Our Harvest Festival service was a bit later than usual this year, which meant that there were fewer vegetables available for the auction afterwards in the village hall. We had about 25 people at the service (sadly, also rather fewer than in previous years), but we were joined for the supper and auction by others who had not been at the service - which was very good news, and meant that we had a fun evening feasting on food brought in by everyone; the sausage stew was particularly good!

Geoff did his usual auctioneering bit, helped by two able assistants noting the sales and delivering the produce to the punters. Barbara baked the harvest-loaf, and Jill's jams sold very well - as always. There was a marked absence of runner beans - but that was due to the later-than-usual date, as already mentioned.

A big thank-you to all who contributed to the evening, either via the church collection, or buying jams and vegetables in the auction, as well as for cooking delicious food for the supper.

Next year's Harvest Festival will be held at the "proper Rose Ash date" in September. We will also have it on a day that makes it easier for families with children to be there, rather than on a Sunday-evening when people are thinking about Monday-morning school-blues!