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At the end of March we had a ‘Springtime Morning’ . It was on a weekday from 10.30am to 1pm, but the coffee shop still had a steady flow of people, while in the Heritage we were well occupied selling our home made cakes, chocolates, Easter baskets etc. and special bowls and containers of Easter plants. Mary Coleman who is so generous with her time , came and gave a demonstration of Easter Flower arrangements which were then raffled.

Our Annual Garden Fayre was on Saturday 22 May this year from 2pm to 4.30pm. The weather was glorious and we had a steady stream of people who went to select their plants in the Mustard Seed Garden Centre, then they made their way to the Oasis for a Devonshire Tea which consisted of plain scones, halved, spread with strawberry jam, then a layer of cream and the whole, topped with a strawberry. Our Garden Centre is becoming very popular as our plants are very fresh and we are getting lots of orders for hanging baskets, containers filled with a selection of colourful plants or just bedding plants.

In order to increase the variety of our produce for sale in our Oasis shop we had a session on learning how to make chocolates. A professional came to show our two helpers in the Oasis. It looked easy enough but we encountered almost every possible pitfall in the learning process. In the end we got there and our efforts are proving popular. We had to order good quality chocolate and when it arrived we discovered that it came from Guayaquil in Ecuador! So now we are producing the best Equatorian chocolates!

Events

On Easter Monday we had the first of what will now be the regular weekly Divine Mercy Holy Hours. Sometimes there is Mass followed by Exposition, otherwise a Holy Hour led by Rev.Fr.Fitzgerald from St Colman’s Cathedral who is responsible for the group. The Holy Hour lasts from 8pm to 9pm and the church has been packed. So much so that we will soon need to have the overflow of people in the nuns’ choir.