Church & Village News No. 4 May 2015

Baconsthorpe Barningham Winter Edgefield Hempstead Itteringham Little Barningham Plumstead Saxthorpe with Corpusty with Wolterton Nature Notes What’s On in May 1 Fri 7.30pm Chandler Green Village Hall Chandler Green make a return visit to Baconsthorpe. Tickets include refreshments, tea and coffee; there will also be a raffle. Do come, they are very entertaining with songs from 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Tickets £6 per person are on sale now ring John 711320. 4 Mon 10.00am Hempstead Church Stalls & Refreshments Church 11.00am Itteringham May Fair 8 Fri 7.00pm Matlaske Quiz Barningham Hall 10 Sun 10.00am Wickmere Spring Plant Sale Village Hall 2.00pm Little Barningham Gift Day & Tea Church 11 Mon 7.00pm Baconsthorpe Parish Council AGM Village Hall 7.00pm Edgefield Film Night -Wings of Desire Village Hall 13 Wed 7.30pm Matlaske St Peter’s PC Meeting Church I seem to have a certain care of fledglings to fall to the male whilst 14 Thurs 7.00pm Baconsthorpe Village Hall & Village Hall affinity with water. Since the female turns her attention to the next Fête Committee Meeting childhood nothing has clutch of eggs. 16 Sat 7.00pm Hempstead May Feast Village Hall £9 adults and £5 for under 13s for this superb event featuring quite “rocked my boat” The name suggests a rather Graves’ gammon and lamb roast, home-made salads and desserts. as much as, well, rocking underwhelming bird - no allusion to the To make sure of your places for this ever-popular event, contact about in boats! And striking yellow breast, or yellow-green Paul Loach 711561 or Tim Scarff 711657. Please ask about vegetarian and other special requirements when booking. certainly, for me, no picnic rump; no hint of the white eyebrow, or Sue Appleby 19 Tues 7.30pm Corpusty & Saxthorpe PC Meeting Village Hall site is complete without the black bib and white moustache of the 20 Wed 10.30am Matlaske St Peter’s PCC Meeting Hall Farm Cottage some watery backdrop, whether it be a male; no suggestion of the smooth slate windswept clifftop in January, or a sleepy coloured upper parts, or black wings. Of 1.30pm Corpusty LinC Minaturist Exhibition Visit Wroxham millpond in August. Every time I travel course, the bird’s tail, longer than that of 7.30pm Hempstead Film Club Village Hall over a nearby ford, this magnetic attraction other wagtails, does get a mention. It helps 21 Thurs 3.30pm Corpusty Families Together Healing Bartimaeus Church Hall compels me to linger and watch the light provide stability as the bird dips about in 23 Sat 11.00am Corpusty Art Exhibition until Monday 25 Corbett Gallery dance on the rippling water and scour the the shallows looking for tadpoles, insects 29 Fri 11.00am Corpusty Art Exhibition until Sunday 31 Corbett Gallery banks for signs of life. or minnows. It also increases aerial agility, 30 Sat 8.00pm Edgefield Dance Village Hall By popular demand we have booked the band DNA and tickets, at A recent visit there paid dividends in both whilst the bird catches flying insects, £5 per head, are available from committee members. Licensed bar. the form of two Grey Wagtails. At one time and again during courtship where the male these “Water Wagtails” would have been a performs fluttering dances, leaping from Next Two Months rare sight here, preferring the fast flowing nearby trees, rump feathers puffed out, streams and rivers of upland areas, only wings and tail spread and lowered. June 7 Sun All day Itteringham Open Gardens Day taking shelter at lower levels during winter What really makes the tail noteworthy is 14 Sun 11.00am Plumstead Open Gardens before returning to the hills to breed. Whilst its constant motion, which, some suggest, 20 Sat 2.00pm Edgefield Open Gardens Weekend(continues on Sunday 21) still preferring higher altitudes, the species is part of an elaborate warning system, 21 Sun 3.00pm Baconsthorpe Mid-Summer Fête & BBQ has gradually increased its range over the moving faster when threats are detected. 