The Parish Magazine January 2013 Epiphany Issue Epiphany

The Parish Magazine January 2013 Epiphany issue Epiphany

the church of st andrew, SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF CHARVIL, SONNING and sonning eye Church of St Andrew Serving Sonning, Charvil & Sonning Eye 2 The Parish Magazine Contents, services & registers 3 Contents St Andrew’s From the registers the vicar’s letter, 5 services and Baptisms Lily Sophie Edwards, 18 November Parish noticeBoard, 7-9 group meetings Roman Joseph Hepburn, 2 December ——Sunday Club grows in love, 7 Benjamin Lyndon Magnus Denoon- ——From the organ bench, 8 Sunday 6 January - Epiphany Slater, 2 December ——Unique record of ancient ——8.00am Holy Communion graveyard, 9 ——10.30am Family Service Funerals ——6.30pm Holy Communion ——FOSTAC Christmas Fair, 9 Marjorie Robinson, 3 December

SPECIAL FEATURES, 11-13 Sunday 13 January —— A very British spy scandal, 11 ——8.00am Holy Communion Arrangements for services can be ——There’s no need to walk alone, 12 ——10.30am Parish Eucharist and made with either the Vicar or Parish Sunday Club Administrator. around the villages, 14-15 ——6.30pm Evening Prayer (with ——Charvil Village Soc, 14 hymns) ——1st Sonning Scouts, 14 ——Blue Coat School, 14, Sunday 20 January ——The Sonning Club, 14 ——8.00am Holy Communion ——Conservative Assoc, 14 ——10.30am Family Communion diary dates ——Sonning Art Group, 14 ——6.30pm Evensong 2013 ——Sonning CE School, 14 19 February ——Sonning & Sonning Eye Soc, 15 Sunday 27 January —Lent Supper, Jubilee Hall ——8.00am Holy Communion ——Chernobyl Children, 15 26 February ——10.30am Parish Eucharist and ——Open Doors, 15 — Lent Supper, Jubilee Hall Sunday Club 5 March ——Smile Time, 15 ——6.30pm Evening Prayer (with — Lent Supper, Jubilee Hall hymns) 12 March regular features, 17-19 — Lent Supper, Jubilee Hall Weekdays ——Recipe of the month, 17 17 March Tuesday ——Gardening tips, 17 — Concert in aid of FOSTAC ——1.30pm Bible Study led by Jenny ——Health & Beauty, 17 19 March Sullivan, St Sarik Room — Lent Supper, Jubilee Hall ——Book review, 17 Wednesday 30 March ——Local organisations, 19 ——8.00am Morning Prayer — Easter Saturday Egg Hunt/ ——10.00am Holy Communion in the ——From the editor’s desk, 19 Games/Parish Walk/ Tower Tours St Sarik Room (Refreshments on ——Out of hours pharmacies, 19 and free BBQ first Wednesday of the month) 8-15 April Thursday — Children’s Holiday Club, Jubilee children’s fun page, 21 ——7.45 Bible Study, 26 Old Bath Road, Hall Charvil RG10 9QR 12 May Parish contacts, 22 — Joint 80th Birthday Celebration ——St Andrew’s contacts, 22 Monthly for Revd’s Alison and Jamie MONDAY 7 JANUARY ——Parish Magazine contacts, 22 15 June ——11.00am Communion Service at ——Jubilee Hall information, 22 — Friends of St Andrew’s Hog Sunrise Senior Living Roast Editorial deadline 6 July Tuesday 8 JANUARY for FEBRUARY issue — St. Andrew’s Family Day ——6.00pm Young People’s Bible Study The deadline for editorial items 6 October Group, St Sarik Room for the February issue is 12 noon, — Harvest Supper Thursday 10 January. 30 November Tuesday 8 JANUARY — St Andrew’s Night Quiz — 11.00am Footprints Coffee front cover 1 December morning, St Sarik Room St Andrew’s Church tower captured on a — Patronal Festival and Pub crisp Winter’s day by Tom Farncombe. Reception 4 The Parish Magazine

