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NETHERAVON, HAXTON & FITTLETON NEWSLETTER June 2020 Issue no. 424 * * * COPY DEADLINE for July issue is Thursday 25 June 2020 at 5pm Take advantage of technology with our email: [email protected] or hard copy to Maggie Butler at 11 Mill Road, Netheravon, SP4 9QB. Phone 01980 670122 The Butlers still print, collate and distribute your newsletters, compile all commercial advertisements and maintain the accounts. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY At this time all social gatherings are suspended MINI DIRECTORY (01980 unless otherwise stated) Phoenix Hall Bookings (Michala) 670646 Day Centre (Christine Covil) 670774 Rev. Gale Hunt, Avon River Team 670326 Rev. Barry Davis, Amesbury Baptist Centre 622355 Christ the King, Catholic Church, Amesbury 622177 Methodist Church Amesbury 676766 SSAFA Forces Help 632567 Plainwatch 674700 Durrington & District Link Scheme 594857 AWS JOBS, Pre-Schools, Creches 673379 Scout Group for Boys & Girls 07768 579314 Enford Football Club, Children’s Coaching Club 670634 1 Children and Bible Stories……….. Can you imagine the nun sitting at her desk grading these papers, all the while trying to keep a straight face and maintain her composure! PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND THIS HILARIOUS! IT COMES FROM A CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST. CHILDREN WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN. 1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF. 2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS. 3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT. 4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS. 5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH. 6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES. 7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS. 8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE. 10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY. 11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA. THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL. 12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM. 13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES. 14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES. 15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA. 16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER. 17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION. 18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD. 19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE. 20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE. 21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS. 22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES. 23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN. 24. St. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE. 25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY. Follow the newsletter on Facebook. Newsletter, Fittleton, Haxton & Netheravon. 2 Oh my goodness what a strange time it has been and almost certainly still is. As I write this, we are still very much in Lockdown with hope that some restrictions will soon be eased. Life will not be returning to the normal that we know, anytime soon, and we will need to find a ‘new normal’ So much changes in our lives all the time, people come into our lives and people leave, we move house, we change schools and jobs. Things never stay the same. We as Christians have an anchor that holds us firm and keeps us steady through all the changes, the ups and downs in our lives. That anchor is of course God who never changes, never leaves us, although we may sometimes leave him, he just waits for us to return to Him. In our communities and our homes we do still have so much to be thankful for. No matter how bad this situation has been there has been so much love and care, a reawakening and strengthening of a community spirit. I’m sure like me you have been reflecting on many things over recent weeks, and it might be that you have found a church service to view on line, on YouTube or Facebook, maybe you are asking some big life questions and about God and the Christian Faith. If you have why not try talking to God, He is just waiting for you to talk to him. We may be allowed back in our Churches by the time you read this and we’d love to see you but if the buildings are still closed you can still join us with on-line resources and services, or resources delivered to your door. Check our website www.avonriverteam.org.uk A bible verse that many of you will know is appropriate for us always but particularly now at this time. Look after each other, look out for each other, and be assured that God is watching over all of us. May God Bless you and keep you today and always Reverend Heather Brearey 200 Club Lottery Winners for April 2020 S PICKERING, MISS M BIRKS, MR T JONES MR & MRS DRAYSON, SIAN THOMAS-NEALE Gill (Murphy) 01980 670135 Thank you to each and everyone of you for all the support you have shown to the Phoenix Hall. 3 SAVE YOUR MILK BOTTLE TOPS Salisbury District Hospital Stars Appeal are collecting clean milk bottle tops so please could you save yours and when life returns to a new normal, they can be put in the collection tubs in either the Phoenix Hall or Netheravon Working Men’s Club. The milk bottle tops are made into ‘soft play surfaces’ and the Stars Appeal receive money for their contribution. When our lives return to a new-normal, charities will be desperate for donations, fundraising etc so this is one way you can help – IT COSTS YOU NOTHING! Take care and keep safe. Gill 01980 670135 Thank you I would like to thank the farmers in Netheravon, Haxton and Fittleton for opening up their fields for walking our dogs during the corona crisis. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Avril Drayson Thank you, Richard Sheppard, for sharing this letter that was sent to all school Children, acknowledging their contribution during WW11 4 A Blast from the Past I was brought up at what is now known as the Clock House. There is a large flint stone outside it at the corner of High St and Old Post Office Lane. It is there to protect the house from carts whizzing round the corner! There are a couple of brick buttresses also supporting this ancient house from collapse. This junction of Old Post Office Lane and High St was originally a crossroads as the lane continued east up to Orchard Farm and Wexland Farm to the west. From 1920 to 1974 Clock House was the farm house for Mill Farm and the home of the Sheppard family. The farm was on the site of the present School and Village Hall, with its cart entrance from the lane, and a pedestrian way in to the High St. The houses in the village were numbered for the first time shortly after 1898 after its purchase by the War Department. This was no.116, followed northwards by 115 (now part of 116), 114, and 113, next to the vicarage. Prior to the arrival of the Sheppards the house was the village post office and doctor’s surgery. The row of cottages is in the centre of the village and made of “cob”, a traditional mixture of chalk, straw, animal manure and hair. The walls were created using “shuttering”, very thick and built no more than about three feet at a time. The only other building material in the area before the use of brick was flint and this could be used for foundations, paths and often decoration. Cob walls can last a very long time as long as they stay dry under the deeply thatched roofs. The clock was erected to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. It was wound up every week by George Sheppard, clockmaker, who lived at Lower End by the Smithy. Later my father Alfred wound it until it was converted to electricity in the 1960s when Arthur Whitmarsh was chairman of the Parish Council. A ladder was kept in the garden for that purpose of just the right length. When the house was sold after the death of my father in 1984, I was afraid that a new owner might remove the clock and so gifted it to the parish council.