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The Dun Valley News February 18
This month inside: Team Letter Time and tide Grimstead Parish Council January report Text your tithe Contactless collections Tai Chi For health and well-being Traffic in Pitton Road safety Poppy Appeal Can you help? Care for church buildings The Taylor Report
:: East Grimstead :: Farley :: Pitton :: West Dean ::
On Shrove Tuesday (13th February), churches, groups, families and friends across the country will be getting out their frying pans to host a Flipping Marvellous Pancake Party on behalf of the work of Christians Against Poverty.
Every pancake flipped on the night will help raise money to free desperate people from the crushing weight of debt and poverty.
If you would like to enjoy pancakes, and also help others in the process, please go to www.capuk.org/pancakeparty and download the free, fun-filled resource pack. As Beth Prescott, CAP’s Pancake Party President, says, ‘let’s make the world a batter place!’
Pancake Party
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The Dun Valley Churches are members of The Clarendon Team
THE CLARENDON TEAM MINISTRY OF CHURCHES
TEAM RECTOR Revd Nils Bersweden has now left. His post will be advertised shortly.
TEAM PRIESTS Revd Beth Hutton Tel: 01722 238504, [email protected] (with responsibility for Alderbury, West Dean, East and West Grimstead) Revd Jane Dunlop Tel: 01794 884793, [email protected] (with responsibility for Whiteparish) Revd Cynthia Buttimer Tel: 01980 862017, [email protected]
OTHER CLERGY V Revd Alec Knight, Revd Canon Jeremy Davies, Revd Canon Roger Sharpe, Revd Anthea Cochrane
CLARENDON TEAM OFFICE Team Administrator 01980 863635 [email protected]
TEAM LAY LICENSED MINISTERS Mr Bill Thompson, Mrs Debbie McIsaac, Mr Michael Barratt CLARENDON TEAM WEBSITE – www.clarendonteam.org You can find details of how to book baptisms and weddings, as well as Team Worship Services, news and activities around the Clarendon Team. For the Team Worship Rota go to www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.htm,
WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD
CHURCHWARDENS Mr Bob Trott, Oakley, East Grimstead (Holy Trinity) 01722 712685 Mr Mike Marx, The Old Vicarage, West Dean (St. Mary’s) 01794 340271
FARLEY WITH PITTON CHURCHWARDENS Mrs Sara Bossom, Stockbottom House, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Jane Bawden-Jeanes, The Barn, Farley 01722 712854
MAGAZINE EDITOR Ged Mirski-Fitton, Bells Cottage, Church Road, Farley, SP5 1AD Tel 01722 712520 E-Mail: [email protected] ADVERTS EDITOR Tim Hawkes, Lodge Farm House, Elm Close, Pitton, SP5 1EU Tel 01722 712577 E-Mail: [email protected]
WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD
TREASURER
Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536
SECRETARY Bob Trott, 01722 712685
FARLEY WITH PITTON
LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133
TREASURER Ms Mandy Kerley, 07971 679466
ORGANISTS Ms Janice Brown
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Pitton Methodist Society
The Pitton Methodists worship together with the Anglicans at St. Peter's Church and have a Methodist led service there once a month (currently the 3rd Sunday).
Minister: Rev. Bryan Coates, [email protected], 02380 252960 Superintendent: David Hookins, 01722 320858 Steward: Mrs. Sarah Sankey, 01722 712581
A Personal Message Geoff and Venla Freeman would like to thank everyone for their very kind messages of sympathy and condolence following the sad news of Betty's death on 3rd November. Geoff and Venla are most grateful to you all, and really appreciate all your support.
Geoff is now retiring from being the DVN Coordinator here in Pitton.
The people of Pitton would like to thank Geoff for being their village DVN Coordinator for so many years. A job that he has done with great dedication.
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As I write this, it is still officially Christmastide. By the time you read it, we will be on the verge of Lent (begins 14th February this year). As the old saying goes, ‘Time and tide wait for no man’.
There are people who like to tell me that time is a human construct – certainly our marking of time. Nevertheless, as creation’s seasons remind us (and as we read in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes), there is a time to sow and a time to reap.
The seasons of our lives are marked by where we live, the people who share our lives, and the activities which fill our time, whether paid or unpaid. In our Clarendon Team of Churches, we are entering a new season, following the departure of our Team Rector, the Revd. Nils Bersweden to a new post in Wimbledon. We look forward to welcoming new faces to the Team in the coming months and embracing the way that that shapes the next season of Christian ministry here.
