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Our Community September 2016 Issue 253 The In View is 21 years old this issue!! The free magazine delivered to every home in Pilning, Severn Beach and Easter Compton Emmaus Chruch Centre Editorial Looking Back “When was our niece married?” News’, firmly under the vicars control. I asked Poppy, so I dug out my diaries submitted my article which contained Carpet & Upholstery but failed to find the answer. This is my feelings about the blind people I www.inviewmag.co.uk Cleaning Service because when I got the bug for writing had encountered. It came back with The Community Magazine in 1976 I wasn’t recording ‘a diary’ “Thank you, we will print it if we have prints 2,000 copies which are Leather Suites Cleaned but thoughts on all manner of things. room” – encouraging! distributed to 5,500 readers Oriental Rugs Cleaned Much of the machinations of the Parish Scotchguard Protection Council featured, along with happier Unfortunately, there was something Editor in my article that impinged on the Saturday Bookings Welcome things. But I came across one item that Roy Edwardes 01454 632670 I thought worth repeating, if only to sensitivities of churchy things. It 21 Chessell Avenue, I provide a Quality Service show how long I’ve been involved in contained this. “My fireman, a bit of Pilning BS35 4LP giving customers value for this magazine and its predecessors. an ‘expert’ said that my clear blue sky had ‘1% cirrus’. God! I thought, [email protected] money! For quotations & Enquiries I went to the Harbour Railway one day preserve me from experts. I wished The deadline for articles for ‘In View’ in 1989, when I was driving the train. I could have told him his flies were is the FIRST OF THE MONTH We had a special day when we were undone!” “Perhaps you could rewrite Call Jim 01454 615349 visited by a group of blind folk. It really that bit” said the vicar “we don’t want Graphic Designer brings it home to you when you stand to upset any old ladies” So, I rewrote Gayle Smith 07836 377697 beside someone who can see nothing it to read “I wished his blessed cloud [email protected] but blackness, holding the leash of his had rained all over him” and that met trusty dog and asking me questions with approval. I’m so glad times have Printing to describe the steam engine that he moved on where many of the vicars Motion Printing Ltd could not see. It was a very moving I know use the odd expletive like the experience, guiding his hand over rest of us. It was published, and I’m still warm metal parts explaining what getting pleasure from writing about 0800 999 2236 they were, and what they did. anything. [email protected] When they left I stood gazing at the Have you got memories you would like to write about? I would love to hear Business Advertising and Accounts clear, beautiful blue sky, thanking God that I could see it in all its beauty. At that from you. Debbie Biggs 01454 632200 Windmill House point my fireman suddenly remarked 3 Redwick Gardens Old Down, near Thornbury “That’s a bit of cirrus up there”. He left [email protected] Care Home for the me speechless. A true ‘expert’ who retired and elderly completely messed up my thoughts. Delivery Organiser SEPTEMBER CORRECTIONS Bob Benjamin 01454 632609 • Space, Privacy, Companionship About that time I had had a difference Roy • Single rooms with en-suite of opinion Also P3 with the ADD A SMALL vicar of the day PANEL Webmaster facilities over the magazine content and had MAKE A NOTE Mike Pruett [email protected] • 5 lounge areas more or less been given the elbow • Homely surroundings as editor. However, he asked me to Mary’s Coffee Morning for Hardcopy Collector Severn Beach • Beautiful landscaped gardens write occasional articles so I did. By Kidney Research is on Frances Barr MBE, 54 Beach Road • Medical needs catered for now ‘Church Notes’ had become Sat October 15th 10am until 12 noon ‘Pilning and Severn Beach Parish The editor reserves the right to edit as he P36 Add IV SEP INSERT thinks necessary. No anonymous articles are printed. Reproduction of any material in this For further infomation, please publication is illegal and may not be used telephone; 01454 413818 Cover picture. ‘The bridge in Church Path, Pilning’ by Rob Maggs without the authors consent. 