Magazine

  •  6 February 2022 |

    Still with a week to go before the beginning of February and on the day I write this item, I saw my first snowdrops and primroses this year. They immediately lifted my spirits. Gradually, it is noticeable the evenings are beginning to arrive a wee bit earlier than a month ago; it’s still another two weeks before sunset comes at 5 but i […]

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    The note below was in a card to the church family from Alan and Janette.

    “We are delighted to let you know that our youngest son Thomas who lives in Melbourne has become a Daddy for the first time. Tom and Nicky had a little boy Owen Baxter on 11 November and all is well. We hope it wont be too long before we can go out and visit � […]

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    Over the Christmas holiday I was introduced to a children’s cartoon film called Star. I’m sure some of you will know it. It’s described as a story about a donkey, but I saw it as the Nativity Story told from the angle of a donkey. The donkey was supposed to accompany a young Mary and Joseph and pull their cart, but he was having no […]

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    Since the last magazine was issued, we have had three lectures. The first in December we had Duncan Ferns giving us an illustrated talk on the history of Buckland. The village goes back about 1,000 years and being a local subject was very popular with the audience.

    Our first lecture of the year on 10th January we heard Rhod Jones tell […]