Our good friend Rev. Bill Long celebrates 100 years ~ YES! Former Sedbergh parish priest celebrates his 100th birthday (From The Westmorland Gazette). Continue reading Former Sedbergh parish priest celebrates his 100th birthday…
Snow everywhere today ~ and the Howgill Fells looking beautiful, as always…. An early White Christmas ~ yippee! Continue reading A White World!
The first snow today on the Howgill Fells…. Really exciting ~ my first snow for years ~ YES! Continue reading Snow!
Every year at the beginning of December, a grand evening is held here in Sedbergh, Cumbria for the official launch of Christmas season, and last night was THE night! All the shops stayed open till 8:00pm or later serving mulled wine, mince pies, sweets and chocolates, many offering discounts to encourage us all to do our Christmas shopping…. At 6:00pm the church bells started ringing and Father Christmas came along Sedbergh Main Street in the Sedbergh Fire Engine, preceded by the Town Crier ringing his bell, then the Sedbergh Gala Queen switched on the Christmas lights, and the evening was … Continue reading Late-Night Christmas Shopping @ Sedbergh
Yippee, Christmas is coming and I love Christmas! A bit early I know, but hey, gotta be ready! Yesterday was the Christmas Fair at St. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh and of course along I went ~ what fun! Met lots of people I knew (including Father Christmas himself) and lots I didn’t and of course always lots of interesting things to see and do and buy. Guess the Teddy’s birthday, Guess the Weight of the Cake, listen to the brass band, shop shop and shop, but the highlight, so everyone says is always the lunch, especially the puddings, and yep I … Continue reading Sedbergh Church Christmas Fair 🙂 ^_^ (:
My first official CMS Link Visit yesterday, starting at St. Andrew’s Church, Sedbergh, Cumbria ~ yippee! The first of many link visits this Home Leave, a few before Christmas and many after…. Sedbergh is kind of my home base, so the visit is kind of spread out and kind of started unofficially in the summer when I happened in on a mission coffee morning in Sedbergh URC Church in aid of CMS… and then continued yesterday when I spoke at the main Sunday morning service, and to be continued further with a ppt and coffee event in a few weeks … Continue reading CMS Link Church Visit #1 ~ Sedbergh ~ YES!
Yesterday was the best weather of the whole year ~ one solitary day of warm sunshine and little wind sandwiched between days of mild but wet and windy weather on either side – for one day, it was just wonderful! Frosty early in the morning, the first frost of the autumn – but then the sun came out, and yippee, time to go out! So what better than a few hours on the top of the Howgill Fells, up above Sedbergh… beautiful! It was Wainwright who described them as looking like a whole herd of sleeping elephants, and yep, that … Continue reading The Howgill Fells ~ in all their glory!
Yep, the big storm passed through yesterday, well big winds anyway, the tail-end of a hurricane that did a lot of damage in Bermuda and then moved on over here… But by mid-morning, it was mostly over and the sun came out ~ and so did the colours! Sedbergh countryside really looks good in the sun! Happy sheep, friendly cows and great autumnal colours! Continue reading Sedbergh, after the storm….
Check out these geese and sheep at the farm this afternoon…. And check out these views from up on Winder – sometimes the rain gives way to a beautiful rainbow, and this afternoon this was it! Goodbye to Sedbergh tomorrow ~ off down south! Continue reading Just an ordinary afternoon in Sedbergh….
Catherine Lee 