An assorted group of 17 ramblers with an age range of 6 – probably around 80 plus met beneath the clock tower of St Peter’s to ramble over Bugs Bottom, up the hill to Chalkhouse Green, across the fields to Tokers Green, and then through the woods to arrive at the Packhorse, where they were greeted with a warm fire, mulled wine and ginger and chocolate mince pies. The mud was bravely borne and some even returned on foot though the gloaming.Click on the images for larger versionsThe next ramble will be through Chazey Woods at at Bluebell... Read more...
On 18 February 2017 there will be another chance to hear a recital on the wonderful new organ at St Peter’s Church, Caversham. The recital starts at 4pm. Read more...
Earlier this year the organ at St Peters was replaced, following a successful appeal during 2014 and 2015. Regent Classic Organs have published an account of their installation of the new organ, with technical details, many pictures, and links to recordings of the organ in action. Read more...
The Autumn Ramble took place on Remembrance Sunday, November 13, under cold but clear skies. The walk started at St Peters Church, then headed north up Bugs Bottom to Tanners Lane. Heavy rain the day before had made the footpaths very muddy, and we didn't get as far as planned.The walk was followed by tea and toasted crumpets at Badgers Rise, where we enjoyed a Gardeners' Question Time with Richard Bisgrove, a lecturer at Kew.Left: group photo at Bugs Bottom; Right: map-reading practice in Emmer Green.The next Sporadic walk will take place on Sunday 8... Read more...
St John’s Mothers’ Union have filled 100 shoeboxes with toys, gloves and hats, stationery and hygiene items. With the help of donations from St John’s congregation to pay for the delivery costs, the boxes will be distributed by Samaritan’s Purse, through their "Operation Christmas Child". The boxes were brought into church and were blessed by Revd John Dudley. They will go to children in countries around the world for whom this could well be their only Christmas present. Read more...
The 2016 Parish Barn Dance took place at St John’s on Friday 21st October. The local band Inisheer provided the music and caller Howard Ballard steered us through the different dances. A sell-out event, we had great fun and raised £389 for church funds. The band is already booked for next year – keep September 29th free! Read more...
St John’s Church was filled with the sound of brass on Friday 16th September 2016 when it hosted a brass band concert featuring the Tadley Band, leader Stewart Lewins. The programme included selections from Cabaret, Les Miserables, Burt Bacharach and Elvis Presley, with other favourites from Walt Disney and Richard Rodgers, and the Finale to Sullivan’s Pineapple Poll. There was a memorable piece which blended Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” with Bach’s “Air on a G string”, an unlikely combination but one which the band proved worked very well. Read more...
The Summer Ramble was Caversham’s version of the Santiago di Compostela pilgrimage, linking as it did the three churches in the benefice and finishing at St Andrew’s Sonning.Various assorted clerics, dogs, children and adults walked the riverside path observing the gleaming newly restored cross on St Margaret’s, and the windows and capital in St Peter’s and traversing the new bridge near St John’s and the historic pack-horse bridge, which Rodney told us had a narrow escape in the seventies. We saw a heron and black swan amongst other wildlife and enjoyed Sussex apple... Read more...
