PARISH NEWS St Cuthberts, Wells and St Mary Magdalene, Hole October 2012

Another successful Heritage Open Days weekend

October Notes by Elizabeth Sidwell

As I write, we at St Cuthbert’s are just recovering Sometimes the current is a memory of days from a week of Music Festival. This year the when I was young and impressionable; programme ranged from small scale classical to sometimes it is the evocation of a known large scale popular and we had a great range of landscape or fantasy situation; sometimes it is people coming to appreciate the musical skills on the revival of that old movement toward dance display. which may not be something I do much of today. It can also be something else, which I can’t put a One result of this week is that one of my raffle finger on. Something which lets my thoughts tickets won me a ukulele. This is not an wander, genuine, undirected, and maybe riskily, instrument I have tried before, but FaceBook is yet knowing I will safely be brought ashore as very helpful, and I have started developing the the music ends. right muscles. I rather feel that a public performance would be something that people And of course this last sort of experience is would pay well to be allowed to avoid, but I enjoy similar to what the church and other religious a challenge, and making the acquisition public groups have called meditation or contemplation. should help to keep me trying to learn. I am not talking about a way to get away from yourself, or something that tries to deny who you Part of the pleasure, maybe a benefit, of music is are and what your experience of life has been. that it allows me to cast off from my daily Rather this sort of experience starts from where obligations, hopes and concerns, and drift down- you are, and allows you to see possibilities for stream under someone else’s guidance. the future. Or it may allow you to reassess the

1 things that tie you down as you are. Or it can simply fill you not let worries over ‘political correctness’ stop you from with unspeakable thankfulness for the people you know, the making those approaches. place you are. We must do all we can not to offend and ensure we treat Christian meditation covers a wide range of spiritual disabled people with dignity. But, while it’s good to get the practices which differ from those used by many outside the words right, tying ourselves in knots with language means church in that they are not designed as self-help, or a we miss more fundamental matters. It really is our actions that count.

October 2012 therapeutic exercise. The details and “methods” vary, but they are intended to help people discover how to “raise our And as ever, if you like what you read in Manna, please do hearts and minds to God”. pass it on and share with others in your community. Learning to find ways to achieve an inner silence free of READ - REFLECT - PASS ON. distractions and worries is for most of us quite daunting. It’s hard to find the physical space and time, never mind the inner freedom, to sense God in our lives. Equally, when we

PARISH NEWS do find the space, it is easy to drop into an unthoughtful doze, which can in itself be very therapeutic. Nonetheless, by simply saying “in that chair, the first thing I do is thank God for the day” you can transform that doze into something more. Allow your mind to wander when you get the chance, and learn consciously to let God share your thoughts and ideas. It may be that the time you will do this To the Editor most is when you are sitting in church at sermon time. Never mind – you can be with God, never mind what the Dear Sir, preacher is saying – but do try to let God in. Having read the article by Michael and Rosemary Bailey on their day at the Olympics, I would like to say thank you for a As for me, my playing of the Ukelele is never likely to be very interestingly written account. I am sure I am not alone something that will transport others to that state of in feeling that I was actually there, the descriptions of the mindfulness and openness that offers us so much. But in park, the flowers, the crowd, the noise - well, everything. I the learning, I am using God’s gifts (as well as building on could almost taste the ice cream! It has been pretty the generosity of our music festival supporters) and will try amazing watching it on T.V. but to have that detailed to remember to thank God for the challenge I am faced with. description was a real treat. Elizabeth Thank you so much for sharing it with St.Cuthberts and Wookey Hole. Yours sincerely, When you’ve met one disabled person, Edith Kenney you’ve met one disabled person… Wookey Hole The latest edition of Manna, our magazine from the Diocese of Bath & Wells, is available now from churches throughout the West Country. Your editor adds his thanks. He always welcomes interesting articles from readers of Parish News - please The autumn issue is the Disability Issue. It is packed with keep them coming. personal accounts of what life’s like for disabled people, particularly those with ‘invisible’ impairments like autism. And also what it’s like for carers who tirelessly support loved ones, day in, day out. No newspaper

