Neighbours Day 2017 is coming up on the weekend of March 25/26.
This is a great opportunity to get to know your neighbours and
build community where you live. You can sign up here to get
emails with ideas of how to celebrate (the most recent newsletter for our region even told us how to apply for supermarket vouchers to help with associated costs!), or check out the official
website here - it has a number of resources to help you get started.
Your celebration could
be as simple as inviting your nearby neighbours over for a cuppa,
or you could band together with other neighbours to organise a
full-on street party! You can see photos of Neighbours Day
celebrations in our street from 2015 here. We typically find people from about 1/3 of the houses in our street come along and we've made a number of friends through it.
Also, Tuesday week (the 28th) is Shrove Tuesday - the last day before Lent. This is typically celebrated with the eating of pancakes 😅. We had a couple of retired neighbours over for a pancake breakfast last year and hope to do the same this year. It was good to spend time with them and also gave us an opportunity to talk about what Lent has come to mean to us. You can get heaps of ideas for how to host a low-stress, community-building celebration on the Sacraparental blog here.
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