In the meantime, we will be using an interim pattern of
worship whilst transitions in personnel take place. The table opposite shows the general pattern we shall be using from the beginning of February. Please bear in mind, though, that this will alter slightly for festivals such as Easter Day, and there may be the occasional ‘cluster’ service with a few of the parishes joining together. Please check your monthly magazine or the Clarendon Team website for details.
www.clarendonteam.org.
Team Letter Revd Beth Hutton
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Team Letter
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Funerals
Hilda ENGLAND at
Alderbury on
18th January 2018
Gerald Frank Naish at
Alderbury on
17th January 2018
Marjorie ANDREWS at
Whiteparish on
16th January 2018
Joan Rosemary JOYCE at
East Grimstead on
15th January 2018
James CHAPMAN at
Whiteparish on
4th January 2018
Betty May DRAKE at
Pitton on
29th December 2017
Patricia WALWORTH at
Whiteparish on
29th December 2017
From the registers
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The Parish Council is looking into the problem of flooding in the field adjacent to Maypole Farmhouse.
A new safety surface has been laid at West Grimstead playing field. The remaining soil dumped on the concrete standing when the safety surface was laid will be removed when the weather allows. We will go ahead with the construction of a petanque terrain.
Another litter-pick up is to be carried out on the 3rd March in both villages.
There is still the huge problem of fly tipping throughout the parish with Gays Drove and Windwhistle Lane being especially targeted. The Parish Council is looking into the possibility of erecting gates/bollards at either end of Gays Drove but allowing walker/horse riders to enter the track by the side. Wiltshire Councillor, Richard Britton, has suggested a Stopping-Up Order and he will look into this.
We will not get a No Right Turn sign to Windwhistle Lane from the southbound A36. Funding depends on incidents.
The Road Narrow sign on the Butterfurlong/East Grimstead road will be replaced and the SLOW signs repainted within the coming year.
There has been a lot of support from the villagers to form a Circular Footpath Group and erect the relevant signs where needed.
The Parish Council will prepare a Vision paper for the parish. A questionnaire will be delivered to every house in the parish seeking the views of residents.
More felling of trees in Brown’s Copse, Farley Road, East Grimstead, will take place later in the year. Richard Baker of East Brothers attended the recent meeting and assured members that no lorries would go through East Grimstead. A retrospective planning application had been submitted for the creation of a new
access onto the Grimstead Road with wooden gates and fencing to enable management of woodland at Brown’s Copse. Re-ditching has been carried out along the length of the wood to alleviate the flooding of the road in this area. An open morning will be organised later in the year so that residents can see what is happening in the wood.
Rodding of the drains between Hollyville and Horsepond in West Grimstead will be carried out in February when the Vector is in the area. Highways were asked to re-erect the metal barriers by the Charcoal track.
The mud on the road by East Grimstead Railway Bridge is being continually monitored and cleared each month by the Parish Steward. If anyone in the parish has a problem with highway matters, please inform the clerk at [email protected].
There were no objections to a planning application at Butterfurlong Farmhouse for the demolition of the existing wooden sheds and the construction of a garage/workshop.
A retrospective planning application had been submitted for grass planted at Nightwood Farm. This application was discussed at the Southern Area Planning Committee on the 10th January and the Committee was unanimous in refusing this application on the grounds that asbestos should never have been dumped in this bund in the first place.
The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on the 5th February at West Grimstead Village Hall and the Annual Parish Meeting will take place on the 9th April (also at West Grimstead Village Hall) when it is hoped that representatives from the Fire and Police will attend. Please make a note in your diaries.
Liz Bayford, Clerk to Grimstead Parish Council. Tel 01722 710746.
Grimstead Parish Council Report - January 2018
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I want to say a very big thank you to you all, first, for even thinking of my big eight zero birthday and second, for taking the time and trouble to club together to give me a very generous gift voucher in celebration of it. I did not realise that many people knew I had celebrated that birthday while I was away on Boxing Day and I was totally taken aback when, during Pat and Susan’s New Year’s Day festivities, there was a sudden hush for Pat to speak and present your gift. So much so that I was left virtually speechless and, as many of you will appreciate, that does not happen very often. It was only while I was sitting at home that evening that one by one all the things I wished I had said came into my head. Hence why I am attempting to say them now.