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Dear friends, We have been shocked in recent months at the revelations of the dreadful, abusive activities of certain celebrities and public figures who are now mostly dead. We look on in horror and disgust as more victims come forward with appalling accounts that are repulsive to all right thinking people. In addition, and related to this, we have seen the BBC get itself into a dreadful mess with sloppy journalism and weak leadership. Of course, we have also witnessed, as part of this saga, a very modern manifestation of a very old problem, namely gossip, this time in the form of libellous twittering and inaccurate reporting against Lord McAlpine. There is no doubt that this was a particularly serious form of gossip, indeed I would have thought just about the worst, bearing in mind it was totally without foundation. However, we don’t need to look very far to find daily examples in our own communities which, though not as serious, can still cause damage and hurt. Only an idealistic fool is going to suggest that a way might be found to eradicate gossip. However, that is not to say that a warning note should not be sounded. In village communities like ours, in schools, societies, clubs and groups and sadly in churches, gossip abounds. We can’t help ourselves; it is part of the human condition. Indeed whole passages in the Bible are dedicated to the subject. Never mind the damage that might be done, or that we might be passing on something that is misleading, all too many people find the temptation too great. Clergy are certainly not immune from this, either as victims or, it must be said, occasionally as perpetrators! God preserve us from the perennial gossip who is quick to pass on anything that comes close to bad news or something that is derogatory about another. I think all too often we pass on bad or negative news so much faster than anything positive. We love to spread it around, and to share the gloom! Well, as we look forward to this New Year, let us give thanks that in our communities there is much good news and many positive things are happening for all age groups, and let us make use of this publication to pass on word of it. This is a magazine for the whole community, and it is available for you to spread your good news, whether from a club/society/school or whatever. We at St Andrew’s are very pleased to present this magazine to each house in the parish, as a fresh and up to date means of passing on the good news from all our voluntary sector, recreational activities, and from our parish church. May I wish you all a very happy New Year. Warm wishes, Jamie 6 The Parish Magazine

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Lent Suppers 2013 These will take place in the Jubilee Hall on Tuesdays during Lent (beginning on 19 February) and will provide The Sunday Club is an opportunity to explore the basics of Christian belief and understanding. A meal will be provided by the social committee. To register please contact the parish growing on love administrator, giving any special dietary requirements. Numbers are limited to a first come, first served basis. The Sunday Club, held in the St Sarik Room, is growing fast. It’s a club for children of all ages - Outward Giving mainly 0-10 years - where they learn about Jesus and The PCC has agreed its 2012 outward giving donations his love while parents and guardians are worshipping which amount to £11,480. Local good causes include £480 in St Andrew’s Church. to Charvil Pre School, £300 to Age Concern, Twyford, Since last September the number of children and families £700 to Helen and Douglas House children’s hospice attending the Sunday Club has virtually tripled. and £500 to the Duchess of Kent hospice, with a total of We are very excited at the opportunity to work with £4,630 in this category. Sue Ryder Homes, The Children’s members of the parish on a regular and consistent basis. Society and the Church Housing Trust are among National Due to the increase in attendance we recognized the need charities to be supported, totalling £1,150. Internationally to review the structure of Sunday Club to ensure that all we have given away £5,700 to mission and aid projects, children will learn and enjoy their 40-minute interaction including the Karuneipuri Orphange in India. with us whenever they are able to attend. In addition, the Ranmore Trust, controlled by the vicar As a result the New Year will see a more structured and wardens, has supported the work of Sonning CofE approach with activities designed for the appropriate level School in the last academic year, totalling about £4,000, for the age of the children and including time for a story, including a new projector and teaching resources for RE. song and prayer. This is part of a long standing commitment to assisting There are some new faces among our helpers, Alan and the school, as and when the need arises. Jackie, and an additional leader, Marie, who are looking forward to welcoming you. Christingle Please come along and see what’s new. Sunday Club The family service on 3 February at 10:30am will be a meets on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Sunday of each month - on Christingle service. Full details will be in our next issue. the other Sundays children worship with their families in church. Emma Leggett and Heather Hexter Parish Visitors Do you know someone who would benefit from a friendly visit from one of our parish visitors? We have a group of members of St Andrew’s who visit the sick, housebound, Advertising isolated and bereaved. Communion can also be brought for people who are housebound. The visitors have no Opportunity agenda, other than to offer an informal point of contact In the March issue of this magazine a new page of from our parish church. You will find more details about advertising entitled this on pages 12-13. Home and Personal Services LOCAL ROADWORKS INFORMATION will be introduced. The page will form a useful directory for over 6,000 monthly* readers who may require local professional and business services. Interested in advertising? – at a cost that will surprise you (pleasantly of course!) If you are … For more information please contact: [email protected] Quick, set up another temporary traffic light system, they’re still getting through! *Eleven issues each year 8 The Parish Magazine