Manna’s aim is to encourage you to think about how to I was visiting my son and daughter-in-law last night and support changes to help disabled people participate fully in asked if I could borrow a newspaper. "This is the 21st church and community life. The magazine shows this may century, dad," he said. "We don't waste money on mean going further than the practicalities of installing ramps newspapers. Here, you can borrow my iPhone." or hearing loops. I can tell you, that fly never knew what hit it! Gillian Buzzard, Editor of Manna, said: “One thing I’ve certainly learnt, to paraphrase an article I read whilst researching the issue, is, ‘When you’ve met one disabled The glass person, you’ve met one disabled person.’ Disabled people are individuals with their own hopes, fears and aspirations just like everyone else. We hope we’ve managed to get this To the optimist, the glass is half full. across in this edition.” To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Above all, Manna hopes to help you lay aside fears about getting to know disabled people in your communities and To the opportunist - I drank it while you were arguing!

2 The Rainbow People of God Don’t try this at home – not if you’ve been on the couch I’m just back from an evening at the Olympic Park for the Paralympics. We had tickets for the stadium with a view right over the finishing line. It was even more impressive It had to happen. Doctors’ surgeries and A&E departments than I had imagined it would be, and the atmosphere in the have been busy in recent weeks as couch potatoes all over packed arena was electric. the country lurch to their feet, and then injure themselves in October 2012 trying to copy their Olympics heroes. We didn’t see any Team GB medals, but somehow that didn’t seem to matter. I was just as content humming along Couch potatoes are simply not the right shape to leap into to the Chinese and Australian national anthems. Just to sprinting, jumping, cycle riding and anything else that witness these athletes believing in their potential and living inspired them this summer. (Please God, don’t let anyone it out made everyone a winner in some sense. You can but attempt the somersaults into the swimming pool!) As one hope that these past ten days will change our perceptions doctor put it: “Athletes have spent years toning their bodies and attitudes to disability for the better. to perfection, out in all weathers, summer and winter, PARISH NEWS following strict diets and carefully planned fitness regimes, However, as many people of disability are reminding us as with coaches and qualified trainers. the curtain falls on these games, the effects of government changes to the Disability Living Allowance are likely to In the meantime, gyms and fitness coaches are already cause real hardship to many. Will those of us who have reporting a rush of applications from people inspired by been inspired by what we have seen raise our voices to Britain’s golden glory in the games. Hotels in Surrey are ensure that this will not be the case? under the ‘Wiggins effect’, with booking for next year from cyclists who want to ride the Olympic race routes. (But As we travelled to London on Friday we tuned in to my remember, Wiggins had no traffic to contend with.) favourite broadcaster, Chris Evans, and I was glad to hear Canon Ann Easter’s Pause for Thought. She had been Area The latest group acronym is MAMIL: Middle Aged Men In Dean of Hackney when the announcement was made that Lycra - Ed. the games would be in London. She had been a little sceptical of their lasting value – not now. Yes, there will be a ______great park; yes, there will be some wonderful sporting venues, she said, but much more will be the deeper sense What Now? of community that has emerged over these days. The challenge is to ensure that the spirit of community What now, for the torch has gone continues. And no more tales of winning gold? We’ll do what we’ve done all along – In church and society we have witnessed too much of the ‘I’ And moan about the rain and cold! and ‘me’ culture in recent years. The Kingdom of God is about ‘we’ and ‘us’ – a community to which ALL are invited. May the Olympic and Paralympic legacy inspire us all the By Nigel Beeton more to enjoy being the ‘rainbow people of God’ where difference and diversity are celebrated unashamedly. or, for a little light relief…

+Peter Taunton

Church of disinvests from News Corporation

The Church Commissioners and the Church of England Pensions Board have recently announced the sale of their shares in News Corporation. They acted on the advice of the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) and sold a total shareholding worth £1.9 million. Now none of the three national investing bodies of the Church of England holds shares in the company. Volunteers needed to help with the day-to-day running of a new group - Active Living - who meet The Church of England first raised concerns with the Board at the St Lawrence Centre, 37 Chamberlain Street every of News Corporation in the aftermath of the phone hacking Thursday from 9.30am to 3.00pm. We help older people to allegations that surfaced in July 2011. After a year of keep well, keep active and enjoy life. dialogue between the company and the EIAG, the Church of England was not satisfied that News Corporation had Do you and/or a friend see yourselves as volunteers for a shown, or is likely in the immediate future to show, a group for older people? For more information please contact Maggie Charlesworth on 07919 299204 for an informal chat. commitment to implement necessary corporate governance We would love to hear from you! reform. 3 Letter from Wookey Hole enlightening us to life in a secondary school these days, which is so different from the schools of our youth. And Joy Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness? Somehow this has just started ordination training too, so we are very September has not felt traditionally quite how one might pleased she is still able to fit us into her busy life. 7.30pm at expect, the early mornings have not been misty in quite the St Lawrence’s Day Centre. right way and it all seems unfamiliar in a way that is hard to Bid define. Our Church bats are well and truly back after a

