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mInIstrY letter
GLastonbUry PiLGrimaGe,easter WeeK 2020
The following was received from Churches
together in Warminster and Jacques
Desrosiers, Rector of the Minster Warmin-
ster & Asst Rural Dean.
Churches Together has given us
advance notice of an Easter Pilgrimage the
Minster Church are planning for next year
and to which we have been invited to
join in.
This is a ‘come by whatever means
possible’. The object is that as many
as can and want to come from the
Parish, Benefice, Churches Together in
Warminster and the Deanery do so. We
meet at the Abbey in Glastonbury for a
Celebratory Service on Wednesday 15th
April 2020 in the Crypt Chapel at 3pm
and follow it with a bring and share picnic
in the Abbey Grounds, permissions
permitting. Apart from the cost of any
food etc. you may need, you will need
to pay an entry fee to the Abbey.
The reduced group booking cost, at
present, is £6.50 per Adult and £5.75 per
Child (aged 5 -15).
This event will entail people
travelling by many different methods. We
will cater for those who wish to walk and
include an overnight stop or two. This is
likely to be in a Church, Church Hall or
possibly camp in an arranged field. There
are those who might run or cycle all the
way and may need reviving at the end! I
have no idea if anyone is likely to come by
horse, but Tony Berridge has offered seats
in his Minibus. And finally, some people
will drive there by car and hopefully give
lifts to others. The most important thing
is to be there!
If you are travelling under your
own physical steam, there is nothing to
stop you getting a little sponsorship. There
will be more on this and we will choose a
Christian charity for the funds raised. BUT
the most important thing is that we all
end up in the Crypt for the Service and
then the Picnic after. At some point,
before or after the Service and picnic,
Harold is proposing to arrange a tour
round three important sites around
Glastonbury. These will include the Joseph
of Arimathea tree and the well.
Afterwards, for those keen to do it, there
is the Tor to go up!! Then off we all go
home. Just to kick everything off Jacques
has suggested he will walk both ways! Who
will join him?
No doubt further details to follow:
Rev Cliff Stride, Team Vicar
TRAVELLING LIGHT
I’ve just returned from Australia and New
Zealand – a wonderful trip. It involved
going to places which were very cold and
some which were very hot – and in New
Zealand, you are warned to “expect all
four seasons in one day”. So, I had to plan
my packing quite carefully. I did manage
with one modest suitcase (weighed at 16
kg) and a rucksack (about 8 kg) … and a
thick padded jacket which at times was
quite an encumbrance. Several people
commented “You are travelling light”, but
I thought I was actually carrying half my
wardrobe – and, of course, it turned out
that some clothes were never worn at all.
That got me thinking about the
unseen ‘baggage’ that we carry through
life and how much of it is essential. Part
of it is memories of people we’ve loved
and lost – and in November we remember
our own loved ones at All Souls, and our
national heroes on Remembrance Sunday.
And this is part of who we are, and
necessary to us.
But some of our baggage is more
troublesome – resentments at past
injuries, lingering guilt at things done or
left undone, broken relationships ... each
of us knows what we carry from our past
life. As we begin to look towards
Christmas, that season of “peace on earth
and goodwill to all”, perhaps this would
be a good time to try to lose some of that
baggage – to make the first move towards
healing a relationship, to say sorry where
it is called for, to work on forgiving past
wrongs. One of the hardest teachings of
Jesus is the reminder that we will be
forgiven as far as we have forgiven others
– “the measure you give will be the
measure you receive”. Forgiving is a
process rather than an event, and it feels
like hard work. But when the work is
done, a relationship is restored or the past
laid to rest, we can travel on with a light-
ness of heart, without the burden of the
“baggage” that weighed us down, and
with a new sense of freedom.
May you travel light this month,
and may you know the joy of “livin’
forgiven”.
LIGHT IN DARKNESS
At this time of year, the days draw in
faster and faster, and we become aware
of turning on the lights earlier each day.
We take our electric light for granted, and
sometimes even dim down its brightness;
but, when I was in South Sudan, where
there is no electricity, we were thankful
even to have one candle at night. It was
enough.
For us now, apart from romantic
dinners for two, candles are more
symbolic. We may light one in a church
where there are candle stands, to
accompany a prayer. We light candles
on the altar for worship. In school
assemblies, candles may be lit, and the
leader says, “Jesus says...” and all chorus,
“I am the Light of the World”. This month,
in our All Souls services, we will light
candles to commemorate our departed
loved ones.
