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Organising outdoor events in our country is always risky – the big worry is whether the day will be rainy and windy and wreck everything. Our 10th garden...

The very happy news is that at the end of the 2024 school year, 4 of the 5 have achieved sufficiently high marks to progress to the next grade in 2025. You...

The 9th Future Bright Trust garden party welcomed 109 people who came to Piddlehinton to help raise funds to educate the 5 children in South Africa – the ones...

I have just returned from 2 months spent with the Sisters and the children – hence this newsletter is a little later than usual. I arrived late November, just...

Looking back at the weather we have endured in July 2023, it is truly wonderful that the sun shone so beautifully on the afternoon of the first day of the...

This winter newsletter is coming to you rather later than usual because I have been waiting for the children to start the new school year in South Africa....

At 5.00 in the morning on 24 June 5 children and their Mama arrived at Heathrow Airport having been travelling for 24 hours. Were they exhausted? No!!...

Usually you receive a newsletter just before Christmas but this year for a whole variety of reasons I was unable to write one in time. I am happy though to...

We did it! We put a date in the diary and hoped…not just for good weather but for the rules governing the total number of people allowed at events to be...

Since our last newsletter when South Africa was in Lockdown and all the children were at home, they have returned to school part time. As you might imagine,...

Below is a link to YouTube for a short video made in my garden on Saturday 28th June – the day we should have been all together for the 2020 Future Bright...

In the last newsletter we announced the garden party planned for this year was to be “All on a Dorset Summer’s Evening”. Sadly it will not be possible to hold...

This year I went to stay with the Sisters and the children for 7 weeks over Christmas and the New Year. I arrived in very great heat and discovered that the...

What a beautiful day! Once again the sunshine lit up the garden – we were all dry and warm and very happy. The sound of drumming greeted our guests as they...

After 5 weeks staying with Mother Zelma, the Sisters and the children I am back home in Dorset. It is certainly good to be home but as the temperature there...

To our complete relief and joy, the sun shone on 9 June for our fundraising event. This is the fourth year in succession and so someone (Mother Zelma?) must...

Your last newsletter was written just before Sue left for a lovely long visit to the Sisters and the children in Grahamstown. As you might expect, the...

I travelled to South Africa to arrive in time for the Easter celebrations, which are rather special at the Convent. Of course the 5 children really enjoy...

Afternoon Tea - For a second year running we were blessed with beautiful weather for this important fundraising event. As Mother Zelma and I greeted everyone...

Very soon I shall be leaving for South Africa to stay at the convent for Christmas. I am very much looking forward to my time with the Sisters and with the...

A few days ago I returned from 3 weeks in South Africa. I arrived in time to spend Easter at the Convent of the Resurrection of Our Lord in Grahamstown. It...