2 CONTINUED 3 Comment What a contrast! Yet these were two sides of the same Atlantic Ocean, and in “The Same Sea” theory at least, I could have swum right across the 4,000 or so miles of sea from An hour before writing this article, I was the coast of Florida to the mouth of the taking COMMENT my normal morning “The walkSame along Sea" River Severn, helped on my way by the the Binn Wall here at Severn Beach, Gulf Stream, of course! And the moral enjoying the wonderful views across of all this? Well, I could suggest that theAn hourSevern before Estuary. writing It was this a windyarticle, and I wasthe taking sea in my its normaldifferent morning moods iswalk rather along the Binn Wall here at Severn Beach, enjoying the wonderful views PPPOOOOOO PAPAPARRRTTTYYY!!! cloudy August morning, and the tide was like the life we are all living, sometimes high.across With the Severnthe westerly Estuary. wind blowingIt was a windyexhilarating and cloudy and enjoyable, August andmorning, at other inand from the the tide Atlantic, was high.there was With a good the westerlytimes cold wind and blowing unattractive. in from And the we all Here at Avon Riding Centre, we need £50,000 to buy a new swellAtlantic, on thethere grey was and a uninviting-looking good swell on the needgrey theand ability uninviting to take-looking each experience water, surface for our arena, so we’re turning one of our water,with waves with breakingwaves breaking along thealong edge the of theas itpromenade, comes, enjoying splashing life while over we the can, edgerailings of inthe places. promenade, I was splashing not tempted over to anddive enduring into the chillyit when water! things get rough. waste products into “Brown Gold”. the railings in places. I was not tempted But I’ll leave that to you. Our Poo Party is the “poo”-fect op-”poo”-tunity to get toYet dive only into three the chilly weeks water! ago I was myself swimming in that same sea, thoughAnyway, several now we’vethousand come miles down to to your gardening gloves on our mountain of well-rotted earth, tackling the jobs at home which thehave west. accumulated: My wife - theBrenda riot ofand growth I horse manure. “Man-your” garden is in for a treat! were on holiday with three of our in the garden, and the mountain of Bring a bag, bring a shovel and we’ll bring the grandchildrenwashing from ain fortnight’sOrlando, holiday,Florida, not andto mentionone day the I went pile withof junk the mail,three the fertilizer. You’ll be “flushed” with success and the envy toback-log a lovely of emails,beach and near the Capenumbers of all your gardening friends. Canaveral,of answer-phone where messages we bathed to inbe the dealt waterswith! ofAnd the by Atlantic the time Ocean. you read But this, Every bag of compost you thisit will time, be though the beginning there were of September, waves buy will help people with SundaySunday 11th11th EASTER COMPTON METHODISTbreakingwhich marks along CHURCH the the beginning shore, and the of daya new year of all kinds of activities – school, disabilities to enjoy riding. was hot and sunny, the sea was church, local organisations. May God SEVERN BEACH UNITEDblue, and CHURCHthe water was warm. Roger at the start of his ‘Atlantic swim’! bless all our new beginnings, and give So come along and do your SeptemberSeptember RogerEaster at the startCompton of his Methodist ‘Atlantic Church swim’!us willthe strengthin future to have live onlyour lives one through bit for the Avon Riding Centre service per month. The congregationgood are times warmly and invited bad! to come to Yet only three weeks ago I was swimming for the Disabled… and your WellWell--rottedrotted horsehorse inWhat thatSt a Peter’s contrast!same Pilningsea, Yet thoughon these the 3wereseveralrd Sunday two sidesRoger each of monthDucker the same when Atlantic there will Ocean, be garden. thousandand in theory miles atto least,the west. I could My have wife swum right across the 4,000 or so Brenda and I were onMethodist holiday with Holy three Communion at 10am manuremanure miles of sea from the coast of Florida to Ithe have mouth just of theheard River that Severn, issue Avon Riding Centre for ofhelped our grandchildren on my way inby Orlando, the Gulf Florida, Stream, of course! And the moral of all Former members of Severn Beach1 Unitedof ‘In ChurchView’ areappeared also in andthis? one Well, day II couldwent suggestwith the thatthree the to sea in its different moods is rather like the Disabled September 1995 – WE ARE £3£3 perper bagbag athe lovely life welcomedwebeach are nearall atliving, CapeSt Peter’s sometimesCanaveral, for Anglican exhilarating and Methodist and enjoyable, services and at where we bathed in the waters of the TWENTYONE THIS MONTH! Kingsweston Road, Atlanticother times Ocean. cold But and this unattractive. time, though And we all need the ability to take thereeach experiencewere waves asbreaking it comes, along enjoying the life while we can, and enduring it Bristol BS20 7QT 11a11amm--3pm3pm shore,when thingsthe day get was rough.