The Parish Magazine

March 2021 Editors Ramblings!

I hope everyone is hanging in there. It’s getting a bit tedious now! It’s like having our own groundhog day. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. I’m probably feeling a bit sorry for myself this week as Neil’s away and we’ve just had Valentine’s day and it’s my birthday this coming week. I was just discussing with Katie what takeaway we may get to celebrate and I just wasn’t feeling it! I’m looking forward to going out with friends and having a nice cold glass of white wine with some beautifully prepared fish or sea food. Hmmm!

Enjoying watching the Rugby 6 nations at the weekends though. Was pretty torn with the Calcutta Cup result. Being English I was supporting but I was also supporting Scotland as the rest of the house are Scottish. It was a difficult decision!

No solid news on our house move but hopefully we’ll know more by next month! Watch this space!

Thank you so much for a donation of £30.00 this last month through internet banking. It was very much appreciated. Community Bank details are:-

Rylstone Parish Magazine Sort Code: 20-78-42 Account No: 10780677 Ref: Donation

I’ve left the information in about Ian Cross and Xavier Chaduc even though it’s in February but hopefully the magazine will be with you before their run!

The next deadline for the April issue is Monday, 15th March. Please put the date in your diary, so that you don’t forget! This is YOUR community magazine, we’d like to hear about any achievements and congratulations as well.

ALL editorial and advertising queries to: [email protected] or last resort telephone Debbie Geldart on 730345

Advertising for 2021/22 Thank you to Sarah Hartley for dealing with all our advertising. If you are interested in advertising in the magazine from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 please contact Sarah on the above email and she will be able to advise you of advert space available. Advertisors, look out for an email coming out! The deadline for all advertising copy is 14th March.

RYLSTONE PARISH COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER GROUP

We’re still here if you need us. The following names and numbers can be contacted and they will co-ordinate the support you need, from the Community WhatsApp group of volunteers:-

Rylstone – Sophie Caygill 730277, Moyra Livesey 730251 – Debbie Geldart 730345, Sara Snow 07974 419770, Karen Booth 730988, Trudy Balderson 730350, Philip Capon (The Devonshire Arms, 699191) Scale House Woodlands – Nick Pascoe 700729 , – any of the above

Community Contacts

Book Club – Debbie Geldart 07989 353030 Church of England, St Peter's Church - David Macha 752575 [email protected], secretary Sara Humphreys [email protected] Community Fund - Moyra Livesey, Chair and applications contact 01756 730251 or [email protected] Cracoe Parish – Chair Richard Jackson, Clerk Karen Booth [email protected] Cracoe, Rylstone, Hetton and Bordley Communtiy Page on facebook, please join! Cricket – Paul Baines 01756 730333 Hetton Methodist Church - Tracey Darling 752607 Council meeting secretary Bill Haigh 730202, [email protected] Hetton Parish – Chair Alan Horn, Clerk Janet Keighley – parish- clerkhetton@gmail History Group – Tricia Linton 01756 730308 Project Reverb – [email protected], twitter@YouthReverb or https://projectreverb.wordpress.com/ Rounders – Kelly Skinner 07778 550247 Rylstone History Project – www.rylstoneproject.com Rylstone Parish – Clerk James Snowden 730253, [email protected] Toddlers – Glennis Hobbs 01756 791807 Village Hall– Debbie Geldart [email protected] WI – President, Alison Fort 01756 720680. Secretary, Sue Magoolagan 01756 730474

Dates for Your Diary

March 2nd Community Fund Trustees’ Meeting 7.00 pm 2nd Book Club, Cracoe 8.00 pm 4th WI meeting, Zoom 7.00 pm

The 24 Hours of Cracoe

On 27th February 2021, two Cracoe residents, Xavier Chaduc and Ian Cross are planning a 24 hour fell walk/jog to raise money for Martin House Hospice.

The planned route is a continuous loop that begins in Cracoe, climbs to the War Memorial monument, goes along the fell to the Cross at Rylstone, before coming down to St Peter’s Church and then back to Cracoe.

They will run for 24 hours non-stop starting at 10:00AM on the 27th of February and finishing at 10:00AM the day after on the 28th of February.

If you would like to make a donation to support either of the nominated charity please do so by using the following link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/xavier-chaduc1

Any donation, large or small, would be much appreciated during a time when due to the pandemic, many charities are suffering from a fall in income.

Many thanks.

Xav and Ian

Flowers from the Dales... March- The Meadow Bothy

It's the day after Valentines and warm. A positively balmy 8°c in the sun. I'm having a socially distanced cup of tea with my Gran. The first time she can sit in the doorway and me in the yard, in weeks. I've brought her a small wrap of tulips to brighten her day; after delivering a floral tribute for a memorial this week close-by, always a huge honour.

It got me thinking that this Valentines wasn't just between partners, but friends, relatives, for carers, staff members and we've even posted flowers out to your loved ones too.

