of Remembrance, led by Rosemary Davis, and this will be followed by drinks and snacks in the church for everyone.

I hope you will be able to join us at one or all these events, this is community, worshipping, working and having fun together.

Every blessing

Alison