27 Sat 2.00pm Itteringham Cream Tea last 150 years, nesting within old bridges, Others think it a territorial display or even 28 Sun 3.00pm St Peter’s North Barningham Patronal Festival culverts and derelict mills. a means of flushing out insects. Personally, July A vast array of hungry predators make I’m undecided, but just quite like the fact 4 Sat 12.30pm Plumstead Picnic dents in numbers, so a long breeding season that there are still some things in the world 11 Sat tbc Edgefield Village Fête allows more than one brood to be produced that perhaps we will never really know the 19 Tues 7.30pm Corpusty & Saxthorpe PC Meeting annually, and it is not uncommon for the answer to! 25 Sat 2.30pm Matlaske Village Fête 2 3 Regular Events Corpusty Village Hall 2.00pm - 4.00pm Bure Valley Quilters & Stitchers 1st and 3rd Mondays 2.00pm - 4.00pm Short Mat Bowls Tuesdays 10.00am - 12noon Knitters 2nd Tuesday Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. There is yarn to play with as well as lots of magazines and patterns for inspiration. All levels of ability are catered for with an experienced knitting and crochet teacher. Cost is £7 for a 4 week term or £2 per week. Contact Rita Taylor 01263 587507 [email protected] 10.00am - 12noon Art Group Thursdays Baconsthorpe Village Hall 7.30pm Line Dancing - 711320 Mondays 10.00am Diocesan Play Van - 07918 027092 Tuesdays during term time 7.30pm Carpet Bowls - 711320 Tuesdays during term time Hempstead Village Hall 10.00am Charcoal Drawing - Mike Thody 711282 Tuesdays The fee of £4 includes coffee, biscuits and paper General News Thank You Ian Summers struggling to put food on the table. If you or Ian, who for a number of years single- your family need a Food Bank’s help, they are handedly ran the Barningham Newsletter happy to give it – quickly, confidentially and and website, has decided to step down from anonymously. the Church & Village News team. We would Anyone in genuine need can be given a like to publicly record our gratitude for Ian’s voucher for a 3-day supply of food by a wide selfless dedication and generosity with his range of local front-line professionals . For time in helping to bring the Seven Churches more information visit Benefice Magazine and the Barningham www.cromerdistrict.foodbank.org.uk Newsletter together to create the Church [email protected] & Village News. It is true to say it really Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00pm could not have happened so smoothly 07826 376343 and completely without Ian’s intelligent Can you help the Food Bank? and caring input. We wish him well – but, Likewise, if you can make a donation of knowing Ian, how long he stays retired will be money or food, they’d be delighted to receive a moot point! your gift. Please contact the email address or Can a Food Bank Help You? phone number above. Do you, or does someone you know, need help? Website Manager Needed Last year, the Cromer & District Foodbank You will work with the newsletter team to gave 2,328 3-day emergency food parcels to develop a new website for the newsletter. people in crisis in North Norfolk. Illness, job Some experience of html, css and Wordpress loss, separation, homelessness, unexpected would be ideal. If you are interested contact bills, benefit delays and more can leave people Karen Hall [email protected] 4 5 Reflection from the Rectory Church Services for May

As I sit and wardrobe and greet the sun with confidence Midweek Communion: Saxthorpe listen to the in its continuing journey to our northern 3 8.00 Holy Communion Saxthorpe birds sing hemisphere. If we are wrong, well what 9.00 Holy Communion Lt Barningham their evening harm is done? We can always pop on 9.15 Holy Communion Matlaske salute to the another jumper to keep us warm. 10.45 Matins + Baptism Baconsthorpe setting sun, I wonder if this is what we do with Faith. 11.00 Family Service Wickmere I feel that We know that the historical Jesus lived in Community Weekend Edgefield Marion Harrison spring is well the Holy Lands around 2015-2020 years 9 11.00 Bells will be rung to commemorate 70th VE Day All Churches under way. ago. He was a worker of miracles and was This is confirmed in the fresh green leaves crucified by the Romans. All this is fact. But 10 9.00 Holy Communion Itteringham that are beginning to colour our hedgerows do we believe that this Jesus was the Son of 9.15 Holy Communion Barningham Winter 10.45 Matins Hempstead and the primroses growing on the banks God who was raised from the dead to save 11.00 Holy Communion Edgefield surrounding the fields. Birds are no longer us from our sinful nature by forgiving us 11.00 Morning Praise Saxthorpe visiting our bird tables as frequently as in our wrongdoings and offering us eternal life Community Weekend Lt Barningham the winter months but are busy preparing through our faith in Christ. nests for this year’s crop of fledglings. I And of course we have the right to 17 8.00 Holy Communion BCP Wickmere feel the urge to leave my winter’s den, the believe or not in a God who may or may 9.15 Holy Communion Plumstead 9.30 Morning Prayer BCP Edgefield warmth and dryness provided through not be the creator of all things (however he 10.45 Matins Matlaske the cold and dark days of winter by my did it!). 