September 2016

1 Rev’d Canon D. Perkins, The Vicarage, , , DE45 1PH Tel: 01246 386385 (Church website -www.stpetersedensor.org) September 2016

The name of Isabella Gilmore is perhaps in danger of being lost in the mists of time. Yet as Head Deaconess she served in order to revive the ministry of women, and establish their place within the Church of . Widowed in 1882 at the age of 42, she decided, despite opposition from her family, to train as a nurse, and entered Guy's Hospital as a “lady pupil”. Once qualified, she was quickly promoted to ward sister, and expected to follow a career as a senior nurse. However, circumstances dictated otherwise. Much to her surprise, she received a call from the Bishop of Rochester to establish and lead an order of Deaconesses to work in the desperately poor areas of London which at that time lay within his Diocese. She could not see how this would work out. Her brother had died, and she had taken on responsibility for his children. She had no experience of administration beyond that of a ward sister. Above all, the organising committee behind the project had no clear idea of what they actually envisaged. Isabella hesitated up to the very last moment. On the Sunday, the last day for her to respond to the Bishop's call, she went to Church. “The preacher was a stranger,” she later wrote. “He gave as his text: 'Go to work for me today in my vineyard. ' To me it was a trumpet call.... just as if God's voice had called me.” She went home and wrote the shortest of letters to Bishop Thorold: “I humbly accept your offer.” Isabella never looked back, or in spite of many difficulties, regretted her decision.

There are many great figures in the Bible who have hesitated to respond to God's call. Moses has an extended dialogue with God pleading his unworthiness to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt. Jeremiah and Isaiah also hesitate to respond to God's call. But God reassures them that he will be with them as they proclaim their message.

2 As Christians, we need to assess realistically what it is we have to offer, what are the qualities God has given us, and in what way can we best use them in his service. Of course, we hesitate – but so did Isabella Gilmore. Like her, we know our faith will make demands upon us. But we also know that something to which we commit ourselves, but which makes no demand upon us, is not really worthwhile, and we credit it with very little value. But as God values us, and we value our Christian calling, we do not look back, but move forward with confidence in God.

Every Blessing Canon Dave

Bible sense

Being married to a woman who reads her Bible can have its drawbacks. When a man protested to his wife that wiping dishes was not a man’s job, his wife replied simply: “2 Kings 21:13”, and handed him a tea towel. Later he looked it up: ‘And I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.”

From the Registers St. Peter’s, Edensor ~ Wedding 28th July ~ Jonathan Francis & Roseanna Kate Sanderson

St. Anne’s, Beeley ~ Weddings 30th July ~ Robert William Ward & Yvonne Kay Green 6th August ~ Peter Brian Fearn & Michala Jane Stone

Telephone Numbers St. Anne’s Wardens:- Rupert Turner 01629 732794 Fiona Swain ex directory Treasurer:- Fiona Lichfield 01629 813382 St. Peter’s Wardens:- Elizabeth Bradshaw 01246 582421 David Jackson 01246 583452 Treasurer:- Mark Titterton 01246 582245 e-mail: [email protected]

3 St. Anne’s, Beeley Sunday 11th September 3.30pm Pet Service

Everyone welcome and do bring your pets!

Chatsworth Horticultural & Produce Show Saturday, 17th September 2016 Cavendish Hall, Edensor Doors open at 2.00pm with the Duchess of Devonshire presenting the prizes at 3.00pm. HAVE A GO - GROW, SEW, BAKE AND MAKE Show schedules available from Sandra Elliott ([email protected])

St. Peter’s Church HARVEST PEA & PIE SUPPER 24th September 7pm Cavendish Hall tickets £10 from Canon Dave Perkins or the wardens bring your own drinks and glasses Do come and join us for our Harvest Supper. We will be having a ‘home grown’ evening of entertainment with Bingo, a Beetle Drive, a quiz, music (Dave with his guitar), singing etc. So, if you can play an instrument or sing come to the supper and join in. When ordering your ticket let us know if you need a vegetarian option. If you have problems with transport to this event please let us know and we may be able to arrange a lift for you. 4 Dates for your Diary - September 3 BAKEWELL TOWN HALL - John OtDAY. John Otway the Movie + Q & A with John Otway 4pm Tickets £5 followed by John Otway LIVE 8pm Assembly Room Theatre Tickets £10 - Movie & Gig £12 www.ticketsource.co.uk/bakewelltownhall 10 St. Peter’s - Visiting ringers 2 - 2.45pm 11 3.30pm St. Anne’s, Beeley Pet Service 13 BEELEY WI Monthly Meeting 6pm start at Chatsworth Sculptures at Chatsworth - Sarah - Tour of the statues Nibbles: Sarah 18 6pm St. Peter’s, Edensor - Evensong with Andrew Marples & Music Works Vocal Ensemble 19 BEELEY PARISH COUNCIL Meeting 7.30pm Village Hall 21 CHATSWORTH WI Monthly Meeting 7pm Edensor Tea Cottage Speaker: Jean Groom - My spinning life Competition: Bead Necklace Vote of thanks: Pat Bown Teas: Jean Sutton & Kath Watts 24 St. Peter’s Church Harvest Supper 7pm Cavendish Hall. Tickets £10 30/1Oct Baslow Players present An Evening of Mystery & Mayhem

