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Church & Village News Baconsthorpe • Barningham Winter • Edgefield • Hempstead • Itteringham • Little Barningham Matlaske • Plumstead • Saxthorpe with Corpusty • Wickmere with Wolterton August 2015 Hempstead Village Fête Sunday 9th August 2.00pm Nature Notes What’s On two to three significant AUGUST meals each year is enough to sustain them Wed 5 7.30pm Hempstead Play Reading Village Hall and allow them to grow. Fri 7 10.30am Baconsthorpe Coffee & Gossip Ash Tree Farm Whilst the snake grows Sun 9 2.00pm Hempstead Fête Village Green their skin does not, so Mon 10 7.30pm Baconsthorpe Parish Council Meeting Village Hall once the outer layer Sat 15 10.00am Corpusty Craft Fair St Andrew’s Church, Saxthorpe becomes too small, it Wed 12 10.30am Plumstead Open Invitation - see page 23 Oak Tree Cottage splits open allowing the Wed 12 7.30pm Matlaske PC Meeting St Peter’s Church snake to wriggle free. Thur 13 2.30pm Plumstead Angels & Dragons St Michael’s Church During this sloughing Wed 19 12.30pm Corpusty LinC Fish & Chips - call Brenda 587917 Duke’s Head process the snake’s Sun 23 2.00pm Little Barningham Village Fête & Tug o’ War eyes become cloudy, weakening eyesight, Fri 28 7.00pm Baconsthorpe Jumble Sale Village Hall bringing movement Sun 30 3.00pm Wickmere Rounders Beck Farm to a standstill and SEPTEMBER leaving them most vulnerable to predation. Sat 5 10.00am Hempstead Arts - until 5pm Village Hall One thing guaranteed to Understandably, Sun 6 10.00am Hempstead Arts - until 5pm Village Hall encourage wildlife into a this is when they will be most aggressive, Mon 7 7.00pm Plumstead PC Meeting TBC garden faster than anything though being non-venomous their defence Thur 10 7.30pm Baconsthorpe Village Hall Meeting Village Hall else is a pond. Many years is confined to exuding foul smells, inflating Sat 12 Hempstead NCT Sponsored Bike Ride ago we installed three small Sue Appleby their bodies and making fake, venomous- Wed 30 8.00pm Itteringham - Future of the Shop Village Hall pools. Within half an hour less strikes. If such scare tactics fail, they will the first whirligig beetle landed and ever since feign death, rolling onto their backs, mouth OCTOBER populations in and around this watery habitat gaping, blue forked tongue protruding, Wed 2 7.00pm Hempstead Fun Quiz Village Hall have gone from strength to strength in both remaining there, motionless, until the danger Thur 3 6.30pm Edgefield - A Touch of Class Village Hall numbers and diversity. has passed. Wed 14 10.30pm Matlaske PCC Meeting Hall Farm Cottage The largest inhabitant yet arrived this My last delightful encounter with a grass summer is a handsome, dark green, grass snake snake occurred some years ago. Canoeing Mobile Library Van with its characteristic yellow and black collar. with my daughter along the canal at Dilham, Every fourth Thursday One of only three native snakes, grass one skimmed across in front of us, head held 6 Aug 3 Sep 1 Oct 13 Aug 10 Sep 8 Oct snakes are the UK’s largest reptile, with high above the water, before heading off into females measuring up to 3½ feet, some 20 Itteringham 11.00 NR11 7AP The Common Saxthorpe 11.50 NR11 7BL Old Post Office the reeds on the opposite bank. Whilst such 11.15 NR11 7AY The Rectory Corpusty 12.10 NR11 6QP School inches longer than their male counterparts. strong swimming skills may not be required Lt Barningham 12.05 NR11 7AG The Street 12.40 NR11 7BU Great Farm Cott’s The males leave hibernation in early spring to for my tiny garden ponds, the presence of Matlaske 12.30 NR11 7AQ Old Post Office 2.00 NR11 6QJ Adams Lane Plumstead 1.15 NR11 7LG Walnut Farm bask in the warming sunshine, raising their a healthy population of amphibians on 2.15 NR11 6QL 3 Council Houses body temperature in preparation for mating a Baconsthorpe 2.45 NR25 6LJ Council Bungalows 2.30 NR11 6QL 16 Council Houses which the snakes dine, along with the close 4.10 NR25 6LG Old Post Office Edgefield 3.15 NR24 2AX The Street couple of weeks later. The young hatch from proximity of a garden compost heap, where Hempstead 3.20 NR25 6LE Hare & Hounds 3.40 NR24 2AL The Memorial leathery eggs in summer, eighteen inches long the warmth and humidity provide a perfect 3.40 NR25 6TL Telephone kiosk Wickmere 5 Aug 12.45pm Wolterton Hall and immediately able to fend for themselves. incubation site for its eggs, have clearly made 1.15pm Village Sign Cold-blooded grass snakes do not this something of a ‘des res’, for this most Holt Library 9 Church Street, Holt NR25 6BB 712202 produce heat internally so require little food - harmless and, to date, impressive visitor. Mon–Wed and Sat 9.30am – 1.00pm Fri 9.30am – 6.00pm 2 3 Regular Events Baconsthorpe Village Hall 7.30pm Line Dancing - 711320 