Mention was made of some of the things I have done in the community but the important thing is that I may have had the ideas but without your support they would not have got off the ground. So many thanks to all of you who have turned up and worked hard on Village Spring Clean Day over the many years it has been running, thank you to the Parish Council for supporting the innovation of the West Dean Fun Bus and to those who have come on the outings over the years, thank you to those who agreed to be in the pantomimes I wrote, helped with scenery and props and put up with my directing.
On a more personal level, I would like to thank you again for your ready help whenever I needed it, given without hesitation and without me even having to ask. This is something impossible for me to value too highly. West Dean has always been and continues to be a fantastic community. I was born here, have lived here all my life and count myself very fortunate to have done so.
Forty churches have been taking part in a trial of contactless giving, offering worshippers hand-held terminals in order to process their donations. It is all part of an effort to encourage today’s increasingly cashless congregations to donate electronically.
As the Rev Dr David Evans of Rugeley, in the Midlands, explains, ‘it’s a way that most people pay for things these days, if they are not using cash. There will be time before the service and after the service, when people can text. It is a worship service, so we hope that people won’t text during the service.
Each of the churches in the trial also have put up signs, explaining how the money is being spent locally. 12 cathedrals are also trialling contactless donation boxes.
To My West Dean Friends Christine Warry
Text your tithe Tim Warr
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Tai Chi is a very ancient form of Chinese exercise system originally based on martial arts. It relies on internal energy (Chi) and not physical strength.
The Chi is collected at a point just below the navel called the Lower Tan Tien. This area is like your Chi energy petrol tank and from this point the energy is directed around your body through meridians.
Tai Chi is used because of its healing qualities and its slow graceful movements combined with calm deep natural regular breathing. It has become very popular as a means of maintaining good health and feelings of relaxation and calm.
Tai Chi is enjoyable, very interesting to learn and with many practitioners around the world benefitting from the many health enhancement programmes.
Chi Kung exercises have been used by the Chinese people for thousands of years to maintain their energy levels and keep them in good health.. Commonly translated as energy cultivation, Chi Kung exercises are used in association with a warm up session of light stretching, and a series of balanced breathing and relaxation exercises.
Exercise for the 21st Century
Health and well-being in today’s world is becoming ever more important as the population lives longer and wishes to remain active.. Tai Chi is an excellent
exercise system for the mind, body and spirit, improving overall wellbeing, acting as an ideal aid in the prevention of illness and disease, as well as assisting recovery. Longevity could also be improved.
Tai Chi and Chi Kung in their many forms are used in many hospitals in China to aid recovery from major surgery and to assist with cancer treatments. It is
recognized as a suitable complementary therapy by numerous health related bodies, notably, the British Heart Foundation, and charities Age Concern.
Acknowledged by the National Health Service and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence as being appropriate exercises for many conditions.
Tai Chi and Chi Kung are very popular with all age groups as a regular form of light but beneficial exercise and it can be enjoyed by all regardless of their abilities.
Tai Chi & Chi Kung classes
Wednesday 12:30-13:30 The Rapids, Romsey (sessions run through Mountbatten School) Wednesday 17:30-18:30 King George’s Hall, West Dean Contact Malcolm Calvert 07941 702 267 or [email protected] Open to all ages and abilities.
www.taichi4healthandwellbeing.com
Tai Chi for health and well-being Malcolm Calvert
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I have been interested to read letters from other readers concerning traffic, particularly through Pitton, passing through the country roads and lanes which are often not wide enough to carry two vehicles.
My own recent experience was driving up Whitehill one morning at 9:30. I stopped at the bottom to allow a car to come down the hill. I was overtaken going up the hill. I beeped my horn and the car, a bright red convertible, screeched to a halt alongside the triangle of grass; the driver stood up in his car and bad-mouthed me, for being a silly old woman, driving at 20 mph on a 60 mph road. The driver was incensed that he could not drive at the maximum speed, in spite of the obvious dangers.
A couple of weeks ago a car came down the High Street to the crossroads and without a pause turned left into Whitehill where he hit a car coming straight down towards the crossroads with right of way. The driver at fault did not stop but drove on, leaving the car coming down Whitehill with hundreds of pounds worth of damages. These two drivers seem to epitomise a number of drivers who drive through the countryside without thought to the size of road, conditions, and other users of the road. Perhaps the use of satellite navigation is to blame, but the result is that some drivers are treating our village roads like racing tracks.
