PARISH CHURCH NEWS with , and JUNE 2021 ONLINE EDITION

SOME PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS ONLINE EDITION. PLEASE CONTACT THE CHURCH SECRETARY FOR DETAILS OF ANY PHONE NUMBERS YOU MAY REQUIRE ON [email protected]

June Services Sunday 6th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham

Sunday 13th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham

Sunday 20th 9:30am The Gathering – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Holy Communion from The Prayer Book – Traditional Worship at St Mary the Virgin, Anmer

Sunday 27th 9:30am The Gathering with Holy Communion – Contemporary Worship at the Dersingham Village Centre 11am Morning Prayer with Baptisms – Traditional Worship at St Nicholas Church, Dersingham

Please do book in for all services by contacting Pauline Martin on [email protected]

Accessing Live Stream Worship

The 11am services are live-streamed available from the YouTube Channel - “Dersingham Online Worship”. I would both recommend and encourage you to hit that subscribe button on the ‘Dersingham Online Worship’ YouTube channel. This will make it easier for you each week to see the live worship.

We use 4G mobile internet and generally this is good but on occasions the connection may drop off causing some delay or pausing. Where there are major issues, we will endeavour to record the service and post it on-line later. This is a steep learning curve with new technology by our small team.

Thank you for your support and prayers as we strive to offer live worship and improve it over the coming months.

Rev Mark Rector

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Parties are an opportunity to celebrate, meet family, friends and have a good time, where memories are made to be cherished ahead. Many significant occasions or parties have been affected for us all, whether that is weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, leaving dos, graduation, retirements and more besides. As restrictions are released many of us hope to have parties once again, in sensible ways. We are not alone in enjoying a good time and having a party.

Lots of Jesus’s parables focus on parties, as they are a picture of the joy, hope and life of the Kingdom of God. The parable of the ‘Great Banquet’ (Luke 14: 15-24) challenges us not to miss out on this. At the time of Jesus’s earthly life, when people accepted an invitation to a banquet, they were only told the actual time on the day: ‘Come, for everything is now ready’ (17). Jesus invites each one of us to share in the life of the Kingdom. However, the guests made excuses for not coming. At the time, this would have been extremely insulting to the host. They said: ‘I have just bought a field; I must try out my new team of oxen; I have just got married’ (18-20). These are all good things in themselves, however they reveal their priorities were elsewhere. We too can be pre-occupied with our own routines of work, family, school, retirement, holidays, friends, home, social media, that we forget God’s priorities for our lives. Jesus calls for total commitment from His disciples. What priority in my life is holding me back from accepting His invitation? How did the host respond? He ordered His servants to ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’ (21). He invited the unexpected and unacceptable people to his banquet. Jesus makes the point that God’s Kingdom is open to all! Thinking about our family, friends, colleagues and neighbours, even if they’re not like us or show little interest in God: Are we willing to offer them God’s invitation to share His love and life?

As we steadily begin to meet again in our church fellowship, it is a form of a ‘party’ meeting with the church family. God is faithful and his mercies never end. In the first few weeks of in-person services, here are a couple of wonderful quotes from worshipers here: - “It is like coming home.” - “Not until today did I realise how much I have missed being back.”

Whether you have been part of the worshipping community before or not, or connected through the online worship or are enquiring more of the Christian faith, you are really welcome to join us in fellowship together. Why not invite a friend, neighbour or family member to come to the worship with you? The worship we offer is loosely a kind of ‘party’ for God at church. Services each week on Sunday’s are 9:30 Contemporary and 11am Traditional service (location details are in the magazine). Who will you invite to the ‘party’?

Rev Mark Capron Rector of Dersingham, Anmer, Ingoldisthorpe and Shernborne YouTube Channel: ‘Dersingham Online Worship’ www.stnicholasdersingham.org.uk

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Advance news:

Dersingham Open Gardens 2021 in Saturday 4th September and Sunday 5th September 11am-5pm St Nicholas Church 10am-12pm Tickets are £4 in advance available from Refreshments Dersingham Post Office or £5 on the day available from the Village Centre. Proceeds Please see page 6 for information on from this event will benefit St Nicholas planned Coffee Meetings Church and The Village Centre.

Following on from last year's success, we are again opening our gardens later in the year. We will have approximately 12 gardens open and who knows what delights and surprises are hidden from us! There will be refreshments served in the Village Centre from 10.30 on each day.

We are restarting our meetings onAn added attraction this year will be floral Wednesday 30th June at 2.00pm in the displays in St Nicholas Church from Friday- Upper Room of the Village Centre (there is a Sunday with the theme "Together Again", lift!) and this is a sentiment that we will all be feeling as we welcome regular visitors and We would like to welcome back all our new faces. members and anyone else who would like to join us at our first meeting where we will be For further information visit our website: having a cup of tea/coffee and a chat about www.dersinghamopengardens.co.uk how we have coped during the Lockdown. Jane Jestice Thereafter each month we will meet in the A prayer for when times are hard: Upper Room of the Village Centre at 2pm on th the 4 Wednesday of the month: th th When life is tough, Lord, - 28 July, 25 August, nd th grant us both strength 22 September, 27 October, th nd but peace, in knowing 24 November and 22 December. you are there beside us

in darkness and in light, Pauline Martin never further away than Dersingham Branch Leader a silent prayer is heard

and arms reach out to hug.

