The Parish MAGAZINE
• FEBRUARY 2021 •
• ST PETER’S, FRESHFORD • ST MARY’S, LIMPLEY STOKE • • ST JOHN’S, HINTON CHARTERHOUSE •
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 1 19/01/2021 16:37 Contacts & Local Groups
WEDDINGS, FUNERALS AND MAGAZINE ADVERTISING BAPTISMS - ARRANGEMENTS Contact: [email protected] Priest in Charge: Revd Mike Taylor For a PDF version, email [email protected] (01225 723570) Day Off Fridays. [email protected] Website: http://flshc.co.uk/ FRESHFORD CHURCH SCHOOL Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Head Teacher, Andrew Wishart (01225 723331) freshfordlimpleyhintonchurches/ FRESHFORD PRE-SCHOOL PARISH TREASURER Mon, Tues, Wed 9.00am - 3.00pm, Malcolm Chatwin (01225 722624) Thurs Forest School 9.00am - 1.00pm. Freshford Memorial Hall PARISH OFFICE/OLD BAKERY BOOKINGS www.freshfordpreschool.co.uk Deborah Jones (01225 720347) [email protected] [email protected] BABY & TODDLER GROUPS CHURCHWARDENS For details of potential meetings in Freshford St Peter’s: Rachel Moore (01225 723139) this term contact: Alison Sellers Penny Murray (01225 722355) [email protected] St Mary’s: Kathy Tucker (01225 834438) David Sibley (01225 722026) Hinton Charterhouse: Contact Liz Wordsworth St John’s: Liz Wordsworth (01225 722520) with any inquiries (01225 722520) Karen Grattage (01225 720364) 15TH BATH SCOUTS (FRESHFORD): ROMAN CATHOLICS Beavers, Cubs and Scouts sections: Check the Downside Abbey website for latest Thursday evenings. Contact: Group information on mass times downsideabbey.co.uk Scout Leader (Sam Lascelles) [email protected]
MAGAZINE MANAGER VISIT VILLAGE WEB SITES AT Mark Baines: [email protected] www.hintoncharterhouse.com MAGAZINE SECRETARIES www.limpleystoke.org Limpley Stoke: Anne Jarrett (01225 722309) www.freshfordvillage.com [email protected]
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Front cover image : Snow in St John’s Churchyard in winter 2019. Photo by Howard Jones.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 2 19/01/2021 16:37 Welcome from Revd Mike Taylor
Dear friends,
was so grateful to be able to You can’t see a Icelebrate the great festival of Christmas with all of you who felt able smile or a scowl to come out and join us in one of our behind a mask... The services. Thank you for coming and celebrating the gift of Jesus to our church thrives on world. We looked at the story as it community... unfolded and then at what it meant and continues to mean that God is with us – a saving to the environment, but after a Immanuel. For us now in this New Year while there was fatigue from staring at and another lockdown, we need, more a screen for any length of time. There than ever, to know that we are never were no real opportunities just to speak truly alone. to each other, people you hadn’t seen Elsewhere in this edition we will for a while, just to meet and chat over a read some reflections on lockdown. I cuppa, and those you have never met in thought rather than do that in another person you didn’t really get a chance to place I would share a little here. I am know on a screen. We managed, when an introvert and I thought being locked we could, to start Sunday services, down would be something that I would initially outside, then as the weather find easy to cope with. However, like deteriorated inside, now distanced the rest of the world it is not as easy from each other, wearing masks and as I had hoped. Not being able to see listening to music, or more latterly to other members of the family, or spend an organist playing the songs while we quality time with friends, or even to quietly hummed or sang softly into our travel as and when we wish. masks. It finally struck me last week (3rd Jan) that this is not what church is At first the idea of ‘remote’ meetings about. People were sat apart from each seems a great joy. I didn’t need to other; there was no community except travel for 45 minutes or longer to get that we were all present in the building. to Wells or Salisbury and actually we For me there was no visual feedback were able to meet more people in some from anybody. You can’t see a smile or of those meetings than I would ever scowl behind a mask and without even meet in person. I think the largest one the chance to share over a cuppa at the I attended was over 200. You had to end. Church is about community, being scroll through the various screens just all members of one body, that being to see people let alone find the ones the body of Christ. The church thrives you knew. Yes, there was a saving to on community and sharing life together my car journeying, and because of that as we journey – that, I felt, had gone.