Saturday Morning saw the church hall busy with chat over tea, coffee and delicious home baking. There were stalls with Dorcas craft including a variety of candles & beautiful bags made from recycled coffee packets, books & CDs, mouthwatering & attractively presented cakes, biscuits and tablet on the baking stall… read more >>
Following on from the success of last month’s candle-making, there was a chance again to do it today. The hall quickly filled up with the smell of hot wax intermingled with the wafts of essential oils as we set about making our individual candles with choices of container, colour &… read more >>
This morning we enjoyed a service of thanksgiving for harvest, for our food that comes from many parts of the world, for farmers and all involved in the food industry. Andrea linked the harvest theme with the gospel reading from Luke 17:1-18 about the ten lepers whom Jesus healed but… read more >>
After several months of allowing the Labyrinth in Lennox Park to take shape, today we held a small ceremony of blessing and dedication. The sun shone briefly at the start before it was time to take cover under umbrellas and waterproofs! Together with those of us from St Andrew’s were… read more >>
On Sunday we said farewell to our dear friends Liz and George Farrow, sending them off with a special lunch and our love and thanks both in words from Andrea as Rector and Steve as People’s Warden and also with gifts including books: RHS Scottish Flowers for Liz and History… read more >>
If you passed St. Andrew’s on Saturday and noticed the heady mix of harmonious voices with the aroma of geranium, rose and amber, then you caught a taste of a singing workshop in the church organised by Milngavie Choir and a craft session on candle-making in the hall. There… read more >>
After the previous Sunday’s successful Talent Auction when members of the congregation offered a wide variety of skills as a way of fund-raising, including ice-cream workshops, history walks, bobble hat-making, jam, tablet and afternoon tea with Mozart, Jane set the ball rolling with a Cake Walk. It’s noticeable that food… read more >>
On Saturday, our busy crafters produced a number of different recycled items from upholstery and curtain material samples, including place mats, bags, dish covers, a pencil case and – after some determined wrestling with a wooden spoon to turn them inside… read more >>
Some beautiful & unique bracelets and necklaces were created with some already being worn as matching accessories, by the end of the session! Thanks to Morag for guiding us. Next month we look forward to experimenting… read more >>
We met at Pamela and Gordon’s and had an enjoyable evening discussing The Temptations of Gracie by Santa Montefiore. Set in the enchanting Italian countryside on a week-long cookery course, as well as looking back to the earlier secret years of the central character Gracie, the book incorporated themes of… read more >>