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January 2020 2 Editorial HAPPY NEW DECADE AND NEW YEAR CONTENTS As explained in the December issue the magazine is with you slightly later than Contacts 4 normal due to the print factory annual Worship lists 5 closure. This meant that I didn’t actually edit Reflections 7 it until 1st January but it meant that I was able to include the Horticultural Society Church Reports programme of talks. Wansford, Thornhaugh 9 I think for the first time since I’ve been WI 13 Communicare 16-17 editing I didn’t receive any letters, so rather Hort Society 20-21 than leave that section blank I’ve written you a letter—I hope I get some replies. PARISH COUNCILS Thornhaugh 22-23 Many of you know that Living Villages is run Sib-cum-Stibb 24 by a team of volunteers, which includes a Wansford 25 great team of distributers who receive bundles SPECIAL REPORTS of magazines each month and post them Recycling 11 through your doors. Rod (and sometimes me) Self Assessment also distribute to the remote homes and scams 18 businesses within our villages. That is how the Nature Notes 33 750 magazines land on your door mat. Letter from the Editor 37 We have some new advertisers this month 20 and some who are either taking a short break or have changed the size of their advert. We DIARY DATES 38 are very grateful for all who continue to support us. Without you we could not exist. Tracy Sortwell Front Cover - John Measures Printing & Collation - PPS Print 3 DIRECTORY OF CONTACTS Living Villages Editorial Team Editor Tracy Sortwell 07841 382063 [email protected] Treasurer Gordon Alleyne 01780 784531 [email protected] Distribution Manager Rod Sortwell 01780 783403 [email protected] Advertising Manager Kate Hopkins 07580 218792 [email protected] Parish Councils Sutton Peter Lee (Chairman) 01780 782703 Wansford Wendy Gray (Clerk) 01778 441312 Sibson-cum-Stibbington Wendy Gray (Clerk) 01778 441312 Thornhaugh Deirdre McCumiskey (Clerk) 01780 782668 Water Newton (Parish Meeting) Caroline Nathan (Chairman) 07989 362514 Churches Ministers: Thornhaugh & Wansford 01780 782271 Stibbington, Sutton, Castor & Water Newton 01733 380900 [email protected] Churchwardens: St Andrew’s Thornhaugh: Stuart Foreman 01780 783220 Liz Kemp 01780 782333 St Mary’s Wansford: Caroline Ashley 01780 782408 Alan Jones 01780 783205 St John the Baptist, Stibbington Richard Winfrey 01780 782431 Carol Lindsay 01780 782338 Friends: St Mary’s & St Andrew’s Caroline Ashley 01780 782408 St Remigius Water Newton Tony Capon 01733 237500 Other useful contacts Neighbourhood Policing 101 P’boro City Council 01733 747474 Wansford Surgery 01780 782342 Royal British Legion 01780 782200 (Out of hours 111 option 4) Stibbington & Wansford WI . .789996 Wansford Pharmacy 01780 781616 Cricket Club 07860 278800 Communicare 01780 470437 Horticultural Society 01780 782446 H’don District Council 01480 388388 Stibbington Centre 01780 782386 Website www.livingvillagesmagazine.co.uk 4 WORSHIP JANUARY 2020 Thank you! A hugh THANK YOU to everyone who helped make our Christmas celebrations so wonderful! Thank-you to everyone who worked so hard to decorate the church, prepare and take part in services, those who enriched our worship in music, and to all who came and shared the festival with us. May the light of Christ continue to shine for us all as we come to this new year and may 2020 be a year of blessing for all in Thornhaugh and Wansford Rev Jane 5 WANSFORD COMMUNITY HALL Peterborough Road, Wansford This hall accommodates parties of up to 36 people seated. Ideal for Meetings, Workshops, Aerobics etc GREAT VALUE AT ONLY £4 per hour FOR BOOKINGS TELEPHONE John Stannage 07879 485330 6 REFLECTIONS by Rev. Jane Tailby Everyday Faith In some churches “Plough Sunday” is still celebrated on the first Sunday following 6th January, the feast of the Epiphany. The observance of Plough Sunday goes back to Victorian times, but behind it there is a much older observance, associated with the first working day after the twelve days of Christmas, hence also ‘Plough Monday’ in some places, which marked the beginning of the agricultural year for everyone working the land. In medieval times some ploughs were kept in the parish church, and a ‘plough-light’ might be kept there, possibly as a prayer for a good harvest. In days when work was scarce in winter, the observance of Plough Sunday and Plough Monday looked forward to the time of ploughing and sowing with the promise of a harvest to come. As the farming year began, ploughs would be brought to church to be blessed for their work during the year. There were, and in some places still are, many