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I'm off to the harvest supper in a little while, i've always enjoyed this since i was a boy.
We have a splendid dinner followed by the sale of vegetables, such good fun.
Yesterday went to the harvest festival church service, so i now know autumn will soon be upon us.
I'm quite living it up don't you think.
Can anyone top that for excitement in their life.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

There no fool like an old fool.

wohoo OH
we just spent the staff meeting organising the harvest festival!
i hope you enjoy it
remember to take your purse to purchase some things!

I don't go to church anymore but I always used to enjoy harvest festival,too. and the supper afterwards, although the time I tried to "waitress" was a complete disaster!
Your social life certainly sounds more active than mine Herby!

Hello Old H',

The Harvest Festival back in my Sunday school days was always a favourite...I would attend carrying the biggest Marrow we had...

But don't ask about the time at Sunday school when I had to stand in the pulpit at a service and read a lesson.....it all went really well despite my nerves ...so much was my excitement at completing this duty that had been bothering me for weeks...that when we arrived home in a fit of madness I raced my brother along the lino floor to beat him to the loo....
Oops.!!..Mum had polished the lino and instead of a graceful stop I accelerated uncontrolled and collided with the toilet seat....leading to time spent in casualty for stitches to knee..

Put me right off church speaking....

In much more recent times at work we have decorated the adjacent village Church with produce for the harvest festival...
..I have to admit to cheating with the hessian sack of potatoes....it is packed with straw with a few choice spuds in view at the top.

I believe our harvest festival this year may be in October.??


By the way....Did I tell of my recent visit to Highgrove

And on Saturday last I was a guest on a special train of teak coaches...
....Tucking into Danish pastries with morning coffee followed by a rather nice buffet lunch..

All the best,
Clive.

I am so disappointed that Harvest Festival tradition was not carried over here. Always sounds such a lovely thing to do.
I expect the first arrivals here were just too busy trying to survive to worry about celebrating anything! Shame though, I should so love to have a harvest festival.
Can someone get a potato or something blessed for me?

You could get Sue to bless her Butternut Rugosa for you. They look like they need all the help they can get!

We're doing the food for our local Harvest Supper on October 7th. This is a C of E affair - I'm RC and Lyndon is one of life's non descripts. However, we're much in demand as the food is so good. Home made evrything - soups, pates, stews, breads, puddings. We'll be there and I'll enjoy the sing along. We do the same at Christmas.

I'm jealous, but I guess that's the sort of thing you give up to live in the big city.

The Harvest Moon is coming up. I'll have to get some lay some veg out in a sacred circle and howl at the moon for a bit. Might bring on labour.

Well what a smashing evening i had, such a freindly bunch, ranging from a baby to a decrepit.
For some reason the table i was sitting on seemed to be a lot noisier than the others.
Glad to see so many other people also enjoy their harvest festivals and suppers.
Zena has your church fell down, or is there another reason you don't go
Jopsy nice to see you still keep the tradition of the harvest festival going with the children.
Tigger that food sounds second to none.
Clive, don't let the health and safety people hear about your sunday school story, or they will try to ban harvest festivals all together.
I did realize that you had been to Highgrove, but i wasn't going to mention it for a while, so you didn't think i was interested, you must let us all know what you were up to, trying to compete with Chantal i am thinking.
DahlisMarie, i couldn't believe a life without a harvest festival, maybe you could start one.
I can bless what ever you want blessing.
Malk you must be brave living in a city, i worked in London for three days, every time i spoke to people in the street, they just carried on walking or looked at me as if i was mad, not at all like where i live.

I really do like the simple things in life.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

malk more people give birth on a full moon!
i read that somewhere!
oh i cannot believe you table was noisiest! funny that!

It's not nice Chanters - laughing at anothers mutant squashes Watch it or I will send you all my surplus pattypans

Sue

I remember harvest time when i was a kid, we would kneel down in the choir stalls munching apples from the display during the prayers, and after harvest supper there was alays an auction of the produce, and we kids would all buy pumpkins for halloween.

My son (watch out for his pic. in next months kg!)goes to sunday school at the salvation army and their supper is this weekend, not sure what it will be like, they say the vegetarian option is pizza! The hall gets decorated with tins and packets, not fresh produce

mandy