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 3 19/01/2021 16:37 Now we are back to trying to do their lives were not their own to live. It something using online resources, would have been a lonely birth for Mary recorded, written or maybe even live and Joseph except that God could not streamed from home. keep this news to himself and through angelic messengers announced it to I know I am one of the fortunate the shepherds. Put a strange light ones who already live in a family in the sky that would attract visitors unit. I wonder how all of this affects from distant lands. Why? Because, this those who live alone, or whose family was a birth unlike any other. This was members live too far away to be able God born in human likeness to reveal to just pop over to see or encourage God’s likeness and character to us. each other. Then there are those whose Through this child the problem of evil jobs are lost, or who never managed and separation would be resolved. The to get a job before the world went into problem of evil countered because we this lockdown spiral. Some have had can ask for forgiveness and we can to close their businesses with great say no to temptation, as we trust in heartbreak and fear for the future. his continuing presence with us. The Others have missed operations or separation that was revealed through appointments that may well have given the story of Genesis, is now resolved them an improved life, then there are because Jesus invites us to call God those whose loved ones have died, ‘Father’. He is not distant, he is present. whether through Covid or another He is not a cold aloof father but a cause, without the opportunity to caring dad who loves everything about say goodbye, or to express and show us even though he knows everything love at that moment. There is no about us. The invitation to all of us is doubt the toll to us all is more than to believe this for ourselves – to make just the inconvenience. So what can this truth yours and to put your trust in I say to those whose lives have been Him who is still Immanuel – God with devastated by this pandemic? The us. In this New Year and new lockdown, governments are saying there is an why not spend time and see if there is end in sight with the new vaccines, but anything in this faith that could bring that is a long process. This problem is you comfort and joy even in darkness. the feeling I have now, in yet another If you search on YouTube for the Alpha lockdown. film series you can go on a journey of When Jesus was born in Bethlehem, faith, or openness, and see if there is he was not born into plenty or something for you. Even for me the privilege, he was born into scandal constant nature of this life of restriction only mitigated by Joseph taking Mary has been a trial. But the best days, as his wife and Jesus as his son. He months and years are still ahead of us. was outcast, a refugee, far from home, without even a home, only a stable. Revd Mike Taylor His own people were under foreign [email protected] occupation with the constant reminder, (Day-off Fridays) even in the calling of a census, that
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 4 19/01/2021 16:37 From the Registers
e offer our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Patricia Moore, Wwhose ashes were interred along with her husband Ray’s, at St Mary’s churchyard, Limpley Stoke, on 4th December, and to the family and friends of Barbara Humble, whose funeral and burial took place at St Mary’s Church, Limpley Stoke, on 17th December.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 5 19/01/2021 16:37 In Our Community This Month
COFFEE AND LUNCH CLUBS VILLAGE HALLS Coffee at The Old Bakery, and Coffee Limpley Stoke - for inquiries contact and Chat, in Hinton Charterhouse, Barbara on 01225 867566. remain suspended. Golden Gourmets Freshford - for inquiries contact and the Over 60’s lunch club at the [email protected] Stag, remain suspended. Hinton Charterhouse - contact COVID HELP [email protected], 01225 722510. LiFERAFT, Freshford and Limpley Stoke: The Old Bakery, Freshford, is closed. visit the Limpley Stoke Community For any parish inquiries email Debs on Facebook page, sign for updates on [email protected] www.freshfordvillage.com, to join the DRIVING SCHEMES WhatsApp group contact Elayne on 07900731473, for questions call Simon The Ridings volunteer driving scheme Coombe 07966027637 or Jonelle serving Norton St Philip and Hinton Daniels 07763943004. Charterhouse is currently suspended. Hinton Helpers for errands or to talk to The Link scheme for Freshford and someone: Karen Grattage 07427770385, Limpley Stoke can provide lifts to Christina Pearce 07890215862, or to join medical appointments, respecting WhatsApp, [email protected]. social distancing; and collect and deliver prescriptions from the Galleries, PASTORAL SUPPORT Freshford, on Tuesdays and Fridays Spiritual pastoral support: Rev Mike 1.30pm-2.30pm, for anyone in need or Taylor 01225 723570. Wellbeing and self-isolating. Please call 07714 169216 mental health: Heather Coombe giving at least 48 hours notice. [email protected] WHEELCHAIR LOAN PARISH COUNCIL ZOOM MEETINGS A wheelchair, kindly donated by Ian Limpley Stoke, Tuesday 2nd February Marlow, is available to borrow from the 7pm. Contact: [email protected] Rose and Crown for short trips out. Contact Nigel or Shaun 01225 722153. For Hinton Charterhouse contact: [email protected] MOBILE LIBRARY For Freshford contact: The BANES and Wiltshire mobile [email protected] libraries are currently suspended.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 6 19/01/2021 16:37 Forty Years Ago: February 1981
Len Lambert recalls the events he recorded in his diary for this month:
• Candlemas dawned with a ground frost then cloudy conditions set in, so half the winter was not left behind, as the saying goes.
• Australia’s cricket captain upset the cricket chiefs by ordering the last ball of the test against New Zealand be bowled under arm along the ground to deny New Zealand the chance to hit a six to tie the match. Nothing in the rules said it was not allowed.
