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V I L L a G E N E North Cotswold Villages Childswickham, Murcot, Broadway and Leedons Parks, Aston Somerville, Willersey, Hinton in the Green, and Bretforton Over 30,000 hits in 2018 V i l l a g e N e w s MAY 2019 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY see inside for more details • Thursday, 9th May U3A Speaker Philip Caine • Saturday 11th May, Living History Weekend at the Fleece, Bretforton • Sunday 12th May, ‘Your Bard’ at the Fleece, Bretforton • Tuesday, 14th May Wayfarers trip to Cirencester • Wednesday 15th May Leedons trip to Abergavenny • 25th-27th May Steam in the Cotswolds! • Tuesday, 28th May Wayfarers trip to Oxford And don’t forget STOP PRESS on the website http://www.village-news.org.uk Send emails to [email protected] Visit the Childswickham website http://www.childswickham.org.uk Next issue May Deadline May 5th 2019 Childswickham Church St Mary the Virgin Carol Strotten, Churchwarden 01386 852312 Ralph Deakin, Churchwarden 01386 854605 Families and children are always welcome at St Mary’s, do come along and join us 5th May Morning service - David Cook, Speaker - Evesham Prayer Compass 12th May Holy Communion including Baptism - Revd Bennett 19th May Morning service 26th May Holy Communion From the Registers Phyllis Vaughan 20th March Michael Dempsey 28th March May they Rest in Peace Joseph Nott to Sarah Daffurn Wedding on 12th April Congratulations Cleaning Contacts Childswickham Coffee Rota May 10th Mrs L Woods 5th May Mary & Richard Burfitt Carol Strotten, Churchwarden 852312 12th May Margaret Flanagan & May 24th Mrs S Smith and [email protected] Mrs J Tuskin Jane Allen Ralph Deakin, Churchwarden 854605 19th May Joan Barnett & June 7th Mrs Barnett and Mrs Saville Bell ringers: Brenda Wadsworth Tower Captain, Graham Lee 26th May Len Wood +1 June 21st Mrs BIndoff and 01386 858422 Mrs Braithwaite 2nd June Angela Kirk & Pat Hackett The Childswickham ‘wallers.’ A sunny morning, at the end of March, saw a working party demolishing the wall between the Churchyard and Leedons’ field. It has become very dilapidated - added to which – a quantity of stones were stolen, last autumn. It is to be rebuilt with financial support from The Friends of St Mary’s: in preparation, the team was removing the ingrown ivy which has taken a firm grip on the interior, as well exterior stonework. It is hoped that when the wall is rebuilt, in May, it will give a tidier appearance to that part of the Village. In addition, much needed tree work has been undertaken in the Churchyard during the winter thanks to financial assistance from ‘The Friends.’ This, too, enhances the appearance of this historic area. Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th June, we invite you to join us in welcoming Epiphany to Childswickham More information on page 6 Next issue May Deadline May 5th 2019 1st May – May Day: unbridled merriment don’t reply ‘comb my hair on the left’ or ‘do the washing up’ but with their occupation present or past. May is the month when the ancient pagans used to get up to ‘all sorts’! The Romans held their festival to honour the Strangely enough, even the Bible does the same. In the mother-goddess Maia, goddess of nature and second of the creation stories – Adam and Eve – we are growth. (May is named after her.) The early Celts told how the man was shaped from the dust of the earth. celebrated the feast of Beltane, in honour of the sun god, What a powerful image. Then straight away, he was given Beli. a job to do: he was to be the gardener of Eden. We don’t know what he looked like, or even at that point his name, For centuries in ‘Olde England’ the people went mad in but we do know his job! May. After the hardship of winter, and hunger of early Spring, May was a time of indulgence and unbridled In conversation at parties we are often asked ‘What do you merriment. One Philip Stubbes, writing in 1583, was do?’ My late wife loved that because she had been a nurse scandalised: ‘for what kissing and bussing, what and people were so positive about it. Perhaps if she had smooching and slabbering one of another, is not been a traffic warden it would have been different. But for practised?’ all of us our work, what we do, is a vital part of our lives. It certainly includes the job of home building and bringing up Henry VIII went ‘maying’ on many occasions. Then folk children. Work gives us worth, which is why being ‘out of would stay out all night in the dark rain-warm thickets and work’ is for most people an unwanted and frustrating return in the morning for dancing on the green around the existence. May pole, archery, vaulting, wrestling, and evening bonfires. May 1st has become the International Day of Work. Most of us enjoy our work, even if it’s only the company of The Protestant reformers took a colleagues. After all, if it weren’t for work, what would strong stand against May Day – and in ‘leisure’ mean? 1644 May Day was abolished altogether. Many May poles came The Monty Python phenomenon down – only to go up again at the Restoration, when the first May Day of The Monty Python surreal comedy group was formed 50 King Charles’s reign was ‘the happiest years ago, on 11th May 1969. They pioneered a type of Mayday that hath been many a year in stream-of consciousness television sketch show, Monty England’, according to Pepys. Python’s Flying Circus whose influence on comedy has been compared with the Beatles’ influence on music. May Day to most people today brings vague folk memories of a young Queen of the May decorated with garlands and 45 episodes were made over four series, and the Python streamers and flowers, a May Pole to weave, Morris phenomenon developed into stage shows, films, albums, dancing, and the intricacies of well dressing at Tissington books and musicals. Being iconoclastic and anti- in Derbyshire. establishment, the Pythons – John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam May Day is a medley of natural themes such as sunrise, – were inevitably controversial and made many Christians the advent of summer, growth in nature, and – since 1833 uneasy, especially after the release of their Life of Brian – Robert Owen’s vision of a millennium in the future, film in 1979, which seemed to poke fun at Jesus, though beginning on May Day, when there would be no more they denied that this was the intention. poverty, injustice or cruelty, but harmony and friendship. This is why, in modern times, May Day has Ironically, by 1994, the point was already being made that become Labour Day, which honours the dignity of they had “begun to occupy an institutional position in the workers. And until recently, in communist countries May edifice of British social culture that they had once had so Day processions were in honour of the achievement of much fun trying to demolish.” The term ‘pythonesque’ as a Marxism. definition for a type of humour is included in standard dictionaries – a fact that Terry Jones said meant that they There has never been a Christian content to May Day, but had failed. nevertheless there is the well-known 6am service on the top of Magdalen Tower at Oxford where a choir sings in the Seven asteroids are named after Monty Python or its dawn of May Day. members. The word ‘spam’ referring to unsolicited e-mail is derived from their TV ‘Spam’ sketch in 1970. An old May carol includes the lines: The life of man is but a span, it flourishes like a flower We are here today, and gone tomorrow – we are dead within an hour. There is something of a sadness about it, both in words and tune, as there is about all purely sensuous joy. For May Day is not Easter, and the joys it represents have always been earth-bound and fleeting. In praise of Work ‘Edward Jones, 39, chemist, was convicted by Harrow magistrates of drink driving.’ I learnt the formula early in my journalistic career. Whatever else you observe, always be sure to report age and job. Contestants on TV quiz programmes are always asked ‘What do you do?’ They Next issue May Deadline May 5th 2019 Day Time Activity Contact Monday 7.00pm–9pm Carpet Bowls Robert Simms 01386 853752 Tuesday 9.15-10.15am Keep Fit Tess 01386 858796 10.30-12.00noon Yoga Aston Colley 01386 870893 6 pm-8 pm Puppy Training Sue 07857 277184 Wednesday 10am- 12.00noon Quilting Georgina 01242 820423 2pm – 4pm Evergreens 2nd/4th week of month Dawn Bindoff 01386 858769 7pm – 9pm WI (1st & last week) Pam Folsom 01386 859397 Thursday 7pm – 9pm Dancing Ballroom Kleo Tanner 01386 858905 7pm – 9pm Parish Council (not April, June, Aug. and December) 01684 773236 Friday 9am-12noon Art Group Claire Watson [email protected] 10am-12noon U3A winter months only 2nd Friday Charges Main Hall Residents £6.50 Non Residents £11.50 Helen’s Room Resident £6.50 Non Residents £11.50 Snooker Residents £4.50 Non Residents £5.00 For more information and to make a booking please contact Anne Wood 01386 854955 See web site for Rules and Conditions http://www.childswickham.org.uk CHILDSWICKHAM STREET PARTY Sunday 11 August 2019 Atkinson Street starting 1pm Live jazz and bouncy castle Bring your own sharing food-bottle of wine per table and soft drinks provided Save this date More details coming Childswickham WI The WI meet on the 1st Wednesday of every month from 7.15pm in the Childswickham Memorial Hall on Atkinson Street Give the President, Pam Folsom a call on 07712 682452 to try a Free of Charge Taster April 2019.
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