IT WAS a perfect sunny day for the annual church ploughman's
picnic on the grass outside St Christopher's, Ditteridge, in
Bristol diocese. As it coincided with the feast of
St Peter, they had a special guest - Peter, the Silver Duckwing
Welsummer bantam cock, belonging to the Associate Minister, Canon
John Ayers.
Canon Ayers began keeping poultry when he lived in north India
with the Leprosy Mission in the 1960s; the St Christopher's
ploughman's picnic has been going on even longer.