The Dun Valley News October 18 :: East Grimstead :: Farley :: Pitton :: West Dean :: This month inside: Team Letter After the dry times ... Rural dispensing Protecting our service Three Chequers Update on progress Pitton and Farley Parish Council summary Pitton Youth Updates Schools, Guides ... The Grimsteads Parish Council Summary Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms This month, the British Library is opening a landmark exhibition on the history, art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. It spans six centuries, from the eclipse of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest. The exhibition will even feature the Domesday Book, one of the most iconic manuscripts in English history Overall, highlights from the British Library’s outstanding collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts will be presented alongside a large number of exceptional loans. Some of the manuscripts have not been in the British Isles for over 1,000 years, some are of the earliest writing in English, and some are recent discoveries such as the Staffordshire Hoard. Among ‘must-see’ displays are the Codex Amiatinus, one of three giant single- volume Bibles made at the monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the north-east of England in the early eighth century. It was taken to Italy as a gift for the Pope in 716, and is now returning to England for the first time in more than 1300 years (on loan from Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence). It will be displayed with the St Cuthbert Gospel, also made at Wearmouth-Jarrow around the same time, and acquired by the British Library in 2012. See https://www.bl.uk/events/anglo-saxon-kingdoms for more details. 1 The Dun Valley Churches are members of The Clarendon Team THE CLARENDON TEAM MINISTRY OF CHURCHES TEAM RECTOR Revd Nils Bersweden has now left. His post will be advertised shortly. TEAM PRIESTS Revd Beth Hutton Tel: 01722 238504, [email protected] (with responsibility for Alderbury, West Dean, East and West Grimstead) Revd Jane Dunlop Tel: 01794 884793, [email protected] (with responsibility for Whiteparish) Revd Cynthia Buttimer Tel: 01980 862017, [email protected] Revd David Perry Tel: 07749 199453, [email protected] OTHER CLERGY V Revd Alec Knight, Revd Canon Jeremy Davies, Revd Canon Roger Sharpe, Revd Anthea Cochrane CLARENDON TEAM OFFICE Team Administrator 01980 863635 [email protected] TEAM LAY LICENSED MINISTERS Mr Bill Thompson, Mrs Debbie McIsaac, Mr Michael Barratt CLARENDON TEAM WEBSITE – www.clarendonteam.org You can find details of how to book baptisms and weddings, as well as Team Worship Services, news and activities around the Clarendon Team. For the Team Worship Rota go to www.clarendonteam.org/rotacurrent.htm, WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD CHURCHWARDENS Mr Bob Trott, Oakley, East Grimstead (Holy Trinity) 01722 712685 Mr Mike Marx, The Old Vicarage, West Dean (St. Mary’s) 01794 340271 FARLEY WITH PITTON CHURCHWARDENS Mrs Sara Bossom, Stockbottom House, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Jane Bawden-Jeanes, The Barn, Farley 01722 712854 WEST DEAN WITH EAST GRIMSTEAD FARLEY WITH PITTON TREASURER LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Ms Jane Higgins, 01794 340536 Mrs Sara Bossom, Pitton 01980 611133 Mrs Val Powley, Pitton 01722 712 746 SECRETARY Bob Trott, 01722 712685 TREASURER Ms Mandy Kerley 07971 679466 ORGANISTS Ms Janice Brown MAGAZINE EDITOR Ged Mirski-Fitton, Bells Cottage, Church Road, Farley, SP5 1AD Tel 01722 712520 E-Mail: [email protected] ADVERTS EDITOR Tim Hawkes, Lodge Farm House, Elm Close, Pitton, SP5 1EU Tel 01722 712577 E-Mail: [email protected] 2 Pitton Methodist Society The Pitton Methodists worship together with the Anglicans at St. Peter's Church and have a Methodist led service there once a month (currently the 3rd Sunday). Minister: Rev. Bryan Coates, [email protected], 02380 252960 Superintendent: David Hookins, 01722 320858 3 Team letter Revd Cynthia Buttimer Dear Friends, a dry time, or a time of escape. It happens to all of us. When you I’m writing this in early September receive this Harvest Festivals will be with the hot summer weather still in full fling, our preparations are lingering on. Its been an odd going ahead for Remembrance summer in the garden as through Sunday services and the anniversary June, July and a lot of August I hardly of the Armistice, and of course there did any gardening. The lawn and are services every Sunday at a church shrubs died and it