June event 1 - Picnic in the park

June has been a very hectic month beginning with our "Parish Picnic in the Park" on after the 10.30 a.m. service on Sunday 9th June.
Tim writes :-

"Sunday 9th June saw about 30 of us arrive at the Botanic Gardens.  The ages ranged from 1 to about 81 with those at the extremes of the age range spending most of the time with their eyes closed - snoring!

It was a glorious day and the hats on show were as diverse as the picnics themselves.  Harris tweed flat caps, knotted handkerchiefs and very dodgy sun caps must have looked like an Easter bonnet competition gone wrong.

As for the picnics, some had gone to a lot of trouble.  Some had gone to Tesco! 






Games, ice cream, 

water bombs, vicars playing rugby 

and friendly dogs were all part of the fun 

and some of us enjoyed some competitive sport with our friends from St Simon & St Jude based loosely around netball and cricket!"

It was great to see so many people supporting the event and the weather could not have been kinder.  We're all looking forward to next year's picnic already!"

Thank you for this Tim and also thank you to Jim for supplying the photos.  It sounds as if you all had a great time!