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All products can be ‘A’ rated for extra energy efficiency and come to you with a full 10 year guarantee from a FENSA registered company Talk to a tradesman, not a salesman Save Energy - Save Money! call us NOW on 01279 813888 FAIRWEATHER plastics Fascias & Soffits, Guttering, PART OF THE FAIRWEATHER GROUP UPVC Profiles and Fixings Unit 7 The Links Industrial Estate, Raynham Road, Bishops Stortford, Herts CM23 5NZ Trade Counter & Showroom NOW OPEN Front cover: Designed by Hannah Parsons - see page 17 Editor: The Link is produced by Stansted Mountfitchet Magazine Community Interest Company Yvonne Ayres and supported by local churches, businesses and the Parish Council. Each edition is 01279 814706 also available online at www.stanstedlink.org.uk. [email protected] Advertising: EDITORIAL Mike and Marion Dyer 01279 814059 This time last year we were celebrating the news that the revised planning [email protected] application for our long awaited health centre had been approved, and the Or check on website for prices optimists among us expected construction to follow in the near future. The pessi- Distribution Queries: mists were less excited, and quite rightly so, as in the last 12 months little appears to Paul Barnes have changed; we’re still waiting for the building work to start. There’s hopeful 01279 815676 news on page 20. In the meantime perhaps we should contact the Guinness Book of [email protected] Records to register: ‘The Longest Period of Time a Community has Waited for a New Treasurer: Health Centre to be Built’!! On page 19 Stansted Police are urging us to be vigilant Alan Wheeler and security conscious as the burglars continue to target our village. This is particu- 01279 813745 larly relevant during the festive season – burglars don’t stop ‘burglaring’ just [email protected] because it’s Christmas! Directors: Susan Bone For those still puzzling over the disappearance of the tree on Bentfield Green men- Catherine Dean tioned in last month’s editorial the Stansted WI have the explanation on page 39. Malcolm Lloyd Have a happy, peaceful Christmas, and New Year. Sarah Ludlow-Elston Dick Pollard CONTENTS Printers: Copyzone Thought for the Month 2 Birchanger Wood 25 01279 657769 Church News 2-4 Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill 25 TasteChristmas 4 The Whitechapel Mission 25 Friends of St Mary's Church 4 music@stansted 27 SSAFA Coffee Morning 4 Uttlesforde Orchestra 27 CIRCULATION: Village Events 5 The Place on the Hill 27 The Link is delivered free to Stansted War Memorial 7 The Manuden Singers 27 over 3000 homes and Birchanger Nursery 7 Herts & Soul Community Choir businesses in Stansted Bentfield Primary School 7 Christmas Celebration! 27 Mountfitchet. Further copies Stansted Supers Handball Team 9 The Crafton Room 27 may be purchased for £1 Speeding in Stansted 9 Huw Johnson Club 29 each or £10.00 for the year, Stansted Tennis Club 9 Pre-Revolutionary Russia 29 Stansted Bowling Club 9 Local History Society 29 Children's Recipe 9 Pilots 29 Skywatch 11 Shoe Boxes 31 CONTRIBUTIONS: Spangles Children's Centre 11 Guess Who I Am 33 by email (preferred), up to In Memoriam - Martin Cowan 11 Ugley WI 33 300 words in a Word Stop Stansted Expansion 11 Stansted Mountfitchet U3A 33 document, please, to: Letter to the Editor 13 Christmas and Pets 35 [email protected] British Beekeeping Assn 13 Forest Hall School 35 or by hand to: Stansted Business Forum 13 Stansted NCT 35 7 Blythwood Gardens, Harvest Supper 14 Stansted Liberal Democrats 35 Stansted CM24 8HG St Clare Hospice 15 Nature Notes 37 Foresthall Park Residents Assn 15 Hatfield Forest Snippets 37 5 Greenfields, Stansted Rotary Club 15 Last Month in the News 37 CM24 8AH The Link Front Cover Stansted Evening WI 39 Competition 17 Mountfitchet Garden Club 39 by noon on 11th January for Stansted Network 19-22 Index to Local Advertisers 40 the February issue Directory of Local Clubs 23 Stansted network is compiled by DISCLAIMER Opinions expressed in this magazine are given freely and do Stansted Mountfitchet Parish not necessarily represent those of the editorial committee, nor is any culpabil- Council. ity accepted for work undertaken by advertisers. 