This morning as our Family Service we undertook our Rogation walk. At the start of the Service Father Stephen explained that in times gone by the entire boundary of the Parish would have been walked, which is rather more than we can cope with so we confine ourselves to the immediate environs of the Church. Happily we also no longer duck the choir boys in the duck pond! another tradition that has fallen away thank goodness!.
After singing Morning has broken in the Church, we set off on a gloriously sunny morning, through the Kissing gate to the Barn. Here we heard 2 readings and said a prayer for the harvest and sang the first 2 verses of All things Bright and Beautiful. We then returned to the Church yard and processed to the far end of the extension to the gate into the field. We assembled here and again had readings and prayers  and sang another verse of the hymn to some curious but slightly startled cows who were enjoying a trough of food. We then proceeded on to the Garden of Scantlings and again on to the Vicarage Field where some horses joined the congregation for prayers and readings and more singing. And so back across the Vicarage garden into church for a closing hymn, prayer and blessing. A lovely traditional Village occasion on a perfect June day.