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Hockham June 2021 WAYLAND GROUP DIRECTORY COUNTY COUNCILLORS Caston/Griston—Clare Bowes 07789 796937 Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Fabian Eagle 07450 679838 DISTRICT COUNCILLOR Caston/Griston/Breckles/Gt Hockham/Merton/Stow Bedon/Thompson— Phil Cowen 488393 PARISH COUNCILLORS Caston—Chairman: Jaki Porter 483899; Clerk: Jo Blackman 01842 829821 Gt Hockham—Chairman: David Childerhouse 498079; Clerk: David Childerhouse 498079 Griston—Chairman: Lee Steventon 01953 882441; Clerk: Jean Williams 884082 Merton—Chairman: Louise Hyde 889419 Clerk: Claire Prentice 07591 220390 Stow Bedon and Breckles—Chairman: Jonathon White 498515; Clerk: Julian Gibson 499980 —Chair: Jean Kaye 488254; Clerk: Kim Austin 07811 287071 Thompson WAYLAND GROUP MINISTER AND CHURCHWARDENS Interim Parish Minister : Adrian Bell Breckles—St. Margaret: Karen Allen 498408 Caston—Holy Cross: Bridget Hall 483751; Lois Gill 488157 Gt Hockham—Holy Trinity: Jamie Plummer Griston—St. Peter & St. Paul: Sylvia Wright 883608; Keith Mace 880153 Merton—St. Peter: Carole Haggett 483526 Stow Bedon—St. Botolph: Beryl Warren 483375 Thompson—St. Martin: Katharine Wolstenholme 483318 VILLAGE CORRESPONDENTS Breckles: Bella Sandcraft 798983 [email protected] Caston: Annabel Valentine 483440 [email protected] Gt Hockham: Christine Rogers 498492 [email protected] Griston: Jacqueline Bailey 889922 [email protected] Merton: Helen Riley 884555 [email protected] Stow Bedon: Clare Rowling 488993 [email protected] Thompson: Bronwen Tyler 483741 [email protected] Copy deadline: All copy for the magazine must be passed to the Editorial Board through your Village Correspondent. 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We believe that all the organisations referred to in this magazine/on this site are bona fide and respectable, but we are not able to guarantee that this is the case. Listing of any business or service on the site does not constitute a recommendation by the volunteers of The Waylander. We reserve the right not to publish anything potentially contentious, libellous or contravening copyright. 2 In the Church of England Diocese of Norwich Breckles, Caston, Great Hockham, Griston, Merton, Stow Bedon and Thompson www.wgp.church WORSHIP IN JUNE 2021 WEDNESDAY JUNE 2ND 10.30a.m. Morning Prayer Holy Cross, Caston SUNDAY JUNE 6TH – FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Holy Cross, Caston WEDNESDAY JUNE 9TH 10.30a.m. Morning Prayer Holy Trinity, Gt. Hockham SUNDAY JUNE 13TH – SECOND SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion Holy Trinity, Gt. Hockham WEDNESDAY JUNE 16TH 10.30a.m. Morning Prayer St. Peter & St. Paul, Griston SUNDAY JUNE 20TH – THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion St. Peter & St. Paul, Griston WEDNESDAY JUNE 23RD 10.30a.m. Holy Communion St. Botolph’s, Stow Bedon SUNDAY JUNE 27TH – FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion St. Martin’s, Thompson WEDNESDAY JUNE 30TH 10.30a.m. Morning Prayer St. Martin’s, Thompson SUNDAY JULY 4TH – FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY 10.30a.m. United Holy Communion St. Margaret’s, Breccles From 6th June, the Wayland Benefice will be in vacancy. For Pastoral visits, requests for Baptisms, Weddings, Sick Communions and pastoral support or just someone to talk to, please contact: Revd. Joy Fernando Home 01760 725938. Mobile 07905 039201 or email: [email protected]. 3 VICAR’S LETTER Dear Friends, So, how are you with change? Our lives have been full of it for the past year. Globally we have been gripped by the pandemic now known not so affectionately as Covid-19. We have had our movements restricted by two lockdowns but, as I write, we are beginning to emerge blinking into the sunlight. Constant changes to where we can go and what we can do has made many of us nervous in ways we have not experienced before. We wait for the promised “all restrictions lifted” on Midsummer’s Day: June 21st. Will all restrictions really be lifted? How will it be? Will we have learnt anything about life and how we want to live it by having some of it curtailed? Meanwhile, in the Wayland Benefice, we are