11.00 Family Service + Baptism Lt Barningham home, and stretch my arms and legs in joyful How can we believe in a God who Community Weekend Saxthorpe anticipation of a long dry and warm summer. seems to have no bearing on our daily lives? Is the winter really over? Or has the Or is that the lie? Does God have a hand 24 8.00 Holy Communion BCP Lt Barningham 9.00 Family Service Edgefield wonderful and welcomed warm weather on our shoulder; is He there beside us when 9.15 Holy Communion Baconsthorpe of the last month and a half lulled us into things seem to unravel? Can life be better 10.45 Matins Barningham Winter a false sense of winter being over. How do than the struggle we find ourselves in. 11.00 Holy Communion Saxthorpe we know? All I can say is that I believe. And I 11.00 Morning Prayer BCP Itteringham We can decide that winter is over. Put know that my life is better for believing in away our thick winter clothing, pull out God than living and facing the darkness in 31 9.15 Holy Communion Hempstead 10.45 Matins Plumstead our summer best from the back of the a life alone. 10.30 BENEFICE ROGATION SERVICE Walpole Arms Itteringham Coffee from 10am BCP = Book of Common Prayer

Collecting Eggs at Itteringham Church - Photograph by Eric Goodman Holy Week - Saxthorpe Chur ch - Photograph by Judith Banks 6 7 th Village News Village Hall Newcastle University to study Agriculture in is on 30 May at 8.00pm, The evening Jumble Sale in the Village Hall the autumn. We wish him well. when we will be hosting local was a great success! The committee has band DNA. There will be a Baconsthorpe licensed bar and entry is by now purchased a PA System for the Hall to Edgefield 1 Fri 7.30pm Chandler Green help with all announcements including at ticket only at £5 per head, Bingo and for our Quizzes. Church News available from me on 587110, 11 Mon 7.00pm PC AGM Richard Peaver 14 Thur 7.00pm Village Hall Meeting Our next meeting is on Thursday 14th On 16th March, a service of thanksgiving Sally Glasspoole on 587312, or when we’ll first be discussing the Fete on for the life of Ann Brooks took place, any other member of the committee. Please Baconsthorpe 200 Club 21st June. Do come along! conducted by Canon Stephen Gregory make a note in your diary for our village fête, £25 T Rudd, £10 I Warboys, £ 5 J (formerly Rector of Holt) assisted by the which will take place on Saturday afternoon, Hardingham and J Cooper 11th July. Further details to follow. Barningham Winter Bishop of Lynn, Rev Marion Harrison, Welcome and Rev Michael Banks. Over 400 people Village Hall Committee Changes Welcome to Richard & Zoe Pepper and Invitation to St Peter’s North were present, quite possibly a record Following the recent Annual General their children, Jess 9 and Sam 7, along with Barningham Patronal Festival congregation at any event in our church, Meeting there has been a change of office In the 1960s, the church of St.Peter, North Gracie the labrador and Diesel the cat, and a striking testimony to the esteem and holders. The team is now as follows: who have come to live at Barningham had fallen into disuse and affection in which Ann was held, both by disrepair and had been made redundant. It residents of the village as well as by a great Chair: Jim Frost Thorpecote, Long Lane. Vice-chair: Dawn Hulbert Also welcome to Laura was unfurnished, neglected and under threat number of people beyond. A further service of having its fine memorials was held in Herefordshire the following Secretary: Jeff Witts Duffield and her children Treasurer: Catherine Witts Michael 10 and Abigail 9 sent to the Victoria & week. Together, they were a fitting tribute to a Albert Museum and its roof person who did so much for our community. Other trustees: who have moved into No 3 Tom Fox, Sally Glasspoole, The Street. We wish all, and Ro Hardingham removed, to leave it merely a At the recent Quiz Night, just over gaunt relic on the skyline. £400 was made for church funds. Our Margaret Hindson & any others who have moved to the village Ghislaine Kinsley unnoticed these past few months, many Thanks to Derek Palgrave Sara Buxton thanks go to everyone who helped to Lettings will in future be handled by the happy years amongst us. and his wife Pamela, who, with organise this very enjoyable event, and we the help of the late Lady Harrod persuaded are particularly grateful to Stuart Ross for secretary, so please use the contact details Alice Remembers The Churches Conservation Trust to