October 2020 The Parish Magazine for Gosforth and Wasdale (Diocese of Carlisle) Editor: Norma Hughes, Hallsteads, Wellington, Gosforth CA20 1BJ E‐mail: [email protected] All copy must be with the editor by the 15 of the preceding month.

WHO'S WHO in the PARISH Rector Revd. Philip Dorling The Rectory, Gosforth, Seascale, CA20 1AZ Associate Priest Revd. Gavin Walker 25386

Reader Rosalind Amey 01946 820426 Churchwardens Gosforth Norma Hughes 25366 Ann Longworth 01946 841778 Malcolm Richardson 01946 841560 Alister Harlow (deputy) 25899 Inigo Ford 26013 Rachel Putnam 26362 Andrew Lopez 26244 Hugh Foulerton 25725 PCC Secretary Carolyn Foulerton 25725 Gosforth Parish Church Management Committee Clerk Ruth Schofield 25300 Organists Gosforth Tony Kirkham 28681 Nether Wasdale Warren Lonorgan 25169 Margie Simper 26285 Wasdale Head Warren Lonorgan 25169 Parish Magazine Editor Norma Hughes 25366 Advertising/Distribution Hugh Foulerton 25725 St Mary's Room Bookings Ruth Schofield 25300 Old School, Nether Wasdale Bookings Inigo Ford 26013 Safeguarding Officers Steven & Susan Round 01946 841626 Email: [email protected]

2 FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS Since the September magazine went to print, things have moved forward rapidly! Philip Dorling and family will be moving into Gosforth Rectory at the beginning of October and the Licensing Service for Philip will take place at St Cuthbert’s Church, Seascale, on Sunday 4 October at 6.00 pm, so the Benefice will only be without a Rector for four days – last me we had to wait more than fourteen months! Sadly, the South Calder Mission Community will be losing Rev Gill Hart as Team Leader next February, as she and her husband David will be rering then, and so Philip will also take over that role in January. We wish Gill and David every blessing in their rerement as they move to Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries of Galloway. Philip was aware of these plans and movements before he applied for the post of Rector of the Seatallan Benefice and is looking forward to taking over as Team Leader of the South Calder Mission Community. We hope of course that it won’t be too long before a replacement is found for Gill, to work alongside Philip, although no appointments are being made unl aer Easter 2021, by which me the Diocese should have completed their financial calculaons as to how many clergy they can afford to employ. The Licensing Service is usually a great community celebraon, aended by one and all, but due to Covid restricons it will be rather different this me. It will of course sll be a great celebraon, as we welcome Philip as our new Rector, and Bishop James will be with us, but numbers will be very restricted and only churchwardens and those currently leading worship in our Mission Community (both clergy and laity) will be invited. However, if you are able to access Zoom, you will be able to see and hear the whole service live! Full details elsewhere in the magazine. Norma Hughes ‐ Churchwarden FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS None to record this month

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4 ‘HELLO’ FROM THE DORLINGS Philip writes.... Born in 1969, in Vancouver Canada, I have just turned 51! As anyone who has hit this parcular milestone will know, people of my age oen begin to look in two direcons at once... backwards, with a mixture of melancholy and thanksgiving for what they have come through... and forwards, full of hope for what the Lord might yet have in store for the years that lie ahead. Looking back on my life, I am able to give thanks for an upbringing in Canada, England and Kenya. It was filled with beauful places, good mes as well as hard ones – all undergirded by a loving family who knew the Lord in the gentle way that many Anglican Chrisans do. At the age of 18, I set out for university in Edinburgh, in order to learn to be a forester, and to lose myself for the next ten years in free me spent travelling all over the place, as well as climbing mountains in Europe, Mexico, and the Rockies. This me came to a close with a trip to the Himalayas which turned out to be life changing. To my total surprise, I returned from Nepal having experienced the saving power of Christ. What I also knew, was that there was now a call on my life. Back in England, it wasn’t long before I found myself in church in Oxford, touched by the Holy Spirit in ways no one had ever told me about before. By 2001, I had married Jacquie, and then, in 2002, our son Freddy was born. In 2003, I began training for ordained ministry in Oxford – a period in which Jacquie and I were blessed to receive a very clear call to ministry with the church in Cumbria. In 2005, just as my daughter Grace was born, we moved to Ulverston, where I had the great privilege of serving my curacy. Following this me, in 2009, the Dorlings moved to South Africa, where Jacquie and I were involved with leading an Anglican church in the KZN town of Vryheid. We were there for just under three years. For me, this was a profound experience. It kindled in me a new love for Africa, for the Diocese of Zululand, and for the world wide church. In 2012, we returned to Cumbria, where, unl September 2019, we worked amongst the people of the Inglewood Benefice ‐ 7 rural parishes in north Cumbria. In October 2019, following up on connecons made during the Moving Mountains Mission, my family and I moved to join the Scargill Movement ‐ a community of Chrisans based at Scargill House in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Less than a year later, no one is more surprised than us