• The 9th saw the F.A. decide to award three points for a win from next season.
• 45 people died in a disco fire in Dublin on the night of the 13th-14th. • Miners were in strike-mode mid month over proposed pit closures. • Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer on the 24th.
• British Steel were awarded £5,000 million by the government on the 25th.
• Russian Leader Brezhnev called for a summit with President Reagan, the US president, on the 23rd.
• Weather-wise, snow fell on seven days, frost was recorded on 12 and rain fell on seven days.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 8 19/01/2021 16:37 February Parish Calendar
Date Event 2nd Candelmass
14th St Valentine’s Day
15th Half Term Begins
16th Shrove Tuesday
17th Ash Wednesday
22nd Freshford School Term 4 begins
A full list of all church services this month can be found on the rear cover of this magazine, on the notice boards of each church, as well as on the Parish Church website http://flshc.co.uk/
Magazine Submissions DATES FOR 2021 We always welcome new contributions to the Parish Magazine. Please email [email protected] Final Submission Dates:
Magazine Month Submission Date Magazine Month Submission Date March 2021 12th February April 2021 12th March
May 2021 12th April June 2021 14th May
July 2021 12th June August 2021 12th July
Please send your ’Diary Date’ entries to the Magazine Secretaries by the above deadlines:
Freshford / Limpley Stoke Entries : Anne Jarrett (01225 722309) [email protected]
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 10 19/01/2021 16:37 The Royal British Legion Freshford Branch
CHRIS OSBORNE Membership Secretary (01225 867566)
he Branch held all the TRemembrance Services on the Tyning and in Middle Stoke with rather reduced congregations. For the very first time the Branch held a Drumhead Service on the Tyning on Remembrance Sunday, the weather being unhelpful to say the least. Under the current Covid-led conditions In total 44 airmen, one soldier, and five our Poppy collections this year will civilian crew members died in a blazing have been greatly affected. With inferno. I was not on duty until early an almost full stop being placed evening that day but from the Control on so many of our local eating and TowerI could see smoke still rising from drinking establishments, it is not really crash site a few miles away - a sight surprising. Nevertheless thank you all that I still find hard to erase from my for your continued support. memory. Our membership return from HQ In 2016, I visited Malta together with a shows how difficult it has been to small party of my old RAF colleagues recruit in recent years. But we are not from the mid fifties and with the alone. Across the country, membership assistance of the RBL branch in Malta secretaries are struggling to recruit arranged for a wreath to be laid at the and keep new members. ‘It’s not doing memorial in the military cemetery at anything for me,’ and ‘You don’t do Imtarfa and this was duly done by the much,’ are words often heard. They Director General of the Malta Aviation seem to miss the point of comradeship, Museum. We Will Remember Them. remembrance and the opportunity to help those ex-servicemen and their families in their time of need. On the 18th February 1956, sixty-five years ago, the writer was an Operations Clerk at RAF Luqa, Malta, when the RAF suffered it’s worst ever air crash. An Avro York aircraft lost an engine on take off. The aircraft on charter to the RAF was transferring servicemen home following the expiry of their tours of duty in the Near East.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 11 19/01/2021 16:37 Rowing the Atlantic
in India and provide education and sanitary products for over 70 girls to enable them to participate fully in school life.
I saw first-hand the terrible consequences of having the most basic sanitation in schools and city slums
Sanitation First is the only UK charity specialising in the construction of eco-toilets to provide desperately needed sanitation in parts of India and Africa. Hundreds of thousands of small children die each year from iark Collins, who lives in some form of diarrhoea based disease. MSharpstone, will be rowing Sanitation First has tackled this by across the Atlantic Ocean at the end constructing toilets in over 100 schools of February 2021 to raise funds to in India alone, as well as thousands build desperately needed sanitation of homes and community areas. It is facilities for under-privileged children in one of only six major organisations Southern India. in the world that focus on non-sewer sanitation, especially for slums. Since Mark is part of a team that will row it started focusing on eco-sanitation 3000 miles from Tenerife to Antigua and personal hygiene training in 2005, taking around 40 days. During this it has supported in excess of 600,000 time Mark will row two hours on, two people, thereby helping many poor hours off for 24 hours a day. He will people have a better start in life and endure 20 to 30 foot waves, extremes create opportunities for themselves. of temperature and incredibly cramped living conditions. Mark says “I first became aware of Sanitation First through a friend, Andy Mark, who turned 60 this year, is Barrs, one of the charity’s co-founders taking on this immense challenge as (it was founded in Freshford!). It was he is hoping to raise £25,000 to help Andy who organised the trip to Tamil Sanitation First build toilets and hand Nadu in January. washing facilities for over 500 children
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 12 19/01/2021 16:37 The trip had a profound impact Mark is following a rigorous training on me. I saw first-hand the terrible schedule designed and monitored by a consequences of having the most national rowing coach. He trains twice basic sanitation in schools and inner a day: a mixture of rowing, running, city slums. High mortality, poor health, cycling and weight training and every polluted rivers and an absence of basic few weeks rows with the rest of his dignity were truly heart-wrenching to team in their specially designed ocean behold. rowing boat, called Roxy. More positively, I met the Sanitation Mark would be delighted if anyone First team in India and got to see would like to support him by donating the fundamental changes bought to this important project to provide about by their work introducing toilet facilities for over 500 children in ecological sanitation. As well as vast India. All funds donated go directly to improvements in mortality and health the project in India. Mark is funding the standards there were other benefits costs of the voyage personally. You can such as greater school participation donate via Mark’s Total Giving page at: from girls” https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/mypage/ markcollinsrow
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 13 19/01/2021 16:37 Freshford Parish Council
CLIMATE AND NATURE EMERGENCY wildlife pond, native tree planting as well as more sensitive grass management. Recommendations are based on environmental consultants’ analysis and recommendations. The aim is to respond to the dramatic decline in wildlife whilst retaining its open aspect, accessibility and useability. Details of the proposal will be shared with the village this month. Last November thousands of bulbs were planted, look out for their blossoms this spring.
