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Bringing you the news and activities of the Churches and Village Organisations Regular Services Contacts Church Rector: Fr. John White 1st Sunday Telephone: 01590 612183 9:30am Sung Communion 2nd Sunday Jane Barnicoat-Chongwe 9:30am Holy Communion Licenced Lay Minister 3rd Sunday E: [email protected] 9:30am Sung Communion Benefice Office 4th Sunday The Benefice Office is inside the 9:30am Sung Communion BCP Abbey Church Its address is: Wednesday Beaulieu Abbey Church 10:30am Holy Communion Palace Lane, St Mary’s Chapel, Buckler’s Hard Beaulieu Every Sunday , 8:00am Holy Communion BCP SO42 7YG St Paul’s Church,East Boldre T: 01590 612242 1st Sunday E: [email protected] 11:15am Morning Prayer 3rd Sunday Office Hours: Mondays & Tuesdays 11:15am Holy Communion 10am - 3.30pm & Fridays 1.00pm - St Katharine’s Church, Exbury 4.00pm. Excludes Bank Holidays. 2nd Sunday You may leave phone messages any 11.15am Morning Prayer time, they are checked daily. 4th Sunday

11.15am Holy Communion Church Wardens When there is a 5th Sunday in the Adam Mills month there will be: 10:00am - United Tel:01590 616 329 Benefice Service which will rotate email:- [email protected] around the three parish churches. Exbury For further details see Mr David Hughes Calendar or Notice Board Telephone: 023 8084 3613 Mr Brian Hernaman Telephone: 023 8089 7528 Email: [email protected] East Boldre Dr Graham Sterling Telephone: 01590 612 378

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2 From the Rectory

I hope you enjoy reading this edition, included. which is the last in its present form. During the last twelve months This time last year the Prime Minister of Covid, it has not always been described the Covid situation as possible to print it, and in the recent the ‘worst public health crisis for lockdown it has appeared online, a generation’. As I type, lockdown with paper copies available for those restrictions have begun to ease unable to access it electronically. across the UK, though we must This seems an appropriate time to remain vigilant, conscious of the reflect on the purpose of such a government’s mantra to be data and publication. A great deal has changed not date-led. over the years, so much information is now gleaned online, including, for We resume benefice services on example, news from Beaulieu Estate Easter Sunday. All arrangements are and East Boldre. Some of us prefer subject to government directives. At reading a hard copy; one parishioner present we are not permitted to sing remarked that it has a valuable place as a congregation, though we shall on their coffee table. It has been have a cantor, and enjoy the organ helpful to discuss ideas with the and oboe. If you wish to attend one Abbey Church PCC, representatives of our Easter Sunday services it will of St Katharine’s and St Paul’s, Jaki be necessary to register because and John our printers, and to have space is limited, and there remains received your feedback. the need to be socially distanced. Sadly, in such a confined space, For the next year, as an experiment, it is not yet possible to meet in we shall produce three special St Mary’s Chapel, Buckler’s Hard. printed editions of Benefice However, because numbers are News. The first – appearing in relatively small, we shall be resuming September - will focus on Harvest Wednesday Holy Communion at & Remembrance; the next one the Abbey Church, and Evensong, will have as its focus Advent & congregations being accommodated Christmas; and the third edition in the nave rather than the choir will draw attention to Lent & stalls. Please consult the bulletin for Easter. It is my aim to distribute the latest information. copies throughout the benefice. It will be free, though donations are The Christian year reaches it climax appreciated. We shall evaluate this during the first week of April, with project in a year’s time. We will be the “Triduum” – the sacred three necessary to modify the Sunday days of Maundy Thursday, Good bulletin. At the end of each month, Friday and Holy Saturday. On the upcoming month’s diary will be Maundy Thursday we recall how,