Amen

4 Parish Magazine The Church Choir, (a limited number due to restrictions) of which Edgar was a long time

member, will be singing for the service in The church magazine continues to be valued church. The Service can be attended by a and much loved in our communities and limited number of church members and further afield. The PCC have reviewed the friends, in addition to the family. The costs of photocopying and so from this number will be confirmed in the coming month the cost will be 50p per issue which weeks. Please bear in mind it might not be compared to many church magazines is a possible to accommodate everyone wishing bargain! Over a 12-month period for the 8 to attend. regular issues and 2 double issues this will now be a simpler amount to collect of £5. We are working on live streaming the funeral service directly from church, though the Many people remark on how much they look viewing of this will be different from how our forward to receiving their copy each time regular live stream worship is accessed. and I am pleased that we are able to Access will be from a direct link (to follow). continue to do so ahead. Thank you to Jackie our Editor (I hope she doesn`t delete this bit!) We pray for Edgar’s daughter Sue and the for her continuing hard work and dedication family at this time. and the volunteers who deliver your Rev Mark magazine come rain and shine.

At this point I would like to inform readers A prayer for all who mourn that for a long time Edgar Cooper used to do the printing of this magazine, sat with his Almighty God, source of all mercy and giver lunchbox tending the machine. This was one of comfort, deal graciously with those who of his many contributions to the church and mourn, that casting all their sorrow on you community. In the short-term Pauline Martin they may know the consolation of your love; is currently kindly copying the magazine until through your son, Jesus Christ our Lord. we are able to move the printer and paper to a warm dry location then we will looking for Amen a small printing team of volunteers.

Enjoy another great edition of your parish Ed’s note: Some quotes with Father’s Day in magazine. mind

Rev Mark What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by ~~~~~ posterity. Richter Edgar Cooper Directly after God in heaven comes Pa- Sadly Edgar Cooper died last week. Edgar pa. Mozart as a boy offered so much to St Nicholas Church in many ways including being Churchwarden. A father is a banker provided by nature. – The arrangements for Edgar’s funeral are French proverb currently being finalised but I can confirm his funeral will be on 14 June at 1pm in Church.

5 St Nicholas Church, Dersingham Finances for April 2021

RECEIPTS £ PAYMENTS £ Planned giving 3,518 Parish Share 7,000 Collections 883 Fabric maintenance 1,809 Donations 2064 Church Running Costs 1,840 Other receipts 1,358 Other payments 104 Total received 7,823 Total paid out 10,753

A difference of £2,930 more expenditure in April. Donations include a specific donation for fabric maintenance. Other receipts includes a grant of £770 from the Archbishops’ Council.

Pat Oughtibridge Treasurer

Please telephone Katrina if you are able to help.

St Nicholas We also need donations of cakes please. If Catering you are able to bake one please contact Katrina. Team The catering team would like to take this opportunity to send their condolences to the

families of the friends we have lost over the We would like to announce that ,providing last year – Margaret (who was the lovely la- the lifting of Covid restrictions goes as dy greeting you as you came into the church planned, we will be holding a Coffee and Edgar (the gentleman who was always morning in church on July 2nd at 10am. ready to take your cash after you had chosen your cake) they will be sorely missed. We will be serving refreshments but regret that there will be NO STALLS within the We look forward to seeing you on the church on this occasion. However, the 2nd July if all goes to plan. situation will be assessed before the August coffee morning is due. Katrina Mundy

We are looking for volunteers to help with the various roles at the coffee morning: Quote:

Setting up the tables and chairs and then Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the clearing away at the end cheapest of pleasures; costs nothing and conveys much. Washing up (once we restart using crockery Erastus Wiman etc) and waiting on table.

6 St Nicholas mission to create real world change to transition to a net zero global economy.” Church Volunteer Cleaning Group The Church Commissioners have therefore committed to “increasing engagement

activity with the highest emitting companies I hope to have the in our portfolio, as well as with our volunteer group of cleaners investment managers across all asset clas- back into the church in ses.” September providing all Covid restrictions are lifted and we are back to some order of They go on: “We are also increasing our normality (whatever that means). We still policy work in the build-up to COP26 and have Susan (our church cleaner) who beyond. This includes Nationally Determined continues to keep the church looking Contributions (NDCs), Deforestation and the brilliant and many thanks for all her hard Green Recovery.” work over the last year keeping the church safe for us to use. The 2025 target includes the Commissioners’

public equities and real estate portfolio. If you were on my list and would still like to volunteer could you please contact me if you would like to volunteer to help keep St Nicholas church looking clean. Beware Japanese knotweed this summer The teams usually consist of 3-4 people going in at a mutually convenient time on a rota of once a month. Japanese knotweed growing through a Japanese knotweed pavement Keep safe and hope to see you all soon.

