This Sunday’s Services

Sunday 5th July: 4th after Trinity

10.00am All-Age Parish Eucharist (Zoom) 6.00pm Said Evensong (YouTube & reserved seating in church)

The Fisherman on friday Welcome to The Fisherman on Friday, a spin-off from and a temporary replacement for our monthly parish magazine. We hope it will inform and entertain you and provide another means for the St Andrew’s community to come together whilst apart. Thank you to those who have contributed to this issue, which we hope you will enjoy.

Issue 13: 2 July 2020

I have similar memories of the war years to those Jenny Thynne wrote about in a previous weekly Fisherman and sent her the following:

I lived through the blitz and after, sleeping in an air raid shelter every night. Walking alone a mile to and from school aged six, I crossed roads with hardly any traffic, but was sometimes diverted as a bridge over the railway line was closed because of unexploded bombs on the line.

At school we practiced that, whenever the air raid siren went off, we all had to run by specified routes to the school air raid shelter and sit on the long benches in the order that we arrived, taking nothing extra with us. For an hour or more we had nothing to do. The teacher could walk along provided we kept our feet under the benches, but couldn't teach us anything because in a long line we couldn't hear.

I was shown all the air raid shelters of houses in my road and to some on the way to school,

and was told that when the siren went I was to run to the nearest shelter, not to come home to our shelter. Many houses were empty as people had been evacuated.

My parents were both doctors and on call 24/7. They had bikes, and a car only to be used under special circumstances. In the hall they kept their medical cases ready to take to a bomb site when the phone rang. Often they arrived long before an ambulance, and took charge of treating casualties. During the blitz they did not put on pyjamas for three months.

When I returned home from school I had to put the oven on at say 350 at 4.00pm, after my mother had left the food in the oven. I also had to light the lounge fire, which was coal on top of a minimum of wood and one sheet of newspaper tied in a thumb knot so its front corners were accessible; and the matches were left on the hearth for me. Can you imagine an unaccompanied six-year old doing that daily?

Richard Maddison

WW2 Memories

During my time on furlough I’ve enjoyed many walks around Bromham Park and watched the season change from Spring to Summer. Just recently the poppies have been a real picture!

Karen

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Cuthbert’s Cookery Corner

American Potato Salad with

a British Twist (just like the

Centre Manager…)

5 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and chopped into bite size chunks

½ small brown onion - peeled and chopped very finely

6 tbsp full-fat mayonnaise

3 tbsp salad cream

¼ tsp white pepper - this is a must - it can’t be replaced with black pepper

Pinch of salt

1 tbsp chopped fresh chives - optional

Place the potatoes in a pan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil and simmer for 7-9 minutes until tender.

Drain the potatoes and leave to cool.

3. Place the cooled potatoes in a bowl with the onion, mayonnaise, salad cream, half of the white pepper and the salt. Stir everything together to combine. Taste and add a little more seasoning if needed.

4. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes (up to a day) before serving. Just before serving sprinkle with chopped chives and a little black pepper if you like.

Folks often ask me what do abbreviations in their medical documents or sample forms mean? Medical staff sometimes use the same abbreviation to mean different things and really, we shouldn’t use abbreviations, so if you are unsure of the meaning of an abbreviation, please do call your doctor, nurse or pharmacy. Here are a few commonly seen abbreviations:

# Fracture as in broken bones. AF atrial fibrillation (Pertaining to the heart). B.d, bds twice per day, 2 times daily B/P blood pressure CPN community psychiatric nurse CT scan Computerised tomography (type of body scan sections) CXR chest X ray. DNR do not resuscitate DVT deep venous thrombosis ECG electrocardiograph, test to monitor the heart. EMU early morning urine sample. ESR shows erythrocyte sedimentation rate (diagnostic blood test) EEG electroencephalograph, (monitoring of the brain function) EUA examination under anaesthetic FBC full blood count GA general anaesthetic Hb haemoglobin IV injection directly into a vein INR International normalised ratio (blood monitoring requiring blood thinners). J to Z continued in next Fisherman.

I have many days leave left. I will be taking a week off from Sunday 5 July through to Sunday 12 July. God Bless and keep safe.

