PARISH MAGAZINE FOR WHITTINGTON, ARKHOLME & WagtailMarch/April 2021

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Easter is the promise of new beginnings And we are all hoping and praying for new beginnings in 2021

Join us for an open air service in Whittington 4pm on Easter Eve / Holy Saturday 3 April

Blessing of the Easter Eggs

Easter Day Bible readings and the blessing of the Easter Eggs Everybody welcome. Dress for the weather & bring along your Easter Eggs An opportunity for everyone to get together on the Easter weekend in Whittington churchyard (with loudspeakers). In church only if very wet (otherwise bring an umbrella!) Covid-safe - outdoors with social distancing Covid-legal - an act of worship on church premises

Also this Easter: * Palm Sunday 28 March, Hornby Saint Margaret's 10.45am * Maundy Thursday 1 April, Hornby Saint Margaret's 7.30pm * Good Friday 2 April, Arkholme Saint John the Baptist 10am * Easter Day 4 April, Hornby Saint Margaret's 10.45am

All of these services are also broadcast live online at the Four Parishes website: www. these4parishes.co.uk

Do visit on Easter Day to see the Here you can also find the latest church information spectacular Easter Flower displays - updated throughout the week. Subscribe to the and many thanks to all our flower weekly bulletin for the latest on easing lockdown. arrangers who do such amazing work especially every Christmas, Easter Join us live online every Sunday at 10.45am and Harvest, and who did so much Link through to the live broadcasts every Sunday on all three occasions to brighten up at 10.45am plus recordings of earlier services our villages when we needed it most during the past year. PARISH NEWS

We are finally here: Spring is in the air and we are fast approaching the end of what will feel to many the longest winter on record. It has been an extremely difficult year for so many Getting ready to open the doors people: sickness, financial worries, With the easing of lockdown on the horizon, education interrupted and tragically, the renovation of the Bay Horse in Arkholme bereavements. The community has come is gathering pace and we are delighted to together but, for some, the effects share more news and much-anticipated will last for many years. Now, with the dates! vaccination programme, we can begin to look towards family and community life To begin with, the pub, which will be known starting up again, and we can pick up as The Bay Horse @ Arkholme, will open the pieces and begin to work together the doors on its new cafe and shop in June. on life beyond the pandemic. The cafe will serve a small menu of cakes, pastries and special delicacies. You can The events, which were once a key part enjoy a lunch or coffee inside or outdoors in of the parish magazine, have been the new beer garden where you might also absent but we look forward to seeing find Pat’s self-reared hens mooching about! them gradually return to our calendars. The opening of the pub itself will follow as In this edition, we are introducing a soon as it is ready, in time for Autumn. The a few new sections, gardening, wildlife pub is expected to initially serve food and books, and we’d love to know what Thurs-Sun. The focus will be on serving you think. Is there something else you’d locally-sourced, seasonal produce. like to see in your Parish magazine? Please let us know. The pub has been a long-held dream for the owners, who hope it will become a treasured community asset that villagers Name will be proud of and enjoy. They look forward to welcoming the residents of the the lamb Parish and beyond and anticipate bringing The Barker family news of job vacancies in the coming months. have recently welcomed this It is fair to say, lockdown has provided many handsome chap, a Dutch Spotted setbacks but Pat has kept going with his Texel, and are looking for the Wagtail unwavering spirit and dedication to bringing readers to name him. It needs to begin a thriving pub back to the community! with an E. Please email your suggestions to: [email protected] In the next edition, we will introduce the new Bay Horse team. HOME-SCHOOLING HIGHLIGHTS

Could this actually be it? The end of home-schooling? Let’s see.... While most will breathe a sigh of relief as their children step out of the door next week, some will also feel an air of sadness. When lockdown began last March, no one expected we’d still be at it a year later. Let’s face it, home-schooling hasn’t been easy (who knew that it’s possible to forget entirely everything we learnt at school all those years ago?!) but it also brought with Oliver, 7, produced this amazing artwork it some satisfying moments of quality time following a virtual art lesson from Mrs Burgess! with our children and pressed the pause button on the cutting of the apron strings. We asked a few parents in the parish to share some of their highlights!

