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Easter Edition Song ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Contents Contents Thought for the Day The regular newsletter for The Richmond Charities Almshouses April ONE 2021 Welcome to your Almshouse News Easter Eggs Poetry Spring Activities Spring Cleaning Park Run Easter Quiz Travel Diaries Recipes News My Favourite Easter Edition Song ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Contents Contents Thought for the Day News 2 - 3 PG Wodehouse, the creator of the hilarious Jeeves and Wooster stories, Park Run with Serge 4 - 5 could show a more thoughtful side. In his novel Something Fresh, he writes: Local Spring Activities 6 - 7 Easter Eggs - Ukraine 8 - 9 Easter - Greek Orthodox 10 - 11 As we grow Easter Eggs - Decorating 12 - 13 older and realise Easter Quiz 14 - 15 more clearly the limitations of Easter Recipes 16 - 17 human happiness, Travel Diaries 18 - 21 we come to see that Spring Cleaning Tips 22 the only real and abiding pleasure My Favourite Song 23 in life is to give Number Quiz 24 pleasure to other people. Word Quiz 25 Noticeboard & Answer Page 26 Wordsearch 27 Poetry Corner 28 Credits Editor: Juliet Ames-Lewis Design: Chantal Richards 2 News - ALMSHOUSE NEWS Winner of the Sunday Morning Crossword Competition Worship in the Chapel Thank you to everyone that submitted by Stuart Lee their completed crosswords for a chance to win the M&S voucher. Picked at random, the winner this week is: Once Holy Week and Easter are past, the remainder of the building Annelise Mehornay - and renovation work in the chapel will Congratulations! begin. Answers from last weeks crossword As a result, the chapel will be out of are on page 26. action until at least the middle of May. However, we are fortunate that we can This week’s competition is the hold our services in the Garden Room Eggcellent Easter Quiz on pages 14-15. each Sunday, still at 10.30am, from Sunday, 11th April. With care, we should be able to observe the 1 metre + rule, and other measures such as wearing face masks, using hand sanitiser and refraining from communal singing and sharing wine will remain in place. As the government has pointed out, it is becoming increasingly important that each person weighs up what level of risk they are willing to take. Please do join us if you feel comfortable doing so. 3 ALMSHOUSE NEWS - News Park Run by Serge Lourie over 20 countries, 2000 locations, with hundreds of thousands runners. The Serge Lourie is a Trustee HQ is on Eel Pie island, Twickenham. I of The Richmond Charities ran my first Richmond parkrun in 2010 and an inveterate walker and have done 322. and runner. He is a former Leader of Richmond Council. Parkruns are free, weekly, community events. They are runs rather than I hope you have followed my races but times are published online. SAUNTERS around the borough. I like They take place on Saturday at 9:00. to keep fit and I have a confession. I Everyone is welcome to walk, jog, run, also enjoy running. volunteer or watch. I took it up in my thirties with a friend My great joy was introducing my twin and we ran our first Richmond Marathon grandchildren (now 9) to Acton Junior when I was 39 and our second at 40. I parkrun and to run with them. They are then decided to run a marathon every now both faster than me! decade. I ran the London Marathon at 50. In my sixties, as I was busy, I was 67 when I ran. My last London Marathon was when I was 70. I hope to run my next marathon at 80, but I need to keep fit. I am now 75. Is there anybody living in the almshouses or working for the charity who will join me at Richmond parkrun? During lockdown, I have run alone...but lockdown will end. Parkruns are five kilometre (5K) timed runs and started in Bushy Park in Me, the grandchildren and daughter at 2007. Before lockdown, they were in my 300th parkrun 4 News - ALMSHOUSE NEWS I have made many new friends at Richmond parkrun and it is great to see them every week. Peter Marr, our Chair, is a very fast parkrunner and Wilma Roest, a trustee, also runs faster than me! Running in the park is just lovely and a group of us then have breakfast at the café at Pembroke Lodge. I was really unwell with COVID in March 2020. I could only walk a few metres when I came out of hospital but was determined to take exercise and gradually built up my distance. Me and the Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, Cllr Geoff Acton after the Kew I took part in the London Marathon 2.6 Gardens 10K challenge a few weeks after I came out of hospital and achieved my target of walking 2.6K. However, I did raise £14,000 for Kingston Hospital Charity. My first run 5K, after Covid, was in June and I was elated. In September I ran a 10K in Kew Gardens with my daughter. I am convinced that having good lungs from running helped to save my