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You look fetching in that shirt. Colne Engaine Parish Magazine May 2017 This magazine is produced and hand-delivered by volunteers, for free, to the households in the parish of Colne Engaine, every month. 2 www.colne-engaine.org.uk Support your village, shop local first CONTENTS EDITORIAL 3. Welcome from the Editor Editor: Michael Estcourt 4-7 Church Notices 2 Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HL 8 NSPCC Book Fair Tel/Fax: 01787 220049 9 Open Gardens [email protected] 11 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED All copy should be sent to Michael. 12 Mobile Library 13 Village Hall Design: Juliet Townsend 15 Women’s Institute / Mothers Union [email protected] 17 My First Whist Drive Advertising: Terry Hawthorn 19 Drama Society / Youth Club 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE. T: 01787 223140 / Baby & Toddler Group [email protected] 21 Church Flowers All advertising should be sent to Terry. 22-23 Festival Committee 24-25 Parish Council ADVERTISING 27 Mothers Union 29 Peregrinations in Norfolk Our monthly magazine (double issues 31 Four Colnes Horticultural Society in July/Aug and Dec/Jan) is delivered 33 Ferriers Barn Plant Sale free of charge to all 400 households in 35 The Docklands Light Railway Colne Engaine and Countess Cross. 37 Bellringing Experience 1/4 Page 62 x 88mm £10 / £50 pa 38-39 Footpaths 1/2 Page 128 x 88mm £17 / £75 pa 41 Senior Citizens’ Lunches Full Page 128 x 180mm £20 or £100 pa 43 FACES Cheques payable to Colne Engaine PCC. 45 From the Village Archive 47 Poppy Book & Food Club Readers, please remember to mention this magazine if you answer any of the 48 Earls Colne Cricket Club advertisements. We welcome 49 Earls Colne Lunchtime Recitals advertising in our magazine, the 51 Colne Valley Cycle Ride income from which helps to cover 55 Bus Timetables / Heritage Museum production costs. This does not imply 57 Defibrillator Operators any endorsement or approval of the 58 Useful contacts / Advert index products and services mentioned in 59 Village Diary the advertising. FOR THE JUNE ISSUE PLEASE PROVIDE SUBMISSIONS BY TH 4 MAY 2017 Please provide Editorial in Word and Advertising as .jpg file Colne Engaine Parish Magazine May 2017 / 3 WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR I am sure you have noticed the new bench that has been erected on the village green replacing the old wooden bench that had fallen into disrepair. The Festival Committee funded this and the work was carried out by Tarmec and Croft who deserve a huge thank you for improving the look of the centre of the village. Whilst on the subject of appearance I have noticed that signposts and accompanying signage well away from the village have over the years become dirty, green and grimy. So much so that they have become an eyesore. Signs within the village envelope are well maintained by Chub who does a splendid job keeping the village clean and tidy. I know that the District Council or the Highways Agency may be responsible for signage but I cannot for the life of me think they will ever prioritise doing something about it when they haven’t done anything for years. As a proud citizen of the Centre of the Universe (vide – Colne Engaine) I would like to suggest that a working party should be encouraged to meet on a Saturday morning at the Five Bells and from thence divided up into small groups and sent out to all the roads that lead into the village with some buckets of soapy water, brushes and cloths and clean all the signs that lead into the village. Once finished, groups can reassemble at the Five Bells for some liquid refreshment. Perhaps some kind souls would sponsor refreshments. Mike Estcourt, Editor T: 01787 220049 [email protected] VACANCY: EDITOR & DESIGNER NEEDED A vacancy will soon exist for the Editor and Designer of Colne Engaine’s Parish Magazine, starting in the Summer 2017. The magazine is published each month except that there are two combined issues in June\July and Dec\Jan. This is a voluntary, part time, unpaid appointment reporting to the Parochial Church Council (PCC). Reasonable expenses for printing ink and paper is claimable from the PCC. The Editor is responsible for collating copy from village and individual organisations and supervising printing currently done by the Diocesan printers in Chelmsford. The Designer’s job can be done by the Editor if necessary. Someone else carries out liaison with Advertisers but the Editor has overall discretion. The Editor should be competent with Word and Excel. The Designer will need experience of Microsoft Publisher or similar software. The current Editor and Designer are willing to assist the appointee\s