The Rylstone Parish Magazine 2021
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The Rylstone Parish Magazine 2021 Editors Ramblings! Happy New Year! I hope that you all had some form of a festive holiday and managed to celebrate, even though it seems an age ago now! We were all ready to head south to Wales until that Saturday when Boris came on the TV and announced you could only see people for the Christmas day. I text our friends straight away to say that Christmas had been cancelled for us, they hadn’t been watching so didn’t believe it! Took a while to sink in and Wales then went into full lock down that evening. Our friends have now got lots of food in their freezer for another time and I had to dash out to the shops to find a turkey and all the trimmings. In the end it would have been a total stress for us, as Neil didn’t arrive home from work until late on the evening of the 23rd! In the end we had a quiet Christmas and New Year with just us! There was plenty of slobbing around in our PJ’s and watching TV, something which doesn’t happen often. The next surprise was when Boris was on TV telling us about schools not going back. Katie and I were watching thinking ‘end of January’ when he slipped in schools MAY be going back, at the earliest, after the half term holidays. What! That took a while to sink in as well. Blimey! I hope you are all staying safe and well. We’ve still a while to go yet but hopefully there is a glimmer at the end of the tunnel and some of you will have had your vaccinations by now. I hope we will be able to greet each other soon. Thank you so much for the very generous donations of £100.00 from 2 individuals over the Christmas period. All donations are very much appreciated. It costs approximately £3000/year in printing costs to produce and we try to cover most of it by advertising, but there is a shortfall every year, especially as we are printing all editions in colour now. As we move on with technology I thought I’d give you our Community Bank details in case you’d been thinking of making a donation towards the running of the magazine but didn’t know how to go about it. Sort Code: 20-78-42 Account No: 10780677 Ref: Donation The next deadline for the March issue is Sunday, 14th February. Please put the date in your diary, so that you don’t forget! This is YOUR community magazine, we’d like to hear about any achievements and congratulations as well. Fantastic news! I have kindly received volunteers for taking over this editorial, thank you to Henri Bailey and Rachel Kirwin. I’m not sure when this will happen as we need to try and meet whenever that can occur but hopefully soon in this New Year. Sarah Hartley will kindly continue to look after all our advertising. ALL editorial and advertising queries to: [email protected] or last resort telephone Debbie Geldart on 730345 Advertising for 2021/22 Thank you to Sarah Hartley for dealing with all our advertising. If you are interested in advertising in the magazine from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022 please contact Sarah on the above email and she will be able to advise you of advert space available. Advertisors, look out for an email coming out! The deadline for all advertising copy is 14th March. RYLSTONE PARISH COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER GROUP We’re still here if you need us. The following names and numbers can be contacted and they will co-ordinate the support you need, from the Community WhatsApp group of volunteers:- Rylstone – Sophie Caygill 730277, Moyra Livesey 730251 Cracoe – Debbie Geldart 730345, Sara Snow 07974 419770, Karen Booth 730988, Trudy Balderson 730350, Philip Capon (The Devonshire Arms, 699191) Scale House Woodlands – Nick Pascoe 700729 Hetton, Bordley – any of the above Community Contacts Book Club – Debbie Geldart 07989 353030 Church of England, St Peter's Church - David Macha 752575 [email protected], secretary Sara Humphreys [email protected] Community Fund - Moyra Livesey, Chair and applications contact 01756 730251 or [email protected] Cracoe Parish – Chair Richard Jackson, Clerk Karen Booth [email protected] Cracoe, Rylstone, Hetton and Bordley Communtiy Page on facebook, please join! Cricket – Paul Baines 01756 730333 Hetton Methodist Church - Tracey Darling 752607 Council meeting secretary Bill Haigh 730202, [email protected] Hetton Parish – Chair Alan Horn, Clerk Janet Keighley – parish- clerkhetton@gmail History Group – Tricia Linton 01756 730308 Project Reverb – [email protected], twitter@YouthReverb or https://projectreverb.wordpress.com/ Rounders – Kelly Skinner 07778 550247 Rylstone History Project – www.rylstoneproject.com Rylstone Parish – Clerk James Snowden 730253, [email protected] Toddlers – Glennis Hobbs 01756 791807 Village Hall– Debbie Geldart [email protected] WI – President, Alison Fort 01756 720680. Secretary, Sue Magoolagan 01756 730474 Dates for Your Diary February 2nd Book Club, Zoom 8.00 pm 4th WI meeting, Zoom 7.00 pm 13th – 21st School Holidays 14th Magazine deadline 16th Community fund deadline for applications March 2nd Community Fund Trustees’ Meeting 7.00 pm 3rd Book Club, Cracoe 8.00 pm DOG FOULING We have received several reports recently of an increase in the amount of dog deposits being left in the lanes, tracks and grass verges in the village of Cracoe. This is antisocial and a potential health hazard to children and livestock. Please pick up after your dog and deposit it in one of the dog poo pins or take it home! Be a responsible dog owner, bag it and bin it. Cracoe Parish Meeting Please be aware of scam calls and don't fall for it! Several Craven residents have been called by someone who tells them they are eligible for a council tax refund. They are asking for bank details. They may then call back again and pretend to be from your bank. Don't give out any details, particularly bank details! Just hang up. https://www.cravendc.gov.uk/news/news-archive- folder/january-2021/craven-residents-warned-of-scam-calls- about-council-tax/ The 24 Hours of Cracoe On 27th February 2021, two Cracoe residents, Xavier Chaduc and Ian Cross are planning a 24 hour fell walk/jog to raise money for Martin House Hospice. The planned route is a continuous loop that begins in Cracoe, climbs to the War Memorial monument, goes along the fell to the Cross at Rylstone, before coming down to St Peter’s Church and then back to Cracoe. They will run for 24 hours non-stop starting at 10:00AM on the 27th of February and finishing at 10:00AM the day after on the 28th of February. If you would like to make a donation to support either of the nominated charity please do so by using the following link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/xavier-chaduc1 Any donation, large or small, would be much appreciated during a time when due to the pandemic, many charities are suffering from a fall in income. Many thanks. Xav and Ian Flowers from the Dales... Feb - The Meadow Bothy After a snowy start we're looking forward to the Spring. February is sometimes considered an 'in limbo' month, but not really in our gardening calendar. Yes it's still cold and dark, but it also sees the arrival of drifts of snowdrops (galanthus), their white noses pushing up through hard ground, catkins hung ready to transform and the cheery yellow of the aconites to follow. Early scented blossoms like the chaenomeles, daphne and forsythia who are bathed in a sunny spot, providing some perfume in the garden and much needed food for those bees out on dry bright days. As well as in the garden it’s so important to get out for fresh air into our beautiful landscape. This last month Cracoe Fell has gone from moody and dark to a beaming white beacon glistening on a bright day and then hosts a warm orange glow in the evening light. Rose and I can leave a little later for our afternoon walk and enjoy the sun setting over Pendle Hill, along Church Lane. Indoors in the warmth we're catching up on reading and journeys around the country and the world with all the fantastic travel programs on the box. All pretty unheard of in the busy Summer months. (So we are making the most of it!) Our jobs list this month are quite extensive in the few daylight hours, washing all the seed trays ready for action, clean gardening tools, tidying the sheds, mulching the fruit bushes, take the dead leaves from the Hellebores after the cold snap. We're forcing Narcissus indoors, posting out dried flowers with gift cards to your loved ones and pruning back Clematis and grasses. We left a lot of the pruning till now, so foliage could provide shelter for all the little creatures and birds to crawl beneath and nestle down. It's important too that on the snowy and frosty days to make sure we feed the birds and ensure they have fresh water. They've taken almost all the berries in our garden so do need the extra food. (We need your Jars!) So thinking ahead, as we're trying to be as sustainable as possible, if anyone has any large empty pickle jars, we are gathering these for the start of our fresh cut flower season for our weekly orders and would really appreciate any you are able to spare.