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frOM THe eDITOr THe frIeNDS Of Roaring ST Mary’S CHurCH Robin Culver, Editor, writes: “Many of PLOuGHMaN’S LuNCH you will know that my beloved wife Jo (20)20's Party passed away on the 7th December 2019. Please come along with your friends to Jo was stoical and pragmatic till the end, ....Leap Year the Friends of St Mary’s Church annual and went peacefully. She was also well Night Ploughman’s Lunch in Codford Village Hall organised, going to the trouble of Celebrating the new decade, on Saturday, 8th February 2020, organising her own funeral. As a result I the Codford Tennis Club is hosting a 12noon-2.00pm, am going to take a sabbatical for a few Roaring 20s Party for a delicious lunch - soup, months to get my head around my loss. in Codford Village Hall BA12 0PP Ploughman’s, dessert and coffee. I have nothing but praise for the Raffle and wine. Children under 12 free! undertakers F Curtis and Son who on Saturday organised the funeral and the cremation. 29th February Nothing was too much trouble for them. We held the wake at The Angel Inn 2020 in Heytesbury, newly opened under new at 7pm management. One of Jo’s last requests The theme based on the ‘Roaring 20s’, was to hold the wake there, and I very much appreciated the way the staff and not forgetting the timely glad rags management organised the whole thing. (tux and tassels), will include food, The staff were extremely supportive and flappers, fun, frolics, the spread was well prepared and all our friendship, fundraising and, of course, friends and relatives, some from as far the Charleston! away as Canada and Singapore, were very Come and join us. impressed. I know Jo would have been £20 a ticket to include Welcome Cocktail pleased, because she told me to eat there and Supper when I got fed up with cooking for myself. Tickets from the Post Office, Finally, can I say thank you to our Broadleaze Bar friends and the dog walking fraternity in and by calling 01985 850239. Heytesbury who made my day a great deal easier". He finished by wishing Katherine Venning every success in taking on the role of editor during his absence.

Katherine Venning writes: We all wish Robin a restorative break from his duties as editor, and look forward to When contacting advertisers please his return. tell them that you read about them Until further notice please let me ! in the Parish News ! know of any Social Dates you have, so they can be included in the diary. We deliver this magazine door to door in all our ten villages, and the editorial team would love to have a greater overview of what is going on. Editorial Copy must be with me by the 10th February for inclusion in the March edition: katherine.venning@gmail .com, or phone 840283. frONT COVer Many thanks to Roger Hammond for his 02.20 contours. Colouring-in is the new way of relaxing (for adults and children), so why not give it a try? We’ll publish the most eye-catching versions in the next colour edition. I’d like to see pin-men ST JOHN'S, HeyTeSbury rushing about, but maybe you have better ideas. Spare copies of the Contours can be Coffee Morning found at Heytesbury Post Office, and Wednesday 12thFebruary Alison will collect the finished designs for We are collecting for Air Ambulance and me. Or photograph it, and email a copy Horatio’s Garden. to [email protected] Page 2 MInIstRY LetteR

This is the time of year when people try ‘holier than thou’; it does mean that we THOuGHT fOr THe MONTH to get back in trim after the excesses of recognise that this is God’s world and he the Christmas period. Memberships of has made us for his own. Now listen, you who say, “Today or gyms shoot up; people get out walking and What is right and true for each tomorrow we will go to this or that city, running and determine to adopt healthy individual Christian is, of course, also true spend a year there, carry on business and lifestyles. It isn’t just the emphasis on for us as a Church. Is our Church fit for make money.” Why, you do not even know physical well-being. Health farms and purpose? – the purpose of establishing what will happen tomorrow. What is your other amenities recognise we need a God’s kingdom on earth as in Heaven; the life? You are a mist that appears for a little holistic approach: that we should aim to purpose of enabling people to meet Jesus while and then vanishes. Instead, you be whole in body, mind and spirit. and find in him their ‘life instructor’ to ought to say, “If it is the Lord's will, we This is also something which is true get them on the road to a healthy life will live and do this or that.” As it is, you of the Christian life. Our Christian faith style which will fulfil their deepest needs. boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. recognises that God created us as ‘whole’ Our well-being lies in developing and Anyone, then, who knows the good he beings – body, mind and spirit. It isn’t by nurturing our life; body, mind and spirit, ought to do, and doesn't do it, sins. chance that Lent comes at this time of in tune with God’s purposes. To do this Letter of James, Chapter 4, verses 13-17 year. ‘Lent’ means ‘Spring’, and it’s time we