October 2012 summer where they were not in evidence at all, so one of us church wardens welcomes this while the other does not! Wookey Hole Ladies’ Club This last month has been rather a fallow period for St Mary The first meeting of the Ladies Club was held on September Magdalene with many of our church members away on 4th in the new Wookey Hole Community Hall. The hall had holiday. However, some of our congregation have joined in been cleaned and decorated over five weeks by a small with other villagers in a frenzy of activity in restoring and band of very willing volunteers and provided a very renovating the former Bowling Club Hut which has now comfortable setting for the meeting. metamorphosed into the handsome Wookey Hole PARISH NEWS Community Hall with good facilities available for all of us. The first speaker of the Autumn/Winter meetings was Alec Although we were sad that the limitations of the church site Lewis, who is the chairman of the management committee and building made it impossible to provide a suitable place for the hall. He gave a very interesting talk on the last of the for wide use we are delighted that the vision of Jenny and sea going paddle steamers in the world, Waverley and her Alec Lewis and their team coupled with the generosity of the sister vessel MV Balmoral. Alec first developed an interest Caves management have answered a long felt need, and in these ships at 8 years of age when his father took him to we are sure it will be well used. see the Ravenswood, a White Funnel Fleet steamer owned At the end of September we sadly lose a much-valued by P & A Campbell Ltd. member of our congregation, as Gillian Moore is moving to We were given the history of these ships from when they to be near her niece. We greatly miss her for her first started to run in the late 1800s and how, when P & A flower arranging skills, her secretarial work and, more importantly perhaps, her countless small kindnesses and Campbell took over the company, they gradually bought genial yet gentle presence. more ships and ran them successfully from ports in the Bristol Channel, Brighton and Plymouth. Twelve ships We are extremely fortunate to have been given a sound owned by the company were used during the first world system for the church, including a Loop, which has just war, because of their shallow draught, manouverability and been installed. We shall have to ensure enough of us know ability to reverse out of danger at speed,but only eight were how to make it work! usable at the end of the war. During the second world war We will soon be addressing the forthcoming Harvest Supper they were again used as minesweepers and troop carriers. issue on the 6th October and hope to make it a Bring and Some were used at Dunkirk and in the Normandy landings, Share meal this year. where one took a direct hit; sadly the crew perished, but they were buried alongside the troops in the Normandy We look forward to the challenges awaiting us this Autumn Cemetery. and wish you all well! In 1974 mounting costs meant the operators had to Lucy withdraw Waverley from service, but the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society bought the ship and with the help of major funding restored the Waverley. Excursions are still run from various Bristol ports to Ilfracombe, Penarth, Lundy and up the River Avon to the Avon Gorge and historic docks. Balmoral was built in 1949 and was operated by the Red Funnel Fleet in Southampton. She became the last member of P & A Campbell’s White Funnel fleet. Eventually St Cuthbert’s Ladies Group she was taken over by the Friends of the Waverley and returned to service in 1986, and now operates in the Bristol Channel in the summer months. What a fantastic result, ladies! The final proceeds of our sponsored walk were £2371-85, including gift-aid. So thank Alec’s enthusiasm and passion for these ships was obvious you for plucking up the courage to ask for sponsorship, and everyone enjoyed the interesting talk. A vote of thanks which I know wasn’t easy for many of you. The proceeds was proposed by Sue. have been sent to the Motor Neurone Disease Association, and will be spent on both research into this devastating The next meeting of the Ladies Club will be held in the neurological illness and providing aids as patients’ health Wookey Hole Community Hall, on Tuesday 2nd October at deteriorates. I was very pleased to be able to hand out a 7.30pm when the speaker will be Pat Thomas talking about certificate of thanks from the Association to each walker; as some ladies said, they haven’t had a certificate for years, ‘Hospital in Prison’. The November meeting will be held on other than a medical certificate! Tuesday 6th November at 7.30pm, with a talk by John Yeo on ‘Stained Glass’. Our October meeting is on Tuesday 16th when Joy Hawes will be speaking about her life as a school chaplain at the Any new members will be very welcome. Blue School. It promises to be an interesting talk, Lyn Astle 4 Wookey Hole WI September meeting The September meeting was held in the new Wookey Hole Community Hall. There was still a smell of new paint, a result of the hard work many people in the village had put in GUARDIAN to get the hall ready, but in all other respects the new venue ANGELS met with great approval. With no meeting in August, the business session was quite lengthy…Members were asked 2nd October is the feast day October 2012 or celebration of guardian to sign up for the Jazz Evening on Oct. 12th and reminded angels. A guardian angel is an angel who protects and of various forthcoming events. Wookey Hole teams had guides a person. Angels are mentioned in 34 books of the taken first, second and third places in the WI Bible: they protect people from danger and are a bridge quiz. The plaque to mark the planting of a flowerbed in the between God and the world. church ground, to celebrate the Queen’s diamond jubilee is now in place. Pat Tew was thanked and congratulated on Acts (chapter 12) tells how Peter was put into prison by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel appeared her strawberry tea, a very enjoyable event, with much more to him, and told him to leave. Peter's chains fell off, the than just strawberries on offer, which raised two hundred