Emerging craftsman and entrepreneur, Gabriel Clark, has been honing his wood-working skills by making various pieces, including a hamster house, and even received a The O’Neill boys have been hard at commission to build some bird boxes. He is now work digging out a pond! Their efforts the deserving recipient of a DT scholarship from have been rewarded with the arrival his school. of a resident frog, named Jeremy Fisher! Millie learnt the satisfying art of growing her own salad during the first lockdown!

Message from Mrs Ingram: We have been impressed and amazed by the hard work and resilience our children, staff and parents have shown over the last twelve months. It has been a testing time for all Future engineer, Thomas of us but, as always, the strength of the school and village Wilson, constructed a community has been a great comfort and support to us all. fantastic bridge for his You are doing a great job, and we are so very grateful for Year 6 project! all that you are doing and your support. Take care of each other and keep safe, Joy. ProfDJ ProfDJ n s i t ig he D C

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Arkholme

The Bay Horse

The Forge

Rose Cottage Interview by Archie Stride IN CONVERSATION WITH Christine Turner Having spent the last month following online lessons and remote learning, I have realised the huge part that teachers play in the community. There has been a lot of discussion in the media about education and the importance of school in children’s lives. With this in mind, I went for a bit of a nostalgia trip and I interviewed one of members of staff. That has since doubled. my first teachers – Mrs Turner. “Now, there are four classes instead of three, there also are two part time teachers She taught me in Year 1when I was 5. – so six. There have been so many changes. Christine Turner has retired recently but I remember there used to be three whole has spent over 30 years teaching in the buses which almost all the children took. Lune Valley. I asked her what changes Now, most people come and go by car.” she’d seen at Arkholme school over the years. What did you enjoy most about being a teacher? “The building itself has changed “I loved it.” I could tell that Christine was immeasurably. When I first started, there smiling as the said this. “There was never a were only two classrooms: the room that day when I thought I don’t want to go to is the current staffroom and the hall!” work today. I enjoy working with young She went on to explain how this worked, children and they always came up with “So years three and four had their lessons something new every day!” where the staff room is now and in the other room were reception, years one She went on to talk about some of her and two. This meant that years five and memories, “Some of the nicest days were six were taught in the entrance hall.” when we used to take you [students] out for trips to places like Skipton castle, farms It sounded rather chaotic, and she said that and Sea Life Centre. there were all sorts of disruptions, such as “Having days out were special.” when the postman arrived and when a She also mentioned the many charity days studentFull English had tobreakfast use the toilets. “It was very, and cake sales we used to have, where veryFurther cramped. accomtion It’s available not just thefor Weddingnumber Parties/Familyof different Parties events were organised to raise buildingsExcellent that facilities increased in grade over 2 listed time cottage – but the money for countless different charities. A warm welcome is guaranteed. Dogs welcome amount of staff too.” In 1992, when “The aim was to give the children as many ChristinePhone Pam started, on 07920 there 203637were only three new experiences as possible, alongside or email: [email protected] INTERVIEW teaching the curriculum.” that they would all have different leaves I then asked her what prompted her to and represent different themes, and that go into teaching. the children could watch them grow.. of “I had memories of special teachers when course they’re huge now.” Just like some I was young and I thought it would be of those children, I suppose! something that would be rewarding, and it certainly was!” I also asked about the role schools play Get in touch in the community. “Because I was there for If you have any news, events or other such a long time, I ended up teaching the contributions for the next edition of Wagtail, children of the people that I had please email [email protected] previously taught!” If you are interested in placing an advert, we can send you a media pack. Clearly, Christine’s teaching has had an If you know someone in the Parish with impact of generations of the local parish. an interesting story to tell, please get I wanted to know more about the actual in touch job.

How has teaching changed over the years? “We’ve had several new curriculums, but when I was teaching Key Stage 1, we were basically teaching how to read, write and DECORATOR count. That’s the same, but the way it is Tony Holloway taught has changed significantly over the years.” Over 25 years in business To finish, I asked my usual question, “Can Interior and Exterior you give three adjectives to describe tel: 01524 771880 Arkholme?” mobile: 07947 823457 Like everyone else, Christine had a bit of email: [email protected] trouble pinning it down to three, but settled on, “Friendly, welcoming and Peaceful.” As I was about to say goodbye, Christine remembered one last thing about Arkholme school’s legacy: “Just before I joined, they had planted trees at the front of school with the idea WagtailKIDS If you fancy a baking challenge this Easter, why not try making an Easter Afternoon Tea?

