Wickham Parish Magazine May 2021 50p Wild life in Wickham. "Peacock Butterfly" and "Slow worm" by Mike Hall. "Red Kite above Buddens" by Vanessa Randall Wickham Parish Magazine May 2021 The Parish Church of St Nicholas Wickham PO17 6HR (The United Benefice of St Nicholas, Wickham and St John the Baptist, Shedfield) www.stnicholaswickham.org.uk The Rector Assistant Curate The Revd Jane Isaac The Rectory, The Revd Dr Ruth Howlett-Shipley Southwick Road, Wickham, PO17 6HR 01329 280 905 01329 835 295 Associate Priest The Revd Juliet Montague The Vicarage, 52, Brooklyn Close, Waltham Chase, SO32 2RZ 01489 895 012 Members of the ministry team can be contacted by email via the parish Office [email protected] Churchwardens; Caretaker Magazine Editorial Team Mr Fred Crosskey Mr Ron Burt Mr John Landaw (Editor) [email protected] 5, Mill Lane, Wickham Mr Den Boylan, Mrs Sabrina 01329 609 161 01329 833 751 Gwynn, Mrs Sheila Campbell, John Mr Gerry Banks Farrow(photogapher), [email protected] Distribution; Mr Robert Goulson 01329 833 037 Church Flowers [email protected] Mrs Jane Buckle 01329 833 299 Parish Administrator/PCC 01329 832 517 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Secretary Wickham, PO17 5NN Mrs Jane Goulson Advertising; Mrs Sue Pittam [email protected] Mothers' Union (Branch Leader) [email protected] 01329 833 299 Sabrina Gwynn Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Tel: 01329 233637 Wickham, PO17 5NN Email: [email protected] Methodist Church Minister; The Revd Joseph Tembo Honorary PCC Treasurer 01329 833 518 Mrs Di Frost Friends of St Nicholas Church Mr John Landaw [email protected] Roman Catholic Church [email protected] 01329 832 633 Fr Bruce Barnes 01329 830 088 The Laurels, Mayles Lane 02380 273 882 Wickham, PO17 5ND Church Room Bookings Park Place Centre Verger/Sacristan Mrs Jane Goulson Franciscan Sisters Mrs Rosemary Simpson [email protected] Winchester Road, Wickham 01329 512 629 01329 833 299 01329 833 043 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Chaplain; Fr Andrew McMahon Choir Trainer Wickham, PO17 5NN Sunday Mass 9:00am Mrs Valerie Shuttleworth 01329 833 805 01329 835 233 Parish Magazine; Copy Mr John Landaw Wessex Jamaat Bell Ringers [email protected] Mr Abbas Rahim (Hon. Secretary) Greg Painter 01329 830 088 [email protected] [email protected] 1, Church View, School Rd 07753 813075 2 Wickham Parish Magazine May 2021 Editorial As the days lengthen and we drift gradually into summer, so, little by little the village There are currently two housing begins to look more like its old self with more developments underway in the village. The shops and salon doors open, more visitors new School Road housing project properties and cars in the square. We all know that it will shortly be released. The Winchester Road has been a long and difficult year, during properties should be available later this year. which time we have seen solitude and There will be two hundred new homes ready loneliness and had to say goodbye to old for occupation and, of course, two hundred friends. We extend our thanks to friends and new village families. Also, the east side of Mill neighbours, clergy, surgery staff and retail Lane is to be developed as a sporting arena. staff for their support and making the This is bound to bring additional vehicles and lockdowns more bearable. parking to the village. It will also mean extra school children and extra patients at the If you have been affected or delayed by the surgery etc. Please read the Parish Council restricted Winchester Road traffic flow system submission (p38) for a monthly update on any these last few weeks, you will be pleased to village developments. learn that the road works will be finished and DB temporary traffic removed by mid May. PARISH MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS Thank you for continuing to support our parish magazine which costs £5.00 per year for ten issues (including delivery). With the lifting of some covid restrictions we hope our distributors can call to collect your subs when they deliver the June edition. Thank you to the wonderful team who continue to deliver printed copies to our readers. To be added (or removed) from the distribution list please ring Robert Goulson on 832915 3 Wickham Parish Magazine May 2021 Parish Letter- Revd Juliet centred, self-indulgent and self- When we have seen people motivated, this must surely be take on huge challenges the path to loneliness, isolation despite the limitations of old and hell. age, illness or disability, or overcoming the challenges of Yet we believe that Jesus came poverty and hardship to achieve to set us free - ‘if the Son sets in education and employment you free you will be free