But the biggest candle of all in our
churches is always the Easter or Paschal
candle, and this has the most powerful
symbolism of all. This candle is lit first
thing on Easter day, from fire freshly
kindled, and it is borne into church
(ideally a still-darkened church), as “The
Light of Christ”; and then the shout goes
up: “Christ is risen!” and all reply, “He is
risen indeed,” and add, “Alleluia!” So,
this candle symbolises for us the Risen
Christ in our midst – and, as He is always
with us, so the Easter Candle stays lit
throughout the year (except for Lent,
when we are preparing afresh for the new
Easter). The symbolism is especially
significant at a baptism or christening,
when we light a new candle from the
Easter candle and give it to the newly-
baptised person, saying “You have
received the light of Christ”, – and they
take that light out into the world them-
selves.
So next time you light a candle, be
aware of its power to banish the darkness
– and of all it symbolises of resurrection
and eternal life.
Jane Shaw
thoUGht For the month
Paul then stood up in the meeting of the
Areopagus and said: “People of Athens! I
see that in every way you are very
religious. For as I walked around and
looked carefully at your objects of
worship, I even found an altar with this
inscription: to an unknown god. So you are
ignorant of the very thing you worship—
and this is what I am going to proclaim
to you.
“The God who made the world and every-
thing in it is the Lord of heaven and earth
and does not live in temples built by
human hands... For he has set a day when
he will judge the world with justice by the
man he has appointed. He has given proof
of this to everyone by raising him from the
dead.”
Acts of the Apostles Chapter 17 v22ff
RH
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Well, the long spell of lovely summer
weather has finally come to an end as we
move into October. The bees are feeding
on ivy, and if you stand and watch at the
hives, workers are returning with pollen
sacks full of bright yellow pollen and, with
the entrance reducers on, they have to al-
most queue up to get in the door.
We put entrance reducers on for a
number of reasons; one is so the guard
bees can defend the entrances better
against wasps and robbing bees. As the
season comes towards its end, bees from
other hives are on the lookout for a weak
or badly defended colony, so they can nip
in and steal their food. Very often this is
the end of the weaker colony. The other
thing I am guarding against is mice; they
just love to get in and set up home on top
of the frames where it’s warm and cosy.
Surprisingly enough, the bees don’t seem
to mind at all, but the damage the mice
can do is devastating.
At the back end of September, I
had a visit from a group of school children
and some of their parents as they wanted
to look around an apiary to learn a little
about honey bees. We had a great time as
they were so enthusiastic and asked lots
of questions. I tried to show them as much
as I could in such a short time, but I think
the highlight for them was when I showed
them a fresh frame of honey that had only
been taken from the hive the day before.
They were able to push their fingers into
the fresh runny honey and taste it and the
look on their faces said it all; I think the
parents quite enjoyed themselves as well.
It was just a shame the weather
was not that good, as we had a little light
rain. There were some bees flying around
as, where there is honey, there are bound
to be bees, and although the children
looked a little apprehensive, with a little
reassurance they were fine and I was well
impressed with their behaviour. All too
soon it was time to go, so their parents
bought some honey and the children said
thank you and off they went.
I was left with the clearing up and
feeling how good it was that they came,
and really rewarding for me, as yet again,
I got the opportunity to talk about our
fantastic bees.
Thanks to them for coming.
Den Pictor, your local friendly beekeeper
a ro u n d t h e a P I a rY
looking after for them, with the caption,
‘A couple of old ruins – with the Acropolis
and the Parthenon in the background.’
How we laughed – not!
We are all home and I now know
what they went through when their
children went off on gap years eons ago.
Their gap two weeks was bad enough on
my nerves, thank you very much.
turBo’s tales – the doG BloG for autumn
In some years the dog days (or dog days
of summer) are the hot, sultry ones that
dry everyone and everything out. They
were historically the period following the
heliacal rising of the star system Sirius,
which Greek and Roman astrology
connected with heat, drought, sudden
thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs,
and bad luck. They are now taken to be
the hottest, most uncomfortable part
of summer and, here, we have had
something like it this summer.
