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Nurses and Verses

The writings of Audrey Crittenden.

Audrey was born in a Kent work house in 1923. She moved to Hastings on becoming adopted, and spent the rest of her life in the town where she died in 2008. Her nurse training began at the Municipal Hospital, Hastings (to be called St. Helens in 1948). She spent her life in the medical profession and her hand written biography with poetry is for sale at £5 a copy with half of the proceeds going to the Hospice.

There is a copy for you to see at the back of the church and an order form if you would like to purchase a copy.

Thank you.

Don Valentine

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE.

Revelatory.

There was once a Rector who was walking around the village visiting parishioners. At the house of a newly-arrived attractive young lady it seemed obvious that she was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door and his cries of “Anybody at home?” He therefore took out a calling card and wrote “Revelations 3:20” on the back of it and shoved it through the letter box.

Next Sunday at Church, while counting the collection, he found that his card had been returned. Written on it below his quote was “Genesis 3:10”. He got out his Bible to check out the citation and discovered that while, as he knew, Revelations 3:20 begins “Behold, I stand at the door and knock” he found that Genesis 3:10 contains: “I heard your voice in the garden and I was afraid for I was naked: and I hid myself.