Church & Village News Baconsthorpe • Barningham Winter • Edgefield• Hempstead Matlaske • Plumstead • Saxthorpe with Corpusty April 2020 Baconsthorpe Sunset Photograph by Rob Coleman Newsletter Team Village Correspondents Editor Michael McMahon Baconsthorpe Corinne Youngs [email protected] [email protected] 577263 Copy Date third Wednesday of the month Barningham Winter Sara Buxton 15 April / 20 May [email protected] 577207 Design and Advertising Karen Hall 577547 Edgefield Richard Peaver Print Barnwell Print Ltd, Aylsham 732767 [email protected] 587486 Distribution Mary Lintott 577718 Hempstead Su Summers Treasurer Corinne Youngs 577263 [email protected] 710702 Postal Subscriptions Matlaske Marion Shepherd £15 per year – please contact Corinne [email protected] 577521 Editorial meetings are postponed for the Plumstead Mary Lintott immediate future [email protected] 577718 Come and enjoy a 2 course lunch menu (Tuesday-Saturday) for £15, To download previous editions visit: Saxthorpe & Corpusty Sophia Hodgson with a choice of starters, mains and desserts. www. churchandvillagenews.org.uk [email protected] 587510 Sunday lunch is always a popular choice, roast Rump of Blickling reared beef or Loin of Pork, with all the trimmings. Parish Council Chairs District Councillors 2 courses for £19.50. Our main menu is available for lunch and dinner daily. Baconsthorpe Jonathan Cooper 577527 Corpusty, Edgefield, Saxthorpe Edgefield Mark Cook 587735 Andrew Brown 07970 298695 For further information or to make a booking please call us [email protected] on 01263 768909 or email [email protected] Hempstead Paul Sanders 713217 Visit www.saracenshead-norfolk.co.uk Matlaske & Barningham Sara Buxton 577207 Baconsthorpe, Hempstead, Matlaske & Barningham, Plumstead Nick Fulford 577433 Plumstead Saxthorpe & Corpusty Imogen Waterson 587610 Dr Pierre Bütikofer 838306 [email protected] Parish Council Websites or Email Addresses Baconsthorpe http://baconsthorpepc.wixsite.com/baconsthorpepc Edgefield https://edgefieldparishcouncil.norfolkparishes.gov.uk Hempstead [email protected] Matlaske & Barningham http://matlaskeparishcouncil.norfolkparishes.gov.uk Plumstead https://plumsteadpc.wixsite.com/plumsteadpc Saxthorpe & Corpusty https://corpustyandsaxthorpeparishcouncil.wordpress.com Any type of electrical works… Local MP Church People big or small we can do it all! Duncan Baker MP Rector Revd Canon David Longe 577252 Tudor House, Grammar School Lane Lay Minister Gill Peat 734226 Free survey and quotation North Walsham, NR28 9JH Lay Minister Judy Rosser 587584 [email protected] Authorised Worship Assistant Dr Alain Wolf 577292 th Test & Certify to IEE17 Edition https://www.duncanbaker.org.uk/ Church Wardens Monday - Friday 9am – 5pm Baconsthorpe Tessa McCosh 577611 Part P Registered Harry Steel 07711 890360 01692 558458 Barningham Winter Amelia Courtauld 577250 Edgefield Emma Cletheroe 587049 01328 830492 Angela Turner 587292 07884 436112 County Councillor Hempstead Ann Udale 713656 Su Summers 710702 [email protected] Steffan Aquarone Matlaske Thomas Courtauld 577250 [email protected] Plumstead Eleanor Faulkner 577868 www.pjelectricsltd.co.uk 01603 327827 Saxthorpe Judith Banks 587319 2 3 Cathy Stern 587014 What’s On Village Contacts for Co-ordinating Help & Support APRIL Barningham Winter & Matlask Wed 29 10.00am Edgefield Coffee Morning & Plant Sale The Old Rectory Revd David Longe 01263 577252 [email protected] Marion Shepherd 01263 577521 [email protected] THE MAJORITY OF EVENTS ARE CANCELLED OR POSTPONED Baconsthorpe UNTIL COVID-19 IS UNDER CONTROL Harry Steel 01263 577686 [email protected] THIS INCLUDES REGULAR EVENTS AND THE MOBILE LIBRARY VAN Corinne Youngs 01263 577263 [email protected] Edgefield Clash Diary 2020 Emma Cletheroe 01263 587049 [email protected] Richard Peaver 01263 587486 [email protected] May 2 Baconsthorpe Fashion Show July 8 Matlaske Coffee Morning Angela Turner 01263 587292 [email protected] May 4 Plumstead PC AGM July 11 Edgefest 5 May 7 Plumstead Film Evening July 15 Matlaske PC Hempstead May 8 Plumstead VE Day July 25 Matlaske Fête Yvette Gibson 01263 712460 [email protected] May 13 Matlaske PC Aug 2 Hempstead Fête Su Summers 01263 710702 [email protected] May 14 Plumstead Community Coffee Aug 15 Baconsthorpe Fête Plumstead May 15 Matlaske Quiz Sep 7 Plumstead PC Mary & John Lintott 01263 577718 [email protected] May 16 Hempstead May Feast Sep 16 Matlaske PC Carolyn & Steve Price 01263 577401 [email protected] June 7 Hempstead Charity Lunch Oct 9 Matlaske Quiz Saxthorpe with Corpusty June 27 Hempstead Open Gardens Oct 23 Hempstead Quiz Andrea Bell, Jane Brewster, Cathy Stern and Imogen Waterson June 28 Hempstead Open Gardens Dec 6 