PARISH NEWS prison doors opened of their own accord, and the angel led pounds for Breast Cancer Care and also contributed to WI him out. funds. The autumn group meeting will be hosted by Coxley WI on October 13th and will be a cream tea and quiz. Even little children have a guardian angel: Jesus said "See that you despise not one of Members were then treated to a talk by Bob and Sharon these little ones: for I say to you, that their Haigh on the Jubilee Sailing Trust. This is an organisation angels in heaven always see the face of my owning two sailing ships, the Tenacious and the Lord Father who is in heaven." (Matthew, chapter Nelson, which have 18). small permanent Guardian angels cannot change what we do crews but are but they will lead us, if we wish it, to the manned mainly by Kingdom of Heaven. able-bodied and disabled volunteers, WHICH ANGEL? who work together Write down the first letter of the answer to each of these on equal terms. The questions. Then rearrange the letters to make the name of accommodation and an angel who delivered a special message…. working of the ships 1. The first man is arranged to facilitate disabled access and work in all 2. A book of the Old Testament is named after this queen areas and there is a buddy system pairing able-bodied and 3. A giant killed by David disabled crew members. Bob and Sharon showed slides and a BBC Lifeline film illustrating life on the ships, and they 4. He was Ruth’s second husband outlined the shipboard routine. They were seen working 5. Son of Abraham, father of Jacob and Esau everywhere from the galley to the rigging. Even more 6. A doctor who wrote the third Gospel and Acts spectacular were pictures of crew members in wheelchairs 7. Another book of the Old Testament named after a ascending the mast with the help of hoists. Life on board is woman. clearly stimulating and enjoyable and rewarding, but could  not be classed as a relaxing holiday. The competition, a picture of a boat, was won by Sue, with How do you help a donkey? Elizabeth second and Jill D third. The flower of the month Give ass-istance. was also won by Sue, with Jill D second and Jan third. Where’s spaghetti junction? Elizabeth Rennie Just pasta Birmingham. How do pigs make coffee? Bible Study Group With a coffee porkulator.

The bible study group which has met in the past at the home  of Juliet Davey and Lucy White at 2, The Chilterns, Wookey Hole resumed this Autumn.

It will meet on Tuesday afternoons from 4.00 till 5.30, on the following days:

October 9, November 6 and December 4. Hugh Talbott will lead the study which will include an Introduction to Lectio Divina - a system of Meditation and prayer based on reflective reading of the Bible. Many have found this ancient practice useful as a basis for their daily devotions.