Katrina Mundy This month (June) could see a sudden bump- er appearance of the notorious garden pest, Japanese knotweed. News: The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) experts Church Commissioners to have warned that the April frosts either delayed or killed other plants who would reduce carbon intensity of its have helped keep it in check. Unfortunately, portfolio by 2025 the pest is very hardy, and will not have been killed off. The Church Commissioners for have announced their goal to reduce the carbon The plant grows up to 2.1 metres (7ft) tall intensity of their investment portfolio by and can destroy the foundations of houses 25% by 2025. and run riot in gardens. It can even devalue property, and lead to the refusal of The 25% reduction target, based on a mortgages on the land. baseline of 2019, is “a realistic goal in our 7 Ed’s note: In response to my request for dissolved. Add the pears, cover with a lid recipes suitable for vegans, The Chef has and poach gently for 15 minutes until a knife offered the following: slides in easily. Leave to cool in the liquid.

Sticky Toffee Pear Pudding Now make the sponge - Put the dates and linseed in a saucepan and add the almond

milk. Bring to a gentle simmer then cook for

2/3 minutes until the dates are soft. Pour

into a food processor and blitz until smooth.

Add the oil and blend again. Scrape into a

bowl and set aside to cool a little.

Heat Oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease

and line a 10 x 30 cm baking tin with baking (Serves 8). Prep and cooking time: parchment. 75 minutes)

Put the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl Ingredients: 8 small firm pears with ½tsp salt. Mix well, breaking up any 200g golden caster sugar sugar lumps with fingers and shake the bowl 2 cinnamon sticks a few times to encourage any lumps up to 1 star anise (optional - not always easy to the surface. Add the date and oil mixture find). and stir well. Fold in the chopped 6 cloves pearscraps. Scrape the cake mixture into 1 lemon (zest pared) the tin then nestle in the pears standing 1 orange (zest pared) straight up so that the bottom halves are Vegan Ice Cream to serve (optional) covered. Bake for 35/40 minutes until the

cake is cooked through. Inset a skewer into For the Sponge: the centre to check - it should come out 250g pitted dates clean. If there is any wet cake mixture on 2 tbspns linseed the skewer, return the cake to the oven for 300ml unsweetened almond milk another 10 minutes. Then 200ml vegetable oil plus extra for greasing check again. 175g dark muscovado sugar

200g self raising flour Meanwhile, bring the pear poaching liquid 1 tsp bicarb of soda back to the boil and simmer until reduced to 1 tsp ground mixed spice a glossy syrup. When the cake is cooked,

cool for 5 - 10 minutes, then brush all over METHOD: Peel the pears and cut the bottom with the syrup saving a little to serve of each to give a flat base - cut them to a alongside the vegan ice cream if you like. height which will fit snugly into your tin. Use a melon baller or small knife to cut out the The Chef pips from the base. Roughly chop the pear scraps, discarding the pips and set aside. Tip the sugar, cinnamon, cloves, zests and star anise and 600 mls of water into a saucepan large enough to fit all the pears. Bring to the boil then simmer until the sugar has

8 otherwise she would see nobody all week; as he passed through Dersingham, he left a cash donation at the Post Office, sometimes of hundreds of pounds. Thirdly, a week or Thanks are due to the population of Dersing- two ago, a short, quiet man walked into the ham for their continued generosity to the Post Office with one neat bag which he put Foodbank. I have not provided figures for the by the box, and then left without a word, just donations since the beginning of March in a meaningful look at Fraser: we found it was the April magazine. Here they are up to now: th full of ten Kilos of rice. 66.8 Kilos were given on 16 March, 45.5 Kilos on 25th March, 82.2 Kilos on 8th April, th th So, along with our gratitude goes lots of 129.3 Kilos on 27 April, 112.4 Kilos on 13 humility. These people just want to give, and May, with £100 cash donated in May, £100 th th when they do, the feeling flows – silently and on 16 March and £150 on 27 April. We are anonymously. Thank you, everyone. now emerging from the restrictions of lock- down and the economic well-being of most Allan Coleby people will be improving, but there is no re- lief from the anxiety and stress of those who still cannot afford the basic necessities of Friend? living. Theses are met by the charitable activ- ities of the Foodbank donors. Arriving at church to attend a wedding, a

formidable looking lady in a large hat was It is now six months since our donations greeted by the usher. “Are you a friend of became directed to King’s Lynn, where there the groom?” he ventured. are many more clients than at and, with the consistent and relentless need, the spirit of Dersingham people has matched “Certainly not,” she said indignantly. “I’m it with ever-growing gifts of food and money. the bride’s mother.”

Sometimes, it is a privilege to work in the organisation of the Foodbank, for you get to see and appreciate the gallant efforts made HANNANT’S INSPIRATIONS “A word for all occasions” by such genuine people. Each donor has his or her own story, based on their different When you don’t know what to say or how to say it, let me help you ... circumstances. Let me share three of them anonymously with you. Bespoke, handmade cards for eve-

ry occasion

There is the young schoolgirl who, with her CVs and Cover letters, mother, regularly and conscientiously puts Eulogies, Tributes, Life sketches, aside items mentioned in the Foodbank list Letters of appreciation or thanks, Letters of apology, Letters of of needs. Then, each month, the total complaint amount is taken to the Post Office in a large and more ... bag which they leave with us for ease of For information, call transport: this month it was, would you Angela Hannant on: believe, 18 Kilos’ worth. Then, there used to 01485 297425 be the man from Wisbech who each week visited his widowed mother-in-law because

9 with more referrals already on our system for the coming months.

