LEIGH
REPS: Philippa Toulson philippa.toulson@gmail.com Eddie Upton upton.eddie@gmail.com DISTRIBUTOR: Judy Tuke
Maize harvesting Leigh Lane: photo Jennie Greenwood
Last month, Morag Orchard wrote in praise of Brenda and Steve at the village shop and garage for all they have done to keep the village going through the pandemic. She is quite right, and we should all do our best to say thank you by making maximum use of the services that Brenda and Steve provide. There is another unsung service that also deserves our support. As soon as lockdown started, the village started receiving weekly visits from the Else brothers, Martin and Nick, from Stalbridge, with their fruit, vegetable and fresh fish vans, selling good quality produce. It started outside the shop and then moved to the Village Hall car park. I suggest this is something else we should remember and support. They are there every Wednesday at 1.00pm. They even take cards. Keep your news coming to us – before 12th of each month please. Philippa Toulson and Eddie Upton
St Andrew’s Church, Leigh As soon as we have services at the church again, we thought the safest way was to hold them in the open air. The weather was very kind to us and all our services up to our Harvest Festival on 11 October were held in the churchyard. Thank you to all of those who braved the sometimes quite chilly winds to sit in the churchyard for almost an hour, and thank you all of you who helped lead those services. The clergy team are rightly concerned about how to conduct services in the safest possible way, and about how many services there should be. Plans are still in their formative stages, but we are told that our area of the Benefice, the old Wriggle Valley area, will have just one service each Sunday. This means that Leigh will have just one per month. This made us think hard about what we should do for our own parishioners. Should we encourage people to travel to 21
