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Breckles A magazine of local news for the Wayland Group of Parishes Gt. Hockham August 2020
WAYLAND GROUP DIRECTORY COUNTY COUNCILLORS Caston/Griston—Clare Bowes 07789 796937 Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Fabian Eagle 07450 679838
DISTRICT COUNCILLOR Caston/Griston/Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Phil Cowen 488393
PARISH COUNCILLORS Caston—Chairman: Jaki Porter 483899; Clerk: Jo Blackman 01842 829821 Gt Hockham—Chairman: David Childerhouse 498079; Clerk: David Childerhouse 498079 Griston—Clerk: Jean Williams 884082 Merton—Chairman: Martin Parker 883492 Clerk: Vicky Turner 07961 806849 Stow Bedon and Breckles—Chairman: Jonathon White 498515; Clerk: Julian Gibson 499980 —Chair: Jean Kaye 488254; Clerk: Kim Austin 07811 287071 Thompson WAYLAND GROUP MINISTER AND CHURCHWARDENS Interim Parish Minister: Adrian Bell Breckles—St. Margaret: Karen Allen 498408 Caston—Holy Cross: Bridget Hall 483751; Lois Gill 488157 Gt Hockham—Holy Trinity: Jamie Plummer Griston—St. Peter & St. Paul: Sylvia Wright 883608; Keith Mace 880153 Merton—St. Peter: Carole Haggett 483526 Stow Bedon—St. Botolph: Beryl Warren 483375 Thompson—St. Martin: Katharine Wolstenholme 483318 VILLAGE CORRESPONDENTS Breckles: Bella Sandcraft 798983 [email protected] Caston: Annabel Valentine 483440 [email protected] Gt Hockham: Christine Rogers 498492 [email protected] Griston: Jacqueline Bailey 889922 [email protected] Merton: Helen Riley 884555 [email protected] Stow Bedon: Gillian Machorton 483446 [email protected] Thompson: Bronwen Tyler 483741 [email protected]
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East Harling and Kenninghall Medical Practice
Flu Clinics 2020
Owing to the exceptional events of this year with the Coronavirus pandemic, we are still planning how our Flu Clinics will be run this year as it is highly likely they will need to take a different format. Provisional dates are Saturday 19th September for East Harling and Saturday 10th October for Kenninghall but be aware these may be subject to change. Please look out for further information in the coming weeks in local newsletters, village shops, on our Practice website and via our Facebook page. We will update these resources as we have more information. Many thanks for your continued patience. East Harling and Kenninghall Medical Practice
2 In the Church of England Diocese of Norwich Breckles, Caston, Great Hockham, Griston, Merton, Stow Bedon and Thompson www.wgp.church WORSHIP IN AUGUST 2020
SUNDAY AUGUST 2ND 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Gt. Hockham
SUNDAY AUGUST 9TH 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Thompson
SUNDAY AUGUST 16TH 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Caston (Followed by a Baptism at 12 noon)
SUNDAY AUGUST 23RD 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Gt. Hockham
SUNDAY AUGUST 30TH 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Thompson
Pastoral visits, requests for Baptisms, Weddings, Home Communions and support for those who have been bereaved. Contact Revd. Adrian Bell – The Interim Parish Priest to the Wayland Benefice. 01760 627039. e-mail [email protected] (Adrian’s day off is Monday)
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3 VICAR’S LETTER
Open for Services! It with great joy that we have been given permission to open churches for worship. The first service was held at Thompson Church on 19th July. In order to obey the strict rules from the Church the following guidelines will be in place:- • As you enter church you will be asked to give your name and to use the hand sanitiser or bring your own. • Services will be little shorter without hymn singing, but with music. • Social distancing will be used and every other row of pews will be vacant. • At the moment only the celebrant will receive communion but this may change in later weeks. • We will not pass the Peace and collection plates will available as you come into church or leave. • Collections will be divided and given to the 6 churches in the group. • Currently Griston, Breckles and Stow Bedon will not be used for Group Services. • There will be a one-way system in church wherever possible using different doors to enter and exit. • There will be no refreshments. Also I am very willing to come and take a service on any day other than a Sunday in any of the 6 churches for up to 6 people and also in any home or garden. Safe distancing will be important and if this a communion service only bread will be used as we would do for sick communions. The future will be different, but I think that we will be able to cope and following my re-institution as Priest-in-Charge for the Wayland Group I will be in place until the virus eases and an appointment can be made. Marian and I were delighted to receive a beautiful bunch of flowers and a hydrangea plant for the garden as a thank you from the Group for staying on, but really we should thank you for allowing us to be with you. Remember I am always free to help you even if this is by telephone or email. Visits are restricted to social distancing but we have had a fun time with the choir on Zoom.
With every blessing Adrian Bell
(PS. Currently at Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals we now able to have 30 people attending.)