life. I will return to parkrun after Lockdown. Come as a spectator, runner, walker or volunteer to Richmond Gate at 9:00am on Saturday…or just come and have Me at the end of the 2.6K at St Anne’s breakfast! Church, Kew 5 ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Local Spring Activities Local Spring Activities Richmond Mayor’s Quiz Hampton Court Palace’s Tulip Festival: On Saturday 10 April at 7pm, you are invited to a quiz night part hosted by the The palace grounds have had over Mayor, featuring multiple themed rounds 100,000 tulip bulbs planted in beautiful to test your general knowledge. All displays around the formal grounds, in proceeds will go directly to the Mayor’s aid of its first ever tulip festival. Bringing charities, Dose of Nature and Habitats & a taste of Holland to us when we are Heritage. Both charities aim to preserve unable to travel! and enhance the natural beauty of the borough and connect people with the Hampton Court Palace also boasts a outdoors. vegetable garden fit for a king, which is apparently brimming with all sorts of Tickets are £10 and can be purchased heritage and modern vegetables, fruits online via www.richmond.gov.uk/news/ and flowers! march_2021/buy_a_ticket_for_the_ mayor_quiz The festival will last for two weeks, running from 17 April – 3 May 2021. Richmond Moves at Home Booking is essential and the tulip festival is included in the usual price of the Richmond Council have paired with Palace entry (£8). Booking in advance some personal trainers who have is essential and must be done online via provided some exercise videos aimed the website www.hrp.org.uk/hampton- at beginners that are available for free court-palace/whats-on/tulip-festival- online, alongside other useful health and 2021/#gs.wtz34q wellbeing information, resources and advice. More information is available at: www.richmond.gov.uk/services/ wellbeing_and_lifestyle/improving_ wellbeing_through_exercise/move_ for_a_healthier_borough 6 Local Spring Activities - ALMSHOUSE NEWS The Silent Space at Ham House Royal Parks The Silent Space If you fancy creating or learning Many formal gardens of the period something new to do with nature contained a ‘wilderness’ – an area of this Easter, the Royal Parks website trees and shrubs crossed with hedge- has a wealth of activities, ideas and lined paths that were often set out in information. They are offering a free of a geometric pattern. The woodland charge ‘Virtual Easter Discovery Week’, atmosphere the planting created was which provides self-led park walks and intended to be mysterious. In contrast craft activities. with the rest of the formal garden, it They also have an upcoming ‘Wild Food offered a sense of solitude and an in Nature’ online course. This runs on opportunity for reflection. Wednesday 21st April between 5:30 – 6:30pm, £10 per ticket. More inforamtion available at: https://shop.royalparks.org. uk/wild-food-in-nature Farmers Markets With restrictions lifting and the weather warming up, a Saturday stroll around the Farmers Markets make a nice outing. Most stalls now take card payments. The ‘wilderness’ at Ham House recreates Barnes Farmers Market a 1671 plan. The compartments the 8.30am - 2pm hedges form are planted with deciduous Every Saturday morning. and evergreen shrubs. Several contain Station Road, Barnes SW14 0LW summerhouses and herbaceous www.barnesfarmersmarket.co.uk planting. It’s in one such compartment that Silent Space will be running – giving visitors the opportunity to spend a short Twickenham Farmers’ Market time in reflection, just as visitors in the 9am - 1pm 17th century might have done. Every Saturday morning Holly Road Car Park (behind Marks and Spencer), Holly Road, Twickenham More information is available at: https:// www.lfm.org.uk/markets/twickenham/ www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ham-house- and-garden/features/silent-space-at- ham-house-and-garden 7 ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Easter Eggs The Ukrainian Easter Eggs by Stuart Lee One of my favourite stories that has grown out of the Christian celebration of Easter focusses on Easter Eggs and comes from Eastern Europe. I like it because it does not attempt to explain away the strange mystery of Easter, but captures something of the transformation that might be possible if we can enter the story. the man watched, one of them stumbled and almost fell. There was once an old man and an old woman who lived outside the walls of The old man could not help it, he the great city of Jerusalem. They had stepped forward and caught the heavy, everything they needed: a cow to give wooden beam before the man fell and them milk, a garden for vegetables then, together, they carried the piece and trees to give them apples, figs and of wood outside the walls.
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