he next decade is seen as critical in Torder to stop the decline of wildlife and ecosystems and reduce emissions driving climate change and we hope this can be translated into positive change for the village. Thank you to everyone who participated in answering the questionnaire or attended the online village forum (planned for January ENERGY EFFICIENT STREET LIGHTS 28th at the time of writing) to discuss a Freshford action plan for the climate Freshford Parish Council has agreed and nature emergency. to replace two streetlights with low energy LED bulbs. This trial will help A summary of the meeting and us gauge lighting requirements with outcomes is being prepared and will regards to brightness levels and aim to be shared and we look forward to your balance safety with unnecessary light continued support. pollution, impacting well-being and ENHANCING WILDLIFE ON THE nocturnal birds, bats and insects. This TYNING is part of a plan to consider moving all streetlights to LED lights. Although Friends of Freshford are putting investment is required, there will be forward a proposal to enhance habitat longer term cost and carbon savings. and wildlife on the Tyning. Proposed projects include a community orchard,
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 14 19/01/2021 16:37 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT HOME Homes Grant scheme which is available until March 2022. You can help reduce emissions by: Switching to a green energy supplier Improving the energy efficiency of to ensure your electricity comes from your home by insulating, installing renewable energy. low-carbon heating, draught proofing and fitting double-glazing. The UK Freshford Parish Council Government is offering up to £5,000 www.freshfordvillage.com towards the cost through their Green
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 15 19/01/2021 16:37
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 16 19/01/2021 16:37 Wildlife Hotel, Limpley Stoke
A LOCKDOWN PROJECT FOR ALL Take any precious bits of material you have up to the park with you for the building project.
WHAT MATERIALS ARE NEEDED? Meanwhile, we are having a village wide request for materials - clay pipes, 12 old bricks, bamboo canes, straw, old plant pots, twigs, large logs for the top, bark, stones and pebbles to build the hotel. We will not be using anything plastic please. We are also looking for six more pallets to create the outer structure, which can be dropped off at 16 Crowe Hill. You could add bits of wood to the pallets, with drilled holes, as in the photograph, to create a hive space for bees. For more information, including how to WHAT IS A WILDLIFE HOTEL? make cane bundles, visit the village website at limpleystoke.org Wildlife Hotel is a home for insects Aand small creatures, helping to WHERE IS THE HOTEL? provide a sanctuary for pollinators, If you go to the flat top of St George’s hedgehogs, toads and other local Park and head to the left, you will see species, supporting efforts to where we have started the first storey counterbalance the decline of wildlife of the hotel. Come equipped with some due to habitat loss. The UK has seen materials and start building your own a 50% decline in hedgehogs, 72% in floor. Please take any leftover bits home beetles and 76% in butterflies in recent with you. years. We are building a hotel in St George’s Park, Woods Hill, Limpley WHAT WILL IT BE CALLED? Stoke, as an environmental lockdown If someone would like to make a project for local children, families and sign for the hotel, saying St George’s anyone who would like to help. Boutique Hotel, that would be great! HOW CAN I TAKE PART? MAKE A HEDGEHOG BOX Please come along as a single You can also make a hedgehog box for household or support bubble at any your garden. Instrutions are opposite. time and create your own layer of the hotel, abiding by lockdown restrictions.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 17 19/01/2021 16:37 ALPHA COURSE - ON HOLD
The daytime and evening Alpha courses intended to start this winter at the Old Bakery, Freshford, have been put on hold due to lockdown restrictions.
