In this New Year, which we must hope will be a lot less wet than the old one, we are still trying to get used to the loss of Batcombe, Lamyatt and Upton Noble from the Benefice. As I’ve said before, we welcome news of special events and are very happy to include Diary items from those parishes – after all, nobody has picked them up bodily and moved them to another part of Somerset, even if the rains and rivers have had a good try, to judge by the mud and the lakes blocking local roads. But the little article from Upton Noble Primary School (page 57) will probably have to be the last item of ‘regular’ news of the school. We have, however, persuaded Rev. Rosey Lunn, the priest in charge of the newly enlarged Evercreech Benefice, to give us her thoughts in the Rectory Ruminations column.