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COVID-19 response Regular services and opening for As we move into the next phase of the re - private prayer sponse to COVID-19 all our local communities Although our church buildings continue to be are continuing a local response where it is still closed for public worship, we hope to open required, offering contact and support. It is them for private prayer as below from 6th July. wonderful to see how individuals and groups Once we are open you are very welcome to have responded during the lockdown period come and spend some time in these spaces to – thank you! reflect, to pray and just to ‘be’ for a quiet mo - People who are actively involved in this ment. If cameras and QR codes are your thing, initiative: then do bring your phone and light a virtual • For Eastham: Celia Adams on 01584 candle. 781258 or ask to join the Eastham Covid-19 St Peter & St Paul, Eastham WhatsApp group – she will need your mobile Tuesday 9am to 6pm number to do this and you will need to have St Mary, Stanford on Teme WhatsApp installed on your 4G mobile. Thursday 9am to 6pm • For the Hanleys: Peter Thorneycroft on St Mary, Kyre Wyard 01885 410484 or Rev’d Julia (see below). Friday 2.30pm to 5pm • For Rochford: Carole Powell, Jane Bull or Church to be attended Ann Prosser on 01584 781317. Rochford has a St Michael, Rochford support page on Facebook called Rochford Wednesday and Sunday 9am to 6pm Tenbury Coronavirus Care. St Peter, Stoke Bliss • For Stanford: Robin Dean on 01886 Friday 10am to 4pm 853295 – Stanford also has a Covid-19 support All Saints, Hanley William page. Saturday 9am to 4pm • For Stoke Bliss and Kyre: Maggie Kingston Michael & All Angels, Hanley Childe to remain on 01885 410431 closed for the time being. Our priests: • Our priest-in-charge, Rev’d Julia Curtis Thanks to all of you who are willing to air by email ([email protected]) or phone the churches and give them a spruce up before her on 01886 853286. opening and have offered to lock and unlock. • One of our retired priests: Without you we could not re-open. ▪ Rev Robert Barlow – 07947 600627 During the virus outbreak we have main - ▪ Rev Sally Jones – 01584 781526 tained a pattern of regular prayer in our com - If you would like a regular phone call to munities, gathering via Zoom, and this will say hello and have a chat please do ask. continue for the time being. See the service schedule on page 28 for times of daily prayers Continued from page 1 and do get in touch if you would like to join they will continue for the time being. us. Weekly Sunday offerings will be available July heralds high summer and hopefully via our Teme Valley Churches Facebook page some warm summer evenings to be enjoyed in and on YouTube or see the Teme Valley South our gardens and outdoors. So do enjoy… it will website for details on be a quieter July than many had planned but, www.temevalleysouth.org.uk/ as we re-orientate, I pray that we allow our - If you have a prayer request to be included selves some space to settle into this new season. please ring or email me or your local pastoral Maybe we have the gift of time to see what new team member – see Teme Valley South Con - habits we want to keep, and what old ones it is tacts on page 2. time to gently lay down for good. Rev Julia Curtis Rev’d Julia See more Parish News on page 10
3 Teme Valley Tote Rochford Club June’s prize draw of the Tote was decided 49 when Rev’d Julia Curtis rolled the dice on 3rd Congratulations June to select the set of random numbers. Prize to this month’s £25 winners: winners are: £50 – Willie Austin of Lindridge (No 195) Wednesday winners £30 – Julian Turner of Pensax (No 338) May 20th No 44 Mrs Bristow £20 – Val Patrick of Stoke Bliss (No 775) May 27th No 46 Caroline O’Hagan A number of people in Knighton have not been June 3rd No 48 Ann Prosser entered because their subscriptions were not June 10th No 44 Chris Cox collected. If you wish to take part from 1st Oc - June 17th No 43 not sold tober to 31st March, the subscription will be £5. Please contact Duane or Robin if you wish to Saturday winners join. May 23rd No 54 not sold If you have not already joined and would like May 30th No 45 not sold to , please contact the organiser, Robin Dean, on June 6th No 33 Malcolm Lloyd 01886 853295 or by email at June 13th No 42 Colin Lord [email protected], or contact your local co-ordinator. There are still plenty of numbers available – why not join in? It’s just £1 per draw and the profits are split between Rochford church and Advertise your event FREE the village hall – plus you get two chances in TemeTalk and reach 660 each week to win £25! households in seven parishes
