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Rector Marriage Preparation Croxton Road, Fulmodeston, Rev’d Francis Mason 01328 862268 via Rectory Office 01328 862268 NR21 0LZ [email protected] [email protected] Priest in charge Rev’d Francis Mason 01328 862268 The Rectory Office 01328 862268 Stepping Stones [email protected] Gladstone Road, Fakenham, Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 NR21 9BZ [email protected] Messy Church Churchwarden Alison Harding 01328 864685 Andrew Lee 01328 878870 For parish information, baptisms and wedding bookings also see our Mothers’ Union Please feel free to contact us about website. Felicity Randall 01328 862443 services and events or the Rectory Church postcode (for satnav) - Office where enquiries about NR21 9BX Church Women’s Guild baptisms, weddings and funerals can Moira Morley 01328 855874 be made. Readers Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 Church Flowers Linda Frost 01328 862919 via Rectory Office 01328 862268 Amanda Sands 01328 878218 Bell Ringers Jeremiah 2 verse 7 Churchwardens Kevin Allcock 01328 853928 I brought you into a plentiful land Roger Burbidge 01328 851848 to eat its fruits and its good things. Keith Osborn 07887 877650 Support in Loss Group But when you entered you defiled Judith Smyth 01328 864061 [email protected] my land, and made my heritage an abomination. Fabric Officer Christmas Tree Festival Judith Inward 01328 855269 Anne Peppitt 07999 532002 [email protected] Church Treasurer Beacon Editor and advertising via Rectory Office 01328 862268 Linda Frost 01328 862919 [email protected] Sacristan / Verger for weddings & funerals Beacon Treasurer Patrick Sheppard 01328 855013 via Rectory Office 01328 862268 Find us online: Beacon Distribution Child Protection Officer Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 Paul Nielsen 07798 766357 Web [email protected] www.fakenhamparishchurch.org.uk Vulnerable Adults Officer Website Administrator via Rectory Office 01328 862268 Fakenham Parish Church Keith Osborn 07887 877650 [email protected] Organist/Choirmaster @fakenhampchurch Jonathan Dodd via Rectory Office 01328 862268

The copy date for the March 2020 Beacon is 5th February. Bundled on 21st February. Ready for delivery 22ⁿd February.

- The BEACON - 2 - Contents Viewpoint Dear Reader, Page 2 Contact details I first became aware of it as an A level biology student. Our year group went Page 3 Viewpoint to to hear a lecture on the circadian rhythm of Eskimo Indians Page 4 Prayer Space (we were still allowed to use the word eskimo then.) The year was Page 5 Climate Change 1972. I have long forgotten the subjects of other lectures except for Page 6 Town Talk this one. It was about a phenomenon called the Greenhouse Effect. The Page 7 Christmas Tree lecturer suggested the possibility that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the Festival results atmosphere could cause the planet to warm in the same way that the glass environmental impact but also Page 8 Audrey meets Fay of a greenhouse traps warmth. positively enhance their corner of Dewing, dressmaker creation. Please visit them & milliner I went home and for the next 30 yourself and learn from them. years consumed fossil fuels with gay Their heat comes from biomass. Page 9 Services; Volunteer abandon like the rest of us. There Much of their power from solar. Boost Project was probably plenty said by scientists Their food is LOAF (local, organic, prior to 2005 but it was around this animal-friendly and fairly- time that the ominous message traded). Their animals naturally Page 10 Out and About with began to catch the attention of the tend their wildflower meadows Kay media. Fifteen years on from there and they generously work with and it is now a key agenda item of their neighbours to create Page 11 Catch up with our political parties and it is corridors to support natural Fulmodeston impossible to open a paper, turn on habitats. the radio or even read your parish magazine without some reference to He finishes as I do by saying "Please Page 12 How to organise a climate change. As a result we are join me this year in seeking to live Christmas Tree now much better informed but whilst gently in the world and enhance Festival; Come and knowledge is very important it is not God's creation…..I wish you a Sing Day enough on its own. It will require peaceful, gentle and sustainable change by all of us. 2020." Page 13 What’s On Francis In a new year message the next Pages 14 Chuch chair repairs; Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell Advertising writes: In October, I took my staff team Editor’s note: the Mothers’ Union to the Franciscan Friary at Hilfield meeting on 11th February is about Page 15 Advertising in Dorset to learn how a climate change. See page 13 for community of Christians can details. All welcome. Page 16 Community Archive intentionally adapt their lives to Advertising not only reduce their