St. Peter’s, Edensor St. Anne’s, Beeley Harvest Thanksgiving Harvest Thanksgiving Service Service Sunday 25th September ~ Sunday 25th September ~ 10.45am 3pm Everyone Welcome Everyone Welcome

Both our churches will once again be celebrating their Harvest Thanksgiving services on the same day - St. Peter’s at 10.45am and St. Anne’s at 3pm. You are warmly invited to join us at one or both of these services. Donations of flowers, fruit and vegetables for decorating the windows and font would be very much appreciated and can be left in church on Friday 23rd or early on Saturday 24th September when we will be arranging them. We are also asking for people to donate non-perishable foods, i.e tins or packets, and all the food items will be sent to the Padley Day Centre in Derby, which helps the homeless. 5 St. Anne’s & St. Peter’s Lizzie is an international violinist and plays all over the world with Nigel We are holding two amazing fund Kennedy, The Beach Boys, Eric raising concerts in November. Clapton and others. She will be playing Lizzie Ball and the Ronnie Scotts All with James Pearson on piano - one of Stars Band are coming to the the foremost jazz pianists in Europe Cavendish Hall, Edensor for TWO today and the director of music at nights on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London, November. where his trio is the resident band. James has played with every well- Many of you will have seen them known artist including Tony Bennett, perform up here, perhaps at the Sir Paul McCartney, the late Sir John Buxton Festival. They have a good Dankworth and Cleo Laine. He will be following in this area as Lizzie is a local bringing his trio up to Edensor. girl and went to Lady Manners School and will be doing workshops at the Please tell your friends and pass the school while she is up here. word around. All profits will go to help fund the proposed new disabled toilet and If you would like to sponsor any part kitchen at Edensor church and building of these concerts we would be very works at Beeley church. grateful as our aim is to cover the band’s costs so that everything else can Tickets will be available from Jennie go to the churches. Details of Ball on 07785 354015 or email for sponsorship from Jennie Ball. tickets at [email protected] 6 Easy Fundraising If you already SHOP ONLINE, or if you haven’t yet done so, then why not use Easy Fundraisng and help raise money for St. Peter’s Church? There is no extra cost to you and a percentage from your purchase will come back to the church. To Register •Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk •Click on Register •Choose Saint Peter’s Church - Chatsworth Park as your charity and fill in the rest of the form To Shop •Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk •Search for your store in the alphabetical list •Go ahead and shop Choose from over 2000 of the UK’s best-known retailers including names such as Amazon, M&S, Argos, John Lewis and HMV and when you shop using the links on the easyfundraising site up to 15% from every purchase you make is donated to St. Peter’s Church.

How to grow your brain on Ageing have discovered that when muscles exercise, they produce a If you do exercise which is strenuous protein that travels to the brain and enough to get your heart pumping triggers neuron growth. “Overall, hard, it may help your memory, the message is that a consistently because it triggers a protein that healthy lifestyle pays off,” explained fosters the growth of brain cells. one neuroscientist. Researchers at the National Institute

The Padley Centre St. Peter’s Church 100 Club This is St. Peter’s chosen charity July Draw 2016 for 2016 and we are now 1st Prize £30 - no. 89 Trevor Grimshaw collecting clothing for adults; 2nd Prize £20 - no. 32 Margaret Perkins tinned meat; tinned fish; tinned soup and tinned tomatoes. These Funds to church this month - £50 items can be brought to Sunday Ann Hall services or left at the back of the church at any time. 7 The Chatsworth Festival - Art Out Loud 23 - 25 september 2016

Three days of talks by artists, curators and writers, with over 20 speakers, including Edmund de Waal, Maria Balshaw, Dan Pearson, Julia Peyton- Jones, Peter Frankopan and the Duke of Devonshire, in the house and garden.

The Chatsworth Festival - Art Out Loud is an event not to be missed. Following the success of the inaugural Chatsworth Festival in 2015, we felt we must do it again! In 2016 there will be some added extras. New in 2016 • Artisans selling exhibition with 30 artists sharing their best works and demonstrating their disciplines, from ethereal pastels and dramatic oils, to quirky mixed media and evocative etchings, to fine furniture, jewellery and potters in porcelain. •Family-focused talk with a famous children’s book illustrator •Schools activities and talk on Friday morning •Festival Day Passes for Saturday and Sunday

The Chatsworth Festival - Art Out Loud includes the opportunity to explore the 105 acre garden at Chatsworth, Sotheby’s Beyond Limits monumental sculpture exhibition and enjoy the festival atmosphere on the private South Lawn, with the best views of the house and park

Festival tickets Adult £13 Child £7 each Festival day passes available online from June All Festival tickets and day passes include entry to the garden from 10am until 6pm and free car parking.