Then came the rain; much needed,
but all at once. I had gone to stay with an
old friend for a couple of weeks while the
Guvnor and his wife deserted me to go
gallivanting (nice, old-fashioned word)
down the Dalmation coast. I don’t expect
they were looking for Sirius per se while
in Italy and in Greece but they did find
good weather, went on interesting histor-
ical tours and prepared for those by lis-
tening to erudite lectures. Two out of
three of these learned people were
excellent but the third reminded the
Guvnor, apparently, of his early forays
into academia and the definition of the
worst kind of learning – ‘a presentation
that consisted of the passing of dubious
information from the notes of the teacher
to the notes of the student without
passing through the minds of either’.
Back here I was helping my
guardians with important work which
began on my first evening. I accompanied
my host to their local church to lock it up
for the night and spotted a cat by the
altar. Doing what comes naturally, I went
to chivvy it out so we could secure the
premises. The cat had other ideas
and zoomed up into the bell tower
where it remained for the next two days
until lured down by its furious owner.
Unsurprisingly, I am still persona non
grata there.
Meanwhile, the Guvnor and his
wife were traipsing around the sights
and smells of the Ionian and Aegean seas
and making a nuisance of themselves in
cathedrals, churches and archaeological
sites and being robbed in the street in
Athens. The Guvnor sent a photograph
back to their children in England and
copied to the people who I was
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sceptical about ‘The Choice’ which was
recommended to me by close friends.
As soon as you start this memoir,
the reader is not in Auschwitz or
Auschwitz Birkenhau, but in the office of
Dr Edith Eva Eger who maintains a clinical
practice in La Jolla, California. She holds
a faculty appointment at the University of
California. She is also a consultant for the
US Navy and Army in resiliency training
and the treatment of PTSD. In this
introduction, she is treating a very
troubled man. Her account of the
treatment she administers is very precise
and open and one quote which stood out
for me was a comment she made very
early in this chapter: “My own search for
freedom and my years of experience as a
licensed clinical psychologist have taught
me that suffering is universal. But victim-
hood is optional.”
Eger then gently leads us into
her history, we learn of her childhood,
transportation to Auschwitz, the very
detailed accounts of the transport and
the selection upon arrival in Auschwitz.
Her childhood keeps occurring
through memories and the changing back
and forth from the camp to her earlier
THE CHOICE
Embrace the PossibleA Memoir by Dr Edith Eva Eger
If you Google, ‘Books about Auschwitz’,
you will be surprised at the amount of
literature that is available. Some of the
most recent include: ‘The Tatooist of
Auschwitz’; ‘Auschwitz: A New History’;
‘The Librarian of Auschwitz’; ‘Auschwitz
Lullaby: A Novel’ and many more.
Having read them all, I was somewhat
B o o K r e V I e w
life works really well. One of her great
ambitions was to be a ballet dancer and
she is known as the child who danced for
Dr Mengele. The chapter ‘Dancing in Hell’
is a harrowing account, but shows the
personality of an amazing survivor of the
holocaust.
The book also gives an interesting
history lesson of the Hungarian Jews and
the fact their prime minister, who was fed
up with bowing to the German authori-
ties, stopped transportations, unfortu-
nately too late, as hundreds of thousands
had been sent to the camps.
As a reader you begin to question
why, after approximately a third of the
book, Eger leaves Auschwitz on the march
to Germany, where once again there is
more deprivation than in the camp. That
is one feature of the book, it makes you
question, and that is where the title
comes from, the making of choices.
Where the author takes us is unimagin-
able because what happens to her after
the war astounds us as readers, and this
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as weird as there was nothing rising at all.
I do not assume from this that there are
no longer any sea trout or salmon parr
in the river (fish of about 4 inches) or
resident trout, but I do assume that there
were no insects for them to rise to!
This situation is commonplace throughout
the UK.
There was an interesting note in
the press the other day about bird migra-
tion. We are seeing increasing numbers of
yellow browed warbler coming from Russia
to spend the winter in our balmy climate
and swallows are beginning to overwinter
on the South coast. It will be a great boon
to the swallows if they do not need to
migrate and may help to counteract the
problems they face due to declining
numbers of insects. I have seen reasonable
numbers this summer around the cattle
units, where there are plenty of flies, but
few elsewhere. It may also explain why I
saw swallows with chicks in the nest
in Spain in March this year. Perhaps in
Spain they are not now migrating! I am
continually surprised at how quickly some
bird populations are able to adapt to
changing circumstances.