Pages 17 - 20 Parish Church Registers Advertising Baptism Funerals 8th Dec. George Sizeland 16th Dec. David Drewry Choir Practice 27th Dec. Robert Skelton 5.15pm every Thursday

- The BEACON - 3 - Prayer Space

A Prayer on Climate Change

Creator God, this earth is miraculous and beautiful. Forgive our confusion and inaction as we confront the challenges of climate change. In the light of your truth, seen so clearly in the life and teaching of Jesus, help us to re-examine ourselves and our lifestyle choices and see clearly the implications of how we live on all that sustains life on this earth. May we follow your lead in caring for every aspect of this precious world, which you made, and love. We pray for world leaders to find new, just and radical agreements that will protect our fragile world for future generations. Throughout history you have moved people to do amazing things for the sake of their neighbours. Inspire us now to work together, as your people, to change priorities in the way we live, so that we build a fair and safe world for all your creation; a world where your will is done as it is in heaven. Amen. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Adapted from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland - http://www.ctbi.org.uk/409/

Parish Prayers for February Daily prayers are said for Fakenham, its people and organisations. During the weeks in February we will be praying for: 26th Jan - 1st Feb Environment, our commitment & care for it; work of the Leprosy Mission. Those who live or work in Hall Staithe, Vine Court, Quaker Lane, Quaker Court, Tunn Street, Swan Street. 2ⁿd - 8th Those involved in fostering, adoption, IVF. Those who live or work in North Park 9th - 15th Children who do not know love. Those who live or work in Wensum Way, Thorn Road, Heather Barrow Court, Fayre Green. 16th - 22ⁿd People suffering from addiction, their families, support workers. Those who live or work in Edmondsons Walk, Barons Hall Close, Hall Close, Barons Hall Lane. 23rd - 29th Guides, Brownies & Rainbows. Those who live or work in Ken Doy Court, Station Close, Cricketers Close, Mervyn King Close.

- The BEACON - 4 - - The BEACON - 5 - TOWN TALK

Town Talk Tuesdays Lego Club 3.30 - 5pm It will be held in the Friends Meeting For weeks now I've been transfixed Children aged 5+ and families House, Church Street, Wells-next-the Tuesday 4th Rag Rug Club 10.30am - by the devastating bush fires in the Sea, costing £18 and will run from 12 noon Australian states of New South 9.45am until 4.00pm with a one hour Thursdays Just a Cuppa 2pm - 3pm break for lunch. You can enrol Wales and Victoria. Why, in Thursday 6th Activity Zone for young online now by going to particular? Well, in the 1960s I lived people 3.30 - 5pm www.wea.org.uk/eastern and in Sydney for four years and in the Fridays Computer Support 3 - 5pm entering 'Wells-next-the-Sea' in the 1970s the two of us taught in the Booking essential Mondays and Thursdays Citizens 'town/postcode' box at the top of same school in a region known as Advice drop ins 10 - 3pm the page. This will take you to the Gippsland, east of Melbourne. The Special events - see posters for Wells courses. Or you can enrol by same region which has been more information. Booking phoning 0300 303 3464. Or just turn especially laid waste by fire. All of a essential. up on the day. For help, advice or Story Explorers Join us with your 0-5 sudden the names of familiar towns further details please contact Annie and beach resorts have come into year old at your local library for six sessions of activities based around Whitelaw on 07856 792186 or email sharp focus in the knowledge that storybooks. 3rd , 17th Feb. [email protected]. many of them will have been hit by Code and go Storytime Join us for a the inferno. Television pictures storytime with a digital difference! Record breaking FADLOS seeks highlighted the fortitude of the Enjoy a story and then take a turn Tap Dancing Lawyer! helping the mouse to find its cheese. volunteer fire-fighters who put their After 52 years, FADLOS broke all its lives on the line every day. Nothing A perfect introduction to coding for children aged 5-7. box office records last year with comparable is likely to occur here Reading Dogs at Fakenham Library Chitty Chitty Bang Bang attracting but living close to our fire station we Thursday 20th Feb 1.30 -2.30pm the largest ever audience for a often see and hear fire engines Come meet and read to reading dog Spring musical, and just last month racing along Road towards Daisy! Ages 3+. its annual pantomime Cinderella, an emergency call-out. Braced for Rivers of Norfolk-based surpassed all previous attendances! the unknown, our local volunteers artist Tor Falcon will be giving a talk Both shows have since been about her work drawing and have just as much courage as their documenting the rivers of Norfolk.at nominated for NODA awards, with Aussie counterparts as they showed Fakenham Library. Sat. 22ⁿd February the results due to be announced in in helping to deal with the town 2.00pm - 3.00pm. Tickets £3, March. centre Aldiss conflagration. We includes refreshments. Now attention moves to their May should never forget their production, the award-winning selflessness. WEA Wells Branch - Spring musical Chicago. Set in the roaring Wayfarer Term 2020 - Part 2 1920's at the height of prohibition, Our second day school this term will this jazz infused spectacular Fakenham Library be held on Saturday, 7th March when combines fabulous show numbers, Fakenham has ‘Open Library’ Mark Felton will make a welcome thrilling dance routines and meaning you can access the library return to Wells to talk about the costumes to make your eyes water! between 8am and 7pm Monday to Tiananmen Square Massacre in A highly talented cast has been Friday and 10 - 4 Saturday and 1989. The day school will delve into assembled, with just one piece of Sunday. To use this service, you need the history behind the massacre - the jigsaw left to find…Billy Flynn - a to sign up to open access at any suave, fast talking, tap dancing library during staffed times. from the last years of Chairman Weekly and Regular events: Mao's rule to the beginnings of lawyer of dubious moral fibre! Monday 17th Audio Book Club 10.30 China's opening up to the West So, if you think you, or a friend might - 12 noon under Deng Xiao-ping. And no doubt just fit this bill, why not contact Mondays Games Afternoon 1 - 3pm Mark, who has lived and worked in FADLOS at [email protected] Mondays Seated Exercise 2.15 - 3pm China, will bring us right up to date They will present CHICAGO at The £2.50 Book with by drawing parallels between the Fakenham Community Centre 5-9th [email protected] events of 1989 and the situation in May 2020. Box Office opens in early Tuesdays Bounce and Rhyme 2 - April. 2.45pm Under 5s and families Hong Kong today.

