Updated: Jun 5, 2023
A very successful art exhibition was held at the Church on Oct 28th and 29th. The exhibition had been due to be held in 2021 but had to be postponed because of Covid. However it was finally held this year and we had a record number of entries - over 100! The event contributed funding of around £800 to the Friends of St Laurence charity.
Many thanks to all those who entered our Xmas Tree Festival Competition. We had lots of creative and festive entries. The overall winner was Helen Sheard of The Green, Blackmore. A photo of her tree and house decorations is shown below. Runners up were:
Beryl Caton - most creative
Ronald Quested - highly commended
John and Margaret Laing - highly commended
Nicci Hyatt - highly commended
We look forward to running the competition again in 2021, and seeing if we can have even more entries and lighten up the parish again this Christmas.
As there will be no Panto this year the Blackmore Players decided to put on a Nativity Play instead. This has been an interesting challenge due to COVID-19 and the need to maintain social distance. The Director is the previous FoSL Chairman John Riley who commented "because I am old and mad, I was invited to come out of retirement to direct it."
So here we are, a production like no other; a mixture of live Zoom and video’s so you are invited to join for 45 minutes of fun! Putting it together has all been a bit last minute as we could not shoot the socially distanced video’s until the weekend before last and post production work was still in hand up until 15th December.
This will be broadcast using You Tube, you can see it on a (Smart) TV, computer, tablet or Smart ‘Phone.
The You Tube link: https://youtu.be/QcTryRATixY
“Xmas Angels” a seasonal comedy by Jacob de Bruyn, looking at the events leading up to the birth of Jesus, but this time from the perspective of the angels themselves.
Just imagine……It is a few years before the year zero CE. The birth of the Messiah has unexpectedly been brought forward, and Archangel Gabriel puts a young and inexperienced Events Management Team in charge of proceedings on earth.
Led by ‘Junior Angel’, the team tries their best, but do not always succeed in achieving their goals. In fact, most of the time, things seem to go awry…...