like for Christmas: she asked for a Footprints Coffee Morning From the poem. On her Christmas breakfast A relaxed time of fellowship for all. table were the words of Christians, We next meet on Tuesday 8 January awake, salute the happy morn. in the St Sarik Room. More about organ bench John Byrom’s friend John this on pages 12-13. ‘Christians, awake, salute Wainwright (1723-68), who became the happy morn’ organist of Manchester Collegiate Church opening hours Church (later Manchester St Andrew’s is open during the Many Christmas hymns and carols Cathedral), set the words to the winter months from 11am-3pm are either of unknown origin (O strong, triumphant tune that we Monday to Saturday, and for Sunday come, all ye faithful) or the work still sing it to. Originally called services. There is a ‘Churchwatch’ of several authors (Hark, the Stockport, after the composer’s rota of people who are on duty herald-angels sing) so there is birthplace, it is more often known during these hours. We are always little to say about how they came as Yorkshire, possibly for no better looking for more volunteers. Can to be written. But here’s a heart- reason than that Wainwright is a you spare a few hours a month to warming story of a father’s love for fine old Yorkshire name. help keep our parish church open for his daughter. The poem originally had eight prayer, contemplation and general John Byrom (1692-1763) was a man long six-line verses; today four is visiting? If so please call Mark of many parts. A fellow of Trinity about all we can manage. But they Jordan on 0795 153 4397 College, Cambridge, he invented a are enough to appreciate how John form of shorthand used by many Byrom, in the faith of God and love For your Prayers this month writers, including Charles Wesley, for for his family, used the Christmas — Those who serve on the Charvil over a century; he coined the terms story to illustrate the hope and Parish Council Tweedledum and Tweedledee; and he ultimate triumph of the Christian — The Leaders of our Sunday Club seems to have been a secret Jacobite message: — The Duchess of Cambridge sympathiser in the reigns of George I “Then may we hope, the angelic — The work of Age Concern and George II. hosts among, Later he settled in Cheshire and To sing, redeemed, a glad had33 aRight family. at In Home 1749 he 28/09/2012 asked his 10:23 Pagetriumphal 1 song”. daughter Dorothy what she would David Duvall Parish noticeboard 9 Unique record of an ancient but still used graveyard St Andrew’s has one of the most ancient graveyards that is still in use today. There is evidence that burials and the interment of cremated remains in and around the church have been taking place since Saxon times, indeed, relics from that time are interred in the graveyard. It is the burial place of passengers who died on Christmas Eve 1841 following a train crash at Sonning Cutting and it is the home for many war graves including two recipients of the Victoria Cross. Following extensive research by Gordon Nutbrown, a 40 page book, ‘Record of Burials, Interment of Cremated Remains and Memorials’ has been published by St Andrew’s Church. The book records all known information about the burials dating from the seventeenth century up until 31 July 2012. It includes the names, year of birth and death, and the location in the graveyard for more than 2,500 people now resting there. A six page section gives details of burials, Copies are available at £4.00 each, memorials, commemorative plaques and windows inside the church. including postage and packaging, It is a unique source of information for anyone interested in the history from The Parish Magazine, 26 Old of our parish and the surrounding area, as it is for genealogists and those Bath Road, Charvil, Reading RG10 gathering information about their family histories. 9QR. Please make your cheque payable to ‘Sonning PCC’.