We made a Victoria sponge which we covered in orange icing. The leaves were made by mixing green food colouring with melted white chocolate and then shaped into a leaf on cocktail stick! You could also try: We also made bunny macarons, using Rice Krispies chocolate nests chocolate buttons for the ears and tail and Flower shaped jam tarts chick shaped iced biscuits in a biscuit nest. Scones

Easter Facts - from BBC Newsround Why do we give chocolate eggs? Where does the Easter bunny come from? Eggs are meant to symbolise new life The story of the Easter Bunny is thought to but originally eating eggs was not have become common in the 19th Century. allowed by church leaders during the week leading up to Easter, known as Rabbits usually give birth to a big litter of Holy Week. So any eggs laid babies (called kittens), so they became a that week were saved and symbol of new life. decorated to make them Holy Week eggs that Legend has it that the Easter Bunny lays, were then given decorates and hides eggs as they are also to children as gifts. a symbol of new life. This is why some children might enjoy Easter egg hunts as Victorians adapted the part of the festival. tradition with satin-covered cardboard eggs filled with Easter gifts. It doesn't do all the work alone though! This has now developed In Switzerland, Easter into the tradition that many eggs are delivered people enjoy today. by a cuckoo and in parts of Germany by a fox! Word Search H C B U N N I E S A T EASTER BUNNIES O S H E C N U O B F L SUNNY T H O O R B M A L A L SPRING C C P T C H I C K S I CHICKS BOUNCE R T P B V O H R H G D BONNET O H I O N L L R B J O DAFFODIL S U N N Y M E A S T F HOPPING HUNT S N G N S G E W T L F CHOCOLATE B T K E G J I T E E A EGG U R D T S P R I N G D LAMB N T J B M R E T S A E HOT CROSS BUN

Meet the newly You crack me up! hatched chicks from Why did the Easter Bunny go to the gym? The Bay Horse @ To eggs-ercise and do hare-robics! Arkholme! Where did the rabbits go after their wedding? On their bunnymoon! How did the Easter bunny get dry after his swim in the Lune? Can you With a hare-dryer! name the How many eggs can you fit in an empty basket? lamb? One because after that, it isn’t empty any The Barker family more! have recently welcomed this What happened when two bunnies handsome chap, a Dutch Spotted fell in love? Texel, and are looking for the Wagtail They lived hoppily ever after! readers to name him. It needs to begin with an E. What kind of bunny can’t hop? Please email your suggestions A chocolate one to: [email protected] GARDENING

Welcome to our new regular gardening to early April. Take care not to damage & wildlife pages. Huge thanks to our the shoots when handling and planting. contributors Peas – depending on your soil, you can grow Spring Gardening peas from February onwards. I tend to grow them in root trainers and then plant them out Arkholme gardener, Helen Dinsdale, once the soil has had a chance to warm up. shares her gardening tips for spring Fruit trees - You can prune bush shaped Flower, vegetable and salad seeds can be fruit trees such as apple, quince and pear planted indoors on windowsills or in electric while they are still dormant, usually until propagators. Once the seeds have sprouted, March. Winter pruning results in strong remove from propagators and try to give growth in the spring. Remove any dead, them light from all sides, for example by diseased or damaged wood and prune to rotating the seed trays or pots every day. form a goblet shape, so the branches are Once the seedlings have developed the first well spread allowing light and air can reach set of true leaves, transfer them carefully to the whole canopy. The pruning of plums and individual modules or small pots to grow on. cherries should be left until spring or early (The first leaves produced are the seed summer. leaves, not true leaves).

Potatoes - If you like to grow first or second early potatoes, it is a good idea to chit the seed potatoes. This allows the tubers to sprout before you plant them. Stand the potatoes in egg boxes or trays and leave in a light, frost free area. The shoots will grow from the ‘eyes’ on the rounded end of the potato. When the shoots are 1.5 – 2.5cm long they are ready to be planted out from mid-March PROFESSIONAL DOG GROOMING SALON