take acting, with his customary skill, as quizmaster below when making bookings. Once or maybe twice a year whilst at on the care of the church, we are still able for the evening. Jeff Witts, Secretary Baconsthorpe School in the late 1920s, to enjoy it and its memorials today. The porch kneeler stone has been Edgefield Village Hall Trust Alice would sit in trepidation at her desk, Whilst the counter-attractions of a fine replaced. At present, it looks rather like new Newlands, Norwich Road, Edgefield waiting to be called for a visit to the dentist. June summer day are persuasive, we hope cement! However, it is in fact top-quality Norfolk NR24 2RL He would arrive in his van, park at the side that at least some of you from further Clipsham stone, and should weather well t: 01263 587661 m: 07778 400012 of the road next to Mr Hall’s barn, get away may chose to join us on June 28th at in time. (NB For those unfamiliar with his instruments ready for the children to 3pm for a Patronal Evensong Festival to building terms, a “kneeler” in this context Registered Charity No 1116035 arrive one by one for their treatment. No give thanks for the fact that the church still is not a hassock, but “a stone that supports www.facebook.com/EdgefieldVillageHall anaesthetic for the extractions, just a pair stands as it always did, serene on the skyline inclined coping on the slope of a gable”!) of what looked like pliers, and brute force. with its former glebeland, an open and well Hempstead How painful that must have been, but Alice cultivated field, spread out before it. Do Village Hall News reckons he must have done a good job as join us if you can! from Jim Frost 4 Mon 10.00am Church Stalls she still has most of her own teeth. It was It’s nice to hear that George Seaman of At our AGM in March our Chairwoman, 16 Sat 7.00pm May Feast then back to the classroom to continue with Dairy Farm, Barningham Winter is back Dawn Hulbert, resigned her post and for 20 Wed 7.30pm Film Club the day’s lessons! safe and sound from his travels. George my sins I have taken over the mantle - large shoes to fill, I feel! We all owe Dawn a Hempstead 200 Club Thank you so much for sharing with us visited western Australia working on farms £25 J Matthews; £10 T Loach, £5 R Hall, big thank you for her amazing work over Alice. We look forward to hearing more of and then explored both Western Australia A Price, R Piccoli your tales from yesteryear, at a later date. and New Zealand. George is off to the last few years. Our next major event 8 9 Rookery Pit Toad Patrol The past season’s film showings included, Although a few toads are still moving Adams Rib, It Should Happen to You, High Noon, at night on their way home, we are no The Wrong Arm of the Law, The Third Man, longer patrolling in the village. Thank you Fitzcarraldo and Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday. to everyone for driving carefully on that Now that the Village Newsletter has a stretch during toad migration. 3,179 toads much larger circulation Hempstead Film were moved to safety and we thank all Club would welcome new members from volunteers for their commitment over the our extended area, if you are interested last few weeks. please contact Yvette Gibson 01263 712460 or Mike Thody 01263 711282 Birdwatching News The new season’s listing will be A pair of circulated soon and we would welcome Greylag geese suggestions for inclusion. have been Happy 6th birthday Sammy Mitchell sighted many from The Knoll! times in the village, they were quite a Itteringham presence as Mon 4 11.00am May Fair they visited my meadow last week much to the disgust of my chickens, who were very It was a week or two before he died. A vocal for 20 minutes or so. In fact, both man called at the door. He was delivering parties were engrossed in a equipment to attach to the telephone. shouting match which, after a By this time the patient was having great while, ended with the Greylag difficulty in climbing the stairs and so he geese deciding it was time to asked of the van driver, “Would you mind fly off to pastures new. I was giving me a hand to get upstairs because left thinking that Spartacus, I need to change my bed and I don’t want my Bantam cockerel, is quite a Sharon Hannah to bother the nurses to come all the way good guard dog, although I am out here?” “Don’t worry. I’ll do that for not sure I want him scaring off any beautiful you. Where do you keep the birds that might be in the area! sheets?” The bed was changed and the man came back Film Club downstairs. “That’s all done”, Last Wednesday night’s