Christmas Trees in The Church

On Thursday I met my friend from Grammar School days in the Osier Cafe in St Marys church in Stowmarket for a coffee and a look around this years Christmas Tree festival, which was lovely and colourful as always. 

The theme was Christmas Carols and songs and some clever ideas from groups in Stowmarket and round about.

Several bloggers have already featured  church tree festivals on their blogs - but  I need to fill a blog post so here are a few more  and apologies too as the photos are not very good.

I'm not sure when they started doing this festival but I've certainly been to look almost every year since we moved back to Mid Suffolk.

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Yesterday was sunny and bright all day which was lovely after a gloomy Thursday. I got the chocolate meringue gateau made and into the freezer ready to take on Christmas day along with chocolate brownies that are already in there. Decided that I'll make an apple crumble to take as a complete change from chocolate things for deserts. Next week I need to make cheese straws for EGS - and everyone else- but they are his favourite, the quick wartime Christmas pud for when BiL is here Boxing day and some speedy sausage rolls with ready rolled puff pastry and de-skinned chipolata sausages.

I've started perusing the RT for Christmas viewing. Tonight it's the final of Strictly of course and then there's a programme on 5 about the winter of 1962/3. I was 7 that winter and can remember some bits quite well - walking to school, which wasn't cancelled despite the 10 weeks of snow and freezing weather. The frozen school milk where the ice pushed the lid off; the big boys at school made long ice slides and going home from the Chapel Christmas party in one of the leaders cars we got stuck in a snow drift and had to bounce up and down in the back seat to get the car wheels to grip.

There was an interesting programme on Radio 4 yesterday about the weather too. In the Rare Earth science series - title Love of a Cold Climate. Here's a link for UK - don't think it works elsewhere - sorry.

Lovely to see that on TV next week there isn't just quizzy Monday on BBC 2 but quizzy Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday too and the same for the week after - lovely!