Sunday, December 19/2010

Over to St. Helena's Anglican for the service of the nine lessons and carols. They always do it very nicely and the little church is pretty full. Small bits of politically correct editiing to the carols which one tends to sing by heart, being caught out by "good Christians all rejoice." There's mulled wine and goodies afterward, including half of a large fruit cake remaining from yesterday's installation of the new priest, the Rev John Holdsworth. We chat with Jeannie and Chris recently moved from New York, she a New Yorker and he a Cypriot who oved there in 1974 - now back at the family restaurant. Also with Liz Taylor (surname acquired by marriage) who lives in a traditional Cypriot house in Oroklini, just north of us, and is very informative on the diocese (Cyprus and the Gulf) which includes places like Iraq and Yemen, all of which she has visited as a Church council representative.