A BIG THANK YOU is due to everyone who contributed to the great success of the four afternoon teas in August whether that was setting up, making, baking, serving, washing up and clearing up.

Great fun was had by all – volunteers and attendees and the monies raised will go towards the village charities. A grand total of 897.80 was raised.

Thank you.

 

 

 

 

The next Food Bank collection is on Wednesday, 20th August.

Please continue to give generously to support this local charity.

 

A good mixture this month.

The first, a beautiful novel “For thy Great Pain have Mercy on my Little Pain” by Victoria Mackenzie imagining a meeting between the anchoress Julian of Norwich who wrote the first English language book attributed to a woman and the mystic Margery Kempe who wrote the first English language autobiography.  I would recommend this especially if you are keen to try something different.

In a similar vein, “Royal Bounty – the Making of a Welfare Monarchy” by Frank Prochaska, scholarly research on the evolution of the English monarchy and the political landscape of the 20th Century especially the role of royal patronage.

Next, a psychological thriller, Patricia Highsmith’s “Strangers on a Train”, a great first novel – be careful who you meet!

Finally, murder in a small English village, not written by Agatha Christie but of that ilk – Ngaio Marsh’s “Scales of Justice”, a cast of suspects for the murder of Colonel Cartarette – a good whodunnit.