Colne Engaine Parish Magazine October 2016 Produced and Hand-Delivered by Volunteers Each Month
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Colne Engaine Parish Magazine October 2016 Produced and hand-delivered by volunteers each month, for free, to the households in the parish of Colne Engaine Remember to put a lit pumpkin outside your front door on 31st October if you want to welcome Trick or Treaters EDITORIAL THE PARISHES Editor: Michael Estcourt Colne Engaine, Earls Colne and White Colne 2 Brickhouse Road, CO6 2HL parishes are cared for by the Team Vicar Tel/Fax: 01787 220049 and Team Curate. [email protected] To arrange Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, All copy should be sent to Michael. other services or use of the Church contact: Advertising: Terry Hawthorn Team Vicar: The Reverend Peter Allen 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE. T: 01787 223140 St Andrew’s Rectory, 5 Shut Lane, Earls Colne [email protected] 01787 220347 [email protected] All advertising should be sent to Terry. Associate Priest: The Reverend Hugh Mothersole Design: Juliet Townsend Curate Halstead Area Team, 10 Park Lane, 14 Oddcroft, CO6 2ET. Earls Colne CO6 2RJ T: 01787 222211 [email protected] 07803 699268 [email protected] PARISH COUNCIL Church Wardens: Mr Desmond Shine, 4 Brickhouse Road CO6 2HL Parish Clerk: Terry Rootsey 01787 223378 [email protected] 3 Box Mill Cottages, Box Mill Lane, Mr Terry Hawthorn, 6 High Croft, CO6 2HE Halstead, CO9 2DR. 01787 223140 [email protected] T: 07946 096331 [email protected] PCC Secretary: Mrs Rita Prior 21 Church Street, Colne Engaine CO6 2EX 01787 223867 [email protected] ADVERTISING Our monthly magazine (double issues 1/4 Page 62 x 88mm £10 / £50 pa in July/August and December/January) 1/2 Page 128 x 88mm £17 / £75 pa is delivered free of charge to all 400 Full Page 128 x 180mm £20 or £100 pa households in Colne Engaine Cheques payable to Colne Engaine PCC. and Countess Cross. TO OUR READERS Please remember to mention this magazine if you answer any of the advertisements. We welcome advertising in our magazine, the income from which helps to cover production costs. This does not imply any endorsement or approval of the products and services mentioned in the advertising. FOR THE NOVEMBER ISSUE PLEASE PROVIDE SUBMISSIONS BY 4TH OCTOBER 2016 Please provide Editorial in Word and Advertising as .jpg file Colne Engaine Parish Magazine October 2016 / 3 WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR Michael Estcourt, Editor (contact details opposite) DRONES THREATEN PRIVACY OF VILLAGERS A proposed change to privacy laws may have an impact on the lives of villages in the coming year. For some time now secret trials have taken place over the skies of the village with the aim of advancing drone technology. Apparently drones can be modified to record the movement of dog walkers and their dogs. These trials have taken place at such an altitude that both sound and movement cannot be heard or seen from the ground. Should legislation be granted by Parliament it would enable drones or RPVs to monitor dog walkers during daylight hours. Relying on data already stored (via the now legal requirement that all dogs have to be microchipped and the dog/owner details logged) drones can not only track the movement of dog walkers but can identify whether dog owners pick up the poos left by their dogs. Further technology will allow RPVs to hover and transmit voice commands requesting dog owners to pick up their dog’s poos. It is expected that Parliament will decide on an implementation date for a full scale trial to take place over the skies of Colne Engaine. Should this be successful it will be implemented over the entire country. Furthermore letters can be posted electronically to households confirming that their movements have been monitored. General Sir Bertram Bloodnot, a recent inhabitant of the village, is quoted as having given his full support for this new technology. In his words, “I fully support this initiative as it will ensure that children’s play areas and footpaths will at last be free of dog poos.” It is expected that implementation day will be 1st April 2017. Seriously though, when common parasites of dogs and cats infect humans, the illness is called toxocariasis (or visceral larva migrans). Toxocariasis usually affects kids under age 10. Especially at risk are those who like to put things in their mouths, or kids whose families have pet dogs or cats. Signs and Symptoms Many kids won't have symptoms, but if they do, they can include fever, cough or wheezing, abdominal pain, enlarged liver or spleen, poor appetite, a rash that sometimes looks like hives, and enlarged lymph nodes ("swollen glands"). Quite frankly, do you want to risk the health of our children? Think before you let your dog foul areas where kids play. You have been told! Sadly we say goodbye this month to Mary Nower who has graced these pages in the past with her accounts of running the roads, footpaths and bridle paths in this parish. She has now completed her degree at university and starts her first job shortly. We thank her for her excellent articles and wish her all the best and hope that she is successful in her new enterprise. 