need to let Jesus be our ‘fitness chosen by RH for our annual health check to ensure we instructor’ to bring our life up to its full are taking proper care of the life that God potential. Are we in control of our life or THaNK yOu s has entrusted to us and developing our do we let life control us? If we look at our God-given potential according to our diaries, what priorities determine how we JOaN aND reG GLeaVe ‘instructor’s’ guidance. The tradition of apportion our time? If we look at our giving something up for Lent is based on skills/, have we developed them to their May we thank all the people who have the recognition that our body, mind and full potential, and to what purpose are we kindly visited me on my spell in hospital. spirit need to be ‘in tune’ and that we using them? Also for the many prayers and good wishes need to control that balance for healthy Ash Wednesday is 26th February, so we have received. We have been very living. we have time to work out how we can moved by such kindness and we want to Lent reminds us that Jesus estab - make the best use of Lent this year. There say a big thank you to everyone. We hope lished this by going into the wilderness for will be the usual opportunities in the you all have a happy and a healthy New forty days to confirm his real priorities and Church calendar to help us in our Christian Year. JG overcome the temptations of short-term discipleship. I invite us all to give indulgences. We also remember how ourselves a health check – body, mind and CarDS fOr GOOD CauSeS he called his disciples who then left spirit – and to ask Jesus to be our ‘fitness everything and followed him. Jesus taught instructor’ to help us through Lent and The 3 day sale of Charity Christmas Cards us to ‘seek first God’s Kingdom and his beyond, to make us fit for purpose. etc; at the Ginger Piggery, Boyton in righteousness and all else will be added to November made a total of £3,668.69. This is a bit less than previous years, but still a you’. It doesn’t mean we become pious or Rev. Jayne Buckles very worthwhile sum, and all the charities will benefit from it. A big Thank You to SuNDay@4 (‘S@4’) Upper Valley Team including Café everyone who came and supported the Church on the first Sunday of the month in sale, and we hope for a good selection of This is a new venture in Codford Village Sutton Veny and family services on the cards, stocking fillers etc. for the next Hall on the 3rd Sunday of the month at second and fourth Sundays in Codford sale. FR 4pm, in place of Messy Church which is St Peter and Heytesbury. Please see taking a break in 2020. It will be an Church Services on page 11, the Upper rOyaL brITISH LeGION informal service similar to, but not the Wylye Valley Team website on the internet same as, Messy Church, aimed at young and our Facebook page. Further details The collection from the parishes raised children and families and anyone who from the Rev Cliff Stride. £1564. wants to try worshipping informally. The Thank you all for your contributions and service will have a theme linked with an especially the individual collectors. activity in which all can take part and a Chris Beharrell, Local Organiser picnic to round off the afternoon. It will Think Indian; dine... finish no later than 5.15pm. THaNKS to an anonymous donor for Our first Sunday@4 is on 16th paying for our December edition to be in February at 4pm in Codford Village Hall. ’s Premier Indian Restaurant and Takeaway colour. Please contact the Editor, or our We will all be involved in making a banner Treasurer Jon Royds (01985 840491), if you entitled “Love in Creation” celebrating feel able to offer sponsorship. God’s creation. Our next ‘S@4’ is on 15th March when we will be decorating Easter Candles. In April we will meet at Green - Prayer GrOuP light (next to Wylye Valley School Codford) NO artificial colourings or additives We meet weekly. on Good Friday Morning for Easter w A healthier choice of Indian cuisine w If you have any prayer requests, Activities. Further details to follow. A36, Codford, , BA12 0JZ please call Anne on 840339. There are a number of informal Tel: 01985 850081/851260 Email:[email protected] services throughout the month across the Page 3 ARoUnd the APIARY

While there's not too much to do as far as those flowers supplying all that lovely get his hives in for the winter and them actual beekeeping is concerned at the fresh pollen, to feed the ever-growing being frozen to the ground. moment, I’m just going around checking brood. The downside of this approach is if Now we need to give a long thought that all colonies have sufficient stores. We we have a late spring, the beekeeper will about our friends in Australia, not just the do this by hefting the hives to try to judge end up having to feed all these colonies people but domesticated animals and the how much food they have left. because if the weather is rubbish and they wildlife. So many have perished, along The big question at this time of can’t fly, they won't be able to sustain the with many hives and billions of honey bees year is to feed straight sugar paste which number of developing bees. - it’s going to be a long road