For more information on Art Out Loud, accommodation options and how to find us please visit www.chatsworth.org

8 Living Well Together This means we must be able to engage in loving, honest, faithful As schools open again this month, disagreement, where we do not it may be helpful to remember shy away from difference but that: “Living well together is not neither do we make differences a the same as living comfortably reason to not work together. And in together. It’s not about sweeping order to do that, we need to difference under the carpet or provide a language and trying to confine it to the private understanding that enables people sphere, but rather celebrating to disagree well and to navigate, diversity and living with with respect, the diverse world in difference.” which we live.”

So said the Rev Nigel Genders, the The CofE is developing a model for CofE’s Chief Education Officer, “deeper engagement” where 6th recently responding to the work of formers can engage with the issue the Education Office on Living of religiously motivated violence Well Together. by looking at some texts from Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith “Learning to disagree well is key to which are often misunderstood. that. We do not all believe the This will be piloted in Leicester in same things, and must model in November. our schools and universities, as well as in society at large, how to disagree well about matters we hold very dearly.

St. Peter’s Church Path by Derbyshire Resin Driveways. The Those of you who may not have been previous surface, whilst not being to the church recently will notice a suitable as a path, made an excellent vast improvement in the path from base for the 50mm of tarmac and the the gates to the south door and the layer of resin bound material on top chapel door. In 2014 we had the path and the granite setts relaid with a self-binding gravel, for the edging bring which, unfortunately, turned out not everything together to be suitable and was very soft and and really do make a dirty after any rain. The PCC made difference to the the decision to have the path whole church area. resurfaced with a resin bound Do come and a have material and during the last couple of a look at it. weeks the work has been carried out 9 Uncertainty and Hope trust in God’s love and mercy for The Ven John Barton looks back on the those who have died, but for the horrific attack on Nice this summer… families left behind this is a most terrible time from which many may If the audience at the First Night of not recover.” the Proms this year had not heard the national news broadcasts that day, Terrorist acts of this kind are they would have been startled by an motivated by a deadly combination of unscheduled addition to the false faith with hatred. No one is programme. It opened with a rousing risk-free, and the nations’ leaders are rendition of the French National hard-pressed to safeguard their Anthem. people. St. Paul’s advice to Timothy has never been more apt: “I urge that Scores of unsuspecting holidaymakers … prayers… be offered to God for in the French resort of Nice had been all in authority, that we may live a mown down by a fanatical lorry quiet and peaceful life with all driver; his was the latest in a chain of reverence towards God and with massacres perpetrated by Islamists in proper conduct.” Europe and beyond. Ironically, it was Bastille Day, commemorating French We must be on our guard, but also unity. The playing of the Marseillaise trust God. In Nice churchyard is the in London’s Albert Hall was a grave of Henry Lyte, the writer of the demonstration of solidarity with hymn, ‘Abide with me’, which French people everywhere and a encourages us to disarm our fears by defiant message of hope. expressing confidence in God’s purposes: Church leaders the world over published their prayers the next day. I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless; An Anglican chaplain based near Nice Ills have no weight, and tears no said, “Prayer is the thing. We can’t do bitterness; anything tangible or practical in Where is death’s sting? Where grave thy support of the security service apart victory? from our own vigilance . . . but we do I triumph still, if Thou abide with me. have a very strong and a very powerful thing that we can do . . . and that is prayer . . . because with faith we

