The Three Towers December 2019 & January 2020
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The Three Towers December 2019 & January 2020 Serving the communities in and around Edenham, Swinstead, Witham on the Hill, Toft, Lound and Manthorpe Advertising manager: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] GLENSIDE COUNTRY PRACTICE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR OPENING TIMES Wednesday 25th December 2019 - closed Thursday 26th December 2019 – closed Friday 27 December 2019 – normal opening times Wednesday 1 January 2020 – closed Thursday 2 January 2020 – normal opening times If you need medical advice over the Christmas and New Year period please call 111 If you have an emergency call 999. Website edition: http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ToftcumLoundandManthorpe/ Dates for your Diary canapés. Proceeds in aid of St John Ambulance and St John Eye Hospital, Friday 6th December, St Andrew’s Jerusalem. Tickets £10 and (£3 under Parish Hall - 2 plays on one night!! 16). Contact Fr Andy Hawes ( County The St Andrews Parish Hall Chaplain) 01778 590035 committee have arranged for a play or [email protected] at the Parish Hall. The group, Last Sunday 22 December 6pm Carol Chance Saloon, will perform Singing Witham on the Hill, meet at a 'Sherlock Holmes' double bill, The the church. All singers and musicians Blue Carbuncle and Curse of the most welcome. Come and join us to Mummy. Tickets are £9.95/each from help raise funds for our church, and Richard - 590433 or David - 590331. to bring festive spirit to our Sunday 8th December, 2pm and community. Refreshments always 6pm, Edenham Village Hall - Steam greatly appreciated! Action presents PETER PAN Sunday 29 December, WOTH Pantomime - Adults £4, children £2 Historical Society Grantham Canal Please contact Nikki Gunn for tickets. Winter Walk. Meet at 9.45 at St Tuesday 10th December, 6.30pm. Andrew’s Parish Hall in Witham to Christmas Carols around the Tree in arrange lifts. Vaughan will lead a Edenham. Please meet in the field longer walk starting near Harlaxton, between the church yard and the and walking to the Dirty Duck pub at bridge. Light refreshments available. Woolsthorpe by Belvoir, approx. 1 Carol sheet provided. hour walk (each way). Sunday 15th December, 6pm, Peter and Sue will lead a shorter walk Manthorpe Christmas Carols around at the same time, setting off from the the village - meet at the Post Box. If Dirty Duck pub and meeting up with you are interested in joining in with the other group on the towpath. the annual Christmas carols, please Thursday 23 January, FOOD FOR come along with warm clothes and THOUGHT Eucharist at 10.15am in St loads of enthusiasm. All contributions Andrew’s Church, Witham on the Hill, are in aid of St Andrews. with bible study at 11am followed by Sunday 15 December, 6pm, Order of a simple lunch at noon – donations to St John Carol Service at Grimsthorpe Christian Aid.Note : 12 December Castle. Traditional Carol Service with meeting is cancelled due to the Stamford Brass followed by wine and general election. Advertising manager: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] Website edition: http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ToftcumLoundandManthorpe/ Parish News EDENHAM POPPY APPEAL - Once again, Mr G Atter has made a tremendous effort on behalf of the British Legion’s annual Poppy Appeal. The total amount raised this year was £476.39: Edenham school £172.26; 5 Bells pub £29.13; Grimsthorpe £86.42; Grimsthorpe shooting ground £14.83; Edenham village £173.75. A heartfelt thanks to everyone who donated to this important appeal. FLU VACCINATIONS GLENSIDE COUNTRY PRACTICE - Flu vaccination is now available at the surgery. If you are eligible for a free vaccination, please contact the surgery to make an appointment to have this done. Eligibility for free flu vaccine: Those aged 6 months to under 65 years in clinical risk groups, eg: asthma, COPD, diabetes, stroke; pregnant women; those aged 65 years and over; those in long stay residential care homes; carers; close contacts of immunocompromised individuals. CONGRATULATIONS to Tom & Liz McWilliams on the birth of their grandson, Finley Jack, born on 28 September. GET WELL SOON Andrew Harris. Wishing you a very speedy recovery from your heart operation. God bless you. CONDOLENCES to family, friends and neighbours on the passing of Jean Joyce from Scottlethorpe Lane in Edenham. A much loved lady who will be greatly missed by so many people. CONDOLENCES to Maureen Coventon, family, friends and neighbours on the loss of Ronnie, of Witham on the Hill, who passed away on 17 November. SAMARITAN’S PURSE, OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD. Thank you to all those generous people who filled shoeboxes with goodies. The gifts will be greatly appreciated. YOU CAN