Sunday

Today the sun shone after a wet start, which brought out more hats instead of umbrellas to the Church. Our Minister once again spoke to a series of hymns from CH3, which we sang. I had thought that, by implication, these hymns would be absent from CH4, but I was corrected by my faithful reader (thanks MikeG). Todays hymns were all by Cecil Frances Alexander, who wrote hymns based on parts of the Apostles' Creed. As we were singing them, I hoped that they would not be left out: two of them took me back to childhood and Sunday School: "All things bright and beautiful" and "There is a green hill far away". Coming home, I checked that they were, indeed, in CH4. All is thus well with the world!

In fact, it was only on one occasion that we sang hymns through a whole service that would no longer be sung from CH4. Obviously I wasn't paying attention at the back.

We have been collecting donations towards the purchase of CH4 for visitors to the Church as well as copies for ourselves. As usual, I jumped the gun and paid £2 more for mine than I need have done.


Left a loaf of bread to bake while I was at Church and am now making my famous potato salad.

Here is the recipe:

Potatoes (peeled if old, scrubbed if new) boiled and sliced - leave to cool.
pancetta or bacon bits fried, or crispy bacon crushed - leave to cool.
shallot diced
parsley, chopped.
chives, chopped.

Mix all together with Helmanns mayonnaise sufficient to coat.

Extremely moreish