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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS We certainly have a bumper edition of the magazine for you this month - all 44 pages of it! On the early pages of the magazine you will see adverts and requests for help for two of our major events over the summer - the Plant Sale on the early May Bank Holiday (May 7th) and our Salings Fete and Vehicle Display on 24th June. We do hope you will support these events with your presence, and if you have not already been ‘roped in’ to help (especially for the Fete & Vehicle Display) do get in contact with Colin Davidson. Now if you get as far as page 16, you will see that Great Saling Parish Council will be holding their Annual Parish Meeting on the 9th May 2018 at 7pm in the Millennium Village Hall. Among other items on the agenda their will be an update from the Neighbourhood Planning Group on progress on the Neigh- bourhood Plan. Meanwhile, there is a dedicated website (thesalings-np.co.uk) and a Facebook page to keep you up to date. The Salings is fortunate in having two of England’s 1,600 Reg- istered Parks and Gardens - Saling Hall and Saling Grove - and we are pleased to report on changes at both. First, there are new owners at Saling Hall, who introduce them- selves on page 12 - please make them welcome when you meet them! And for Saling Grove, there will be an exhibition focusing on Humphrey Repton’s work - who designed the gardens and parkland there - every Sunday over the summer from May to August in the Orangery at Saling Grove, from 2pm to 5pm. Andrea & Richard (the editors) Please email contributions to the June edition by the 12th of May to: [email protected] 2 CHURCH SERVICES in the Salings MAY Sunday 6. May 11.00 Morning Prayer Great Saling Sunday 13. May 11.00 Morning Prayer Little Saling Sunday 20. May 11.00 Holy Communion Great Saling Sunday 27. May 9.30 Holy Communion Little Saling JUNE Sunday 3. June 11.00 Morning Prayer Great Saling Sunday 10. June 11.00 Morning Prayer Little Saling Sunday 17. June 11.00 Holy Communion Great Saling Sunday 24. June SALINGS FETE - NO SERVICE! Additional services are held in the Benefice. Further details: Rev Tim Goodbody 856080; Rev Helen Pelly 810369 Braintree District Council: 01376 552525 Non Emergency Police: 101 3 4 EVENTS IN & AROUND THE SALINGS: May 12th 8.30am Ladies breakfast @ St Mary’s, Stebbing May 12th 10.30 - 12.00 VILLAGE Coffee Morning @ Salings Millennium Hall May 12th 3pm organ recital @ St Katherine, Lt Bardield May 13th 5th Stebbing Vintage & Classic Tractor Road Run May 22nd 7.30pm BARDFIELD SALING PARISH MEET- ING - NOTICE OF AGM: The Annual General Meeting of the Bardfield Saling Parish Meeting will be held Tuesday, 22 May, Millennium Village Hall, Everyone is welcome. May 27th 10am - 4pm Gt Dunmow Soap Box Race May 28th 10am - 5pm Celebrate English Wine Week @ Bardfield Vineyard CM7 4QD 3rd of June Park Hall Open Garden 11am - 5pm @ Park Hall, Gt Bardfield, CM7 4QF. Lovely 5 acre garden - uno- pen to public for > 25 years. Teas/coffee and cake. In aid of Lt Saling church. £5 adults, children free. Free parking. Jun 9th/10th Open Gardens & Scarecrow weekend Stebbing REGULAR EVENTS: Greville Theatre Club - Play Readings: 1st Thursday of each month, anyone interested is very welcome. At The Three Horseshoes, Duton Hill, (01371 870681) Great Saling Parish Council Meeting: 2nd Wednesday of each month 7.30pm, at the Salings Millennium Hall. 5 6 7 Dear Friends, They say April showers bring May flowers, so we should be in for a bright and floral month! Do proverbs and sayings like that have an impact on your life? Sometimes they can become superstitions, of which I am not the world’s biggest fan (though I still can’t seem to stop myself from counting magpies). In other ways, however the proverbial wisdom of the past, whether from family, cultural or religious roots, plays an important part in shaping who we are as individ- uals and as a society. Many sayings from history have become out-dated – we had a swarm of bees in the garden one June, but no one offered me a silver spoon for it – and may therefore mean nothing to younger generations. The original meaning of old sayings we still use can get lost because of a change of context; for example, can you remember why we refer to marriage as “tying the knot?” Even when we’re not sure where sayings like that come from we still use them, and that’s mostly OK, but if like me you don’t believe in Tarot cards, it makes no sense to say that something is “on the cards”. The