Breakfast like a king, dine like a According to a recent study by King’s pauper College, the modern lifestyle of eating The old saying ‘breakfast like a king, more as the day goes on, instead of lunch like a prince and dine like a less, is causing havoc to our body pauper’ could well turn out to the clocks and digestion. very best of advice if you want to lose weight and stay healthy. 10 Brief Notes from St. Peter’s PCC Meeting held on Monday 25th July 2016 Nine members of the PCC were present and one apology was received. Canon Dave opened the meeting with prayers and the Minutes of the meetings held on 27th April and 31st May 2016 were agreed and signed as a correct record. Matters arising not on the Agenda: •The old sound system has been sold for £35. •The new water heater has been installed. •The Faculty for the Allen organ has been granted. Canon Dave said that the sound has been improved by the speakers being re-sited behind the organ pipes. Permission will be asked of the Acting Archdeacon, Canon Tony Kaunhoven, for the re-siting of the speakers at the west end of the church. •St. Peter’s was not successful in its application for the repair/replacement of the gutters to the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair grant scheme. This will now be our first concern for fundraising; other charities will be approached for grants towards this. •Canon Dave reported that the Padley Centre is immensely grateful for the support we are able to give. Report from the Chair: •A Foundation Governor is needed for Pilsley School and the names of two people have been put forward. Canon Dave asked for the PCCs approval to meet these candidates and make a decision on their behalf. Proposed by Mike Pindar and seconded by David Jackson, agreed by all. •Choral Evensong on Sunday August 21st at 4pm with Derby Choristers. •Choral Evensong on Sunday 18th September at 6pm with Andrew Marples and Music Works Vocal Ensemble. •A request by Baslow Singers to hold a concert in church on 1st April 2017. The cost of hiring the church for such concerts is £300 and the Vicar would relay this information to them. •Earlier in the summer the sheep had escaped from the old part of the churchyard due to damage to the fence and consequently the grass had become very overgrown. Richard Finney has strimmed the area and we will ask for the sheep to be returned once the fence has been repaired. The size of the water trough was also questioned - was it big enough for them? If not a replacement would be needed. •Canon Dave is getting more requests for weddings at St. Peter’s; this is such an opportunity for mission with couples attending regularly in the months before their wedding and many continuing to attend afterwards. Financial Report: • The financial statement and balance sheet were circulated prior to the meeting. The Treasurer stressed that the challenge for the PCC is that all- round giving has decreased, which is certain to cause problems in the future. •Net proceeds from Edensor Day - £8,528.7 split 40% Edensor Village; 40% Church and 20% Infrastructure, therefore St. Peter’s share was £3,366.91. •Margaret Thomas had paid for the re-painting of the toilet and the meeting wished to record its thanks to her.

11 •Mark Titterton explained how the new Common Fund, which will replace the Parish Share, will be worked out. Canon Dave and the wardens had attended a synod meeting entitled ‘Living Generously’ about the Common Fund. This will be calculated on Usual Sunday Adult Attendance multiplied by individual parish/team deprivation score. This will mean that wealthier parishes in the Diocese will help to support those in more deprived areas. Mark said that this new system would be likely to mean a large increase in what St. Peter’s has to pay and as the average weekly giving is £6 this would not be sufficient to meet the increase. The figures will not be out until September. Discussion of the West end of the church/guttering: • As St. Peter’s was not successful in obtaining a grant for the essential work needed on the gutters/rainwater goods and as the cost of this work had been estimated in the region of £75,000, Canon Dave regretted that for the time being the kitchen/disabled toilet project would have to be put on hold. At the Village barbecue on 7th July it was suggested that the kitchen could go under the tower and the disabled toilet where the present kitchen area is. In view of the lack of funds it was felt that this was an idea for the future and as its discussion at the meeting provoked strong feelings both for and against the idea it was decided to shelve it for the time being along with the other plans for this project. •Another suggestion was to ask people to sponsor a length of gutter, perhaps in memory of a loved one and for their names to be recorded in a book. The wardens will investigate this and speak to the architect. •Part of the path would still be re-laid - the area from the gate to south door and to the chapel door. Three quotes had been received and the one from Derbyshire Resin Driveways accepted by the PCC - proposed by John Bowns and seconded by David Novokovic. Fundraising: • Church stall at Pilsley Village Fair raised £110; stall on Bakewell Market raised £200, thanks were recorded to Mike Pindar and those who had helped with this; a further £100 was raised by the sale of 10 china mugs, bought by a member of the congregation for sale in church. •The Harvest Festival will be on Sunday 25th September and a Pea and Pie Supper will be held at the Cavendish Hall on Saturday 24th September. Entertainment will take the form of a quiz, bingo, a beetle drive, music and a sing-a-long. Tickets will be £10 each. •18th & 19th Nov. - Lizzie Ball concerts at the Cavendish Hall. Tickets £25 •3rd Dec. Belper Wind Band, plus choir, at the Cavendish Hall. Tickets £10. Patronage Scheme: •The church wardens had met Sarah Owen at Chatsworth to look into the possibility of a Patronage Scheme for St. Peter’s. After an interesting discussion it was concluded that this was not the right time for us to introduce such a scheme. A.O.B: •David Novokovic will take responsibility for researching/applying for grants/ funding; Sarah Porter from Beeley had offered to help with this.

12 •The condition of the protective mesh on the stained glass windows was discussed. Liz Bradshaw will contact the architect to ask if he would take a look at this and the stonework on some of the other windows. We could possibly get a grant for this work. Date of next meeting: Wednesday 12th October 7.30pm Edensor Tea Cottage. The meeting closed with The Grace.