Please continue to pray that we may be able to answer each and every one. 'As I am writing this little piece, it is Thank you so much for your support and May 14th...... usually at this point of the year encouraging words.' we would have completed approximately 20 - 25 referrals supporting those less able to Maggie Anderson Centre Leader provide for their new baby. Baby Basics West Serving vulnerable families across Norfolk, As you know, throughout the year of Covid Cambridgeshire and Breckland 19, we supported 97 families with either full (Charity number 1168099)

Moses basket bundles or requests for specific essentials, be it a cot and bedding or clothing bundle or nappies and toiletries etc. 97 families who would otherwise have been unable to provide for their family. St Nicholas Friendship Group

(Formerly St Nicholas Church’s Men’s Group) This was enabled by you! Yes, we have had huge support, encouragement and financial Since our last AGM meeting in 2020 and, donations from a much wider area, but, during the period of lockdown, it is with without the love, support, and donations regret we have to inform members of the from our local community and Church Family passing of both our chair, Mr Edgar Cooper we couldn't have continued. and our former treasurer, Mr Gerald Bell.

So where are we now? With the government’s lifting of restrictions

on indoor meetings from 21st June, our AGM Well, gradually and very slowly those for 2021 will be held at the Orchard Close members of our team who have shielded for Meeting Room (PE31 6LU) on Wednesday over a year are beginning to reintegrate. This 14th July 2021 at 10.30 a.m. Members will is going to be a slow process and very much receive their invitations in the near future. a learning curve until all restrictions are lifted completely. If you are interested in joining this

gender-neutral group you will be made very

welcome.

For any further information please contact

one of the committee:

Secretary: Erich Dreibholz

Treasurer: Rob Churchill Now to complete my introductory Committee Members: sentence... as I said, usually we would have John Handley completed approximately 20-25 referrals by Ron Cossou this point. Sadly, and we believe as a direct result of the pandemic, we have already supported 81 families since January 2021,

10 Ed’s note: As a change from the usual insects. Encouraging more of these into your gardening advice, I thought some notes on garden can help. the scouge of gardeners, pests, would be helpful Scrape them off - if you’ve got a light infestation, you can simply scrape the scales off by hand.

Prune affected branches - if there are any branches particularly affected you can prune these out.

Use a bug spray - sprays containing fatty

acids can help control euonymus scale. But Euonymus scale are big enough to see with you’ll have to reapply frequently to keep on the naked eye. The white males are oval top of the problem. Spray will be most shaped, measure 1-2mm long and are effective in June and September when generally to be found hanging around on the there’ll be more of the vulnerable, newly undersides of leaves. hatched nymphs around.

Females look like brownish scales and Spray in the winter - spray euonymus with a they’re actually fixed to the spot - usually on plant wash in the winter. tree bark or leaf stems. Advice offered by Thomson and Morgan When the insects suck sap from the plant, they discolour the foliage, leaving yellow Stories of Lynn at the Lynn patches. Affected leaves will eventually drop Museum off. A heavy infestation will weaken the plant, Explore-your-bench, a paint and pens art causing severe die-back and loss of vigour. workshop on Monday 31 May, Tuesday 1 June, Wednesday 2 June pre-bookable workshops at 10am, 11am, 12noon, 1pm What do euonymus scales eat? and 2pm for 45minutes. These insects feed on evergreen euonymus - and they’re particularly keen on Euonymus This is a face-to-face, family bubble event japonicus. (maximum of five participants) suitable for all ages in Stories of Lynn.

Decorate your own mini-bench, inspired by How can I control euonymus scale? the King’s Lynn Explore-a-book bench You’ve got a few alternatives to help control trail. Included in museum admission. a euonymus scale infestation: To book call 01553 774297 or email [email protected] Encourage natural predators - our native www.storiesoflynn.co.uk for more kidney-spot ladybird (black with a large red information. spot on each wing case) specialises in scale

11 It also found that around 12.4million people What do you think will have volunteered during the pandemic, happen after Covid? 4.6million of them for the first time. And 75 per cent of those volunteers would be You can take your choice: a recent survey happy to do so again. has found that a third of us think that society may never go back to the old ways, a third Neighbourhood Watch of us think we will go back to exactly as we were before, and a third of us think that we In one small rural village the local vet also will be keener than ever to stay together. led the local Neighbourhood Watch

group. Late one night the phone rang, and The Together Coalition, chaired by the Arch- his wife answered. An agitated voice bishop of Canterbury, has been working for inquired, “Is your husband there?” the past year on a piece of research to track just what has happened to “He is, but tell me, do you need him as the communities during lockdown. vet or the Neighbourhood Watch?” the wife

asked. The new research has found that “people feel a stronger sense of connection to their “Both!” was the reply. “We can’t get our neighbours and community. …We found a dog’s mouth open, and there’s a burglar in clear public appetite for a society in which it!” we are more connected to each other, and the community spirit of 2020 is kept alive.”