Bible has a rich tradition of ‘wisdom literature’, mostly in the Old Testament. It reads very differently from, say a gospel or a narrative account, but simply by virtue of its poetic form it can often stay with us. The Book of Proverbs (roughly halfway through your Bible, after the Psalms,) is a treasury of couplets of wisdom, giving advice and counsel on relationships, commu- nity, family, culture and so much more. What I find remarkable about it, given its ancient origins, is that the wisdom of Scripture seems to remain relevant even in the 21st century. Why not have a look, and Tweet me your favourite Proverb @RockinRev66 With best wishes, Tim 8 Colchester Area Vocations Group invites you to A Crossroads Day “Where’s Your Passion?” A day for those seeking to follow the Path of Christian Disci- pleship, and to find their calling. th On Saturday 12 May 2018. At St Andrew’s Church, St. Andrew’s Close, Alresford, Colchester, Essex. CO7 8BL http://www.alresfordchurch.net/ From 9.30am until 3pm. There will be worship, testimony, a keynote address, semi- nars, space to reflect, and the opportunity to ask any ques- tion you like about all sorts of ministries. Lunch is provided. Please tell us if you have any dietary re- quirements. To book, please email [email protected] by May 4th. For further information contact Revd. Tim Goodbody 07708660162 9 SALINGS MILLENNIUM HALL A MODERN HALL WITH LARGE CAR PARK FOR PRIVATE & CORPORATE HIRE PICCOTS LANE, GREAT SALING CM7 5DW www.essexinfo.net/ thesalingshall Contact: Mrs. Jo Peake Mon-Sat 09:00 - 19:00 Phone: 01371 850 260; E-mail: [email protected] THE SALINGS 100 CLUB 100 Club If you would like to join the 100 Winners for April: CLUB, please contact Maya 1st Hilary Hughes Hatcher 810887. 2nd Jim Bacon It costs £2 per month and can be 3rd Nigel May paid by cash/cheque or standing order. Village Hall Events in May 3RD,10TH,17TH,24TH, ART GROUP 10.30-15.30 9TH,16TH,23RD, 30TH PILATES 11.00-12.00 4th VHMC TAI CHI 19.30-21.30 12th COFFEEMORNING 10.30-12.00 14th STEBBING PTA DANCE 15th CYCLE CLUB EVENT 07.30-14.30 17th EXCEPTIONAL IDEAS EVENT 19.00-22.00 25th FELSTED ART GROUP 13.30-16.30 27th THAPC AGM 17.30-22.00 10 11 All change (again!) at Saling Hall As the new owners of Saling Hall, we wanted to take the oppor- tunity to introduce ourselves briefly. We are delighted that we have purchased Saling Hall as our new long term family home, moving back to Essex, where we both grew up, from Hampstead in London. As some of you may have seen, we are in the process of a sen- sitive restoration and modernisation of Saling Hall, while looking to continue the thoughtful work of the previous owners in the garden, with the help of Eric and Karen Kirby, our wonderful gardeners. 12 We are looking forward to fully integrating ourselves into village life once we have properly moved in, but we very much hope to meet many of you in the meantime. You may be pleased to hear that we have agreed with the PCC to continue to allow pedestrian access to the Church for ser- vices, private worship and grave-tending, as well as vehicle ac- cess for drop off for services for those for whom access is diffi- cult - please continue to park on The Street after drop off. We thought it might also be useful to highlight that there will be new signs erected at both gates, reiterating (as per the current signs) that access is for the Church Only, and also making clear that dog walking is not permitted. We would politely request that people use the Registered Public Footpath running down the other side of the Churchyard behind Hall Farm Green for dog (or indeed any other!) walking. We thank you in advance for your understanding in these matters. The final thing to say is that we hope either this summer or at the latest next summer to begin an annual Open Garden day or two for the village (as you may know, Saling Hall has one of on- ly around 1500 Registered Parks & Gardens - a listed building equivalent for gardens - in the UK). We very much hope that you will be able to join us on those oc- casions to enjoy exploring the garden! With best wishes Matt & Jennifer O’Connell 13 14 15 Gt. Saling Parish Council Report May 2018 Planning Applications 18/00479/FUL Erection of first floor rear extension - 8 Woolpits Road, Great Saling, Essex 18/00039/LBC To affix a satellite dish to the rear, north facing eleva- tion of the extension (built Circa 1985) Lower Hyde Cottage, Hyde Lane Great Saling Refused Playing field: The Bollards were purchased by a Grant for £3,500 from ECC Community Initative Fund.