Robin Mulholland
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A Perfect Start for the Football Club.
It was a good summer for the Club. Eight
friendlies were played at the Park against
good opposition, often from higher
leagues, Heytesbury winning seven of the
games. The summer was also spent making
major improvements. A new pathway was
laid at the entrance, the exterior of the
changing rooms was painted and there was
lots of tidying and grass cutting around the
park.
Heytesbury have made a great
start to the new season, winning their first
five games. Four league matches have
produced 4 wins scoring 25 goals, conced-
ing only 3. Trowbridge Town reserves were
the visitors in the first round of the A&B
Cup and Heytesbury continued the goal
feast, wining 11-1. It is pleasing that this
has been achieved with a squad that con-
tains several new signings. We often have
five players aged under 18 in the team,
these have blended well with the more ex-
perienced players and some exciting foot-
ball is being played.
We have great support at the Park
and it is always good to see new faces,
free refreshments are always available.
ANGLING NOTES
I was not able to fish during the first half
of September and, by the time, I was able,
we were caught up in bright sunshine and
low rivers. The Avon and the Wylye were
as low as I have ever seen them. I was not
here of course in ’76 so am not able to
make a comparison. There was no induce-
ment therefore to go fishing. This dry pe-
riod has been followed by the tail end of
the Caribbean cyclone season and again
there was no incentive to fish. Therefore,
for the first time in more than 50 years,
I have not wet a line in September. I blame
climate change for this sad state of affairs
but it may also be age related! I have
however targeted a visit to our lakes
towards the end of the week and I have
spent some time during the heavy rain
dressing some flies for the lakes, to use
during the winter.
A friend came back from her
regular visit to fish for sea trout on the
river Liddle, a tributary of the border Esk.
Always on that river, as on all rivers with
salmon and sea trout, there would be
salmon and sea trout parr rising together
with a few of the resident trout at any
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Can you help us?
Enabling regular contact between prisoners
and their families is at the heart of thework of the Friends. There is no conven-ient bus service from Westbury station tothe prison. Our ‘Transport Scheme’,whereby volunteers in their own cars meettrains and take visitors to and from theprison – allows many visitors, who cannotafford to pay for taxi journeys, to make
f r I e n d s o f e r l e s to K e P r I s o n C h a r I t Y
The scheme could not operate
without the Volunteer Drivers. We arrange
an annual meeting in the prison where
drivers see the Visits Hall, meet with
prisoners, exchange views with each other
and meet Prison Staff who explain how the
Visit Booking Scheme works.
If you are willing to help, please
email Belinda Southwell at: bms@rcs-
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regular visits. We have a stalwart team ofdrivers already, but the scheme is sopopular that we need more!
“Thank you for your help – we could not
have afforded it or managed without you.
It is a lovely organisation and we are so
grateful to have met you all.”
We receive many such messages
when prisoners are released or when they
are transferred to another prison.
the thrIll of sInGInG In the Cathedral
One Sunday afternoon in September six
members of the Upper Wylye Valley team
choir set off for Salisbury cathedral to
take part in the Diocesan Choral Festival.
Once a year church choirs from around the
diocese meet up to sing music within
a service which can then be added to
the repertoire at their home church. The
occasion also offers the opportunity to
meet choir members from other parishes
and enjoy the thrill of singing in the
Cathedral within a large choir.
After registering and robing in the
Cloisters, we were marshalled into long
lines of individual voice parts (a somewhat
massed choir made a colourful procession,
with a wide variety of colours and designs
of choir robes all moving into the nave.
The service included the presenta-
tion of awards to some younger choristers,
and Bishop Nicholas said a few words,
reminding us all to thank God for the gift
of singing. After months of rehearsal, the
service always seems to go very quickly.
The ‘Mag and Nunc’, which had proved
tricky to learn, flowed easily and the
service ended with an uplifting setting of
‘God be in my Head’ by Peter Parshall.
Then it was time to return to the Cloisters
to change, meet up with supporting family
and head for home with a sense of joy at
having been part of such an inspirational
service. Hilary Connellan
chaotic process) and then processed into
the Cathedral nave for a full rehearsal
under the baton of David Halls, Director of
Music at Salisbury Cathedral. Each year
there is a theme for the service. Last year,
the theme was Remembrance; this year it
was Choral Evensong, the music including
an old favourite Panis Angelicus but
also more challenging music in a
specially commissioned Magnificat and
Nunc Dimittis by Chris Totney, and Preces
and Responses composed by David Halls.
