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6 WESTLEA
Clowning Around
Westlea School Bonfire
Thursday 5 November
6 3Opm start Adults C1.20; Child £1
(Pre-school tree) • Refreshments
Tickets on sale at the school
Group Guy Competition

Group celebrates
Westlea's Little Hands toddler
group held a party on 21 September
Not just a Garden to mark their first birthday and the
opening of the new Sunshine Room
Centre - more a a year ago.
To join Little Hands, call Alison
gardeners' paradise Barrett on 873003.
Pictured below are the only founder
where you can buy unusual
members still in the group Chris and
and hard to find varieties of Oliver Woodward, left, and Richard
Fruit Trees, Ornamental Members of Westlea Church taking themselves seriously
and Alison Barrett
Trees, Herbaceous Perennials, Helen Lawrence writes: birthday with Roly Bain, an angli-
Roses, Trees, Shrubs, Alpines, Gasps of wonder - shrieks of delight can priest and full-time clown. He
Heathers and Conifers - morning service as usual for says the clown mirrors our lives,
and get expert advice from Westlea Church? But now it's the tragedy mixed with comedy - an
grown-ups making the noise. absurd, vulnerable figure open to
the people who grow them
A clown swings on a rope be- ridicule - like Christians.
NEW FOR AUTUMN tween two scaffolding crosses, After a wet, barbecued lunch, we
Universal Pansies and (please don't let him scratch the made clowns of ourselves, complete
Autumn Bedding Plants school's floor!). 'Sometimes,' he with silly hats, silly noses and silly
grunts, clinging to the crossbar, 'all walks. Jesus used humour in his
Grange Farm Nurseries you can do is hang on to the Cross.' stories (just imagine someone with
Haydon End Lane Slowly he steps out across the rope. a plank in their eye!) to speak to
Entrance off Lady Lane and 'Faith is like a slack rope' he says, people who take themselves far too
Westfield Way, Haydon Wick 'it's very narrow but if you keep seriously, people like us. In the end
your eyes on the Cross, you'll get the clown, ridiculous and vulner-
there in the end.' able but real about life and taking it
We are celebrating our eighth as it comes, is the winner.

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