traditions associated with these celebrations. We might feel in our 21st century life, as we begin 2020, that ploughs and the farming year are somewhat removed from our day to day experience, even though we are fortunate to live in beautiful rural communities. However, it is good to remember our reliance still upon the land and good harvests, and we can pray for those engaged in farming of any kind as the new year begins. Of course, for most people these days, a plough is not the symbol of their working life. These days we might be more inclined to think of a computer, a shop till, a car mechanic’s tools, a spreadsheet, a school exercise book, a stethoscope or any number of other things associated with the world of work now. If a plough once represented the work of those on the land, an implement brought to church to be blessed as the working year began, what, I wonder, would represent your working life now? Or if you are no longer, or not at the moment, working, what would best represent the way you interact with those around you? Perhaps you are good at keeping in touch with friends for whom a stamp is still important, or the phone maybe, perhaps you are one of those who is often inviting others for a cup of tea, and a cup or mug might represent that, or are you someone who offers lifts to those in need for whom the car would represent your activity? The possible lists are endless. Maybe you just think of your daily tasks and a washing up bowl, a lawn-mower or vacuum cleaner comes to mind. In the church we might seem to think only of blessing “Sunday” things, or significant moments of our lives, but that is to forget that God longs to be part of all our lives; our work, our leisure time, our daily chores, our day-to-day lives, just as much as what we would regard as special, or dare I say, “holy”? Perhaps the beginning of 2020 would be a good time to ask God to bless those symbols of our everyday life as a remembrance that this too, is important to him. It can also be a reminder that we are called to find and follow him in that everyday life; that we do not leave our faith at the church door each Sunday. We are called to celebrate and pray for our task of being God’s people where-ever we find ourselves each day. God longs to be as involved in that as to welcome our worship and thanksgiving in church on Sundays. We are called to an “everyday faith” not just a Sunday faith. Plough Sunday this year falls on 12th January; perhaps a day to ask God’s blessing upon whatever we find ourselves doing this year, where-ever that may be. 7 8 Community Carol Service—St Mary’s Wansford Representatives from a number of local groups and societies, including Living Villages, took part in the traditional 9 Lessons and Carols. The singing was once again led by the St Mary’s Choir under the baton of Eddie McDonnell. FRIENDS OF ST MARY’S AND ST ANDREW’S The Friends will be resuming their meetings in January, with the first one on Wednesday 15th January at 10.30 in the Community Hall , after Morning Prayer. We hope to be able to spend time with many of you at our Lent Lunches, and then Coffee Stops, in the spring. Happy New Year Caroline 9 10 11 12 STIBBINGTON AND WANSFORD WI Celebrating 100 years For our last meting of the year, we invited Linda Parkhouse and Sam Sansbury as our speakers. Linda is an experienced tutor at Denman, specialising in textiles. Linda’s talk firstly focussed on the history of knitting, and has surprisingly been around for a very long time, evidence has been dated back to 1,000 B. C. Knitting has long been seen as a female craft, mainly one for your granny! although it has become a more fashionable pastime. There were a number of gasps from the members that professional hand knitters were around in the 16th century, with King Henry VIII supporting the setting up of the hand knitters guild, with young knitters undergoing apprenticeships. But this was only for boys and men. It was not until the end of the 18th century that women came to be leaders in the knitting world. Linda then went onto describe her career and how it was closely entwined with knitting. Linda had worked for a number of years in magazines, mainly in PR and events, before being able incorporate her knitting passion, to become a knitting pattern designer. A number of her designs used the yarns made by Colinette yarns, a husband and wife team that specialise in uniquely dyed yarns. The company is now run by their son Sam Sansbury, both online and a pop up shop in Wansford, with Linda still working closely alongside Colinette offering creative advice.
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