If you are interested in taking part in a course later in the year, or if lockdown has left you with questions about God, or feeling called to learn about Christianity, please contact Vicar Mike Taylor to find out more.
Mike can be contacted on 01225 723570 or [email protected].
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 19 19/01/2021 16:37 Reflections on Lockdown
have been asked to write a short Second the importance of and my Iarticle for the Parish Magazine on how delight in the environment has been lockdown has affected me and what, underlined. How I have enjoyed the from the perspective of a Christian toads, hedgehogs, butterflies and faith, I have learnt from it. Help was my birds in the garden. The red kites first reaction! wheeling after a tractor and the song of a nightingale stand out as precious On reflection, I am aware how hugely memories. How I have enjoyed the privileged I am to live in a beautiful countryside going for walks with area, so far relatively lightly touched by my gorgeous (usually) labrador and the virus, in a friendly and supportive working at making my garden more village, with good neighbours, a lovely wildlife friendly. garden and with food in the cupboard. Plus a supportive family and many Thirdly, I have a clearer understanding friends. My heart goes out to those who of the importance of hope and have lost jobs, to the many reduced to especially the hope offered to all by relying on food banks, those stuck in Christ. I opened an on-line Advent tiny flats and the children and young calendar from Tearfund, who work people whose education has been in some of the most desperate and seriously messed up. Let alone those war torn parts of the world. The who have faced serious illness and daily stories of those who had hope the many who have been bereaved. in the most unimaginably horrific Sometimes I feel rather guilty that so circumstances, thanks to their faith, many young are suffering to keep me humbled and challenged me. So (an oldie) safe and I would much prefer often I can put my hope in the wrong teachers and front line workers to be things. I have recently taken down the inoculated before me. But, despite all, Christmas decorations and as I did I there are things I have learnt. was reminded that Jesus was given the name Emmanuel before he was born. The first is the importance of a That means ‘God is with us’ which I connected and caring community, find a huge comfort on my daily path which I believe is how life should be through this beautiful, fragile and lived. Thank you to all in the village dangerous world. for your support and care and I want to do all I can in future to be a good Elizabeth Wordsworth neighbour, friend and villager.
Do you have any thoughts from lockdown in Freshford, Limpley Stoke or Hinton Charterhouse that you would like to share?
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 20 19/01/2021 16:37 A SEASONAL SERVICE FOR USE AT HOME THIS FEBRUARY:
Leader: Manifest at Jordan’s stream, raise you to new life in Christ our Lord. Prophet, Priest, and King supreme; and All Amen. at Cana wedding-guest in thy Godhead We pray for the coming of God’s manifest. (Christopher Wordsworth) kingdom. The grace of God has dawned upon the You sent your Son to bring good news world through our Saviour Jesus Christ, to the poor, sight to the blind, freedom who sacrificed himself for us to purify to the captives and salvation to your a people as his own. Let us confess our people: anoint us with your Spirit; rouse sins. (cf Titus 2.11-14) us to work in his name. Father, by your The people who walked in darkness Spirit have seen a great light. Bring in your kingdom. All: The light has shined on the nations Send us to bring help to the poor and who live in the shadow of death. freedom to the oppressed. Father, by The true light that enlightens every your Spirit person is coming into the world. The Bring in your kingdom. Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth, and we Send us to tell the world the good news beheld his glory, glory as of the only of your healing love. Father, by your Son from the Father. Spirit
The Lord is our light and our salvation. Bring in your kingdom. We shall not be afraid. Send us to those who mourn, to bring Confession: joy and gladness instead of grief. Father, by your Spirit Lord Jesus, illuminate the darkness in our hearts: Lord, have mercy. Bring in your kingdom. Lord, have mercy. Send us to proclaim that the time is here for you to save your people. Lord Jesus, open our eyes to your Father, by your Spirit saving love: Christ, have mercy. Bring in your kingdom. Christ, have mercy. Father, use us, unworthy as we are, to Lord Jesus, unstop our ears to hear bring in your kingdom of mercy, justice, your living word: Lord, have mercy. love and peace. Empower us by your Lord, have mercy. Spirit and unite us in your Son, that all our joy and delight may be to serve May the God of love and power forgive you, now and for ever. you and free you from your sins, heal and strengthen you by his Spirit, and All: Amen.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 21 19/01/2021 16:37 Read the Collect for today (available For the kingdom, the power, on the Lectionary App, or visit And the glory are yours churchofengland.org and search ‘Today’s Prayer’) Now and forever. Amen. The Lord’s Prayer: Blessing and depart:
Our Father in heaven, The Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, teach us to walk in his way more Hallowed be your name, Your kingdom trustfully, to accept his truth more come, your will be done, faithfully, and to share his life more On earth as in heaven. lovingly; that by the power of the Holy Spirit we may come as one family to Give us today our daily bread. the kingdom of the Father. Forgive us our sins We have seen his glory, the glory As we forgive those who sin against revealed to all the nations. us. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Lead us not into temptation In the name of Christ. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 23 19/01/2021 16:37 The Carthusians of Hinton Priory