4 www.colne-engaine.org.uk LETTER FROM HUGH We talk about God's creation - all we see around us, and about God creating and sustaining us - but how often do we think about how creative we are? To be creative is to do something more than we normally do, and usually means to learn more along the way. A recent article about creativity is challenging: David Bayles and Ted Orland, in their book Art and Fear, narrate the story of a ceramics teacher who divided his class into two groups. Half were told that they would be graded on quantity, the other half on quality. On the final day of term, students turned up with either their one pristine pot or a pile of pots of various shapes and sizes. To the surprise of many the group graded for quantity produced the most beautiful, creative designs. The conclusion was that the quantity group kept learning from their mistakes, whilst the other 'sat theorising about perfection', afraid to get going in case it was not perfect and in the end had little to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pot often made with the same skill that they had at the start of the term. ‘Learning by doing’ is a well-known educational theory and is a major way of creating new as well as enhancing skill levels. It does have an aspect to it that is not so well publicised: each time we do something different it usually takes several attempts to get to an acceptable result. Do we call these attempts failures or successes? Sometimes it takes a lot of work to get to a new skill level. It took James Dyson a 'mere' 5,126 'failed' attempts before creating his now famous dual-cyclone vacuum cleaner. James Dyson was persistent and was prepared to learn from each attempt. He did not ignore, erase, what didn't work but learnt and tried again. In the past people have argued that erasers/rubbers should be banned in schools as they create 'a culture of shame about error’. It's a way of lying to the world, which says, "I didn't make a mistake, I got it right first time.' Of course with computers it is very easy to erase what we don't want others to see - we don't need a physical rubber - but if James Dyson had erased his earlier work, would he have been the billionaire he is now? In the Bible God criticised those who were just doing the same thing without stretching themselves, trying to do better, trying to be creative. See Matthew chapter 25 verses 14 - 30. It is not easy because we won't always get it right. We may get to something that is good but, however hard we try, we will make mistakes. We will rarely be at a service that could not be improved, or have a conversation with someone where different words would have been better. But if we don't take part, try to engage, try different approaches then we will not improve. We are not perfect, but God gives us hope that we can do better by learning from our experiences and thereby becoming more useful in God's kingdom. So, is it true that 'the person who never made a mistake never made anything'? Colne Engaine Parish Magazine October 2016 / 5 FROM THE REGISTERS PASTORAL CARE Baptisms: Hugo James 14th August EC Would you or a friend like a visit from a member of our pastoral care team? Weddings: David Rice &Michaela Ann Norris: 222015 Cudmore 13th August WC Beryl Amy: 01787 223486 Terry Hawthorn: 223140 Funerals: Barbara Cutts 11th August CE The Rev Hugh Mothersole: 222211 SACRED SPACE There will no longer be a set time for Sacred Space on Thursdays as we are going to create a prayer station in St Andrew’s Earls Colne so that there is a sacred space people can use anytime the church is open. PRAYER FOR THE Seekers PARISHES Every Thursday 9am – 9.30am Please feel able to come along and share in this time we set aside to pray together for the life and work of the We’re all ‘seekers’ - no-one has all the answers! churches in The Colnes. If you’d like to join us on our Christian journey as You’d be most welcome.