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4 Rochford Church Rochford Church will be open for private prayer on Sundays and Wednesdays from 9am Rochford to 6pm, so please feel free to visit and enjoy the lovely peaceful location and the welcome that Rochford Rochford Church will give you. Please follow the laminated instructions for visitors in the Rochford porch and use the hand sanitiser gel and dis - Rochford Village Hall posable gloves during your visit. Lockdown is gradually being lifted but we’re still not able to plan many community activi - Rochford Open Gardens ties at the moment. Hopefully things will im - As mentioned in the online versions of the prove soon. Action with Communities in Rural magazine, lockdown has put villages into a England (ACRE) has issued guidance on the planning blight with regard to arranging com - re-opening of Village Halls which will be munity and village fund raising activities. amended by 4th July and some halls may re- Rochford is still hoping to arrange an Open open on Monday 6th July, so hopefully some - Gardens and Afternoon Tea this summer, with thing will happen soon. social distancing. So if you have been spending more time than usual in your garden and Coronavirus Care Group would be willing to let people look around, The Rochford Tenbury Coronavirus Care please let Ann or me know and hopefully we Group will continue helping out with collect - will still be able to arrange something later this ing prescriptions, shopping and sharing online summer. It would be great to have a variety of deliveries and local information. This is bene - gardens to visit in the village, ending up with fiting many people in the village so a big thank afternoon tea. you to everyone involved in delivering this Andrew Barbé service.
Rochford rallies round TemeTalk As reported in the online versions of the mag - [email protected] azine last month, Rochford has rallied to sup - port the NHS and a grand total of 101 scrubs bags and 50 headbands and numerous grati - tude gifts have been sent to the NHS, benefit - ting Tenbury, Malvern and Worcester hospitals. The Rochford response has been marvellous. A special thank you to our indus - trious sewing ladies, Gillian, Angela, Michelle, Jenny, Sue, Barbara (from Hanley) and Hayley. Also thanks to Ann and Jane, our laundry and packing ladies. It has been a fantastic team ef - fort. Congratulations and thank you to every - one who has helped – we have all made a difference.
Neighbourhood lunch Neighbourhood lunches have been sus - pended, but Ann is prepared to cook a meal on Friday 17th July which can be collected or de - livered to your home for just £5. Please contact Ann on 01584 781317 by Friday 10th July if you would like one.
5 Stoke Bliss and Kyre
Stoke Bliss & Kyre Ingram (née Chomiak) Neighbourhood Lunches Ben and Victoria Ingram Sadly we have had to cancel the neighbour - (née Victoria Chomiak hood lunches until further notice but we are of Gorley Fields, Stoke Bliss) still here to help in any way we can. So if you are delighted to announce need a friend, shopping, transport or any other the birth of a daughter, Darcey May, help, please use the contact numbers on your on 20th March 2020 neighbourhood lunch calendar and one of the team will return your call. We have not forgot - ten you and are keen to make sure you don’t TemeTalk feel alone at this difficult time. [email protected] or Jessica Middleton 01885 410228 01568 750665
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6 E a s t h a m J o t t i n g s
Coronavirus update Community swaps Eastham started to emerge from total lockdown Get your eggs, apple juice and other items from during June and used its communications the lobby of the village hall with an honesty channels to keep in touch: the WhatsApp box for proceeds to the Memorial Hall. To date Group (renamed Eastham Neighbours Natter), £210 has been collected, thanks to everyone. Eastham Memorial Hall’s website www.east - Swap books in the hall foyer and in the red hammemorialhall.org.uk, the Facebook phone box. There is also bric a brac – bring and Group – Teme Eastham, Eastham Parish Coun - swap. Everyone welcome. cil updating its mailing list, Sue (Burrows) keeping information flowing out to residents Traders – take a free posting on our website and the church sharing postcards across the until the end of 2020 (with an option to renew patch. Please contact Celia Adams on eastham - for £25 in January) – contact Mike Palfrey on [email protected] (01584 781258) for more in - 01584 781254 or email admin@easthammemo - formation on any of these initiatives. rialhall.org.uk
Prescription deliveries Eastham Coffee Morning Many thanks to all of you who voluntarily de - Our third Zoom coffee morning will be on livered prescriptions during lockdown. Special Wednesday 1st July at 10.30am. The theme last thanks to Holly and Helen Matravers who kept time was first memories of Eastham with a everyone’s supplies flowing and to the Pre - wide selection of memories. Regulars will re - scription Collection Group – fantastic support ceive an email invite about 10.25am. The theme by all. The Tenbury Prescription Group is now is favourite song. If you would like to join downsizing but will carry on for those who and/or need help with Zoom please call Celia have no other options. Ring Celia Adams for Adams on 01584 781258 or email eastham - further details on 01584 781258. [email protected].