I value living in a village where you can still walk to the shop, the church, the school, the village hall, and children can walk to school without having to avoid being mowed down by drivers using the village as a rat run. The roads are narrow, and are used by all road users, delivery lorries, builders trucks, concrete mixers, dustbin lorries, tractors and
trailers, horse boxes, cyclists, horse riders and the local bus service but if passing drivers are made aware of these possible hazards, and are going a sensible speed (not the highest permitted) all can be accommodated with courtesy and safety.
I think it is important that the Village reclaims its right to use its roads safely. Perhaps by lowering the speed limit in the village to 20 mph, with traffic bumps and staggered access, with signs at the entrances to the village asking for caution for pedestrians. I do not think the way forward is to permit the traffic passing through the village to bully and dominate the country roads.
Editor note. Traffic in the villages is a concern for many, judging by the messages and comments received over the past year. Our division councillor, Christopher Devine, has been working on this subject during his time in office. He has access to the various bodies responsible for our highways and would be well placed to ask and answer your questions. You can also contact the Wiltshire Council South Area Board directly. The Area Board has input to a range of matters, including highways. The Area Board can be contacted via our Community Engagement Manager (CEM), Tom Bray.
Cllr Christopher Devine [email protected] CEM Tom Bray [email protected]
Traffic through Pitton Ann Humphrey
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The Poppy Appeal collectors, who do the door to door collecting during the period of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, are the only contact that most of us have with the Legion. The annual collection is its most important fund-raising event in the year.
Organising the collection for the Alderbury area, which includes Pitton, Farley and the Grimsteads, includes the following. In late August, ordering the stock of poppies and other badges and items available in return for a donation. Also checking in mid-September that the team of collectors are available and clear about which area they are to collect from. Also booking the E.G. Reading room for set up at the start of the collection and for counting the money at the end. Finally contacting those who will assist at the counting, paying the collection in to the bank and informing all concerned how much they each collected.
For the past several years Mrs Pat Sheppard has been the Poppy Appeal Organiser but now wishes to stand down. Full instruction will be given to anyone willing to take over this rewarding task.
Would you be able to take over from her?
For more information please contact Pat on 01722 710 587.
Don’t look to the government for so much help. That is the message of an independent review of the Church’s reliance on government funding for the upkeep of its church buildings. The review calls for a ‘cultural shift’, where communities contribute to their church’s upkeep.
The Taylor Report was commissioned in 2016 to report to the Chancellor and Culture Secretary. It recommends that from 2020, the Government provide £66 million a year, compared with the recent £90 million.
The long-term survival of church buildings requires a change in the way many communities regard these buildings. ‘We need to create a cultural shift in attitudes towards church buildings such that communities realise they are resources they can use, and congregations have the confidence to share space and where appropriate, to ask for a fair income.’.
The report also said that the main theme emerging from the thousands of churches who responded to the review was the ‘huge care that people feel for these buildings’.
Poppy Appeal Pat Sheppard
Care for church buildings Tim Lenton
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Don’t forget to eat your greens – or you could be forgetting a lot of other things as well. It seems that a portion of green leafy vegetables each day can go a long way towards safeguarding the memory of older people. In a recent study, it was found that people who eat greens regularly can have a memory capacity equivalent to the memory of a person 11 years younger.
A recent study at Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago found that people in their 80s who ate just half a cup a day of certain green leafy vegetables (lettuce, spinach, kale and collard greens; all rich in vitamin K) had significantly better memory than those older people who did not.
www.rush.edu/health-wellness
What is your work-life balance? Ideally, it should be a four-way effort of family, work, leisure and - very important - volunteering.
That is the belief of Sir Nick Parker, who served as Commander of the Land Forces from 2010 to 2012. He argues that young people, of between 10 and 20 years old especially, will themselves be helped by regular volunteering, as it helps them learn new skills, increases their resilience and self-confidence, and can improve their social mobility and life chances.
Now Sir Nick Parker has been calling on the Government to encourage people of all ages to get used to volunteering, as not only could it help revitalise civil society, it also can help young people to grow and mature, and get into the habit of playing an active, useful role in their communities.
How to improve your memory Pat Field
Good to volunteer Mike Potter
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Thank you to everyone who supported the Scout Christmas Post, and helped us to raise funds for our Scout Group and scouting in the Salisbury area. As always our grateful thanks go to our hard-working stamp sales outlets, sorters and deliverers.