So a huge thank you for all of your orders. At this time of year we've teamed up with other growers and farmers to continue with British grown flowers, so do get in touch if you have any enquiries, and of course this month we have Mothers Day coming up (14th March) We will be starting up our contactless Friday Flowers again too, so if you'd like a posy for your home or delivering locally for a friend or relative we'd love to help.

It's been a busy week and now that there's a little warmth I'm hopeful the gardening can really ramp up.

With daffodils in bud and the tulips emerged unscathed from the snow and ice, it's sure signs of Spring.

This year we've grown lots of different heirloom narcissus so looking forward to those, lots of which are scented. Muscari, tulips, early allium, hellebores, anemone and ranunculus. They will be a while yet following on from the cold snap but something to look forward to.

Soon there will be new signs of life not just in the garden but with lambing time just around the corner. It's lovely seeing them basking in the sun, or tearing around the field with the whole nursery in tow.

With the ground frozen alot of the bare root planting is slightly behind so it'll be a busy few weeks with more roses and flowering shrubs going in.

So enjoy a bit of warmth and a coffee in the sun. I for one will be indulging in a hot cross bun or two. Enjoying our walks(rather than ice skating around the lane) with Rose and watching the seasons turn.

Liz & Rose , The Meadow Bothy, Tel: 01756 730 999 Email: [email protected], Instagram : @themeadowbothy

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BOOK CLUB

Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Review - An unassuming coming-of-age tale about love, religion, and repression, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit conducts a moving psychological study of a young British lesbian. Across the novel’s eight chapters, Winterson follows a fictionalized version of herself, Jeanette, as she grows up in a strict, working-class Protestant household; in plain but incisive prose, the author considers the teen girl’s struggle to reconcile her sexuality with her faith, charts the highs and lows of her first romances with women, and paints a vivid portrait of an unaccepting, conservative mother.

Embedded within the main plot are hypnotic fairytales and Arthurian legends that illustrate key themes, from the emotional toll of patriarchy to the impossibility of returning home unchanged. The first-person novel has often been read as thinly veiled memoir, shocking in its time and tame today, but Oranges is really rather experimental and literary, in that Winterson glosses over central events, hops around in time, and muses on the nature of storytelling.

This story certainly got us talking but a few of us found it a bit of a slog to read. The highest score was a 7 with the lowest being a 3.

6 stars

2nd March – A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman 6th April – Girl A by Abigail Dean 4th May – Melmoth by Sarah Parry

CHURCH NEWS

Someone told me the other day that we have entered into the ‘recovery phase’. When I asked just what they meant, they spoke of the time when we come out of the pandemic; when we stop worrying about how we will survive/endure and start thinking about the way forward.

It’s not an easy step to make; we may well struggle to break out of the defensive walls we have built in lockdown or we may want to charge into the rebuilding phase, but first we need to recover. All these phrases come out of the thinking around dealing with natural disasters, which if we think about it is just what the pandemic has been; a huge worldwide disaster for so many. What is recovery about? It might be good to think about it in terms of a person dealing with an addiction. It is not possible to rebuild life without first dealing with what the addiction has done to a person’s life. Or think about it in terms of a physical injury, a broken leg needs to heal and mend before a person can begin to run on it again. So it is with us, as we move forward. These different phases of dealing with the Covid pandemic are obviously not discreet units, but we cannot fully rebuild our lives without first beginning to recover from all that has happened to us in the course of the pandemic.

Recovery, as anyone who has been through addiction can tell you, is not an easy journey. The hardest part is being honest with ourselves about what we have been through and just where we are. We may not be so sure about that. Some of us will be struggling with bereavement, or long-Covid, or isolation and all that this brings, or issues around mental health. Many of us will have experienced difficulties in our personal relationships due to the dynamics of lockdown; we’ll have had too much of one another or not enough. Some of us will have lost income and jobs and purpose. And there will be a whole bag of other things going on in our lives that Covid will have made a whole lot more difficult and complex.

Talking about just how things have been over the last 12 months - with someone we trust who is prepared to listen - can be a really helpful way of discovering more about just where we are. Owning the last year, and importantly our feelings about it, scary though it may seem, is an essential part of the recovery phase. You need to tell your story.

Sometimes in the Gospels, when Jesus encounters someone who has come looking for healing, he asks them what they want, or what their situation is. He gives them the opportunity to voice their need, to engage in the struggle to find the words to articulate what is happening in their lives. There is something in this struggle that has the power to help us move forward. As the person does this, somehow they open up their lives for Jesus to act. What do you need to articulate to help your recovery? A good recovery will help you prepare solid ground on which to rebuild. Don’t underestimate the importance of this step as we emerge. And don’t think you are without need of healing; the pandemic has had an impact on each one of us.

Stay safe.

In Christ

/David x https://linton-burnsall-rylstone.com/ https://www.facebook.com/LintonBursallRylstone/ +44 (0)1756 752575

SAVE THE DATE - St Peter’s Rylstone APCM 8.00 pm Monday 10th May - please come and share thoughts on how the Church serves this community.

