Writing in the dark

Or at least before daylight appears.  I have already seen the thick ice on the car when I let Lucy out into the garden and it is also foggy once more.  Welcome winter weather!!

The radio is awash (couldn't resist) with news of hundreds of thousands of washing machines with an inherent weakness in their opening catch which causes fire, and if you own one well just put everything on 'cold wash'.  Funnily enough a friend came yesterday afternoon saying that her washing machine had broken down and she was thinking of having it mended for £600, one would have thought a new one might be cheaper.

Yesterday evening Mark and I went to the Carol Service in the church next door, Jo had made me promise to go there and there was surprisingly a good turnout.  Deep bass of the men offset by the higher notes of the women.  The readings were short and sweet and though I had said to Mark he could leave if he found it boring, he stayed.  

The church was decorated with the rich dark green of the holly and the ivy, threaded with thin red ribbon and fronted with dozens of small candles, it looked beautiful, some of the holly came from our holly tree.

When we started to leave, the vicar came down the aisle, obviously intrigued by the youngest person in church - Mark.  When Mark said he came from Bath, vicar thought he meant the village up the road - Great Barugh, which is always called Great Bath, which  goes against the grain of sensibility I call my brain.  We explained we came from down South.  I do like the vicar and his wife, they really care for their communities, he is a bit of an evangelist but if you believe you believe.  But he was the one who regularly visited our widower who sadly took his own life a couple of weeks ago.

As for words...........

"The name "Barugh" means 'rise of the land' which has its origins in Anglo-Saxon. The name was first recorded as Berg and Berch in 1086 and comes from Old English beorg 'hill.' The pub in Great Barugh, which dates back to 1632, is the heart of the community; it is one of the oldest remaining buildings in the village. This is the only local village amenity, with Great and Little Barugh having no shops, post office or village Hall. Ruins have been found at sites in both Great and Little Barugh including those of a Roman villa. There is also evidence of a Roman road which led to York. "


https://theheritagetrust.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/happy-easter-i-dont-go-to-church-but-i-do-go-to-churches/