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1 The Dun Valley Churches are members of The Clarendon Team THE CLARENDON TEAM MINISTRY OF CHURCHES TEAM RECTOR Revd Nils Bersweden, The Rectory, The Plantation, Winterslow, Salisbury SP5 1RE Tel 01980 862231. Mobile 07960 321355 [email protected] (with responsibility for Farley, Pitton and Winterslow) TEAM PRIESTS Revd Beth Hutton Tel: 01722 238504, [email protected] (with responsibility for Alderbury, West Dean, East and West Grimstead) Revd Jane Dunlop Tel: 01794 884793, [email protected] (with responsibility for Whiteparish) Revd Cynthia Buttimer Tel: 01980 862017, [email protected] OTHER CLERGY V Revd Alec Knight, Revd Canon Jeremy Davies, Revd Canon Roger Sharpe, Revd Anthea Cochrane CLARENDON TEAM OFFICE Team Administrator 01980 863635 [email protected] TEAM LAY LICENSED MINISTERS Mrs Gill Morgan, Mr Bill Thompson, Mrs Debbie McIsaac, Mr Michael Barratt CLARENDON TEAM WEBSITE – www.clarendonteam.org an informative website which gives details of how to book baptisms and weddings, as well as Team Worship Services, news and activities around the Clarendon Team For the Team Worship Rota go to www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.htm, or to download in Excel www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.xls WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD CHURCHWARDENS Mr Bob Trott, Oakley, East Grimstead (Holy Trinity) 01722 712685 Mr Mike Marx, The Old Vicarage, West Dean (St. Mary’s) 01794 340271 FARLEY WITH PITTON CHURCHWARDENS Mrs Sara Bossom, Stockbottom House, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Jane Bawden-Jeanes, The Barn, Farley 01722 712854 WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD FARLEY WITH PITTON LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Mrs Jenny Cotter, East Grimstead, 01722 712316 Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133 TREASURER TREASURER Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536 Ms Mandy Kerley, 07971 679466 SECRETARY ORGANISTS Gill Sowerby, 01722 712665 Ms Janice Brown MAGAZINE EDITOR Ged Mirski-Fitton, Bells Cottage, Church Road,Farley, SP5 1AD Tel 01722 712520 E-Mail: [email protected] ADVERTS EDITOR Tim Hawkes, Lodge Farm House, Elm Close, Pitton, SP5 1EU Tel 01722 712577 E-Mail: [email protected] 2 PathFinders@Pitton Sunday 5th February at 11am Sunday 5th March at 11am Mothering Sunday is 26th March Come and give thanks for your mothers! All ages are welcome. For more details contact Sara Bossom on 01980 611133 Pitton Methodist Society The Pitton Methodists worship together with the Anglicans at St. Peter's Church and have a Methodist led service there once a month (currently the 3rd Sunday). Minister - Rev. Bryan Coates [email protected] 02380 252960 Superintendent - David Hookins 01722 320858 Steward - Mrs. Sarah Sankey 01722 712581 East Grimstead – Holy Trinity Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone for your contributions and support to make the Carol Service a success. Once again, we were a full house. It was great to see so many people in our little church. The young did brilliantly with their readings. Thank you to you all. Ladies, as always, you did magnificent work with the flowers; they were beautiful. Much admired. Indeed, throughout the year, the church always looks great with the flowers that you provide. 3 Team Letter February 2017 Dear Friends, For Christmas, my son gave me a large postcard that said, ‘A Home Without a Dog is Just a House.’ I’m sure lots of you would disagree but for me that is true. A couple of years ago, I wrote about my little, blind dog, Ludo, who had been lost in Bentley Wood and found again. Sadly, he died last Summer at a very good 14 years of age. And so, as I was having time off, we decided to get another puppy. Rollo arrived full of the joys of life, thrilled with his new garden and extremely active! As time has gone on he has decided the garden is best and is very hard to get in, barking at the birds and digging up the lawn and flower beds! But he has changed the life of our older dog who was very lonely and frightened of other dogs. Rollo loves all dogs and now Lupin is getting braver. They have wonderful games together and are great friends. But the thing that is so rewarding about dogs is the unconditional love they give to us. Dogs are mentioned in the Bible several times but the only one that is a companion is the dog in the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha (The extra books that are in some Bibles). He accompanies his master, Tobias, and another man, who turns out to be the Angel Raphael, on their journey. To have a love of animals and to watch and learn from them is to understand a little of God’s wonders and gifts to us in this world. To hear of so many dumped over Christmas and New Year is really saddening, innocents in a stressed world. To have the love and affection of a dog, or any animal, is a God send, literally, and I give thanks for the many that have accompanied me through bad times and good. I now look forward to a New Year trying to train and cope with the little streak of mischief that has come into my life! A happy New Year to you all, Cynthia. 