W wickham fete memories i c k h a m P a r i s h M a g a z i n June 2020 e Wickham Parish Magazine June 2020 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, [email protected] Wickham, PO17 6HR [email protected] 01329 280 905 01329 835 295 Associate Priest Lay Minister The Revd Juliet Montague Mr Stephen Campion The Vicarage, [email protected] 52, Brooklyn Close, Waltham Chase, SO32 2RZ [email protected] 01489 895 012 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 Sheila 01329 609 161 01329 833 751 Campbell, John Farrow Mr Richard Cannadine (photogapher) [email protected] Distribution; Mr Robert Goulson 01329 513 530 Church Flowers [email protected] Mrs Chris Beardshaw 01329 833 299 [email protected] Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Parish Administrator/PCC 07970 815470 Secretary Wickham, PO17 5NN Mrs Jane Goulson Mothers' Union (Secretary) Advertising; Mrs Sue Pittam [email protected] [email protected] Sabrina Gwynn 01329 833 299 Tel: 01329 233637 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, Email: [email protected] Wickham, PO17 5NN Methodist Church Minister; The Revd Joseph Tembo Honorary PCC Treasurer Friends of St Nicholas Church 01329 833 518 Mrs Di Frost Mr John Landaw [email protected] [email protected] Roman Catholic Church 01329 832 633 01329 830 088 Revd Canon Alan Griffiths The Laurels, Mayles Lane 02380 273 882 Wickham, PO17 5ND Church Room Bookings Mrs Jane Goulson Park Place Centre Verger/Sacristan [email protected] Franciscan Sisters Mrs Rosemary Simpson 01329 833 299 Winchester Road, Wickham 01329 512 629 Roman Way, Tanfield Lane, 01329 833 043 Wickham, PO17 5NN Chaplain; Fr Andrew McMahon Choir Trainer Sunday Mass 9:00am Mrs Valerie Shuttleworth Parish Magazine; Copy 01329 833 805 01329 835 233 Mr John Landaw Wessex Jamaat [email protected] Mr Abbas Rahim (Hon. Secretary) Bell Ringers 01329 830 088 [email protected] Greg Painter 1, Church View, School Rd [email protected] 07753 813075 2 Wickham Parish Magazine June 2020 Editorial Last month, we were instructed provides funds to help cover this trend and we ask you to by HMG to comply with social general running costs and share with us your memories of distancing orders and refrain essential repairs to the church. Wickham of yesteryear, or your from delivering the Parish But not this year. We are travels to distant parts and any Magazine by hand. Our Editor, a suggesting that parishioners humorous tales in these dark talented lad, scratched his head make a donation, similar to the days. and promptly produced an on- amount you would have spent at line edition. It didn’t meet with the fete to help to balance the We continue to live in troubled 100% approval by the books. Details page 9. times. The Parish Council, local readership but was accepted by Clergy, Wickham Surgery and many as a good alternative under Please ensure you read the Wickham Community Care have difficult circumstances. We think article on page 25, "The Future done sterling work in providing that you will be very pleased with of Wickham and Knowle" care and support for the less the results. mobile and housebound. We One of the advantages of on-line expect there will be several ‘well Like all other social functions and publications is that there is no dones’ and pats on back at next gatherings the annual, much limit to the amount of items and year’s Wickham Awards loved, St Nicholas Church Fete pages that can be produced. In Ceremony. has been cancelled this year due this issue we are publishing DB to the Coronavirus so I’d like to several pieces submitted by point you to some of the pages local residents. We hope that you later on to remind you of what enjoy them and the break from we’ll be missing this year. You more traditional themes. Equally, may not be aware that the fete we hope that others may follow d New te E n d After many very happy years i a editing this Magazine, the time t has come to retire. My last o edition will be December/ W January Issue. r An enthusiastic computer literate individual with an artistic flair would be an ideal candidate. Please contact me; [email protected] 3 Wickham Parish Magazine June 2020 From Lay Minister Stephen Dear Friends Country) that tend to be the difficult ones." I am too young to have experience of the war years, And although these words may when history seems to suggest have subjected Rumsfeld to that the Country was united, unjustified ridicule, I think he was determined to work and pull right. And relating them to our together in times of challenges today, perhaps we national crisis. Perhaps that is do have to accept there will the difference between always be things we know, and dealing with an "invisible" enemy things we don't. There may and one that is "visible." One of come a time when faith in the most surprising things, at science is the only hope we have least for me, that has emerged to unite us in living, and dealing, from the enforced lock down is with the tragedy of Covid-19. the extent to which a crisis that affects us all is leading to such recently had been closed? If I But is that not also true in other divided responses. can now use public transport areas of our lives? There is, for how do I know it will be safe - do example, much about God and I was intrigued to hear a I have the right to say I won't, and His Son that we don't know - and behavioural scientist offering a will I suffer the consequences of perhaps never will. But whatever possible explanation why the staying at home? Does it really differences that exist within the Government's rating in dealing matter if I marginally bend the Christian community, our faith, with the corona-virus had social distancing rules? hope and trust in Him unite us in slumped from 73% approval at a common belief. And we are, the beginning of the lock down to These, and many other not because we are told to, but below 42% when some slight dilemmas are likely to create because we want to be united in relaxation was announced. The more uncertainty. It is so His love for us, and in our love of reason, it was suggested, may much easier when the rules are Him. well have been the result of the clear, unequivocal and Government's strategy of enforceable. As we enter the next phase of moving away from telling people Personal judgements are much lock down, whatever that might what to do in favour of more difficult, especially about be, it will take more than social- suggesting instead that we use what we can, or cannot do, distancing to separate us from "common sense." This changed during this time of national the love of God. approach, apparently, was not crisis. We are guided largely by popular. Being instructed what, science; and as we know With love and what not, to do would science is not a perfect art. The appear more acceptable to the famous words of United States Stephen public, rather than being offered Defence Secretary, Donald Authorised Lay Minister; an opportunity to live according Rumsfeld, speaking in 2002 Benefice of Wickham and to our own judgements, albeit about Iraq and weapons of Shedfield. limited and still within fairly rigid mass destruction, could equally parameters. apply today "We know there known knowns because there Stephen Campion So now we have choice, are things we know we know. We 4 Palace Mews where none existed before. And also know there are known Winchester Road that brings difficulties for many unknowns; that is to say there Bishops Waltham to consider. Do I want to return are things we know that we don't Hampshire my children to school, when it re- know. But there are also SO32 1SB opens? Is it safe to return to my unknown unknowns - the ones office building which until we don't know we don't know. It 01489 893369 is this latter category (in any free 4 Wickham Parish Magazine June 2020 A cake for the Church’s birthday! Coming at the end of May, Whit Sunday is pinch grated nutmeg traditionally known as the Church’s birthday. It’s pinch ground cinnamon the day on which Christians believe that God 1 egg, separated gave the Holy Spirit to his followers (find out what happened in Acts chapter 2 in the New Make a soft dough with the flour, salt, butter, Testament). The day’s older name is ‘Pentecost’, yeast, milk, and three-quarters of the butter. meaning ‘fifty’ – reminding us that the festival Cover it and leave it to rise for 45 minutes in a comes fifty days after the Jewish Passover. warm place. Meanwhile, mix the raisins, sugar, spices, and remaining butter in a saucepan and simmer them together gently for 10 minutes. Cool Whitsunday is a peculiarly English title for the and stir in the egg yolk. day. Meaning ‘White Sunday’, the name comes from the custom of using the festival for Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.