Eastham church Church services online St Peters and St Pauls Church is open for clean - What activity in three months! Eastham has ex - ing and flower arranging in line with instruc - perimented with a variety of online offerings. tions from the diocese. The rota is: Please go to www.temevalleysouth.org.uk/ser - July – Mel Cumming vices and look at all the services. Don’t miss the August – Diana Clarke lovely drone photos of the village on a beautiful Each week since 22nd March, on Sundays at May day in lockdown – spot a familiar Lan - 7pm, we have lit a candle in the window of the drover! Many thanks to Mathew Hall for all his church looking towards the River Teme as a time filming. Special thanks to Julia, Robert and sign of support for all front line staff and carers, others for all their hours on this. and as a sign of our hope that the experience of the pandemic will make us kinder and better Eastham Fête Produce Show and Tote people. The fête contributes significant sums of money From 7th July Eastham Church will be open to both of Eastham’s community buildings and on Tuesday from 9am to 6pm for private has raised and distributed over £35,000 in the prayer. last 10 years. This is real community led fundraising and this year both buildings will Eastham Memorial Hall – latest news miss out, so a Tote is being organised in place Eastham Memorial Hall AGM is on Monday of the usual raffle. See centre pages for details 7th September. The Trust Committee continues of this and the slimmed down Eastham Fête. to meet regularly through Zoom. Celia Adams
7 Hanley Happenings
The months seem to fly by ever faster for some Some words and phrases will be for ever re - and not quickly enough for others. Most of us membered from this time – furlough, social dis - have adapted to the hugely changed environ - tancing, passed etc. In my case social distancing ment, largely in a positive and hopeful way. The whilst cycling is never a problem. I realised a easing of restrictions will of course come at a long time ago that all the fancy gear in the cost. Anyone who has had the experience of a world did you no favours in any performance. relative in hospital at this time will recognise So out with the bike, no lycra (in which I would that you are very much on your own and need look pretty ridiculous anyway) and off I have to still be vigilant and not too casual. been setting in my gardening clothes, up and Nature, as lots of people have recognised, down all our hills, to be passed in a flash by has seemed to be much closer lately. We were younger riders and older ones – and in the blink entertained every day in early June by Mr of an eye they have been far more than two me - Blackbird singing his heart out always from the tres away – no worries there then. same spot on the top of the hedge and eventu - If you have a contribution you would like ally meeting his wife on the front lawn one me to mention in future Hanley Happenings, evening! A particularly greedy woodpecker has please do let me know. stuffed himself with peanuts for about three Peter Thorneycroft weeks but sadly I have only heard the cuckoo once this year. Road closure Although the weather has broken, at the Part of the C2091 in Hanley William, from its height of the good spell when the ground was junction with C2091 Eastham to its junction as hard as hard could be Paul Blakeway told me with B4204 Broadheath, will be closed for 14 he filled two buckets of water up every evening days from 23rd July for carriageway resurfacing and made mud of a consistency which made it by Worcestershire County Council. easier for the swallows to make their nests – good for him.