5 to be ‘on the move again’, as we return to Cumbria, to serve amongst you, in the Seatallan Benefice and South Calder Mission Community. Covid 19 has turned the world upside down for all of us!! All I can say is that, in the midst of a very unusual year, it is simply wonderful to be coming ‘home’ to Cumbria – it feels just right! We are all looking forward to meeng you soon! Philip, Jacquie, Freddy and Grace Dorling 9 September 2020

REFLECTION ‐ INTO THE WILDERNESS As a child, I was brought up in Brish Columbia and then in Kenya. It may be because of those early days that I have always loved the idea of the wide open spaces, vast stary night me skies, and the kind of silence that you can only really encounter in a real wilderness – the kind of silence that leaves you listening to the blood, as it courses through your ears. Since March this year, we have all entered another kind of wilderness. Sure, for a while the roads fell silent, and during the day, the sky was no longer criss‐crossed with the vapour trails of airplanes... but, in truth, the kind of wilderness we had entered was not a physical space – it was, and is, a spiritual one. Covid‐19 has changed everything. Having to wear a facemask in the shops has begun to make that clear to everyone. The Bible is full of wilderness spaces. I think it is probably right to say that, more oen than not, God’s people find themselves in wilderness situaons when the world around them is struggling to find its bearings both ethically and economically. It’s at these moments, that the Old Testament prophets found themselves in desert places. It is at a moment like this, that Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the desert before the start of his ministry. It was at a moment like this, that Philip found

6 himself heading away from all that was familiar to him, to the desert road that led from Jerusalem to Gaza. Behind him lay his friends and a successful ministry – but also persecuon. Ahead of him was nothing but a wilderness. But he walked on in fidelity to the Spirit’s call. Somemes, when things appear to be going well in ministry, the Holy Spirit calls us off to do something ‘less predictable’ for God. It may not seem sensible. It may mean travelling in silence. It may mean walking in the ‘darkness of uncertainty’ for a while. But no maer how dark it gets, if we are called, what we have to do is ‘hold the line’ and keep on walking. We have to trust God and walk in the light of ‘previous revelaon’. Prophets and saints have done this before and found blessing. It is what Philip did as he le Samaria. And what was the result? Philip was blessed by the Holy Spirit with the right ministry, for the right person at the right me, with the result that the Gospel of Jesus Christ began to spread through the connent of Africa. I can almost hear the crunch of their feet, as Philip and the Ethiopian crossed the burned‐up, gravel strewn ground and headed for the ditch where that bapsm happened (Acts Ch8vs4‐40). In the light of Covid‐19, none of us really know what the future holds for lile, local and ordinary churches. What we do know, is that the Spirit of God has called us to serve him in this present darkness. ‘Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God’ (Isaiah Ch50vs10). The Bible tells us that remarkable and fruiul things can happen in wilderness situaons! Generaons of faithful Chrisans can tesfy that this is the truth. It is the ‘Jesus way’. On the 13 July 2020, I was part of a day of fasng and prayer called by the renewal Group ‘Re‐Source’. Two ideas from the proceedings stood out for me. Firstly, we are not called to hold on to, and resuscitate the things that we were doing in Jesus’ name before Covid‐19 became a part of our lives ‐ we are called to share the resurrecon of Jesus Christ with the world, in the power of the Holy Spirit. The second thing that stuck me was a comment that the Holy Spirit is oen depicted in Chrisan art as a small dove. A small dove… yes… but one that, in the light of God, can cast a huge and powerful shadow. Perhaps, in all the uncertainty of these Covid‐19 days, those two ideas are worth hanging on to and praying about. Perhaps there is something there for us to draw on as we approach Advent together. In a strange way it is very excing. Every Blessing! Philip Dorling