Matlaske Christmas Party 01263 587998 [email protected] Dec 7 Plumstead PC Foodbank Voucher Distributers If you are arranging an event please check with Corinne Youngs that there If anyone is need of food please contact the following who can authorise vouchers for the local is not already an event being held that day Foodbank (we can arrange for individuals to deliver food if necessary): 577263 / [email protected] Revd David Longe 01263 577263 [email protected] Corinne Youngs 01263 577263 [email protected] Post Offices Michael McMahon 07748 754550 [email protected] Baconsthorpe Village Hall Cathy Stern 01263 587014 [email protected] Tuesdays 1.00pm – 4.00pm The names compiled in this list has been approved by the Chairs of each Parish Council and the Matlaske Benefice Fridays 10.00am – 1.00pm Safeguarding and Standing Committees. All services Local Initiatives for Support Corpusty Stores 587202 Monday-Saturday 9.00am – 12.00noon Fakenham Food Service is offering free home deliveries in a 15 mile radius. Their details can All services including Euros be found on their Facebook page: www.facebook.com/fakenhamfoodserviceltd/ Holt Library 712202 TheLove Holt initiative is preparing a page on their website of useful information. By the time 9 Church Street, Holt NR25 6BB Mon Wed Sat 9.30am-1.00pm this goes to print it should be live: www./loveholt.com Fri 9.30am-6.00pm Norfolk Online community noticeboard: www.norfolkonline.co.uk/ Norfolk County Council: Disclaimer: The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of the Church & Village www.norfolk.gov.uk/care-support-and-health/health-and-wellbeing/adults-health/coronavirus News. Apologies if contributed material is not pub- lished due to space constraints. All facts are believed Please see pages 20 and 21 for more information. to be correct at the time of going to press. 4 5 And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and Letter from the Rector - Revd Canon David Longe made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more 577252 / 07881 950294 / [email protected] deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in Dear All ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new I want to begin this letter with a quotation sent to choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they me by the Bishops in the Diocese: had been healed.” Mother Julian of Norwich, an anchorite who May the Lord watch over you all, those around you and all those whom you love during this time, died in 1416, lived a solitary and isolated life of and keep you safe, I continue to keep you all in my prayers day by day. prayer. She lived through ‘anxious times when David there were plagues [coronavirus is a modern day plague] and uprisings’. While in her self- Sunday Evening Prayer during this period when we face the Coronavirus isolating cell she could still hear 'the bustle The feeding of the 5000: we are called to be generous Opening Sentence May your love and healing presence, O God, be within this household, this of the street outside', she had a vision of God community and abound throughout your creation. speaking to her. The candle is lit in the window "He did not say, "You shall never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will Prayer never feel dis-eased"; but he did say, "You will never be overcome"." God of compassion, have mercy upon this nation and our world in this time of fear and confusion: We live in anxious times and we are conscious that many long to hear God say in our own day, “You we bring before you those who are suffering and who tend to their needs; will never be overcome.” may those in isolation know your comfort and company And we will not be overcome. God brings light out of darkness: this is the message of Easter and may neighbours show your love in works of care, kindness and prayer; and the message of Christmas. Goodness comes. Already we are seeing light and goodness in our we pray for the National Health Service and all engaged in scientific research and we pray too for those upon whose shoulders communities as people look to see how they can care for others. Let us hold on to this as a sign of the yoke of leadership rests, hope and light. that in their conversation and communication Still, we must remember and keep close to our hearts, those who will become increasingly isolated, your still small voice may be heard; the vulnerable, those whose livelihoods are threatened or will be lost, and those who have no one we ask this in the power of the Holy Spirit, to care for them. We, as a church, within this Benefice, are committed to helping and serving all through the One who stretched out his hands to bless and to heal who are in need.