St Michael and All Angels Church Whitwell. Churchyard Sponsored scythe in aid of the fabric fund. Saturday 31st October 2020

With our quarterly planned fundraising events for 2020 cancelled and repairs to the nave roof required, our Churchwarden Tony Godwin has offered his emerging scything skills for a sponsored mow of the churchyard to the north side of the church.

Generally this area has been left to grow wild according to current biodiversity good practice but we still give it an annual haircut. As bare chested scything is not good practice (except for dramatic effect in TV drama) and it may be a bit chilly, Tony will be fully clothed (phew!). He hopes that whilst reflectively honing the blade of the scythe, the traffic passing on the A606 below will be slowed by the appearance of the ‘grim reaper’!

The cut grass will be collected in builders bags and sold to the highest bidder – collection only .

Photo of Tony Godwin, photoshop courtesy of Dominique Jubien.