7 8 GOSFORTH PARISH CHURCH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Our sixth meeng held by video conferencing was on 18 August. The main point of these meengs is to keep an eye on the finances as we try to juggle with such different circumstances. We looked at the monthly figures for July and noted that the paern of the previous few months connues. We then looked at the budget we had set for 2020 and compared it with the actual figures up to the end of July. With the measures we have taken, expenditure is 18% below budget and income 21% above budget, so overall we are currently 3% below budget. While acknowledging that the situaon is very difficult to predict, with this informaon in mind we looked at a dra budget for 2021. We decided that we would have to reduce our pledge to the Diocese for 2021 by 10% and also budget to use most of the general reserves. If things have improved substanally by the end of 2021, we will then make an extra payment to the Diocese, as the bulk of our pledge goes to clergy salaries. We usually support three Chrisan charies with an annual donaon but we decided that in 2021 any such donaon will be delayed unl the financial posion is clear. We considered se ng up a system of on‐line giving but, as it involves an inial expenditure, we decided not to proceed straightaway, but keep it under review. The system for services from St Mary’s by zoom is ready to try out. In phase one it will only be “broadcast” to people in their own home who have asked for an invitaon. In phase two, people in their own home will be able to take part in the service by, for example, doing the readings or the prayers. Services for September and October were discussed. It was decided that it was not yet the me to open up St Mary’s Room for bookings. Ruth Schofield’s replacement as bookings secretary has to be found by the end of October. It was suggested that it might be possible for two people to share this task. Regarding the damp in the area outside the vestry caused by blocked guers, the flat roof and overhanging tree branches will be aended to. The replacement cork for the noce board in the front porch has been purchased. It was decided that current pracce will connue and St Mary’s will remain closed except for services. The next Management Commiee meeng to monitor the situaon will be on 22ⁿ September and the report will be in the November magazine. If you have anything you wish us to consider please ‘phone 01946 725 300. Ruth Schofield (Clerk to the Commiee) ST MARY’S ROOM HIRE Ruth is rering from the posion of person in charge of the hire of St Mary’s Room at the end of October. If you feel you can serve the church and community in this way please contact her on 25300 or have a word with one of the churchwardens. 9 10 HARVEST TIME At the end of September and beginning of October, each church in the parish usually holds its own Harvest Fesval celebraon. It is of course rather different this year. At St Mary’s, Gosforth School usually have their Harvest service in church on the Friday morning and then we celebrate Harvest again on the following Sunday with an All‐Age service with the Methodist Church – this year we will be celebrang our Harvest service together on Zoom! However, Bishop James’ Harvest Appeal moves on to a new 3‐year cycle, supporng the work of Chrisan Aid in Israel and the Occupied Palesnian Territories and the work of the Mothers’ Union in the Democrac Republic of Congo. Our church collecon at Harvest usually goes to the Bishop’s Appeal so if you would like to make a contribuon this year, there will be a collecng basket at the back of St Mary’s when we have our Communion service on Sunday 11 October. Lord of the harvest, Grant all who work the land a safe harvest; And may they receive rich rewards for their labours. Inspire those of us with plenty to share with those who have lile. In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

SAINT FOR OCTOBER ‐ William Tyndale Our saint this month, remembered on the 6 of October, is William Tyndale, described in Common Worship as ‘Translator of the Scriptures' and ‘Reformaon Martyr'. He died unpleasantly in 1536. His main claim to fame is his translaon of the New Testament from the Greek together with some parts of the Old Testament from Hebrew. All this work was carried out in various Connental countries as he had felt compelled to leave England in 1522. His “straighorward, vigorous English“ was the foundaon of the later King James Authorised version of the Bible. His ‘Reformaon‘ acvies and wrings resulted in his arrest near Brussels in 1535 and his martyrdom by strangulaon and burning at the stake in 1536. So, remember him for his life and his death, but above all for his part in the tradional words of the Bible and the effect they had and sll have on us today.

11 RESTAURANT RE-OPENS ON 3rd SEPT. Tue & Wed: Open 4.30-10.30pm Food served 5.00-9.00pm Thurs-Sat: Open 11.00-10.30pm Food served 12-2 pm & 5-9pm Sun & Mon: Closed.