4 BRECKLES NEWS AND VIEWS sauerkraut and pork neck bones at midnight New Years Day (who else didn’t do this on St. Margaret’s Church, Breckles 1.1.2020 – tut tut!). The church will be open on Sundays from 9 Never give someone a knife as it until 4 for private contemplation and prayer. represents cutting ties. The PCC continues to raise funds for new If you put on a piece of clothing inside out guttering and donations are welcome. by accident, it could be your lucky day. You The Annual Parochial Church Meeting for may not notice your mistake before Breckles is expected to take place in August, bedtime. If someone points out your and a notice outlining full details will be mistake, just smile and be happy. Do not posted on the church noticeboard near the correct your mistake. If you take your gate as usual. clothing off and put it on correctly, your As you will probably have read elsewhere, good luck will be gone. Legend has it that church services have now restarted carefully William of Normandy inadvertently put on in the benefice, although for the time being his shirt of mail back to front just before the Breckles is one of three churches which will Battle of Hastings; when his courtiers not be used for group services. pointed out his mistake and said it was a bad The Rev Adrian Bell has kindly said that omen, quick-thinking William assured them he is happy to take garden services by pre- it was not and was in fact a sign that he was arrangement in any home or garden, and for about to be changed from a duke into a king. these social distancing will be observed. Never cut your nails on a Friday or Please do get in touch with him if you Sunday. Cut your fingernails early Monday would like one of these services. morning and you might expect a gift. Cut on a Tuesday for thrift, cut on Wednesday for Re-emergence news, cut on Thursday for shoes, cut on And we emerged. Slowly, carefully, gently. Friday for sorrow, cut on Saturday to see Renewed with appreciation for the most your lover tomorrow, cut on Sunday for basic of things; nature’s blessings, evil.Hiccups are caused by someone who companionship, faith, and those who had dislikes you complaining to someone else. cared enough to help others. Not everything The only way to stop them is to guess the was as it was before. We cared more, and name of the person maligning you. the things we cared about had changed. A bird that flies into a house, foretells an Authenticity became the new celebrity, important message. connectivity replaced remoteness. Love Sneeze ‘once for a wish, twice for a kiss, crossed the chasms of time and distance and three for a letter, four for something better’. found a way through. As we tiptoed into our A spider is a repellent against plague new world we were changed and took the when worn around the neck in a walnut things we had learned with us as our new shell. compass. Whatever the road ahead, we Swallow a toad in the morning and you faced it with a new way of being. will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Advice from previous generations – not For more sayings and sound advice (!) to be taken too literally please see the For All Our Village section of If the first week in August is unusually warm, the magazine. the coming winter will be snowy and long. Bella Brodie For good luck throughout the year eat Breckles Correspondent
5 CASTON COMMENT normal Sunday morning but you are assured of a warm welcome and we will be very Holy Cross Church pleased to see you. The Church will The last four months have been an continue to be open each Sunday for private extraordinary time. It is the first period prayer. The Church continues to be cleaned without public worship in England in more on a regular basis and hand sanitiser is than 800 years. There will be a real sense of available to all visitors on arrival. We hope joy as we begin to meet again in our you can join us. Wayland Group of Churches if even at a physical distance. Caston Church Lottery Everyone will understandably be The April lottery was drawn on 3 July 2020 cautious. We will not be returning to by Wendy Edwards, due to coronavirus normality overnight, but this is the next step situation. on a journey to some kind of normal pattern Congratulations to the winners of the of worship and to open our village Churches lottery as follows:- for the benefit of everyone. There has been 1st Prize £30 Wendy Chapman careful planning whilst following detailed 2nd Prize £20 Irene Smith advice for parishes to enable them to 3rd Prize £10 Georgina Rose prepare to hold services when it is safe and If you have not yet paid your lottery, do practical to do so. not worry, it will be collected in due course. The next service in Holy Cross Church If you wish to join Caston Church Lottery will be on Sunday 16th August at 10.30 please call me on 01953 483640. am. It will be very different from our Lynne Wellbelove
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6 Caston Church Cleaning We are having book swaps every Friday The Church had a deep clean thanks to Niki at the moment for anyone avidly reading and Chris. It is now open on a Sunday only. and of course these are well structured . . . Cleaning will be limited due to the also includes some jigsaws I believe. restrictions in place. Hopefully Ed, Theresa, Keep safe. Jason and Rachael did manage in July. Gill Sue Ash and Helga are down for August, please contact me if you have any issues. All Poem sent to Caston W.I. Members by cleaners would you please provide your Marge this month. own supplies including hoover as the kitchen is out of bounds. Thank you. Dust if you Must Many thanks. Dust if you must but wouldn’t it be better to Lynne paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant a seed, ponder the Caston W.I. difference between want and need? Will we ever get back to normal I wonder, as I am sure we are all thinking? Dust if you must but there’s not much time, This month should have been our summer with rivers to swim and mountains to climb, social so