About Annette
Greetings to everyone who finds ” Paxtonvic” blog.
Paxtonvic is Rev Annette Reed, Vicar of Little and Great Paxton with Diddington in Cambridgeshire near to St Neot’s.
Here I am with Charlie B who comes and visits from time to time.
Do come in and explore Paxtonvic.
You will find a lot of information on the many posts about Little Paxton, Great Paxton and Diddington as well as St Neots and the surrounding villages.
I have another blog just about Great Paxton: www.greatpaxtononline.wordpress.com
If you feel moved to do so, please leave a comment. Its easy to do that – just click on ” comment” at the bottom of each entry and a little box comes up which you can type in.
If you would rather just read about St James Church at Little Paxton, please go to :
http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/littlepaxton/
Ive been living in Little Paxton since October 2006 and from September 2007 have been Rural Dean of St Neots.
St James Church at Little Paxton
I was born Annette Richings in Boscombe near Bournemouth by the sea in 1954. My late mother says that I was born in a Nursing Home in a place called Tuckton which had connections with Leo Tolstoy – Im grateful to a recent contributor who backed up this story in a comment on this page.
Some of my earliest memories are of being on Boscombe sands, playing in the waves and pulling on the penny fruit machines with my Grandad Will Trimby helping me. We moved to Portsmouth when I was 9 years old and here is me at Portsmouth Grammar Schhol c 12yrs old.
When I was 13 years old we moved to Oxford and it was there that I fell in love with the Church of England as we lived in Christ Church College where my father was a lodge porter. I used to go to Oxford Cathedral most days for evensong and something got right under my skin and has stayed there ever since…
If I had to define my ” churchmanship” ( always seemed a strange word to me) I would say I am a warm fuzzy Liberal Anglican who delights in welcoming people into the church commuity who ever and however they are. I am pleased when people enjoy coming to worship of any kind, but am equally at home out about and getting involved in the community. I am passionate about church buildings – both in respect of their architecture and also in regards as to how they may be adapted/re-ordered to serve their communities better.
Love plants and growing things, resoring old furniture, fresh air and music of all kinds. Work too hard – but then I guess I enjoy it a lot. I have two children Michael who is a teacher and Adele who is a student in Coventry and love seeing them when I can.
Please be assured I NEVER name drop in this blog or make out I’m anything special.. hate that sort of thing….
( I’m on the left!)
( April 2006 – somewhere posh in London)
See – I didnt always have grey hair!!
My vices are seriously bad – watching the X -factor and e-baying. Suppose they could be worse….!
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About Annette
Greetings to everyone who finds ” Paxtonvic” blog.
Paxtonvic is Rev Annette Reed, Vicar of Little and Great Paxton with Diddington in Cambridgeshire near to St Neot’s.
Here I am with Charlie B who comes and visits from time to time.
Do come in and explore Paxtonvic.
You will find a lot of information on the many posts about Little Paxton, Great Paxton and Diddington as well as St Neots and the surrounding villages.
I have another blog just about Great Paxton: www.greatpaxtononline.wordpress.com
If you feel moved to do so, please leave a comment. Its easy to do that – just click on ” comment” at the bottom of each entry and a little box comes up which you can type in.
If you would rather just read about St James Church at Little Paxton, please go to :
http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/littlepaxton/
Ive been living in Little Paxton since October 2006 and from September 2007 have been Rural Dean of St Neots.
St James Church at Little Paxton
I was born Annette Richings in Boscombe near Bournemouth by the sea in 1954. My late mother says that I was born in a Nursing Home in a place called Tuckton which had connections with Leo Tolstoy – Im grateful to a recent contributor who backed up this story in a comment on this page.
Some of my earliest memories are of being on Boscombe sands, playing in the waves and pulling on the penny fruit machines with my Grandad Will Trimby helping me. We moved to Portsmouth when I was 9 years old and here is me at Portsmouth Grammar Schhol c 12yrs old.
When I was 13 years old we moved to Oxford and it was there that I fell in love with the Church of England as we lived in Christ Church College where my father was a lodge porter. I used to go to Oxford Cathedral most days for evensong and something got right under my skin and has stayed there ever since…
If I had to define my ” churchmanship” ( always seemed a strange word to me) I would say I am a warm fuzzy Liberal Anglican who delights in welcoming people into the church commuity who ever and however they are. I am pleased when people enjoy coming to worship of any kind, but am equally at home out about and getting involved in the community. I am passionate about church buildings – both in respect of their architecture and also in regards as to how they may be adapted/re-ordered to serve their communities better.
Love plants and growing things, resoring old furniture, fresh air and music of all kinds. Work too hard – but then I guess I enjoy it a lot. I have two children Michael who is a teacher and Adele who is a student in Coventry and love seeing them when I can.
Please be assured I NEVER name drop in this blog or make out I’m anything special.. hate that sort of thing….
( I’m on the left!)
( April 2006 – somewhere posh in London)
See – I didnt always have grey hair!!
My vices are seriously bad – watching the X -factor and e-baying. Suppose they could be worse….!
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Well….. never thought Id try blogging and no idea how to do it……so Im trying out a simple message to the world from Little Paxton Vicarage near St Neots… hello on May 8th 2009
A ” bit over 50 !! ” – in yer dreams Rural Dean !
Well Oldest friend, you have to admit to more than fifty or we haven’t been friends for 40 years. Didn’t know about the furniture bit. Currently my father’s child chair is at a furniture restorer. Apparently it dates back to the 1850′s and was probably bodged in the Chilterns. I had assumed it was only a bit younger than him. Can’t wait to get it back, it is taking a while though as the restorer is very busy and not at all affected by the credit crunch.
Looking forward to our visit to you in June.
Oldest, Mary
Bodger- a lovely word and craft….. lots of my ancestors from Kilmington near Maiden Bradley in Wiltshire were bodgers and wood turners.. it was good to see the TV programme about Ben Law, the woodsman in West Sussex featured on Grand Designs. PAart of me would love to live in a wood and do turning. As long as I have a nice warm bath to turn to at the end of each day.
Mary, hope your father’s chair is back with you soon – it sounds very precious…
My kind of Anglican: good to find you here in the blogosphere
Tucton House is where works of Tolstoy were translated and published, through his righthand man Vladimir Chertkof, who was in exile and set up the Free Age Press. Louise and Aylmer Maude were some of his official translators. Tuckton was also were much of the illegal Communist papers were published and smuggled back into Russia into the Stalin era. Melita Norward, the granny spy uncovered by the Times in Sept 11 1999 (The Spy who Came in From the Co-op) her father published many of these works in Tuckton.
Gary Muir
I have just come across your blog. I grew up in Little Paxton back in the 1970′s when George Whitlock was the vicar. He ended up being a Canon before he retired. If you ever see pictures of a vicar who looks like Father Christmas then that would be George. I lived and worked in Oxford for a year (Cowley area) and I went to the University of Surrey in Guildford. I spent my time on campus in “Surrey Court” on Mole Level 4 in both my first and final years.
… and now we’re near-neighbours: my wife is Priest-in-Charge of Langford and Henlow, just down the A1! Have you visited Cornerstone in St Neots yet? I keep promising myself a day out to call in there…