3 on the eve of his betrayal, at supper for us; but also to rise again to lead with his disciples, Our Lord assumed us into new life in him. The loving, the role of a servant, tying a towel self-giving figure with outstretched around his waist, and washing his arms merges with the brutal cross disciples’ feet. That humble action on which he died, and provides a was an example, Jesus explained: potent symbol of Divine love. There a model of loving service to one will be zoomed ‘Stations of the Cross’ another. In his sacrifice on the cross, devotion at 12noon on this day. our sins would be cleansed, and the bowl of water would become Then we shall look forward to coming the water of baptism. Maundy together to celebrate on Easter Thursday commemorates the giving Day (in itself a kind of resurrection of a new commandment - from experience); to rejoice and be glad, the Latin ‘mandatum’ – ‘that you and worship our risen Lord. Holy love one another, just as I have loved Communion will be celebrated you.’ We also remember another throughout the benefice on that day. instruction that Jesus gave to his disciples; sharing bread and wine, he Whether you will be joining us told them, ‘Do this in remembrance online, or in church, I look forward to of me’. There will be zoomed Holy worshipping with you. ‘Alleluia, Christ Communion at 7pm on this day. is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia.’

On Good Friday we contemplate With my love and prayers. the cross, meditating on what it means for us, and for the world. In Fr John Jesus, God became one of us, to die Annual Parochial Church Meetings Unless the bishop directs otherwise, register of - put simply - those who Annual Meetings must be held before declare themselves members of 31st May. Dates for our meetings will our church family. To qualify, you be included in the Sunday bulletin. must be baptised, and aged 16 or over. Margaret Marshall is happy to In order to attend it is necessary provide further details. to be on the Electoral Roll. Please note this is not the same as the Fr John Council’s Electoral Register, but a

Why not volunteer with the HIOWAA? Contact [email protected] or visit the website: www.hiowaa.org for4 more information. Calendar for April 2021 Please note – for the time being, and without the presence of singing and a robed choir, monthly Evensong will be suspended.

Whilst these details are correct at the time of going to print, arrangements are always subject to Government directives. Congregation numbers will need to be limited so booking seats will be required for Sunday Services, please email [email protected]. Given the confined space at St Mary’s Chapel, Buckler’s Hard, it will not be possible to resume service just yet. Further details to follow.

Thursday 1st April 6.30pm Abbey Church Evensong Maundy Thursday 7.00pm Via Zoom Holy Communion Wednesday 14th April 10.30am Abbey Church Friday 2nd April Good Friday Holy Communion 12 noon Via Zoom Sunday 18th April ‘Stations of the Cross’ devotion 9.30am Abbey Church Sunday 4th April EASTER DAY Holy Communion 9.30am Abbey Church 11.15am St Paul’s, East Boldre Holy Communion Holy Communion 11.15am St Paul’s, East Boldre Wednesday 21st April Holy Communion 10.30am Abbey Church 11.15am St Katharine’s, Exbury Holy Communion Holy Communion Sunday 25th April Wednesday 7th April 9.30am Abbey Church 11.00am Abbey Church Holy Communion BCP Holy Communion 11.15am St Katharine’s, Exbury Sunday 11th April Holy Communion 9.30am Abbey Church Wednesday 28th April Holy Communion 10.30am Abbey Church 11.15am St Katharine’s, Exbury Holy Communion Morning Prayer

From The 2021 Registers Baptisms: No baptisms in March Weddings: No weddings in March

