The Dun Valley News February 18

:: East Grimstead :: Farley :: Pitton :: West Dean :: 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

Pancake Party

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!’

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

WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD FARLEY WITH PITTON

TREASURER LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536 Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133

SECRETARY TREASURER Bob Trott, 01722 712685 Ms Mandy Kerley, 07971 679466

ORGANISTS Ms Janice Brown

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] 2

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.

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

Team Letter Revd Beth Hutton

As I write this, it is still officially worship whilst transitions in Christmastide. By the time you personnel take place. The table read it, we will be on the verge opposite shows the general of Lent (begins 14th February pattern we shall be using from this year). As the old saying the beginning of February. goes, ‘Time and tide wait for Please bear in mind, though, no man’. that this will alter slightly for There are people who like to festivals such as Easter Day, tell me that time is a human and there may be the construct – certainly our occasional ‘cluster’ service with marking of time. Nevertheless, a few of the parishes joining as creation’s seasons remind together. Please check your us (and as we read in the Old monthly magazine or the Testament book of Clarendon Team website for Ecclesiastes), there is a time to details. sow and a time to reap. The seasons of our lives are www.clarendonteam.org. 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 4

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From the registers

Funerals

Hilda ENGLAND Betty May DRAKE at at Alderbury Pitton on on 18th January 2018 29th December 2017

Gerald Frank Naish Patricia WALWORTH at at Alderbury Whiteparish on on 17th January 2018 29th December 2017

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

Grimstead Parish Council Report - January 2018 The Parish Council is looking into the access onto the Grimstead Road with problem of flooding in the field adjacent wooden gates and fencing to enable to Maypole Farmhouse. management of woodland at Brown’s A new safety surface has been laid at Copse. Re-ditching has been carried out West Grimstead playing field. The along the length of the wood to alleviate remaining soil dumped on the concrete the flooding of the road in this area. An standing when the safety surface was laid open morning will be organised later in will be removed when the weather the year so that residents can see what is allows. We will go ahead with the happening in the wood. construction of a petanque terrain. Rodding of the drains between Hollyville Another litter-pick up is to be carried out and Horsepond in West Grimstead will on the 3rd March in both villages. be carried out in February when the Vector is in the area. Highways were There is still the huge problem of fly asked to re-erect the metal barriers by tipping throughout the parish with Gays the Charcoal track. Drove and Windwhistle Lane being especially targeted. The Parish Council is The mud on the road by East Grimstead looking into the possibility of erecting Railway Bridge is being continually gates/bollards at either end of Gays monitored and cleared each month by Drove but allowing walker/horse riders to the Parish Steward. If anyone in the enter the track by the side. Wiltshire parish has a problem with highway Councillor, Richard Britton, has matters, please inform the clerk at suggested a Stopping-Up Order and he [email protected]. will look into this. There were no objections to a planning We will not get a No Right Turn sign to application at Butterfurlong Farmhouse Windwhistle Lane from the southbound for the demolition of the existing A36. Funding depends on incidents. wooden sheds and the construction of a garage/workshop. The Road Narrow sign on the Butterfurlong/East Grimstead road will be A retrospective planning application had replaced and the SLOW signs repainted been submitted for grass planted at within the coming year. Nightwood Farm. This application was discussed at the Southern Area Planning There has been a lot of support from the Committee on the 10th January and the villagers to form a Circular Footpath Committee was unanimous in refusing Group and erect the relevant signs where this application on the grounds that needed. asbestos should never have been The Parish Council will prepare a Vision dumped in this bund in the first place. paper for the parish. A questionnaire will The next meeting of the Parish Council be delivered to every house in the parish will be on the 5th February at West seeking the views of residents. Grimstead Village Hall and the Annual More felling of trees in Brown’s Copse, Parish Meeting will take place on the 9th Farley Road, East Grimstead, will take April (also at West Grimstead Village place later in the year. Richard Baker of Hall) when it is hoped that East Brothers attended the recent representatives from the Fire and Police meeting and assured members that no will attend. Please make a note in your lorries would go through East Grimstead. diaries. A retrospective planning application had Liz Bayford, Clerk to Grimstead Parish been submitted for the creation of a new Council. Tel 01722 710746.