The meeting will take place via Zoom and for those unable to access the internet we have conference call facilities via a mobile or land line. If you want further details please contact the PCC Secretary Sara Jackson [email protected]

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Gardening with Rob (sort of!)

Ok so it doesn’t feel very springlike. For some reason though I am always surprised to see fragile plants emerging through the concrete earth.

Gardeners are the eternal optimists always looking forward to the next round of change and a fresh start. At home we keep adding to the long list of things we want to do when the dust settles and all this shenanigans is over.

Of course this column would be a great opportunity to vent about our own experience but there are just too many scary stories to make ours worth the retelling. Take for instance the bloke in Queensland, Australia who managed to get his head stuck in a crocodile’s jaws while out for a lake swim. Incredibly, the man was able to prize his head free and a couple of stitches later he was back at the bar telling his mates, 'unprecedented' I bet he said.

And what about Frank Rothwell, aged 70 no less, who has had to row single handedly (well, perhaps both hands) across the Atlantic, which in my book is taking the self-isolation thing a bit too seriously, just to get a sneaky city break in at the other end.

Ah city breaks. Remember those? The best thing about living in Europe, which of course we don’t anymore. On a quiet evening after a couple of glasses of vino you’re checking out what Jet2 has to offer. And before you can say Las Ramblas you’re packing a small suitcase and heading off to Leeds-Bradford to top up your carbon footprint. We have probably all had time to think about how spoilt we all are and reflect on whether it is all necessary. But I miss it. I bloody love tapas. Especially those little barbeque’d baby octopus you get in that noisy sports bar in Nerja. Or the cheap wine and arancini at Roberto’s bar in Venice not to mention oysters in The Marais or just a beer in Berlin.

It all seems like such along time ago despite a lack of all the normal memory milestones that we use to mark time like family get togethers and Wimbledon. Oh blimey, please tell me it’s not cancelled again my Mum will go spare. She’s still getting over Vitas Gerulaitis’ retirement in 1986. Surely, Boris (Johnson, not Becker) understands the importance to the morale of the nation and my Mum’s mental well-being that there has to be a tournament this year even if Matt Hancock has to forgo his Cornish holiday and supervise it himself.

When my wife raises the subject of our own future holidays she suggests getting a campervan. Of course, I’m thinking to myself, why not make the most of this new skill set of claustrophobia management. Mm, probably expensive I say in an attempt to put the mockers in the idea. Hopefully she has forgotten about it.

Anyway, any hope of a holiday this year is a way off just yet as the plant shop will be open again from March and I for one can’t wait. How do teachers do it all day? I have decided to donate all our future earnings to adopt a teacher - they all deserve six figure salaries. And medals. This morning was just me and the kids - hellbent on performing unscheduled and botched DIY on the house which made me feel useless and guilty for not making the most of every second with them. Charlotte pointed out that before we know it the kids will be grown up and off, failing to even call us for weeks on end. And she’s right. There’s always something to look forward to.

Hope to see you all soon down at the shop. Deliveries available too.

Rob (PS: I lied about the donation thing) All Plants North The Farm Shop Cracoe Nr. North BD23 6LB Tel: 01756 730940 www.allplantsnorth.co.uk

Little March Quiz? (Answers on bottom of page 18)

1. What is the birth flower of March?

2. Which UK Saints Day is on March 1st?

3. The lives of the four March sisters feature in which famous novel?

4. March is called maaliskuu in which European language?

5. The March Hare is a character from which book?

6. Which annual health awareness day takes place on the second Wednesday in March?

7. What is the full name of the actor that won Academy Awards for Best Actor in both 1946 and 1932?

8. Symbolizing courage, name March's birthstone?

Report from Rylstone and District W.I.

We had a very successful February meeting, when about 18 members, a guest and few husbands logged in to hear Helen Wray of Gam Farm in gave a virtual talk on the story so far of her family’s continuing transformation of their property from a pig- sty (literally) into a centre for Rare Breeds, a business selling knitted goods and a home.

Her story started with a few pet sheep in the garden of their home in Gargrave back in 1999, to then buy Gam Farm by auction in 2003. Once they had finished some fairly major renovations, they then started bringing in more sheep, cows, pigs, goats and hens onto the 10 acres site. They have concentrated on keeping rare breeds such as: for the sheep – Shetland, Hebridean, Boreray, White Faced Woodland and Wensleydale and Northern Dairy Shorthorn dual purpose cows. Helen herself is concentrating on the wool side of the business – the fleeces from the various sheep are sent out to be spun into yarn of varying shades and textures and then finding ways of marketing it. She has a good business selling the balls of wool online and is developing knitting kits. The family are also using a barn to host their collection of old farming tools and machinery bought from farm sales and auctions – and hoping to open that as a kind of heritage centre. A very interesting talk, which we hope to follow up by a visit to the farm whenever times return to something like normal.

Our March meeting on Thursday 4th, will be a demonstration and participation by members in Armchair Yoga. We are hoping to have a talk from Nigel Hutchinson at The Hedgerow about ‘Orchids of Britain’.