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Flyer 163 November THE FARMBOROUGH FLYER Issue No 163: November 2019 Photo source: Ancient Pages www.ancientpages.com Go put on your mask. Say ‘trick-or-treat’ in costume. It’s All Hallows’ Eve! Richelle E Goodrich WELCOME TO THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF FARMBOROUGH VILLAGE Notes from the editor: The Farmborough Flyer Hello everyone. SHOUT OUT this month goes to two donors who Brrr…. The clocks have gone back. It is wish to remain anonymous. dark! What is that out there in the dark? Oh, it only a few ghouls and monsters! It is Thank you so much for your donations Halloween! If you didn’t receive this No- vember magazine in time for All Hallow’s THE FLYER ADVERTISING RATES Eve, I hope you had a good one. Per edition: At least it is a fun break from the daily Businesses B&W Full Colour Brexit drama. As I write, we are not sure if B2 ½ page £30 £35 by the time you read this we will still be a B4 ¼ page £20 £25 part of the EU or not! Not-for-Profit Organisations Next month will be the Christmas edition of the magazine, so do get your infor- N2 ½ page £20 £25 N4 ¼ page £13 £17 mation for events and special advertise- ments in by the 15th November, please. Transformation of the Min I would like to ask veteran Farmborough The Royal Hospital villagers if they would be willing to share for Rheumatic Dis- stories with me about the village in times eases , better past? I aim to have a ‘Looking back’ section known as The Min, in the magazine in the new year. Please do loved by many, has contact me if you have anything to impart now completed its relocation to the new about village life before it developed so RNHRD and Brownsword Therapies Centre much. Snippets or big happenings! Old on the RUH, Bath site. photos would be wonderful to scan in with a story. I look forward to hearing from you. The Min has been bought by a Singapore Investor- The Fragrance Group - and plans I would like to thank Tony Piddock for his to carefully transform the Grade II listed hard work in distributing the Farmborough building into a 169-bed hotel with a spa Flyer…..for many years... and who has now and restaurant should be submitted for decided to retire. Thank you, Tony. And planning permission soon. Work on the welcome, Maggie Chandler, to our team of project could begin at the end of 2020. It is distributors. Thank you, Maggie. hoped the hotel will ‘breathe life’ into the Enjoy this read. There is quite a bit in it. Do centre of Bath. wrap up warm when out and enjoy your The Farmborough Goodwill Club cosy evenings in. Until next time…. welcomes new members. Meetings start Very best wishes, at 2.30pm on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month. There is always something Sandra Byrne organised for members’ enjoyment— [email protected] music, outings, talks. For this month’s ac- 01761 753189 (my apologies for this being tivities and more information, please con- incorrect in previous editions) tact the Secretary, Pat Tiley, on 470491 being, gathered into the love of God. Thoughts from the Rectory Maybe that can bring us some comfort as ‘Remember me when I am gone away.......’ we remember those who have gone away. The opening line of Christina Rossetti's well known poem, 'Remember'. With love and blessing, I recently went to London to take my last Jan Knott surviving Aunt's funeral. It was an end of All Saints’ Calendar—November 2019 an era but, mixed in with the sadness was a sense of celebration. At the reception Sat 2nd 10.30—12.00am Gift Day that followed the funeral, we did a great Coffee morning with informal organ recital. deal of remembering. Some of this was Bring your gift envelope, have a coffee and joyful, some of it was not. It was inter- listen to good music esting to see how we had some differing Sun 3rd 11.00am All Saints Day views on things that had happened. I came 6.30pm All Soul’s Day away with a kind of quiet smile and a feel- A reflective Service with lighting of candles ing of gratitude for the happy times I could as we remember those who have died recall spent with my Aunt. Wed 6th 3.30pm ARK Fri 8th 2.30pm Remembrance Service As the month rolls in we spend our first at Farmborough Church School two Sundays in times of remembering. At Sat 9th Concert in Church the All Souls' Service there is the oppor- Sun 10th Remembrance Sunday tunity to think of those we love who have 10.50am Remembrance Service died. We light candles and, for me, this 6.30pm Lest we Forget symbolizes the great light of love we have Meditations with Communion received from our loved ones and from Sun 17th 8.00am Holy Communion