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REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD ISSUE NO. 294 DECEMBER 2020 Two Dales Local News Christmas 2020 Edition PRICELESS REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD adverts. Come to think of Lights it I do not want everybody filling their shopping This year I cannot wait baskets with every bit of until I see Christmas Lights food just in case they need everywhere.. Normally I am it or that Mrs Brown not-at not impatient and just -all-funny-Christmas- accept Christmas as it Special or repeats of Fools arrives. My rigid boring & Horses Christmas Day discipline and patience specials. means I do not play Christmas you see can Christmas Music or eat turn into a lot of ‘wants’ Mince Pies until the 1st of and that pressure of us all December. But this year hoping we have a perfect ‘WE NEED LIGHTS’. 2020 break. We hope the events make me yearn for Christmas Tree we get is a Christmas. That means I good shape, we hope that am in for a disappointment. presents we give will be The years have taught me well received. I also feel the more you look forward selfish that I should be out to the 25th December, the there helping the homeless. more that you can expect it I do think of them on cold to be one big Brussel nights so why don’t I do Sprout of a day. anything ? If there is I want to see lights something I want for when I get up early at 5am Christmas it is simplicity. I to take my Sam to his bus could say I wish peace and stop in Northallerton. I happiness to all but when I want to see Reeth lit up. I think of it, all I wish, is want Classic FM to play for everyone to Christmas Music more and consider that more each day. ‘Less is more’ What I do not want is gluttony and calm-your-full- Mike B Editor stomachs-with-pills Every Year Brill Book Raymond Briggs Father Christmas Cover Picture. ‘Christmas Town’ is the title of this beautiful 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle published by Falcon de luxe. Painted by the artist Daniela Pirola. The Merry Christmas lettering and more Christmas clipart in this Gazette were downloaded from free clipart site at https://www.clipart.email/ 2 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Gazette Management Team Published by The Reeth & District Gazette Ltd. Chairman: James Alderson Company Number: 06541854 Greenways, Grinton, Richmond c/o The Company Secretary DL11 6HJ Tel: 01748 884 312 Andrew Bedford, Glory Be, Blades E-mail: [email protected] Richmond, North Yorkshire DL11 6PS Tel: 01748 886 974 Secretary: Sue Alderson E-mail: [email protected] Holme View, Low Row, Richmond, DL11 6PE No material may be reproduced in Tel: 01748 886 292 whole or in part without permission. E-mail: [email protected] Whilst every care is taken for Editor: Mike Barden accuracy, the publishers cannot be Kings Cottage, Reeth, Richmond held legally responsible for any errors DL11 6SX or opinions in articles, listings or Tel: 01748 884 737 advertisements. E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING Treasurer: Andrew Bedford For information on advertising and Glory Be, Blades, Richmond, DL11 6PS Tel: 01748 886 974 prices, please contact the treasurer. E-mail: [email protected] Advertising copy, should be sent to the editor. Subscriptions: Elsie Whitehead 5 Place Hill, Reeth, Richmond, The editor reserves the right not to DL11 6SD publish any advert or article Tel: 01748 884 132 considered to be inaccurate or E-mail: [email protected] misleading. Distribution: Trevor Brown All articles or items for inclusion The Cottage, Healaugh, Richmond, should be sent to the editor DL11 6UA E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01748 884 111 or left at Reeth Post Office. The Editor welcomes feedback. Gazette Deadlines At the editor’s discretion ☺, these will be published with Editor The deadlines for the next responses in the ‘Letters to the two months are: Editor’ section. Please send feedback Jan issue: 30th Nov to [email protected] Feb issue: Not yet known Posting The Gazette PLEASE NOTE: We will endeavour to publish all suitable items submitted by To post a copy of this Gazette to a the deadline date but this cannot be friend or relative, will require a Large guaranteed and is at the sole Letter size and will cost £1.40 second discretion of the editor. class, or £1.64 first class. 