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…
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…
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…
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…
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