For further details ring Hugh on 679678, and if you propose to attend ring Lucy or Juliet on 677156. 1.Adam 2.Esther 3.Goliath 4.Boaz 5.Isaac 6.Luke 7.Ruth Rearranged the letters give you Gabriel. 5 The Perfect Minister High Days and Holy Days in October

When looking for a new minister, it may be helpful to bear 22nd Donatus (d 876) the following in mind: When you are out and about on the road far from home, The Perfect Minister preaches exactly 10 minutes. He ever feel tempted to pop in and explore a unfamiliar church? condemns sin roundly, but never hurts anyone's feelings. If so, think of Donatus as your patron saint – and beware. He works from 8 a.m. until midnight, and is also the church You don’t know what you may be letting yourself in for.... October 2012 handyman. In 829 Donatus, an Irish monk, had completed a prayerful The Perfect Minister lives on a very small salary, wears pilgrimage to Rome, and thought his adventures were over. good clothes, drives a good car, buys good books, and Now there only remained the long road home to Ireland. He donates £30 a week to the church. He is 29 years old and had got as far as the beautiful little town of Fiesole, which has 40 years' worth of experience. Above all, he is sits high above Florence in Tuscany, when he saw a lot of handsome. people milling about the cathedral. Curious, he decided to look in.... as he entered the cathedral, the bells rang, the The Perfect Minister has a burning desire to work with

PARISH NEWS lamps were lit and wham! Without any diocesan paperwork teenagers, and he spends most of his time with the senior at all, he was acclaimed to be the new bishop the people citizens. He smiles all the time with a straight face because had been praying for. he has a sense of humour that keeps him seriously dedicated to his church. He makes 15 home visits a day Donatus was very surprised, but accepted that this turn of and is always in his office to be handy when needed. events must be God’s will for his life. So he became bishop, The Perfect Minister always has time for church meetings in a time when bishops did even more dangerous things and all of its committees, never missing the meeting of any than they do nowadays. Instead of verbal forays into the church organization. And he is always busy evangelizing the national press, Donatus was given the job of leading Pope unchurched. He also spends hours preparing couples for Louis the Pious’ troops against the Saracens. Safely back their weddings, hours preparing parents for their baby's in Fiesole, Donatus settled down as a scholar and teacher baptism, and hours visiting the bereaved. But his life is of his new flock. But he never forgot his native Ireland, and dedicated to solitude, prayer and meditation. so did the 9th century equivalent of ‘twinning’ his diocese, for he opened a little hospice where any Irish pilgrims The Perfect Minister is always in the next town over! So if passing through Tuscany could stay in safety. Twelve you think that our minister does not measure up, it has been centuries later, his relics lie in the present cathedral of suggested that we simply send this notice to six other Fiesole. churches that are tired of their minister. The idea is that we bundle up our minister and send him to the church at the top of our list. If everyone cooperates, in one week we will receive 1,643 new ministers. One of them should be perfect. Have faith in this plan. One church broke the chain and got its old minister back in less than three months.

Need a tonic this autumn? Join a choir 30th Alphonsus Rodriguez If you have done your best to live ‘right’, and still had Think about it. When did you last sing, or even hum to nothing but trouble and heartache in your life, Alphonsus is yourself? Almost certainly on a day when you were feeling the saint for you. He was born in 1533, the son of a wool pretty good. Singing, it seems, goes along with contentment, even happiness. merchant in Segovia. He followed his father into the profession, married, and had two children. He was a It feels good to sing in a choir. Some experts even believe responsible person. Then – his wife died, his children died, that joining a choir could improve the symptoms of a range and the business failed. By the time he was 38, Alphonsus of health problems, including depression and some lung had lost everything – through no fault of his own. In 1571 diseases. As one voice specialist has explained, singing he entered the Jesuit order, and was sent to the college of uses the vocal muscles, and when you exercise them, a lot Montesione (Majorca). They decreed he should be a hall of other good things happen, too. Your posture improves, porter – and so he was, for the rest of his life. as does your respiratory stamina. These can mean fewer chest infections and improved sleep. We can only surmise the grief, despair and anger that Alphonsus must have struggled with at times. All we know Music is also a great mood enhancer. A recent Swedish is that at some point, he discovered he was still able to study suggested that singing not only increases oxygen salvage something from the wreck of his life. For the levels in the blood, but triggers the release of happy surviving accounts of Alphonsus describe him as a hormones, which can lower stress levels and blood prayerful, self-sacrificing, obedient man. Indeed, his pressure. Researchers in mental health found that some character was so remarkable that it bore fruit more widely 60 per cent of people with depression had reduced mental that he could ever have imagined, and down the years distress within a year of joining a choir. many sought out that hall porter for counselling over the The Bible often urges us to sing and be happy – to enjoy heartbreaks of their own lives. God honoured Alphonsus’ the fact that we are loved by God. ‘Speak to yourself in faith in him, and the famous poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making centuries later, wrote a poem in which he praises melody in your heart to the Lord...’ (Eph 5.19) We have Alphonsus as an example of holiness realised in and something to sing about! St Paul would have approved of through the duties of an unspectacular, humdrum life. choirs.