This year we have sold in excess of 3,000 stamps and delivered over 3,000 cards in our local area. Thousands more cards were sorted in Salisbury and delivered throughout the surrounding area!
The funds raised will be used to upgrade our storage shed, making it is easier for our members to access the equipment they need, and to support Scouts going to international camps and jamborees.
So ‘thank you’ again from all our Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers.
John Cox
Group Scout Leader
01980 863 310
As the value of lead continues to rise, so heritage buildings such as churches are increasingly becoming prey to organised gangs who, in some instances, have made off with entire church roofs, according to specialist insurers, Ecclesiastical.
Although the Scrap Metal Dealers Act of 2013 ‘continues to be a powerful weapon’, according to the Home Office, still the ‘volume and severity of incidents of metal theft will also increase’, warns Ecclesiastical. As Robert Fells of the British Metals Recycling Association puts it: ‘The number of crimes has reduced, but they have got much bigger.’
Winterslow Scout Group John Cox
Where’s the church roof? Tim Lenton
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Millions of households in the UK are struggling to avoid hunger, as latest figures from the United Nations show that nearly three million people in the UK are now classed as severely ‘food insecure’, which means they are facing hunger on a daily basis. In the whole of Europe, according the UN, only Albania has higher levels of food insecurity.
And so it is that the End Hunger campaign, a collation of charities and faith groups who are working to tackle food poverty, is demanding that a new cross-departmental Household Food Security Minister be appointed to tackle the problem.
The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Rachel Tweek, said in her recently published report, A Menu to End Hunger, that in her diocese, one foodbank alone had distributed about 1860 food parcels in the last year. She said: ‘We know that many more people are living on cheap food, much of it unhealthy, or skipping meals, because they are too ashamed to visit a foodbank. Whilst celebrating the work that churches and other voluntary groups are doing to respond to this urgent need, it is clear to me that Government and businesses could and should be doing more to reduce the need for foodbanks in the first place.’
The report also calls on the Government to do something about the problem of ‘holiday hunger’, when parents whose children receive free school meals struggle to feed them during school holidays. The Government should provide holiday clubs where such children can be fed.
www.endhungeruk.org
Are you taking – and posting – selfies on social media every day? Then beware – you may be in danger of developing a genuine mental health condition.
In 2014 a story went viral reporting that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had coined the term “selfitis” as a new medical disorder for people who obsessively shoot and share selfies online. It turned out to be a hoax, but it triggered a lot of research.
Recent research at Nottingham Trent University and Thiagarajar School of Management in India has concluded that selfitis does exist, and is based on attention-seeking, lack of self-confidence, and therefore a constant need to boost your social standing.
It seems there are three levels of being ‘selfie indulgent’- borderline (taking photos of yourself at least three times a day, but not posting them on social media); acute (taking photos of yourself at least three times a day and posting them all on social media) and chronic (uncontrollable urge to take photos of yourself and posting them more than six times a day).
Of the 225 participants in the study, men were found to exhibit a higher rate of selfitis than women, with 16-20 year olds being most susceptible.
End Hunger campaign David Southgate
Selfitis—disorder or hoax Lucy Johnson
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The size of a congregation is significant in a number of ways. Larger churches, for example, have more resources, both in people and (usually) finance, to undertake more activities. It is surprising, though, just how many smaller churches have numerous activities being undertaken frequently by a dedicated army of often older people, faithfully labouring behind the scenes.
The number of congregations in England which are comprised of under 50 people is about half, or 54%. In the Church of England, about five per cent of these ‘under 50’ churches number only seven people, and about 25 per cent of these churches number 15 people.
Turning to the larger churches, across the 0.5% of largest churches, the attendance is 700 (excluding the six churches with attendance in four figures, two of which are in central London [HTB and All Souls]). Across the largest 5% the average congregation is 150, and across the largest 25% it is 60.
Across the whole country and across all denominations the median size of congregation is 44 people; which means that is there are almost 20,000 churches with fewer than that on a Sunday, while 20,000 have more.
In America, the size issue takes totally different dimensions, since there are probably about 1,500 “mega-churches”, those with more than 2,000 on a Sunday. There are probably a further 15,000 what they call “medium-sized” churches, that is, with between 500 and 2,000 attenders, with something like 325,000 churches catering for 34 million churchgoers.
British scientists Francis Crick and James Watson announced that they had discovered the double-helix structure of DNA 65 years ago, on 28th February 1953.