back for the will just keep them going or to start On the other hand, if all goes to whole country and all the creatures. feeding pollen patés; this is a combination plan I will be able to select from my best While I'm writing this, my younger of sugar, together with proteins of queens from last year, to start some early brother is cycling around New Zealand bee-pollen which should encourage the queen breeding and rearing so I will have with two of his sons; he and his youngest queens to start laying, which in turn will new queens to make splits with, and will son flew out to meet up with the middle start the colonies growing. The idea is that be able to replace any winter losses or son who has been cycling around the when spring arrives there will be a good increase my stock so I may be in a position world. He has taken a year out to do this strong colony to take full advantage of all to have bees to sell. and, while thinking how fantastic this is If there are any prospective bee - for them, I can’t help but think they are keepers out there who would like to give all quite mad or maybe I'm just feeling my beekeeping a go, then please get in touch. age! I am more than happy to lend you a bee suit in the spring so you can see for yourselves what amazing creatures honey Den Pictor, your local friendly beekeeper bees are, and who knows, with a few basic lessons you could have your own colonies at the bottom of the garden, leading to having your own honey on the table for breakfast - yummy! I know us Brits are always complaining about the weather but really we don’t know anything about bad weather. If you remember back, I said about the beekeeper in Canada trying to

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Christmas is a distant memory now but it replied “If you see my picture in the Prime Minister’s dog who looks like me, was fun. The Guvnor was in Lidl’s just be - Warminster Journal having been charged wearing a proper-sized decoration that fore the break and found himself standing with murder, it will be because a member went around his neck. “Now that,” I behind a woman with a wildly overloaded of my family has said they were hungry.” remarked ‘sotto growle’, “is a proper trolley containing all the festive fare you The Guvnor wore his red jumper ruff-ruff-ruff.” could imagine. There was a cheery chap and a green shirt in order, he explained, Christmas lunch was a feast; in front who asked, “Do you think you’ve to appear ‘festive’. I thought the green turkey with every possible accoutrement got enough?” Without missing a beat, she made him look unwell and the red (a posher way of saying ‘with all the matched his eyes, but he was undeterred trimmings’ which makes it sound as if it is and the photographs of him carrying the taking place in a barber’s shop), a decent Christmas pudding with its sprig of holly bottle or two of Claret and Chablis and fuelled by warm brandy and alight with crackers with useful things inside them. cheer, prove it. His children commented He had a gold crown that he renamed ‘a that he had adopted the same pose in yellow paper hat’ so as not to sound every photograph of a Christmas pud they like a dentist. The principal merit of can remember over forty-plus years, with Christmas Lunch is that my family’s eyes the only difference being he had got big - are bigger than their tummies before they ger and the pudding had become smaller. cook it – and that means there is plenty Two of my ‘cousins’, Loopy and left over for dogs afterwards. I have Clyde, were here for Christmas and, on always been told that my eyes are bigger the day, we had short lengths of tinsel than they should be for a Jack Russell; attached to our collars as festive well, you should see my tummy! decorations. I could have told the Guvnor and his wife that this would be more We had a happy time, mostly. trouble than it was worth but they wouldn’t listen, so we just covered the kitchen floor and all the downstairs DID YOU KNOW carpets with bits every time we shook our heads or scratched. The newspaper on In 1914 an epidemic of scarlet fever and Boxing Day showed a picture of Dylan, the diphtheria was surrounding Warminster/, and the tiny cottage hospital was pushed to the limits to treat these infectious cases. The Health committee of the day Puppy & Dog Training Classes, recorded that they had rented another house to care for the victims and as a last Behaviour Consultations, Dog THIS BOX COULD FEATURE resort a marquee, with a ground sheet, Walking, Dog Sitting & Day Care YOUR BUSINESS should be hired to house the overflow. Please contact Celia Callan BSc This epidemic closed the schools (Hons) Dip CABC for almost 3 months: the one at Corton PLEASE SUPPORT (called the Boyton School) reopened on Tel: 01985 248277 PARISH NEWS WITH the 18th December just in time for the Mob: 07806779749 Christmas party, and then it closed again [email protected] AN ADVERT until the New Year. www.doggietraining.co.uk www.puppyschool.co.uk £120 FOR A YEAR OF PUBLICITY When contacting advertisers please Professional, OR £56 FOR BUSINESS-CARD SIZE tell them that you read about them Qualified & Insured Tutor ! in the Parish News !