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Day and night service 0118 934 5474 Special feature 11 Sonning and a very British spy scandal By Robert Lobley 1951: The Festival of Britain; the height of the Cold War; atom bomb spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg tried and sentenced to death in America; the rise of McCarthyism; two important British diplomats’ mysterious disappearance; and the country is in panic. Where have they gone? Why have they disappeared? Did they know each other? What is it all about? They certainly knew each other. MI5 had been about to arrest They had both been at Trinity Maclean due to the American code College Cambridge and as youthful breaking and analysis of messages Communist supporters had enlisted from the Russian Embassy in in the Soviet secret service. Washington, which had identified Three other prominent Cambridge him as a risk. men had also been enlisted and they Kim Philby, a trusted British became known as ‘The Cambridge intelligence officer in America but Goronwy Rees Five’. also a double agent, sent Burgess One of these, Guy Burgess, had home to England to warn Maclean of In the following weeks Goronwy also signed up some Oxford men his potential arrest and to arrange Rees was interviewed several times including Goronwy Rees who was his flight to Moscow. by Guy Liddell deputy head of MI5. living in Sonning at Falcon House. Guy Burgess arrived back in Rees may have given names of England and at once visited his old other friends and associates, we do friend in Sonning, Goronwy Rees. not know although we do know he This is strange as Rees had quite unfairly told someone that renounced communism in 1939 in Guy Liddell was a Communist. This protest at the Nazi Soviet Pact. is now proved untrue and it possibly He had then joined the army stopped Lidell’s promotion to head serving as an officer in the Welsh of MI5. This building is part of the Red Fusiliers. Sometime later Goronwy Rees House in Thames Street which has a On demobilisation he had was offered the post of principal of blue plaque description as the home returned to The Spectator as Aberystwyth College and moved to of Terrence Rattigan. assistant editor but then changed Wales. Guy Burgess was one of the career supposedly to work for an He wrote some newspaper missing diplomats and just before he engineering firm, which was a cover articles about his friend Guy Burgess disappeared he phoned his friend, for MI6. becoming a traitor. The articles were Goronwy Rees in Sonning. He was a Fellow of All Souls and criticised at the university and he A week before that he had called had recently been elected bursar in was forced to resign. on the Rees family in a state of charge of all the college property, and He also appeared on the popular agitation and promised to call again had moved to Sonning as it was mid BBC programme the Brains Trust the following weekend. way between London and Oxford. until a senior executive ordered the He then went missing after a At the end of May, Guy producer to drop him. very strange and what Margie Rees Burgess’s London flat mate, in a It might seem that academia and thought drunken phone call from his certain amount of panic at his the BBC did not approve of anyone club in London. disappearance, started phoning who was prepared to denounce their That was the last that was heard around his friends. communist ex friends. of him in England and nothing was Rees suggested that he might Rees’s family and friends thought known of him for several years until have gone to Russia, and mentioned that he was unfairly treated at that he and Donald Maclean appeared at a this to a friend in MI6. time. press conference in Moscow. The following Monday Anthony This article was written following the There was then panic in the Blunt (keeper of the Queen’s release of the Wartime and Post war security services as both men, and pictures) arrived at Falcon House. Diaries of Guy Lidell, deputy head particularly Maclean had extensive He and Rees went for a long riverside of MI5. Reference has been made knowledge of Anglo American walk and their talk suggested that to Goronwy Rees’s daughter’s book co-operation and the Atom Bomb one should never betray one’s ‘Looking for Mr Nobody’ and the project. friends. Mitrokhin Archive 12 The Parish Magazine There’s no need to walk alone through life’s difficult times By Bob Peters Pictures: Tom Farncombe At some time in our lives we all have to cope with the death of a loved was determined not to bottle things one or with our own illness or that of someone close to us. There are no up for another 10 years. Against all right or wrong ways to cope with such issues and in my experience each the good advice I received, I preached of us has a different way of doing so. At St Andrew’s we fully recognise at her funeral service. This is how I this, and over the years have helped many people through difficult times coped with my bereavement, but as with the result that today we offer a number of different opportunities I said before, we all have our own that we are always pleased to share with anyone who lives in the parish, different ways of coping, this was whether a church-goer or not. mine. Much of the work in this area is leads our team of 10 pastoral care However, being able to speak undertaken by volunteers who are visitors is: ‘We are here to help in about death and illness is the first members of St Andrew’s and who any way that we can. There is no step in overcoming the anxiety feel called by God to serve their pressure on anyone, we do not ask that we all feel at these times. And neighbours through helping in this for any commitment in terms of speaking to friendly outsiders can be way. The opportunities we offer are church membership or for any type of a very helpful step to take. home and hospital visiting, coffee payment in return for our help.’ At St Andrew’s we offer an mornings, prayer, and special church If you would like a visit please opportunity to do this through services. But the most important speak to Jean or any of the a monthly coffee morning called thing of all says Jean Tinson, who ministry team - contact details p22. Footprints to which anyone who is You don’t have to be ill or bereaved or facing a crisis in their bereaved to receive a home visit. It life of any kind and feels talking with FOOTPRINTS might be that you are housebound a small friendly group of outsiders IN THE SAND through a disability and would will help them is warmly invited. The appreciate an opportunity to chat coffee morning is held between 11am One night I dreamed I was walking with someone over a cup of tea. and 12noon on the second Tuesday along the beach with the Lord. Sometimes you may find of every month in the St Sarik Room Many scenes from my life flashed that talking to close family next to St Andrew’s Church. The across the sky. In each scene I and friends about something next Footprints coffee morning is noticed footprints in the sand. troubling you is difficult and on Tuesday 8 January. If you need Sometimes there were two sets of would like an opportunity to share transport to Footprints or indeed our footprints, other times there were your thoughts with a friendly church services please contact Jean one set of footprints. outsider. This is often the case Tinson or members of the ministry with bereavement, talking with team who will try to help whenever This bothered me because I noticed someone not closely involved possible - contact details on page 22. that during the low periods of my can be a great help if you find it life when I was suffering from difficult to talk with family and anguish, sorrow, or defeat, I could friends. see only one set of footprints. I know this because this is my So I said to the Lord, ‘You own experience. In 1982 my six promised, Lord, that if I follow day old son died. For more than 10 You, You would walk with me years I would not speak about him always. But I noticed that during to family or friends, or anyone the most trying periods of my life else. Then one day I found myself there have only been one set of with a group of complete strangers prints in the sand. Why, when I at a Christian camping weekend have needed You most You have not and it was here that I overcame my been there for me? fear and spoke openly about my feelings. It was an environment in The Lord replied, ‘The times when which I felt safe. you have seen only one set of Speaking about him lifted a footprints is when I carried you’ huge weight off my mind so when A quiet corner of the graveyard at St Andrew’s Church which dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. my first wife died a few years ago I Special feature 13

