Ash After

A day after Ash Wednesday, the little bowl of ash I took to the Infants School yesterday is a bit dry. The attendances at the services in church were somewhat lower (I think) this year, but although the number of people - adults and children - ashed at school must not have been in total that far off the ones in church, I don't think we're quite there yet. At Church Club in the afternoon most of the children wanted to receive the ash and Cleo took great delight in ashing me. Matthew told us he was giving up jam sandwiches for Lent, which is no small sacrifice when you're six.