Funerals: 22nd March 2021 Ida Gregory Beaulieu Cemetery Graveside Funeral

5 The Simple Guide to the Gospel of Matthew We do not know exactly why described by Matthew himself in his Matthew’s Gospel is placed first in Gospel; “Jesus said to him, ‘Follow the Canon of Scripture in the New me’” (Matt. 9,9). And Matthew left Testament, but it is. his life and followed Jesus, beginning a new life, his gospel reflects that There has always been some past astounding and complete change controversy as to whether the for him, his is a Gospel written by a disciple Matthew is the author, but devout Jew not only to tell of Jesus no other serious contender has the Rabbi, but of Jesus the Messiah. ever been broached, so we will stay with Tax Collector Matthew. Luke He uses sources such as Mark’s and Mark’s Gospels both refer to Gospel and the unknown source him as Levi, but this probably arises known as ‘Q’ and almost certainly from a sort of tribal or family name is an account of Jesus for other - a small digression on names in Jews who had come to know Jesus, the Bible, men were often referred hence his constant references to to by two names, their own and the prophets and Prophecies of that of their father, (Patronym) an old, which serve to underline what identifying method in a culture Matthew is saying of Jesus - that He where many shared the same first was the Messiah and the King. name. It is intensely Jewish in style and So, in Nazareth in the time of Jesus’ content and it seems to have youth, other people would have been written for Jewish converts called Him “Jesus son of Joseph” . We to Christianity sometime between see this in naming the disciples John 60 and 90 A.D. Matthew always and James as the “sons of Zebedee”, supports what he details of Jesus Women tended to be identified with scriptural quotes which would by the name of their closest male have been well known to those he family member, a husband in an was speaking to.The genealogical age when girls were married very list at the beginning of Matthew is early in life, or as the ‘mother’ of a something which people would have male. So, at the cross we find ‘Mary, both recognized and approved of. the mother of Jesus, and Mary the It was important that God’s mother of James and Joses (Mark 16, promised Messiah was a descendant 40) of the House of David- and Jesus Unmarried women tended to be was through both Mary his mother identified by a location, hence and Joseph his putative father, and Mary of Magdala (Magdalene). placing the list at the very beginning Tax Collector Matthew was called laid out clearly how Matthew was by Jesus to become a disciple, as to tell the story of Jesus. We know

6 little of Matthew after his calling, was martyred possibly by spear he remained one of the Twelve and or sword. He is the patron saint presumably joined the others in of (unsurprisingly) accountants, telling of Jesus after the Ascension, tax collectors, custom officers and but nothing is really known of security guards. him. Tradition has him preaching Revd Lynda Mead in Ethiopia and Persia where he

Update on Mission to Seafarers Knitting In March I was pleased to deliver If anyone would like patterns to join to John Hughes a further collection in, can donate to buy wool or have of knitted items from our Benefice surplus double knitting wool to give Knitters to transport to John please contact the Benefice Office Attenborough at Southampton where Elizabeth will link you with me. Mission to Seafarers, these were 76 hats and 6 mufflers. Used Stamps for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance Whilst making the essential journey be accessed when the rest of the for a blood test at Southampton building is locked. University Hospital I was pleased Thank you all for making it possible to be able on the return journey to for me to deliver these valued items drop off on behalf of the Benefice, on your behalf a carrier bag full of trimmed used Ruth Crouch postage stamps, sorted into 2 bags of British, 1 bag of Foreign and a small collection of pre-decimal to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance’s new premise in Adanac Park. This property they are sole tenants and no longer have to share with other companies. They were gratefully received, afterwards I also received the illustrated Thank You postcard. As when we attend Services at the Abbey Church we only use the main entrance the sweet boxes for depositing your trimmed stamps are now in that porch which can also

