Doesn’t time fly, I can’t quite believe that when I started here it was meteorological winter and now it’s officially summer (from the beginning of June). We are nearly at the longest day of the year, and everyone is looking forward to some long sunny days. The flowers are blooming and we’ve had a spring of beautiful flowers and tree blossoms.
To celebrate nature’s beauty, the Woolpit Open Gardens event is happening on Saturday 13th June from 10am-5pm with at least 20 gardens open for everyone to look around, admire and then maybe inspire us in our own gardens. To everyone who is opening their garden, thank you for your hard work over this year, as you have prepared the flower beds and borders, cut the grass and cultivated plants to be ready for just the right time. I hope that the weather and the conditions have brought your garden to peak at right moment. Whatever happens we’ll be in wonder at all that you have achieved. There will be refreshments in the church and on the route, musical entertainment and a raffle. Please buy tickets and collect a map at church. I am so looking forward to seeing this event, as I have heard so much about it.
The following weekend (20th and 21st June) is All Saints’ church’s ‘Festival of Flowers, Music and More’ based on the theme of An English Country Garden. The church will be open on both Saturday and Sunday from 11am till 5pm. There will be flower displays and musical entertainment, and also scarecrow, photography and flowerpot competitions. It will be a wonderful couple of days, with lots to inspire us, as many of the flowers and plants have been grown in local gardens.
In May it was David Attenborough’s 100th birthday and there were celebrations and repeats of some of his iconic shows. He travelled the world looking at wildlife and wondered at the most exotic animals, sat with gorillas and changed how we saw the planet. His latest series ‘Secret Garden’ opened our eyes to all that is around us, there in our back garden. Perhaps he could be an inspiration to us to look at our surroundings afresh, and appreciate and care for all that is around us.
The story of creation at the beginning of the bible, reminds us of God’s creative power, and that He made the wide variety of plants and animals that we can enjoy today. God saw all that He had made and saw that it was good. We believe that we, as human beings, are to be custodians of the Earth that He created, on both a local and global scale. I hope you can spend time in nature enjoying all that is around us.
Revd Sarah Hall