The Trad Pad

Pentecost
Beth Griffith, Jill Somers & Victor Wendt.
Sponsored by St Paul’s Cathedral Flower Guild.

Last night, Shelley and I went to the opening of In Paradiso. In Paradiso is an exhibition of religious floral art at St Agnes’s Church, 114 Booran Road, Glen Huntly. The exhibition will continue daily until Wednesday 31 August. There will be a demonstration of church flower arranging by Peter Bennett and Nigel Wright on Monday night, 29 August. Enrol by phoning 9571 3932.

The work is a delight and is a fine tribute to the skills and talent of the artists.

The exhibition was officially opened by Lady Potter (Primrose), widow of Sir Ian Potter.

The exhibition was by invitation.

Three of the exhibits are from St Agnes - by Peter Bennett, Elizabeth and Iain Gilbert, and the Vicar himself, Fr Nigel Wright.

The other six churches represented are St John’s, Bentleigh; St Andrew’s, Brighton; St John’s, Camberwell; St Peter’s, Eastern Hill; St John the Evangelist, Flinders; and last, but not least, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne.

Christmass, Ken Whelan, St Andrew’s Brighton
Advent Flowers,
Gwen Wilson,
St John’s Bentleigh

Pentecost
John Barren, St John the Evangelist Flinders
I am the vine..
Margaret Kelly & Lyn Beaumont
Sponsored by The Vestry of St John’s Camberwell

Liz Prideaux
St Peter’s Eastern Hill
Sponsored by Flowers Vesette, Fitzroy

The exhibits below are from St Agnes’s:

Easter - St Agnes’s Day - Flowers for a wedding
Peter Bennett - Nigel Wright - Elizabeth & Iain Gilbert

My recent singing of praises for an early spring has turned into a squawk. Yesterday the weather turned icy cold and brought snow to some unlikely places : not the usual ones in the Alps. Snow came to sea level localities like the Mornington Peninsula and Gippsland. Snow clouds loomed over the Dandenongs all day but I have not heard of any snow there. I have heard that snow fell at Mitcham a few suburbs away. But then it is rather high above sea level. At 1.40pm it was 8 degrees at Upper Gully but an hour later the sun was shining and the prospect of snow evaporated. There is only one certainty about Melbourne’s weather - and that is its changeability. To-day it is quite cold and to-night temperatures in our neighbourhood are expected to go down to 4 degrees Celsius.