Talking with a friendly outsider completely confidential - it will never the ministry team come together to is not the only type of person that be discussed with anyone. remember and to thank God for their many people have found helpful in Each week in most of our services departed loved ones. During this times of need. Talking with God prayers are offered for the sick and special service candles are lit for each through prayer has helped many. those in need of help. Please pass person being remembered as their About 20 years ago at the 6.30pm requests to the ministry team - and names are announced. Afterwards communion service which is held don’t forget to let us know when it is drinks are served and there is an on the first Sunday of every month no longer required. opportunity to meet the ministry in St Andrew’s, an opportunity was There is also a prayer chain in and pastoral care teams. It is a very introduced that continues today which prayer requests are passed peaceful, informal and thoughtful for someone, usually a member of among a group of church members by occasion that many find extremely the ministry team, to say a brief phone and email. Each member of the helpful. personal prayer with anyone in need. chain will include the request in their The other annual service is After communion has been taken, daily prayers. Contact Jean Tinson or the more formal Remembrance or a blessing received if you are not the ministry team, details om page 22. Day celebration on or close to 11 confirmed, you are invited to the If you are housebound or unable to November. This too is a very moving side chapel where someone will pray take communion in church, members occasion and attracts one of the and lay hands on you. The prayer of the ministry team, and some of largest congregations of the year. does not have to be for you, it can be the pastoral carers who have been Finally, there is another anyone you are concerned about. It is authorised by the bishop, will bring it opportunity that many people find informal, private and to your home, hospital or care home. helpful. On the side chapel altar is a Because of the large number of book of remembrance. When funeral residents in the Sunrise Senior Living services are taken by a member of community a well-attended monthly our ministry team the family can communion service is led by one of request that the name of their loved the ministry team together with one is written in the book on the members of the pastoral care team appropriate day. Each Sunday, at who regularly make personal ‘home’ most of our services, the names of visits at other times. the departed for the curent week As well as the regular services that are included in our prayers. This provide opportunities for the sick and way, whether you are in church or the bereaved, St Andrew’s has two not, you can rest assured that your well-established and well-supported loved one’s anniversary will alway be annual services concerned with remembered. pastoral care. On All Souls Sunday If you would like us to help please at the beginning of November, ask. Our contact details can be found families and friends of those whose on page 22. A quiet corner of the graveyard at St Andrew’s Church which dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. funeral services have been taken by 14 The Parish Magazine Around the villages Charvil VILLAGE SOC. CONSERVATIVE ASSOC. We held a Barn Dance in the The winter drinks party for the Charvil Village Hall on Saturday 24 Sonning & Warren is on Saturday 19 November. Sixty two members and January, 12 noon, at Caxton, West guests turned out for an energetic Drive, Sonning, by kind permission evening of traditional and new of Mr and Mrs Gordon Nutbrown. dances led by the entertaining caller Tickets, on sale until 12 January, cost Dave Tindall. With The Kennet £10 and are available from Rosemary Ceilidh Band playing a lively medley Digby 0118 327 6190. Valerie Buxton of tunes Dave soon had us twirling, promenading and ‘Stripping the Sonning Art Group Willow’. A good time was had by all. Local artist Jenny Halstead provided A welcome break for a cold supper a most interesting and informative allowed everyone a chance to chat, tutor session on drawing portraits. mingle and catch their breath. A Roger Hutchinson, husband of the Jazz Cabaret Sam Dawson on trumpet raffle raised £117 which will be group’s treasurer, Jean, volunteered donated to a local charity. Our to be the ‘sitter’ and many varieties thanks go to all those who made this Blue Coat School of his portrait were eventually another enjoyable evening. Blue Coat is starting the New Year as revealed – like the gentleman he We welcome new members to the it means to go on, with a jazz concert is, he refrained from too much Charvil Village Society. at 7pm on Tuesday 22 January. comment on the depictions! Margaret Gregory mycharvil.com Pupils and staff – including semi- We also had the pleasure of professional jazz musicians - will get st Wokingham artist Peter Swain 1 Sonning scouts the Buttery jumping. demonstrate water colour for The 1st Sonning Scout Group is Two nights later, the Parents’ landscapes. The year ended with the holding a fund-raising quiz on Arts Society present an evening usual Christmas meal and a relaxed Saturday 2 March at the Pearson of Scottish poetry and music at its session with drinks, mince pies and Hall, Sonning. Doors open at 6.30pm, Burns Night, also starting at 7pm. festive music. with the first question at 7pm. On Tuesday 29 January, there will The first session of the New The quiz is for adults only and be an opportunity to enjoy the music Year is on 4 January. It will include the cost has been held at £6 per of the school’s GCSE students as the AGM and election of the new person, and includes a light buffet. they perform their exam pieces at a committee. A full programme of There will also be a well-stocked lunchtime concert at 1.30pm. tutor sessions has been arranged pay bar (so please do not bring your All events are in the Buttery so if anyone would like a friendly own beverages!) Our renowned and everyone is welcome. For more atmosphere in which to try their quizmaster, Mike Watts, will be details: Reception on 0118 944 1005. hand and get a bit of help, you’ll be hosting the quiz as usual and there Marjie Thorne made most welcome at the Pearson will be a raffle during the interval. Hall on Friday afternoons, 1-4pm. The maximum number in a team is THE SONNING CLUB Rob Farquhar sonningartgroup.org.uk six and there will be plenty of scope Call in at the club for a warm for singles, couples etc. to make up welcome in comfortable SONNING Ce SCHOOL other teams as necessary. surroundings with a variety of A reminder that the applications Tickets are available from any beverages. If you come at the deadline for primary school places Sonning Beaver, Cub or Scout Leader, beginning of the month you can in Wokingham Borough for the next or Mike Watts on 0118 962 8388 or enter the Winter Tournaments that academic year is 15 January. 0788 908 0134. will provide an interesting reason for Our two open mornings last term This is a very popular event so buy several visits in the months to come, were extremely busy and we are your tickets early. We are a limited to ending in the Spring with the finals. planning to hold an additional one 80 persons, though some tickets may Petanque will start in the Spring but should there be a demand. It will be be available on the door. if you you want to wrap up warmly on Wednesday 9 January at 10am, We look forward to seeing you you can play any Sunday lunchtime. please contact the school office on at what is always a very enjoyable And in case the brain cells feel 0118 969 3399. The school office will (and slightly challenging) evening underused we have two quizzes in be closed until 7 January but you supporting your local Scouts! January, Friday 4 and Friday 18. will be able to leave messages on the Trefor Fisher sonningscouts.co.uk Tracy Barrett sonningclub.co.uk answerphone. Lesley Green Around the villages 15