After rehearsal,there was time for a tea
break in the Refectory before donning
our surplices for the evening service. The
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young folk and you will see children, as
young as 3 years old, confidently leading
a calf around the ring. This is a trust
achieved over time and a mutual respect
between the pair. Our son followed in his
grandfather and uncles’ footsteps with
showing and still, at 22, continues to keep
the Pottow name alive within the showing
world. He had many happy and very
successful years as a young breeder,
including representing Team U.K. in
Belgium at the European Young Breeders
Show in 2017, a great accolade to be
recognised by the industry.
Showing is a very social affair and
a great introduction to the industry for
those who don’t come direct from farm-
ing, but want to be involved and learn
more. It’s not just about the grooming,
clipping, shampooing, hair drying and
making sure every hair is in place, it’s also
about understanding the animal and its
breeding, what makes a good dairy/beef
cow? Stock judging is all part of the
competition. Training for this starts at a
young age, starting with regional events
and progressing to the International
stage, providing skills in public speaking
as you can be explaining your decisions to
hundreds of onlookers, as well as a panel
of professionals. This is knowledge learnt
through a passion for the breeds you work
The colours of the changing scenery are
exquisite and there is nothing better than
a walk with my four-legged team to
admire and take this stunning season in.
One aspect I enjoy about my dog walks is
the folk I meet and their four-legged
friends, such a variety of breeds and a
great topic of conversation.
The breeds of dogs are huge, and
cows are the same. You will see a variety
of beef breeds in our area, along with the
classic black and white dairy cow, in our
case Holstein Friesians but to get a true
indicator of the different breeds there is
no better way than a local, County or
National Show to observe up close the
dairy and beef breeds. Along with sheep,
pigs, goats etc.
The showing season is an opportu-
nity to showcase some of the best animals
and breeding there is and, to show others
within the industry, the standard of your
animals and the quality as you sell ani-
mals on to other herds.
The shows will now be winding
down, but it would have been a season of
long days and nights as teams prepare for
months. Halter training calves will begin
in the calf’s early days and a relationship
between calf and handler builds with
confidence and trust. Calf showing is a
wonderful introduction to showing for
d o w n o n t h e f a r m
with and own. There is nothing more
satisfying than showing your animal to the
judge, other competitors and the public
and the dedication put in, is a way of
promoting the industry in a positive light.
November is when the Royal
Winter Fair is held in Toronto, Canada.
The pinnacle of the showing season and
attended by competitors and visitors from
all over the world. The elite will be in
attendance and it will be a week of
intense competition and hard work for all
involved, as the very best animals are on
show. We have had some extremely
successful cows and many of their
offspring are currently in our herd and,
who knows, we may again have a
Champion, as we have had in the past
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‘Knitting should be prescribed on the NHS’
heralded a Telegraph article back in March
last year. Vanessa Bailey from The
Woollery, Westbury wholeheartedly
agrees. Her fascinating presentation at
the September gathering of the
and Villages Health, Wellbeing and Social
Care Forum explained why. Studies from a
wide range of academic and clinical
organisations show that knitting can lower
blood pressure, reduce depression and
anxiety, slow the onset of dementia,
distract from chronic pain, increase sense
of wellbeing, reduce loneliness and isola-
tion and increase a sense of usefulness
and inclusion in society.
Often regarded as the pastime for
older ladies, Vanessa talked about its
historical connections with the sailing
industry; where sailors would knit nets as
well as while away the time on long sea
journeys. In conclusion Vanessa said
knitting has significant psychological and
social benefits, which can contribute to
wellbeing and quality of life. If you are
interested in trying out the benefits of
knitting you are welcome to visit the shop,
The Woollery, in Westbury or email the-
Hot on the heels of this came
Emma Abel, from Abel Mosaics, who talked
in a similar vein about the benefits of
creating mosaics. Her four-stage craft
sessions take people from sketching out
their initial design, glass cutting, gluing
through to grouting and finish. Emma
showed some of the work completed by
her clients working mainly in ceramic and
glass, which require patience and
imagination as well as motor skills. Emma
stressed that the materials are manage-
able even for those with hand weaknesses,
allowing them too to create beautiful
pieces. She echoed the benefits identified
in Vanessa’s presentation and the impor-
tance of creativity, focus and imagination
in countering myriad health issues. Emma
holds work groups in Chitterne but can
travel to other locations as necessary.