- The BEACON - 6 - The team is thrilled with the success of CTF 2019 and CTF Grand Draw Prize Winners. very grateful to everyone who helped in any way, especially the many volunteers from both the £100 A Davis charities and the community at large, including the 1000s of people who came to enjoy the spectacle £75 Elsie & Finley Howling Narborough and put their money in the buckets. We are already starting to plan for 2020. As it will £50 Simon Thompson be the 20th festival, we would like to try and make it an even greater success and would welcome any £25 M Allen suggestions for changes or additions. The CTF Team

Final Totals raised by individual charities at the Fakenham Christmas Tree Festival 2019

2534 (Fakenham)Squadron - ATC £120.00 Friends of Kings Lynn Samaritans £438.97 ABANA £150.00 Friends of Primary School £200.00 Action for Children £264.00 Gt & Lt Snoring WI for Wells Hosp £415.11 Age Concern Fakenham Area £225.46 Gurkha Welfare Trust £463.66 Al-anon - Fakenham Group ------H.E.L.P.S Fakenham Infant & Nursery £151.81 Beetley & Bilney PCC £84.06 Hawk & Owl Trust £318.04 Big C £541.00 Headway Norfolk & Waveney £252.00 Blossoms £370.00 Lactation Motiviation £150.41 Brooke £751.03 LAM Action £310.00 Brisley CE Primary Academy £203.49 Macmillan Cancer Support - D’ham & F’ham £1,061.00 British Heart Foundation £545.03 Morrisons plc for CLIC Sargant £460.03 British Lung Foundation £250.00 Mothers' Union £225.10 C.A.T.S £557.88 Motor Neurone Disease £589.21 Cancer Research UK £1,036.74 National Coastwatch Wells-Next-the-Sea £349.42 Church music - Fakenham Parish Church £111.98 Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House £369.62 Cystic Fibrosis Trust Fakenham Group £466.11 Norfolk Zipper Club £451.39 DEBRA £363.52 NSPCC £546.00 Dereham Cats Protection £438.14 PACT Animal Sanctuary £513.76 EAAA (Fakenham Painters) £951.43 Pancreatic Cancer UK £790.83 EACH £491.04 Parkinsons UK £500.22 Ellie's Love £855.73 Project Linus UK £238.32 Epilepsy Society £272.00 Rosemary Rooms £929.25 Fakenham Children's Daycare Centre £253.96 Royal British Legion Fakenham £679.66 Fakenham Choral Society £109.31 St Seraphims Trust £126.77 Fakenham Wensum Scouts £159.58 Stepping Stones for The Lullaby Trust £261.48 Friends of Cranmer House £182.05 Tommy's £500.00 Friends of Fakenham Junior School £208.88 Wells Primary School £93.44 Friends of Kings Lynn Samaritans £438.97 Wells-next-the-Sea Sea Cadets £213.00 Whitelands Playpark £161.77 GRAND TOTAL £21,722.69

