August 2015

parish council celebrations initiatives here were a lot of positives Tthat can be taken from the meeting of Fosdyke Parish Council on Tuesday, 7 July, with two of the new councillors proposing initiatives that may go some way to help the elderly residents of Fosdyke and also make the business of the Parish Council far more transparent and accountable than it has ever been before. Carole Marshal wants to give more support to the retired villagers who appear to make up a high proportion of residents and arish councillors and other supporters of the Village Hall at the suggested bringing in outside recent celebration of the Village Hall’s fiftieth year. consultants from an enterprise that P offered advice back in 2012 but Without Alan White and his helpers Fosdyke would have one less which was not taken up. Our amenity. Let’s keep it busy with bookings! youngest councillor, Chris Cropley, showed a cautious side by immediately asking how much this initiative might cost the council. He was more supportive, however, of John Tofts’ proposal to create a website for the parish council so that residents are able to see what the council is all about and what it spends your money on, an openness that Fosdyke Newsletter has been pressing for for some time. We wholeheartedly support this move which is in line with a consultation paper that covers proposals made in the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 which received Royal Assent last year. Interesting to note that, until recently, of the eighteen parish councils listed in Boston Borough on the County Council website only and Fosdyke didn’t have a hosted website or a link to their own website. Fosdyke Belinda and James Needham with their son Jack George at his baptism at All does now thanks to John Tofts. Saints church - Story Page 3 PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL TRUEPENNY 1 Spalding Pool letter League champs as everyone in the village Winvited to the wine and reach cup final cake fest to celebrate the Village Hall's anniversary? If so, did I hile Fosdyke Sports pool miss the invite in the Newsletter? team won the league they W I was most put out that my couldn’t quite take the team cup friends from got to join in but Daniel Rhodes took the the festivities when I knew nothing individual trophy. about it! Just wondered, that's all, They have started the new hate to think that I, a villager, season with back-to-back wins. missed out on a jolly that non Fosdyke folk enjoyed. Name and address supplied Hire the

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2 tractor tally Days Gone By anjel makes total of £3345.22 was raised through sponsorship, entry All information compiled from The A British Newspaper Archive and local impact at fees, cake stall, refreshments, newspaper archives by John donations, auction and raffle at Wilkinson. the Tractor Run this year. All open mic proceeds were presented to 1953 Canadian pilot killed on the Macmillan Cancer Support 23rd June 1953: Joseph Jean locally. Raymond Bédard (born 7 Julie Nicol commented, “We are November 7, 1927, Ontario) very grateful to everyone who crashed near Fosdyke. supported the event in any way and 1959 married Oct 1877 Lincs. Wife: look forward to next years Tractor Edith Harriet (Cragg) Barnatt: Born Run which will be held on Sunday, 1872 in Ancaster, Lincolnshire. 8 May at Fosdyke Playing Field. (1911 living in Great Hale, Heckington. 1960 54 Old Main Rd built on the christening “Old Reading room building plot” 13 Old Main Road used as ack George Needham was “Greeson Transport Café” run by Jbaptised at Fosdyke church on Frank & Mary Greeson [believed to Sunday 21 June with the be the oldest house Fosdyke] presence of friends and family. known as Rose Cottage. This was followed by a feast of 1963 frozen with stew, new potatoes and endless abandoned small boats desserts at Fosdyke Social Club 1964 Mr Leslie Gibbons owned Mill which, Jack’s mum, Belinda, said Farm. Sold to Jim & Joe Tunnard was a perfect venue with very farmers now demolished and top helpful staff. soiled over. Then sold to She thanks everyone who Lincolnshire Farm Produce (now uly’s Open Mic night at helped make Jack’s special day so memorable with a special thank owned by a Fosdyke Social Club was one businessperson). J you to Sally Wilson for making four of the more busy nights with 1965 The New Fosdyke Village Hall amazing christening cakes. opened Charity No 521787 dated talented youngster Anjel Clark 6th August 1965. Trust Deed dated making her first appearance 8th May 1965. there. We hope she comes Constable 1967 All Saints Church now topped again! Retires after off for its centenary with a gilded Music started early too with a Fifteen years’ cockerel weather vane. full hour set from The Unshaven service in 1970 Fosdyke Post Office ...Mr & who were warming up for their Fosdyke Mrs Waters headline appearance at the PC Winn retired after 1974 Fosdyke joined Boston Heckington Show. It was good to twenty-seven years’ service; Borough Council on 1st April 1974 see Graham Hawks back again and he received eulogistic (Local Government act 1972) this time with an acoustic set which farewell from the County 1979 Middlecott Hospital sold to a suited the crowd rather better than Justices and a handsome private purchaser his punk set, though the variety present from his comrades. 1979 River Welland frozen and ship always makes for an interesting More than that, the trapped in the ice. evening. residents in the Fosdyke 1981 21 November two new Also appearing were regulars district held a supper in his almshouses (bungalows) opened in Open Road and resident band Phatt honour, and gave him a Fosdyke & from the Knappii and singer Kiya Brown. massive marble time piece hospital sale monies. Both the former bands made use of and a Queen Anne tea 1991 Fosdyke Bridge old Russia The Unshaven’s drummer to fill out service Pitch Pine wooden lock gates, sold their sets. Source: Lincs Free Press to Baytree Nurseries. To make a If you weren’t there you missed 31 January 1899 permanent walk way cover. an entertaining evening!

