The Staplehurst Bellringers hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas and wish you all the best for the New Year.
The early copy deadline for this issue means that this report was written before the start of the Christmas festivities, but by the time you read this we will be approaching the end of what is always a busy time for our ringers. The first event was on the evening of Tuesday 17th December when 22 of our ringers, along with partners and friends, enjoyed our Christmas meal at The King’s Head and a great time was had by all. In addition to the normal Sunday Services we will also hopefully have rung for the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Sunday 22nd December, the Christingle Service on Christmas Eve, for Midnight Mass and on Christmas Morning. We will also have enjoyed our traditional New Year’s Party, this year kindly hosted again by Sue and Chris Bassett, and will have “rung in” 2025.
We are hoping that the New Year brings with it the completion of the work on the turret and spirelet. At the time of writing the work looks to be on time with all the scaffolding down hopefully by late January. Thanks to further donations (including that from our ringers’ own fund) the church are now within sight of the sum required to complete the project.
Things quieten down a bit in the New Year, and during January we will just be ringing on our normal Tuesday practice evening and for the regular Sunday services.
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