SUFFOLK HEIGHTS BENEFICE NEWS COMMUNITY NEWS MAGAZINE FOR CHEDBURGH, CHEVINGTON, DEPDEN, HARGRAVE, HAWKEDON AND REDE Battle of Hastings 14th October 1066 OCTOBER 2020 Rector: Rev Dr Simon Hill 01284 850857 [email protected] Reader: Barbara Hill 01284 850857 Inside this month: Churches’ Bike Ride Reports A bit of poetry by the postman – p28 Two Zoom quizzes to go for—pp 13 and 23 for details Suffolk Heights Benefice News October 2020 Welcome to the October 2020 edition of the SHBN. Thank you to everyone for your contributions. Don’t be shy about sending in photos! Please DO NOT SEND PDFs if it can be avoided. Only Word docs, Publisher files or Jpegs. Thanks The deadline for the November 2020 edition is 5pm Thursday15th October 2020. [email protected] Contents Page ADVERTISING RATES: Benefice Services 3 To advertise in this magazine, please Rector’s Letter 4 contact Jill de Laat on 01284 850463, Rain Matters 6 or email Small Ads 7 Chedburgh News 10 [email protected] Chevington News 12 Chevington Parish Council 14 £65 per quarter page per year Depden News 18 £130 per half page per year Depden Parish Council 20 Wildlife Over Suffolk Heights 21 Specifications: Hargrave News 22 1/4 page - 8.5cm x 5.5cm (3¼” x 2¼”) Hawkedon News 24 Portrait Rede News 29 1/2 page - 12cm x 8.5cm (5” x 3½”) Rede Scribe 34 Landscape Advertisements 36 All images must be jpeg 150dpi Useful Numbers 59 Mobile Library 60 Benefice Contacts 60 2 BENEFICE SERVICES IN OCTOBER 4th 11th 18th 25th Seventeenth Eighteenth Nineteenth Last Sunday After Sunday After Sunday After Sunday After Trinity Trinity Trinity Trinity All Saints’ 10.45am 10.45am Chedburgh Morning Morning Prayer 9.00am 6.00pm 9.00am 9.00am All Saints’ Parish Evening Parish Parish Chevington Communion Prayer Communion Communion St Mary’s, 11.00am Depden Harvest 11.00am 6.00pm St Edmund’s Harvest Evening Hargrave Festival Prayer 9.00am 4.00pm St Mary’s Parish Commemoration Hawkedon Communion of All Souls 10.45am All Saints’ Parish Rede Communion Every Friday, Morning Prayer will be said at Chevington at 9.30am There will be a said communion at All saints’, Rede on Tuesday, 6th October at 4pm Every Sunday morning there will be a Zoom Morning Prayer at 10am An e-mail with the joining link will be sent to you every week 3 LETTER FROM THE RECTOR Simon writes On Sunday, October 25th we will be keeping ‘Commemoration of All Souls’. The service will be at St Peter and St Paul, Clare at 4pm. This festival can be traced to Abbot Odilo of the monastery at Cluny, in France, who in 998 commanded its annual celebration in all the Benedictine congregations. However, it was not until the fourteenth century that the Commemoration of All Souls on All Souls Day (November 2nd) became a fixed practice in the Roman Church. Our liturgy has an element of sadness as we remember the faithful departed, and especially those whose lives have meant so much to us. But this is not the sadness of those who know no hope, because our worship is filled with our faith in a blessed resurrection and the eternal joy that awaits all of us. The Commemoration of All Souls makes us mindful not only of the death of our loved ones, but also our own. Yet, ‘For those with faith, death is not extinguishing the light but putting out the lamp because the dawn has come’ (Rabindranath Tagore). You will find, at the back of each of our churches, a file. You are most welcome to print the name of anyone whom you would like remembered by name at our service when a candle will also be lit in their memory as an act of remembrance. It does not matter when, or where, the person whom you would like to remember died. Nor do you need to attend the service, although it would be lovely of course to see you. In November we move into the Season of All Saints beginning on Sunday 1st November with a celebration of All Saints. Then, on November 8th we observe Remembrance Sunday. Details of this service are still being thought through as we await further government guidance. Thank you to everyone who has supported our Harvest Appeals. Please drop off any unwanted garden or workshop tools at the Rectory together with food and toiletries for the Vineyard Food Bank. Donations towards the work of WaterAid are also invited. Thank you for your support. 