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Why story-telling is good for us watching fiction increases your ability Don’t let anyone tease you if you to understand the feelings of others, enjoy novels and drama. Story-telling and so can break down divisions is more than just entertainment – it between people of different really does have an important role to backgrounds. “What’s a piece of play in our lives. fiction…a novel… a short story… a play or movie or TV series? It’s a So says a professor at the University piece of consciousness being passed of Toronto. It seems that reading or from mind to mind.” 13 29th September - All the Gabriel - appeared to Mary to tell her Angels, led by Michael that she would be the mother of the Messiah, the Son of God. An angel by David Winter appeared ‘in a dream’ to Joseph, the village carpenter in Nazareth, to tell What is an angel? Easy, people think. him to go ahead and marry his A shining figure with glorious wings, fiancée, Mary, and later - also in a who appears from time to time to do dream - warned him not to go back some mighty work for God or bring a to Bethlehem. A ‘young man’, whom very special message from him. we take to have been an angel, was sitting in the empty tomb on Easter Well, that’s right in one sense (apart morning, waiting to tell the startled from the wings, which owe more to women that Jesus wasn’t there - he stained glass windows than the Bible). had risen (Mark 16:5). But the fact that not all ‘angels’ in the Bible are ‘glorious’ or ‘shining’ should Without going into every biblical make us hesitate to categorise them reference to angels, those should be in this spectacular way. After all, the sufficient to show that the word three apparently ordinary men who covers an enormous diversity of visited Abraham and Sarah to tell experience. So the Letter to the them that she would have a son even Hebrews speaks of those who though she was long past child- practice hospitality as sometimes bearing age had none of those ‘entertaining angels unawares’. outward embellishments. Sometimes people recognised angels Nevertheless Abraham recognised for who they were, and sometimes them as divine messengers. they didn’t. Angels, quite simply, are God’s agents or emissaries, The Bible is full of angels, from the messengers and ministers of his will. early chapters of Genesis to the last Sometimes they are human; chapter of Revelation, and often they sometimes they seem to be spiritual had a key role in crucial events. It beings. seems, from just two instances, that Michael was their leader, an Perhaps we could even say that ‘archangel’. In stained glass he’s often anyone, in any situation, who is at that seen with a sword, because in a vision moment God’s ‘messenger’ to us, or in Revelation he led the angelic host serves us graciously, is an ‘angel’. So who fought and defeated Satan and when we say, ‘Oh, his army. be an angel and pop up to the In the Gospels an angel of the Lord chemist for my appeared to Zechariah in the Temple, prescription’, to tell him that his elderly wife was to we may be have a son, the forerunner of the nearer the heart Messiah, John the Baptist. An angel - of the matter than we think! 14 Sales last month They moved quickly following the were a rather earthquake, to help their employees disappointing rebuild their homes and their lives. £354. They also provided a school for the children of a community of people Traidcraft's head of communications who make their living by breaking up has recently returned from Nepal stones to sell to the construction where he visited the GET Paper industry. They also run a project to Industry (GPI), Traidcraft's Nepalese protect women and girls who are at partner. He reports on a very risk of being illegally trafficked into the beautiful but desperately poor sex trade. country, still struggling to recover from last year's devastating We can help GPI by purchasing the earthquake which claimed thousands products they produce. Traidcraft's of lives. Many people are still living in Autumn Catalogue has just been tents with no sign of their homes circulated. I will say more about it being rebuilt or repaired. next month, but look out for the GPI items on pages 12, 13 and 99. The partnership with GPI goes back 20 years and the work they do goes Peter Bird (01629 813087, way beyond simply ensuring a fair [email protected]) wage for the products they produce.

BAKEWELL & ASHFORD FILM SOCIETY September 11th 2016 The Lady in the Van (2015, UK) Certificate 12A, 104 minutes Biography, Comedy, Drama The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett’s strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. Introduction by Janet Byrne

COFFEE and LUNCH at BAKEWELL TOWN HALL on MONDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 10.30am - 1.30pm Delicious cakes, scrummy lunches,stalls galore In aid of Bakewell Parish Church 15 The Blame Game over the began. God was high on some Great Fire of London – 450 people’s agenda. The fire was years ago obviously His judgment on the indulgent life-style of some of its Just after midnight on Sunday 2nd residents. More common, however, September 1666 a fire started in a was the belief that it was all the work bakery in Pudding Lane in the old of immigrants. The Papists, with their City of London. supposed allegiance to a foreign power, were high on the list. So were By the following Wednesday it had the Dutch and the French, with destroyed 13,200 buildings, including whom England had recently been in the Royal Exchange and St Paul’s conflict. Cathedral. 70,000 people were homeless, some of them on the The Monument erected to mark the banks of the Thames or having fled to spot where the fire began carried the the fields of Islington and Highgate. totally unproven claim that it was the The entire city within the Roman work of Roman Catholics – the walls was derelict, a sea of smoking allegation was not removed until debris. The Great Fire of London, 1830. 450 years ago this month, was a catastrophe unparalleled in peace- It’s a strange truth that we tend to time English history. Yet it seems that feel better if there’s somebody to fatalities were few – possibly no blame. After all, it couldn’t just more than a dozen or so. happen, could it? Even before the smoke had cleared the search for people to blame