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The PCC has pleasure in announcing that St Nicholas Church, Dersingham has been chosen as a ven- ue for two of this year’s Concerts. The Concerts will take place on the 27th and 28th July at 6.30pm with seats ranging from £35—£15 and the capacity currently limited under Covid guidelines to half the Church’s maximum (approx. 130). We hope this will be able to be increased if guidance allows.

Tickets will be available to Friends of Music in Country Churches on the 27th May and on the 11th June for the general public. Booking will be via the MICC Website, or their telephone box office- details to be published in the near future.

Music in Country Churches was set up as a charitable trust in 1989 with the active support of HRH The Prince of Wales to hold concerts given by musicians of national and international repute in country parish churches. Through revenue generated from these concerts and the donations re- ceived from the Friends of Music in Country Churches and other sponsors, the Charity aims to raise funds to help with the maintenance and upkeep of the church buildings where the concerts are held.

The programme for the concert on the 27th July is:

MUSIC AT DERSINGHAM WITH FLITCHAM at St Nicholas, Dersingham (with Flitcham), Norfolk PE31 6GZ

APOLLO5 PENELOPE APPLEYARD soprano CLARE STEWART alto OSCAR GOLDEN-LEE tenor OLI MARTIN SMITH tenor GREG LINK bass Performance time: 6:30pm Programme: APOLLO5 WHERE ALL ROSES GO A recital celebrating 500 years of choral music Apollo5’s programme will feature music from their tenth anniversary album which unites a diverse collection of choral music spanning 500 years, from some of the earliest known pol- yphonic writing through to new compositions, in an energetic exploration of the joy and despair of human love.

www.musicincountrychurches.org.uk

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The programme for the concert on 28th July 2021 is: MUSIC AT DERSINGHAM WITH FLITCHAM at St Nicholas, Dersingham (with Flitcham), Norfolk PE31 6GZ

THE ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA STRING ENSEMBLE directed by STEPHANIE GONLEY with LAURA DEIGNAN clarinet Performance time: 6:30pm Programme: ROSSINI String Sonata No. 3 in C major HAWES Swan FINZI Five Bagatelles, Op. 23

----- INTERVAL-----

VIVALDI The Four Seasons (‘Spring’ & ‘Summer’) BRITTEN Simple Symphony, Op. 4 BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances

Tickets: Tickets for the Friends will be available from 27 May and go on general sale on 11 June. New this year will be a special under-eighteens ticket costing £5 per performance providing they are accompanied by an adult paying the full price. Social distancing rules will be followed.

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Ed’s note: A message has been received from The Friends of Flitcham Church to say that they are looking forward to working with Dersingham in preparation for the concerts and are very grateful to the PCC of St Nicholas Church for hosting the event.

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Ingoldisthorpe News

Services (Please see page 2 for details)

Mobile Post Office

The Post Office van continues to call on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at 11.45-12.15 and Friday at 13.00-13.45. However, any changes will be published locally and here.

Church Hall Committee

The Hall Committee will have had a meeting late in May, so hopefully there will be lots of news to share with you after that. Many of you already know that Suzie is moving her clas- ses to Hunstanton so there will be several new slots for new bookings. Suzie was the book- ing agent for the hall, so we are very lucky that Lindsay Wallace has volunteered to take over this task. Lindsay can be contacted on 07876786224. Sylvia Pratt

News from the Ingoldisthorpe WI

It seems no time at all since I wrote my last update, with time passing so quickly and both the weather and guidelines are ever changing.

We now appear to be on the verge of a positive change and hopefully the weather will warm up and we can begin to make plans again.

We should have had our first ‘al fresco’ Committee meeting at the end of May when we will start to prepare for our first all members get together in July. And from then on, all being well, our programme for the rest of the year will take shape. Too early to say for definite any details about resuming our community events but we are all eager and waiting to get going. Let’s hope the next time I write I will have more news.

Nearly there folks, continue to take care.

Lesley Geer President, Ingoldisthorpe Village WI.

Ingoldisthorpe Social Club

A welcome back to all members and anyone else who would like to join the Club. Our first meeting will be on the 3rd July at 7pm when we are putting on a session of Bingo at 8pm. The bar will be open. No entry charge other than the cost of bingo cards. For future events and Club news please see next month’s “Parish Church News”. Club organisers

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Anmer Village Bulletin

Services

(Please see page 2 for details)

Greetings from Anmer. Spring is sprung, after a mainly cold dry April we have a settled weather pattern, warm but with frequent scattered showers, good for the garden! All over the village we have fresh green foliage, blossom and the last of the spring bulbs. Up at the church the churchyard is bright and colourful and enhanced by the arrival of a bench dedicated to the memory of Eddie Newell, with a fine view to the west.

Our next service will be on the 20th June, which, with a bit of luck, will be the day before most COVID restrictions will be lifted. We have been moving tentatively towards unaccustomed freedoms, and friends and family are beginning to meet. Rector Mark assures us that it will not be long before services resume to a regular pattern. In the meantime let us nurture the connections which have been made during the long lock down.

