Re animals in church, the Parish church in Sidmouth welcomes well behaved dogs to its Sunday services! A friend takes his dog every week. If I was tempted to become a churchgoer again, that’s where I’d attend! The Catholic Church I attended as a child would have an annual service on the feast of St Francis, when we would take our pets to be blessed. Always more entertaining than the rest of the year.
In Gembloux, a country town just up the road from where we used to live in Belgium, they have an annual blessing of horses and dogs on St Hubert - patron saint of hunting 7th of November - but they do it in the courtyard of the former abbey which is now a world renowned agribiotech university. Being a country town surrounded by farms and small villages the parade of horses and dogs heading there is impressive.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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@Kili - like you I love my grandchildren to bits and yes, they do pass on colds and flu, bless 'em. But it was the nits I objected to most! That only lasted while they were at primary school and now they are in their mid teens and jabbed I can cuddle them as much as I want. Sadly, they are not as keen on cuddles now as when they were little. I did wonder - did the prevalence of head lice go down as a result of the lockdowns?
Grumpy banter from die hard 365 days a year, garden's hibernating but I'm still awake and alert to the major issues and pretty annoyances grumps. The best kind. @Obelixx
I'm really grumpy! Dinner tonight was a disaster. I ended up with a rather blackened pizza with the really burnt topping scraped off and baked beans tipped on top to soften it. Yummy it wasn't! I had put the timer on but didn't have my hearing aid in because OH was watching the GP, he heard it but didn't mention it (why?) and I didn't hear it at all in the living room. He ended up with cheese and biscuits which was okay for him because he'd eaten at lunchtime anyway but I ended up with the remains of the pizza. Too late to cook again. Definitely a meal not to remember.
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The Catholic Church I attended as a child would have an annual service on the feast of St Francis, when we would take our pets to be blessed. Always more entertaining than the rest of the year.
I did wonder - did the prevalence of head lice go down as a result of the lockdowns?
I had put the timer on but didn't have my hearing aid in because OH was watching the GP, he heard it but didn't mention it (why?) and I didn't hear it at all in the living room.
He ended up with cheese and biscuits which was okay for him because he'd eaten at lunchtime anyway but I ended up with the remains of the pizza. Too late to cook again.
Definitely a meal not to remember.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.