7 Peter Stagg, Head of Landscape, undertook many other projects which writes: shaped the reserve. This included am hoping that with the arrival of the hides for observing birds and one for better weather we are experiencing wheelchair users which, in his own in early March, Winter has finally words, was built “with any materials I done and Spring has arrived. The rain could beg, borrow or scrounge.” This seems to have disappeared and the achievement which was recognised sun has put in an appearance at long in 1981 by the presentation of a last, although it is still cold with very commemorative plaque at a ceremony sharp frosts most mornings. However, in London to James and the late Lord there is blossom in the hedgerows and Montagu. On his retirement, a new many trees are showing the first signs hide was built and named after him to of new buds. Before long our summer recognise his achievements. He was migrants will start to arrive to swell a man who touched the lives of many the numbers of the resident song and will be greatly missed by all of us bird, wildfowl and wader populations fortunate enough to have known him that remains with us all year and the and called him a friend. breeding process will shortly start all The management of the reserve over again! Whilst our winter visitors continues to be shared between will be preparing to leave for their the estate and Natural . The breeding grounds in other parts of the present warden is Adam Wells who World. It is at this time of the year that previously worked for the estate as I will be constantly reminding you all our conservation officer. He took on to please keep your dogs under strict his present role in 2017 since when he control or on a lead whilst walking in has managed the reserve with great the countryside. enthusiasm and success. Amongst Former Warden of the North Solent the projects that he has carried out National Nature Reserve, James has been the refurbishment of some Venner, recently died following a of the original hides and the creation short illness, aged 86. James was the of new breeding islands for Avocets. first Warden of the reserve when it More recently, he has been building was first designated by the Nature artificial nest sites in the form of rafts Conservancy Council before it came to encourage Common Terns to return under the banner of English Nature to the reserve. After an absence of and subsequently Natural England. ten years, in June 2019, the 1st chick James held that post from 1978 until hatched followed by 7 more of which 5 1994 when he retired at the age of 60. survived and fully fledged. The success Through hard work and dedication, he was mainly due to Black Headed Gulls

8 colonising the rafts prior to the De Lorne (see picture). Once the arrival of the Terns which provided island is colonised by Black headed safety in numbers from predatory Gulls the plan is to deploy the gulls such as Black Backs! original rafts to encourage the terns who breed later to nest on them. Due to government restrictions, last The effort that this project took due year he was unable to capitalise on to the weather was huge and we his success. However, this year he hope that his sheer hard work will be has built a permanent structure at rewarded by success.

Re-opening plans 17 May including Palace House, the Beaulieu and Buckler’s Hard will both National Motor Museum and Maritime open their gardens and outdoor Museum. Catering at both sites will areas to local visitors from Monday re-open gradually in accordance 29 March, including Little Beaulieu for with government rules, starting with our younger visitors. takeaway only from 29th March. All being well, from 12 April we will At Beaulieu, we have rescheduled a be able to welcome visitors from couple of our earlier Simply rallies and further afield, re-open our shops and have a very full event programme start running the monorail. Then, we starting with the new Simply Electric hope that we will be fully open from on Sunday 23 May.

9 On the river, we will gradually be the tasty treats to go out of date, welcoming customers back with local Buckler’s Hard Village Manager Jane activity and essential maintenance Yapp got in touch with permitted from 8th March. Overnight Basics Bank, a -based stays and general boat maintenance charity which provides food parcels is expected to resume from 12th to those in need. The Chair of New April as will the chandlery and Forest Basics Bank, Oliver Stanley, marina reception. was pleased to accept the donation. “We have used the produce in both We will of course be operating in our day to day parcels going out to a Covid secure way with measures families in need and have included similar to last summer. items in the weekly outreach larders in and Pennington” he Buckler’s Hard supports local food said. “Our clients have really enjoyed bank with ‘sweet’ donation receiving these premium items, When the New Forest entered Tier particularly those with families 3 on Boxing Day, Buckler’s Hard had whose children who would normally to close its doors leaving the gift have been at school wanted snacks shop with a stock of unsold biscuits during the day! Thank you for and fudge. Rather than allowing thinking of us.” Grants to local organisations

Trustees of the Beaulieu Common Beaulieu & District Film Society 250 Good trust met on 23rd February Beaulieu & Hautvillers Twinning to consider grant applications from Association 500 local organisations. The trust was Beaulieu Abbey Church 6000 able to make awards broadly in Beaulieu Band 400 line with usual levels due to the Beaulieu Bank Notes 250 generosity of local residents who Beaulieu Camera Group 450 usually support the village fete. Beaulieu Craft Group 150 Beaulieu Cricket Club 500 Proceeds from the fete are usually Beaulieu History Society 250 split 50/50 between the Abbey Beaulieu Jelly Tots Playgroup 500 Church and the Common Good Trust Beaulieu Past, Present & Future but, since there was no fete income 250 to divide this year, the Common Beaulieu Parish Council 500 Good Trust is also supporting the Beaulieu Primary School 1,000 church this year. Beaulieu Victorian Christmas Evening The 2021 Village fete is due to take 450 place on 28th August. The grant Beaulieu Village Hall Trust 650 allocations were made as follows. Beaulieu Young Farmers 500