- The BEACON - 7 - Fay Dewing has lived in Walsingham Who has been a great influence in for nearly 30 years. She is a your life? My grandmother. She dressmaker and milliner but she was strict but had really strong now concentrates more on ideas about equality; quite unusual, alterations and repairs to men's, having been born in 1909. She felt women's and children's clothing. that women and men were equal. She worked at home for thirty years She also said you should work hard until she made the decision to for what you want to achieve. reclaim the space that dressmaking What is your greatest strength? took up and transfer it to having a Laughing. (Fay laughs a lot). room in Sweets 'n'Things. She And weakness? Always wanting to works full-time in that hub of do better. enterprise, which is a sweet shop, Greatest challenge you've had to school uniform retailer, tourist overcome? I broke my spine falling information point, dry cleaning down the stairs, and it took almost agent, retailer for local produce and a year to heal. I still get problems more. Another reason for the from it. change in location was that her What is your earliest memory? I elderly customers found it hard to was sitting in a hat shop where no What is your favourite food? Curry. get to Walsingham. Although her children were allowed. It had gilt How would friends and family room is upstairs, there is space for a mirrors. I was there with my describe you? They'd say I was fitting at the foot of the stairs. Fay grandmother. She had told me I'd crazy. is a qualified dressmaker, having a better not move, but she'd also What do you no longer worry diploma in fashion design and figured that if the shop wanted her about? I am a worrier. If not about pattern cutting and has an NVQ in custom, they had to have me as my problems, then someone else's. millinery. This means she can make well. Normally unable to sit still, I What would you rescue from your hats from scratch. Fay is married didn't move. house, if it were on fire, after and has two sons. One living at Is a religious faith part of your life? family/pets? An oil painting of my home and studying professional No. grandfather, and a Lego mini figure cookery at college, the other Have you ever benefited from the depicting me with red hair and married with three children. She kindness of a stranger? Yes. I ran purple glasses. enjoys being a grandmother. out of petrol in the middle of What would be your epitaph? What is the most underrated thing nowhere. It was before the advent Being helpful, someone people can about Fakenham? This place, of mobile phones. A man came turn to. Sweets'n'Things. It's under-used. along in his car and stopped, seeing Your luxury on a desert island? A What is your favourite view in the me in trouble. He had some petrol hand sewing kit. I can't imagine not area? The tree I see from my in a can, which he said he didn't being able to sew. workroom upstairs. I love to watch want paying for, but I insisted as I What did you learn from your it change through the seasons. was so grateful. parents? To work hard and look What would improve the town? What would you buy on impulse? after your own. More investment. It's looking a bit Shoes. I have over 100 pairs and Lark or owl? Lark tired. vintage hat blocks. Your secret happiness? Making a What gadget couldn't you be What concerns you about modern hat not for anyone, but the sheer without? My sewing machine. life? The amount of time that pleasure of making it. If you could change something children spend on their computer about yourself, what would it be? games. Life is hard for children now I'd be taller. and there are more safety concerns these days

The BEACON - 8 - Services at Fakenham Parish Church Salvation Army Oak Street Every Sunday 10.15am Sunday Worship 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) www.salvationarmy.org.uk/fakenham 10.30am Parish Communion (CW) Sculthorpe & Fakenham Methodist Chapel Every Monday Chapel Lane Sculthorpe NR21 9QB 8.30am Parish Prayers, all welcome Sunday Service 11.00am 9.45am Stepping Stones, see p13 for details 3rd Sunday at Lee Warner Avenue 3.00pm Every Thursday www.eamethodist.org.uk 9.30am Market Day Holy Communion Fakenham Baptist Community Church Sunday 2ⁿd February Fakenham Community Centre, Oak Street 2.30pm Messy Church Sunday Gathering 10.30am www.fakenhambaptist.org.uk Sunday 9th February 6.30pm Healing Service Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church Great Walsingham Sunday 16th February Weekly Saturday , Vespers 5.00pm 6.30pm Choral Evensong Sunday Liturgy 10.00am Wednesday 26th February - Ash Wednesday Holy Trinity Church 7.30pm Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes Sundays - Sung Mass 10 am Services at other Churches Wednesdays - Said Mass 10 am St Anthony's Roman Catholic Church 29 Wells Road Weekend Masses Saturdays 6.00pm Sundays 10.45am www.catholicfakenham.org.uk

