Hambledon Parish Magazine St Peter’s Church & Village News April 2017 60p www.hambledonsurrey.co.uk Hambledon Parish Magazine, April 2017 Page 1 Hambledon Parish Magazine, April 2017, Page 2 PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HAMBLEDON Rector The Rev Simon Taylor 01483 421267 [email protected] Associate Vicar The Rev Catherine McBride 01483 421267 Mervil Bottom, Malthouse Lane, Hambledon GU8 4HG [email protected] Assistant Vicar The Rev David Jenkins 01483 416084 6 Quartermile Road Godalming GU7 1TG Churchwarden Mrs Elizabeth Cooke Marepond Farm, Markwick Lane Loxhill, Godalming, GU8 4BD 01483 208637 Churchwarden Alan Harvey 01483 423264 35 Maplehatch Close, Godalming, GU7 1TQ Assistant Churchwarden Mr David Chadwick, Little Beeches, 14 Springhill, Elstead, Godalming, GU8 6EL 01252 702268 Church Treasurer & Gift Aid Dr Alison Martin Tillies, Munstead Heath Road Godalming GU8 4AR 01483 893619 Sunday Services Full details of these and any other services are set out in the Church Calendar for the month, which is shown on page 5 The Church has a number of Home Groups which meet regularly during the week at various locations. Details from Catherine McBride Tel: 01483 421267 Alpha details and information from The Rev Catherine McBride Tel: 01483 421267 Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals contact Hambledon and Busbridge Church Office Tel No: 01483 421267 (Mon – Friday, 9.30am – 12.30pm) Where there is sickness or where a visit would be valued, contact the Church Wardens The Rector is normally off duty on Fridays The Associate Vicar is normally off duty on Fridays The nearest Roman Catholic churches are St Teresa of Copy deadlines for the Avila, Chiddingfold (Fr Chris Bergin 01428 643877); St Edmund, Croft Rd, Godalming and St Joseph’s, Milford (Fr Michael 01483 416880) May magazine The deadline is Thursday 20 April TO SUBSCRIBE AND HAVE Please send your copy to THE MAGAZINE DELIVERED, £6 per year Jane Woolley PLEASE CONTACT: MARY PARKER Cobblers, Woodlands Road Telephone: 01428 682545 Hambledon GU8 4HL 01428 684213 email: [email protected] Advertisers, please contact Derek Miller, 2 Church Lane, Hambledon, GU8 4DS 01428 684362 email: [email protected] Hambledon Parish Magazine, April 2017 Page 3 Assistant Vicar’s Vista – April Dear All e have had such a wet and dreary week that I had to remind myself that we have booked our Summer Holiday. Yes that’s right – already. It may be four months away, but I can still get a W little excited about it because this year is a special wedding anniversary (I know, how does Liz put up with me?). Anyway, we decided to have a family holiday in a villa in Spain, Alicante, to be precise, and everyone has agreed to come!! It is not the first time we have had a family holiday in that area. We went there many years ago when the children were in their young teens. We had a great time. Many things stand out in my memory but one more than all the others. We visited the Alhambra Palace. Have you ever been there? If you haven’t you must go if you get the chance. Liz and I have always loved gardens and the Alhambra Palace has them in spade fulls (no pun intended) and they defy description. They are laid out in individual rooms, each one different from the last and separated by hedges, arched avenues and colonnades of roses, wisteria and plants of all shapes, sizes and hues. Water plays a big part in the layout with bubbling fountains, gently flowing cascades and still quiet pools. Inside the palace the tile work and mosaics make up the most intricate patterns using colours and designs of all sorts: they are truly breath-taking. They seem to adorn all the arched windows, walls and colonnades. As you can tell, it left a lasting impression and a lifting thought for a dull day. Sadly, we all have days when we need an uplift.. Something to take us out of the ordinary and to move our focus on to something special. We have three bowls of pansies outside our bedroom window. I look at them each morning. They have flowered all winter and now red tulips with yellow stripes in their petals and deep blue crocuses have grown through and started to bloom. They are a source of joy and pleasure each time I see them. Jesus told us that Solomon was a pretty smart dresser but his clothes were not a patch on the lilies of the fields or, I suspect, my tulips, pansies and crocuses, which will be thrown out in a month or so and replaced by something new. Jesus went on to say that God’s love and concern for us will last for ever – longer than the entire universe or even time itself. I think that it was this love and His creative passion that motivated Him to give us such a beautiful world full of wonderful gardens and pleasant memories to