Pastoral naivety!

Tipped-off by a friend’s mother we recently arranged to meet up with a member of the old Stratford corps. So yesterday, armed with some lush Guiting fruit cake we set off to introduce ourselves to Jill and her friend Ivy.

We had a great time getting to know them both, hearing stories about their families and their memories of the Army in Stratford. We also managed to acquire the closest thing we have to a corps history book in the shape of Jill’s scrapbook.

I’ve got no doubt this will be the first of many such ‘tea-parties’ we’ll have – as long as I can remember not to repeat my pastoral faux pa!

Lisa seemed to think it was wrong of me to repeatedly tell Jill (who is quite blind) what a wonderful view she has from her seventh floor flat!