At Trinity yesterday we had the annual Harvest Festival. Most of the food donations were loaded into a car and taken to ‘Asylum Welcome’ – who need all the food they can get. Refugee numbers are up because of the war in Syria.

Rev’d Richard said there had been a good harvest this year with a wet spring followed by a dry summer.

Round the church were far more flowers than usual as part of a Harvest Flower Festival. Each display had a text … “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Walking in fields yesterday, after the service, we saw Maize in abundance.

But for the UK inshore fleet – fishing boats mostly under 10 metres in length which operate in coastal waters – fish stocks are at historically low levels.