3 social cycling for all ot many things cost you nothing these days. But if you have a Nbike and fancy meeting your neighbours for a chat why not join the Sunday evening peddlers? They start and finish at the social club in Puttock Gate, setting off on their ride at 6.30 pm. Various distances depending on ability and cycling frequency. Then relax with a drink in the club bar afterwards. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARTYN HAYES kIRTON lIBRARY sad news OPENING ust a heads-up to let you know from oz Jthat all being well Kirton Library will officially open at the New Life Centre on Saturday, 26 September. WANNA LIVE IN CUCKOO LAND? s part of National Allotments AWeek, Cuckoo land Allotment Association, Low Road, are having an open day on Saturday, 15 August. If you are interested in growing things why not go along? The most manda Cook has sadly used tool on most plots is the kettle informed us that her father so there will be tea. A There are vacant plots available. Maurice “Moggie” Bryant, who Just ring Liz on 01205 724271 or e- was born in 1930, passed away mail [email protected] or on 12 June 2015 in Western Sue on 077104388. e-mail Australia. He was born and lived yumyum.gray@gmail in Fosdyke for many years.

4 to go down this road than to visit petty order impacts fosdyke the Butterfields home and business, r Butterfields, who lives at Lloyds Farm at the end of the cul- so while the cones were not a problem to anyone with legitimate de-sac near the A17, has been voluntarily cutting the verge by M business at Lloyds Farm the the main road through the village for seventeen years. Now he has Butterfields have been warned to stopped and it's already looking a bit untidy. But why has he take the cones down. stopped? While the highway agency has Apparently an anonymous Main Road. They had put the cones every right to keep their roads clear resident of Fosdyke has reported there to try to stop people driving it seems a petty order as the cones the Butterfields to the highway down their bit of Old Main Road, do not cause a problem, so agency for putting traffic cones largely, it would seem, for nefarious understandably the Butterfields are literally outside their house on Old purposes. There’s no other reason quite miffed at afore mentioned anonymous villager for sticking their nose in and as a consequence Farmer Wins Claim for his Cottage the village no longer has one of An Algarkirk farmer Mr W C Tunnard, successfully sought their village’s entrances kept possession at Boston County Court of his cottage occupied by Mrs A looking neat and tidy. Perhaps this P the widow of his waggoner. Mr W C Tunnnard told Judge R S is a case for the newly proactive Shove that Mrs A P’s husband died in 1945 and asked for possession parish council to step in and resolve in a month. Mr G G A Whitehead said Mrs A P had refused an the issue with the highway agency, offer of a Fosdyke charity house. She said in court, “I cannot settle and then maybe, just maybe, Mr in Fosdyke.” Butterfield will once again give the Source: Lincolnshire Echo village his free time and equipment 27 January 1950. to keep the village looking attractive fosdyrectory

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5 sign that something isn’t quite right. What can you do to protect yourself? • Where possible, buy from well- break-ins known, High Street retailers. If he newsletter reports on the occasional theft from sheds and you've never heard of a firm, or Tgarages and one break-in at the Social Club a few months ago it is based overseas, be but, as far as we know, dwellings have been excluded from the sceptical. grubby hands of burglars. • Avoid paying by cheque or But on Monday, 6 July, one know of contact people to tell bank transfer. Use PayPal or a house was entered and another them of their win. credit card as they will give you showed evidence of an attempted • We do not know of any official additional protection. entry. At the time of writing this no lottery operators who ask for • Search the internet. Type the items of value were reported stolen. fees to collect winnings. Any website you are buying from The police were informed, and request for a fee payment is a and look for reviews of what an investigation is under way. The good indication that someone is others customers are saying police believe it may be a part of a trying to defraud you. about the company. Bad spate of burglaries linked to a car • Never disclose your bank customer service feedback seen near several break-ins that details or pay fees in advance. usually finds their way online happened in the area on that day. • If they have provided an email quite quickly. if you are unfortunate enough address to respond to, be very • Check for spelling mistakes or to be the victim of a similar suspicious of addresses such as poor grammar on websites