Today we were congratulated for being in church because
1) It is Low Sunday when traditionally people don't go to church because they went last week.
2) It is Fifth Sunday when traditionally people don't go to church because it doesn't really count.
3) It was the Group Service when traditionally people don't go to church because they say they can never remember what time or where the service is.
4) It's the day when the clocks go forward, we all get an hour's less sleep and traditionally people don't go to church.
We were actually quite numerous - not like last week, but not at all bad.

We were at Cabourne where they have Matins rather than Communion. Always! Usually for the Group Service we have Communion regardless, but not this time. My feeling is - and this may even be canon law - that if there is just one service in a group it should be communion, and that there should be at least one communion service in every group of parishes every Sunday. At least one other of the people who never miss a Sunday had gone to Caistor, and I was very torn. However I am somewhat critical of those who talk about sticking together as a group and never go to a group service - especially our esteemed Lay Chairman - so I went along, and it was a lovely, very traditional service followed by coffee, shortbread and Thornton's Continental chocolates. Not all our rewards are in Heaven.

A little addition to last Sunday's blog: Denis who made the daffodil cross told me that when they woke to snow and realised that their car would not cope with the hill decided to walk the mile to church so, with Denis and his daughter to the fore taking it in turns to carry the cross and followed by their repective spouses and the grandchildren, they made their own impromptu Walk of Witness on Easter Sunday morning.