Anmer Social Club

Dear Members, I am delighted to be able to tell you that we are reopening the club from Friday 21st May. We will be limited for numbers until after the 21st June. The club will open each Friday evening from 7.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. as before and Saturday lunchtimes from 12.30 to 2.30 p.m. We do hope members will come along to support the club until we can open without restrictions. Rule of 6 will apply and no more than 30 people.

We have planned a Quiz Night on the 18th June (again subject to rule of 6 and no more than 30 people). Our President Nick will be organising this. Please contact me or Nick to book a place. Masks will be worn and there are new QR codes to be used as you enter the club together with hand sanitisers as before and social distancing. Details will also be on our website and Facebook page. Track and trace signing in will still be used until after 21st June.

From then on with, hopefully, no more restrictions: 26th June at 3 p.m. there will be a grand reopening with a BBQ, Monday 5th July will be a Bingo evening, 23rd July (Friday) hopefully a musical evening, and 21st August (Saturday) a Pie and Mash evening.

Bingo will continue on the 2nd August, a Quiz on the 6th August, and Film Night on the 13th August. It’s also intended to have a children’s Christmas Party with Santa Claus on Saturday 18th December (for which there will be a small charge and possibly a surprise visitor(s)) so please note these dates in your diaries.

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We also hope to restart later the Roast Sunday lunches which were very popular. We may have a wedding reception starting at 3.45 on the 10th July subject to weather but the club will be open at lunchtime as usual.

We will still need those intending to come along to book a place at any of the events particularly for food nights because of the catering involved, either direct or through our website. [email protected]. Again, until after the 21st June, we are limited on numbers so please do respect those rules as we cannot afford heavy fines – not just us but any member breaking the rules can also be fined heavily.

Joe and Dale have now repaired all 3 picnic benches and they look really good. The Estate has almost completed repairs to the Gable End and the glass wash- er is now up on its stand in the bar. And just needs the plumber to finish the plumbing in. So glasses can be washed and dried very quickly (and saves wash- day hands!).

If anyone re-joins the club from the 21st May, they will pay half the current sub until the end of the year. This recognises that members have not been able to use the club since January. Anyone who has already paid full subs will be able to claim a free drink at the bar on production of a valid membership card for 2021.

If anyone would like to help with our Bar Rota, then please let me know. We have several very willing volunteers who run the bar and it works out at about once a month but we could always do with more to help.

The club is fully Covid secure and masks will need to be worn unless eating and drinking until the 21st June at the earliest. There will be table service again until the 21st June.

We look forward to seeing you again and thank you again for your continued support. Dorothy Chairman, Anmer Social Club Tel. No. 01553 631349 or [email protected].

18 subtle signs of Ovarian Cancer” and this was unanimously given 100% support. With many thanks to our three hosts, we were able to hold a coffee morning on Dersingham Evening W.I. 25th May indoors though, in less cold weath- er, it would have been pleasant to sit in the

garden. At the time of writing I feel it is On Wednesday May 19th we held our Zoom more like winter. meeting with guest speaker John Vigor whose talk was entitled” Banquets, Hoping that the lifting of Covid restrictions Bedrooms and Balls” . This was attended by goes as planned on June 21st our first lunch twenty members as we were able to invite outing (hoorah) at the Rose and Crown in those who did not have internet to come in- will go ahead on June 23rd and I to our homes to join in. am sure our members who have signed up

for it will thoroughly enjoy it (so sorry I will The talk was a fun look at the development have to miss it this time !) of the Country House from its Medieval Hall

House to the mid-20th Century with slides We have another coffee morning planned for from some of the lovely old Houses we have 25th June with two hosts and will then we in this country. We learnt, among other hope, in July go back to our normal one host things, about the “lady friend” of the coffee morning. Prince Regent who looked after the giraffe he had been given as a gift and how on the Our June evening meet will once again be by Prince’s death she had to pack up and take Zoom (hopefully the last) and, for this, have the skeleton of the giraffe with her. John also invited Shirley Webb from Colour me pointed out how, over the centuries, you Beautiful to talk to us. Perhaps we can pick portrayed your wealth and to prove you up some tips. were not New Rich, displayed old Masters or portraits of your many ancestors on the wall. Our July evening meet will (all fingers and Many thanks to John for this highly toes crossed) be back in St Cecelia’s at interesting talk. 7.15pm. This will be the first time since

February 2020 that we will have all met The talk was followed by a small refreshment together as a group and, I for one, am break and then our member, Phly Jones, looking forward to it as I am sure are many read one of her stories about her memories of our members. as a child of a beautiful locked box her old

Aunt had and the mystery of the contents. If you would like to know more about the Phly found out the contents of the box W.I. please phone Lyn or Stephanie. many years later but, with no explanation, they still remained a mystery as to why her Keep safe and see you soon. Aunt kept them. Phyl has had many stories printed in W.I. literature. Katrina Mundy

We voted on whether to support the resolution going forward to National which was “A call to increase awareness of the

19 contact us as we have some flexibility with our regular bookings.

