Cover stories...

The four lovely ladies adorning our front cover this month are this summer’s Pott Shrigley Church School leavers. Alison Hamnett, school administrator, is off to a well earned retirement and teaching assistant Emily Wray will be enjoying more hours at Wincle CE Primary School, whilst Eden Christiansen and Rose Kennedy progress to secondary school.

After all the heartaches that lockdown has caused for those couples planning to marry this spring and summer, on 8th August we at St Christopher’s were absolutely delighted to welcome Emily Wetton and Jamie Hough, and their guests, to church for their wedding service, the first to be held here this year. The sun shone, the bride looked stunning and Jamie looked particularly smart. We wish them God’s blessings and every happiness in their lives together.

Even in these constrained times, we couldn’t let Ali leave Pott School without a ‘do’ so, whilst plans for a socially distanced picnic on the village green were washed out, the Pott School community of pupils, parents, staff, governors and friends gathered outside the village hall to give her a fitting send off, complete with tea and cake. A few days earlier, Alison’s original interview committee had reassembled; Alex looks distinctly older but the rest of us still look as young as ever!