We were very pleased to welcome Rev. Georgina Vye to our meeting last month when she brought along a lot of wools and fabrics to demonstrate her many skills with various crafts. There was a spinning wheel, a small loom and hand held pegging frames. Georgina showed us many types of wool taken from different sheep – the Shetland wool felt very soft. She then talked about the dying methods she used to produce a variety of colours. We were shown a large multi-coloured wrap she had made also the long chunky knit jacket she was wearing.

During some of her travels Georgina takes the opportunity to pick up supplies of wool and gather ideas for producing fabrics with various colour schemes, something she really enjoys.

Some of us had a go at weaving on the small pegging frames, which is really quite simple and therapeutic. You can make up your own pattern using a variety of colours or thickness of wool – a very satisfying hobby for anyone.

Thank you very much Georgina, for an enjoyable time together and for giving up your time for us.

The Worldwide collection box donations came to £72 , and these have been paid in and a cheque sent off to the Worldwide Treasurer.  Thank you to everyone – it all adds up to helping our overseas projects.

Unfortunately our December  meeting has had to be changed for various reasons.  There will not be a Deanery Advent Carol Service as given in the programme, but instead we shall meet on TUESDAY 5TH DECEMBER in the hall, when Rev. Val Hoare will lead us with Readings, prayers and music for Advent through to Christmas. We  shall have our usual Christmas Tea afterwards.

Wishing everyone a Very Happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.

Heather Elphick, Branch Leader

Georgina Writes  …….

How quickly we move from one moment in time to another, from one thing to another, one activity to another, it seems like only five minutes ago that we were bathing in the glorious sunshine of summer. Last week my cherry tree was full of leaves, then suddenly almost overnight they are gone! We have had the first frost, gone through All Hallows Eve, All Saints, Remembrance, and are now tumbling into the manic preparation for Christmas thrust at us in the shops and on the TV.

Do we have time to stop and stay in a moment of time, to dwell in it, savour it, discover more of it? Our society makes it quite hard as the culture we are part of wants us to always be moving forward, onto the next thing.

I went on a Pre Advent-Retreat Day recently, where there was time to just sit and ponder, time to be creative too. We were offered the chance to bring away some daily acts of kindness or action for Advent. A different view and focus, in the preparing to remember the silent moment of the Christ child arriving here on earth, God come to be amongst us.

we all take part in creating those acts? Remember the Butterfly Effect, who knows what we could start? For someone it could just be a life changer, for that day, or maybe for the rest of their life. A noting of the need of another and responding to it is indeed a gift, of unknown quality.

In this season, oh so short, of preparation in Advent, maybe random acts of kindness might be a reflection of the love given in the greatest gift sent to earth.

Rev Georgina