GREAT EASTON POST OFFICE AND Salsborough Kennels STORES And Cattery “Here to serve you” A home from home for your beloved pets Tel: 01536 770309 Small and Medium dog grooming now re-instated. Email: [email protected] Oaktree Lodge, Horninghold Road, B&B accommodation available: Stockerston contact details as above Tel: 01572 822270 Eyebrook Wild Bird Feeds Quality mixes and straights at farm gate prices, PJH mixed on our farm near the Eyebrook Reservoir & Visit our website: ww.eyebrookwildbirdfeeds.co.uk SONS Rectory Farm, right of Church, Great Easton Tel: 01536 770771 Open Friday & Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am – 12 noon PHILIP J. HAMMOND & SONS You are welcome to collect at any other SOLICITORS time, but please telephone first Commissioners for Oaths 47 FRIAR LANE, LEICESTER, LE1 5QX TELEPHONE: (0116) 251 7171 Medbourne Playgroup FAX NO: (0116) 253 7370 e-mail [email protected] Held at Medbourne Village Hall Website www.pjhammond.com Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 9.15am to 12 15pm Contact Richard Hammond For ages 2½ - 5 Contact: Celia Pocock: 01536 770421 Home visits possible or Sara Robbins: 01536 771368 CAR PARK AVAILABLE WHILST VISITING THE OFFICE EM DORMAN COOPERS FUNERAL DIRECTOR A family concern, giving 24-hour personal service to all areas. Carpets & Lighting Centre Golden Charter pre-paid plans available Be inspired (help and advice without obligation) PRIVATE CHAPEL OF REST Our aim is to give you, our Tel: 01572 823976 customers, service and qual- A member of Society of Allied and Independent Funeral directors ity at affordable prices. Large showroom over two floors. HEFFORDS Rugs, Flooring and Karndean. Solicitors Incorporating Hefford Johnson & Co Lighting/Furnishings Tel: 01858 410040 49a High Street Mirrors/Accessories Fax: 01858 432772 Market Harborough Leics. LE16 7AF Open 6 days a week Specialising in all private client matters Home visits for the elderly or infirm. 109 - 111 ROCKINGHAM ROAD, CORBY Please contact: Tel: 01536 266364 JANICE HEFFORD or SARAH HEFFORD The Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt The Reverend Stephen Bishop [email protected] The Rectory, Rectory Lane, Medbourne, LE16 8DZ H.Snow & Son Tel: 01858 565933 Mobile: 07590 829902 Established since 1913 Virtual Personal Assistant working remotely For all your building requirements email [email protected] by the hour. If you are in need of secretarial or Stonework and listed building specialist office support on a flexible basis then please 01536 770257 / 07876765226 / 07594935958 Secretary Ann Baile Treasurer Miles Ingram [email protected] email or telephone me on: The Paddocks, High Street Teal Cottage, 5 Holt View 0771 444 0210 NOW ZERO RATED VAT ON EVERYTHING Great Easton LE16 8ST Great Easton LE16 8TN 01536 770095 01536 772571 BRINGHURST CUM GREAT EASTON & DRAYTON CONSTRUCTION: Wardens BRINGHURST DRAYTON Foot Health Practitioner RENOVATION: Michael Mallock Tim Fletcher Specialist Foot Care Treatment MAINTENANCE: Manor Lodge, Main Street 1 The Green in the comfort of your own home Bringhurst LE16 8RJ Drayton LE16 8RQ Vicarage Cottage Graham Clark JOSEPH Main Street, Loddington 01536 772044 01858 565895 SAC(dip), CFHP (pract) Leicestershire LE7 9XE WARBURTON For an appointment call Carpentry & Building Home Tel: 01572 717302 GREAT EASTON Mobile Tel: 0774 04 2 6889 Tom Theakston Mary Henniker-Major 01536 772118 Services 4 Banbury Lane Linden House Great Easton LE16 8SF Great Easton LE16 8SJ 01536 770929 01536 770320 Book-keeping Accounts MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT, STOCKERSTON & BLASTON VAT returns Wardens MEDBOURNE CUM HOLT Sage User Margaret Tuffs Mr Martin van Oppen Brookfield House, 41 Main Street Manor Farm Lynn Bradley Medbourne LE16 8DT Medbourne LE16 8DR Book Keeping Services 01858 565911 01858 565332 Telephone: 01858 434850 STOCKERSTON Mobile: 0779 064 5449 Mary Patston Catherine Nicholson Apple Cottage, Medbourne Road Stockerston Hall Stockerston LE15 9JF Stockerston LE15 9JD 01572 823396 01572 823204 STEPHEN SANDERSON LTD UK & EUROPEAN TRANSPORT BLASTON Patrick Fisher Wilfred Coon Robin Murray-Philipson Riverside Industrial Estate Market Harborough Hallcroft, Medbourne Road Garden House Carpenter & Joiner Leics LE16 7PT Hallaton LE16 8UH Blaston LE16 8DE Telephone: c01858 410117/466499 01858 555630 01858 555233 All your woodworking needs Fax: 01858 465121 E-mail: [email protected] Treasurers Bringhurst etc David Gibley 01536 772159 Medbourne Rachel Glover 01858 565876 New and renovation work www.sandersontransport.com Stockerston Mary Patston 01572 823396 Blaston Lindsay Blaaberg 01858 555538 Secretaries Bringhurst etc Ann Baile 01536 770095 For reliable and GARRY HYDE Medbourne etc Jenny Sandars 01858 565245 friendly service Stockerston Wendy Bromwich 01572 823110 Interior and Exterior Blaston Della Stones 01858 555688 Painting and Decorating We are always pleased to welcome new residents to our parish Glazing so please do make yourself known to one of the above-named. Tel: 01858 565117 TEL: 