WIDE WEDNESDAY - AND LOTS OF CHAT!

We had a great time at Girls About Town this morning when our special guest was Rob Smith, a curate from the Dorcan Church in Swindon - see my extra photograph.  He had just come from a group for mothers and/or fathers and toddlers that meets at St. Tim’s, which is part of the Dorcan Church and almost next door to the Radio Station, where they have not only tea and toast, but also bacon sarnies - so some of us may well be going in there next week before the programme because Rob did say everyone is welcome!

During the programme, Rob told us about a new venture that started in January this year when the church opened a youth club for young people from 11-14 years of age;  he said it had been going very well and gives youngsters a safe place to go rather than wandering around the streets.  Of course, we talked about lots of other things too, including The Beer Festival at St. Paul's Church, Covingham, Swindon next Saturday, 29th June and also my visit to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance HQ last Friday.

This afternoon, Mr. HCB and I went to an Afternoon Tea laid on by the organisers of the Ridge Coffee Club, the proceeds for which are going to the Wiltshire Air Ambulance - there was a wonderful spread and it has saved me cooking this evening!

I decided to do a wide angle shot of our garden for this week’s challenge, so that you can see how good it looks since it was dug over and then replanted earlier in the year.

Our Compassion rose on the left is doing really well, but sadly it has been a little battered by the recent storms, but hopefully, these won’t have done any lasting damage.  The grass is looking good too, but I hope that Mr. HCB will leave cutting again for another few weeks, so that the pollinators can enjoy the buttercups and daisies.

We have great tits nesting in the box you can see in the middle of the photograph, and the parents are going in and out a lot, obviously feeding little ones, but there is no sign of them fledging yet.  Watch this space.

All in all, another great day - just wish the sun would come out for a while, because everything looks so much better when the sun shines.

“There is no power for change
     greater than a community
          discovering what it cares about.”
Margaret J Wheatley