BCP God. It is, also, a reminder that this love 11.00am Matins never ends. Thurs 21st 2.30pm Circle of Friends Our next service is that of Remembrance Sun 24th 11.00am Friends and Family Sunday. A time to recall the many whose Communion lives ended as a result of armed conflict; a 6.30pm Evensong BCP time to recall the dreadful evil of war and Sunday 1st DECEMBER—Advent Sunday to honour those who sought and seek to 11.00am Elevenses and Gifts for stop it; a time to look to the future, pledg- Safe Houses ing ourselves to work for and to seek 6.30pm Light in our Darkness peace. A Service of Advent readings and Music in Alternative Communion Thinking about it, each Sunday we remem- ber the solidarity God has, in Christ Jesus, At our Advent Services we would appreci- with all the suffering and pain in the world. ate gifts of toiletries, chocolates, tinned/ It is what the cross is about. We go on, packet food to go to Safe Houses in Bath— though, and recall that after crucifixion places of refuge from abusive relationships comes resurrection; New Life bursting from the tomb. This points to our great TEA and cake every Tuesday from 2.30 pm Christian belief that death is not the end, in Farmborough Church. All welcome. rather it is a journeying on to a new way of What is it all worlds. During Samhain, banquet tables about? were prepared to placate unwelcome spir- its with food and drink... and animal cos- Do we all know? Here is a brief history: tumes and masks were donned to hide From Wikipedia: Halloween or Hallowe’en from these feared spirits and chase them (a contraction of Hallows’ Even or Hallows’ away. In the Christian era, the festival was Evening), also known as Allhalloween, All re-assigned to the feast of All Saints. Hallows’ Eve or All Saints’ Eve, is a celebra- Why do we ‘Trick-or-Treat’? In later centu- tion observed in several countries on 31 ries, people began dressing as ghosts, de- October, the eve of the Western Christian mons and other malevolent creatures, per- feast of All Hallows’ Day. It begins the forming antics in exchange for food and three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the drink. This custom, known as mumming, time in the liturgical year dedicated to re- dates back mainly to the Middle Ages and membering the dead, including saints is thought to be an antecedent of trick-or- (hallows), martyrs and all the faithful de- treating (although a form of mumming can parted. be traced right back to Egyptian times). It is widely believed that many Halloween In Scotland and Ireland, young people took traditions originated from ancient Celtic part in a tradition called ‘guising’, dressing harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic up in costumes and accepting offerings festival Samhain; that such festivals had from various (usually rich) households. pagan roots; and that Samhain itself was Rather than pledging to pray for their dead, Christianised as Halloween by the early as was done in the 9th Century when Chris- Church. Some believe, however, that Hal- tianity merged with Celtic traditions, they loween began solely as a Christian holiday, would perform a song, recite a poem, tell a separate from ancient festivals like Sam- joke or perform another sort of ‘trick’ be- hain. fore collecting their ‘treat’, which typically From The Celtic Book of Days by Caitlin consisted of fruit, nuts or coins. Source: www.history.com/topics/halloween Matthews: ‘The modern festival of Hallow- een or All Saints’ Eve derives from the Celtic emigrants to America took these Celtic Festival of Samhain’ (pronounced traditions with them. It was banned in sow-n). many States and then WW2 intervened, halting these festivities. Baby Boomers in The Celtic New Year festival on the night of America reclaimed the place of trick-or- the 31st October into the 1st November treating amongst other Halloween customs celebrated the end of summer and the and, as ‘candy’ was now freely available beginning of winter when the agricultural after the war, this became year ends and the new growth cycle be- the ‘payment’ for a ‘trick’. gins; the cold forcing the seeds to wait for This is the modern Hallow- the return of the light in Spring to spring een custom adopted by forth. On Samhain night the Celts believed many countries. And….. the gates of other worlds opened, allowing the pumpkin is an American creation! their departed ancestors to return and pass on wisdom and lore. It was a time So, are tricks IN this Halloween? To receive when they could enter each other’s your treats? Have fun! Editor Farmborough an ambulance.
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