The Rylstone Parish Magazine March 2021
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The Rylstone 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 England 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 Cracoe – 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 Hetton, Bordley – 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. 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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.