I read with interest the article in this week's Gazette & Herald entitled "Vicar's attack on abbey fund crisis".

Quote "he urged parishioners in his sermon to give up some of their luxuries like holidays to help the abbey".

While trying to organise my son's christening in January so that close family from Australia could be a part of the special occasion (my husband and I had discussed making a donation to the fund), we were told it would not be possible, one of the reasons being ... the vicar was on holiday after the Christmas period!

R Pike

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Malmesbury