To My West Dean Friends Text your tithe Christine Warry Tim Warr I want to say a very big thank you to you Forty churches have been taking part in a all, first, for even thinking of my big eight trial of contactless giving, offering zero birthday and second, for taking the worshippers hand-held terminals in order time and trouble to club together to give to process their donations. It is all part me a very generous gift voucher in of an effort to encourage today’s celebration of it. I did not realise that increasingly cashless congregations to many people knew I had celebrated that donate electronically. birthday while I was away on Boxing Day and I was totally taken aback when, As the Rev Dr David Evans of Rugeley, in during Pat and Susan’s New Year’s Day the Midlands, explains, ‘it’s a way that festivities, there was a sudden hush for most people pay for things these days, if Pat to speak and present your gift. So they are not using cash. There will be much so that I was left virtually time before the service and after the speechless and, as many of you will service, when people can text. It is a appreciate, that does not happen very worship service, so we hope that people often. It was only while I was sitting at won’t text during the service. home that evening that one by one all Each of the churches in the trial also have the things I wished I had said came into put up signs, explaining how the money my head. Hence why I am attempting to is being spent locally. 12 cathedrals are say them now. also trialling contactless donation boxes. 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.

Tai Chi for health and well-being Malcolm Calvert Tai Chi is a very ancient form of Chinese recognized as a suitable complementary exercise system originally based on therapy by numerous health related martial arts. It relies on internal energy bodies, notably, the British Heart (Chi) and not physical strength. Foundation, and charities Age Concern. The Chi is collected at a point just below Acknowledged by the National Health the navel called the Lower Tan Tien. This Service and the National Institute for area is like your Chi energy petrol tank Clinical Excellence as being appropriate and from this point the energy is exercises for many conditions. directed around your body through meridians. Tai Chi and Chi Kung are very popular with all age groups as a regular form of Tai Chi is used because of its healing light but beneficial exercise and it can be qualities and its slow graceful enjoyed by all regardless of their abilities. movements combined with calm deep natural regular breathing. It has become Tai Chi & Chi Kung classes very popular as a means of maintaining Wednesday 12:30-13:30 good health and feelings of relaxation The Rapids, and calm. Romsey Tai Chi is enjoyable, very interesting to (sessions run through Mountbatten learn and with many practitioners around School) the world benefitting from the many health enhancement programmes. Wednesday 17:30-18:30 King George’s Hall, Chi Kung exercises have been used by West Dean the Chinese people for thousands of Contact Malcolm Calvert years to maintain their energy levels and 07941 702 267 or keep them in good health.. Commonly [email protected] translated as energy cultivation, Chi Kung exercises are used in association with a Open to all ages and abilities. warm up session of light stretching, and a series of balanced breathing and www.taichi4healthandwellbeing.com 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 9

Traffic through Pitton Ann Humphrey I have been interested to read letters trailers, horse boxes, cyclists, horse riders from other readers concerning traffic, and the local bus service but if passing particularly through Pitton, passing drivers are made aware of these possible through the country roads and lanes hazards, and are going a sensible speed which are often not wide enough to carry (not the highest permitted) all can be two vehicles. accommodated with courtesy and safety. My own recent experience was driving up I think it is important that the Village Whitehill one morning at 9:30. I stopped reclaims its right to use its roads safely. at the bottom to allow a car to come Perhaps by lowering the speed limit in down the hill. I was overtaken going up the village to 20 mph, with traffic bumps the hill. I beeped my horn and the car, a and staggered access, with signs at the bright red convertible, screeched to a entrances to the village asking for halt alongside the triangle of grass; the caution for pedestrians. I do not think driver stood up in his car and bad- the way forward is to permit the traffic mouthed me, for being a silly old passing through the village to bully and woman, driving at 20 mph on a 60 mph dominate the country roads. road. The driver was incensed that he could not drive at the maximum speed, in spite of the obvious dangers. Editor note. Traffic in the villages is a concern for A couple of weeks ago a car came down many, judging by the messages and the High Street to the crossroads and comments received over the past year. without a pause turned left into Whitehill Our division councillor, Christopher where he hit a car coming straight down Devine, has been working on this subject towards the crossroads with right of way. during his time in office. He has access The driver at fault did not stop but drove to the various bodies responsible for our on, leaving the car coming down highways and would be well placed to Whitehill with hundreds of pounds worth ask and answer your questions. You can of damages. These two drivers seem to also contact the Wiltshire Council South epitomise a number of drivers who drive Area Board directly. The Area Board has through the countryside without thought input to a range of matters, including to the size of road, conditions, and other highways. The Area Board can be users of the road. Perhaps the use of contacted via our Community satellite navigation is to blame, but the Engagement Manager (CEM), Tom Bray. result is that some drivers are treating our village roads like racing tracks. Cllr Christopher Devine [email protected] I value living in a village where you can still walk to the shop, the church, the CEM Tom Bray school, the village hall, and children can [email protected] 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