Volunteer Boost Project The Be-Attitudes Did you know that Volunteering Blessed are those who use low energy light bulbs for can be local, flexible and fit theirs is the light of God’s wisdom. around your life? Blessed are those who travel by train (and other public Community Action Norfolk (CAN) transport) for their lives are on God’s track. are working in partnership with Merchant's Place Volunteer Hub Blessed are those who chose a car with low fuel on a project to boost the numbers consumption for they are in God’s fast lane. of volunteers that get involved with local community Blessed are those who insulate their homes for theirs projects in , particularly the CAN is the warmth of God’s love. Connect Project and Good Neighbour Schemes. We want to let people know about the positive impact Blessed are those who put themselves out to use of volunteering, not only on the people who are energy from renewable sources, helped, but also on those people who volunteer. for they have kindled the flame of the future. Contact North Norfolk Volunteer Hub at Merchant's Adapted from John Polhill, © Eggs and Ashes, WGRG, Place on 01263 519454 or by email Iona Community, Glasgow. [email protected] for a chat to see what volunteering options would work for you. From www.arrcc.org.au/climate-change-prayers

We are based in Dereham.

The BEACON - 9 - Climate change. We all talk about it, As so many more nations are using but how much do we know? Are we them to produce goods to provide for in crisis? Has the Government we've increasing populations, they have just elected embraced the need for created an imbalance. This imbalance setting new targets for climate results in climate change. change?

So what is to be done? Extinction Rebellion calls for urgent action. Greta Thunberg challenges our thinking and speaking recently from Madrid, asked world leaders why The production of greenhouse gasses they were not panicking about the So, what are the key concepts? has increased by 43% since 1990. facts before them. Greenhouse gases include carbon That seems a scary statistic. Some dioxide, methane and water vapour. results of this huge increase include What about our carbon footprint ? They trap heat in the Earth's the following; atmosphere and warm the planet. *Summers getting hotter. The greenhouse effect is an increase *Average wildlife populations in the average temperature of the dropping by 60 per cent in just over Earth. 40 years, Source R.Z.S. So what has happened to change our * Increased levels of carbon dioxide world from its usual temperatures to in our atmosphere, more than any increasing ones and our sea levels time in human history. from the norm to heightened? We've *The consumption of all of earth's Speaking personally, I drive a hybrid been burning fossil fuels for some 2019 resources on July 29th. car, but flew to Canada for a family while. Examples of these are coal, Christmas. (I couldn't face crossing which provides the fuel for electricity. (This symbolic date known as Earth the Atlantic in a sailing dinghy!) I eat Oil is the primary source for the Overshoot Day, is when the year less meat, and turn off switches when world's transport needs. outstrips Earth's capacity to not in use. Most people I know are Natural gas fuels a huge proportion regenerate those resources that year. doing better. Goodwill is there, so of energy and petroleum and The calculated date is getting earlier our new government must set tough liquefied petroleum gas are used each year. In 1999 it was September targets & ensure they are met. prolifically in agriculture, 29th.) pharmaceuticals, plastics and tyres. Other causes of this overspend Some people do not believe what See table below. include deforestation, soil erosion, we're facing. Jeremy Clarkson and overfishing, which result in more famously told Greta T. to go back to severe droughts, wildfires and school and shut up. He went off to flooding. There are currently out-of- Cambodia to film for his show and control bush fires in Australia. found that the river they were to Abnormal flooding in the UK and travel on had dried up. He's now a Venice submerging are other believer! Maybe he should call the US examples. President?

