{"id":828,"date":"2009-11-15T13:38:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2024-07-07T22:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:04:48","slug":"letter-from-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/letter-from-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Peggy Schwarz, and I live in Mount   Gambier, South Australia.\u00a0 I wanted to write to someone in St. Monans after visiting there recently, and found your name on the St. Monans web site in relation to a choir.\u00a0 No, I do not want to join\u00a0the choir &#8211; Australia is a little too far away unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>Recently whilst on a 6 weeks visit to a niece in Devon, we flew to Edingurgh, hired a car, and drove around Scotland for 10 days.\u00a0 I was most anxious to visit St. Monans, as I have a print of a water colour by Jill Walker, hanging on my kitchen wall, and have for years looked at it, and wondered about &#8220;The Harbour, St. Monance, Fife&#8221; as she has titled it.\u00a0 I dreamed of one day visiting this place, about which I knew nothing.\u00a0 I was not disappointed.\u00a0 I found St. Monans to be everything the picture lead me to believe it would be.\u00a0 I was impressed by its colourful, tidy and clean appearance, and it gave the feeling of it&#8217;s people being proud of where they live.<\/p>\n<p>The church was very interesting, well kept and looked loved by its congregation.\u00a0 The grass was being cut the day we were there, the sun was shining, the sea calm &#8211; what a lovely place.<\/p>\n<p>I came home remembering my brief visit to St. Monans with great pleasure, and wanted to tell someone there, how much\u00a0I enjoyed my glimpse of your life in that place.\u00a0 Your web site, shows me you have an active and vibrant community, doing lots of interesting things.\u00a0The web site also explained why my picture\u00a0is titled\u00a0&#8221; St. Monance&#8221;, instead of St. Monans.<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to check your web site from time to time, to see what is happening in St. Monans, now I know that it really exists, and is not just some artist&#8217;s imaginings!<\/p>\n<p>Regards to the Choir &#8211; it would have been nice to have spent more time in your village, and maybe have heard you sing.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,\u00a0 Peggy Schwarz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Peggy Schwarz, and I live in Mount Gambier, South Australia.\u00a0 I wanted to write to someone in St. Monans after visiting there recently, and found your name on the St. Monans web site in relation to a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/letter-from-australia\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-letter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"George","author_link":"https:\/\/stmonans.org.uk\/blog\/author\/george-brown\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"My name is Peggy Schwarz, and I live in Mount Gambier, South Australia.\u00a0 I wanted to write to someone in St. Monans after visiting there recently, and found your name on the St. Monans web site in relation to a &hellip; 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