Last month I photographed two of the main village events. This month we had - a Xmas Bazaar, FOSTPS Silent Auction, a Xmas Concert, a Caberet, the School Nativity Play, a Carol Concert, a Xmas Ceilidh, and several more carols, coffee mornings etc. And what did I photograph? Some rafters in Church House!
I did attend one Carol Service (St Mary's South Zeal on Christmas Eve) and I tried, I really did, to get to the Moor Harmony Concert at St. Andrew's. After driving to South Tawton on a foul night, I found the place packed and I could only have parked at Moons Cross, so I drove home again.
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I am really pleased for the choir, who put so much effort into their work and I must also praise those much hardier souls than I, who I passed walking to the church in the torrential rain.
Looking back on the month, not to make excuses but to reason why I made such a poor showing, I can find some illness, the usual family Xmas visitors and plenty of other obligations. Bur most of all there was a great feeling of fatigue and even, for some unknown reason, of depression. Maybe the dark days and nights had something to do with it? |
Whatever the reason, this month's offering will probably be a bit thin.
I have just remembered that the other 'Beacon Village' has also got its own web site running. This may have been going for some time, but I had forgot. Check it out on -
http://www.throwleigh.org.uk/
The nights are getting lighter again and Spring will cheer everything up.
Happy New Year to everyone!
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ps Carol, my wife, had an attack of heart failure on new year's eve - hence the 3am ambulance ride. She is feeling better now
We also had a phone call from Carol's sister, who is a teacher. She says that she heard somewhere that the depression we feel in the short days is nature's way of telling the little creatures to hibernate. Apparently there are loads and loads of bunnies sitting down their holes weeping because they have had to stop doing what bunnies do best and go to sleep instead. And I thought I was depressed!
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