12 OCTOBER The rule of 6 means the resumpon of meengs is further away than ever. In the meanme members may join with members in the worldwide MU community by saying the MU midday prayers each day and using the wave of prayer in the leaflet Families Worldwide. Those members who have internet access can get informaon and ideas from the MU website. The Mary Sumner House staff have been very creave in dealing with the “new” world we are in and you can find appropriate prayers and even join other MU members in the UK in chats etc. PRAYER TOPICS: please pray for • The MU members and associates in the dioceses in Zone A – South Korea (2,700); Myanmar (8,950); India (1,900,000); Sri Lanka (3,200) and Thailand (519) that they may enjoy Chrisan Fellowship within the Mothers’ Union while keeping social distancing and using virtual methods of contact. • Those who are engaged in church and community iniaves across the world to counter deprivaon by using the resources they have amongst them and, where necessary, campaigning for more. • Children who have material riches but are deprived of love and aenon. • Those who work in the prison service especially as 13 October is the Internaonal Day for Educaon. Pray for those who work in rehabilitaon by teaching skills to enable prisoners to find a place in society on release and in parcular pray for those who work at Haverigg. • The NHS workers, care assistants, governments, sciensts and health workers baling to cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The vicms of the corona virus and the families of those who have died from it. • Wisdom for those who bear the load of making difficult decisions with widespread consequences. At this me praying especially for those having to balance the health and the economic needs of people in this country as a consequence of the covid pandemic.

13 14 GOSFORTH METHODIST CHURCH NEWS Minister: Revd. Paul Saunders Deacon: Dcn. Kina Saunders Tel: 01900 823273 (No services or hall bookings unl further noce.)

NEWS FROM THE METHODIST CHURCH “Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all grace, …your hands swi to welcome, your arms to embrace…” I can’t help feeling that Jesus would have found “social distancing” very strange and unnatural! A recent leer from our Ministers, Paul and Kina, listed at least six occasions from the New Testament when Jesus used his hands to bless or heal or pray. In the Old Testament, too, the metaphor of God holding Israel in His hands occurs many mes. (See how many you can recall or find, or look for “In Touch”, on the Circuit Methodist web‐site.) You may remember a prayer which includes the words “Christ has no hands but ours….” Many people have found ways even in the pandemic of using their hand, either literally or metaphorically, to help others. I will quote the final paragraph from Paul and Kina: “So how can our hands connue to be a blessing to others at this challenging me? Many of you are already doing this – typing a note to someone needing encouragement, making a ‘phone call, sending a copy of the weekly service sheet, wring a card. Your hands are doing this work every day!” Mary Moody

FAIRTRADE STALL & FOODBANK If you would like to purchase from Fairtrade, please place order to Michiko on [email protected] by Friday 9 October. Delivery will be the following week. You are always welcome to purchase Fairtrade products from our stock to donate to the Food Banks.

15 16 St Olaf’s, Wasdale Head

Daily reopening – We had hoped to reopen Olaf’s daily from mid‐ September onwards and although there is a united wish for this at Wasdale Head we will have to wait a lile longer as we sll await permission to do so. However, on a posive note, the churchyard and its seat are being well visited and many walkers and climbers are calling in to see the Fell & Rock Club Memorial which was installed in 2019. Even when closed, the humility and peace of the lile church amid the grandeur of God’s creaon all around it gives us all a clear message to be content and thankful for our many blessings. Virtually open – to make up for when the church is closed, we have installed a 360 tour of its interior on the www.wasdalehead.church . We are grateful to Alex Brad who kindly supplied this image to us, it is on Google Earth too. Philip Dorling’s first service at St Olaf’s will be the Communion Service on Sunday 25 October at 11.30am. Do take this opportunity to come and meet our new Rector – he is no stranger to Wasdale Head, he has walked the valley and its fells over the years and comes with a love for this special place. Marn & Isobel Halsall are leading the service at St Olaf’s at 11.30am on Sunday 11 October – it is Morning Praise using the Celc liturgy they wrote for us earlier this year.

Hugh Foulerton

www.wasdalehead.church Faith in the Fells

PARISH MAGAZINE – AUDIO VERSION? The addion of the digital version of the Gosforth and Wasdale Parish Magazine is working well, and I’m wondering if an audio version would be useful? If you or anyone you know would be interested in receiving an audio magazine, please get in touch with me and we’ll see how best to provide it. Hugh Foulerton, Parish Magazine Distribuon & Adversing, t: 01946 725 725 m: 07957 210 688 e: [email protected] a: 28 Whitecro, Gosforth CA20 1AY