experiencing change too. Adrian and Marian leave us on 6th June. They leave behind a rich legacy of care for the folk in the villages which make up this Benefice. We will miss their great experience of parish life and their good- humoured common sense. Now, hopefully, they will have more time for their growing family, their beautiful garden and Agatha Christie et al. As churches we wait to see how the Deanery plan will affect us and yes, you’ve guessed it, that will also bring some changes. My role will be to stay with you until the end of the year or until a new priest is appointed. I’m sure everyone is looking forward to a more settled time where the ministry of the church can be developed. School visiting will hopefully be safer soon and we will be able to reinstate our monthly service at Thorp House. Some of you may be feeling overpowered by all the changes which have occurred over the last year. For some there will have been unexpected losses through bereavement or by redundancies or business failures. If you would like to talk through anything which is concerning you, please get in touch. I am a good listener and sometimes all it takes to move something on is being able to talk it through until the way becomes clear. There is a hymn which some of us will have sung in school. The first verse is: “Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy, Whose trust ever childlike, No cares could destroy. Be there at our waking, And give us we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, At the break of the day. This sung prayer asks through its verses that God will be present with us through every circumstance through the days/our lives. When we are alone, when we do not understand what is happening and when we feel sad or desperate, we are assured that God walks with us. As we pray for you all in our weekly services, we pray for a growing knowledge of the Lord’s Presence with you through life. With love, Joy 4 BRECKLES NEWS AND VIEWS something a little more like ‘normality’. I am sure we all think a little differently now St. Margaret’s Church and will value simple blessings more than The church is open on a Sunday from 9a.m. ever before. I hope you all find this period until 4p.m., and as many of you will now of unravelling a positive experience, and know, the Sunday services are now up and that the sense of community in our Benefice running again in the four main churches. stays as strong as it has been in this period The services can also still be found online well into the future. I’m really pleased that at www.waylandermagazine.org by clicking folks have found the online version of the on the church icon. The Breckles Annual Waylander useful in all the various stages of Parochial Church meeting has taken place lockdown, and that will be continuing as we and I was elected as church warden for know that several like to keep up to date another year. The next service at St. who are no longer living in the Benefice. Margaret’s will be Holy Communion, on Bella Sandcraft Sunday 4th July at 10.30a.m. Breckles Correspondent Karen Allen Recipe Corner with Rachel Butterworth Rhubarb Fool – a simple fresh recipe perfect CASTON COMMENT for sunny evenings in the garden! 400g rhubarb, trimmed Adrian’s Farewell 125g golden caster sugar On Sunday June 6th Rev Adrian Bell will 300ml double cream take his last service in the Wayland Group. 500g greek yoghurt Due to Covid restrictions we are unable to 1tsp vanilla extract safely seat more than 30 in our church – so Crushed ginger biscuits (optional) we have decided to say our farewells outside 1.Cut the rhubarb into 2.5cm pieces. Place (whatever the weather) at the bottom end of in a pan with 75g sugar, and 75ml cold the churchyard in the recently created water. Bring to the boil then simmer ‘wildflower area’. We invite you to drinks gently for 5 minutes. Strain rhubarb & and nibbles to say farewell. The eucharistic keep the syrup. service will start at 10.30 and finish at 2.Pour the syrup back into the pan and approximately 11.20a.m. There is a baptism simmer until reduced by a third. Cool. in church at 12.00 but you can linger until 3.Whisk the cream, yogurt, vanilla and rest that is over.