Obviously, we have not been able to arrange any flowers over the last few weeks, but the flower ladies look forward to being back to normal and able to decorate the church again. In normal times, week by week we do our two urns and have had some lovely foliage given to us this year by Jim Davey from his woodland out in Surrey – we are very lucky to have this as foliage is expensive and not so natural as one would like. when offered foliage I am a little ungrateful perhaps as it doesn’t come in the lengths that we can use and causes us more work – Annie Bond and I have done the usual weekly flowers and have looked to the wider team for the special occasions.
Many weddings again and some lovely designs – the Wedding of Imogen Blackburn just before Christmas gave the team a wonderful opportunity of trying out some new styles and one realises that materials and styles indeed do change – our team for such events of Nicky Urquhart, Annie Bond, Sue Lefroy and Isabel Courtenay achieved marvellous results with the orange and red theme and the Covent Garden team featured a set of photos in their list.
Very sadly our dear Mickey Heath died during the year but I still feel his spirit when doing the arch in particular. He was a huge support through many years and is greatly missed. His funeral near the Isle of dogs was an eye opener to me anyway!
Sue Adams