showing was he said. “That’s really kind of Billy Wilder’s Sabrina. A chauffeur’s you. Can I give you a drink daughter (Audrey Hepburn) is loved by or something?” “No, but I’m Eric Goodman both a playboy (William Holden) and his getting married in a couple of workaholic brother (Humphrey Bogart). months. Please don’t say anything to my “A superior comedy” according to wife because I don’t want her to know that I Halliwell’s film guide and very well received can make a bed!” With that he went and left by Hempstead Film Club members, Audrey Jim with a refreshed and refreshing view of Hepburn is always a joy to behold. human nature. This was our season’s penultimate film, Jim Buxton drew down the blinds on our final film Il Postino will be shown on Tuesday 31st.March. A service was held Wednesday 20th May. on 21st April. It was very well attended and 10 11 afterwards removed to the Walpole Arms grounds would be good but most important where glasses were raised in praise for his is your presence, not your presents! All life. are welcome (not just Little Barningham The photograph is of a sunflower dwellers!) for a chat and chomp. The usual at dusk in an Itteringham garden. There array of goodies will be available. is a bunch of Belinda Sharples and delights to be Hannah and Chris Hann are had in the village holding an Art Exhibition in from 12.30pm the Village Hall and the Old – 5.30pm on Mission Room next door as Sunday 7th June part of the Open Studios of when the gardens Norfolk and Norwich. Dates Derek Wintle will be open for are Saturday 23rd May until your pleasure. Backs have been bent and Monday 25th and Friday 29th until Sunday knees have been knobbled in a quest for 31st from 11am until 5pm. tidiness, colour and design. Hedges are We are being taken over! Well, the trimmed and grass will be shorn. As part of garage at the the Open Gardens day there will also be an Deepings is. The auction of promises in the Village Hall. You photograph shows are invited. one of the many The May Fair is here. Don’t miss it. The loads to be sent from weather is ordered for Monday 4th May. our Syria Appeal by Come at eleven and stay till four. Lunch is Sharon Buchan and from twelve onwards and tea at two and Mike Gandy. Please later. The times may be flexible. There will keep on giving clothes, blankets etc and also be the famous cake stall at around midday things that can be sold in a table top sale – and an exciting assortment of stalls on the money raised buys other essential items. which there will be amazing bargains to St George’s Sunday Lunch. A convivial be had. Buy it when you see it! Make this a group of 34 residents enjoyed a splendid bumper year. You will meet old friends once meal - a great success. Thanks to all who more and catch up on what you didn’t know helped make it go so well. and what you didn’t know you didn’t know! This year the Little Barningham Toad Patrol moved 1,148 grateful toads from the road to the registered breeding pond Little Barningham at Green Farm. In fact, thanks to these Sun 10 2.00pm Church Gift Day & Tea measures toad fatalities numbered just 60. Fri 23 11.00am Art Exhbition So we helped maintain the local population See main listing for more dates and also contributed to its long-term Now in our 11th year! Whoops, mea culpa! I mixed up the dates survival. Toad Patrol numbers are submitted for Little Barningham St Andrew’s Church nationally to monitor the health of this Monthly classical concerts endangered species. Why not join us next Thursday lunch hour or Saturday evenings Gift Day and Tea which next month Aylsham Parish Church replaces our Community Sunday. It is in the year? Village Hall from 2 until 4pm on Sunday Contact [email protected] John Snape 01263 768441 10th May, not in April as I announced last Heydon Tug of War is on Sunday 24th May, go and watch to spy out the www.aylshammusic.org month! A contribution to the Church and 12 13 Four Seasons Garden & Property Maintenance opposition. Hope our mens’ team are getting plenty of muscle building exercise Lawn management pruning • fencing ready for our August event. Hedge triming hedge triming • leaf clearing garden clearance • tidying borders small tree removal lawn management • cleaning gutters Matlaske garden clearance small tree removal • painting & decorating leaf clearing building small garden walls • repointing brick and flint 13 Wed 7.30pm St Peter’s PC pruning Fully insured with 10 years experience 20 Wed 10.30am St Peter’s PCC Ben Radley Summer & Jimmy Dagless with their beautiful tidying borders 07776 197288 01263 577569 [email protected] Matlaske 100 Club Easter Garden at the font £25 J Allen, £10 L Williams, £5 J Reynolds make three crosses, half a flower pot and Matlaske PCC received the very welcome a cardboard disc for the tomb and stone, a news just after Easter that they have piece of turf and fine gravel for the grass received a grant from English Heritage and paths came together to create a visual under the listed place of worship roof reminder of the Easter Story. We decorated repair scheme. The grant availability was the scene with small vases and pots of announced at Christmas and spring flowers. was aimed at listed places of At the PCC AGM in March, John worship with urgent roof Durdin retired as Churchwarden. He was repair requirements. The thanked for such a long and faithful period application time frame was of service to the church and presented with very short, and the grant was Florence Hunt a gift of appreciation. For 28 years John heavily oversubscribed so we shared the responsibilities with Thomas feel very fortunate to have been successful. Wormauld, who retired the previous year. The Diocese has also kindly offered £1,000 The congregation of Plumstead church are to top the grant up. Hopefully the work will extremely grateful to them for all they have commence later in the year and will mean done over the years. that this precious building will be safe and sound for another generation. From the Parish Council Thomas Courtauld A special thanks to the Plumstead 2000 Fund, led by Cllr David Ramsbotham. The Blacksmith’s Cottage, Baconsthorpe Vera Norman would like to thank everyone Emma Youngs defibrillator is the latest benefit to the village for their kind thoughts and offers of help of the hard work of the fundraising team. 01263 570252 or 07884 432412 while Ted is in Kelling Hospital. Good www.baconsthorpemeadows.co.uk We will be grateful for your views on wishes to both. how the wildflower meadow could be used and managed. Please kindly respond to the Plumstead inserted short questionnaire. Do visit the wildflower meadow, there 14 Sun 11.00am Village Gardens Open is an ever growing abundance of cowslips. April has been a busy month - so many They look wonderful - keep an eye out for things to report on but more village stories the next batch of wildflowers. would be wonderful! Albert “Sailor” Chestney the oldest Jimmy, Summer and their mum Mandy “true” Norfolk resident in the village Dagless helped in the making of an Easter recently passed away at the age of 88. In Garden on the font step. Six twigs tied to the last few years of his life he moved to 14 15 a home in Costessey to be with his wife involvement with two schools in Nepal. Edie. He was known for his They showed poverty in its barest form, beautiful garden and in years but generosity by the Nepalese who gave gone by for his pigeons of their meagre rations to Ann and Peter. which generally after release They will continue to grow vegetables at arrived home before he did! Wheatsheaf Nurseries, with the proceeds funding school necessities. More next month. Book Sale Mary Lintott Toby Snelling, 5, with the help of his th On Saturday 18 April - the mother, Lauren, created a beautiful Easter weather was glorious and the sun shone Garden, which added to the floral decora- through the Church windows to illuminate tions in St Andrew’s Church. Thank you to the displays of books for PEG’s third all who were involved. annual Book Sale. £450 was raised for Easter Saturday was village funds but more importantly it was a marked in St Andrew’s by time to meet up with friends and mardle over a series of prayer stations, some delicious refreshments in the sunshine. laid out by Rev’d Marion Harrison, to depict the Judith Banks Saxthorpe with Corpusty events of Holy Week. There was a turned over table, coins and 12 Tues 10.00am North Norfolk Knitters feathers, to represent Monday when Jesus 19 Tues 7.30pm PC Meeting said that the temple was a house of prayer, 20 Wed 1.30pm LinC Visit to Wroxham not a trading place. Wednesday was shown 21 Thurs 3.30pm Families Together by a blue shawl of Mary Magdalene and a Diane Oliver, chair of Village Hall pot of perfume, which told of Jesus being Committee, writes: “We were very sad to criticised for accepting rich perfume which hear of Lynn Norrington’s death. Lynn could have been sold to benefit the poor. served for many years on the Village Hall A hammer and some 6 inch nails marked Committee, Also, Ann Brewster has retired Good Friday. Thank you Marion. from the VH Committee after many years. Many thanks Ann for all your work”. LinC