1 THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has warned that expensive Christmas presents could damage relationships if they leave people short of money. He said “The secular over-the-topness, everything you have to have, new clothes you have to have, new this, new that, new the other, is ridiculous; it shouldn’t happen. It puts pressure on relationships because when you’re short of money you argue. You get cross with your kids more easily, it spoils life.” The Archbishop said that if he suggested people stop giving each other gifts at Christmas, no-one would listen. “Giving at Christmas reflects the generosity of God. So be generous in a way that shows love and affection rather than trying to buy love and affection,” he added. It is a familiar ring that “Christmas has become too commercialised”; yet of course many of us are responsible for that huge surge of spending that does indeed seem to get earlier and earlier each year. Perhaps those thoughts from Archbishop Welby will strike a chord with some of us as we look towards Christmas and New Year. When I turned my computer on this morning, pictures of the utter devastation to parts of the Philippines were a stark reminder of what Christmas will mean for many in that devastated country this year, and for a long time to come. Wouldn’t it be wonderful this Christmas if, instead of giving each other huge amounts of gifts we diverted some of our own resources, however limited, to our food banks, disaster appeals and other good causes? Christmas and the New Year are great times for generosity, celebration, families and friends. They are also a great time to thank God for all that we have and to remember that God blessed humanity with the richest gift of all, Jesus Christ our Lord. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Every blessing for 2014. David Keeble Free Church Minister St Therese of Lisieux (Roman Catholic) th Sunday 15 2.00pm Children’s Service Celebration of Christmas Saturday 21st December Monday 16th 7.30pm Penitential Service th Get right in the Christmas mood and join your fellow Wednesday 18 7.30pm Carol Service Stanstedians for a Celebration of Christmas! Once again St Christmas Eve No Morning Mass John’s church will sparkle with the light of myriads of 11.00am-noon Confessions candles. The air will be pungent with the smell of mulled 6.00pm Family Mass wine, the walls will resound with the sound of the special 11.30pm Midnight Mass choir we form each year, families and children will add to Christmas Day 10.00am Mass the joyful sound and you will feel that inward smile as you reacquaint yourself with your favourite Christmas carol. Put St John's (Church of England) st the date in your diary right now and we look forward to see- Sunday 1 9.30am - Christingle ing you at 3.00pm on 21st December. Everybody is also wel- come to join the choir so please come to the rehearsals at St Christmas Eve 3.00pm - Children's Christmas Eve Service th th (Come dressed as a character from the John’s on 5 and 19 December at 7.30pm. Christmas Story) There will be a retiring collection for our Christmas charity – Care Network (Uttlesford). Christmas Eve 7.00pm - Blue Christmas (A Quiet Service Alan Wheeler Tel: 813745 for those who don't feel like celebrating and for anyone who would like to spend some reflective time) Carol Singing around the Village Christmas Eve 11.30pm - Midnight Mass Come and join in the fun, especially if it’s snowy! We meet each evening at 7.30pm, and the singing is followed by Christmas Day 9.30am - Family Communion for refreshments at around 9.00pm. Christmas Morning Sunday 22nd December meet at St John’s Church and Free Church finish at 45 St John’s Road Sunday 22nd 10.30am Gift Service and Carols Wednesday 25th 10.30am Christmas Day Family Service Monday 23rd December meet at entrance to Canon’s Mead and finish at 7 Blythwood Gardens Society of Friends Sunday 22nd 10.30am Meeting We are always looking for more singers - there is no rehearsing, just come along. We will be collecting for Care Network (Uttlesford). Please support us – thank you! Helen Baker Tel: 814865 Michael Dyer Tel: 814059 2 STANSTED FREE CHURCH Methodist / URC Chapel Hill www.stanstedfreechurch.org.uk All enquiries: The Church Office, St John’s Hall, Minister Rev’d David Keeble St John’s Road, Stansted CM24 8JP Tel: 01799 522037 Tel: 815243 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Lettings Marion and Mike Dyer Office hours: 9.00am-12 noon, Monday, 7 Blythwood Gardens, Stansted CM24 8HG Wednesday, Friday Tel: 814059 Administrator: Mrs Sally Chapman Website: www.stanstedstjohns.btck.com [email protected] Preachers for December Rector: Rev’d Paul Wilkin 1st 10.30am Don McGregor - New Directions Tel:
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