17 Seeing beyond Cancer to ‘Visible Music’ Talking about cancer encouraged Wasdale writer Martyn Halsall to develop a collecon of poetry, recently published as Visible Music by Caldew Press. In 74 poems Martyn tracks his experiences through diagnosis, treatment and convalescence, since being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in 2014. The book effecvely began with a conversaon with his younger daughter, Martyn said, during an interview with BBC Radio Cumbria. ‘I told Rachel about the diagnosis, and plans for chemotherapy,’ he said. ‘We oen talk about poetry, so she asked: “Are you wring about this? You ought to‐ it’s great material!” That’s not quite how I saw it at the me, but she was absolutely right. ‘Visible Music is essenally an exercise in grateful exploraon. It aims to include elements of the reporng I wrote as a journalist, filtered through the sieve of analysis that is always part of poec responsibility.’ The collecon is set against backdrops of the Hebrides, within hospitals and clinics that provided ‘exceponal professional and compassionate care’, and local Cumbrian landscapes that Martyn credits with contribung to his recovery. ‘Cancer leaves scars ,’ he said, ‘not just on the body aer seven hours of surgery but also on the mind as you are forced to confront issues like debilitaon and dependency; and, for a Chrisan, scars on your beliefs.’ Martyn said the mof of a curlew‐ ‘to me a much more telling depicon of the wildness and liberaon of the Holy Spirit than the Biblical dove!’‐ became a recurring presence through the poems. ‘While I somemes struggle with the concept of a “personal” God in an impersonal world, I was very conscious of the companionship of God’s Spirit throughout my illness. Hopefully, within various poems, it provides encouragement to balance mes of doubt and depression which it is the writer’s responsibility equally to explore.’ Visible Music begins on north Skye‐ ‘ironically at a retreat coage dedicated to healing’‐ and ends of the islands of Colonsay and Arran where curlews patrol coasts and moorland. ‘I think the experience of being a cancer paent within the Chrisan tradion has broadened my spiritual understanding, from what can be an over‐emphasis on “personal faith” to one more eager to see God’s redempve potenal for all our wounded world,’ Martyn added. ‘Since compleng Visible Music I have begun to write more widely to explore the theological concept of lament, parcularly as we are called to address the climate crisis, effects of plague, naonal and global inequalies, and the developing threat to democracy in many places. Poetry can offer an alternave reading for difficult and dangerous mes.’ Visible Music is available from Martyn at [email protected] or by phone (01946 726 507) for £8 plus £1.30 postage.

18 POEM FOR OCTOBER – wri en 100 years ago – in 1920 Published in The Whitehaven News under the tle: LINES OF THE YEAR 1920

Unwept, unhonoured and unsung, It’s lile faith I’ve in such things Into oblivion passes, That cray man invented; The year for storms and floods that’s gone, Old Nature’s law can cap them a’, All former years surpasses. If with her your acquainted. She came a spoiled and peed child, A sign I’ve noced, frae a lad, Not twice was she the same; That’s never far mistaken; At morning, if she chanced to smile, If crows fly low, you a’ may know,, By noon, she wept again. Its raining, when you waken. We thought with me, perhaps she’d learn When catcher purrs, and licks himsel’ To wet with more discreon, On a’ rug be t’ fire reclining But what she promised at sunrise And cock at dusk begins to crow Was broken at its se ng. Day’s late when sun starts shining. As me sped on folk grew alarmed, Now signs like these were oen seen, The farmer got disheartened; By those that sll kept watching; His genial ways he ne’er displayed But months of spring were waning fast At home, nor at the market. And summer months approaching. He gazed upon his unploughed fields, But sll she wept, and moaned, and sighed, Where corn should now be springing; Though conscious of wrong‐doing; It sodden lay, as wet to‐day, And never dried her moistened eyes, As th’ very farm‐yard midden. Till Autumn de was coming. In t’ barn he saw his hay and straw Her evil deeds she could not hide, Which me had sore diminished; Too plainly were they seen; “If t’ weather doesn’t change,” says he, In barren fields, and fruitless trees,; “My days at farming’s finished.” Leaves brown, instead of green. Then into house he made his way, Realising all her many faults, In t’ neuk sat meditang; She strove amends to make; Says he “Ah don’t think weather looks Her chances, and the me, had gone – Yah bit like yet abang.” Repentance came too late! Then wife spoke up, “Now, John, thou So, on a dark and dismal night, knows With stars and moon o’ercast; There’s nowt for ever lasts; On bell and horn, the news was borne – And many a bonnie day’s been born She’s to oblivion passed. To night winds surly blasts.” A moral that she le behind, He rose and rapped on t’ weather glass. Which all might well obey ‐ Where t‘ finger mark showed plain; Leave not over, ll to‐morrow, “It points right up to ‘change’,” says he, What should be done to‐day. “So that can’t weel be rain.”

