Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    AU34/21/7/16/19
  • Title
    Letter from R P S Waddy
  • Date free text
    10 November 1978
  • Production date
    From: 1978 To: 1978
  • Scope and Content
    A handwritten letter from R P S Waddy (former Rector of St Andrew's, Ampthill) on headed paper from St. Fursey, in Ditchingham, Bungay to Honora Grimmer: "My dear Nora, The November Church and Town has arrived as dexterously as ever, and this is the time to reimburse the postage, with many thanks. It is also a good moment to send you our Christmas card, with our love and all the variegated news printed thereon. It will be strange to 'retire' again, this time more definitely (do you know that definition, 'retirement' is a an energetic state of redirected activity'?) But I shall have the fun and games of a golden jubilee at Epiphany, and will be 75 next May, so it is about time. Margaret has been getting more arthritis that is at all pleasant, but continues to be irrepressible. But Judy has our new home all ready now, and all that remains is to get rid of two-thirds of all our possessions - including books! We had a delightful locum tenancy in August, near Sherbourne and 15 miles from our future home; I had charge of four very lively churches for three weeks and enjoyed it (even, or especially, Series 3) without wanting to take five services every Sunday. Maiden Newton has 5 churches, but it has a rector too! Christopher and our two Bahamian grand-children were home for a short holiday from Nassau, full of energy and fun - only frustrated because Havana, who was staying with us in Dorset, got mumps - not badly, but enough to prevent Drusilla and Danel joining us there. Judy is now a full-blown lecturer in the University of London - Goldsmith's College - and Christopher's development bank is flourishing: he is now helping to advise on financial things out there, and enjoying it. So life is good. All good wishes for 1979. Yours ever, Pat Stacy Waddy"
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