The rise and rise of ‘posh’ per cent in the last year. That means packed lunches that overall, an additional seven million of us have created some very What do you eat at lunchtime when posh packed lunches indeed. Plastic you are at work? Chances are that tubs are ‘out’; sealable glass jars are your habits are changing, as more of ‘in’. Ingredients now include kelp and us are opting for healthy ‘posh’ quinoa, sweet potato crisps and packed lunches instead of buying almonds. The research was carried mass-produced supermarket lunches, out by or taking ‘boring beige’ sandwiches Kantar with us to work. Worldpanel, a consumer The new range of celebrity-inspired analyst. on-the-go meals has increased by 26 16 1066 and All That - Over the next 200 years the guttural sounds from northern Europe and 950 years on Scandinavia mixed with the softer David Winter remembers one of the great tones of the Mediterranean to dates of British history produce what we would recognise as 950 years ago this month, on 27th English, probably the most versatile September, a fleet of ships full of and expressive language in the world Norman soldiers set sail for Kent. Led – the language of Shakespeare, Milton, by the Norman Duke William, their Charlotte Bronte and T.S.Eliot. aim was to defeat the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold and seize power We take it for granted. Just consider, in England. Just over a fortnight later however, this line of Shakespeare’s they achieved their purpose at the (from Macbeth): ‘the multitudinous Battle of Hastings. King Harold was seas incarnadine, making the green killed, reportedly hit in the eye by an one red’. The two longest words are arrow, and the English army defeated. the playwright’s concoctions from across the Channel. The short words 1066 is a date everyone knows. It’s are from our more northerly one of great significance, because intruders centuries earlier. Together Anglo-Saxon England was to be they make a memorable, brilliant and radically changed, culturally, unique verbal picture, possible only in linguistically and racially. Yet again our strange but wonderful language. immigrants (definitely illegal in this Thank you, William! case!) would bring a whole new world with them. Probably more than in any other way, it was our language that changed.

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A Mystery & Mayham! evening of 2 Black Comedy One Act Plays by Stephen Bean Directed by Kate Stuart Fri 30th Sept £7 / Sat 1st Oct £12 incl. interval meal 7.30pm Baslow Village Hall Tickets from Baslow Spar, Bakewell Bookshop & Box Office 01246 583460 (Over 14s) ALL PROFITS GO TO HELEN’S TRUST 17 The Way I See It: familiar routine. The dictionary defines ‘ordinary’ as ‘with no THE JOY OF ORDINARY distinctive features, normal, usual’. David Winter muses on the church Well, I think everyday, ordinary, calendar… normal, usual life still includes plenty of ‘distinctive features’ – surprises, For those who attend to such too. ecclesiastical details, the Church is now in what it calls the ‘Ordinary To me an impressive feature of the Season’. It doesn’t mean it’s going to biblical gospels is how normal and be bland, boring or predictable in ordinary most of it seems. Yes, there church at the moment (or at any are those mighty acts of power rate, no more than usual), but that which we call miracles, but the following Pentecost and Trinity setting of them is about as ‘ordinary’ Sunday, there are no great festivals of as you could get: a cattle-shed, a the faith to celebrate until we get to lakeside, a fishing boat, a garden, a Advent, and that’s not till the end of little girl’s bedroom, a wedding party. November. For a few months, we can forget the high days and holidays It’s in the rich, raw world of the and simply concentrate on, well, ordinary that God does wonderful being ‘ordinary’. things, just as it’s in the routine of daily life that kind words are spoken, Personally, I find that rather the sick healed, the sad comforted. encouraging. All my life I’ve been a I’m sometimes more aware of God in person who enjoys the ordinary. these ‘ordinary’ settings than in the Even on holidays which I’ve enjoyed, extraordinary splendour of a great I’ve secretly looked forward to cathedral. Long live the ‘ordinary’! getting home and picking up the