19 20 SCHOOL NEWS We started back in school on 3 September with 119 on roll. We have 17 new starters in Recepon who have all seled in really well. We have a new learning pod on the grounds which the Year 5 children are lucky enough to inhabit. The pod has been a long term plan of ours as we knew class sizes were increasing. As well as the Recepon children being new to school we also have a new class teacher, Miss Tilsley. This is her first teaching post and she is off to a great start in Ennerdale class with the Year 3 and 4 children. This is the first me we have all been back in school since March and the first me most of the children have been in school with the changes to roune and safety measures in place but we have to say they have all been fantasc and quickly adjusted to our new way of working. Mrs Sarah Layzell Assistant Headteacher

West Lakes U3A October Virtual Speaker Talks by Zoom Non‐members will need a zoom invitaon code. Contact – alantg1@bnternet.com or see the website www.u3asites.org.uk/west‐lakes/event 1 October – Thursday ‐ Singing for Fun Group at 2 pm This is a Zoom meeng. Please book an invitaon as soon as possible [email protected] 5 October – Monday – Zoom & Chat – 10.30‐11.30 am 8 October – Thursday – Please join 10.45 for 11 am start. Elena Trimarchi who works at The David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre will talk about ‘The Life of David Livingstone.’ 14 October – Wednesday – Please join 10.45 for 11 am start. Heather Marples, a Pearl Mussel Officer at the Freshwater Biological Assoc. will talk about the FBA ‘It’s history and the vital role it plays in the conservaon of the crically endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussel.’ 22/23 October ‐ Art on DVD. To be arranged. Check on website nearer the me.

21 22 West Lakes U3A October Virtual Speaker Talks by Zoom Non‐members will need a zoom invitaon code. Contact – alantg1@bnternet.com or see the website www.u3asites.org.uk/west‐lakes/event 1 October – Thursday ‐ Singing for Fun Group at 2 pm This is a Zoom meeng. Please book an invitaon as soon as possible [email protected] 5 October – Monday – Zoom & Chat – 10.30‐11.30 am 8 October – Thursday – Please join 10.45 for 11 am start. Elena Trimarchi who works at The David Livingstone Centre at Blantyre will talk about ‘The Life of David Livingstone.’ 14 October – Wednesday – Please join 10.45 for 11 am start. Heather Marples, a Pearl Mussel Officer at the Freshwater Biological Assoc. will talk about the FBA ‘It’s history and the vital role it plays in the conservaon of the crically endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussel.’ 22/23 October ‐ Art on DVD. To be arranged. Check on website nearer the me.

GADS – Gosforth Amateur Dramac Society Let’s begin with some good news – we managed to run our Summer Youth Workshop in August. Tosh and Mary loved creang some digital theatre with 15 of our young members. It was a smaller group than normal but no less enthusiasc ‐ the hall was filled with laughter and relief at the lile slice of normal we found for ourselves. Although we missed our usual Saturday night performance, we premiered our first ever digital performance on our YouTube channel. The youngsters did an amazing job rehearsing, direcng, and filming the whole show before Tosh compiled the footage. It was a brilliant opportunity for everyone to get back to doing something we all love, and we really hope that we get to do it again soon. As a Youth Sector Acvity, YTG could re‐start within the latest "Rule of 6" guidance. However, we are not going to take any risks unl the schools have seled back and the latest Covid increases come to an end. Sadly, this won’t be unl aer Christmas, but exisng members will be contacted before we resume. Things are not looking so good for our pantomime either. Rehearsing and preparing within the current rules is just not praccal. So very reluctantly we have decided to cancel our panto for this January 2021. However, we have a good script and will run the same panto in January 2022. Plays for Pleasure is also on hold and will be unl the rules permit. To keep up to date, please follow us on Facebook, Instagram or our website. We always welcome new members so if you would like to get involved in any way at all when normal service resumes, please contact us through the website www.gads.org.uk. Or phone us on 28392. Jim Polmear / Tosh McGregor, GADS