yet another event we have missed music to hear and books to read, friends to out on, although now the pub has reopened cherish and life to lead. and we can have a few people round in our gardens perhaps we can do some Dust if you must, but the world’s out there, socialising. with the sun in your eyes, the wind in your Norfolk W.I. are trying as a whole to do hair, their very best and they recognise the a flutter of snow, a shower of rain, this day importance to our mental health of staying will not come round again. in touch. This they are achieving by social media, Facebook, instagram. W.I. Dust if you must, but bear in mind, old age Secretaries are being kept abreast of updates will come and it’s not kind. by email and share these with members. We And when you go, and go you must – you, also have the W.I. News Magazine so that yourself will turn to dust . members still feel connected to the W.I. Family. From your village correspondent: Caston W.I. is still carrying on with Just a reminder that all the content of The monthly bloom of the month – this month Waylander can be accessed online won by our President Wendy E with a Calla nowadays, (www.waylandermagazine.org) Lily. And a challenge has been set by Marge enabling photographs to be enjoyed which this month to paint a pebble – this should be are additional to the paper edition. The interesting and hopefully we can publish advertisers (whose payments fund the some photos next month. magazine) are all featured as well, so if Stephanie D celebrated her birthday this you’ve mislaid your paper copy and need to month and I am sure got her e-card. find a telephone number you’ll find it all Although we are not having any meetings there! Many thanks to Bella Brodie for our College at Denman is running at home having the good idea and then implementing Zoom courses for £5 which I think is quite it. enterprising.
7 The Valiant Hearts of Caston what was done and how the end result was This excellent book, written by Jane Horner, achieved, from the signing of the contract to is dedicated to the fifteen men of Caston the removal of the scaffolding. Very well- who gave their lives in The Great War, deserved appreciation is given to Graham whose names are recorded on the war Penfold, without whose wisdom and memorial on the village green. expertise in managing the whole project this Meticulous research by Jane and Roy over could not have come about. To purchase a number of years, together with frequent your copy for £10, ring Alan on 01953 visits to Belgium and France, has resulted 483899. in a fascinating compilation of the family backgrounds of these young men together Red Lion with information and first-hand reports on The re-opening of the pub is a most the battles in which they fought during those welcome step in the right direction, with devastating few years. plenty of space in the marquee in front. The The book is beautifully illustrated with bar is open and food served on Thursday photographs both old and new, as well as Saturday 12 3p.m. and 6 10p.m. and on letters to and from the front and details Sundays 12 6p.m. (01953 483858). which give a graphic picture of the times. Annabel Valentine I found reading this a deeply moving experience, not only because of the harrowing reports of life at the front but also because of the glimpses into the effect on GRISTON GOSSIP those at home and the enduring sorrow and grief that was experienced over and above Good Luck the hardships of village life, when it was not Good luck to all those who are awaiting unusual for a family to lose infants and exam results in August 2020. Some of you young children. Photos of Caston in those will feel cheated that you didn’t get the days are a salutary reminder of how thankful opportunity to perform in an exam and we can be for the comfort and convenience others will feel they have dodged a bullet. of our lives nowadays, often in the same Hopefully, you will all be pleased with your dwellings that large families lived in then. results and able to transition successfully Warmest thanks to Jane and others who into further study or employment in these have played their part in producing such a challenging times. gem, which can be purchased direct from Jane for £10 – just ring 01953 483627. Church News Once again we are starting a new year, from Refurbishment of Holy Cross Church July, for the Griston Church Lottery. A photo essay by Alan Porter LRPS The lucky Winners for July were Another excellent book that I heartily 1st prize Mrs C Ashdown 58 recommend is Alan’s photographic record 2nd prize Lisa Tubby 79 of the recent very extensive work on Holy 3rd prize Mr & Mrs Stainthorpe 114 Cross Church, the most visible evidence of The lucky winners for August are which is the re-thatching of the roof. At the 1st prize Jolene Ayrton 104 time one could only spy from afar what was 2nd prize Amy Chamberlain 2 going on, so it is fascinating to be able to see 3rd prize Robert Duncan 76 from Alan’s superb photographs details of Thank you everyone who has rejoined for
8 the coming year and Thank you to the new sale, booked for October 10th, is still people who have joined us for the coming uncertain. However, whatever happens with year. If anyone would still like to join you that one, we are continuing the sales next are very welcome. Good luck everyone year and are grateful for your continuing support. Church Yard Bins Thank you and we wish you, our friends, PLEASE: To assist us to keep the volunteers and customers, good health. churchyard tidy will you please refrain from Keith and Caroline 880153 using the steel bin behind the church. In it’s place please use the GREEN WHEELIE Rory’s Nature Corner BIN near the gate. Preferably, if you are The weather hasn’t been so great this month able, it would help if you could take it home but as restrictions have lifted I have been for disposal. able to meet up with a friends for socially Many thanks. distanced football and cycle rides in Rocklands. It is good to be able to see Grand Second Hand