In making the announcement, Crick said: ‘We have discovered the secret of life.’ This was true as far as it went, and is the subject of a compelling book by Watson called The Double Helix.
In fact, however, they did not discover DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). That was achieved in 1869 by Friedrich Miescher in Switzerland. Nor, if you want to be precise, did they discover the double helix shape of it, since that feat was accomplished by x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin.
She had managed to take an X-ray diffraction pattern from a sample of DNA that showed a clearly recognisable cross or helical shape. One of her colleagues showed Watson the image, and it confirmed experimentally the correctness of the theoretical model that Crick and Watson were working on.
The discovery of the double helix changed the world of medicine and science for ever.
Crick and Watson, with Maurice Wilkins (Franklin's colleague), won the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1962. Tragically, Rosalind Franklin did not receive the praise or the prize, because the rules prevent it from being awarded posthumously, and she had died in 1958 of ovarian cancer. She was 37.
Congregation size Tim Lenton
Double-helix Paul Harding
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Forget 2000 calories a day if you are a woman, and 2500 if you are a man: the latest health guidelines from Public Health England (PHE) are expected to recommend a 400 – 600 – 600 rule. That means restricting your calories to 400 for breakfast, 600 for lunch, and 600 for dinner. An additional two healthy snacks a day, of 100 calories each, are also permitted.
The government now believes that we are all consuming on average 200 – 300 MORE calories a day than we need. The new lower guideline is also thought to compensate for the fact that most people tend to underestimate the number of calories that they eat.
Good quality sliced bread is back in fashion this year. After years of decline, when carbs were ‘out’, households all over the country seem to be waking up to the fact that they can easily create delicious lunches with ‘craft’ breads at home, and have no need to pay anything up to £15 for an ‘avocado brunch’ at trendy cafés. And so, inviting your friends over for a sandwich ‘brunch’ at the weekend is becoming a very sociable occasion, rather than going out. Pasta is also expected to make a major ‘return’ this year.
Cut your calories Lester Cooke
Bread is back Sandra Burns
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Thirty years ago this month, on 5th
February 1988, Britain experienced its
first Red Nose Day. ‘Comic Relief’, an
American idea, had crossed the Atlantic
in a uniquely British form. So suddenly
red noses were everywhere. Lenny Henry
and comedy script-writer Richard Curtis
were its first pioneers, movingly
expounding its simple basic principle:
poverty, exploitation and famine are not
funny, but well-known funny people
could help those who were their victims.
The first Comic Relief drew an audience
of 13 million and raised five million
pounds. Over succeeding years, the
audience has never again been quite so
large, but the amounts raised for the
relief of poverty world-wide have hugely
increased.
Getting a big TV audience is simply the
first requirement of a telethon – a
marathon televised charity project. Once
Comic Relief achieved that audience,
some of the most effective comedians in
the UK did their stuff, sometimes live and
sometimes recorded. Over Comic Relief’s
30 years just about every well-known
comedy performer in Britain’, has
contributed to the event. For several
years a regular feature was an hilarious
parody by Ian Hislop. The same comic
stars also introduce films and interviews
to remind viewers that this really is
comedy with a purpose.
Once again, this month the red noses will
appear – at school, at work, in shops and
on the streets: a visible, bizarre reminder
that all the world is not happy, but our
laughter is that of sympathy, not ridicule.
When it is held again next year, in March
2019, the total raised by Comic Relief
should pass a hundred million pounds,
and that’s no laughing matter.
No laughing matter Mike Pardy
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For the latest information on what’s happening in Pitton or Farley, see:
www.pittonandfarley.co.uk
Photos, news and details of upcoming events welcome:
What you put in your mouth every night changed dramatically 80 years ago, when the first toothbrushes with nylon bristles were introduced by Du Pont on 24th February 1938.
Until then, the bristles had been made from the stiff, coarse hairs taken from the back of a hog's neck and attached to handles made of bone or bamboo. Understandably, the first nylon toothbrush was called a Miracle Toothbrush.
Pig-hair toothbrushes are still used today, sometimes by people concerned about the environment. Discarded plastic brushes can end up in places such as the gullets of albatrosses and other large sea birds.
Have you visited the website A Church Near You? It is great for searching for churches or services in your area. All you have to do is type in a postcode or a specific feature such as a choir, or disabled access. A Church Near You receives more than 13 million page-views throughout the year.
Try it at:
www.achurchnearyou.com
Your toothbrush Tim Lenton
A church near you Ed Boston
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