Half Pint is blessed at church service (From Evesham Journal)

Half Pint is blessed at church service

7:50am Thursday 27th January 2011 in News

IT was a case of standing room only St Peter’s Church, Cornwell, near Chipping Norton, for Moreton-in-Marsh and District Agricultural and Horse Show Society annual Plough Sunday service.

More than 70 people attended the special service, dating back to Victorian times and word accurate, conducted by the Rev Andrew Keith and which was preceded by a lunch attended by 43 people at the Red Lion in Little Compton.

“Half Pint, a Suffolk cross Mule sheep, our guest of honour who was there to represent all livestock, was impeccably behaved and he, along with the plough and churns were blessed by the vicar, who commented that Half Pint looked more like Two Pints,” said Emma Heathcote-James, joint society secretary.