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8 Stanford • Stanford • Stanford Where to begin? Help if you need it At the time of writing (16th June – my Dad’s A number of people in the village are offering 100th birthday if he had still been with us!) – help and support (including shopping and reg - lockdown is further relaxing and we are con - ular electronic contact) at this difficult time. If sidering re-opening churches for private prayer you need assistance please phone Robin on – see below and elsewhere in the magazine. 01886 853295 and he will refer you to the ap - When the crisis is over, Amber Spilsbury propriate person. If you feel that you would (07966 294032) would like to host a fête – she is like to help, please contact Robin. looking for people to assist in preparation and making it happen. We do not have a date but Parish Giving Scheme maybe August? Each church in the parish is signing up to this scheme. It works on the basis of a monthly di - St Mary’s Church rect debit from subscribers’ accounts, including The PCC has decided to open most of our automatic Gift Aid if the subscriber pays tax. churches for private prayer on one day a week Stanford has its own account – more details – see parish details on page 3. In Stanford we next month. will open St Mary’s from 9am to 6pm every Several people have kindly made donations Thursday from 9th July. There will be a contin - to St Mary’s while the church has been closed. ued need for social distancing when in the You can do this online if you have internet church and you will be asked to use the pro - banking. The account name is TVS PCC Stan - vided hand sanitiser both on entering the ford with Orleton, sort code 20-39-64, account church and on leaving. It will be some time be - number 90778303. fore we can have the church open every day or have public services. However if you have ac - Volunteers please – again cess to the internet, each of our Sunday services People have recently joined both the Church is recorded and available on our TVS Services Committee and the Village Hall Committee but in a time of Crisis on the TVS website we would welcome some more, especially when (www.temevalleysouth.org.uk/services/ ) the crisis is over. What should we do to celebrate the end of the crisis? Robin (01886 853295) is Grow the Tallest Sunflower ... happy to explain what is involved and you are The Grow the Tallest Sunflower Challenge con - welcome to one of our meetings when they tinues. Jo Strickland launched this in May and restart so that you can see what it is like. We need people to organise events and assist. occasionally I see impressive looking plants! No one has sent me any tips for growing giant plants but we’re still happy to get suggestions. Thanks Many thanks to David who has offered to deliver this edition of TemeTalk door-to-door in Stan - And this month’s challenge – ford. Lockdown Locks Robin Dean This month we are offering the Lockdown Locks Challenge (for those of you who are fol - lically challenged – remember what my Mum Advertise your event FREE in used to say: “grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!”) If you, like me, are going mad with TemeTalk your dreadlocks, take a photograph of yourself email [email protected] before you go to the hairdressers (if they are or call 01568 750665 open) and we will feature photographs in our next edition – send a donation to St Mary’s and The deadline for the next edition your photograph to me. is 18th July
9 More parish news
From the Registers A Prayer before Dawn (catching up for those who were not able to access Lord, in those dark days of fear and isolation on-line TemeTalk) I reached out my hand and you held it. When I felt lost and alone, Our prayers and sympathy are with the family you found me and walked beside me, and friends of Mr T Gwyn-Jones of Kyre Park, you comforted me and guided me back on to whose graveside funeral in St Mary’s Church - the path. yard took place on 30th April. As the dark clouds of despair and fear gathered around me We also note with the sadness the passing of You gave me hope and you taught me to listen John Leftwich whose funeral was on 28th May. to your voice. We have been praying for his family and Now as I see the first light of hope begin to friends. break across the earth May they rest in peace and rise in glory. and herald a new way of life; I thank you for the courage and strength Rowlands Pharmacy you give me to face each day. Prescription Service I thank you for this time to mourn A pharmacy delivery service exists from Row - I thank you for new friends and relationships lands in Tenbury for those who live within a I thank you for time to reflect 10 mile radius and are still shielded, or the I thank you for your love housebound with no family or friends locally. Amen Do give them a ring and see what is possible Written by a member of on 01584 810480 if this is you. Teme Valley South Churches
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