Poppy Appeal Care for church buildings Pat Sheppard Tim Lenton The Poppy Appeal collectors, who do the Don’t look to the government for so door to door collecting during the period much help. That is the message of an of the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, independent review of the Church’s are the only contact that most of us have reliance on government funding for the with the Legion. The annual collection is upkeep of its church buildings. The its most important fund-raising event in review calls for a ‘cultural shift’, where the year. 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 Organising the collection for the many communities regard these Alderbury area, which includes Pitton, buildings. ‘We need to create a cultural Farley and the Grimsteads, includes the shift in attitudes towards church following. In late August, ordering the buildings such that communities realise stock of poppies and other badges and they are resources they can use, and items available in return for a donation. congregations have the confidence to Also checking in mid-September that the share space and where appropriate, to team of collectors are available and clear ask for a fair income.’. about which area they are to collect The report also said that the main theme from. Also booking the E.G. Reading emerging from the thousands of room for set up at the start of the churches who responded to the review collection and for counting the money at was the ‘huge care that people feel for the end. Finally contacting those who these buildings’. 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.

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How to improve your memory Good to volunteer Pat Field Mike Potter Don’t forget to eat your greens – or you What is your work-life balance? Ideally, it could be forgetting a lot of other things should be a four-way effort of family, as well. It seems that a portion of green work, leisure and - very important - leafy vegetables each day can go a long volunteering. 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 That is the belief of Sir Nick Parker, who certain green leafy vegetables (lettuce, served as Commander of the Land Forces spinach, kale and collard greens; all rich from 2010 to 2012. He argues that in vitamin K) had significantly better young people, of between 10 and 20 memory than those older people who years old especially, will themselves be did not. helped by regular volunteering, as it helps them learn new skills, increases www.rush.edu/health-wellness their resilience and self-confidence, and can improve their social mobility and life chances.

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End Hunger campaign Selfitis—disorder or hoax David Southgate Lucy Johnson Millions of households in the UK are Are you taking – and posting – selfies on struggling to avoid hunger, as latest social media every day? Then beware – figures from the United Nations show you may be in danger of developing a that nearly three million people in the UK genuine mental health condition. are now classed as severely ‘food insecure’, which means they are facing In 2014 a story went viral reporting that hunger on a daily basis. In the whole of the American Psychiatric Association Europe, according the UN, only Albania (APA) had coined the term “selfitis” as a has higher levels of food insecurity. 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 And so it is that the End Hunger Management in India has concluded that campaign, a collation of charities and selfitis does exist, and is based on faith groups who are working to tackle attention-seeking, lack of self- food poverty, is demanding that a new confidence, and therefore a constant cross-departmental Household Food need to boost your social standing. 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 It seems there are three levels of being urgent need, it is clear to me that ‘selfie indulgent’- borderline (taking Government and businesses could and photos of yourself at least three times a should be doing more to reduce the day, but not posting them on social need for foodbanks in the first place.’ media); acute (taking photos of yourself at least three times a day and posting The report also calls on the Government them all on social media) and chronic to do something about the problem of (uncontrollable urge to take photos of ‘holiday hunger’, when parents whose yourself and posting them more than six children receive free school meals times a day). struggle to feed them during school holidays. The Government should Of the 225 participants in the study, men provide holiday clubs where such were found to exhibit a higher rate of children can be fed. selfitis than women, with 16-20 year olds being most susceptible. www.endhungeruk.org

