Great Leap Forward

If you thought a post about mislaid water bottles was banal, here is something that might possibly rival it. It's the biggest event to befall Swanvale Halt church this week, unless someone has had a spiritual awakening that I don't yet know about. Our office manager suggested it would be a good idea to pave the area where the bins sit so that it doesn't become a quagmire in winter, and, thanks to Grant the churchwarden, it's been done.

The garden around the church was intended as its graveyard, but it's been closed since the 1880s and now only cremated remains are buried in one particular area. It was my predecessor who had the idea of tidying and reordering it as a Quiet Garden for the use of the community, and, although as we know it often gets used for activities that were not what she envisaged, I think it was her great lasting contribution. 

The garden is managed by a team of volunteers, partly from the congregation and partly the parish beyond. They have kindly paid for the paving work out of Quiet Garden funds. I am not sure, I must admit, exactly where these funds come from, but you don't turn down a gift, do you? The slabs look as though they've been Photoshopped on, but they haven't, promise.