Sonning & Sonning Chernobyl Children two-year-old son didn’t recognise Eye SocIETY We are holding a Health & Well him at first. The family have had to When 60 members arrived for the Being evening on Friday 18 January, leave Kazakhstan so please pray for AGM and supper Pearson Hall was in 7-10pm at the Jubilee Hall. Tickets their relocation in Sweden and the darkness - there was no electricity! are £10. Please bring a friend or safe arrival of their baby. An interesting challenge for the relative. Practitioners include: Also give thanks that the case of chairman but all ended well. The acupuncture, yoga, homeopathy, the Pakistan teenager, Rimsha Masih AGM transferred to the brightly lit skin care, massage, osteopathy, was dropped on the 20 November. Sonning Club and when we returned reflexology and hypnotherapy. There The Imam who accused Rimsha is a delicious three course meal with will be a 10 minute talk from the still in custody so please pray for wine and coffee was ready, heated by practitioners and taster sessions the safety of her family as tension gas and lit by candles and torches. available. The ticket includes a is still high. Please pray for all those Chairman Bob Hine reported welcome drink and vegetarian food imprisoned for their faith. If you that Mike Hart had kindly agreed to will be available. think it is cold here, they face much chair the planning and traffic panel Tickets ae available from Shirley harsher conditions. With thanks and and he thanked Diana Coulter for Chard 969 8086 or Chris Bennett 940 blessings for 2013, Carole Arrowsmith organising the photo competition 3694. All proceeds to the Chernobyl and the newsletter Bridge. Alastair Children’s Lifeline charity for next SMILE TIME Driver was congratulated on his year’s visit. Shirley Chard Seen in a church bulletin (you know appearance in Who’s Who, and the what they meant, but!): This morning’s new Village Voices book was launched OPEN DOORS sermon: ‘Jesus walks on the water’. and highly praised. The editors, Thank you to all who prayed for This evening’s sermon: ‘Searching for Mary Chapman, Lesley Green Pastor Makset Djabbarbergenov and Jesus’. Next Thursday there will be and Annabella Marks, ended the his family. I am delighted to report try-outs for the choir. They need all evening with an amusing talk on the that he was released on December 4 the help they can get. This week, why ‘difficulties’ of producing the final and reunited with his pregnant wife not try to smile at someone who is version. A memorable AGM and a and four sons, initially at the UN hard to love. And be sure to say ‘hell’ great team effort! office in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was to someone who doesn’t much care Pauline Simmonds www.sonning.org.uk a joyful moment, even though his about you.