10 Organisation Grant New support for the New Forest commoning community The New Forest National Park remains bloodlines are passed down one of the few places in England where through generations of commoning the ancient tradition of commoning families. I bred a filly last year whose is still widely practised.Commoners grandmother had been bred by my have been grazing their animals on the grandad.’ Daniel will use the land open Forest since before the Norman at Hardley Halt for extra feed during Conquest in 1066, helping create the winter and bringing in mares and and maintain the landscape and rare foals. He said: ‘To be honest it is near wildlife which makes the New Forest impossible to find back-up grazing in so special. However, the rising price the New Forest at affordable rent, so of land in the New Forest is making I’m very grateful I have been given the it difficult for commoners to find opportunity by ExxonMobil Fawley to affordable back-up grazing, and even rent this back-up land.’ harder for new and young commoners Louise England and her partner Dan to establish themselves. were gifted their first pony by Dan’s In a new initiative helping address the aunt and uncle in 2014 and have slowly issue, ExxonMobil Fawley, which owns increased their herd since. Louise said: land on the edge of the New Forest, ’We now have four Forest-run mares is renting some of its untenanted and were lucky enough to finally breed grazing land to young commoners at a our first foal in 2019 – a Forest-bred reduced rate. The first two commoners filly! to benefit from the scheme, Daniel That was a real moment and made Drodge and Louise England, are all the hard work and commitment to renting land at Hardley Halt, giving commoning over the years worthwhile. them the vital back-up grazing required ‘We didn’t want to expand our herd too to bring their animals off the open much without having enough back-up Forest. ground, so when the opportunity came ExxonMobil Fawley has installed up to apply for grazing, we jumped at new stock fencing and a holding pen the chance. I’m extremely grateful to (pound) and provided a mobile water be able to use this facility, as it gives us tank at the 10-acre site. the comfort that we have somewhere secure to bring our younger ponies Daniel, 27, was born into a commoning home to winter, or mares and foals family and has a herd of 12 Forest-run home to wean. New Forest ponies, which he hopes to extend over time. Daniel said: ’I The pound will be a great help in have loved commoning from the very handling these ponies and makes a beginning, following in the footsteps huge difference to how we will be able of my father and grandfather. I to common. remember going out onto the forest ‘I am so excited for the future for checking on the ponies from a very new and young commoners if more young age. affordable grazing like this will be able ‘I find it so special that the ponies’ to be made available.’

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12 Enjoy the outdoors but ‘be tick aware’

What are ticks? avoid brushing against vegetation Ticks are small, spider-like creatures • wear light-coloured clothes so ticks that feed on the blood of animals, can be spotted and brushed off including people. The size of a tick • use repellents such as DEET can vary, with a larva being as small • carry out a tick check as a tiny freckle, and fully fed females Carry out a tick check similar in size to a baked bean. Make it a habit to check your clothes Where do you find ticks? and body regularly for ticks when Ticks survive in many habitats, but outdoors and again when you get prefer moist areas with leaf litter home. Check your children and pets or longer grass, like in woodland, as well. grassland, moorland, heathland Ticks prefer warm, moist places on and some urban parks and gardens. your body, such as the groin, waist, Ticks don’t fly or jump. They wait on arm pits, behind the knee and hair vegetation for ahost to pass by, and lines, so look out for anything as tiny then climb on. as a freckle or a speck of dirt. Young They bite and attach to the skin children are commonly bitten on the and feed on blood for several days, head/scalp so need to be carefully before dropping off. Ticks are found checked around the neck, in and throughout the year, but are most behind the ears and along the active between spring and autumn. hairline. Avoiding ticks If you have been bitten • walk on clearly defined paths to • remove ticks as soon as possible 13 “Bullseye rash” suggesting a Tick bite

