Still not yet ready to venture out from the marina by water, we went to the parish church in the village for the morning service for Palm Sunday. Whilst we were told that they do get a number of boater visitors, both passing in through and those staying at the marina, we appeared to be the only non-locals today.
The service was - for a present day small village - quite reasonable, 40-50, and was led by the vicar Sarah. It was a straight forward Service of the Word, special for Palm Sunday, but did include a procession all around the outside of the churchyard, complete with a real donkey, which was allowed briefly to come into the church to lead us out, waving our palms. (It behaved 'impeccably'!) We were supposed to be singing a well-known hymn but as most of us were left behind by a donkey keen to get back (to its next feed?) we were stretched out and could not always hear each other and which verse we were suppose to be at! It was a bit early for the Red Lion but, afterwards on our way back, we did notice that there were plenty of customers at the small Mulberry Cafe.
Back at the boat we set about some serious and dedicated recuperation, until it was time to prepare the evening Sunday Roast. However we did give a little thought to planning the days ahead - but we shall have to see how we are in the morning. Christine would quite like to visit some of he shops in Banbury sometime - either by car or by boat!
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