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Village News Keeping You Informed of Events and Organisations in Your Village BLETCHINGTON VILLAGE NEWS KEEPING YOU INFORMED OF EVENTS AND ORGANISATIONS IN YOUR VILLAGE ISSUE 250 Feb – Mar 2021 Bletch Bakers celebrate success Reports from village organisations An historic landmark - 250 editions of Village News Bletch Bakes for the NHS - A success story History Corner: Akeman Street Bletch Advent Calendar BLETCH ADVENT CALENDAR A group of Bletchfolk got together to create a real-world advent calendar for the village. Each day a new ‘door’ was revealed on Facebook and in the Co-op leading to the location of the advent window to visit. Many thanks to everyone who got involved and created the lovely displays around the village, a selection of which are shown below. We hope you all enjoyed following the Advent Trail. Happy New Year - 1 - B L E T C H I N G T O N EDITORIAL Welcome to the 250th edition of Village News. To mark this milestone, Ian Gedling, who has been involved with the publication for many years, has written a history of our village magazine, which can be found on page 8. I would like to echo Ian’s thanks to Liz Saunders and long-time editor Greta Bickley who stepped down in 2019 after 40 years for their massive contributions to Village News over many years, and also add thanks to Ian himself for all his hard work over the years. Thanks also to everyone else who has been involved with the magazine over the past 42 years. I hope you all had as enjoyable a Christmas as possible under the current circumstances and I wish everyone in Bletchington a very happy New Year. I’m sure most of us will agree that 2020 wasn’t the best of years and unfortunately we begin the new year in lockdown once again. The good thing this time around is that there is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel by way of the nationwide vaccination programme now being rolled out. Hopefully better times are just around the corner. Congratulations to Bletch Bakers for the tremendous success of their ‘Bletch Bakes for the NHS’ cookbook which raised £2,688 to be shared between the Bletchington Charity and Oxford Hospitals. It is so heartwarming to hear of a great success story for Bletchington and of the fantastic work that residents of our village have been doing at this most difficult of times to support our NHS. Well done to everyone concerned! Please keep your news stories and articles coming. This is your Village News and we really need your help to fill up these pages, particularly whilst many of our village organisations are either not operating or are doing so in a reduced capacity. If you haven’t contributed an article or photograph to the Village News before, why not give it a go – we would particularly love to hear from any new contributors. Please e-mail your contributions to [email protected]. The deadline for articles is always the 20th of the month prior to publication – so articles for inclusion in the April/May magazine must be with us by 20th March, 2021. [email protected] Pete Baker School leadership changes We are pleased to report that Mrs. Caroline Walker has been appointed head teacher for Bletchingdon Primary School, replacing Mr. Huw Morgan, who returns to being head teacher solely at Dr. South’s School in Islip. We wish Mrs. Walker success in her new role and thank Mr. Morgan for all his hard work whilst at Bletchington. Co-op home deliveries The Co-op continues to offer its home delivery service to vulnerable or shielding villagers. Delivery days are Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. If you wish to use this service, please place your order by midday on one of these days and the store will deliver same day. Please telephone the store directly on 01869 351534 or drop them an e- mail to [email protected]. Alternatively you can contact the Midcounties Co-op central call line on 0800 435902 (Mon-Sat 8:30am to 5:30pm). Many thanks to Mike Seaton and his team at the Co-op for offering this valuable service to vulnerable villagers. Advent calendar – see our picture gallery opposite The idea started on a walk in Bletch! Other villages synchronize Christmas lights and the idea of a festive distraction for Bletch seemed fitting. A WhatsApp group was set up to judge appetite for the idea - soon all 24 'window' slots bar two were filled! These last two went to the Church to coincide with Carol singing and to the Co-op. The stage was set - all corners of the village involved! The resulting windows were better than anyone could have imagined; large, small, religious, humorous, literary and even with real animals (Mike, the Co-op manager, must have had an interesting call with head office - ... 