Do please join us at Hemblington Hall for our Spring Garden Fair on Saturday 30th March from 10 am until 2 pm. There will be spring flowers, craft stalls, preloved tools, plants, cakes, children’s activities and much more. Proceeds will go to the Hemblington Church Reoair Fund.

The next Make and Mardle will be on Tuesday 19th March at Gables Farmhouse, Hemblington Hall Road, Hemblington. It will be at the usual time of 10 am to 12 noon. As always there will be coffee, cake, chat and craft (optional); all are welcome. Call 270360 for more information.

Nineteen different species of birds were seen in and over the churchyards at All Saints Church by hardy birders over two hours on Sunday, 27th January. The enchanting little long tailed tits were the greatest in number with 10 at one sighting, and it may be that two buzzards and a kestrel roaring past may have made some birds harder to spot! Some 18 people braved the cold to assist in the birdwatch but spirits were also raised by warming soup, tea, coffee and some astounding scones and cakes. For a full report with spotting statistics click here.

Our Lent course for 2019 will be a series of guided conversations together about worship in our churches, using a professionally produced course material designed for churches such as ours. The course will ask us to consider together what it means to be a worshipper and how each of us can play our full part in the worship of our benefice and the churches we attend. We would value hearing from everybody who joins in the worship of our churches, no matter how often you attend. The course will take place on Wednesday evenings at Blofield Church on 13th March, 20th March, 27th March, 3rd April and 10th April. A course booklet will be available, priced £5.

On Sunday 3rd March we will be holding a Family Pancake Party at Heathlands from 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm. There will be a mixture of crafts and games followed by a story, song and prayer and finally a pancake tea. It will be a family occasion suitable for all ages and should be great fun so do come and join us.

On Friday 1st March, there will be a quiet morning at Hemblington Church as part of the nationwide World Day of Prayer event. There will be prayers and a short reflection at 10am, 11am & 12noon followed by lunch. At 6pm we will join folk from the area for a service at Brundall church. Everyone will be most welcome to be part of this.

As a retirement project, Andrew Hawkins is building a website which takes a virtual tour of places of interest in and around the historic city of Norwich, presented as a series of interactive 360-degree panoramas in which you, the viewer, can ‘turn the camera’ to look left and right and up and down. He has just added a section about Hemblington Church which contains beautiful views of our church. The Hemblington Church entry can be found at:

http://norwich360.com/hemblington.html

But have a look round the rest of the website for interesting insights into our local heritage.

For anyone who is researching family history in the Hemblington area we have a page explaining how you can access our church records.

This can be found here.

Thanks to Paul Brittain of Norfolk360.co.uk you can now experience a 360 degree tour of the inside and outside of our church by using the following links:

View inside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours

View outside All Saints, Hemblington Church on Google Tours

This is video shows our beautiful church on a lovely summers day in June. Music by the Octagon Singers of Norwich.