Today the Harvest Festival takes place at the church. All summer the farm vehicles have gone back and forth through the village, so I would think there has been a bountiful harvest. Making bread this morning I remembered a story C had told us about the harvest loaf. The loaf for this village is kept in someones freezer, each year it is pulled out and decorates the church, but she can't remember whose freezer it is in!
Anyway until I take some photographs later on here is last year's photo, at the bottom is a link to a vicar called Robert Stephen Hawker, who was supposedly responsible for the Harvest festival coming into being. Something I would contend is not strictly true, as the celebratory times of the year have been witness too many joyous feasting and gathering together, right through medieval times to those early Saxons.
So if I go round the house today singing 'All things bright and beautiful' I should be forgiven....
p.s. the harvest loaf photo was nicked from 'the ordinary cook' image.
p.s. the harvest loaf photo was nicked from 'the ordinary cook' image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker
Is this the vicar from Morwenstow in Cornwall by any chance Thelma?
ReplyDeleteI used to frequently go to Morwenstowe on holiday years ago and the vicar there was called Hawker and he spent much of his time sitting in a hut on the cliff side.
Yes, I hauled him out once more, think he is a lovely eccentric character, ther should be more like him...
ReplyDeleteI read the news [can't bear to hear it discussed live on tv] and try to have some awareness of what goes on in the world, yet have always had a sense that most of us are powerless to effect any change in what we perceive as a collective wrong-doing. It does seem as though some 'protesters' go around looking for most any 'cause' they can join--wave banners and placards and shout.
ReplyDeleteThe political world around us seems such a bitter contrast to the quiet one of country walks and neighborhood doings.
There is turmoil in the world, Russians are agitating now against Putin. This unrest is strange and even quiet country lives are affected by it.
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