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Many hands make light work is what they healthy diet with all the nutrients needed engineers. Let’s not forget the business say. Now, I would be very unpopular if I for well-being, breeding and production. side: in these modern days the office is were to claim there is ever an opportunity We also seek advice from a breeding crucial and we have a strong team of to ‘make light work’ within our industry. advisor, foot trimmer (it is important accountants, a very understanding bank After all, the nature of the job is physical the feet are well cared for), genetic manager, business consultant, land agent and demanding. However, for our farm to consultants and artificial insemination and of course other farmers. Our industry work to its full capacity we need ‘team specialists. is a community and we are there to help work’. Fortunately no team building For the arable aspect we have an one another through thick and thin and to activities are needed to achieve this Agronomist. My husband has agronomy support each other as friends, give advice (phew I can hear the staff saying) but it is training, but it would be narrow-minded and lend each other help where needed. a team that makes the day to day running not to seek advice from another There are always new ideas and possible. Apart from the immediate family professional with up-to-date facts and facts to be learnt and installed ‘down on who have their own qualifications and ideas as to how we can maintain the land the farm’. many years of experience within their and produce good crops. Alongside field (no pun intended), we have 12 that we have machinery dealers and Kit Pottow members of staff who are well qualified and experienced within the dairy industry, and who work daily on the farm along with a student who attends college three days a week and gathers as many hours as possible with us, giving him the opportu - nity to learn from the staff and from other professionals who visit. Farming is a science and the appropriate people need to be on board to achieve the most beneficial care and production for both livestock and land. Monday morning kicks off with a visit from the vet to do a weekly routine

on the cows; this comprises pregnancy l a h diagnosis and general care of the herd; t n e and regular visits from a nutritionist (for s o R

the cows not us, although after Christmas a l e it might not be a bad thing). It is crucial g n that the cows have a well-balanced, A JULIA’s hoUse needs YoU!

Do you like to keep busy? Do you have a It’s a great feeling to be supporting your public donations, fundraising and lega - few hours to spare? Julia’s House, the local community and will make all the cies for 95 per cent of the money needed Dorset and Wiltshire Children’s Hospice difference to the children and families we to run its vital service. The charity has charity/, is seeking volunteers to help out care for. We would love to hear from two hospices – one in Devizes and one in at its friendly shop located in Maryport anyone who’d like to get involved at our Corfe Mullen, in Dorset. Street, Devizes. Devizes shop.” Anyone interested in volunteering The shop relies on volunteers Julia’s House is a local charity in Devizes should contact Liz Thompson throughout the week, and has a particular dedicated to supporting the families on 01202 644220 or pop into the shop for need at present for some extra help on of children with life-limiting or more information. Monday mornings and Wednesday and life-threatening conditions. It relies on Friday afternoons to serve customers on the till and keep them informed about the charity’s work. Volunteering has lots of benefits, from building confidence to reducing RoadHog Catering Ltd stress and is a great way to make friends www.roadhogcaterers.co.uk and have fun. Karen Riggs Liz Thompson, Volunteer Co-ordi - Specialists in weddings, hog roasts, nator for Julia’s House, said. vintage tea parties, garden parties “You don’t have to have experience to be • Residential property • Commercial property Outdoor catering & bars, hire & • Family • Corporate a volunteer at Julia’s House, as we event planning • Wills ,trusts & probate • Employment provide all the training you will require. Fully insured & licensed • Personal injury • Dispute resolutio n You just need to be friendly, reliable and have the confidence to talk to our For bookings and all enquiries ring 01225 754124/07967 243687 customers and make them feel welcome. CHIPPENHAM MALMESBURY SWINDON WARMINSTER Email: [email protected] 01249 444300 01666 922671 01793 522688 01225 755621 01985 217464

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JOHN HAMILTON - HEYTESBURY & SUTTON VENY CC: GOOD START TO THE FOOTBALL SEASON AN ExAMPLE OF HOW TO KEEP FIT KIDS CRICKET IN THE PARISH CONTINUES It is a firmly held view by many NHS Heytesbury have continued their good doctors and other experts that as a nation Kids cricket in the Parish will be starting early season form and have 2 Cup quarter our physical fitness could do with major in early Spring. We have programmes for finals to look forward to in January and improvement. Readers may be surprised 5-15 year olds. We welcome all standards, are currently 4th in the League with to learn that one of our number, living in and offer a great opportunity to get into games in hand over the teams above Sutton Veny, has taken positive action to cricket. them. remedy this state of affairs. Each week UNDER 11s (as well U13 & U15) for boys A visit to Freshford United from Monday to Friday he daily attends a and girls in School Years 5 & 6. We train on produced 3 points for a good 0-5 win. This gym in Warminster. Arriving at 7.30 a.m. Friday evenings (1730-1830) at Warminster was followed by a 2-2 at home to he carries out a programme of routine Cricket Academy starting beginning of Warminster United. This was a good result workouts until 9.30 February. The 10-week course is a fun way after being 2 goals down early in the first a.m. At the of 101 to get into cricket with game-based exer - half. No football for a couple of weeks due years he is fitter cises introducing batting, bowling and to the weather. Semington Magpies then than the average fielding. Our qualified coaches have all visited The Park after agreeing to reverse 50- to 60- year-old. the equipment necessary. Matches are the fixture as their pitch was waterlogged. In addition, he from May-July and we welcome anyone Again, Heytesbury went 2 goals behind in holds the World who has previously been involved in All the first half but showed some real team Record for 95-year- Stars, Under 9s and Beginners. spirit and won the game 3-2. A break from olds and over for ALL STARS CRICKET returns in early May League action as Devizes town reserves 1000 meters on for 5 year olds up, School Years Reception- came to the park in the Knockout cup. a static rowing Year 2. See our Facebook page for details. A 4-2 win saw Heytesbury progress to the machine. Photograph: Jon Royds DYNAMOS CRICKET starts early May: brand next round. Next was unbeaten Marshfield Perhaps these facts may encourage new to our programme this year. The next in the A&B Cup and a 4-1 win for Heytes - you to follow his example. It is never step up from All Stars for School Years 6- bury. A couple of poor results followed but too late to start in a gentle way to 9. This game-based programme introduces both were good performances in close progressively becoming ever fitter. matches and festivals with other local games. It took extra time for Warminster from a conversation with Jon Royds 7.1.20 Clubs. Soft ball cricket. See our Facebook United to win 2-1 in the County cup. page for details. Marshfield won 3-2 in the league in a tight ANGLING NOTES Not sure which programme your game following the Christmas break. child will be in? See the easy-to-read guide We continue to get good support The Brook was higher than I on our Facebook page. For full details from the Village and beyond for our home have ever seen it on Christmas day and it please visit the Club’s Facebook page or games. Everyone is always made welcome was running from a point some half a mile call Justin Wagstaff 840782 and there is a good selection of hot and to the West and North of Imber. Whether # cold food and drinks available free to all. it was starting from a spring or it was When contacting advertisers please Information about fixtures is avail - simply surface run-off I could not be sure. tell them that you read about them able at The Park, the shop and the Parish ! in the Parish News ! I suspect that it was the latter, and is a notice board, or why not follow us on measure of the very wet period which we Cartoon by Mike Robinson of Tytherington Facebook or Twitter @Heytesbury_FC have had. This is very good news for the but not for the farmers who have been trying to sow autumn cereals. Hopefully we will have a window at some point soon which on our free-draining chalk soils will enable them to catch up. The past month was not conducive to fishing but I am hoping to be persuaded by the weather to fish our lakes during January. Last year there were fly hatches during January and February and if this mild weather continues these hatches should occur again. The subject of climate change hardly got a mention during the election campaign but it is encouraging that there is a considerable amount of work going on around the world in exploring ways of reducing carbon emissions and even ways to recover the Polar ice. We must all play a part and do what we can. As our ash trees disappear as a result of ‘ash dieback’, I will be trying to squeeze a few more trees onto my property. RM Page 7 VILLAGe neWs

Recently, in our Parish a round robin from BOYTON AND CORTON CUTTINGS together around a communal table amidst a land owner said that the ash trees on his much laughter prompted by yesterday’s land were in a poor state, according to an In a candlelit church, children from the joke or stories and memories that go back arborist, and he will need to cut down a parish read and re-enacted the Christmas decades. We would love to welcome you huge number of trees. He was asking for story; the Boyton Band reconvened for to any of our Tuesday gatherings. patience (and sympathy) from parish - their annual music making, then mulled The Thursday Café came about in ioners who may be inconvenienced by this wine and nibbles rounded off our Carol May 2017 when a small group of work with roads blocked. service. A joyous start to the Christmas like-minded Christians felt that there was The trees in question were ash season. room for a second café in the village that trees suffering from ash dieback, which is Just before Christmas a band could meet each Thursday morning at the spreading east and has reached Wiltshire. of carol singers, accompanied by the then underutilised Village Hall; it offers Apparently, this fast-moving disease is traditional instruments of Robin Scard and ample parking, disabled