Book Sales people again, and although I do get to talk Well, the good news is that the to my friends over X-box it’s not the same governmental restrictions are gradually as being able to see them in person and play being lifted; it seems almost on a weekly football. basis. So more good news; we are still There have been loads of bugs in the taking donations for the book sales! Our garden especially on the wild flowers that own restrictions, as outlined below, will mum grew from seed. The corn marigolds remain in place for the moment, but as and corn cockles have gone mad and taken things continue to improve we hope to be over a bit and she said you can kind of see able to change that soon. Please remember why farmers had to try to control them that: getting into the cereal crops. The good thing • We will only accept delivery to us here in is though that it shows they are really easy Griston, not at Thompson Community to grow and that we could all try to grow Hall. some in our gardens. Mum said if you buy • People must call first to arrange a delivery the individual seed packets rather than just slot, so that no more than one vehicle is a wild flower mix you get want you want here at any one time. and you have more control over where the • We can only accept donations from plants grow and you get healthier stronger households not exhibiting any symptoms plants but it is more work. The bees love the of the virus. time thyme path but you mustn’t go any • We are currently only taking books, where near it with bare feet!! One of the anything else by prior arrangement. bugs you see loads of this time of year is the • The health and well-being of everyone common red soldier beetle. It is a medium- involved is important to us; we ask you to sized, thin beetle commonly found on bear with us as we take tentative steps open-structured flowers, like daises, cow towards “normal service”. parsley and hogweed, during the summer. I’m sure lots of you have taken the You can see it on grasslands, along opportunity of having a “covid clear-out”, hedgerows, and in woodland, parks and so will be pleased to know that we are happy gardens. We have seen it on hogweed flower to take your items! heads. The adults feed on aphids, and also The situation with regards to our next eat pollen and nectar. The larvae eat
9 invertebrates, such as slugs and snails, and police. They sent the forensic photographer live at the base of long grasses. The adults out really quickly. Mum was told if they only live for a short time during the summer were human we would have to stop work at and spend most of that time mating, which once until they could be aged. If they are is why they are often seen in pairs. The over 70 years old then it is handed over to common red soldier beetle has a narrow, the archaeologists but under 70 years and rectangular body and longish antennae. It is you have a crime scene and the police have a bright orangey-red with black marks near to investigate. They were really quick with the tips of the wing cases. There are about the results and by midday the next day we 40 species of soldier beetle in the UK, were told they were animal and we could displaying various colour combinations of continue digging. My aunty Caroline was black, red and orange. Mum also found a really disappointed they were animal as she green one but not sure if this is a freak of is into true crime. I think mum and Eleanor nature or a different species. Most of the were hoping for an ancient burial. So far Soldier beetles we see are on hogweed mum has found some yellow and red y- which you can find along hedgerows and fronts, a ladies sandal, a woollen hat, lots of verges. It has large umbrella like clusters of old pottery, some old nails and a one shilling white creamy flowers. Hogweed is native to from 1954. Britain Giant Hogweed is not and it is Giant During June we had the summer solstice. Hogweed that can cause blistering to the Mum got up to see the sunrise but no one skin. The common red soldier beetle is also else was very keen. She said it was beautiful known as the ‘bloodsucker’ for its shiny red much better than at Stonehenge where it colour, but it is harmless. It is really good to was cloudy. Unfortunately the sunny have in the garden as the adults eat aphids weather didn’t last long and it clouded over and the larvae eat other pests. and started to rain here too. She did say she Eleanor’s cats Merlin and Midnight have wished had got up earlier and cycled out of started going for walks. They like to walk the village to see it better. down to the churchyard walk round then walk back to the house. They have got so used to going for a walk that Midnight will wait for someone to take her. Sometimes she HOCKHAM HAPPENINGS follows without being asked and has to be walked back to the house which is really Looking at last August’s In-Touch annoying. Mum did try to get Midnight to newsletter, there was so much happening in wear a harness because she worries about Hockham. In the village hall there was the the road but she was having none of it. Bowls Club, Yoga, Drawing classes, the We had some real excitement at the house Coffee Pot, Clodhopper practices and Gong- when mum dug some old bones up in the and-Sound bath sessions. The Gardening old driveway. It all started as a bit of a joke Club and the Parish Council reported their and at first she assumed they were animal meetings, the Church advertised their bones, but as we got a few more and they services, people were invited to join guided looked very different to the other bones in walks, and the School reported on its density and size and as they were also being exciting end of term activities as well as the dug up alongside items of clothing that she traditional school leavers Final Assembly in had never seen before it all became a bit Hockham church. Last August who could sinister and she thought she had best ring the have foreseen the disastrous pandemic we