as burglary, however minor it might @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com this may suggest the website seem, you must inform the police - or numbers beginning with 07 has been put together by a for the sake of the rest of the because these are free to get fraudster. village. hold of. • Sign up to Action Fraud Alert at So, as we said in the last issue, • Genuine lotteries thrive on https://www.actionfraudalert.c be vigilant. If you see anything publicity. If they ask you to o.uk/ to keep you updated with suspicious ring the police on 01205 keep your win a secret, it is what’s going on. 72202. likely to be a fraud. If you believe that you have It appears the local Lincolnshire • Many fraudulent lotteries have been a victim of fraud you can Neighbourhood Watch Association bad spelling and grammar – see report it online has lapsed (there are around 2,500 this as a warning that fraudsters http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/r association co-ordinators in are at work. eport_fraud or by telephone 0300 Lincolnshire) but our local police • If you believe that you have 123 2040. have recommended Lincolnshire been a victim of fraud you can Alert from which Fosdyke report it online Quad Bike Theft, Newsletter extracts information http://www.actionfraud.police. relevant to our area. Anyone is free uk/report_fraud or by telephone Hundleby nr to join at their website to receive 0300 123 2040. olice are appealing for emails or telephone messages Pinformation about the theft about criminal activity in our area. of a quad bike from Hundleby Online fake near Spilsby. The ATV 150cc quad is black lottery designer goods with a distinctive red grill. It was fraud eople looking for a cheap stored under a tarpaulin at a designer bargain online are property on Main Road, Hundleby rotect yourself from lottery P on Monday 13 July 2015, sometime being targeted by fraudsters Pfraud. between 08:50am and 04:40pm. • Never respond to any such advertising fake designer goods. The offenders removed the communication. If you have not The items received are usually tarpaulin and cropped the chain entered a lottery then you cheap and inferior counterfeits securing the quad. cannot have won it. of handbags, clothes and Anyone with information, please • Official lotteries in other sunglasses amongst other things. contact PCSO Nigel Miller, Tel 101 countries operate in much the The general rule is ‘if it looks too quoting incident number 355 of 13 same way as the UK’s National good to be true then it probably is.’ July 2015. Alternatively contact Lotto. Designer products sold at heavily Crimestoppers anonymously on • No official lotteries that we discounted prices are an immediate 0800 555 111. 6 made aware of the lack of driving you hit someone then there will be skills of Green Imp when he wiped a huge price to pay. Fences etc can letter out fencing at Mr and Mrs Howells be repaired or replaced. Lives property. It has also been observed cannot. Finally if you wish to carry very own Fast & that Silver Streak lacks a large on racing each other or just degree of skills too. What happens showing off, please find a race track Furious if one or both of these budding to do it, not the roads and streets of or Disaster Waiting to racing drivers, hit either another Fosdyke. Happen road user, pedestrian, child, etc etc? A question for the residents of osdyke. A sleepy little village Are we going to say, ah well there Fosdyke, if this is a waste of time Fin rural South East only boys. We were all young once. do we just get the Boys in Blue to Lincolnshire. No not really, as To Green Imp and Silver Streak deal with these reckless youths we have our very own budding a small piece of advice - that is if before anyone is seriously hurt? racing drivers who use Puttock you have enough grey matter Name and address withheld Gate, Old Main Road and Snaith between your ears to digest and understand the following - for every Avenue, as their own personal action there is a reaction. These are BOWLS race tracks. If we all remember only words, but the Boys in Blue TOURNEY in an earlier newsletter, one of will take a very different approach oodfellowship’s annual our budding racing-drivers-in- if you hurt someone on our streets. Triples Bowls Tournament training took out the fencing and The cost to you will be huge. G hand rails of the Bungalow at the Therefore Green Imp and Silver will be held on Sunday, 9 corner of Puttock Gate. Fair play Streak, make sure your vehicles are August, at their bowls green in to the youth or youths in one hundred percent legal and safe. Puttock Gate. question, they apologised to Mr If they are not, then you both will Entries are still being taken with and Mrs Howell, even offered to have to get used to the taste of latest entry on 1 August. If you fancy putting in a team it’s £12 