St Mellitus and Windsor

It was a bright sunny and cloudless sky that greeted us as we awoke. Our plan was to go to church in the morning and then go over to Windsor for a short visit at lunch time to sort out more details of what we are expected to do in the coming week.

We took the opportunity to drive over to Hanwell and to St Mellitus Church from where the new Rector of Wadebridge has just moved. We were not sure whether we would be welcomed or lynched!

Our departure was from the marina was a little delayed as we had not allowed for an iced up windscreen but fortunately we did have some de-icer in the car and the special defrost facility on the air conditioning soon had it sorted.

Inside St Mellitus Church

 We were warmly welcomed - the service was taken by several members of the congregation as no priest was available. As we know in Wadebridge, this is a growing experience during vacancies - we were told afterwards that there are 14 vacancies in the immediate area. In any case, it seems  that this congregation is beginning to discover that such situations are also opportunities and they clearly do not intend to lose the chance for trying new things.

After coffee we set off to drive to Windsor and a mobile call on the way meant that we knew that lunch would be ready and waiting for us when we arrived.

We had a good chance to catch up on family news and to plan (sort of!) the next few days. Well, we do know some of tomorrow and one or two other days but there is plenty of room for new ideas!

Mid afternoon we returned to the boat. We had meant to call at the large Sainsbury supermarket on the edge of Slough but missed a turning and ended up well to the north. Still Tesco just around the corner from the marina did at least stock washing up liquid!