10 have endured in the past 5 months? As in running a tight ship. wartime, so many people have suffered We are still under guidance from our hardships and lost loved ones, but through Local Council Advisory body to continue it all there has been a spirit of good for the foreseeable future with remote neighbourliness and praise for the heroes meetings; some councils are phasing in who have kept our communities going physical meetings again with social during the lock down. distancing measures in place, but Merton for So what of August this year? Things are the moment, will continue to follow national getting back to normal – albeit a new normal recommendations for the continuing safety – with social distancing and face coverings of its residents. The next meeting is due to and hand washing to the tune of ‘Happy take place on 8th September at 6p.m. so Birthday’ twice, or even ‘God save the anyone wishing to take part in that via the Queen’. remote medium of Zoom, is most welcome We normally herald the Hockham Flower to contact me for a link at Show in this month’s edition. Hopefully it [email protected] will go ahead in some form this August, just In the meantime, please stay well and we to keep up the tradition. Otherwise, there is all look forward to seeing you soon either not much going on that we know of at the through the mode of the internet or moment, but things will undoubtedly get hopefully in person once again soon! better in September. Vicky Turner Clerk – on behalf of Merton Parish Council
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Merton Parish Council Update Age UK Norfolk Information and Advice Dear All Helpline: Can’t believe it’s August already – where T 0300 500 1217 Open 10a.m.–4p.m. has this year gone? Merton Parish Council Monday, Wednesday and Friday and hopes that you are all well and have 10a.m.–1p.m. Tuesday and Thursday (this managed to emerge from these strange times is currently a call back service) relatively unscathed. Not much has E [email protected] happened since the last edition in Parish Council world other than we have Age UK Norfolk Telephone Befriending successfully undertaken the Internal Audit Service: process and the Annual Governance T 01603 785 223 Accounting Audit with the External Auditor E [email protected] – my first time so somewhat nerve- wracking from that angle – but collectively, it was a relatively painless experience and I am pleased to report that Merton has passed STOW BEDON NEWS AND VIEWS with ‘flying colours’ with only a few minor adjustments recommended in the Internal St. Botolph’s Audit and all approved and rubber-stamped The church will be open on Sundays by the External Auditor. All done for between 10a.m. and 4p.m. for private prayer another year! Well done to Merton Cllrs for and contemplation. The PCC would like to
11 thank all those generous parishioners who enough, I also wondered how it would be if gave donations towards the churchyard the morning was sunny, but it rained and grass cutting. Thank you! was grotty in the afternoon; would this repeat for 40 days? This made me think to Lucy writes: Hello! How has everyone check today’s weather forecast. Currently it been getting on with last months brain is showing an 80% chance of heavy rain for teasers? Some of the questions were trickier an hour at 5, and a few 50%s and 40%s than others, either harder, or more of trick before and after. There is of course the question! Thank you to all that took part or chance it won’t come, but if it does we will got back to me, we did have a definite have to see if this repeats. So today (for you winner…Congratulations to the Hutchinson reading), how has the weather been? (Is the family who returned all correct answers, and 40 day rule right, or is it just an old wives speedily too! For those of you who have tale!!). To finish I will leave you with a few racked your brains for answers, or are eager more questions as I know many people have for them, here they are been enjoying them! This month will be 1) 70 (30 ÷ 0.5 = 60 60 + 10 = 70) geography based questions. I will return 2) ‘incorrectly’ next month with the answers. Here goes: 3) An umbrella 1) What is the world’s longest Mountain 4) Neither, peacocks don’t lay eggs, range? peahens do 2) What is the capital of Norway? 5) This will never happen as the boat rises 3) What country consumes the most wine with the tide per capita? 6) 12 4) What’s the largest country in Africa? 7) White (the house must be on the North 5) What river flows through Rome? pole, so a polar bear will be seen) 6) What’s the largest fresh-water lake in 8) The match the world? 9) *Your Name* 7) What country is named after a line of 10) None, it was Noah who loaded the ark, latitude that runs through it? not Moses! 8) What continent is home to the largest I hope you all enjoyed these?! Now onto number of countries? another topic, Mum said this morning that 9) How many official languages does today is St. Swithin’s Day. I haven’t heard Switzerland recognize? of this before, but I am told that whatever 10) Which is the largest Channel Island? the weather does today will remain for the Good luck! next 40 days. If today it rains it will also do so for 40 following days and the same for if Family history it is fair. Well, I wonder if you can guess the I enjoyed Bronwen’s article on her family weather today, that I am writing this, from history but I have been doing something what it is like today, as you are reading, as similar for the last 20 years. It started with they should match! My initial thoughts were my mother’s history. It was ghost written by ‘great’, as it looks a beautiful day today, it’s a lady who recorded interviews with my warm and sunny, a clear sky with only a few mother and turned them into a little booklet. white clouds. It did of course cross my mind I learnt that my grandfather had won a that no rain for 40 days wouldn’t be so penny farthing bicycle race which seemed good, but we will have to see how good a amazing as he was very Victorian and we weather-predicting technique it is. Funnily were rather in awe of him.