a pay for the damage. porridge. Take notice, read and understand the Highway Code, team (£4 each) with prizes of £90 For a week or so after the remove your lead soled boots, take for first, £60 second and £30 third. publishing of the said newsletter, driving lessons, pass your driving Contact Liz on 01206 260275 for and apology, this guy’s right foot test, do not be selfish and stupid, if entry form. became very heavy again. Maybe he has a lead-soled right boot. I think for arguments sake we should Fosdyke Village Hall Lottery 250 Draw - Latest Winners give him the racing name of Green 47 Mr R Hoey Fosdyke £10 Imp (AD02 HJJ) which seems 143 Mrs M Gent Moulton-Seas-End £10 appropriate, as he aims a green vehicle around our village. He now 57 Mrs L Bruce £10 has a friend, competitor, rival, for 99 Mr R Jackson Holbeach £10 the Stigg’s Helmet. He too has an 248 Mr M Killick £15 equally-heavy right boot. I think, for 247 Mrs J Dickingson Great Hale £20 arguments sake, we should give 223 Mr R Newell Fosdyke £25 this guy the racing name of Silver 2 Streak (BN03 YVE). Again, I think Next draw: Monday 10 August at the Bingo appropriate as, yes you guessed it, he aims a silver vehicle around our village. We are now coming to the time of school holidays, where young children tend to congregate at the corner of Puttock Gate and Old Main Road on route to the playing field. These two guys, Green Imp and Silver Streak, are regularly observed racing around this comer, in both directions, without a concern for their own safety, other road users, children, or pedestrians in their vicinity. We have been

7 “After just a day?” That’s when he’d caught her leaving the Rolls’ house with the doll and confiscated it with the promise of questioning her further. Although Jessica had been found unharmed - her THE FENNEY father was driving her back from Wales under escort as they spoke - Gould was still unconvinced that the Witch of Fenney, as most of the villagers called her MYSTERIES behind her back, was as innocent as she made out. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are There was a connection somewhere that he failed to either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any see and he needed to find it to salvage his career. resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Jessica’s disappearance had turned into something of a © Nina Mercetter 2015 farce and the media were bound to rip him to shreds. Unless he could ... The Case of the Missing “What books were these then Silvia?” It was Wallace asking the question. He’d put down his pen by Nina Mercetter and was suddenly interested. Gould felt himself correct his slouching posture and sit up straighter. When Wallace wasn’t holding a pen it usually meant his sixth Chapter Four sense was kicking in. “I’ve loads of books. Bookshelves of them. I prefer printed books. Though I do have a Kindle. There’s the Kettle Black power in a book you can hold. They tell stories besides y the time Danny Driss answered his mobile the stories they tell.” BNancy Laws was getting ready to leave a message. “But Jessica liked looking at certain kinds of book “Hi, Nance,” Danny whispered. “Can’t talk now.” didn’t she?” Wallace persisted. And hung up. “She liked them all.” Silvia lifted her cheeks off the “Drat!” Nancy threw her iPhone down onto the bed chair for a second. Gould sympathised with her. He only to see it bounce up and disappear over the could imagine leaving a stripe of sweat behind on his opposite edge by her white-stressed dressing table. own seat when he eventually stood. She looked across the bed at her reflection in the “Picture books?” mirrors. The red frilly underwear that Danny seemed Silvia shrugged. Neither detective mentioned the to like best - her husband preferred the black - was shrug for the recording device. beginning to look a tad shabby but she smiled at her “Magic books?” body beneath. Her weekly trips to the gym and Gould looked at his sergeant. While she was called swimming pool were helping to maintain a physique a witch he knew there was no such thing as witches. that she knew other men in the village, and elsewhere At least not these days. for that matter, found interesting enough for a second “Study books,” Silvia corrected. Gould snapped his look. And Nancy was rather fond of being ogled. head back to the interviewee. She had wanted to tell Danny about Morgan seeing “So you have books about magic?” he said. A her leave his house. They were usually more discreet. question, but less a question than a surprised remark. There was always somewhere, away from prying eyes, “I have books about lots of things. Magic’s just one where they could meet up and enjoy each other’s of many subjects.” company, but the police and media had been “But Jessica liked the magic books best?” Wallace everywhere recently and Danny and her had