indeed’ we find it truly inspirational, John 8.36. So what kind of precisely because it shows us freedom is this? that we do not have to be I am writing just after the death defined by the limitations we Dear friends of His Royal Highness, the face, or the expectations of Duke of Edinburgh, and the others. Over the past weeks we have many tributes have made clear enjoyed being able to take On Good Friday we reflected that, as an intelligent and upon the suffering endured by those tentative steps towards ambitious young man, he had to freedom. The joy of being able Jesus on the cross, this year we sacrifice his career and much of focussed particularly on his to see family and friends, go his freedom to fulfil his role of shopping, or take a holiday hands and feet, fastened by being a support to the queen. It cruel nails, it is hard to imagine brings a sense of cautious may have been a gilded cage, relief, but talk of vaccine a greater loss of liberty, utterly but a cage it certainly was, full exposed and vulnerable. Yet passports has sparked much of frustration and limitations. discussion about civil liberties his agony did not define him, he Yet as time went on he created did not give way to hatred, or and freedom from intrusion by ways of making a difference, of the state, and it has made me fear, or self-pity, he died as he giving purpose and significance had lived, forgiving people, think about what we mean by to his life and enabling others, freedom, is it just about being caring for those who would miss especially young people, to him most, aware of the needs of able to do what we like, where achieve and flourish. and when we choose? those around him, he rose In very different circumstances, above the destructiveness of One thing this pandemic has Viktor Frankl in his book ‘Man’s human cruelty and evil, and highlighted is our responsibility search for Meaning’ wrote: ‘We love truly triumphed that day. towards others, many young who lived in concentration Whilst the freedom to gather people at low risk of serious camps can remember the men harm from Covid have together, to see friends and who walked through the huts family, to go on holiday are all sacrificed their liberty in order to comforting others, giving away protect the elderly and the of course desirable, we know their last piece of bread. They that from time to time we all live vulnerable, and the message to may have been few in number, be careful for our loved ones with limitations to our freedom, but they offer sufficient proof when we are caring for a loved and the wider community has that everything can be taken been present throughout. At the family member because of from a man but one thing: the illness or disability, or when we same time we grow ever more last of the human freedoms – to aware of our relationship with have to come to terms with the choose one’s attitude to any loss of physical ability through this earth which is our home, given set of circumstances, to and our need to be careful in disease or accident, or when choose one’s own way.’ The the loss of a job brings financial our use of its resources; we can extreme deprivation of the no longer simply take and use, hardship. At such times there is concentration camps under the often sacrifice, but when it is but must nurture and restore Nazi regime was intended to nature’s ability to support all life willingly made it becomes a gift dehumanize people, so that of love to the person in need. on earth for those who will they could be exterminated as if come after us. So if we seek they were vermin, but some With love and prayers from all only to do as we please, to be rose above those awful of us in the ministry team, free of all restrictions, or circumstances, and kept their commitments or limitations, we self-respect and their humanity. Juliet will inevitably become self- 4 Wickham Parish Magazine May 2021 Revd Jane Isaac’s update on church life during the pandemic* Isn’t it good to have printed social distancing and track and parish magazines again! And trace requirements continue to even better, having the be in place. I’m very grateful to magazines online as well my ministry team colleagues means that they’re reaching a and the volunteers who remain whole new readership online via as committed as ever to the church websites. Thank keeping the churches open, you on behalf of all our readers Covid-secure and as welcoming in both parishes to the editors, as we can make them given the magazine committees, ongoing restrictions. contributors, distributors and advertisers – longstanding and Online services: For those of new – for making the you who aren’t yet quite magazines happen month by comfortable about being out month.