01858 565215 Supported by Great Easton and Medbourne Parish Councils, the Bringhurst and Drayton Parish Meeting Mob: 07805 495958 MOB: 07795 096109 and other local groups and organisations. Printed by Clipperprint, East Goscote, LE7 3XA Weekly Events Rector’s Letter Monday Medbourne Tiddlywinks October 2011 Parent, baby and toddler group Harvest 2012 Medbourne Village Hall 10am - 12noon Line Dancing Great Easton Village Hall 1.30 - 3pm I am fond of these words of the Buddhist monk, Tsongkhapa: “This life, you must know it as a tiny splash of a raindrop. A thing of beauty that Tuesday Art Club disappears as it comes into being. Therefore, set your goal. Make use of every Great Easton Village Hall 10am - 12.30pm day and every night.” Given that I am just turning fifty, and that I am recuperating from my recent Bell Ringing Practice operation, I have perhaps had more time than usual to reflect on the years which St Andrew’s Great Easton 7.30 - 9pm have passed. Tuesday Yoga Class for all ages/abilities 7.30-8.45pm Life is a tremendous gift. Though it is not without its moments of darkness and Medbourne Village Hall difficulty it is, nonetheless, a wonderful blessing. As we reflect on life, we quickly Tues, Wed Medbourne Playgroup become aware of how important it is to make the most of all life's opportunities. & Thurs Medbourne Village Hall 9.15am - 12.15pm The phrase "Seize the day" (Carpe diem), stemming from the belief that life is a gift to be lived to the full, is in keeping with the Christian tradition. One of the Wednesday Tai Chi 9.30-10.30am best-known of the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel is: "I have come that you may have life in all its fullness." (John 10:10) Great Easton Village Hall I have found it a great help to see life as a gift with a good purpose, even with all Thursday Great Easton Mum, Baby and Toddler Group its contradictions and troubles. It is a mystery which at times is quite Great Easton Village Hall 10am - 12noon unfathomable, but trusting that there is purpose and meaning behind even the Junior Tennis Club at Medbourne most difficult aspects of the gift of life, helps one to make the most of it. And if a May to August purpose, then there must be a Being giving and sharing this sense of purpose . 4.30pm Beginners And what better response, but to come to that Being in gratitude for the countless, 5.15pm Intermediate unsought blessings which make life such a wonderful thing. What better 6pm More advanced (those who can rally) encouragement to come and thank God for "all good gifts around us", than our Classes free to Tennis Club members annual Harvest Festival celebrations. Thursday Youth Group 11-18 years This year there will be visiting clergy at our Harvest Services across the parish. I Meets every Thursday in the Village Hall am sure that they will enjoy celebrating God’s generous gift of life in all its fullness Alternating weekly between Medbourne and Great Easton with you all. EVERYONE IS WELCOME For further information please contact: Stephen Bishop Cathy Moran 01536 771175 Parish Magazine Policy At a meeting of the magazine sub-committee on 6 November 2006, the following policy was agreed Email addresses: for all articles to be printed in the magazine: Please note that the Rector’s email address is • Articles should be no longer than one side of A5 paper (one magazine page), allowing space for any artwork. [email protected] • The deadline for submission of articles is the 5th of the preceding month. Magazine related emails should all be sent to • Wherever possible articles should be submitted by email to [email protected] [email protected] Prayer Group will meet at 8.00 pm on Parish of the Six Saints circa Holt Monday,1 5th October at Manor Farmhouse, Services Great Easton. October 2012 7 October Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 9am 1662 Eucharist at Drayton Revd David Osborne 11am Medbourne Family Harvest Festival Revd Richard Barribal followed by Harvest Lunch 14 October Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity 11am Harvest Family Eucharist at Great Easton followed by Harvest Lunch Revd Canon Mike Harrison 6pm Harvest Evensong at Blaston Very Revd Derek Hole ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH – ROTA OF SIDESPEOPLE October 2012 21 October Twentieth Sunday after Trinity 9am 1662 Eucharist at Bringhurst Revd Richard Barribal Sundays: 14th October 11.am Margaret Gadd & Anne Wallis 10.30am Family Eucharist at Medbourne Revd Richard Barribal NO COFFEE-HARVEST LUNCH 3pm Stockerston Harvest Festival Revd Dr Derek Stanesby 28 th October 10.30.am Heather Ingram & Margaret Stamp 28 October Last Sunday after Trinity Simon and Jude, Apostles If any of these dates are inconvenient, please arrange to swap with someone, 10.30am Eucharist at Great Easton Revd Richard Barribal or if you have a problem contact Julia Bowder on 01536 771539. God’s Generosity God, you heap your love upon us like a mother providing for her family’s need, St Andrew’s Great Easton embracing her child with tenderness.