...is where I'll be on Friday, with other members of the Association of Catholic Women, and the Ladies Ordinariate Group. We are visiting the new Vocations Centre at Whistable, Mass, lunch, a talk, and then some time by the sea (ice creams, paddling...) and pottering around the very delightful town. We'll finish with the Rosary and Tea at the little garden shrine in the Vocatons Centre...
On Monday, a big group from Precious Blood parish at London Bridge took part in a History Walk around the Borough. Catherine of Aragon, St George, Sir Christopher Wren, Chaucer and Shakespeare are all part of the history here...it's right at the heart of some of the great events of our country's history and traditions and culture. On a golden summer evening, with the tide of the Thames lapping out to reveal old landing-stages and layers of history, and St Paul's standing majestically against the skyline on the opposite bank, and stories of Viking battles on London Bridge, somehow we all felt very much at one with the centuries past....
We finished at The George tavern, and after an evening of talking and explaining history to a large crowd against the general backgound London noise, Auntie relished the first glorious gulps of a cold gin-and-tonic with a chunk of lemon...
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