HELP EDENHAM VILLAGE HALL. LotterySK sends 60p from every £1 to local causes. It also donates 50% of all sales’ proceeds to the host Fundraising organisation. By buying an SKLotteryticket through the Edenham Village Hall Committee page, you will have the opportunity to win £25,000 and half of the price of your ticket will go directly to the Village Hall funds. Advertising manager: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] Website edition: http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ToftcumLoundandManthorpe/ The Vicar Writes swallow and quickly put her life in danger. The little girl, Emily, As I type this message the works at underwent emergency surgery just the Vicarage are nearing their days before Christmas and completion and rehearsals for the afterwards her parents kept vigil at Steam Action Pantomime at her bedside praying for her recovery Edenham are gathering momentum and reading her the Narnia stories by (oh yes they are!). It’s a busy time to C. S. Lewis. After finishing my be sure, especially with a General morning commitments, I went to see Election and Christmas only around them in the ICU at Queen’s Medical the corner… Centre on Christmas day. Emily still In all honesty it takes me quite a hadn’t regained consciousness and while to get into the ‘Christmas things were looking bleak. I felt spirit’. The tree nearly always goes utterly useless making small talk with up late on Christmas Eve in our Emily’s parents whilst their daughter house and I try to avoid TV during fought for her life. It was then that December in order to forgo the they asked me to celebrate the endless Christmas adverts (it was Eucharist for them in the ICU. They something of a shock to discover that wanted to recall the birth of the Son the builders working at Edenham of God, to receive him as bread and Vicarage had been listening to a wine and to pray for Emily’s recovery dedicated Christmas radio station in the middle of all that was from the middle of November). happening. So that’s what we did. We laid out the all the necessary It’s somewhat ironic that, being a elements at the foot of Emily’s bed Vicar, I don’t get the time to and joined in the Mass of the appreciate Christmas until it’s really Shepherds (the first Eucharist of happening! That said, the Christmas Christmas morning). We heard the memories I’ve amassed since I was familiar account of the shepherds first ordained are among the most being first to glimpse the Christ-child special. Back when I was a curate in after hearing the song of the angels Nottingham the three-year-old on the hillside near Bethlehem. Emily daughter of a couple in the remained unconscious for a few days congregation was suddenly taken ill more but eventually made a full with a dramatic swelling in her throat recovery and it was a sheer delight to that left her unable to breathe or see her back to her energetic self, Advertising manager: [email protected] Editor: [email protected] Website edition: http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ToftcumLoundandManthorpe/ running around the Church on a mother in the tiny village Church of St Sunday. Cecilia not far from Collingham near Another memory that comes to mind Newark. An elderly retired Priest each December was the time I spent dressed in a crumpled linen surplice with a lady called Anne at St took the service and preached the Andrew’s Hospice in Grimsby on most wonderful sermon story... He Christmas day. Anne was an absolute told of how a rich couple arranged a treasure! She sat just inside the lavish party at their home following Church entrance in Grimsby on a the baptism of their new-born son. Sunday and greeted everyone as they The infant was becoming a little arrived each week. Sadly, Anne was crabby after the service and was sent diagnosed with terminal cancer and away to put down to sleep upstairs. bravely carried on regardless until As the guests arrived several being taken into hospice care. It was enquired where they should put their there in the hospice that I saw her fine fur coats and were told to after the last of my services on deposit them in any of the available Christmas morning. Anne didn’t much rooms upstairs (it didn’t matter feel like Christmas Communion. Her which). Soon the party was in full sense of taste was all higgledy- swing until someone asked if the piggledy (her words) and all she really child at the centre of the celebration wanted to do was to eat ice-cream! could make an appearance. But The brilliant hospice staff happily where was he? No one could quite obliged so that Anne and I sat remember! He wasn’t in the nursery watching the “Strictly…” Christmas – where could he be? No one could special whilst feasting on a ready remember when they last saw him! A supply of vanilla soft-scoop and search was made but to no avail! orange-flavour Callipos.