The BEACON - 10 - Catch up with Christ Church Fulmodeston

February Services and Events in Fulmodeston during World War II. A Halifax plane from 192 squadron LV955 was shot down on the 3rd 2ⁿd 5.30pm Deanery Candlemas , St Nicholas March 1945. It landed in woodland near the church. Church, Wells-next-the-Sea "Songs from the Shows" a Concert in the Church at 6th 7.30pm Gresham's Concert for Stained Glass 7.30pm given by Greshams Students. Retiring collection Memorial in aid of the Church and the History Group's Memorial 9th 11.00am Holy Communion Window Project. 16th No Service 23rd 3.00pm Evening Prayer The Purcell School Impulse Outreach Students will present a concert on June 20th at 6.00pm. This is always As the season of Christmas/Epiphany draws to a close, a wonderful occasion, so please make a date in your we will be joining the Deanery service for Candlemas at diary and tell your friends. Previous student performers St Nicholas Church, Wells-next the-Sea on February 2ⁿd have included Martin James Bartlett, a former BBC at 5.30pm. Young Musician of the Year, and Anne Denholm, a former Royal Harpist to the Prince of Wales. Entry will be Gresham's School will be presenting a concert on free of charge and no tickets are required. Thursday, February 6th in aid of the stained glass panel to commemorate the servicemen who died in an air crash Andrew Lee - Churchwarden 01328878870

The BEACON - 11 - How do you organise a Christmas Tree Meanwhile the organising team are meeting Festival? monthly, setting dates, launching the Festival and This is a question we are often asked by visitors. receiving entries from charities. Charities are As we plan our 20th Christmas Tree Festival from informed whether they have a tree or are on the 26th November - 3rd December 2020, we offer an waiting list. The Festival desk is open in church insight into how it all comes together: every Thursday (10.30 - 11.30am) from early April The organising team met in January to review the until the Festival begins. Anne and / or other 2019 Festival; what went well, improvements we members of the team are there to answer any can / should make, lessons learned! Dates for questions. Fakenham Garden Centre are 2020 have already been agreed by the Church contacted. We are very grateful for their donation Council. of the trees. Offers of help from charities and The stall team, Sue and friends, have already others are turned into rotas, the brochure is begun collecting suitable items for the Christmas prepared, sponsorships obtained, prayers Market. This continues throughout the year with collated. Then there are the other questions - who items collected being stored and priced. Jenni will to ask to open the Festival, where coaches can organise a suitable range of books later in the park, publicity - press, posters, websites, social year. media -, how best to co-ordinate group visits from The tombola team, June and Jenni, have begun schools, playgroups, care homes and others… collecting the 1000 prizes needed for the The "October Meeting" is the vital contact when tombola. In late summer they begin the massive the charities all come together to be briefed task of sorting and ticketing 10 sets of 100 prizes about what is required (and what is not allowed) and folding the accompanying tickets people will at the Festival. We stress that communication is buy. vital. Like the stall team and books, the refreshments If all the above has been covered efficiently the team are busy throughout the year serving last month between the October Meeting and the refreshments every Thursday and for special Festival opening should be smooth, not frenetic! events. Nearer Christmas they begin to fill See next month's Beacon for part 2 about the freezers with cakes and organise a rota of soup Festival fortnight! Meanwhile, if you think you can makers for the Festival. offer any particular help or skills we'll be pleased We are deeply grateful to all of you and the to hear from you. Contact us on the Festival charities for your gifts for stall, tombola and phone 07999 532002, email refreshments. This is how the church raises funds [email protected] or through the Festival. phone me on 01328 851848. Roger Burbidge (for the Festival Team & the Church Council)