taken a again. chance. Stupid, she thought. Stupid! Stupid! “Not especially.” Gould could tell a lie. Wallace was * * * onto something. “So,” DCI Gould continued. “Let’s go over this * * * again. You took Jessica Rolls’ doll because you wanted Nancy had just showered and slipped into jeans and to be reminded of her?” T-shirt when her iPhone buzzed on the polished Silvia Edgeard fidgeted in the plastic seat that had floorboards on the other side of the bed. It had to be been taken from the stacks leaning forward Danny. She rushed around, grabbed it before it precariously along the wall behind her. Health and vibrated itself under the divan. Yet even as she pressed safety would have something to say about that, Gould ‘answer’ she realised it wasn’t Danny’s photo displayed, thought abstractedly. DS Brian Wallace seemed but his. She’s been ignoring his calls for three months. equally bored and tapped a black Bic pen - he usually “Nancy. I have to see you.” had at least half a dozen somewhere on his person - on “You don’t. It’s over. It’s been over for months.” his A6 notepad. A page mostly filled with doodles, Why had she been so impulsive in answering the call? interesting though they might be to a psychiatrist, “But we had something really special. We’re good showed the interview was not progressing well. together.” “Like I said, she popped around nearly every day to “And we’re both married. It couldn’t go on.” see me. She … likes looking at my books. She’s a “But we could make a new life together. We could bright kid and I missed her.” emigrate.”

8 She swiped him away. Why hadn’t she blocked his “Now then, Nial.” number ages ago? He’d never have the guts to tell “You have the photos?” Gilbert, not that her husband would believe him. “I said I would, didn’t I?” Gilbert was just so convinced of her loyalty he’d have “I need them.” to catch her with someone, and she made sure that “I’ll come see you.” never happened. She was concerned about Morgan “No. We’ll meet in Neros. Four o’clock.” though. He may not have appeared to notice she was “Just a sec … Yep, that’s fine. See you then.” coming from Danny’s house but she knew he was “With the photos?” always looking for ways to gain leverage over people, “I have them on a memory stick.” With that the call falling just short of blackmail. Well, he had in the ended. passed … Nial checked his wallet. He always carried plenty of * * * cash; didn’t believe in cards. Today he also had an Nial Langton stared at his phone, then dialled extra ten fifty-pound notes. another number. It was answered on the second ring. CONTINUED NEXT MONTH Car boot sale FOSDYKE FATHER AND SON continues FINED FOR growth BREAKING BACON rom humble beginnings RATIONING ORDER Fcome great things? Well, James Arthur Cannon farm Fosdyke’s very own Boot and labourer of Villa Farm Low Table Sale is beginning to pick Road Fosdyke pleaded not up trade. guilty to slaughtering pigs Any new venture takes time to contrary to the Livestock get established and the word is Restriction Slaughtering beginning to spread. With just two Order in Fosdyke about 23rd February 1942 and his father more sales to go in the Philip Cannon at the same spring/summer season they look address pleaded not guilty to likely to be busy affairs. Boasting a obtaining certain bacon from BBQ, bar and proper toilets the his son contrary to the Bacon event is attracting more sellers and Rationing Order. buyers each time. Inspector Albert Davy of the Ministry of Food, said THeft from club more than two pigs being killed in one house in a year desperate criminal seems to were very serious offences. Ahave been present at the The bacon ration per recent Boot Sale at the playing individual was approximately fields in Puttock Gate. 13lbs per year. It was They stole a toilet paper mentioned that while the dispenser from the men’s toilet in father’s application for two the Social Club! licences were signed by him as living at Villa Farm, his son’s application was signed as coming from J Cannon Low Road Fosdyke. “Had both been signed as coming from Villa Farm the third licence would not have been issued at Holland Sessions at Boston: We feel the smallest fines we can put on you are £20 and £10.” Source: Lincolnshire Echo 30th April 1942