DAILY LIFE OF THE CARTHUSIANS 5.45am Monks arise and recite PRIME in their cells. 6.45am HIGH MASS in CHURCH. 7.45am Private Mass in cells. (On Sundays followed by a Chapter meeting). 9.00am Meditation and manual labour in cells. 10.00am TERCE in cells. Meal brought, followed by work and reading. 12.00noon NONE in cells, followed by n 516 St Benedict wrote some rules for work and reading. Ithe new monasteries he was founding. Included were instructions for a set 2.30pm Office of COLLOQUIUM in of seven ‘offices’ to be observed at cells. intervals throughout the day. He took 2.45pm VESPERS in CHURCH. for his example the words of David in Psalm 119 verse 164: ’Seven times a 4.00pm return to cells – final meal day do I praise Thee because of Thy brought. righteous judgements’. The offices were 6.00pm COMPLINE recited in cells – to called: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, bed. None, Vespers and Compline. Although the Carthusians aspired to These were followed not only by the lead solitary lives, as this timetable Benedictines, but by all the other shows they did meet in the church monastic houses, including the three times a day (although they did Carthusians. However, they varied not necessarily converse then). On greatly in their timing and order Sundays they met in the chapter house according to the house, the time of for notices and discussions, and were year, and over the years. allowed to converse in the cloister The following shows a typical day after None. They also met for a walk in the life of Carthusian monks at a together in the grounds once a month, certain time, with variations from St and ate communally in the refectory on Benedict’s original plan: saints’ days.
11.00pm Monks woken for preparations However, they were forbidden any for MATINS in CHURCH. outside contacts, and were never allowed to leave the premises. 2.00pm Monks to cells for private prayer until 2.30am. Margaret Dodge
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 25 19/01/2021 16:37 Limpley Stoke Parish Council News
RARE WOODPECKER IN LIMPLEY STOKE
record data shows that these lovely little birds are in serious trouble, with 90% lost over the last 70 years. Still unsure of the identification, I wrote to the Woodpecker Network describing our find. Excitingly, they replied that although there have been no other sightings of the species in this area, they had looked at the site on Google Maps and thought it perfect habitat – woodland bordering a river or stream. They also said that lesser spotted woodpeckers are known to feed known at reed beds at this time of year, so the location was ideal! They explained that adults tend to stay close to their breeding territory during autumn and winter, and the young ut walking between Freshford and birds move a little further, searching for Avoncliff this October, my husband O new suitable habitat. spotted a small, black and white spotted bird sitting on the branch of a And herein lies the problem. One of the dead tree overhanging the reeds by the main reasons for the disastrous decline river. Alarmed at our approach, it flew in lesser spotted woodpecker numbers into Avoncliff woods. is the lack of suitable habitat to provide food for the young - new chicks simply We froze to the spot, watching the bird starve to death. more carefully, wondering if it could be a lesser spotted woodpecker. Hmm - it These birds need well-wooded areas did look one. and eat insects and other invertebrates. They nest in dead trees, or on dead I could hardly believe our luck. This branches of live trees, close to rivers species is on the UK Red List for and wetlands (most nests are within conservation – the highest conservation 10m of a pond, stream or river). They priority, with urgent action needed. The prefer trees like alder, willow, birch, British Trust for Ornithology assess that poplar, sycamore and beech. In our ever there are only around 800 breeding tidier world, dead branches tend to be pairs left in the UK - one of the fastest cleared away and there are fewer areas declining species. New research of nest to provide food for the insects.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 26 19/01/2021 16:37 Together with widespread use of The Woodpecker Network would like pesticides and herbicides in gardens to know of any possible sightings of and farms, and the routine use of lesser spotted woodpecker in this area, antibiotics for livestock, there is just not particularly in March and April, when enough food to keep species like the they might start nesting. If a nest is lesser spotted woodpecker alive. seen, the Woodpecker Network wants volunteer nest monitors to keep an eye So, there are two sides to this story: on it and report in. First, one of good news – there may If you see a lesser spotted woodpecker, be a young lesser spotted woodpecker please email: looking for a new nest site in our valley. [email protected], or The second should give us cause for [email protected]. concern, but it’s something we can change. These birds are in trouble – we Please do help, and this Spring look out need to create healthy wildlife corridors for a small, black and white bird hiding to help species like lesser spotted in the trees! woodpeckers keep viable population For information and a video describing numbers. Although we may not be able how to tell the difference between to guarantee trees on the river banks, lesser and greater spotted woodpecker we can help in other ways – keeping visit www.bto.org and search insect populations healthy by making ‘woodpecker’. our gardens wildlife-friendly, buying organic where we can to reduce the Sarah Fraser use of chemicals and antibiotics, and being nature aware!