ROTARY OF WEST LAKELAND Having been forced to adopt new technology, i.e. Zoom(!), we are now using it to our advantage by having speakers who cannot travel to West Lakeland. This has included Janine Birtwistle from Guernsey Rotary Club, who told us about the Rotary Club led fight to eliminate Polio worldwide, which is now restricted to a few third world countries. Graham Hutson

23 KW BodyWorks Sports & Holistic Therapist, Dorn Method & Tai Chi ‘your pitstop for sore muscles’ Kerry Wright IIHHT MICHT Cert.Ed www.kwbodyworks.co.uk 019467 26013 [email protected]

24 GOSFORTH LIBRARY Saturday openings have gone well. Many residents have had a clear out of their bookshelves and have donated more than 200 books to the library since we re‐opened. We need to process these before any more can be taken in. We are now se ng up a bookstall outside the library for duplicate copies so that any one passing who does not wish to come into the library can take one free of charge, although we will put a donaon n on the table!

John Reed

GOSFORTH PARISH COUNCIL

Proposed housing development – The major item at the September meeng was inial consideraon of a planning applicaon for 24 houses on the land adjacent to Ellerslie House which had just been received. It was decided more informaon was required before the council agree their response at the October meeng. Any parishioner who would like an input should contact the Parish Clerk, Jacqueline Williams ([email protected]) before the 1 October. Graham Hutson BROWNIES We have just finished our first virtual meeng on Zoom! What would we do without technology? It was great to see the girls aer such a long me away. We had a quick catch‐up chat, one of the girls made their long‐awaited Brownie Promise, and then we had a game of bingo. More zoom meengs to follow unl we hear when we can meet again indoors. We currently have a few vacancies at Brownies, so if you would like your daughter to join, please register your interest on www.girlguiding.org.uk, or contact me directly. We are also needing adult leaders (and young leaders aged 14‐18) as our Young Leader is off to Uni in a few weeks, so if you have a bit of spare me then please get in touch. Samantha Milliner (Brownie Leader) [email protected]

25 26 ZOOM SERVICES (including the Licensing Service)

Some of our services will connue to be ‘zoomed’ during October, including some that are actually taking place in Gosforth Church, so people have a choice of coming to the service in church or joining on Zoom if they are sll isolang or not able to come along for any reason. The services that will be on Zoom only are as follows: Sunday 4 October – All Age Worship for Harvest at 10.00 am Sunday 18 October – Morning Worship For joining details please email: [email protected] or ‘phone 01946 725899. Keith and Jill Hudson will connue to hold Phoenix Praise services on Zoom at 7.00 pm on Sunday evenings. For joining details please email: jill [email protected] or ‘phone 01946 721592. Licensing Service at St Cuthbert’s, Seascale. Sunday 4 October at 6.00 pm This service will be live streamed on Zoom but to join you will of course need to email the following address for joining details: [email protected] You are welcome to share this email address with friends who would also like to join, but not the joining details. They need to email the above address themselves to get these, as for security reasons we need to know in advance who will be joining. It may be that you don’t have a computer yourself, but it is possible to watch on a friends computer and sll maintain social distancing if you sit behind, either to the right or le, as long as their screen is large enough!

27 SERVICES IN THE SEATALLAN BENEFICE IN OCTOBER 2020 St Mary’s Gosforth, St Michael & All Angels Nether Wasdale, St Olaf’s Wasdale Head St. Cuthbert’s Seascale, St John’s Beckermet, St Bridget's Ponsonby

4 October Seventeenth Sunday aer Trinity 9.00 am Nether Wasdale Holy Communion 10.00 am Gosforth Harvest on Zoom All‐Age Worship 3.00 pm Beckermet Harvest Service 6.00 pm St Cuthbert’s Seascale Licensing Service

11 October Eighteenth Sunday aer Trinity 9.00 am St Mary’s, Gosforth Holy Communion 11.30 am St Olaf’s, Wasdale Head Morning Worship

18 October Nineteenth Sunday aer Trinity 10.00 am St Cuthbert’s, Seascale Holy Communion 10.00 am Gosforth Service on Zoom Morning Worship 6.30 pm Nether Wasdale Evening Prayer

25 October Tweneth Sunday aer Trinity 10.00 am St Mary’s, Gosforth Holy Communion 11.30 am St Olaf’s, Wasdale Head Holy Communion

For the e‐mail invitaon to join the ‘Zoom’ services please contact: [email protected]

Cover photo ‐ Dorling Family