until they are happy to continue on their own. Applications should be submitted to the PCC Secretary, Rita Prior, by email or telephone or in writing. PCC Secretary: Mrs Rita Prior, 21 Church Street, Colne Engaine CO6 2EX. 01787 223867 [email protected] 4 www.colne-engaine.org.uk Support your village, shop local first LETTER FROM REVEREND CAPTAIN PETER ALLEN I remember with fondness the game my children and I sometimes used to play when they were young and we were on a run in the car. I would give them each the opportunity to choose which way to go at the next junction, left, right, or straight across. They used to think it was great fun to be able to choose and take us down previously untravelled roads making new discoveries. Not all choices are so light hearted and some are literally matters of life and death. This Easter I found myself recognising just how many choices are made about Jesus by different people as the first Good Friday approached. At the last supper Judas chose to leave the close knit group of Jesus and the twelve disciples to betray Jesus to the Jewish religious authorities. Peter, who had followed Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest chose under fear of his life to deny knowing Jesus. The Jewish council, the Sanhedrin, chose to condemn Jesus to death. The crowds gathered outside the palace of Pontius Pilate chose to reject Jesus in favour of an insurrectionist Barabbas. Pilate chose to wash his hands of any responsibility for allowing Jesus to be executed. The robbers executed either side of Jesus both made their choice about him, one rejected him and the other asked him to remember him. These are just a few examples of the kind of reaction Jesus caused in those who he came into contact with around the time of his execution. In reality it is something that had been happening throughout the whole of his life, wherever he went, whatever he said, whatever he did caused people to make a choice about him. This was no different for those who encountered him after his resurrection either. In the church calendar we celebrate Ascension Day on Thursday May 25th and ten days later we celebrate Pentecost on Sunday 4th June. One day marks the day the physical presence of Christ left the earthly realm for the realm of heaven, the other the day the promised Holy Spirit came to the early believers. It’s recorded in the Bible that both events created choices for those who witnessed them. What about us in our day, is there still a need for us to make a choice about who he is? C.S. Lewis would say there is, in fact that’s just what he was saying when he wrote the following. ‘Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.’ I too would subscribe to these sentiments and encourage each of us, whether of religious affiliation or none, to take a closer more serious look at Jesus Christ because never has there been a more towering and influential figure in the whole of human history and surely as such he deserves more than a cursory glance before we choose to ignore him, admire him from afar, or seek to follow him. You never know, in choosing to look closer you may find yourself going down previously untravelled roads where new and exciting discoveries await. Peter Colne Engaine Parish Magazine May 2017 / 5 CHURCH NOTICES Open House at St Andrew’s Church, PASTORAL CARE Earls Colne. Where you’ll find good company, good conversation, and a Would you or a friend like good cuppa. 2nd Tuesday of the month, a visit from a member of 2-3.30pm. All Welcome! our pastoral care team? May 9th, June 13th. Contact Peter Just give one of them a ring. 07772 926278 [email protected] Ann Norris: 222015 Open Weekend Beryl Amy: 223486 at St Andrew’s Church, Earls Colne. Terry Hawthorn: 223140 Over the weekend of 13-14th May the church will be The Rev Hugh Mothersole: open and we are inviting you to come and take a closer 222211 look at it. From the Registers Teddy Bear Drop & BBQ Weddings After the 10am service Neil Beckett & Suzanne Clubb 25th March on Sunday 14th May Colne Engaine there will be a Teddy Funerals Bear Drop from the Betty Bunker service and burial 16th March tower followed by a BBQ. White Colne Bring your teddies! CHURCH CONTACTS Colne Engaine, Earls Colne and White Colne parishes are cared for by the Team Vicar and Team Seekers Curate. To arrange Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, other services or use of the Church, please contact: We’re all ‘seekers’ - no-one has all Team Vicar: The Reverend Peter Allen the answers! If you’d like to join us St Andrew’s Rectory, 5 Shut Lane, Earls Colne on our Christian journey as we study and discuss God’s Word you’d be 01787 220347 [email protected] very welcome at our next meeting.