To find out more go to the website
www.abelmosaics.com or find her on
Instagram @abelmosaics.
In a similar theme – non-clinical
interventions – the group welcomed Claire
Lowman from Public Health, Warminster’s
recently-appointed Local Area Coordinator
(LAC). She opened by outlining the role’s
charter – which is to ‘develop partnerships
with individuals and families/carers as
they build and pursue their goals and
dreams for a good life – and with local
communities to strengthen their capacity
to welcome, include and support all
people as valued, contributing citizens’.
One of a group of nine LACs covering
Wiltshire, Claire gave an insight into the
type of activity she supports, which is very
much centred on the aims of the individu-
als she works with. Claire stressed people
are not referred to her – she can be con-
tacted directly. She has no office, working
literally within the community in places
such as in the library, coffee shops etc,
but you can get in touch via the Council
web pages https://www.yourcareyour
supportwiltshire.org.uk/local-area-coordi-
nators.
In the round of general news that
then followed, Healthwatch Wiltshire
provided an insight into five upcoming
surveys: Safeguarding Adults; Improved
Access, relating to GP access; Advise and
Contrast, looking at people who pay for
their own adult social care; Listening to
Military Families, dealing with the
re-basing of military families; and Young
Healthwatch. Please check the website for
more details.
Chris and Bev, the Local Health
Trainers, advised that their open session is
on Tuesday in the Library alongside Citi-
zens Advice from 1000 to 1200 hours.
Andrew Day from the Alzheimer’s
Society spoke about the need for
volunteers to support the pairing activity,
‘Side by Side’ activity, (a free service with
volunteer costs reimbursed).
The Warminster and Villages
Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Forum
is a volunteer group, open to anyone
working, or with an interest, in commu-
nity health services. The group aims to
raise awareness of local health services,
encourage use of the services and help
challenge any barriers that prevent
access. It meets quarterly at the Civic
Centre and the next gathering is 4th
December 2019. Please contact the group
for more info about anything in this
article.
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Chair, Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
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NORTON bAvANT
Early Christmas Coffee Morning
in aid of All Saints Church
and Norton Bavant Village Hall
Cake and Produce Stall
Raffle and much more
Conker Fight
(Weather Dependant)
Saturday 23rd November
10am – 12noon
Venue: Norton Bavant Village Hall
V I l l aG e n e w s
They will then disappear from public view,
perhaps for a hundred years.
This project has been of great
interest for many people and has
attracted much attention, in the press and
elsewhere. We hope that the community
in Codford has been stimulated by the
experience to reflect on a usually hidden
aspect of a local church. Do listen to the
bells with new insight next time you hear
them ringing.
Anthony Bainbridge
HEyTEsbuRy
RIdE ANd sTRIdE: 14th september 2019
Thanks to all involved and we would like
to let you know that we raised £50 for the
Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust by
launching paper aeroplanes from the
pulpit in Heytesbury Church! Not much
money, but a lot of fun! RH
PROduCE sALE HEyTEsbuRy
We have had another successful season in
the church, with wonderful cakes and
bakes and amazing produce grown by
dedicated gardeners, together with
flowers, soft fruit and vegetables.
The proceeds go towards keeping
us all a little warmer in church during the
winter. The Produce Sale continues every
Saturday morning from 10.00 am to 11.00
am at The Red Lion, everyone from the
village and further afield is very welcome
to come along for coffee, and the sale of
cakes and savoury bakes. AT
COdFORd
uPdATE ON THE bELLs OF sAINT PETER
We had been expecting the bells to be
returned to Codford during the first week
of September, but bell no. 4 was found to
have developed a crack 15 inches long in
the underside of the crown. This is not
uncommon with very old bells (our no. 4
dates from 1671) because the crown
staple (the strange item looking like a
crown by which bells have traditionally
been suspended, and which was cast in
iron for additional strength) differs in its
material properties from the bell itself,
which is cast from bell metal (an alloy of
copper and tin, similar to bronze but with
a higher tin content). Over centuries of
ringing, stresses can build up, arising from
the different metal properties, sufficient
to crack the bell. The crack was welded
by a specialist company - a long slow
process, carefully controlled - leading to
a delay of 7 weeks.