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By the time this edition of Wagtail is in Apparently, the ratio of pink to white and circulation, the snowdrops will be on the way patterning is different on each plant. out, but do not worry as these are just one of many plants whose green shoots and Look for the distinctive Lords-and-ladies in colourful flowers signal the start of spring woodlands. It is fond of the shade and spring as they emerge from their winter has arrow shaped leaves atop long stalks. dormancy. Anyone who regularly walks The leaves are often covered in the paths and lanes around Whittington, purple speckles and lobed at the Arkholme and Gressingham will know base. The tiny yellow flowers are our more familiar spring flowers such as inconspicuous, being held at the base snow drops, daffodils, primroses, wild of a long inner spike that is wrapped garlic and bluebells but there are lots of in a pale green leaf like sheath. others too. This spike eventually produces an upright stalk of poisonous striking bright red berries in late Our mild, damp climate and landscape of summer. small woodlands, hedges and open fields, whilst heavily influenced by man, still holds Cuckoo Flower, also known as 'Lady's smock', some natural gems. Here are a handful of is a pretty perennial of damp, grassy places other spring blooms that are just as common like wet meadows, ditches and riverbanks, as but perhaps a little less familiar: well as roadside verges. Its William Wordsworth’s love of the daffodil is flowering is meant to coincide well known but he also held the celandine in with the arrival of the first great affection, penning the poem “The Cuckoo - a sure sign that Lesser Celandine” in the early 19th century. spring has sprung. It has a rosette of leaves at its base and Lesser Celandine is a plant an upright stem that bears the delicate, small, that is common and one of pale pink or mauve flowers. On sunny days, our earliest flowers, but you watch out for the orange tip butterfly flying do not always notice it. It’s around this plant as it’s the larval food for this abundant in woods, hedges, species, laying its eggs on the underside of meadows, verges, and the leaves and at the base of the flower. churchyards on damper soil. They grow from tiny bulbs and given the chance, they Garlic Mustard or “Jack by the hedge” likes can form dense carpets of bright yellow shady places, such as the edges of woods flowers held on long stalks above glossy and hedgerows (clue’s in the name). It can heart shaped leaves. grow to over a metre tall and has small, white flowers with four petals in the shape Wood Anemone is another common of a cross that grow in clusters at the ends of plant found in deciduous woodland the stems. It is a biennial plant so takes two and hedge banks. They are slow years to complete its lifecycle. Young heart to spread so are often a sign of shaped leaves appear in its first season undisturbed ancient woodlands, and these are kept over the winter. They particularly where they are seen are smooth and hairless, resembling those in large numbers. These low growing of nettle but without the sting. The plant plants have solitary, star-shaped white then flowers in the spring of its second year. flowers, often tinged pink on the outside The leaves when crushed smell of garlic and and back held above whorls of lobed can be eaten, making a nice addition to a leaves. salad. All images from wildlifetrusts.org ARKHOLME VILLAGE HALL UPDATE

A place gorgeous enough for a spectacular wedding with a view, but also reasonably priced enough for a children’s birthday party, Arkholme Village Hall has it all! It’s been a very quiet year for the hall, as you can imagine, but we want to make sure that we bounce back as quickly and successfully as we can once life returns to the ‘new normal’. The hall with its spectaular During Covid, the school have been using views, outdoor space and the hall when they have been in and other excellent regular users have returned when the facilities, makes restrictions have allowed. Once we can, a wonderful we would like to try to encourage other wedding venue regular users to the hall to make the most of the facilities we have to offer. If you We currently have 7 Trustees: (they don’t bite!) know anyone thinking of setting up a new David Smith, Tom Guy, David Flory, Bill class, please give them our details! We will Spooner, Rebecca Jackson-Pitt, Jo Scully and also need a big push to get weddings to a hall manager Sara Saul, but we would love return as we need around 6 a year to more - we can have up to 15 so there is subsidise the running of the hall and allow plenty of room for you! We recently said the regular users to have such reasonable goodbye to Chris May and Alan & Sharron hourly rates. We will be advertising on Yates, who stepped down, and we would like social media so if you see our posts, please to say thank you for the time and effort they like and share them! have put into the hall. Bill Spooner will also shortly be stepping down, having been Treasurer for many years and we all owe him We need your help! a huge thank you for the work he has done to Could you generously give a bit of your keep a close eye on the finances. He has time to ensure we bounce back from managed to secure much needed grants Covid bigger and better than ever? It could during Covid which will help to ensure that we just be getting involved with a small task come out of this awful period as financially every so often like testing the fire alarm or unscathed as possible. watering the hanging baskets, or you could get involved from the comfort of your sofa If you are interested in getting involved with things like arranging for the septic tank with keeping this amazing resource going to be emptied or the fire extinguishers to be or booking the hall then please get in serviced. We would appreciate any time contact on [email protected] you are able to provide to help the hall We hope to see you soon. survive and thrive! Jo Scully Arkholme Village Hall 150 Club Save the dates! Results The Arkholme Village Hall events team October have taken the plunge and put some Jarvis £20 dates in the diary! Bowler £10 Summer Sports Day & barbecue November Sunday 3rd July K Waddington £20 Metcalfe £10 Apple Pressing December Saturday 10th October Benson £20 Webb £10 Bonfire Night Saturday 6th November January Shannon £20 Christmas Party (Adults) McClements £10 Saturday 11th December February McPhail £20 Petcu £10 GOOD READS

