Coffee morning with a 'bang'er!

Today's coffee morning was a great success so it goes without saying, a BIG thank you to all the parishioners and visitors who came in for coffee, a chat and some decent food at Sacred Heart, Southchurch after the 11am Mass.

The proceeds from today is to be spread across our charity funds and to help with our operating costs and we are supporting Missio, Nazareth House and B.E.E.F. (Brentwood Ecclesiastical Education Fund) for the training of new priests. We raised over £160. Thank you again to all who supported including our chairman Liam and his wife Sandy who were the first in and last to leave as they often are.

The teas and coffees, sausages in baguettes, and cheese baguettes proved very popular with a queue for the food stretching half way down the length of the hall at one point. Knights member for nearly sixty years and retired master chef Brian Dillon was asked to look after the sausages and cook some onions, and for something as simple as onions drew many a favourable customer comment saying that the onions were perfect. Just goes to show that if you know what you are doing then whatever you do you do it to the best of your ability.

We had thirteen prizes for the raffle, nine members in attendance, and every kind of relish, sauce and pickle you could think of to put in the baguettes. It had even stopped raining by the time we had cleared up and left to head home, and yes, the sausages sold out!