| SHE has four rural parishes in the Loddon deanery of Norwich diocese: Caistor St Edmunds, Arminghall, Stoke Holy Cross, and Dunston, and all of them need money.
At Caistor St Edmunds, they are hoping for a kitchen and lavatory extension, a plan complicated by its position within the Roman Town of Venta Icenorum, still largely unexcavated and once the capital of Boudicca’s Iceni tribe.
Dunston is hoping to have some heating installed, and Stoke Holy Cross’s boiler “just recently went bang”, according to Tim Bunn, husband of the Revd Rosie Bunn, Rector of all four parishes.
They have been raising money by several means over the past couple of years, and Mrs Bunn’s latest personal effort was to join in a sponsored abseil down the tower of Holy Trinity, Loddon (above), where 11 others, including two other clergy, local head teachers, Scout leaders, and bell-ringers, were all raising money for Loddon.
It was her first abseil, and, she says, the worst part was climbing up the tower. “It was much easier coming down.” But she easily raised the £500 she hoped for, and says she would like to do it all over again.
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