We thought bookworms in the parish might enjoy some recommendations, so we asked for your favourite reads. We hope to make this a regular feature, so please let us know your best page-turners (old and new!) for the next edition.

The Telling by Jo Baker. The War Doctor by David Nott author grew up in Arkholme and This book has been around her mum and dad still live here. a while, but it comes highly The book is set in a village that recommended. This powerful bears more than a passing memoir by front line resemblance to Arkholme. Jo is surgeon is not for the an accomplished writer and faint-hearted but a makes taught at Lancaster University. for a compelling, moving and, at times, utterly shocking read. Patrick Leigh Fermor, beautiful travel writing (the closest we can get at the Recommended by Sarah Case moment!) especially his trilogy, A Time of Gifts/Between the Woods and The Water/The Broken Road. They chart his Wagtail recommends: own journey, walking across Europe to Constantinople when he was 18 in the If you’ve been inspired to get more 1930s. green-fingered during lockdown, this lovely gardening Both recommended by Christine Shannon companion is packed with all you The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld. need to know with a It intertwines three stories of women month by month guide across different time frames, set in so you can build your Scotland. The background theme is knowledge in small of male violence against women doses! (but I wouldn’t want that to put anyone off!). Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Recommended by Victoria Sinclair A thought provoking and funny read. It is a New York story of egos running riot. The Great Gatsby, I recently read The lead characters jostle to by F Scott Fitzgerald. It was serve their own agendas recommended by my son - a book whilst making out it is for the I knew about but had never read. greater good. And since we I completely and utterly loved it all have a bit of ego (or a and when I had finished it I wanted lot of ego??) it is a useful to read it again ..... a first for me. reminder of the benefits of humility.

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Don’t forget to support your local bookshops: Bookshop and The Book Lounge in . Carnforth Bookshop has been around since1977 and has a huge collection of second hand books as well as new. Michele Luxon FOOD & DRINK

There is light at the end of the tunnel with Serve with crusty homemade bread and a Spring upon us. With any luck, we’ll soon crisp salad. Finish off with a slice of Tarte Tatin be able to enjoy cooking and eating outside and fresh cream. All washed down with several with friends and family! Here are a few ideas glasses of your favourite tipple! for a BBQ and a spectacular pudding that will wow your guests but does not take an Tarte Tatin age to make. Make some caramel using 170g or ¾ cup of sugar in a shallow dish, which is both hob and Try popping a fillet of any white fish or oven proof. Once you have the caramel, take salmon in a tin foil parcel with a knob of off the heat and add 50g or ¼ cup of butter or splash of olive oil and a couple of butter. Core and cut up 6 medium sized lemon wedges. Cook until the flesh is no longer baking apples into six pieces each and place translucent. Or make some kebabs on a them in the dish close together. Sprinkle 30g skewer with alternating chunks of chicken (coated in harissa paste) and red, green and or 2 tbsps. of sugar over the apples. Cover yellow pepper, red onion and mushrooms. You with shortcrust pastry, tucking in the edges. could replace the chicken with halloumi or Cook for 40 minutes in a pre-heated o o paneer cheese, marinated in yoghurt and a oven at 180 C or 350 F. Leave to rest for 10 spoonful of curry paste. Of course, you could minutes then turn upside down onto a large just go for good quality, locally sourced plate and await your guests’ gasps of joy at burgers and sausages. the sight of this coming their way!

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