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basic stories. We have just started again on 1 March with the Creation and the FROM THE AFFPUDDLE CHURCHWARDEN
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stories are then sequenced, The Fall, Noah and so on, ending with the Acts of the
Apostles. The Bible Society provide the scripts and the sessions run over a three or
four year cycle. Sometimes the story is just told by adults but sometimes we use as
many children as possible, as ‘extras’. A Coloured Easter Egg
Our drop in café, Tea and Toast (…and dog biscuits!) happens every Thursday So how did you get on with Lent? Did you give something up? I gave up
morning in the church between 8.00-11.00am. abstinence for lent – not really, but I did give up alcohol for a while. Easter eggs
have been on the shelves in the supermarkets for many weeks. They are probably
This is a relatively new idea, which came about from the cost-of-living crisis and a all chocolate. That will be my downfall. I don’t have sugar with anything (I put salt
feeling that young families might appreciate a light breakfast on the way to in my porridge), but chocolate … yum. But, of course, Easter Eggs should be hen’s
school or a communal chat, tea and toast on the way back from dropping at the eggs or duck eggs.
school. We welcome dogs and have had an increasing number of morning dog
walkers who may be off to work and enjoy the opportunity to meet up with other The traditional Easter egg is also
local people for a cup of tea and a dog biscuit before they go! coloured, some use cochineal (a
red dye made from little insects!).
Each of these activities has a committee which I am on and mostly my job is to The yellow dye comes from
chivvy and make sure things get done. But each one is very much a team effort Turmeric, and the orange dye
and I am part of a team that gets these things done. comes from onions – both plants –
but a lot of people just use food
colouring, or paint (when the egg is
taken out of the water). This gives
the opportunity to paint designs on
the eggs.
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