Village Centre Lottery winners for May are 72, 13 & 31. The Lottery costs just £5 per News from Dersingham month and the proceeds provide valuable regular income to support our activities. The Village Centre more members there are the bigger the priz- es! Following April’s resumption of children’s and young people’s activities, most other You can keep updated on events and classes and groups returned during May. activities at the Centre by checking our notice-boards, or visit our website We have reviewed our procedures to see if www.dersinghamvillagecentre.org.uk and we can make things easier for users whilst sign up for the regular newsletters. ensuring government guidance is adhered to We also have a Facebook Page and post and everyone is safe. announcements on the Dersingham Village Facebook Group. A new weekly (term time) group for Mothers and Babies, called Munchkin and Me, started Best wishes from all at the Centre. on Friday, May 21st. Sue Payne Stop Press! The Benjamin Foundation have secured funding, for two years, to run a club for young people aged 8 and over in the Medium SUDOKU Centre. It will be an extension of the service they run in Hunstanton and the plan is to start the Dersingham Club after half term. An additional youth worker will be recruited for the project who will be consulting with local children and families; volunteers will also be needed to help run sessions and ensure the club succeeds long term.

Birthday Parties. If you are planning your child’s birthday party, we can offer you a three-hour package. The St Nicholas Hall at Centre is well used, including Saturdays, so we are promoting Sunday afternoons for daytime parties; some weekday afternoons are also available.

Please do check the calendar on the Bookings page of our website; it will give you a good indication of when the St Nicholas Hall is free. Should your preferred date and time appear not to be available, please

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Don’t forget the other half

When my daughter said her bedtime prayers, she would bless every family member, every friend, and every animal (current and past). Then one night, after we had finished the nightly prayer, she add- ed: “And all girls.” This soon became part of her nightly routine.

Finally, my curiosity got the best of me and I asked her why she had begun adding the part about all girls. Her response? “Because at church the minister only ever says ‘all men!’”

Notices: St Nicholas Church Knit and St Nicholas Church Welcome Natter Pack (for new residents only) We meet every fortnight on a Tuesday afternoon to have a cup of tea and knit and The Welcome Packs are now available by natter. Come along and bring your knitting application to Shirley Brooks. Please deliver or any other needlecraft - come and learn - one to any newcomers to Dersingham. come and share your experience - all Thank you. welcome. Look for more details on the ~~~~~ weekly pew notes or contact: June or Lindsey.

Photocopier We are presently looking for a space to keep Because of the present prohibition of social the St Nicholas photocopier and its events, please check before attending a accompanying paper. If you believe that you meeting. could offer a room for this purpose, please contact Pauline Martin. You would not be expected to maintain and run the machine but to allow others to do that. Thank you. St Nicholas Church PCC

21 22 Memories of a Census Dersingham Methodist Church During WW2 the Census of 1941 had to be missed and the earliest opportunity for it to In recent weeks one of our much loved be taken was in 1951. At that time I was members, Melvin Golding, passed away, about 16 and my mother helped to husband of Joan. We give thanks for having distribute and collect Census forms in a few known Melvin, for his sense of humour, streets in our town. No computers then but willingness to help in many ways and for now the Government assumes we all have sharing his faith. one. How little they know.

Melvin ran the church bowls club, the When distributing the forms, mother told bookstall at the coffee mornings and in the each householder when they would be past has been a church steward and property collected. On her return she mentioned one steward. Melvin oversaw the church particular house that was sited down a lane, refurbishment in 2007/2008 and the church almost on its own. The occupier opened the building is a testament to him. We will door and though looking very worried continue to pray for Joan at this difficult time invited mother in. She explained that she and for Melvin’s family. had not completed the Census because she had a confession to make. It was that she We are pleased to say that we reopened for was not married to the man her neighbours morning services on Sunday 23rd May. thought was her husband and did not want Numbers are limited but if anyone would like this fact made known. to attend please email:

[email protected]. Mother assured her that the only people to read the forms were in offices in London. How good it is to be able to worship in This may not have been true but it satisfied Church again, but we have learnt that God is this worried lady. How different life was in everywhere and a virus has not and will not 1951 in that little mill town of Royton, now change His love for us. part of Oldham.

Elizabeth Batstone I have a memento of 1951, a “Toni” home perm kit box complete with its tiny black

“dog bone” shaped perming curlers. I think my Mother was paid to do the Census Dersingham Library distribution and collection for that was the Newsletter only way she could have afforded that “Toni” home perm for me. All our libraries are now fully open. The only exceptions are Hingham, which will continue Shirley Brooks to offer an at the door service only, and Hunstanton, which is closed while it moves Ed’s note: Has any reader kept a brand- to temporary premises in Valentine Road name container from, say, forty or so years and is reopening next week. You can even ago and is there a reason for its retention? book computer access for your visit. Do write in with your story.