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BABY NAMES

When a cat has babies they are called kittens. What are the babies of the animals in our quiz below called?

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Sometimes the smallest, most innocent looking things can cause great changes. The proverb says that great oaks grow from little acorns and it seems a miracle that something as small as an acorn, so small that you can hold a lot of them in your hand, can grow into A baby DOG is a ... something as huge and strong as an oak tree fluppy — puppy — huffy A baby GOAT is a ... kid — cuddle — groat A baby HARE is a ... harbour — cub — leveret A baby BEAR is a ... cub — hug — teddy A baby KANGAROO is a ... roo — joey — bluey A baby ELEPHANT is a ... dumbo — tusker — calf Answers at the bottom of the page

How can you tell a baby snake?

Jesus talked about this power in the parables, By its rattle! the stories that he told, when he said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast (Matthew, chapter 13, verse 33). Yeast is a small fungus but without it we wouldn’t have bread, wine or beer. What’s a baby whale called? Jesus reminded us that you don’t have to be big to make a difference. A very small amount of A little squirt! yeast turns a lot of flour into bread. We may be only one small person but we too can make a

big difference.

— a baby goat is a kid — a baby hare is a leveret — a baby bear is a cub — a baby kangaroo is a joey — a baby elephant is a calf a is elephant baby a — joey a is kangaroo baby a — cub a is bear baby a — leveret a is hare baby a — kid a is goat baby a — puppy a is dog baby a

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