12 After my mother died, one of my sisters Thirsty Bill” and “The Clutching Claw”. presented me with a box of letters which Next I was given a collection of my were written when my parents started father’s stories, articles and memories of courting. They wrote every day; often the holidays and visits. Scanned and sometimes letters were posted in the morning and retyped if they were rather faint, they were received the same evening. They just bound into 4 hardbacks called “Scribblings contained the results of tennis games; they of a Compulsive Writer” with the help of were both keen players, or information YouTube instructions. Many of the stories about the last prayer meeting. They were and articles had been published and there both active members of Norbury Methodist was a scrap book containing the press Church. As time went by the letters became cuttings. I also made copies of these and put more affectionate until they eventually got them into new scrapbooks leaving plenty of married. pages at the back for each of us to add out From time to time whenever they were own bits of history. apart even for a couple of days they would My latest endeavour was “Vanishing write. Not many people had phones then. Memories”. This was a collation of When my father who had chronic bronchial childhood memories with our parents up to asthma was told that he mustn’t spend the age of 21. This of course included the another winter working in London, they war years as my older sister and I were born relocated to Southampton and my father got before the war and remember it well. I had a new job. There were many letters then photos of all the houses we had lived in and discussing various aspects of their new build also how they look now thanks to Google. house while my father stayed in a local There were also photos of us although not guest house. The cost of things like an extra many taken during the war as film was radiator (7 shillings and 6 pence) had to be difficult to get hold of. One of my cousins weighed against their budget. who is in her 90s asked for a copy so I made I scanned the letters into my computer and 5 this time. also copied them out as some were difficult Next I shall be continuing my to read after all these years, printed them out autobiography. All these publications have and had them bound into 4 books, one for gone into my treasure box to be passed on each of my two sisters and my brother. down through the family. It also includes When he was 15 years old, my father much of my own history which may interest started writing a school magazine called them when I’ve gone. “The Weekly Waggery”. This was full of Christine Brown stories, jokes and quizzes and was loaned out to his friends for a halfpenny a night. When the end of the war was declared in 1918, the boys rode their bicycles decorated THOMPSON TIDINGS with flags, up and down in great excitement. I was given a box of the 13 editions of this What’s on in August magazine which I scanned into my The relaxation of rules continues but here in computer, and keeping the copies as Thompson many are still being cautious authentic as possible bound them into 4 about holding meetings and events. It may books. This I did myself using paperbacks be a long time yet before major social events as a guide. I also printed out our two can be arranged once more and even then, favourite stories, “The Bootlace of Blood they will not be as they were. The amount
13 of planning and precautions for the use of and preferably uplifting. Please remember buildings is quite a lot of work for the that copyright applies as with the printed committees involved, if everyone continues magazine and we reserve the right not to to be safe. Even then we suspect many publish anything contentious or people will be quite reluctant to mix in inappropriate. crowds once more for quite a while. Some events may not prove cost effective to put If you need any help of any sort on due to distancing, which may restrict Even though things have been eased there numbers, and other needs. are those who will still need support. Please Richard did a great job at the Chequers note the item under FOR ALL OUR during lock down by offering take-aways VILLAGES which reminds everyone of and must be very relieved to be able to open village contact details. The village again. correspondents, Parish Chair and Clerk, and A reminder that if you wish to read the the churchwarden can all be contacted if you Wayland News, the free paper produced in need help or are feeling isolated. They may Watton by Julian Horn, there is always a not themselves be able to help you but they box of them available in the porch of the are well-placed to know who in your part of Community Hall. The August edition will the village is able to step in. The system has be there by the beginning of the month. It been working very well here in Thompson. has a really interesting article on the German aircraft brought down in WW2 at Thompson Town Land Charity Fund Ovington by men manning a Parachute and At the risk of being repetitive, a reminder Cable system at Watton, and whose crew that this fund is there to help people of were arrested by Dudley Bowes and Frank Thompson in times of hardship. If you are Warnes. suffering financial difficulty due to October 10th Book Sale remains in the Coronavirus we may be able to help. The diary for now. An announcement will be sum available is not large but it is there to made nearer the date ease a short term crisis if needed. Please contact 01953 483741 or 01953 483476. Collecting your Waylander copy While restrictions are in place we are Church continuing to protect