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 28 19/01/2021 16:37 A Message from the Very Reverend John Davies, Dean of Wells.
WHAT DOES LOVE REQUIRE?
aving heard the announcement complicated. My neighbour might be H about the latest lockdown, disabled – is practical help needed? My I walked over to the Cathedral. I neighbour might be held as a slave at sat at the back and looked up at a car wash. How do I discreetly ask? the Cross in the Nave. A question When do I alert the Clewer initiative? welled up as I sat: ‘What does My neighbour may be gay, does love love require in the cold climate of ask me to affirm or keep a distance? Covid?’, with empty streets, people My neighbours may be black. How do shut in, schools and businesses I show my belief that black lives really closed. matter? Love can be very active in the cold climate of today. But love needs Christ teaches that replenishing. Love becomes brittle and bossy if it is given but not received. my neighbour is Love means that I must be open to also on the streets, needy others, for they may want to love me and destitute. and be a neighbour to me by loving me. God is love, so in the cold climate of Covid, when community is weakened, let us give and receive love. And the Like many clergy I have a list of people coldness will vanish because love has to lift with a phone call or email. come to stay. Everyone can of course ring neighbours and friends and family. And offer a word, distanced, in the street; a wave to a window; a card through a letterbox. The Very Reverend My neighbour is those I know and care for. But Christ teaches that my John Davies neighbour is also on the streets, needy and destitute. Foodbanks and charities need urgent assistance in a cold climate where indifference is not unknown. It might be quite simple: shopping, love taking us to the supermarket. It might be conversation: love says listen as they pour it all out. It might be a bit more
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 31 19/01/2021 16:37 Village Home Groups
HINTON CHARTERHOUSE If you’d like to join us or know more, or find out about similar HomeGroups in very Tuesday evening in term time Freshford and Limpley Stoke, please a small group of us get together to E do contact me, Mark Baines, on 01225 discuss matters of Christian faith. We 722333. are all – men and women of all ages – at different stages of faith, so we mix Mark Baines together general discussion with Bible FRESHFORD AND LIMPLEY STOKE study and prayer. If you’re not aware of our Home Group, We try and meet in each person’s I’d like to give you a quick outline of house in turn, though we’ve found something that may be of interest to that some sitting rooms are just too you …… small to fit all seven of us, on the odd occasion when we can all make it! At We are a group of people from the present we’re meeting on Zoom. Our local parish churches who meet discussions are lively and fun: we get to to share our Christian faith, enjoy know each other well! friendship, support and pray for one another. We also pray for other people, Our study is normally Bible-based – our government, country, church… we’re working through the Acts at the there are no boundaries. The group first moment – but we often follow courses formed about two years ago following based on cultural issues. Last year we an Alpha course, and since then we all watched ‘The King’s Speech’ as part have had the pleasure of discussing of a course, and discussed how this together different aspects of our faith movie related to Christianity. and contemporary issues as well. We pray for everyone and everything We have a WhatsApp group which is that is relevant: please do let me know used regularly by members to send if you’d like us to pray for something messages to one another sometimes on your mind. We also try to help out for fun but also this has been an in the village where we can, especially invaluable route for us to support one during the pandemic, so in 2020 we another and to request prayer or help delivered cookies and flowers to the during this difficult year. elderly and vulnerable in the village, as well as mince pies and cards at Usually, we meet in each other’s houses Christmas. We also organised Sunday but this has not been possible for most morning worship and prayer on of last year, although we did manage Millennium Green during the earlier a few summer get togethers in the lockdown, and have planted The Prayer garden when permitted. When Covid Tree there, where several of us can be restrictions prevented us meeting face found on Sunday mornings at 10.00 – to face, we turned to technology and socially distanced, of course! currently meet weekly on Zoom.
