The Ridlington Singers will present an informal concert on Saturday 23rd September at 7.30 in Ridlington Church.

The programme will include music from My Fair Lady, HMS Pinafore and Les Miserables.

Free admission, and donations to Ridlington Church.

Refreshments will follow, served in the Village Hall.

For a change, we will be meeting at the church porch on a Sunday – 5pm, 17th September.

If interested, please let Debra know.

 

This Saturday, September 9th, Tim Brindley is taking on the cycling challenge as part of the Ride and Stride fundraising event organised by Rutland Historic Churches Preservation Trust.

Please support Tim and the charity which has kindly made grants to our village church by sponsoring Tim.  He has set up a secure means of donating through Just Giving  – https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tim-brindley

Thank you.

We shall be sorry to see Jes leave the Benefice at the end of September.  Not only has he been a member of Ridlington Singers but he has helped us set up our annual pet service and to start a new tradition of Songs of Praise in the church.

Jes and his wife Jane are moving to look after three parishes in Bedfordshire which will mean they are living closer to Jane’s grandson.

Donations for the leaving gift to our church treasurer, Dawn Ross, or to our church warden, Debra Thatcher by the 10th September, please.

A hearty thank you to the 12 strong work party who undertook our annual strim and rake of the churchyard.

Afterwards we joined together in a bring and share ploughman’s lunch – very well deserved after all the hard work.

A thank you also to those who have volunteered to “meet and greet” participants in the Rutland Historic Churches Preservation Trust’s fundraiser “Ride and Stride” on Saturday, 9th September.

The next collection from the church porch will be on  6th September. 

Please continue to give generously – our help is needed.

Thank you.

 

 

The Ridlington Singers will be presenting an informal concert in Ridlington Church at 7.30pm on Saturday 23 September.

More details will be published in September’s Parish magazine, on the website and Ridlington’s WhatsApp group so save the date!

 

 

Another Pulitzer Prize winner this month: “Angela’s Ashes”, a “misery memoir” by Frank McCourt recounting his early years in the depression and WW2 in New York and Limerick.  A tale of alcoholism, marital infidelity and abandonment but lightened by great story telling and a lovely turn of phrase – “Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him”.

One of Churchill’s favourites – “Mr Midshipman Hornblower”, the introduction to the Royal Naval hero of the French Revolutionary War, a series of adventures and challenges.  A great way to learn naval vocabulary and which will come in handy for Scrabble enthusiasts.

The police procedural this month is another Alex Gray novel, “Pitch Black”, a serial killer at work in Kelvin FC…guessed who dunnit!