access, and likely to kill 95% of the UK's ash trees. friend, toured Corton. They raised £112 plenty of room. Our small band of Well, folklore loves the oak and the ash for the Salvation Army Christmas appeal. volunteers from all walks of life quickly and the bonny ivy tree, to mention one Please join us in praying for a long, got things going and we now offer teas and song, and this one is from the North. Ash dry spell of weather so that our footpaths coffees, together with cake etc. each is associated with purity, and holy become passable and the temporary moats Thursday between 9am and 11am (ish). All medieval women were buried on beds around some homes subside. our ‘profits’ are donated to local good made from ash. If they were cremated, The next Fane Hall event is a Quiz causes which include our Surgery, the the favoured wood was ash for the night on 7th February. AR Village Hall itself, Wylye Valley RDA, cremation pyres , for symbolic reasons, Salisbury Scanner Appeal and others and also the wood burns for a long time. THE CODFORD CAFĖS totalling over £3,000 to date! Some ash trees were found growing by Do drop in to either/both of our holy wells or springs in Ireland. A ‘café society’ thrives in Codford and, as cafes and you will be assured of a warm As a party game, guests could be 2020 begins, it seems timely to tell stories welcome, whether you want to have a asked to name towns starting with the of community and friendship, and of inclu - chat with old friends, meet new ones or word ‘Ash’: think Ashford, Ashtead, siveness and altruism. In simple terms it simply while away the time in peace and Ashley; and ash is the second most means that people get together, thanks to quiet until the bus comes. common tree place name after thorn and the efforts of others, to meet and gossip before oak. And of course we all look for and fix and mend but often just to relax David Peters and Derek Buckles the telltale forecast in spring, whether in the company of like-minded folk and the oak or ash are the first to have leaves enjoy a hot drink and a piece of cake. and a wet or dry summer is ahead. A soak The Tuesday Café meets in Green - or a splash. Sadly it looks likely that future light, the home of the Wylye Coyotes in children will not know the rhyme - if they the grounds of Wylye Valley School, on do, some will ask “what is an ash?” Tuesdays in term time from 10.00 to 11.30 in the morning. Each week a volunteer Barbara Saunt host serves delicious home-made cakes and fresh tea and coffee. All money raised is donated to good causes, both local and national. The café first opened its doors in 2011 since when almost £4,000 has been given to charities close to the hearts of our members. The Tuesday Café is really about the three Cs - good company, good causes and good cake and these all come

Thursday Café Codford Village Hall Every Thursday 9-11am Raising funds for local charities Relax with a hot cup of tea or coffee Eat Cake!

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HEYTESBURY PUBS THOUGHTS FROM SHERRINGTON MeN’S feLLOWSHIP We are lucky enough to have two great Whatever our thoughts about the breaKfaSTS pubs in Heytesbury, each offering very dif - inconvenience of mud, rain, even flooding ferent services. one can only be thankful not to be in The 2020 breakfast season got off to THE ANGEL is managed by Karen Riggs Australia at this terrifying time. Here the a cracking start on 6th January with whose reputation is well known by so winterbournes are overflowing but surpris - entertainingly delivered insights into the many in the village. It feels just like The ingly Sherrington Bottom has not flooded. screenwriter’s art by Tom Williams. A local Angel used to in days gone by, with a Sometimes, in years past, water draining man, with a long list of work for the lovely ambiance and a warm welcome. I off the surrounding slopes has formed a screen, Tom’s two feature films are his recently had a very pleasant lunch there lake that has in some instances topped the best known work. His 2011 comedy, Chalet with a group of village ladies. The food fence posts! However, so far, not this year. Girl, couldn’t be more different to was good, the service excellent, friendly Christmas passed in the flicker of a his gritty 2014 Afghan war thriller, and good value. candle, the little church, as ever resplen - Kajaki - The True Story. The latter was the THE RED LION is our ‘village pub’, run by dent in evergreens and candlelight and the main focus of his talk and all present were Sam and Lorna. It provides good ‘pub most handsome of Christmas Trees. All is impressed at the lengths he had gone to grub’ and supports an enormous number now dismantled save for the crib and we in order to convey the harrowing events of village activities. The Football and thought to leave that until Candlemas on accurately, resulting in a film that won Cricket clubs, a Book Club, St John’s 2nd February. By then I hope to have the approval both of those who were Ladies Lunches, also monthly quiz nights honed my thatching skills and repaired the portrayed and also Jeremy Clarkson, who supporting various charities. There are roof. described it as ‘probably the best war film three more in the pipeline until March! On the cress bed the family of ever made!’ The breakfast raised over For several of these meetings, in - swans has been absent for some weeks but £180 for Tom’s nominated charity, cluding a group get-together on Thursday returned on 3rd January and today, 7th BLESMA. evenings, large bowls of roast potatoes January, only the cygnets reappeared. The February breakfast will take are provided to share at no cost to the Obviously, family ties are now loosening. place on Monday the 3rd and the speaker group. The adult pair were with them last week. will be the Bishop of Ramsbury, Rt Revd Dr They also generously open an hour The mild winter has helped bird Andrew Rumsey. The subject of his talk early every Saturday from October to June survival and already there are signs of will be ‘Finding Your Place’ and it will for the ‘Produce and Coffee Mornings’, Spring. In certain sheltered areas the include some of his initial impressions now giving us a warm space to meet, chat and hazels are already swinging with catkins that he has been in post for one year. Prior have coffee and sell our produce, when all while in the garden some cautious to arriving in the Diocese of Salisbury last are welcome. primroses show. January, he was, for twenty years, The Angel is now a Free House, so Amid all the appalling gloom and a parish priest in London and Surrey. they can offer us a variety of speciality chaos abroad in the world I read there is a A writer and musician, his books include beers and lagers. They will also be holding ray of hope in the launch of an initiative Parish: an Anglican Theology of Place, ‘win the pot’ quiz nights . They are plan - to address the damage we have done to published in 2017. His nominated charity ning various themed meal nights and their the planet and are still doing. A Nobel- is Wiltshire Youth for Christ, a dynamic intention is to be recognised for their food type prize is to be awarded annually to and innovative Christian faith-based youth as well as the ambiance. In other words a bodies that begin and continue to redress - and community organisation working with fine ‘Gastro’ pub. the damage. There are many super brains young people, primarily in the area of Two very different pubs both with that are well able to channel skills and . rooms to let and both with a great deal to intelligence into a force for the good of The speaker at the following offer. the natural world. 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I shall be leading a pilgrimage to the Holy night. So the Holy Family’s headlong flight an essential Christian discipline. I hope Land in May 2020. While we are in to escape the clutches of Herod’s soldiers it’s one your cathedral can help you with. Bethlehem I hope we will have a chance is marked by a tranquil faithfulness in Now and throughout the year. to visit the Milk Grotto. It’s one of my prayer. Nick Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury favourite holy sites. It’s so called Pilgrimages can be rather frantic. because, according to legend, it’s where There’s an awful lot to see. It’s been said CONFIRMATION PREPARATION Mary stopped to feed her new-born son as that modern-day pilgrims come to Israel- Have you ever been lost? This can happen the Holy Family fled to Egypt. As it’s only Palestine to run in the places where Jesus because we do not have a map, or we a stone’s throw from the place of his once walked! The quiet of the Milk Grotto have an inadequate one. Confirming our birth, it suggests that Jesus was a very is a welcome contrast to the teeming faith in Jesus is like deciding to travel with hungry baby! An order of nuns now lives streets outside. a really accurate map through life. on the site and worships in the Grotto Activity can become an end in it - At our Baptism, our parents and Church. One member of the community self. We need to stop, and to listen for godparents declared our commitment to maintains a silent vigil of prayer before God, and to discern what God might will follow Christ on our behalf. Confirmation the altar at every hour of the day – and for us. It’s not pious sentimentality, it’s is an opportunity for us to reaffirm this commitment ourselves, of our own free will. Over six weekly sessions from Monday 24th February – Monday 30th Wren House March 2020, we will discuss and explore Residence for the Retired and Elderly the key aspects of our Christian faith. Wren House in Warminster is a long-established, elegant retirement home, After the course, those who have prepared specialising in individual care in gracious surroundings. for Confirmation will make a public decla - ration of faith in Jesus Christ, alongside Having just thirteen rooms, each with a private bathroom, we are able to many others from across our diocese, at offer the ambience of a family home, together with caring staff and the Salisbury Cathedral on the 16th May 2020. facilities to enable our residents to grow old with dignity. This service will be led by Bishop of Ramsbury, The Right Reverend Andrew Mrs Lynn Boon, Manager Rumsey. Wren House Limited, 32 Vicarage Street, Warminster BA12 8JF If you were baptised as an infant, Tel: 01985 212578 then this is the time when you can make for yourself the declarations of faith that were made on your behalf by your parents BARTERS PLANT CENTRE and godparents. If you have never been baptised, you can be baptised and Friendly local Nursery and Plant Centre fRoM the ReGIsteRs confirmed at the above service, at the Fresh plants grown on our Nursery same time. Baptisms Free advice and plenty of parking If you would like to discuss this We welcome into the Christian Church Open Mon - Sat 9.00 - 5.00 confirmation preparation course, or confirmation in general, please do not Aurora Neville-Dick Sundays 10.00 - 4.00 