9 periods anyway). Plants such as Cleome 'Senorita Rosalita’, a tender perennial that flowers from June until the frosts, fall into this dhis eis onae of mdy favohurite teimesa of thde year,i thne loweg r light category. Tflatters the garden (and my gardening), emphasising the glorious Other flowers that need little or colours with the longer shadows giving everything more depth. The no deadheading are fuchsias and bedding lobelias, but also plants bright and bleaching summer sun earlier in the year is not nearly so with eye-catching seed pods or kind. hips, such as Nigella, Bladder More importantly for me, now effect on the foliage, which will Cherry and hippy roses, such as there is much less need to fire fight perk up and get going again. Rosa moyesii 'Geranium’, partly for with weeds, lawns and hedges, as Aquilegias I attack with an its geranium red flowers but more all the growth is (thankfully) slowing almost manic attitude, as their for its fabulous flagon-shaped hips, down, allowing me to do more ubiquitous seed enables their which will definitely be left intact. leisurely and enjoyable tasks. progeny to take over the garden, so But big changes can still happen off their heads always come. Tidy up fast, even overnight, with Astrantias are not as prolific on the When you do find time for the downpours, mini gales or seeding front, but the odd seedling flowers that need deadheading, it is plummeting temperatures causing that can develop does not equal the also a good time to tidy up. Any whole stands of plants to be quality of its parents. sluggy leaves go (the Acanthus and flattened, blooms to dissolve, or The secateurs are Cannas are usually top candidates even new stunners to usually, but not here), plus rose leaves sporting appear. always, the best tool black spot. To keep the garden for this task. With At the same time I am often looking its best and my Alstroemerias, I pushing in extra stakes or metal maintain as much just pull the spent hoops to hold up any new glamorous colour as stem from the ground, windblown “floppers”, a gardener’s you can, deadheading and it comes away with work is never done. and tidying is vital. very little force, leaving Happily, it is also relatively more shoots to come up in relaxing, and is simple to master. response. Finger and thumb is great Deadheading is a smart piece of for some (such as early tulip heads). trickery: you are fooling your plants into believing they are still youthful. the ones to leave As soon as they are allowed to set I do believe that some flowers seed, chemical messages are sent should be left as they are, however. back telling flower production to I let seeds form from the last stop. Stop them doing this, and flowers on buddleia to ensure they will continue to look beautiful. smaller birds have some tasty food, likewise on my sunflowers. I love Huge Dividends the look of them as the pungent Dahlias, Cosmos, roses, yellow changes to a sludgy brown, abutilons, Galega, pelargoniums, framed by contrasting bright green knautias, and many more will repay sepals. Others such as Cornflowers huge dividends for a quick snip. and Rudbeckias are left attached for Delphiniums will sometimes flower handy bird snacks, too. again in September if you cut them Another plant I never dead head back hard, leaving just a bit of is Canna, because it sends up foliage. another flower shoot from within Early flowering camellias, the dead flower head, usually doing rhododendrons, lilacs and late- this three to four times from the one flowering Fremontodendrons also stem, so if you deadhead it you fall into this category, and the spent usually end up cutting off the rest of flowers are best removed. the potential flowers. Other plants go pretty rank after Other flowers that do not benefit flowering, especially Brunneras and from deadheading include those Bergenia, but cutting off the that are sterile and don’t set seed deadheads and stalks has a huge (which generally flower for longer

10 Jon Tofts reports SUMMER

All Saints Ht thOis tiLmeI oDf yeaAr, aY s the Fosdyke Adays draw out and the sunshine begins to turn the barley a golden yellow, many of us are fortunate enough to be looking forward to the prospect of a summer holiday and a break from our normal routine. Churchwardens: This year, however, it is Jon 01205 260672 inevitable that some of us will do so Terry 01205 260408 with a twinge of anxiety. One inevitable result of the recent interviewing in very early appalling acts of terrorism in Services October, and an appointment Tunisia, Kuwait and France is a Sunday, 2 August for the end of the year if we heightened sense of our own are lucky. In the meantime vulnerability and mortality. For the Holy we are being looked after by friends and family of Carly Lovett Fr. Paul Noble – who is our and Claire Windass, who were so Communion Rural Dean (aka area tragically killed in Tunisia, there is at 09.30 am manager) and we continue to immense sadness as Sunday, 16 August be so grateful to him and his they struggle to volunteer team of retired come to terms with Sung priests who are looking after their loss. us so well. These atrocities Evensong were perpetrated by at 6 pm NEIGHBOUR a tiny minority who Sunday, 30 August WATCH have a very warped t cannot have escaped your and horrifically misguided view of Holy Iattention that there were a what it means to be a Muslim, Communion number of deaths this year of particularly during the month of Holy