Mondays 10.00am Diocesan Play Van - 07918 027092 Tuesdays during term time 7.30pm Carpet Bowls - 711320 Tuesdays during term time Corpusty Village Hall 2.00pm - 4.00pm Bure Valley Quilters & Stitchers 2nd and 4th Mondays 2.00pm - 4.00pm Short Mat Bowls - suspended until September Tuesdays 10.00am - 12noon Norfolk Knitters 2nd Tuesday Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. There is yarn to play with as well as lots of magazines and patterns for inspiration. All levels of ability are catered for with an experienced knitting and crochet teacher. Cost is £7 for a 4 week term or £2 per week Contact Rita Taylor 01263 587507 [email protected] 10.00am - 12noon Art Group Thursdays 9.30am - 11.30am Toddler Group Fridays during term time Edgefield Village Hall 10.30am Coffee Morning - Jeff Witts 587661 Last Thursday each month Hempstead Village Hall 10.00am Charcoal Drawing - Mike Thody 711282 - from September Tuesdays The fee of £4 includes coffee, biscuits and paper Walks Open Daily Greedy Goose Tearooms Gardens & Events Gardens Open Sundays to the end of September 12-5 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday June-Aug 11-5 Events August 8th The Tempest – Open Air Theatre August 16th Fairy Tales & Fables Sept 6th Charity Day – Hall Open www.manningtongardens.co.uk 4 5 Reflection from the Rectory Church Services for August and purpose and at the end strength and Midweek Communion: Saxthorpe hope in the life to come. They were, and still are, an example of God’s continuing grace to 2nd August - Trinity 9 us through the work and lives of the people Exodus 16:2-4.9-15 / Ephesians 4:1-16 / John 6:24-35 around us. We often think of mission as something 9.00 Family Service Edgefield others in the church do or “go on”. We think 9.15 Holy Communion Plumstead of mission as making disciples for God, 10.45 Matins Matlaske getting “bums on seats” and increasing our 11.00 Holy Communion CW Little Barningham number, thereby giving the church financial security, well, for the time being. th We so often overlook that mission is 9 August - Trinity 10 prayer, quietly and continuously given. 1 Kings 19:4-8 / Ephesians 4:25-5:2 / John 6:35,41-51 Mission is allowing others to minister to you, 9.00 Morning Praise Saxthorpe so that they may grow in faith and service. 9.15 Holy Communion Baconsthorpe Mission is being there to listen to others who 10.45 Matins Barningham Winter Marion Harrison feel no one else does. Mission is, having found On Sunday 26th July we interred the ashes God in that still, silent centre of our being, 11.00 Holy Communion CW Itteringham of June Clarke in St Marys, Itteringham. On sharing His grace with the people around us. Community Weekend Little Barningham Monday 27th July we held the funeral of Jean Don’t get me wrong, mission is active and Cooper of Little Barningham. demanding but it is also quiet and unassuming. 16th August - Trinity 11 These two women were both devout Without mission being all of the above, Christians and both these women will be how else do we find the peace that passes all Proverbs 9:1-6 / Ephesians 5:15-20 / John 6:51-58 missed by the communities within which understanding, that strength of faith that moves 8.00 Holy Communion BCP Wickmere they lived. They will also be very much mountains, and at the last leads us home? 9.15 Holy Communion Hempstead missed by me. For while Jean and June were Jean and June, thank you for allowing me 10.45 Matins Plumstead very different in their characters and in their to be a small part of your lives and for the 11.00 Holy Communion CW Saxthorpe outlook on life and the lives they had led, example that will help to anchor me in times their depth of faith gave their lives meaning of doubt. 23rd August - Trinity 12 Joshua 24:1-2a,14-18 / Ephesians 6:10-20 / John 6:56-69 10.00 Holy Communion - All Benefice Matlaske 30th August - Trinity 13 Deut 4:1-2,6-9 / James 1:17-end / Mark 7:1-8,14,15,21-23 10.00 Holy Communion - All Benefice Little Barningham Blacksmith’s Cottage, Baconsthorpe Emma Youngs CW = Common Worship BCP = Book of Common Prayer 01263 570252 or 07884 432412 www.baconsthorpemeadows.co.uk 6 7 Baconsthorpe Barningham Winter Fri 7 10.30am Coffee & Gossip Patronal Evensong to the sense of it being a truly Fri 28 7.00pm Jumble Sale St Peter’s North Barningham festive occasion and, not This event, which has been a fixture in the least, to Mr John Richley, 200 Club who kindly agreed to play the £25 William Peck, £10 James Rudd, £ 5 Geof Reason and Roger Hall local calendar for over thirty years, took place on the last Sunday in June, as it always does, portable, battery powered this being the closest we can get to St Peter’s keyboard to accompany the the tail on the pig, guess the Ro Hardingham Sara Buxton Village Hall day itself.