The Big Birthday Event - Friday, 30th July
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The big event in the Victoria Hall,
Grange, on 30th July was planned as the celebration of three landmark
birthdays of members of our clergy team which added up to 180 years, but
it also provided an opportunity for a Team farewell to Canon Anthony &
Judith Clegg. It was the most successful social gathering of our team of parishes so far and a truly enjoyable occasion. Abundant thanks are due to Ruth Crossley who conceived the idea and produced the programme and to Sue Fleetwood and her army of helpers who provided the food and drink and did a great job in setting up and clearing away. |
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We arrived to a welcome homemade punch and were immediately into party competitions - some sedentary for the more arthritic - and others for the young which included a treasure hunt and attempting to eat a doughnut suspended on a string. These were won respectively by Ben & James Thedham and Ali & John Hibbert, while Roger & Bethany Latham triumphed in the Railway Riot. Fr Robert alone identified every variety of traditional cross on the quiz sheet but virtually everybody won some of the enigmatic ‘That is’ puzzles. |
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Ann & Keith Waller led us through the
hearty singing of old-fashioned folk songs, including the specially
adapted ‘O, O Anthony’ before Fr Robert proposed the toast to the
birthday trio, each of whom had a cake to cut while the cameras clicked.
David & Barbara Ellis, in dotage mode, performed a sketch on a park bench and also went on to win the ‘Mr & Mrs’ competition by revealing a more intimate knowledge of each other’s pet fancies than either the Cleggs or the Crossleys were able to evince when interviewed by Mike Hill. |
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Towards the end of the evening Alan Jones presented a framed ‘Millennium Map’ and a generous cheque to Anthony & Judith, and Colin Milner proposed a toast to them before our final rendering of ‘O, O Anthony .. ..’ It was a wonderful occasion and an encouraging leap forward for the Cartmel Peninsula Team while we await our new leader.
David C. Ellis
