Parish of Myland

 

St. Michael's Church

 

Serving the communities and enterprises of Myland

in collaboration with Mile End Methodist Church and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church

Braiswick ● Mile End ● The Myle ● New Braiswick Park ● Northern Approaches ● Romans ● Severalls ● Turner Rise ● Turner Village

Mile End Road, Colchester, Essex CO4 5DY (01206) 228124  office@mylandchurch.org.uk  ●  

 

 

2008 News Items

Family outing to Fritton Lake

Monday 18th August

 

It was a brilliant idea to gather together all our family groups in the Church, for an outing to Fritton Lake in Norfolk - including our Church Mice (0-5s and their parents), stmixkids.com (5s to 11s) and Youth Emmaus (11s-19s). Being a truly family event, it was an open invitation, and a number of Church members came along.

 

 The weather didn't look promising, and there was a fair amount of cloud and drizzle early on - but that didn't dampen spirits or stop anyone from enjoying themselves!

Here's a photograph of just a few of us, working out what do next... would it be the wellie trail, the pitch and putt course, the ponies or the boating lake?

 

 

 

 

 

....The boating lake won. And to prove it, some of our party lost! A number of boats went out, and all but one came back under their own oar-power. This one, however, enjoyed the luxury of a tow back to the jetty.

 

 

 

 

The children had a great time, and spent a lot of time with the ponies. Unfortunately, we didn't manage to snap them - but we did photograph Renee, Dorothy and Philip with one of the local residents (third from left!) though our cameraman is disappointed that not one of them looked at the camera.

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes it's difficult to get action shots of children, but reverend gentlemen move a little slower. Here's our Curate John Chandler on the Death Slide (believe it or not, he was moving quite fast at this point) watched by Diane, who had already tried the slide and lived.

 

 

 

... and finally another action shot, a rare occasion when June dared push our Priest-in-Charge Ray Gibbs around!

 

After lunch, the sun came out, most of us took part in all the activities, and we were all back on the Tony Glew coach promptly for our return journey.

 

If you'd like to join one of our young people's groups or contact us to learn more, ring Esther on (01206) 853890.

 

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