members were entranced by Wickmere with Wolterton Wendy Burrows’ talk on being an evacuee 10 Sun 10.00am Plant & Craft Sale in WWII. Without a note, Wendy described her unhappy first billet, moving from Dover May already!! My these months are flying to a small South Wales village, and then past! At the point of writing, even though being moved onto a second and slightly we have had such lovely weather, the village happier situation. She had little to eat and barometer is STILL not in his shorts, so no encouragement at the village school as don’t pack away your woollies just yet. all evacuees were treated as ‘foreigners’. We had a lovely Palm Sunday service. Wendy described being lonely, unhappy, and The church was wonderfully full. Sadly isolated but, stoically, she said “we just had to get there was no pony this year, this might have on with things”. Thank you, Wendy, not many been lucky, as pony, rider and Phillida would dry eyes at the end of your reminiscences. have been soaked due to the inclement Similarly, Ann and Peter Eglington weather. Many thanks to Marion, Michael gave a passionate, illustrated talk on their and Gill for a very moving service. The 16 17 refreshments after the service were much churchwardens over the appreciated, and gave everyone time to have last year. It was mentioned a chat before venturing out into the rain. that the organ had had Thank you to Kevin Hall and Charlie for a service, and the motor their musical encouragement. was in need of a rewind. Don’t forget that Sunday 10th May is the The cost of this has Plant & Craft Sale 10 - 1pm in the Village been estimated at £400, a Helen Goulty Hall. George has said there will be a lovely donation of £150 has been received, but mix of craft stalls, as well as seedlings and more fundraising will be needed to raise the plants available. She has been busy making remainder. her delicious jams and chutneys and also Many thanks from Lesley Ash for those relishes for BBQs. Tea and coffees will also who attended her film night on Friday 17th be on hand to refresh your retail therapy. April. Donations of £20 will be sent to Thank you to Fred and Terry who the East Anglian Film Archive for possible have made a lovely job of starting the future loans. Lesley said it was fascinating re-decorating inside the church. Sharon to see footage of women helping with Buchan has offered some scaffolding to haymaking in long skirts and bonnets, all help the guys to reach the higher parts, so from 100 years ago! they can finish and finally make the inside I have to apologise for omitting April look as good as the outside. village birthdays. Belated birthday greetings We are entering Exam Time!! Good to George Goulty 17 on 15th, Scott luck to all those who are suffering at the McKenzie (21??) on 18th, Emma Riches 14 moment with the stress of revising! Take on 24th and the bubbly Eleanor Bray, was 13 a deep breath, stay calm and do your best. on the 7th. May birthdays are Edward Goulty Summer Hols will soon be here.... 15 on 15th. The PCC AGM was held in the church As we are now enjoying the lighter on 14th April. Sharon Buchan was welcomed evenings, once again, could I please ask that onto the PCC. Phillida is celebrating her you drive slowly through the village, as the 20th year as treasurer. Marion thanked both youngsters are out playing, riding bikes or Tony and Scott for their hard work as playing tennis in the street. Name that Church: Results We had seven entrants to the competition but only one winner. He is Peter Beeson of Corpusty and he has asked us to donate his winning £5 to church funds, which our treasurer has done. The Editor also apologises for the mistake which led to us picturing the tower of St Andrew, Hempstead which is near Eccles rather than that of All Saints, Hempstead which is in our Benefice. (Thank you, Google, thanks a lot!) However Peter is such a talented church spotter he – quite amazingly – still got them all absolutely correct! Well done to him and thank you indeed to all the entrants. The pictured church towers were: A = Barningham Winter - St Mary F = Itteringham - St Mary B = Wickmere & Wolterton - St Andrew G = Baconsthorpe - St Mary C = Plumstead - St Michael H = Little Barningham - St Andrew D = Saxthorpe & Corpusty - St Andrew I = Matlaske - St Peter E = Hempstead (not in the Benefice but near J = Edgefield - Sts Peter & Paul Eccles) - St Andrew 18 19  Custom Built Quality PC Systems  Laptops  Tablets  Upgrades  Repairs  Antivirus Village Gardeners  Troubleshooting  Onsite Home And Business the roots to search for water and