Something Tabor wrote about the other day, how we see each other and how they see us.  My profile is fairly easy, small, untidy hair and fairly shy but willing to engage in whatever is happening.
Yesterday was the gardening club at Appleton-Le-Moor.  We gather, about forty of us maybe, I have driven C and S there and J has gone on earlier because she is a commitee member, as is S.  Apparently there was a meeting this last Monday for Xmas lunch, and I had said I was a vegetarian, which is not strictly true, but they have also put a quiche on the menu.  The whole venue is so friendly, we listen to the talk and then have a cup of tea and new ventures are variously discussed.
The talk was about jam making, drying fruit and making apple juice. All very WI but it was interesting.  She had bought her dryer, for drying fruit and fungi, and also that clever little thing from Lakeland that peels apples, might treat myself to that one.


Well the assembled people, mostly women of a certain age chattering away but there are a few men, in summer there are always plants for sale as well.  Many people of course are 'incomers' retiring to a quieter life, ready to join in and be part of the community, but the one thing Appleton has and many other villages is a village hall.


Something our village has not got which is sad.  The church could be a good canditate but like all churches it is cold in winter, and a very meagre heating system just stops you from turning blue with the cold.  Plus of course the church resides in the ownership of the Church of England, apparently the Catholic churches all belong to the Vatican, (nothing like googling!).  The CofE may take the villager's money to repair their church but also expect villager's services gratis free but use of the church has to be carefully monitered by the tiers of religious bodies (mostly human).
Our village has some rights in the village hall in the next village, it is supposedly shared, but somehow our input is missing but I think we should be able to hold some happenings there.

Appleton-le-Moor