What better way to spend Morning and afternoon workshops and a 5pm a cold Saturday in February performance (audience entry free) than singing! There is still time to register for the Help to raise funds with singers' donations, a Fakenham Choral Society raffle on the day and audience donations for the Come & Sing Day 2020 Admiral Nurses who support patients suffering from dementia and their families. All voice parts are welcome. More information and registration forms on the Date: Saturday 15th February Fakenham Choral Society website www.fakenhamchoralsociety.org or contact Music: Choruses from Haydn's The Creation Rosemary Dear, tel 01328 851776 or Venue: Fakenham Academy, Field Lane [email protected] NR21 9QT. - The BEACON - 12 - Mothers’ Union Fakenham Evening WI February 11th: 'Every Little Helps!' Hempton Church Room, NR21 7LG. What’s On 11am start. 2ⁿd Tuesday, 7.30-9.30pm. Visitors What are we doing to reduce our welcome - £4.00 to include light Carbon Footprints? Can we accept refreshments. Contact: Wendy the challenge set by children in 'Mini Adams 01328 862730 MU' - "What one change can you 14th Feb. A Look through the make in your life to make a Archives - Members' Memorabilia Stepping Stones difference to ours?" This meeting is Mondays 3rd, 10th, 17th 24th February. open to all who are concerned about Fakenham Local History Society Come and join us on Mondays at Climate Heating. Bring your Monday 10th Feb. in the Salvation 9.45am. For friendship, music, sandwiches if you wish to join us for Army Citadel, Oak Street, Fakenham stories, toys and games. For pre lunch at 12:30. at 7-30 pm. Alistair Murphy from school children and babies with their Museum will talk on Olive parents and carers. Stepping Stones Rosemary Rooms Edis, 20th century photographer and meets in the Trinity Room inside Every Monday 10.30am - 12.30pm. first female war photographer. The Fakenham Parish Church every For people with dementia or talk explores her life and Monday (except Bank Holidays). memory problems, their family and contribution to photography. For regular updates and news, friends. Hempton Church Hall. Caring All welcome. Members free. Visitors please visit and like us on facebook for someone with dementia? Join us - £3. Fakenhamsteppingstones for a morning of laughter, fun and Contact Elaine 01328 851848 conversation over tea, coffee and Social Club cake. Disabled access. Saturday 1st Feb. Quiz Night 8pm Market Day Refreshments and Contact Judith 01328 864061 or start. With Mark Campbell. Proceeds Stalls. Pam 01328 829735 to the Air Ambulance. Bar open. Every Thursday 10.00am - 12.45pm. Come and test those little grey cells. Drop in for a chat over tea / coffee Support in Loss Group For further details phone 01328 and cake or homemade soup. Wednesday, 5th February from 821187 Browse the stalls: Good quality bric- 10am to 12 noon in the Trinity Sunday 2ⁿd Feb Great Snoring Social a-brac, new books - adult and Room. Contact Judith 01328 864061. Club Breakfast. Come and enjoy a children - plus hundreds of good Full English or toast and marmalade quality second-hand fiction and non- Fakenham & District Community if you'd prefer. 9am - 11am. For fiction books. All proceeds to church Archive further details phone 01328 821187 funds. Lady Chapel always available Come and join us on Tuesday 25th for quiet contemplation and prayer. Feb. from 2.00pm to 4.00pm in the Fakenham & District Flower Club Trinity Room of the Parish Church. Hempton Memorial Hall BIONYC - Believe It Or Not Youth 01328 863377 Hempton, Fakenham NR21 7LG Club Fakenhamcommunityarchive.weebly.com Tuesday 4th Feb. 7.30pm Every Monday from 3.30 to 5.00pm "Floral Fusion" with Lorraine Scott in the church for 8-14 year olds. Fakenham Ramblers Group Annual Subscription £35 Visitors £6 Board games, craft, drama and bible Saturdays 10.30am and Wednesdays Jackie 01328 851933/Samantha stories. See the church website for 10.00 am. Packed lunches required 07932722951 more information. for walks over 6 miles. Telephone in case of inclement weather. Book & Jigsaw Fair Church Women’s Guild Sat. 8th & Weavers Way Sat. 22ⁿd Feb. 9.00am - 12 noon. The meeting postponed from 20th Park/meet main NT CP NR11 8PR Jigsaws: lots of sizes and subjects. Jan will be on Monday 3rd Feb. That 9 ½ miles Barbara & Richard 01328 Books : 1000s of books. meeting is with Roger Burbidge on 862834 New - adult and children. the Talking Times at 2.30. The next Wed. 12th Aldborough, Thwaite & Second hand - good quality fiction & meeting, two weeks later on Mon. Hanworth. Park/meet around green non-fiction with wide range of 17th Feb, Lieutenant Adrian Allen near Black Boy Pub. NR11 7AA 6 authors and subjects. from the Salvation Army who will be miles Jenny & Vic 01263 713613 Everything very good value. speaking about Salvation Army life. Sat. 22ⁿd Ringstead Park/meet Refreshments. FREE entry. Ringstead VH. £1 per person All proceeds to church funds. PE36 5JU 9 miles Lily 01328 851124 Queries to Roger Burbidge. 01328 Wed. 26th Hevingham Park/meet 851848. layby outside Church of St Mary the Sunday, 2ⁿd February at 2.30pm. See Virgin on A140 NR10 5QU 6 miles you then! Sandra & Philip 01603 755121 - The BEACON - 13 - TELEPHONE 01328 823483 07741 302838 Find us on Unit 2 Creake Business Park South Creake Fakenham Norfolk NR21 9JB