3 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Happy Christmas Ken Guy of Muker wishes all his friends and neighbours a Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year Christmas story: the year my mum helped Father Christmas: Spoiler alert I must have been four or five and woke up on Christmas morning to find that Father Christmas had left me a lovely little sewing basket. It was beautifully covered by great coincidence with some fabric which was identical to a dress which my mother had made for me that summer. I remember asking how this could be and my mum with great promptness re- sponded that Father Christmas had asked her to supply him with some material that I particularly liked. I wasn't entirely convinced by the explanation and it was the first time that I entertained doubts about the existence of a certain gentleman. I still use the sewing basket some 50 years later and seeing it, remember that Christmas Day. Margaret Feetham 4 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD TAKE HOME A PIECE The Queen's Gambit is a fictional story OF THE DALES that follows the life of an orphan chess Call into our shop in prodigy, Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor- Muker Upper Joy), during her quest to become the Swaledale and see world's greatest chess player while what unique struggling with emotional issues and garments we have on drug and alcohol dependency. The story display from hand begins in the mid-1950s and proceeds knit cardigans, sweaters, hats, scarves into the 1960s. & gloves to machine This is directed by the talented knit sweaters & writer Scott Frank. He also wrote the cardigans for both screenplay: Get Shorty, Out of ladies & gents. We Sight, Minority Report, The Interpret- also stock sheepskin er, Marley & Me, The Wolverine, A rugs, slippers & Walk Among the Tombstones (which he gloves. WE ARE OPEN also directed) and Logan. So this TV EVERYDAY series is in the hands of a very skilled Tel. 01748 886251 chap. The photography is excellent and Anya Taylor-Joy’s gracefulness shines Email: [email protected] through. Netflix and highly recom- or visit our website where you can order online: mended. Mike B www.swaledalewoollens.co.uk 5 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Dear Editor, ful – you had to make sure you got I notice a letter in the Gazette which everything done at home before you refers to the Hird family from could do homework. From the age of Arkengarthdale. I wonder if the writ- 10 I’ve been looking after my mum, my er is aware of a book compiled by nan, my dad and my stepdad. My nan is Cathy Lawday about the Hird family registered blind, my dad had a head Cathy herself is a descendent of the injury and lost his memory and then Hirds. my stepdad had an aortic valve re- [email protected] placement four years ago that went Jocelyn Campbell. wrong. It was stressful and hard work, but it became something I had to live with’. Since joining the Young Carer programme, Molly has become more focussed on her dreams. She regularly speaks out for Young carers’ rights. More information about The Chil- Right now in Britain there are children dren’s Society’s work is available on and young people who feel scared, un- website www.childrenssociety.org.uk. loved and unable to cope. The Chil- And Christmas cards can be ordered dren’s Society works with these young on line at www.charitycardshop.com/ people and fights for hope by deeply thechildrenssociety/category/1 understanding the needs of young peo- or ring 0300 3030 555 ple and by supporting them through If you would like to become a box their most serious life challenges. The holder, please contact Pauline Older- Society works with young people who shaw on 01748 886790. have suffered years of abuse, who have Dear Editor, run away from home or are struggling I took this photo in winter 2018 and I with mental health issues. They look out wondered if it might come in handy for young carers and those who are at for the next wintry edition Gazette. risk of being groomed by gangs. They The view is from Skelgate Lane. help refugees who have no one else to turn to in this country. Very many thanks to the 25 box holders and donors in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale who have contributed £555 for the Children’s Society. Thank you all for your generosity. Last year over 100,000 Box Holders in Britain raised £1.4 million, which has helped the project workers be there to give vulnerable children the one-to- one support they so urgently need. Molly’s Story ‘Juggling caring and school was stress- Thanks. Adele. 6 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Christmas Greetings from Christians Together in Swaledale You can ‘Bring Light into the Darkness’. How wonderful it would be if each household in Swaledale and Arkengarthdale decorated a Christmas window celebrating the Na- tivity, to ‘Bring Light into the Darkness’ as we remember the star that was over the manger at Bethlehem.
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