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Congregation size Double-helix Tim Lenton Paul Harding The size of a congregation is significant British scientists Francis Crick and James in a number of ways. Larger churches, Watson announced that they had for example, have more resources, both discovered the double-helix structure of in people and (usually) finance, to DNA 65 years ago, on 28th February undertake more activities. It is surprising, 1953. though, just how many smaller churches In making the announcement, Crick said: have numerous activities being ‘We have discovered the secret of life.’ undertaken frequently by a dedicated This was true as far as it went, and is the army of often older people, faithfully subject of a compelling book by Watson labouring behind the scenes. called The Double Helix. 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 In fact, however, they did not discover are in central London [HTB and All DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). That was Souls]). Across the largest 5% the achieved in 1869 by Friedrich Miescher in average congregation is 150, and across Switzerland. Nor, if you want to be the largest 25% it is 60. precise, did they discover the double helix shape of it, since that feat was Across the whole country and across all accomplished by x-ray crystallographer denominations the median size of Rosalind Franklin. congregation is 44 people; which means that is there are almost 20,000 churches She had managed to take an X-ray with fewer than that on a Sunday, while diffraction pattern from a sample of DNA 20,000 have more. that showed a clearly recognisable cross or helical shape. One of her colleagues In America, the size issue takes totally showed Watson the image, and it different dimensions, since there are confirmed experimentally the correctness probably about 1,500 “mega-churches”, of the theoretical model that Crick and those with more than 2,000 on a Watson were working on. Sunday. There are probably a further 15,000 what they call “medium-sized” The discovery of the double helix churches, that is, with between 500 and changed the world of medicine and 2,000 attenders, with something like science for ever. 325,000 churches catering for 34 million Crick and Watson, with Maurice Wilkins churchgoers. (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. 24

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Cut your calories Bread is back Lester Cooke Sandra Burns

Forget 2000 calories a day if you are a Good quality sliced bread is back in woman, and 2500 if you are a man: the fashion this year. After years of decline, latest health guidelines from Public when carbs were ‘out’, households all Health England (PHE) are expected to over the country seem to be waking up recommend a 400 – 600 – 600 rule. That to the fact that they can easily create means restricting your calories to 400 for delicious lunches with ‘craft’ breads at breakfast, 600 for lunch, and 600 for home, and have no need to pay anything dinner. An additional two healthy snacks up to £15 for an ‘avocado brunch’ at a day, of 100 calories each, are also trendy cafés. And so, inviting your permitted. friends over for a sandwich ‘brunch’ at the weekend is becoming a very sociable The government now believes that we occasion, rather than going out. Pasta is are all consuming on average 200 – 300 also expected to make a major ‘return’ MORE calories a day than we need. The this year. new lower guideline is also thought to compensate for the fact that most people tend to underestimate the number of calories that they eat.

No laughing matter Mike Pardy Thirty years ago this month, on 5th years a regular feature was an hilarious February 1988, Britain experienced its parody by Ian Hislop. The same comic first Red Nose Day. ‘Comic Relief’, an stars also introduce films and interviews American idea, had crossed the Atlantic to remind viewers that this really is in a uniquely British form. So suddenly comedy with a purpose. red noses were everywhere. Lenny Henry Once again, this month the red noses will and comedy script-writer Richard Curtis appear – at school, at work, in shops and were its first pioneers, movingly

on the streets: a visible, bizarre reminder expounding its simple basic principle: that all the world is not happy, but our poverty, exploitation and famine are not laughter is that of sympathy, not ridicule. funny, but well-known funny people When it is held again next year, in March could help those who were their victims. 2019, the total raised by Comic Relief The first Comic Relief drew an audience should pass a hundred million pounds, of 13 million and raised five million and that’s no laughing matter. 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

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Your toothbrush A church near you Tim Lenton Ed Boston

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