As talked about on Saturday I went to the flower competition at Crowfield church primarily for the bookstall 😃
The theme of the Flower Pageant this yr was Kids’s Nursery Rhymes and Poems and I took some photographs as a result of I am all the time impressed by flower arranging which is one thing I’ve by no means realized to do. (Did not {photograph} all of the preparations as there have been 30+ round this small church.)
The information leaflet had the historical past of among the rhymes which was fascinating.
Hickory Dickory Dock beneath, was first discovered revealed in 1744. It may need been primarily based on a clock in Exeter Cathedral
Previous MacDonald had a Farm, beneath. The earliest model dates from 1706 in an opera referred to as “The Kingdom of the Birds or Wonders of the Solar”
The Owl and The Pussy Cat, beneath, is one in every of Edward Lear’s nonsense poems from 1871.
Ten Inexperienced Bottles, beneath, is a really outdated counting tune going again so far as the C14. (We sang this endlessly at Major Faculty!)
Hey Diddle Diddle, The Cat and the Fiddle, beneath, is assumed so far again to at the least C16 and gave rise to many Cat and Fiddle pub names.
Ring-a-ring of Roses, beneath, most likely composed within the late C17 and will check with the Plague with the roses being a pink rash and the sneezing being an symptom.
And both sides of the porch a Teddy Bears Picnic was occurring. The melody was composed in 1907 and lyrics added in 1932.
Exterior they’d a tombola and plant stalls and naturally the massive gazebo filled with second-hand books. Not as many books as they often have, though they’d acquired tons in bins beneath the desk which they mentioned they might put out later once they had room – which all the time appears an odd factor to me as they cannot promote books until folks can see them!
Anyway, I picked up 4 for 50p every = a Persephone – Little Boy Misplaced by Marghanita Laski, one other of Alexander McCall Smith’s stand alone books – My Italian Bulldozer (what a curious title!), H.E Bates -Honest Stood The Wind For France and a youngsters’s ebook simply because I favored the image on the entrance cowl. The ebook is a bit tatty so after it has been learn I am going to most likely add that cowl image to my scrapbook.
The Church is open on a regular basis so I’ll return for a correct Church go to after which I am going to stick with it via the again street to Coddenham as a result of Crowfield was a Chapel of Ease to Coddenham effectively into the twentieth Century.
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church constructing apart from the parish church, constructed throughout the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those that can not attain the parish church conveniently, typically attributable to distance away. Usually a chapel of ease is intentionally constructed as such, being extra accessible to some parishioners than the primary church.
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