• the safest way to remove a tick is to include: use a pair of fine-tipped tweezers or a - a flu-like illness, fatigue and muscle tick removal tool and joint pain • grasp the tick as close to the skin as - a characteristic expanding red rash, possible erythema migrans (present in many • pull upwards slowly and firmly, as but not all cases) mouthparts left in the skin can cause • you may not always remember a local infection being bitten by a tick, so if you have • clean the bite area, and monitor it spent time outdoors and develop any for several weeks for any changes of these symptoms, seek advice from • contact your GP promptly if you your GP or dial NHS 111. begin to feel unwell with flu-like • lyme disease can be treated with symptoms or develop a spreading a course of antibiotics. Without circular red rash. Remember to tell reatment, more serious conditions them you were bitten by a tick or can develop such as swelling in some have recently spent time outdoors joints or problems with the nerves and heart, so prevention and early Main health risks detection are key. • ticks can sometimes transmit microbes that may cause human More information diseases such as Lyme disease. It For more information, search for the is important to be Lyme disease phrases ‘ticks’ and ‘Lyme disease’ aware and see your GP promptly for on these websites: www.nhs.uk or diagnosis and treatment if you www.gov. recognise the symptoms which can

14 Time to Nest The New Forest is one of the last places During the breeding season, special in the UK where ground-nesting birds quiet zones are set up around critical can still be found. Fast disappearing breeding locations and a small from other locations, due to habitat number of car parks near to these destruction and disturbance, helping closed. Limiting activity in these small them to successfully breed here in the pockets helps reduce the likelihood of New Forest has now become critical birds abandoning nests and exposing to their survival. chicks. Many different species of ground- Please help to support ground- nesting birds including the lapwing, nesting birds during this critical time nightjar and curlew rely on the of year by keeping to the main paths heathlands of the New Forest to when out walking, cycling or horse breed. Unlike most birds they choose riding in the New Forest and do not the rather risky tactic of building their venture out onto the open heath. nests on the ground rather than in the trees making them extremely Please keep dogs on the main tracks, vulnerable. and if necessary, use a lead, so that the birds and young chicks are not If disturbed, they may flee their nests disturbed. Ground nesting birds can and expose their eggs and chicks to be very difficult to spot when walking predators. Each year, from 1 March across the forest and most of us until the end of July Forestry England would simply be unaware that they put a series of measures in place to are here. In fact, the nests are so well help these birds breed successfully camouflaged that to the untrained and ask people spending time in the eye it is very hard to see them before Forest to help by taking a few simple you are so close that damage has steps. already been done to them.

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St Katharine’s, Exbury - April 2021 by Veronica House

difficult times. Another thing to lift the spirits has been the continuing roll out of the vaccine programme. Many of our congregation have now received at least their first dose and some have even had their second. This year the month of April begins with Easter. Marking the end of Lent, it is a principal part of our Christian calendar. It commemorates the April and with the difficult decision resurrection of our Lord three days as to whether one needs to don a following his crucifixion. raincoat one day or a warm hat and I am pleased to tell you that after scarf or just a light jacket, this month consideration Father John has certainly lives up to the old English decided that, all being well, there will Country saying that is, be a Holy Communion service here “April weather rain and sunshine within St Katharine’s on Easter Day. both together.” This will commence at 11.15am. Prior to this pandemic, our church would In fact, all this change of weather have been full for this special service. encourages nature on its way with However, the number of people able plants and flowers in the garden to attend will be restricted. If any of suddenly having a spurt of growth. you wish to join us please contact Seeming to support this observation Brian Hernaman on telephone: 023 I learnt that April gets its name from 8089 7528 from the 21st March the Latin “asperio” which means “to onwards. Masks will need to be worn open” and looking at the buds on the and social distancing observed. Hand branches of the trees, hedges and sanitiser will be available. Please bushes they are certainly starting keep a close look out for any further to burst open. Shakespeare within information relating to this in the the script of his play ‘A Midsummer benefice weekly bulletins. Night’s Dream’ wrote “April when wheat is green, when hawthorn buds If you do attend our Easter service appear.” who knows you may just be lucky enough to leave church with an So, despite this pandemic, nature Easter egg! Of course, the egg is the carries on regardless. (I think those symbol of new life and is said to last few words come from a song represent Jesus’ emergence from the somewhere!) Spring is certainly tomb and his resurrection. springing. What a difference having Soon after Christmas we start to see lighter evenings has made to lift our chocolate Easter Eggs appearing mood, particularly, during these on the shelves in our shops. As a 16

