I went to the Parish garden party next door yesterday afternoon, so I had a nice ecumenical weekend, having been well Quakered the day before and on Sunday morning. We had a cracking tea and then Evensong in the garden with an electronic organ and three splendid hymns. There were two Bible stories, each about eating in the open air:the loaves and fishes one by the Sea of Gallilee and the one about manna from heaven. I thoroughly enjoyed it all, and also the conversations with lovely elderly women in their summer frocks and straw hats.
This morning I discovered a cupboard in the back kitchen full of food that was three years out of date, Jaffa cakes, pasta, cous cous, raisins, soup,lemonade, Oh masses of stuff and it was terrible having to throw it all away. It must have belonged to a long departed resident. The worst of it is that it may have been OK to eat some of it but I do not want to be the Warden of the meeting house responsible for an outbreak of food poisoning.