our deliverers and The church building will be unlocked for a yourselves by not delivering door to door if couple of days per week on advice from the the person who delivers to you is Diocese and details as to which days and uncomfortable doing so. Hard copies are times will be published on the Facebook placed in the church porch, as soon as they page and in the church porch. This will be are available. There are also copies in a box of great benefit to those who have missed in Pockthorpe Lane, outside Sywood, 21 being able to access the church in such a Pockthorpe Lane. If you are collecting a time of crisis. copy for yourself and are helping out a The following contain details of how to neighbour who is in isolation and unable to join others online for prayer, worship, study get out, please take a copy for them too. & community life. The magazine is live online at www.dioceseofnorwich.org www.waylandermagazine.org www.stmartinsthompson.co.uk We continue to welcome images, stories, www.facebook.com/stmartinsthompson poems, recipes, tips for coping and more, www.facebook.com/waylandchurches
14 https://www.waylandermagazine.org/wayl was a published author, Claire Wade, who and-benefice-church-page told us about her life and the journey The vicar & churchwarden of this church towards getting her first book published. It can be contacted in an emergency as was a fascinating tale of a struggle to follows: overcome ill health and how escapism into Rev Adrian Bell (parish priest) the world of books and then creating her 01760.627.039 [email protected] own stories helped her when she was unable Katharine Wolstenholme (churchwarden) to do anything else. The book is called 01953.483.318 Choice, and has some quite eerie parallels [email protected] with our present crisis. Claire is still a young “Love the Lord your God with all your woman but, contrary to the popular image heart and with all your soul and with all of a WI member, she thoroughly enjoys her your mind and with all your strength . . . membership of her local WI. Love your neighbour as yourself. There is We are thinking of a socially distanced no commandment greater than these.” picnic on the Green for our meeting in To protect the vulnerable amongst us August, weather permitting of course. please do not leave your home except for essential trips and continue to follow Millennium Green government rules and guidelines. In the last Waylander, I said it was our intent All planned activities & events have sadly to open up the playground and exercise area been cancelled due to the Corona Virus but at the Green as soon as permitted. The as soon as we are out of lock down we will Government has recently published detailed be advertising our revised programme of guidance on how this can be achieved. events. Watch this space and our websites Unfortunately, it places significant (as above) for further details when we are responsibility on us to ensure reasonable able to publish them. safety from the Corona virus which, given we have no staff or specific funding, is Parish Council beyond us. We have spoken to Natural OFFERS OF HELP England who urge caution. Breckland We are pleased that the system put in place District for their part have been very to help those in need during lock down has supportive and I hope they will help with a been working well. Grateful thanks to those risk assessment but, sadly, until that happens who have helped others in some way. You our hands are tied. Separately, we have had have all been amazing and it goes to show our annual RoSPA report which will be that the community spirit is still alive and considered in detail at our July Committee well in Thompson. Meeting. I would expect their We hope you have all kept your flyer from recommendations to be agreed and carried the Parish Council giving details of where to out by the Autumn. obtain support should you need it as isolation As restrictions ease more generally, I hope and lock down continue. If you have lost it we will be able to welcome more readers to please contact the parish clerk, whose details take advantage of this great community are on the front cover of the magazine. asset. In the meantime, if you have any suggestions or would like to offer a little of W.I. your time in support, either would be most We had another very enjoyable virtual welcome. meeting via Zoom in July. The speaker Martin
15 New Community Hall noticed something large on the plant which The Community Hall continues to be closed looked too big to be a bee. On closer for all uses. Both regular and one-off events inspection it was nothing like anything I had are still not being held. We continue to get seen before. The problem was it moved so together via Zoom for our monthly fast I couldn’t get a really good look and it meetings. One topic is how to cope when we disappeared before I could photograph it. do reopen. There is a lot to take into account Fortunately, it has been back several times, as we risk assess, and there will be a lot to but getting decent photos is almost do to make the building safe and suitable impossible as it moves so quickly. I am before we can hold our first event. Hygiene, fairly certain it is a hummingbird hawk- distancing, movement round the building, moth. I looked them up and they are how we manage any catering, and much summer visitors which can be seen in more all need to be taken into account. We Norfolk in July and August. However, some will keep everyone informed via this experts are wondering if they are colonising magazine, Facebook, posters and other in the UK and may be here for longer in means once we are able to reopen. future.