St Katharine’s, Exbury - April 2021 by Veronica House

child and more recently, practised always believed that she had laid her with my own children, was the egg especially for me. Further more excitement of the “Easter Egg it seemed to taste much better than Hunt” searching around the garden any other! amongst the lower branches of the Because of lockdown I have no trees, under shrubs, even in flower further news from our little church of pots, the watering can or under St Katharine’s here in Exbury. the wheelbarrow. When to the accompanying shouts of “I’ve found But, don’t forget if you wish to sit one,” the chocolate treasure would awhile in the peaceful tranquillity have been added to the wicker of our churchyard and escape the basket for sharing equally between stress of this present situation you siblings once the hunt was complete. are more than welcome to do so. We pray that if everyone keeps to I well remember growing up on a the rules, we may see an end to this small holding where one of our hens heinous disease and then move to a would flutter up onto the tiled roof of more normal way of life. the kitchen sloping from just under my bedroom window which, if open, In finishing this article and on behalf she would gain access and lay a of the PCC of St Katharine’s I ask that beautiful brown speckled egg before you all take care and stay safe. fluttering out again. Of course, I

Ethical About Food Buffets|Teas|Parties|Funerals Based in Milford-On-Sea 07901 951034 buffetbelle.com [email protected] Follow us on Facebook 17 has now fallen to normal levels it is interesting to remember the situation East Boldre almost exactly a year ago when you could queue for 40 minutes just to pick up a carton of milk and six eggs. NEWS Meanwhile nature pursues its course, with daffodils supplanting the snowdrops and crocuses while blackbirds and and robins vie for territory and the swans on Hatchett Another enforcedly null month at St Pond are paired off and preparing to Pauls due to the National Covid lock nest. down with no live services, no funerals and no meetings. We are most And finally the sad news that this is grateful to Fr. John and Elizabeth and likely to be the last edition in anything other Beaulieu contributors for the like its present on-line format let friendly and efficient Zoom services alone in print. It will be missed in which have enabled us to worship and East Boldre, not only for its Church keep in touch with other members of News but also for such items as the the Benefice. Horticultural Society reports and estate events. We now look forward to real, if limited, services on Easter Sunday Our thanks for its recent production thanks to Fr. John and Rev. Lynda go to Jaki at TLC for her friendly Mead, who will be conducting our help and forbearance and to the service at St Paul’s. contributors who have helped to keep us in touch with other parts of the Thereafter, restrictions will be Benefice. gradually lifted allowing fuller forms of worship which we have all missed. Last but not least I must thank my The good news on the Church front is wife Nuala for typing and dispatching the continuing success of the nursery 300 400 words of news and waffle for school on our Church Room. Flavia over 20 years ! Evans and her helpers have managed With which I shall lay down my pen to keep the school open throughout and wish you all a Very Happy Easter. the pandemic, albeit with slightly reduced numbers and we are most G.M.S. grateful for this continuing support. Apart from this it is always most heartening to see the enthusiasm with which the donation of a small jar of frogspawn is greeted by the children every Spring ! Locally we thank Ian Evans in the shop and post office. Although demand

18 Household Recycling

Used aluminium drink cans could be recycled and back on the supermarket shelves as new drink cans in as little as 60 days. Please continue to put all your used cans and tins in your clear sack, or communal recycling bin at flats. Thank you for #recycling https:// newforest.gov.uk/article/1138/ Household-recycling …

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