thus make Technical Support a good root system. Until cucumbers are The Kongskilde Building, Hempstead well established, never leave the plants wet Road, Holt, Norfolk, NR25 6EE around the roots at night as this may cause Email: [email protected] the plant to collapse. Fakenham Holt For a continuous supply of young plants 01328 888060 01263 711052 like carrots, lettuce, radish, spring onions, 07881 650615 07979 238114 and beetroot, make small sowings spaced over several weeks. Frosts should have finished so runner beans can be planted. They love a rich moisture-holding soil. Dig a good deep trench and incorporate plenty of well-rotted compost and some general fertiliser. This will provide the nutrients they need and help hold moisture in the soil over the dry summer months. This is the time of the year when there will be plenty of material for the compost heap. As you add grass clippings etc. keep the heap level and gently firm down the surface. A proprietary composting chemical can be added. Woody stems will not rot so do not put them on the heap but burn or dispose of in another way. Annuals are now appearing in shops and garden centres. There are plenty of colourful plants available for baskets and As I am writing this, we are having tubs, but chose carefully, selecting healthy some lovely warm sunny days and, more strong plants and plant in good quality new importantly, fewer cold nights. It is the compost. Moisture retaining gel can be perfect time to keep on top of the weeds. added in to the compost. The gel expands Spring bulbs have been a picture this year so by taking up the water which is then try and leave them as long as possible before released as the compost dries out. A word cutting them back so that they can make and of warning if you do use it, make sure you store energy for next year’s display. mix it well into the compost because if left These are good growing conditions on the surface it will look like frog spawn for plants especially the tomatoes and when it expands and be of little use to the plant. cucumbers that have just been planted in Beware of the late frost. the greenhouse. When the plants are young it is best to water in the morning. I like to Happy Gardening! keep the soil just moist so that it encourages Peter Eglington

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The Corbetts have been in Corpusty since for a customer in Reepham. Nearby is 1964 when Rob Corbett opened his first another project, a corner desk with shelving furniture workshop at the rear of his house and room for a computer. She has had in The Street. The Old Workshop Gallery commissions from as far away as Scotland opened in 1983 and was run by his wife but mostly prefers to work within an area Mary and daughter, textile artist Jill. Some of 50 miles. The job which made her of Jill’s exquisite dresses are exhibited at proudest was walnut library fittings for a the Gallery. Kay Corbett, Rob’s other family who had moved from Norfolk to daughter, has followed in her father’s Cheshire. It was a long distance commission footsteps as a master carpenter working but fitted to the inch. Most of her business, from Corbetts Workshop further east along she says, comes from her ad in this The Street, overlooking the River Bure and magazine: at the moment there is a run on with an acre of wildflower garden which gates and she has three on the go. includes a beehive. One day, she hopes, it Kay has mostly lived in Corpusty since will produce beeswax. she was four, although her home is now in She works with John Sizeland and they Norwich. She always wanted to follow her specialize in quality furniture, joinery, fitting, father into carpentry and studied for her lettering and relief carving using English City & Guilds at Norwich City Technical hardwoods – oak, ash, sycamore, cherry, College. She started in his first furniture elm. She tries to avoid using rainforest workshop. To savour her craftsmanship, wood but sometimes needs must if she is which includes an ingenious flat-pack table, to earn a living. Earning a living has meant a New Columbine chair with a taller back that she now makes less quality furniture and larger seat than the original, and a since most people can buy what they want commemorative millennium chest, Google off-the-peg. That’s a pity given the quality, Kay Corbett/woodworker, or better still beauty and sheer presence of her work. visit the gallery or workshop. Kay is photographed here at work on a cherry and walnut wardrobe and drawers Brian MacArthur

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