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 32 19/01/2021 16:37 Members of the group have stayed in year due to the Covid situation to let contact via all routes some attending them know they were in our thoughts. in person but others have joined in We hope to return to a more normal via zoom or WhatsApp, dropping in pattern of meetings when we are able and out as they feel able to with other to, but in the meantime if you would commitments. like to join us or know more about We were also pleased to support the our group please contact Debbie at church in the making and distribution [email protected] of Advent candles to those people who Debbie Ashcroft have been unable to attend church this Limpley Stoke Parish Council
or even a heat pump-up to £5000. Lower-income households could be entitled to claim as much as £10,000 to cover the cost. Reducing carbon emissions from our homes would help towards the UK becoming carbon neutral by 2030. The 2018 govertnment statistics reveal that residential emissions accounted for 15%. Business emissions were 18%, and transport emissions stood at 28%. Clearly, home-working will have brought changes with fewer cars but more domestic heating. Energy production was 23%, but more of it was green in 2019. Changing to a green GREEN HOMES GRANT energy company is also helping the id you know about the Green planet. Homes Grant? Councillors from D To find out more about elligibility and Limpley Stoke, Cam Valley, Wiltshire how to apply visit: County Council and BANES met for a day’s Climate/Ecology conference https://buildingsandtrust.co.uk/green- recently, where we were asked to homes-grant-wiltshire advertise The Green Homes Grant. https://www.gov.uk/check-eligible- The scheme means homeowners can green-homes-grant obtain up to two-thirds of the cost of energy saving measures: double glazing, solar panels, loft insulation, floor and wall insulation installed,
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 34 19/01/2021 16:37 Reason to visit St Mary’s this month
TO SEE THE CRUSADER TOMBS
Then go on to look at other tombstones. The oldest one still legible dates from 1700 as gravestone lettering rarely survives the ravages of the weather so are better preserved when inside. I wonder how modern ones will stand the test of time. They are down the bank on the east side of the churchyard. Then look for signs of life in the hedges and trees – at this time of year the promise of Spring is already there if you take the time to look!
WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING AT ST MARY’S RECENTLY? Due to Covid restrictions we could not have our Remembrance service in St Mary’s but we were able to hold a joint service on the Tyning at which all three churches were well represented. To see the ‘crusader’ tombs and look for signs of life…. On the south east We were able to have a few services side of the chancel near to the outside inside and even had some Christmas wall are a few very worn tombstones. services, safely ticketed and well Referred to locally as crusader tombs distanced before returning to lockdown as they date from medieval times and again. As before, the intention is to on one at least the vague outline of keep St Mary’s open for private prayer a knight can still just be made out until services can be resumed. along with a head in relief but most SPONSOR ST MARY’S FLOODLIGHTS of the other carving is very hard to distinguish. The floodlights have been sponsored this month by David and Pauline Lloyd, Take a moment to visit them and kindly as a ‘thank you’ to the wardens, ponder on who they might be. They and also by the Coombe family, in were ancient members of the local area memory of Elizabeth Coombe. and worthy enough to have a carved memorial. David Sibley, Churchwarden
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 35 19/01/2021 16:37 Freshford Preschool
AMAZING ART AND THE OUTDOORS
This term we are continuing to follow the children’s fascinations and this has included many discussions, games and crafts around penguins! This was the Active Story making theme last term and has come into lots of play already this term! We carried on this theme through to our Christmas show, where the centre piece was a super milk bottle igloo! This continues to be used and enjoyed daily, creating a lovely space to enjoy games and stories. We look forward to watching the igloo evolve to different fascinations – maybe around space/ Winter/ a Gruffalo cave! The possibilities are endless!
THE GREAT OUTDOORS Outside it has been great to see spontaneous problem solving and teamwork, particularly around the mud kitchen and the water pump and the e have entered the new year and blocks and ramps. This open ended have been able to open preschool W play is so beneficial for the children’s for the time being. This has taken development and we enjoy observing great planning and communications children’s confidence and self-esteem between staff and families and we are, grow and develop. as always, so proud to be part of such a supportive, understanding community. The outdoors play such a huge part to our preschool life and Forest School To end the year and the term, the will see us venturing out to explore preschooler’s enjoyed a party and a the local village. We have had some full traditional roast dinner with all the new children join us this term and this trimmings! We had two very special will enable the children to share their visitors – Father Christmas and one of knowledge and understanding of the his Elves came to say hello! This was a Forest school elements – boundaries, really magical moment. what we see whilst out and about
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 36 19/01/2021 16:37 and sharing their ideas, helping their new friends settle into the routines with us. This continues to be a time to navigate together, with procedures and plans continually being assessed and altered as and when they need to be. We feel proud to be able to provide a setting where children feel settled, happy and so willing and eager to come to. This brings joy and pride at a time where it is much needed by all!
Debbie Giles
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FLSHC (BATH) Parish Magazine February 2021 .indd 39 19/01/2021 16:37 February Services 2021
Our in-person church services are currently suspended due to Covid-19 restrictions. Services will take place live online at 10.30am each Sunday for the foreseeable future on Zoom, YouTube and Facebook.
Everyone is welcome to join via the following sites:
Zoom Meeting ID: 848 5509 7870 Passcode: 674728
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Facebook: The Parish of Freshford with Limpley Stoke and Hinton Charterhouse
For all previous online services visit our Facebook page.
Words of comfort for these times:
Job 5:11 The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
Psalm 27:13-14 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Isaiah 41:10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
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