The Last Post

I’d like to thank everyone who has taken the time and trouble over the past few days, to give me feedback on the Scarecrow Trail. This has been uniformly positive, with plenty of good ideas for how to make things better next time.

Deo volente, there will be a next time, but this will be in June 2015, with the theme, ‘Book, Play or Film’. Meanwhile, members of the church family at All Saints will be putting their heads together over the coming weeks, to think of something completely different to engage and share with our local community next summer.

Our next big event is set to be the ‘All Saints’ Christmas Cracker’, an old-fashioned craft and gift fair up at All Saints’ Church, Loughton MK, in early December 2013. Nearer the time, everyone will be invited to come along to celebrate the real meaning of Christmas, with Carols and Storytelling, Santa’s Grotto, a traditional Bran Tub and an Old Fashioned Sweet Stall, Children’s Crafts and Games, and a Contemplation and Prayer Space.

There will also be plenty of Christmas arts and crafts on sale to stock up on those extra-special Christmas presents and to raise money for the church, including Embroideries and Textiles, Christmas Decorations, Greetings Cards and other seasonal gifts, as well as a Grand Raffle and ‘Jambola’. Novelty stalls last year included a ‘Pass on A Present’ stall selling new and pre-loved gifts suitable as Christmas Presents, Vintage Jewellery, Scarves and Handbags, Christmas Plants and Stocking Fillers.

For your delectation and delight, there will be a choice of afternoon tea and cakes or mulled wine and mince pies, a Home Made Cakes and Produce stall, and a Fairtrade Stall selling ethically sourced products from all over the world.

I will conclude this final blog of the 2013 All Saints’ Loughton MK Scarecrow Trail by saying a really big ‘Thank You’ to everyone who has played a part in making the 2013 Scarecrow Trail such a great success, whether by building a 'crow' or by following the trail, or by helping out at events associated with it, or even by following this blog over the past few months. Hopefully, I’ll be back in 2015 with news about our next Scarecrow Trail.