Communion for the Kirton Group lonely older folks in the Ramadan. The teaching of the at KIRTON village, and that there were Christian faith is that love is at 09.30 am occasions when it took some stronger than evil, and while proper time before this came to light. justice is appropriate, revenge and POP-IN LUNCH The situation has prompted scapegoating are not. It is op-Ins are having their the Parish Council and the incumbent upon all of us who Psummer break, and are Church to consider what follow Christ to continue to planned to be back in full might be done to raise the welcome the stranger among us, swing for September profile of care for those less and to love our neighbour as fortunate than others in the ourselves. VICAR UPDATE village, and who are elderly. Please hold in your thoughts and s you will know, we have Cllr. Marshall has been tasked prayers all those who have been Abeen without a vicar by the council to investigate affected by these tragedies, that since Fr. Gary left us in what might be done in a through the grace and love of God January for the glories of small community, and is they may find strength and comfort Wainfleet! Things have been currently working with All in the very difficult days ahead. going on behind the scenes Saints PCC, AgeUK, The Pray too for the peace of our world, to recruit a new vicar, which Community Hub, the Boston and for men and women of is quite a lengthy process. Community Development goodwill wherever they may be, Over the summer national Office and others to come up that together we may be united in press adverts will be being with some working our work for peace and justice in placed, with a view to proposals. in Ancaster. the lives of all God’s children. Bishop Christopher

11 Accounts error editor’s hanks to Dennis Glen for comment Tspotting the error in the Saturday, 1 August accounts that we published last month, though the bottom line newsletter whist was still a deficit of £44.94. In transfering the accounts from criticised drive the spreadsheet to the newsletter 8 pm we accounted for the pantomime osdyke Newsletter was  donation twice. Apologies for the Frecently criticised for confusion! publishing too much news Thursday, 13 August about Fosdyke Social Club. But Live news is news, and the social club is the most active amenity music in the community so it’s little @ open mic night wonder they appear to have a Opens 8 pm, Music 9 pm predominance of stories. We do Second Thursday of every month BINGO our best to bring you a wide  range of news, stories and Every Monday features to make Fosdyke Saturday, 22 August Doors open 6 pm for eyes Newsletter as interesting as we down at 7 pm BINGO Strip of six books £5 can – and have been told by 8 pm £6 a set of books Alan (260654) will find people outside of the village that  you a seat! our newsletter is better than theirs! So we’re neither going to Sunday, 23 August apologise for featuring news Why not advertise in from Fosdyke Social Club nor car boot will we decrease our coverage, and tabletop sale unless they stop putting on great Third Sunday until September An advertisement of this size will cost just Table £5. Car £5. Trailer/Van £7 £35 for a year (twelve insertions). The events. Fosdyke Newsletter is delivered to 265  homes in and on the outskirts of the Thankfully criticisms are few parish of Fosdyke and available at The and far between with at least one Saturday, 29 August Ship public house/restaurant, The email or telephone call each month Moorings Cafe, Fosdyke Social Club and available as a pdf download at praising us for the Newsletter. We Quiz www.fosdyke.org.uk. can only publish what we know 8 pm start -Fish, scampi, or about and you’d be surprised at chicken and chips supper For more details contact [email protected] or ring 01205 what people are interested in £5.50 members £6 non-members 260275 reading, so don’t be afraid to tell us Forthcoming attractions what you are up to or any projects that you are involved in. We also had a surprise email not Saturday, 19 September Copy Deadline long after the last newsletter was the News that means nothing to you published from two grateful evolution might be interesting to someone residents who have paid off the band else so don’t be afraid to contact Newsletter’s deficit saying that they £5 members £5.50 non-members Terry - preferably via “appreciate the delivery and  email: [email protected] content of the Fosdyke newsletter” or phone: 260275 and that “it's good for the village Saturday, 31 October or knock on the door or post your community”. A big thank you to Halloween info through the letter box them. During the same week the disco 6 Whitecross Gate longstanding debt of £12 for an advert in the Fosdyrectory from For inquiries or to book tickets contact no later than 15 August 2014 was also paid. Jane Bristow 01205 260455 12