Didn't we have a luvverly day, the day we went to Dorset

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Date: 25 May 2008 20:53:22

The parishioners of Tavistock don't get out much, so it was with great excitement that we boarded a coach first thing on Saturday morning to take us to our namesake church in a little village in Dorset. It was a cross between 'Day trip to Bangor' and the Famous Five spoof film '(Twenty)-Five go mad in Dorset', with lots of cake and lashings of ginger beer. Well, beer anyway. We stopped off for coffee and lunch in Sherborne, with time to look round their beautiful abbey and then arrived on top of a large hill overlooking the village of Ibberton. The hardy ones of us walked down the footpath to the church while the others took the coach. It was bright, sunny weather, so perfect for a walk, although we felt rather jealous of the lazy ones who spent their spare time,waiting for us, in the pub. After Evensong in the tiny church of St. Eustace (the other spelling of Eustachius) we continued down the hill to the village hall for hearty refreshments. The parishioners were so friendly we asked them to come to our church next year, where I hope we can manage to feed them as well as they fed us.

Some of our choir, plus organist, were singing in Brecon Cathedral for the weekend, so the remainder just about managed four parts (with one tenor, plus a bass who was persuaded to come over to the dark side) for 'Ave Verum Corpus' (Mozart). The service included another baptism, so there was more cake and chocolate biscuits to be had at the back of church. It's a hard life being a chorister, sometimes.