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TThehe Griston Merton Caston WWaayylanlandderer Thompson Stow Bedon 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] Copy deadline: All copy for the magazine must be passed to the Editorial Board through your Village Correspondent. Please check the deadline date each month and note that nothing will be accepted for publication after this. Deadline for next month: Monday 17th August 2020. Advertising: Telephone – Karen Fitch on 07909 510718. 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) Would you like to advertise in The Waylander? Give a call on 0 to find out more 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.