Thought for the week ...

Hopes & Dreams Tree

There have been many beautifully decorated Christmas trees around campus, so this year we decided to have a Hopes & Dreams tree outside Chaplaincy.  

This proved very popular and just over 180 students wrote their responses on to our speech bubbles.  

Below I have picked out and photographed a selection of those responses, which make for some lovely reading 💖💖💖

Christmas message

Thought for the week ...

TABLEtalk Christmas Party

A great time was had by all last night at our

TABLEtalk Christmas Party.

Food, Fun & Friendship were the order of the day 😀

We ate Thai & Chinese and traditional Christmas desserts.

We played pass the parcel with some surprise challenges.

We exchanged gifts with our Left/Right story.

Then finally, we had lots of laughs playing

"Have you ever ..." during which Pauline

spent the lion's share of time in the middle  😂😂😂

Thank you Abi, Sushmitha, Emeka, Gulakshitha, Himanshu, Harsh, Sukant, Milenka, Daniel, Desh, Jacob, Harinee, Vinuli, Laiba, Jude, Alice, Mustafa, Sudeept, Niloofar, Saheba, Muppineedhi, Arun, John, Pauline & Barbara for helping

to make the evening sooooooo0o much fun!!!

Wishing you all a marvellous Christmas

and a blessed New Year ahead 💝

"I really enjoyed last  night at TABLEtalk

Christmas party. Thank you so much, Lynne."

Himanshu (India)

"Had a lot of fun yesterday, Lynne.

Thank you for all the effort you put in."

Mustafa (Pakistan)

"Thank you so much, Lynne."

Milenka (Peru)

Canterbury Trip

Despite all the threats of Storm Darragh, our trip to Canterbury went ahead with 22 adults and two children. 

I'd been concerned that the trains might be affected, but the whole day ran very smoothly.  For the most part the weather was much milder than we had expected and students were still keen to enjoy all that Canterbury had to offer. 

My first port of call for the day, was brunch in MacDonalds
with Sushmitha, Jacob, Gulakshitha, Abi and Desh (photographer).  It's not a place I usually frequently, but when students are MacDonalds' employees and can get you a lovely discount  ...  well 😀

"Thank you, mam. It's all because of your love we are enjoying our time."  Alice

"Thank you, mam, because of you I enjoyed today."

Ushma

"Thanks so much, Lynne. We had a wonderful time in Canterbury today."  Jacinta

Thought for the week ...

Thought for the week ...

Christmas Wreath Making

This morning, Milenka and I enjoyed a marvellous few hours at St Matthew's Church in Wigmore at a Christmas Wreath making event.

The church had been arranged so beautifully, with each place set out ready for creativity to take place.  There was greenery galore, plus lots of ribbon and added extras for those finishing touches.

We even had mince pies, stollen, sausage rolls, tea, coffee and prosecco!!  Because creativity needs to be fed!!

But even before all of that, I had the privilege of presenting a short Christmas thought.  I talked about LIGHT ... as comfort, as hope and as truth! 

I got a bit carried away with the greenery and ended up with the biggest wreath I've ever seen. It got quite heavy!  But, here it is, proudly handing outside my house 😀  We both had soooooooo much fun!