The bells will arrive back on 28th
October and, after village people and
schoolchildren have had the opportunity
to see them in their pristine condition,
will be hoisted into the tower with the
help of a good team of volunteer muscle
power, and rehung shortly afterwards.
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10.00 am -1.00 pmSAT 30th NOVEMBER
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A talk on local history by
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Thursday 21st November6.45pm for 7.15pm
Sutton Veny Village HallTickets cost £18.00
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THOuGHTs FROm sHERRINGTON
I am using some of my allotted words to
praise October’s issue of the Parish News!
The cover was stunning with the bird life
pictures by Roger Hammond: what a
skilled wildlife photographer he is. The
review of The Salt Path I thought spot on,
an amazing true-life story that I have read
twice, and I loved Turbo’s account of
The Guvnor’s Birthday Cards!
In the village, there was drama on
the cress beds. The swan family had
returned, parents and two fully grown
cygnets (two did not survive it would
seem). They were not in adult white
plumage, but still the lovely marble grey.
They were here for a week and then an in-
terloper flew in. The ensuing fracas was
seen by Heidi in Cress Cottage. The family
were not driven off (it was four to one)
but were seriously disturbed and all swans
are gone, perhaps they will return.
Early one morning, there was sound
in the sky and looking up I saw a skein of
about twenty-five Canada geese in perfect
formation, lovely to see and to hear.
The little church had visitors. A
couple from Kansas had come to England
to celebrate fifty years of marriage and to
trace their roots. Apparently a great,
great, great Grandfather had married in
Sherrington church. The record is now in
the archive in Trowbridge but, over tea in
the garden, we learned of other discover-
ies and it was fascinating.
On the Ride and Stride event, Sher-
rington was represented by Beatrice and
Florence. Beatrice cycled an amazing
60kms and Florrie joined her for the last
23kms, well done both.
Hallowe’en looms and we expect a
visit from Sherrington’s rather superior
ghouls. We have a courgette in the garden
that thinks it is a pumpkin (perhaps it is)
so it will do the honours in the lane.
Farewell to our Summer visitors
now braving the challenge of migration.
Farewell too to our hollyhocks, just a few
flowers left along with the golden bud-
dleia, a top-up for last foraging bees. BL
AuTObIOGRAPHy
OF suTTON vENy REsIdENT
IAN HARRIs LAuNCHEd
Former commodities broker, Ian Harris,
has published his autobiography ‘Work
Hard Play Hard’ and launched it in July
this year. Born in England, with National
Service in the RAF and a working lifetime
of more than thirty years spent in East
Africa, Ian describes a life spiced
with adventure, acquaintances including
Idi Amin, the King of Toro and President
Kenyatta and all narrated using anecdote
and tales of derring-do.
The Parish News will feature extracts
and a review in subsequent issues.
from the reGIsters
Funerals
Our sympathy and love to those who mourn the passing of
Peter stacey-Cox
on 17th September
at Salisbury Crematorium
May he rest in the peace and light of Christ
Please contact the Ministry Team to make
arrangements for Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals,
Confirmation preparation or Service of Prayer
and Dedication after a Civil Marriage.
The clergy will officiate at any
crematorium service.
suTTON vENy ENd OF sEAsON
suTTON vENy’s PROduCE sTALL
After 13 weeks of Saturday morning gath-
erings in the High Street, we rounded it all
off with a very successful coffee morning
in our church with an abundance of won-
derful produce, tombola, coffee and
scones, music and good village banter.
Since 1983, our village has held a
produce stall on a Saturday morning
throughout the summer months, bringing
people together for a short time each
week. It has grown over the years and be-
come a real part of our village life.
This year we have raised the mag-
nificent sum of just over £1270! This won-
derful amount will be used to go towards
our new amenities in the church.
So a big thank you to all buyers,
sellers, bakers, gardeners, coffee makers,
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Alasdair McGregor 850073Heytesbury Tina Sitwell 840556 Knook Michael Pottow 850776 Norton Bavant John Acworth 840134
Edward Moore 840420 Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis 850496 Sutton Veny Brian Long 840352Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card 840022 Upton Lovell Gill Boxall 851171
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Carola Puddy 850308 Norton Bavant Didee Acworth 840134 Heytesbury: Roger Hammond 841185
Alison Tebbs 841192Sutton Veny Judy Cooper 840953Upton Lovell Sue Bray 850702
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