We are a local security company SSAIB accredited we can:- Install new installations of wired and wireless intruder alarms systems. Install and maintain policed monitored intruder alarms and non monitored. Install and maintain CCTV systems. Install and maintain access control / door entry systems. Install and maintain fire alarm systems Install and maintain emergency lighting. Contact [email protected] 07879 894561 & 07884 024060 www.norfolkalarms.co.uk

Comfort in church - Chair repair! Those of you who have been in church over Christmas may have noticed the poor state of repair of some of the red chairs. In the last two years we have repaired the seats of all of the chairs and the backs of 60 from church funds. This still leaves 60 chairs to do and for this we are asking for your help. The cost to repair each chair back is £25. If you would like to help to restore the remaining chairs your donation of £25 or whatever you wish to give will be gratefully received. Please make cheques payable to "Fakenham Parish Church". Or cash may be put in an envelope and taken to the Rectory Office. Or contact us for bank details if you wish to pay direct. However you choose to donate, please make it clear that the payment is for chairs. For more information, contact Roger Burbidge or Keith Osborn (Churchwardens).

- The BEACON - 14 - Crystal clear Windows JOIN THE MOVE IT OR LOSE IT CLUB SEATED EXERCISE CLASSES (ALL EXERCISES CAN BE DONE Martin Lemon BOTH SEATED AND STANDING) IDEAL FOR THE OVER 60'S AND THOSE WITH Traditional & Pure Water Fed Pole MOBILITY ISSUES Service Monday 11.30-12.15 Colkirk Village Hall Highly Experienced Window Cleaner Tuesday 10.30 - 11.30 Gallow Sports Centre Foulsham Thursday 11.30 - 12.15 Beetley Village Hall Norfolk £4.50 PER CLASS OR 5 CLASSES FOR £20 FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 07731641776 JO: 07941 086603 or SAM: 07925 60286 01362 680203 PRICE INCLUDES TEA & BISCUITS AFTER CLASS [email protected] Note change of venue in Fakenham on Tuesday

GUTTERING SERVICES NORFOLK Gutters cleared, repaired and replaced from as little as £35. No job too small. Free quotes. Fully insured. Local, friendly and reliable service Contact Neill 01485 572002 or 07856 568433 [email protected]

Arthur James Jewellery 07900185414 Fakenham Market - Thurs (near Auction Hall) Market - Wed and Sat Very large selection of fine quality new and pre-loved jewellery on display or visit our online ebay shop: Elaine Anne jewellery online. Bring along your unwanted jewellery items. Any condition considered. Purchased for cash at competitive rates. Home visits arranged.

- The BEACON - 15 - While the increasing evidence that our planet's climate is changing and becoming more challenging cannot be denied, there have also been occasions in the past when the local weather has proven to be very dramatic. The proof of this can be seen in this month's photograph from the Archive, that shows what happened in 1912, when the Wensum burst its banks and turned Fakenham's Hall Staithe into what looks like a river in itself.

This photo was donated by Michael Boucher

HOWARD YOUNG

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Any Electrical works undertaken by our Friendly Family business. Please contact us for a free no obligation quote on 07895 683150 or 01485 601379 Email: [email protected] www.swelectrical.org.uk

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- The BEACON - 17 - Acorn Aerial Service Digital TV Aerials Fitted & Refixed Also Extension Points FREE ESTIMATES 01362 696005 07808 065471

Computer Solutions C L Yaxley Property Maintenance Computer and Laptop Repairs, Renovations & maintenance Health Checks, Upgrades, New Also covering fencing, brick & stone work. Machines; Custom or Pre-built Paving and sand stone specialists No job too small. Free estimates. Friendly and Helpful Advice, for Christopher Yaxley 01328 853736 all your Home Computing Needs 07855252550 [email protected] Call Simon on 20 Mission Lane, Fakenham, NR218LH Making your house and garden a home. 07527 794725

- The BEACON - 18 - D. E. RISSMAN & SONS MHS TREE LOPPING & TREE SURGERY SPECIALIST Over 30 years experience Deep Cleaning Carpets Pressure Cleaning Tel: 01328 855600 Mob: 07884 312959 Drives, Patios, Decking Garden Tidy Ups [email protected] Gutters & Windows Interior Painting 113 Norwich Road Fakenham NR21 8HH Conservatories Cleaned ● Felling ● Clearance Work Undertaken ● Hedge Cutting etc ● FREE Estimates ● Fully Insured

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