Author: lismuller

It is with regret that I announce that Friends of St Peter’s, Thornton has decided that it will not be possible to hold its scheduled Open Gardens event this year.  Despite the progress of the Vaccination programme, we feel that the Open Gardens in a village such as ours cannot be held in a socially-distanced way and so will not be practical this year.

Building on the success of last year’s ’virtual’ open gardens on YouTube (which was viewed 854 times), there will be something similar again this year.  The format may differ, depending on the number of participants.  As Open Gardens usually serves as both a social and fundraising event, this year we plan to link to an optional ‘JustGiving’ page so that people can donate if they wish to.

The deadline for submitting photos or a short video will be 20^th June and the Virtual Open Gardens will be available to view in early July.  If you think you may be interested in displaying your garden in this way, please let me know on thornton.opengardens@outlook.com. 

We are hopeful that we will be able to hold this event in June 2022, as it should be – for real, outdoors and welcoming everyone into our beautiful and unusual gardens.

Lis Muller

If you go into the village today, you’re in for a big surprise.
If you go into the village today, you’ll never believe your eyes.
For hiding there in cranny and creek,
Are Teddy bears for you to seek,
For this is the start of Thornton Teddy bear hunt week.

A lovely idea developed by some of the parents in our village to keep the young amused during a lockdown half term!

(Thank to Carla for organising – Verse and photo by Colin Melvyn Harris)

The February edition of the magazine is now ready and can be accessed on http://www.j22churches.org.uk/

We are really sorry and sad that there will be no hard copies of the magazine for February. Our regular printer, ‘TeamPrint’, has been closed since April 2020 because of Covid-19. Printing the magazine ourselves has become very costly even though we were printing fewer copies.

As soon as ‘TeamPrint’ are up and running again, we will be back in business.Meanwhile there will continue to be monthly editions of the magazine available online on the Benefice website.

We don’t yet know what will happen for March’s edition but will keep you informed.

When we do eventually start to print the magazine again everyone should receive a hard copy as in previous years.

For further information please contact me on 01530 230422. Thank you.

Shirley Garlick

on behalf of The Village Link sub committee

Join us for our online church service on Sunday at 10.15am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpjgBslM_6k

Sadly our Sunday services in church are suspended for the time being.

Benefice online church Services will continue. Visit ‘J22 Churches’ and click on ‘YouTube Channel’
Every Sunday Worship Service premiering at 10.15 am.
Wednesday Prayers for The End of The Day posted at 8 pm.
Thursday Thought for Thursday! posted by mid morning.

These are the times they are uploaded, they can be watched after that. For help or information contact Shirley – 230422 or Rev’d Andrew – j22rector@yahoo.com

Please follow the link for an interesting, free and relevant read https://5d593f58-0263-4738-bacb-2a1a3c78bb61.filesusr.com/ugd/c3f354_244a10c2426f4e169bc535e54f29c1a6.pdf

Christmas lights are going up all round the village and it seems people are decorating for Christmas! How are your ‘Christmas carol’ windows going?

I posted a couple of week ago that the J22 benefice churches (Markfield, Thornton, Stanton-under-Bardon, Bagworth and Copt Oak) had an idea to brighten up our villages with a simple and fun idea – that as many people as possible decorate a window in their house in the theme of a Christmas Carol. Then as people walk by, they can look out for the decorated windows and guess the carols, maybe singing a few verses to help them on their way.

I have heard that a few have already been done in Markfield – have we any yet in Thornton?

The benefice will be having an online Carol service on Sunday 20th at 4pm and an online Christingle Service at 4pm on Christmas Eve on our Youtube channel. They can be watched at any time after that – to suit your plans.