Colour in Peace - a breathing, promotes a relaxed state, reflective journey and reduces feelings of anxiety. There By James Newman Gray, Lion, £8.99 is also a section for freer reflection, giving the reader the opportunity to Here is a beautiful adult colouring consider what book that takes the reader on a peace means to journey towards peace. Patterns and them, to doodle images inspired by seven quotes by around a writers, thinkers, saints, politicians, and theme, or to the Bible, lead the reader to unwind create their and reflect as they colour. own drawings. Colouring has been shown to be beneficial for everyone. It slows down 18 Churches take stock of Archbishops' Council. “If you’ve a their trees variety of elm for example, which has not been affected by disease, perhaps No one knows just how many trees there is something special about the Church of England has on its land. them that make them resistant,” he It does have some 10,000 explains. “Churchyards may be the churchyards, and many provide the Noah’s Ark for trees.” only ‘green lung’ within a community, as well as rare habitats for a wide If you have trees to manage, you may range of biodiversity. wish to attend one of two churchyard trees conferences held this autumn. In any case, the Church is responsible They are aimed at archdeacons, for a vast number of trees, which, like clergy, churchwardens, DAC churches, need managing. The great Secretaries and Diocesan age of many churchyards, and the Environment Officers, friends groups, long-term protection they have tree officers and all those involved in offered, means many of these trees the care of churchyard trees. They are ‘veterans’, and hold particular will be held in Liverpool Cathedral on importance ecologically and culturally. 6 October 2016 and St John’s Some may hold the secret to fighting Waterloo on 2 Nov 2016. Go to: threats such as ash dieback, or www.conservationfoundation.co.uk/ diseases affecting chestnuts, elms and churchyardtrees oaks, suggests David Shreeve, Environmental Adviser to the

Government support for In total, 401 listed places of worship vulnerable church buildings will benefit from awards from the £25 million funding package given by the is welcomed Treasury. This follows the 501 awards announced in the first round in Spring Nearly 300 Church of England 2015. parishes are to receive grants for urgent repairs to their church roofs, The Fund, administered by the in the second round of awards from National Heritage Memorial Fund the Listed Places of Worship Roof (NHMF) on behalf of the Department Repair Fund. for Culture, Media and Sport, was announced by George Osborne in the Awards between £10,000 and 2014 Autumn Statement and £100,000 have been offered towards subsequently extended for a second the urgent repair of roofs, gutters and round due to heavy oversubscription. drains, failure of which is the principal Overall, the Treasury has allocated cause of decay in historic churches. £55 million to the scheme. 19 God and the Arts for the bells. And so the tower was built north of the church. Have you ever thought how an actual church building might provide a series Like all belfries and steeples, it is of visual aids to spiritual meditation? an impressive witness to the place The Rev Michael Burgess continues of bells in human life and work: as his procession through a church building, this month pausing to time-keepers, announcing both consider the significance of the church festive occasions and emergencies, bells. and calling people away from more worldly pursuits to worship. ‘He gave us eyes to see That is why bells have always been them’ – the church bells blessed at their installation for their true function is to ring out the ‘Summoned by Bells’ is the title of harmony of heaven. John Betjeman’s poetic autobiography, where he describes The tenor bell at Warburton how bells summoned him to Church in Cheshire is inscribed school and to church. Bells with the words, ‘I bid you to the announcing the joy of weddings house of prayer. St Werburgh’s and Sunday services; and also hallowed name I bear. Good folk marking out times of sadness and draw near and humbly pray, as the death of loved ones. prayed that saint in olden day.’ As a little boy, John Betjeman would One of the strangest bell-towers is listen to the bells with his teddy at St Augustine’s Church, bear, Archibald. ‘I heard the Brookland in Kent, north-east of church bells hollowing out the sky, Rye. It was originally built in the deep beyond deep, like never- medieval period, and now stands ending stars.’ For him, for the as a triple coned, wooden, people of Brookland, and for all of octagonal tower detached from the us, the bells were like stars lighting church, and clad with shingles in up the sky with faith and joy and 1936. praise. The story is that the tower looked down at a beautiful bride about to marry an unpleasant groom: it was such a surprise that the tower jumped off the church in shock. The truth is that the church was built on marshy ground, and a Photo courtesy of the Romney Marsh stronger foundation was needed website theromneymarsh.net' )