23 Private video conferencing, to help with job · Come Singing by Phone - A rather interviews and online meetings, is also available innovative, slightly haphazard, but fun in some of our libraries. way to enjoy group singing. All you need is a home phone or mobile and Bounce and Rhyme will be returning soon to we will phone you to join in with the some of our libraries - please keep an eye on our singing. If you’d like to join in, contact website for latest details. “Come Singing” by email- ing [email protected] or phone BorrowBox Audiobooks have arrived 01603 452404. Are you an Audiobook fan? Then good news! We · Come Singing Videos - A playlist of all of have an extra selection for you, available from the Come Singing at Home videos can BorrowBox. You can access them through the be found on our YouTube channel. BorrowBox app or via the website, where you · Music Mirrors - Memories are a large can borrow up to four titles with your library part of who we are, and music helps us card. For full instructions on signing up visit our remember things. But memories can website. fade - it’s a normal part of ageing and can happen with illness, accident or Our libraries provide Reading Well for dementia. A Music Mirror is a brief life Dementia books that you might find helpful if story in our own words, with sounds you have dementia, are caring for and music embedded to spark someone with dementia, or would like to find memories later on. Not so much a out more about the condition. The booklist playlist but a memory toolkit. You can includes: find out more about Music Mirrors by · Grandma by Jessica Shepherd - More watching a short video on YouTube. and more children are encountering dementia and its effects on their Cressida McLaughlin Zoom visit families. This touching story, told in Tickets can now be booked for our next Author Oscar’s own words, is a positive and Q&A on Zoom with Cressida McLaughlin. practical tale about the experience. Cressy will be joining us on Wednesday 9 June at The factual page about dementia helps 8pm to talk about her new novel 'The Cornish children talk about their feelings and Cream Tea Wedding', book four in the Cornish find new ways to enjoy the changing Cream Tea series. Tickets are free, and available relationship. to the first 50 people who book. For information · Can I Tell You About Dementia? A Guide on how to book and other upcoming author for Family, Friends and Carers by events, please visit our website. Jude Welton - Meet Jack - an older man with dementia. Jack invites Quick Reads - short books and great stories by readers to learn about dementia from bestselling authors his perspective, helping them to 2021 marks the 15th anniversary of Quick Reads, understand the challenges faced by with six new titles being published by someone with dementia and the Caitlin Moran, Peter James, Louise Candlish, changes it causes to memory, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Khurrum Rahman and communication and behaviour. Katie Fforde. You can reserve a copy of any of the books for free, to collect from your local library. Selected Kerry Lingwood titles are also available to borrow as eBooks and Library Manager eAudio books.

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Where are our birds?

British birds are in big trouble. 80 per cent of our most popular species are in severe decline, according to recent data from the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch.

The world’s largest wildlife survey has found that 16 out of the 20 most spotted garden birds have been in decline since 2020. There Talking are now concerns about the greenfinch and chaffinch, which were seen in their lowest Bishop Douglas Feaver, the notoriously ever numbers this year. outspoken former Bishop of Peterborough, was presiding at his first Diocesan Synod and The top five birds seen in people’s gardens a man at the back had been droning on and were: house sparrows, blue tits, starlings, on for some length of time. Finally, a lady blackbirds and wood pigeons. Only robins, called out to protest that she could not hear blackbirds, carrion crows and the song what he was saying. Bishop Douglas replied: thrush grew in number in 2020. “You should thank God and sit down.”

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25 Ed’s note: The Rev Gary Bowness continues his tongue-in-cheek letters to his nephew Eustace. . .

On getting to church at a social distance

The Rectory St James the Least of All

My dear Nephew Darren

Since your parishioners mostly live in an area of half a square mile, where their only concern in getting to church is whether to take the underpass, or to risk a dash across the ring road, you may have little understanding of the problems our folk have in travelling our long country lanes to church, especially as we are keeping our social distance from each other.

Several parishioners have decided that they can’t possibly share cars even with their own spouses, as in their 15-room homes they have successfully (and in some cases, happily) avoided each other for months. So the lane outside the church has filled up each week with Mercedes nudging Audis, and Land Rovers easing in between Bentleys.

Others arrive on horseback. But they are careless about leaving their horses to graze in the churchyard, and I have had to remind them twice that flowers in memorial vases are not fodder. The horses do help to keep the grass down, but unfortunately our verger now ob- jects to standing outside during Mattins, holding the reins of half a dozen horses. He says it is not part of his job description, which only confirms my view that there is entirely too much fuss these days about having job descriptions at all.

Major Crompton’s devotion to his new sit-on lawnmower has inspired him to travel to church on it. Since he is unable to uncouple the mowing apparatus, the tarmac on his two- mile drive is acquiring interesting patterns. His drive at two miles per hour along narrow lanes means he arrives leading a procession of cars with drivers given the opportunity to exercise the Christian virtue of patience.

Mrs Pendleton, on the other hand, leads a small but select group from the Mothers’ Union who are all keen cyclists. They all arrive on a whoosh of fresh air, their hair in total disarray, but with pink cheeks glowing with health. Nobody in church minds sitting near them, as an- yone who can manage to peddle an old three-gear bicycle up the hill to our church is most unlikely to be sickening for anything.

Finally, of course, the majority arrive on foot, having negotiated fields, stiles and assorted cattle on the way. The countryside may well praise God, but one does wish they wouldn’t bring quite so much of it into church.

Your loving uncle,

Eustace

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