4 Rectory Mardle The other week I took the Wednesday communion at Haverhill (every Wednesday at 9.30am – you would be most welcome). And much to my delight and joy I found what I thought I had lost – my metal comb. It has no monetary value, but I have had that comb ever since I was ordained almost forty years ago. And I lost it. Or at least I thought that I had lost it back at the beginning of year. I have had church wardens and treasurers on their knees looking under the pews – all to no avail. So, I had written it of but somehow, I could not bring myself to buy another comb. Imagine my delight then when I found my comb hidden away, tucked in my prayer book. Now I know what you are thinking. If you are thinking that this shows how often I use my prayer book, read on. If, on the other hand, that thought never even crossed your mind, you need not read any further. Before I address your thought, let me remind you of the parable that Jesus told about the woman who swept her house diligently to find the coin that she had lost. How does the parable end? Does Jesus finish by saying that had she been more careful she wouldn’t have lost the coin in the first place? No. Does Jesus suggest that had she done the housework more diligently she would have found the lost coin sooner. No. Jesus simply says that she ‘rejoices’, just like I am rejoicing having found my comb. Now, it’s perfectly fair to say that I would have found my comb sooner if I had been saying my prayers. Fair enough. But I carry that particular prayer book in my robes case in case of emergencies. That morning at Haverhill I realised that the altar book didn’t have all the words of the prayers and hence why I grabbed my own prayer book and in so doing found my lost comb. Yes, I know. A feeble response. And I’m sorry to all those who looked for my missing comb. But let the moral of my story be for us all to rejoice first and mutter later. Because St Francis of Assisi falls on a Sunday this year (October 4th) he gets cut out of the Lectionary! Seems a little unreasonable but we will remember him at the conclusion of the Season of Creation with a said communion at All Saints’, Rede on Tuesday, 6th October at 4pm. Do join us. 5 Rain Matters Jamie Robertson August started dry but ended up as very wet largely thanks to two days of very heavy rain, the 16th and 27th of the month. August, despite its reputation for baking heat is actually remarkably wet. In the last 25 years we have had measurements of over 100mm in three Augusts – 2010, 2006 and 2004 – and we seldom have less than 40mm. This year we had 104.75mm. At the start of the month we also baked in some very high temperatures heading towards 35 degrees Centigrade. The turn in the weather really started to come with the downpour on the 16th August and the following wet weeks in which we had storms Ellen and Francis to contend with and our second soaking on the 27th August. The wet of course helped plants but the stop-go nature of the weather this year has not really been in their favour and vegetables have had a stressful time of it being roasted by the sun one month and then doused in water the next. 6 Small Ads In need of extra help with mathematics? A qualified maths teacher is available to tutor children ages 9 to 16 Online tutoring is also possible via Skype Ring: Rajia Nash 01284 830809 See page 8 for more information on Graham Rust’s work 7 Graham Rust, who lives at Somerton, is having an exhibition of his paintings and designs at The Geedon Gallery at Fingringhoe near Colchester on October 3rd. The exhibition runs for two weeks and then afterwards by appointment until December 15th. He is showing one hundred paintings which include both his botanical studies and landscapes painted on his travels over the past forty years. Also included are book illustrations for The Secret Garden and other publications together with designs for mural paintings and other projects. Graham Rust’s best known work is The Temptation, the 5,000 square feet staircase mural at Ragley Hall near Stratford-upon-Avon which features in the upcoming Netflix series of The Crown this November. He has just finished illustrating a book for children Franz and the Travelling Doll—the true story of Franz Kafka and a little girl who lost her doll in a park in Berlin in 1923. It is to be published in Heidelberg this October. The Geedon Gallery is in a converted barn at Jaggers on Green Road Fingringhoe overlooking the salt marshes of the River Colne estuary.