Nurse Sandy x

Notes from the Nurse

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St Andrew’s Outreach Partner for July - AFIA

I was pleased to learn that AFIA had been recommended by the PCC as the Outreach Partner for July this year. The acronym stands for Away From It All and it relates to a holiday scheme run by the Mothers’ Union in the UK to enable needy families to have the summer holiday together that they could not otherwise afford. Some dioceses arrange day trips under the AFIA scheme and some even have their own caravan solely for this purpose, but landlocked St Albans Diocese has an arrangement with the Haven Holiday Park in Caister, near Great Yarmouth, to book week long holidays there. Recipients of AFIA holidays don't have to be a member of a church - it is a way of showing the love of Christ to all - and applications must be supported by a professional referee such as a doctor, a priest, a head teacher or a social worker.

The MU Coordinator for this project in the diocese said, “The first family we sent on an AFIA holiday last year were a mother with a teenage son and two daughters aged five and seven. They had all been deeply affected by the sudden death of the dad six months earlier and he was also the breadwinner of the family. Another family had got themselves into a lot of debt, through no fault of their own, and they were working hard to pay it off. The mother broke her leg, and just as she was getting back on her feet, the dad (who was a gardener) had his shed broken into and all his tools stolen. But the one which gave me the most satisfaction was a family of a single mum

with five children ranging from age two to 14. The mum hadn't had a holiday for 13 years though the three oldest children had been away with their dad to see their nan. They wrote in their thank you card to the MU, ‘There are not enough ways to say thank you for our family holiday. The two youngest children had never been to the seaside and they all had a brilliant time. We made so many lovely memories.’”

Thank you to St Andrew’s for supporting this Mothers’ Union project.

James Reveley

Curate does the Camino (virtually!)

An update

To date, Duncan has completed 149 miles of the Camino Trail via

virtual bike rides and has raised £130.00 for the Bedford Food Bank. Keep going Curate!

Just a reminder that you can sponsor Duncan in via the Justgiving link below.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/duncan-goldthorpebedfordfoodbank?utm_term=kkQGaJQBz

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Family News!

On Sunday 21st June, the gospel passage told us how God knows how many hairs are on our

heads. In Family Worship, we tried counting how many hairs we each had, but we didn’t get very far! We reflected on how God knows us, and all of creation in great detail. Here are just some of the things we think God knows.

God knows

How many flowers there are in a field,

How many birds are in the world,

How many insects there must be.

God knows

How many grains of sand are on every beach,

How hot the sun is,

How many stars shine in the sky.

God knows

How many hairs are on our head,

How many cells are in our bodies,

How we are feeling.

God knows

To love and look after something

So it will grow.

For our time of prayer, we remembered that God knows us and helps us, especially in tough times. We thought about what we were finding tough at the moment:

Not returning to school until September,

Missing seeing family and friends,

Being unable to give people hugs,

Finding reading and work at home hard,

Being stuck at home and not being able to go on holiday.

We prayed together for God to be with us in these tough times. It would be great if you could pray for us too.

Elisabeth Sutcliffe

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Fairtrade at St Andrews

Fair Trade Face Masks now in stock and available for delivery to you.

Supplied to us by Traidcraft “These reusable face coverings are made from 100% fair trade cotton and come from our BAFTS accredited (British Association of Fair Trade Shops and Suppliers) friends at Earth Squared. This face covering is machine washable at 60 degrees, it’s a much more sustainable way to protect yourselves than a disposable mask or unsustainable alternative. This face covering is made from a premium, soft cotton which fits over the mouth and nose, attached to your face by elasticated rubber covered in polyester as ear straps” The masks are priced at £4 each. There is a choice of plain navy, blue gingham (may be striped or checked), or floral (may be in a variety of colours).

Thank you to the Guides

We're planning to hold fair trade stalls outside the church in the open air to coordinate with the planned Sunday and Wednesday services in church. The plans have been greatly assisted by the very kind loan from the Guides of their rather superior up to date awning. All we have to do now is work out how to put it up!

90kg Virtual Kilombero Rice Challenge – update

After another order for virtual rice this morning we've now reached 68 bags of rice towards our target of 90. A farmer in the Kilombero Malawi needs to sell 90kg of rice to fund one year of secondary education for one child. In the UK many families and vulnerable people have been financially severely affected by lockdown and are facing an uncertain future as redundancies increase. The 'virtual' bag of rice you buy not only helps a farming family in Malawi but will also help struggling people in Bedford as the rice you don't receive will be donated to the Food Bank and other organisations providing food help at this difficult time.

Lynn Herron

Shop Manager