'so we want to have a donkey, a goat or two and some shepherds outside the shop, is that ok?'). The best thing was how positive feedback flooded in from those who viewed them as well as fellow 'window' makers. All images went online too, so those not able to get out and about could join in too. Bletch even had its moment of fame on BBC Radio and online with its very own BBC video of the windows. We might have inadvertently started a new tradition in Bletch, and even if we haven't, what a special thing to share together. - 2 - ST. GILES’ CHURCH NEWS AND SERVICES We are part of the AKEMAN BENEFICE (Bletchington, Kirtlington, Weston-on-the-Green, Chesterton, Middleton Stoney, Wendlebury and Hampton Gay). The benefice is named after Akeman Street, the Roman road which runs through it. Ministry Team Rector: The Rev’d Gareth Miller 01869 350224 [email protected] Associate Priest: The Rev’d Nick Ktorides 01869 324191 [email protected] Assistant Priest: The Very Rev’d Robert Wilkes 01869 350159 [email protected] Licensed Lay Minister: Paul Clifford 01869 351652 [email protected] Children and Families’ Co-Ordinator: Joanna Clifford 01869 351652 [email protected] Safeguarding Officer: Nicky Donne 01869 351748 [email protected] Benefice Website www.akemanbenefice.org.uk Churchwarden: Judith Ledger Treasurer: Ian Gedling Assistant Churchwarden: Fiona Teddy Member of the PCC: Natasha Pitts Secretary: Patricia Hampson If you or anyone you know would like to talk to a member of the ministry team please do not hesitate to phone or email. At present there are no “live” services in the benefice because the rate of Covid infection is so high in this area. However, the church remains open for private prayer and reflection and everyone is welcome to use it as a quiet space. We are very grateful to the members of the “church doors” WhatsApp group for keeping the church open. If you walk past the church regularly you may like to join. There is no rota or commitment. As soon as we are able to resume services in church we shall post notices on the gate and on the benefice website. In place of live services there is a weekly service on zoom. Many people who do not attend church regularly have found this service helpful. If you would like to take part please email the rector at [email protected] Despite there being no church services Sally Cross and Sue Macready ring the church bell each Sunday morning to remind us of the zoom service and as a sign of hope. A small prayer group is meeting remotely each Wednesday morning. If you would like to join in or if you have a request for prayer please phone 351542. A free Church of England phone line of hymns, reflections and prayers is available to everyone on 0800 804 8044 In addition to our local zoom service the Diocese of Oxford Church at Home services are available to dial into—find out more at: Oxford.anglican.org/livestream - 3 - The Benefice Bugle The benefice Bugle is an online newsletter giving information about all seven of our benefice churches and also containing a range of interesting articles. The last edition contained fascinating contributions about Epiphany customs—mostly cake-related. If you would like to be added to the mailing list please contact: [email protected] Christmas Services We were fortunate to be able to hold Christmas services before the imposition of more severe restrictions. The open-air carol service was very well attended and reminded us of how much we miss village events. Many thanks to Mik and Sheldon Barwick for accompanying the carols and to Richard and Kate Ehrman for providing the firebowl. The zoomed carol service enabled us to celebrate with our linked parish in Sweden. The standard of musical contributions was very high and Martha McNaught read beautifully on behalf of Bletchingdon We are very grateful to the Reverend David Wippell from Islip for leaving home to take our Christmas Morning service even as the river Ray was creeping in through his back door! From the Registers 15th January Funeral service and burial of Judith Upton. We send our condolences to Richard and to Judith’s wider family. In recent years this church contribution to the village news has been edited by Kathy Gedling but Kathy now feels it is time to step back. We are all very grateful for her conscientious work over such a long period. Thank you, Kathy. During February and March and April the churchyard will be full of wild flowers--- snowdrops, daffodils, primroses and bluebells, do include a stroll around the church in your walks.
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