Our Social Times Together
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Mountfitchet Castle Day Out
15 of us had a lovely day out at Mountfitchet Castle and the Museum. The Castle is a unique open-air museum experience where you travel back in time over 900 years and witness life in a medieval Motte and Bailey castle. There's a wonderful Norman village hidden behind the castle walls, where you can wander in and out of the many houses and view the scenes, pray in the ancient chapel (the children seemed to enjoy sitting there quietly!), smell the log fires burning and feel the ambience of a bygone lifestyle. There are a number of animals, including tame Fallow deer which can be hand fed, chckens everywhere and other rescued animals that roam freely throughout the 10 acre site. You can try the different armour on and Lynn our vicar enjoyed the jousting armour and horse, before turing into Darth Vadar, whilst Eve and Alison discovered the mirrors don't lie in the Toy Museum!
A Greek Evening
Blue and white flags adorned the church hall
for the party of
all parties with an evening of Greek food, fun and fellowship.
We were fed delicious Greek cuisine, entertained by an exotic
belly-dancer, along with traditional Greek dancing displays and
plate smashing. And as the photos reveal, we were all actively
encouraged to join in the dancing as an excellent trio of Greek
musicians led us to familiar themes such as 'Zorba the Greek'. A
night to be remembered!
Contact The Elderly
Contact the Elderly is a nationwide charity solely dedicated to tackling loneliness and isolation among older people aged 75 and above, who live alone, by organising free monthly Sunday afternoon tea parties for small groups within local communities - providing a regular and vital friendship link every month. A couple of times a year we host such an afternoon here at Latton and this year one of the vicar's bantams even did a bit of entertaining too! Each guest is collected from their home by a volunteer driver, and taken to a host's home (or church in our case), where they join a small group for tea, chat and companionship. A great time was had by all and you can read more about 'Contact the Elderly' on our Links
The Jubilee Party in the Park
A few hundred people were at the Party in the Town Park celebrating the Queen's Jubilee and we were there promoting our Greek project. Liz and Emily and the family, worked so hard to make our stall so successful. Emily's beautifully decorated cups cakes made up for the lack of stalls there! She made over 200 and they went like hot cakes rather than cup cakes! They tasted absolutely delicious! We were joined throughout the afternoon by members of our church.
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The Summer Fete
Summer Fete's are always a time of great fun and fellowship, as well
as a time of fundraising for our church.
We love having so many people from the community joining us.
Strawberry Tea at the Vicarage
Over 30 of us were treated to a delicious strawberry tea at the vicarage.
The sun shone as we sat in the garden enjoying a relaxing afternoon together.
The children had a wonderful time running around in the gardens woods, playing with the vicars chickens
and playing a new game they invented called 'Peg a Priest'!
Emily and Liz had been strawberry picking and served up a delicious tea for us all with a variety of sandwiches,
home made cakes and fresh strawberries and cream.
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Day Trip to the Seaside
The weather was superb, the company great fun, the food delicious,
the entertainment entertaining, the sea cold and 90 year old Phyllis
managed to thrash the vicar in the arcades at 'air hockey'!
We're definitely going to do it again!
Our Summer Picnic
Some of our folk gather for our summer
parish picnic.
It's a lovely family event where all ages gather to have lunch
and then enjoy play time together!
Vicarage Garden BBQ
The vicarage hosted a summer BBQ where about 50 of us gathered for some fun, refreshment, relaxation and fellowship together. Watch out on this site for the date of the next one!
[page top]Halloween Fun
Our Halloween fancy dress party is always good fun. The children have a wonderful time playing lots of games, enjoying food and carving pumpkins. Then there's the walk through the churchyard, carrying our pumpkins into church for a celebration of light: Jesus the true LIght.
Patronal Festival Evening
What a wonderful evening of fun we all had celebrating our Patronal Festival with an old time musical theme and fish and chip supper. We were entertained by a variety of musical acts and sketches and made £300 for our Greek Project, as Marina's Fish Bar, Garden Terrace Road, Old Harlow, generously donated free of charge all the meals
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Our Colchester Zoo Trip
The sun shone throughout the day and the group of us who travelled to Colchester Zoo had a wonderful time. There were so many animals to see! We arrived about 11.15am and left around 4.30pm thoroughly exhausted by al the walking, but delighted by all we had seen and experienced from Cockroaches to Elephants! Colchester Zoo has over 270 species, set in 60 acres of beautiful parkland and lakes. We all had a super day out together.
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The Streets2Homes Sleep Out
During the winter we held a sleep out to raise funds for Streets2Homes. It was a cold night but the money we raised made it all worthwhile. To find out more about Streets2Homes please look at our "Helping Others" page
[page top]A Wild Day Out
We at Latton like to have fun days out together and here is one such
day, when we visited a wildlife park set in acres of attractive grounds
and featuring one of the largest butterfly houses in the country.
It was a wonderful time with both children and adults enjoying holding
butterflies, patting the wildlife and watching the falconry display.
Oh What a Knees Up!
Our Cockney Evening was a huge success enjoyed by both young and old
and several people turned up in suitable cockney garb, making a
colourful addition to the proceedings.
Our in-house chefs prepared our Tommy Tucker of bangers or pie and mash,
while we sang plenty of rousing Ding Dongs especially familiar to the
oldies.
During the course of the evening we also played Oranges and Lemons,
danced to Hands Knees and Boomps-a-Daisy and the Lambeth Walk.
There was no slacking as we were delightfully accompanied by Anne and
Jean on the old Joanna!
Recitations and dramatic performances provided by some with unsuspected
talents enlivened our evening still further and provided us with plenty
of laughs.
Mind over Matter took on a new meaning and we shall long remember It's
not the done thing to go to a funeral in Brahn Boots!
The fancy dress entries paraded for our admiration and the winners were
Simon Dinwiddy as the best-dressed man, and Joan Snell in her
magnificent almond rock and Flowery Tit for Tat.
Just in case we had any energy left after all this, Lynn encouraged us
to join in the Hokey Cokey.
Ron Simmons'performance rounded everything off beautifully and sent
us home with a smile. We hardly needed Showing the Way to go Home.
The Latton Barn Dance
A barn dance?!
Who will come?’……. Well, in fact approximately 40 of us turned
up for what turned out to be a fabulous evening, full of fun and
laughter. Even those, who for various reasons were unable to
dance, enjoyed themselves.The energy levels were high, there was
raucous laughter and some good natured teasing throughout as a
small group of home-grown leaders led us through a refreshing
repertoire of circle, square and line dances. The evening began
with the simpler dances and progressed to a greater speed as we
all became more skilled, to a point where we were eventually
swinging the polka with our partners. Sometimes not all the
dances quite worked out as planned, as we saw when Alan
and Chester ended up partnering each other!
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