20 Baslow Health Centre – Church Please note the above times as we Lane, Baslow receive a lot of phone calls, just www.baslowhealthcentre.co.uk asking what time we are open to! Surgery Closure – Closed for New Patients Welcome training afternoons - Wednesday 14th Superheroes: The Practice would September & Wednesday 12th October like to thank you for your kind Email- Please contact the reception donations and support. The staff at and give us your email address if you Baslow Health Centre completed the would like to have the option of being Chatsworth 10km on 1st May, dressed contactable via email and receive the as superheroes and with your help, we Practice and the Patient Participation raised over £1,000 for Helen’s Trust. Group newsletter. GP Appointments: can be booked Patient Participation Group - (PPG) – If you want to be kept up to date and up to 2 weeks in advance via the have the opportunity to express your Internet and 1 week in advance via views please consider joining Baslow’s telephone/reception. PPG. Contact Keith Maslen on Nurse appointments can be [email protected] T. 01246 582274 booked up to 3 months in advance, via Virtual members welcome. telephone/reception. Ordering Repeat Medication Patient Online: Have you registered All requests for repeat prescriptions to use the online service, allowing you must be:- to book and cancel appointments on • In writing or with our on-line line and order your repeat access medications? You can also request • Return form to surgery by Post/Fax/Box on Dispensary access to your Summary Care Reception Record, and Detailed Coded Data • Allow two working days contained within your medical before collection records. ! To ease the parking congestion, Telephone Numbers: please collect your prescription Reception: 01246 582216 between 12:00 – 16:00 District Nursing Team: 01246 584903 Samples – if you need to leave a Surgery Fax: 01246 583867 sample with us please ensure it is Health Visitor: 01246 583270 labelled with your name and date of birth and returned in the bag. Dispensary: 01246 582366 Test Results – As we do not receive (The Dispensary line is open 12noon – test results from hospital until 1.00pm and 2.00pm – 3.00pm) lunchtime, please ring for these after Normal Surgery Opening Times 2pm. Monday (08:00 until 19:00) Tuesday to For Urgent Calls when we are Friday 08:00 to 18:30 (closed Bank Holidays), (Phones 08:00 – 18:30 Mon closed call 111 to Fri).

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Pilsley C of E Primary School Pilsley C of E Primary School Toddler Group 3 - 11 years Every Friday morning (term time) Our new and exciting Foundation from 9am - 10.30am Stage unit is now running all day Everyone Welcome Tuesday, Wednesday and £2 for a parent and 1 child - Thursday plus two afternoons 50p each for additional children (Monday and Friday). The unit is led by a fully qualified Pokemon GO craze Early Years teacher with two highly experienced teaching assistants. Did you get involved in the Pokemon Visits to our lovely school are GO craze this summer? The mobile warmly welcomed. app that gave millions of US and then Please contact Emma Bond, UK users their first experience of Headteacher on 01246 583203. ‘augmented-reality games’ became an overnight sensation, attracting millions. Even churches got caught Just to let you know that St. Anne's, up in the craze, inviting Pokemon Beeley is a Pokestop for Pokemon gamers to come back for services. Go. One church in Birmingham put up a sign which read: ‘You are welcome to Holy means set apart. Not like a set visit us again for Sunday morning of cutlery that comes out only on worship at 11am… join us for a cup Sundays. More like a Swiss army knife of tea… Jesus cares about Pokemon – remove a splinter, cut a rope, open a gamers. bottle, any time, anywhere. Whatever the boss needs. Milton Jones 22 Services & Rotas for September 2016

St. Anne’s, Beeley Flowers & Brasses Cleaning 4 9.30am Holy Communion Barbara Hawksworth 7th-10th Fiona S & Claire 11 9.30am Holy Communion “ “ 3.30pm Pet Service 18 9.30am Holy Communion Mrs Swain 21st-24th Sarah & Tracy 25 9.30am Holy Communion “ “/Harvest decorations 3pm Harvest Thanksgiving Service St. Peter’s,Edensor Sidesmen 4 10.45am Holy Communion Mr & Mrs Wardle 7 11am Sheffield Wives Fellowship Service 11 10.45am Holy Communion R S Sherwood/Diana Walters 18 10.45am Holy Communion J Bowns/M Pindar 6pm Evensong to be arranged 25 10.45am Matins - Harvest Thanksgiving Service Mrs Thomas + helpers

Coffee Cleaning Flowers 4 Clive & Joy Thrower Michael Pindar + Gloria Sherwood 11 Mr & Mrs Bosett Mr & Mrs Nelson Mrs Penrose 18 Mr & Mrs Sherwood Mrs Day/Mrs Walters Wilma Day 25 M Douglas/Diana Maskery Mr & Mrs Jackson “ ” /Harvest decs* *If you would like to help with decorating the church for Harvest, please meet at St. Peter’s at 10am on Saturday 24th September Readings! St. Peter’s St. Anne’s & Sunday School 4 Deuteronomy 30: 15-20 John Caws Phoebe Porter Luke 14: 25-33 Trinity Fifteen Children in service 11 Exodus 32: 7-14 Michael Douglas Sarah Porter Luke 15: 1-10 Trinity Sixteen No Sunday School 18 Amos 8: 4-7 Diana Walters Claire Cadogan Luke 16: 1-13 Trinity Seventeen SS Sarah Porter 25 Amos 6: 1a & 4-7 Fiona Lichfield Luke 16: 19-end No Sunday School Joel 2: 21-27 Margaret Thomas Reader for Harvest Matthew 6: 25-33 Harvest Thanksgiving to be arranged Last words..... The Seven Last Words of the Church: ‘We never did it like that before.’ Items for the OCTOBER magazine should reach me NO LATER THAN MONDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 2016: email to: [email protected] ‘The Bridge’Parish Magazine 60p per copy (£7.20 per year). 23