Virtual Gardens Open 2020 Thompson Weather for June Because our Gardens Open event could not Date Rainfall Temp Wind speed go ahead we have on our website a virtual High Low gardens open instead. The June display was mm deg C deg C mph lovely, and many thanks to those who sent June 74.2 29.2 2.6 26.0 in photos. If you wish to take part in our virtual Gardens Open, send photos or Another recipe for you to try video clips of your garden to Mile High Pie [email protected] You If you are suffering the lack of ice cream, can show the garden developing into this frozen dessert is a really nice midsummer colour, or perhaps feature some alternative. My husband says the raspberry special blooms or plants, the veg patch as it version is better than ice cream. really comes into its own, some of the You will need a mixer you can run at full wildlife visiting, a project completed in the seed for about 15 minutes with a large bowl garden during lock down, or just do a few such as a large Kenwood or be prepared to photos of when you feel it is looking its stand for a while!. best. We already have some lovely You will need: images of spring and early summer in 2 egg whites some of the village gardens if you wish 1 tablesp of lemon juice to take a tour. Our website is: 1 cup of white sugar https://thompsoncommunityhall.co.uk/ 10oz of fresh or frozen strawberries or raspberries Unusual visitor to our garden ½ pint whipping or double cream We have spotted an unusual visitor among If using frozen fruit thaw in advance, the bees and other insects visiting the though I confess my big mixer copes with flowers in our garden. Near the kitchen them frozen – it does have tendency to door is a hug sage bush which is has chuck them out of the bowl though so I have been in full flower and looks wonderful. to cover it all with a cloth. The insects love it. A few days ago, I You will also need a deep cake tin or dish
16 suitable for the freezer. The deep container have begun to work in the building again, is what gives it its name. though some still prefer to remain working from home. The slow and steady approach Method is helping us to make sure the building Beat the egg whites until stiff as for remains safe for all and as free from meringue infection as we can make it. Not an easy Add the lemon juice, sugar and fruit all at task with a rabbit warren of a place whose once users all have differing needs. Towards Beat all of this at the highest possible making life safe we have, of course, had to speed for 15 minutes or more and definitely think about what each tenant needs, install no less. The mixture should swell to fill a extra sanitisers, and additional sanitising large mixer bowl. equipment, make sure we can keep In a separate bowl whisk the cream until vulnerable clients distanced, plan how we stiff peaks but do not overbeat. manage the reception area, use of stairs, loos Fold into the fruit and egg mixture and much more. Our staff need to be safe carefully as you don’t want to knock out all once they return to normal working. We are the air. Ideally cut and fold with a large so used to the office and reception being a metal spoon. busy area of people coming and going that Pile into your pan and freeze. it is a real difference to have to apply some Thaw very briefly for just a few minutes very strict restrictions. Please bear with us before serving so that it is easier to slice and and we will let you all know when Wayland return to the freezer any unused as soon as House is fully open once more. you can so it doesn’t spoil. NOTE: the original recipe calls for a Dragonfly Gallery biscuit crust but I find it goes a bit soggy in We have had another lovely online the freezer. If I want to serve it with one at exhibition to view. We have been a dinner, I turn it out onto one before exhibiting the work of local school children, serving. The pretty colour of this, especially based around dragonflies. Ruth Stanley, the pale pink when using strawberries, and Gallery Coordinator said that apart from the height, make it quite a dramatic dinner thinking about school memories and what party centre piece, especially if decorated they were looking forward to on return, "We with piped cream and chocolate decorations. also wanted to create dragonflies to encourage pupils to think about social distancing –instead of being a ‘Social Butterfly’ to be a ‘Social Dragonfly’ and to FOR ALL OUR VILLAGES think about the one metre rule when with their classmates". They have produced some Wayland Partnership Development Trust very imaginative responses. Next we have Wayland House Landscapes in Lockdown which promises Wayland House currently remains closed to to be very varied. We hope for photographs the public but we can respond to emails sent taken on daily walks or around the home to [email protected] We are but also responses in any medium to the working on plans to be back serving the much wider interpretation of landscape in community once we are sure it is safe to do its widest and much changed sense in so. these unusual times. Should be an Meanwhile, one or two of our tenants interesting exhibition. Address to view is
17 https://thewaylanddragonflygallery.co.uk/. how are you and Mrs Magpie and all the If you are interested in exhibiting or wish to little magpies’ to avoid ill luck. know if any of the artwork is for sale If a money spider lands on you, circle it enquiries to [email protected] three times around your head and it will bring you money. Sayings And did anyone try to foretell their future To add to the ill luck of cutting nails on a spouse by counting out their cherry stones Friday, no should you turn a mattress on a from a bowl of fruit by saying, ‘Tinker, Friday tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, There is of course for July the belief that beggar man, thief.’ if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day it will rain for forty days thereafter. It remains to be Grand Second Hand Book Sales seen if that happened. I know that many of you have used this time Not in season – but leaving any Christmas to have a “covid clear-out”, or de-clutter in decorations up after 12th Night is said to be modern parlance. If so, you will be relieved unlucky. to know that with the easing of some of the Washing clothes on New Year’s Day or restrictions we are now able to accept Easter was said to wash a life away. donations, but with a few cautions of our Washing blankets in May was said to wash own. Please see the article under Griston one of the family away. Gossip for further details, or give us a call. One should spit if a single magpie is seen Keith and Caroline 880153 and one should say, ‘Good day Mr Magpie,
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