4 From the registers Baptisms Luca Jack BOSHIER and Jacob Michael BOSHIER at All Saints Whiteparish on 15th January 2017 Baptism and Confirmation Sue MARTIN at Salisbury Cathedral on 14th January 2017 Wedding Michael Frank BARRATT and Elizabeth Sarah STRAIN at Whiteparish on 29th December 2016 Funerals Charlotte MILLER at Whiteparish on 12th January 2017 Robert John MOSSMAN at Pitton on 29th December 2016 John David ATWELL at Whiteparish on 22nd December 2016 5 Do You See Kingfishers in the Dun Valley Area? The Common Kingfisher is often a flash of electric blue with a piercing, piping call! It’s a brilliant fish catcher, eating small fish like sticklebacks and minnows, and aquatic insects and larvae. It lives by streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and sometimes even seashores. The male and female are very similar but he has an all-black bill while she has an orange-red lower mandible with a black tip. The female wears lipstick is a way to remember this! Photograph by David Kjaer www.davidkjaer.com Our kingfisher is the most numerous and widespread in the world! It has a huge geographical range, breeding from the British Isles across to Japan and the Solomon Islands, with a few breeding in northwest Africa. Wiltshire has several good kingfisher rivers including, of course, the Salisbury Avon and its 4 wonderful chalk stream tributaries. The River Dun in West Dean and its tributary, flowing through East Grimstead, could be good but I don’t know myself. I see kingfishers at the ponds in Bentley Wood and Blackmoor Copse, mainly in 6 winter. A kingfisher was seen at East Grimstead Pond in 2016, but do they use Waldens Farm Fishery in West Grimstead or our local garden ponds? It would be really great to know if you see kingfishers in the Dun Valley area. Please DO email me! About 100 to 150 pairs of kingfisher breed in Wiltshire, with a good concentration in the south. Some 200 to 400 birds winter in the county but some of our Wiltshire birds move to the south coast for the winter (and we then see them at places like Keyhaven, Pennington and Brownsea Island) and some birds from counties north and northeast of Wiltshire join us for the winter! Dr Sue Walker [email protected] The photograph opposite is one of many superb images captured by Wiltshire based wildlife photographer David Kjaer. It is worth visiting his website (www.davidkjaer.com) to see the stunning work. Off to the vet In his younger days our golden retriever Catcher often ran away when he had the chance. The vet’s surgery was about a mile down the road, and Catcher would usually go there. The nursing staff knew him and would call me to come pick him up. One day I called the vet to make an appointment for Catcher's yearly vaccine. "Will you bring him," asked the receptionist, "or will he come on his own?" Late with your tax return? Hopefully your tax return was in by the end of last month. If not, what excuse will you give? Paperwork destroyed in a yacht fire, and a wasp attack in a car were among the top ten excuses that HMRC received last year to explain late tax returns. Another was: ‘ I could not complete my tax return because my husband left me and took our accountant with him.’ Late returns incur an initial £100 fine, which escalates over time. 7 Pitton Primary School It was wonderful to see so many people at our Christmas Fair at the beginning of December – it seems a long time ago now! Everyone enjoyed browsing the stalls, tasting the non-alcoholic mulled wine and trying out the activities. Congratulations to all who won raffle prizes. This term the older Juniors are finding out all about the Victorians, whilst the younger Juniors are learning about the ‘Riotous Royals’, meanwhile the Infants are finding out all about the history of toys. Special events included our annual visit from the Life Education Van, where the pupils looked at issues surrounding feelings and decision making, our Juniors took part in a singing workshop in preparation for a visit to the City Hall in April and our lower Juniors had a backstage tour of Salisbury Playhouse. Our netball team played the first 3 league matches of the season this month and we were very proud of the results and the teamwork and commitment shown.