hesitate to speak to Rev Trudy Hobson, on 1st December at Norton Bavant (March to June & December) 840081, or Rev Clifford Stride, 850941 May she grow in the Christian Faith Sun closed (Jan, Feb, July to Nov) Funerals Just off A36 in , Confirmation preparation dates Our sympathy and love to those Westbury, Wilts Mondays 4pm at The Rectory, who mourn the passing of Tel: 01373-832694 Bests Lane, Sutton Veny Edith Fear www.barters.co.uk February: 24th on 1 1th December March: 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th at Sutton Veny & Semington Patricia Wakelin on 1 3th December GRIFFIN’S GARAGE at Salisbury Crematorium & Upton Lovell • Servicing & Repairs • Diagnostics Ronald Weale • MOT’s (also arranged for trucks) on 1 6th December • Breakdown & Recovery Service at Sutton Veny • Onsite & Mobile Service May they rest in the peace and light of Christ • Cars • Vans • Plant •Trailers • Machinery Please contact the Ministry Team to make • Collection & Delivery Available arrangements for Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, Confirmation preparation or Service of Prayer • Loan Car, Van & 4x4 Available and Dedication after a Civil Marriage. The clergy will officiate at any 01985 840 800 www.griffauto.co.uk crematorium service. Hill Road - Sutton Veny - BA12 7AT

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[email protected] 840081 2nd Tytherington 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) PRESENTATION Codford St Mary 9.30am Parish Communion MINISTRY TEAM OF CHRIST Norton Bavant 9.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Sutton Veny Village Hall 10.00am Café church, breakfast from 9.30am Team Vicar Heytesbury 11.00am Parish Communion Choir The Revd Clifford Stride (on duty Tues.Wed.Sun) Upton Lovell 11.00am Parish Communion [email protected] 850941 Ordained Ministers with Permission to Officiate Tytherington 6.00pm Team Taizé service The Revd Diana Hammond 841185 [email protected] 9th Boyton 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) The Revd Jane Shaw 850141 3rd Sunday Sutton Veny 9.30am Parish Communion [email protected] before Lent Codford St Peter 10.00am Sunday Celebration The Revd Jayne Buckles 851176 Codford St Mary 11.00am Parish Communion Choir [email protected] The Revd Robin Hungerford 840522 Knook 11.00am Parish Communion [email protected] Upton Lovell 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) Licensed Lay Minister Katherine Venning LLM 840283 16th Heytesbury 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) [email protected] 2nd Sunday Codford St Peter 9.30am Parish Communion before Lent Norton Bavant 9.30am Parish Communion Choir CHURCHWARDENS Sutton Veny 11.00am Matins (BCP) Boyton & Corton Post vacant 851191 Upton Lovell 11.00am Parish Communion Codford St Mary Derek Buckles 851176 Codford Village Hall 4.00pm Sunday@4 Codford St Peter Barbara Tomlinson 850156 Knook 6.00pm Pimms & Hymns Alasdair McGregor 850073 Heytesbury Tina Sitwell 840556 23rd Sutton Veny 8.30am Holy Communion (BCP) Knook Michael Pottow 850776 Norton Bavant John Acworth 840134 Sunday Codford St Peter 9.30am Parish Communion Choir Edward Moore 840420 before Lent Heytesbury 10.00am Sunday Worship Sherrington Betty & Nigel Lewis 850496 Boyton 11.00am Parish Communion Sutton Veny Brian Long 840352 Heytesbury 6.00pm Evensong (BCP) Tytherington Caroline Lester-Card 840022 Upton Lovell Gill Boxall 851171 26th ASH Codford St. Peter 9.00am Communion & Imposition of Ashes Andrew Cumming 850834 WEDNESDAY Sutton Veny 9.30am Communion & Imposition of Ashes LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Heytesbury 6.00pm Beginning of Lent Service Choir Codford Henry Collins 850193 Carola Puddy 850308 Parish Communion is our main service using modern language, with hymns, bible readings, prayers and a sermon. Norton Bavant Didee Acworth 840134 BCP services (Holy communion, Matins and Evensong) are from the Book of Common Prayer (1662) using traditional Heytesbury: Roger Hammond 841185 language. Alison Tebbs 841192 Sunday Worship or Sunday celebration are usually conducted by Lay Worship Leaders, with songs and hymns, Sutton Veny Judy Cooper 840953 short prayers and an informal talk. Upton Lovell Sue Bray 850702 Cafe Church starts with breakfast and conversation, lasts 30 minutes, and has activities for young children plus songs and prayers and a short talk. BELL RINGERS Nick Claypoole 850724 Sunday@4 replaces Messy Church. It is designed for all ages with new and creative ways of worship, activities PARISH CHOIR Katherine Venning 840283 linked to a bible story and ends with food. The Taizé service (30 minutes) has periods of stillness, music from the Taizé community, a bible reading and short PARISH NEWS prayers Acting Editor Katherine Venning 840283 WEEKDAY SERVICES every week [email protected] We welcome you to share in prayers for the Church, the Nation, the World, Chairman David Shaw 850372 the Sick, and for others as well as ourselves. [email protected] Tuesdays Heytesbury 8.30am Morning Prayer Wednesdays Codford St Peter 8.30am Morning Prayer ADVERTISING AND EDITORIAL Wednesdays Codford St Peter 9.00am Holy Communion The Parish News, which is not for profit, relies on and is Thursdays Sherrington 08.30am Morning Prayer very grateful to all advertisers without whom the magazine could not be produced. Prospective advertisers Fridays Sutton Veny 8.30am Morning Prayer should contact Anne Bennett-Shaw (see details below). 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