6 From the Registers 2012 On how to save electricity in church

FUNERALS AND MEMORIAL SERVICES The Rectory St. James the Least 11th September David William Stephens 25th September Kathleen Ann Cooper My dear Nephew Darren Your church certainly seems to have taken to the idea of October 2012 green electricity with a vengeance. To have covered the Sheila Jenkins whole of your roof with solar panels was a brave move, and makes quite a sight – especially when the sun catches them, dazzling motorists on the by-pass and causing WELLS EVENING SOCIETY multiple pile-ups. I pity the local pigeons, who try to land on it and then do a gentle glissade into the gutters. New Season of Lectures I know there have been objections to your proposal to erect You are invited to join the Wells Evening Society to enjoy a wind turbine in your car park – although no one could PARISH NEWS excellent audio-visual presentations in the elegant claim that it spoils the aesthetic appearance of your church. surroundings of Wells Town Hall. Lectures are on the first Nothing, my dear Darren, could do that. Thursday of each month starting at 7.30pm and we socialise with wine and soft drinks from 6.45pm onwards. May I humbly offer you some further suggestions for reducing your electricity consumption. If you cut your 2012 – 2013 Programme sermons by half, then everyone could go home 20 minutes earlier. Similarly, if you only sang each chorus once instead 4th October A Dealer’s Story: dealing in the British Art of your customary 17 times, that should cut your service Market – Nicholas Bagshawe times in half. And why have lighting so good that everyone 1st November Journey of the River – Lexa Drysdale can see everyone else? That is the last thing our own congregation ever want to do. 6th December Deck the Hall – Yuletide Customs and Traditions – Dr David Bostwick I raised the issue at our last church council meeting, but having only recently gone on to electricity, there seemed 3rd January Pirates of Barbary – Dr Adrian little enthusiasm for yet more change. Major Hastings still Tinniswood fondly remembers our old acetylene plant in the churchyard, destroyed during one Mattins when the verger was unaware 7th February Henry Purcell – England’s Greatest of the gas leak and lit up a cigarette. We still occasionally Composer – Colin Booth find pieces of his cassock when mowing the grass.

7th March Our Energy Future – David Edwards Mr Prentice, with a slightly malicious gleam, suggested 4th April The Drama Behind the Taj Mahal: building a treadmill, to be worked by the Young Farmers – which would also keep them out of the pub while Evensong the life and times of the Indian Emperor was taking place. I couldn’t help feeling that our Ladies Shah Jahan – Oliver Everett Group would have far more determination to keep the thing rotating – probably providing enough energy to light the Membership: £30 for full season but you are welcome entire County. I was tempted to suggest we invite the vicar to come to an individual lecture before from our adjoining parish, St. Agatha’s, to preach every Sunday, as that would fill our church with more than enough you join at a cost of £6 00. hot air. www.wellseveningsociety.co.uk or 01761 232788 I finally stopped all further discussion on the subject when a solar panel consultant arrived at the Rectory and began his Your mighty toddler sales pitch with the phrase: “I’ve come to convert you”. Your loving uncle, Any mother has already suspected as much: the daily energy expended by a toddler is the equivalent of 83 rounds Eustace in a boxing ring. A study by nutritionists with the Growing Up Milk company How you might prevent yourself falling has found that the activity of children under five is also the equivalent to an adult: running 30 miles; cycling 82 miles; Stand on one leg. Seriously. Simple home exercises such climbing 2,800 metres, or rowing for six hours. It equates as this could help you to keep your muscles toned and your pound for pound to a 3,600 calorie daily diet. No wonder balance in good shape. For while one in three people over toddlers need three times as much energy as adults. 65 suffer a fall at least once a year, a study in Australia has found that simple exercises at home can really improve * * * * * balance and strength. The findings were published in the British Medical Journal. Q. Where do children get all their energy from? A. They drain it from their parents…

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