Saturday evening, 15th March, saw the Vestry Hall packed once again for this Friends event, conducted by Tony Allison, who started the thing off all those years ago and still comes up with new challenges. Is there a plural form of VICTOR LUDORUM? If there is, then the title goes to the team in which…
To practice being a church guide you need an audience. Three members of the congregation acted as visitors for one of the training sessions. Top Picture. “Here is the banner made for the 1,000th anniversary of St. Dunstan”. The guide explains that it was made by pupils. teachers and parents of the primary school, and…
Some volunteers from Cranbrook school are being trained by Brian Awford so that summer visitors will get maximum value from stopping to see St.Dunstan’s church. It is not an easy job to learn. So much of interest, and answering questions may leave you re-finding your place. What is the caption here? Maybe, “Right. We have…
What is this picture? Wild guesses are in order. It might be a strange creature from outer space coming in to land. Or it might be a huge silver dish thrown out of focus. But there are a few clues in the items below and to the left of the shining light. It is actually…
Have you noticed that the weather vane is back on the tower? Scaffolding still surrounds the tower itself but the weather vane gleams proudly above it. The new gold paint makes it look splendid in the sunlight – when we get the stuff, that is! I love the signal this refurbishment sends . “People are…
Many members of The Friends are “Senior Citizens” which is a fancy modern term for the more robust title of Old Age Pensioner. One advantage of that state is freedom to travel. Did you know, for instance, that Mary Prentis took a round-the-world cruise a few years back? Just recently, Geoffrey and Alison Cunningham have come back from a…
A few days ago the fashionable magazine THE TATLER decided that some of it’s rich readers might no longer be quite rich enough to send their children to prestigious fee-paying schools, which are getting more and more expensive. THE TATLER said that there were state schools that provided a very good education, and named about…
Jan Mulrenan gave me a copy of the write-up describing her visit to China. Real adventurous stuff and a dramatic contrast to the placid life of our country town. Perhaps we should all do something like this when we retire. Certainly, it’s the sort of stuff that I would like people to give me for…
HAPPY CHRISTMAS This is posted on Friday 20th December and Google tells me that tomorrow, 21st September will be the shortest day of the year. Apparently it does not always fall on the same day of the calendar. Some clever astronomers amongst us may know why. John Donne did a marvellous thing about St. Lucies…
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The forecasters expect a hard winter. But Cranbrook will see nothing quite as beautiful as the background in this marvellous Nepal photo that Kate Galpin gave me. More travel offerings will be most welcome.
I said somewhere that I am still learning. Well, after putting up stuff on the site just now (working as OWNER) I tried to get access to it as an ordinary searcher to see what it looked like. I had trouble. I kept typing in FRENDOBLOG and adding WORDPRESS and .COM in various combinations and…
Last Sunday the records show that almost thirty people looked at FRENDOBLOG, which is encouraging. It means that I must add something new for any viewers this coming Sunday. On Thursday there is another of our lunchtime concerts. Malcolm Riley will be performing and will bring some pupils from Invicta Grammar School. A little story…
There was an informative financial up-date in St.Dunstan’s last Sunday from Brian Swann who is both Church Treasurer and a Trustee of The Friends. It mentions the £7,000 just given by The Friends or the refurbishment of St.Thomas’ Chapel. Brian also refers to a new garage being built at the vicarage to replace the one…
THANK YOU FOR VISITING OUR BLOG. The Friends of St. Dunstan’s don’t know much about blogging but we want to experiment and learn. St. Dunstan’s is the parish church of Cranbrook in the Weald of Kent, England. All comments are welcome, but most of all we want ideas from local people. On this blog you will find…
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