enjoy, particularly on dull wet mornings. I hope you will enjoy this spring just as much as I am sure I will. God Bless everyone ... David Jenkins, Assistant Vicar Hambledon and Busbridge Bring hope to The Middle East… Hambledon Parish Magazine, April 2017, Page 4 CHURCH CALENDAR April 2017 2nd April 10.30 am All Age Worship NB – No 9.00am service 5th Sunday of Lent 3.30 pm Special Passiontide Choral Evensong ____________________________________________________ 9th April 10.00 am Combined service Palm Sunday followed by procession to Village Shop ____________________________________________________ Mon 10th 8.30pm Holy Week Reflections – Wed 12th April Short (30min) times of quiet reflection led in church ____________________________________________________ 13th April 8.30pm Maundy Thursday Communion Maundy Thursday ____________________________________________________ 14th April 12.00 noon Good Friday Meditation Good Friday 2.15pm Benefice Walk from Hambledon to Busbridge ____________________________________________________ 16th April 9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) Easter Sunday 10.30am All Age Family Communion ____________________________________________________ 23rd April 10.00 am Short service of Morning Prayer (CW) 2nd Sunday of Easter 10.30am Annual Parochial Church Meeting ____________________________________________________ 30th April 9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 3rd Sunday of Easter 10.30am Morning Worship ____________________________________________________ And in May 7th May 9.00 am Morning Prayer (BCP) 4th Sunday of Easter 10.30 am Messy Church ____________________________________________________ Services at St. John’s, Busbridge 8.00 am Holy Communion (said) 9.00 am Classic service: Holy Communion 2nd and 4th Sundays 10.30 am Contemporary service: 1st Sunday: All Age 3rd Sunday: Holy Communion Groups for children of all ages in various locations — turn up and ask! 6.30 pm Benefice Evening Worship Hambledon Parish Magazine, April 2017 Page 5 PARISH & PEOPLE irst, a message from Stewart Payne: “I would complications from what was more than 10 hours of like to thank everyone who sent me their best major surgery. F wishes as I approached my oesophageal cancer “I have been very fortunate. I was extremely well operation in January and those who have sent me get looked after at the Royal Surrey and my surgical team well messages since I returned home from hospital. were superb. Mary and I were very positive and this “Everything has gone extremely well, as many of approach was fortified by the cards and messages we you know. All the indications are that the cancer is received from so many villagers, and from the prayers removed. Just as important, I have not suffered any said at Hambledon Church. Thank you all.” And next – an amazing lady Rosemary Arnold’s tribute to her mother, Joan Elliott, whose funeral was held at Hambledon Church on 23 February, just three months short of her 102 nd birthday oan Neville was born in Twyford, Hampshire, the point and the family had to wade through deep snow second of six children. At the tender age of 14 she across the fields and over Hydon’s Ball to visit him. J was sent off to London to go into service. She 1963/4 was another severe winter and the heavy snow then became a psychiatric nurse (and still had her that fell on Boxing Day didn’t thaw until March. Handbook for Mental Nurses at the time of her death). Luckily Joan always kept a good store of tinned food. Later on she went back into service, at Hydon Wood, Although it was in many ways a hard life, there when she met her husband-to-be, Fred, who had were also happy memories of playing in the woods and recently lost his right hand in an accident at the then- on the farm. At that time Maple Bungalow was part of Hambledon Brickworks. He was still in bandages but a complete farm with cow byres, stables, pigsties and a with only a left hand was managing to do most things a tractor shed (all made of wood) on the other side of the two-handed man could do – and in many cases even track. To give Joan time with Billy when he was a better. baby, Rosemary went riding on the tractor for hours Fred and Joan married in 1938 in Hambledon with her father. She was joined by Billy when he grew Church and on their wedding night they moved into older and he would fall asleep to its rhythm. No health Maple Bungalow which had been built by Fred’s uncle and safety in those days to spoil childrens’ fun. In the before he moved to Canada. It remained the family evening the children would play cricket with Joan home until Joan’s dying day, even though no flush loo while Fred was at The Merry Harriers captaining the nor electricity were installed until 1989.