looked pretty near you. We have lovely, grim. In some ways it was a nice welcoming congregations and escape, one less thing to have to do, everyone is welcome. but the pleasure I usually have in it was gone. So, as I go to fill in dusty holes and plant grass seed, re greening my Two days ago, my two-year-old dog, garden, I think of the wonder of who has had a pleasurable summer God’s creation and how he can digging holes in the lawn, and one refresh us in so many ways. Escaping enormous one in a flower bed, which is lovely, but I look forward to a I nearly broke my leg in, decided to beautiful autumn and renewed life. make a break for it. A neighbour discovered him digging his way out, (or he could have been trying to dig Cynthia. his way back in!) either way he too had decided to escape into the wider world and have a look. Having barricaded his escape route while he was shut in, he made a bee line back to it and was disappointed to find it inoperable! The summer is a time of escape, escaping on holidays to a bit of unreality, escaping through August from meetings and our usual pursuits, escaping from thick winter clothes and cold and huge electricity bills and a lot of things that bring stress into our lives and its quite hard coming back down to earth. I’m now tidying up the ravages in my garden and taking pleasure in re- planting and cutting out the dead bits. Sometimes faith is like that, it needs refreshing and re growth after 4 From the registers Baptisms Funerals No baptisms in this period John Frederick FRY at Winterslow on 21st September 2018 Weddings Dora PIKE Matthew Henry BURROWS at and Farley Catherine Bennett McISAAC on at 18th September 2018 Farley on Marian Freda REED 15th September 2018 at Whiteparish Adam James SMITH on and 15 August 2018 Charlotte Louise SIMMONDS at Sandra DAFFERN Whiteparish at on East Grimstead 8th September 2018 on 29 June 2018 5 Title Anon 6 Protect local rural dispensing services Jo Hobbis Last month most of you, like me, will more of us who sign up, the greater the have received a letter in the post from a loss of dispensing income to the practice, company called Pharmacy2U. Let me say and this threatens the viability of first of all that this is undoubtedly a dispensing services provided by the reputable business and they have a practice. This would be detrimental to perfect right to advertise their services in the health and wellbeing of all of us, but this way. The idea of a company offering particularly to that of the most to deal with your prescriptions and post vulnerable members of our community. your medicines to you at home, avoiding May I please ask you all to give careful the need to go to the surgery does, on thought to the wider implications before the face of it sound attractive. Some of deciding whether or not to sign up with you may be tempted by this offer Pharmacy2U? Thank you. particularly with the recent teething troubles with our surgery’s re-jig of the There is a letter on this subject, from Dr dispensing arrangements. However, Sam Dominey, on page 9. there are wider implications to signing up to this deal, which may well put our current dispensing services at risk. General practice finance is somewhat complex, but one aspect is that in rural areas, doctors’ surgeries may undertake to dispense medicines to patients who live more than a mile from the nearest chemist. The practice is paid for dispensing each prescription, just as chemists are. The practice, with their knowledge of peoples’ particular circumstances and needs, are also able to provide emergency prescriptions and home delivery of drugs in difficult times, often much more flexibly than can high street chemists, and certainly more flexibly than a postal service. (The Pharmacy2U service would not, for example, be able to get a supply of antibiotics to a patient on the day that they are prescribed by the doctor, and so a trip into town would be necessary to collect these from a chemist.) This is a valuable service to communities like ours, but is expensive to run, and the income from dispensing supports this provision quite significantly. When patients of the more rural areas of the practice sign up to have their medicines dispensed by Pharmacy2U or any similar company, the practice will lose part of their dispensing income. The 7 Title Anon 8 Dispensing and Medicines Management Dr Sam Dominey My name is Dr Sam Dominey and I am a this is hugely important in helping us GP partner at the Three Chequers provide extra services in our more rural Medical Practice, I guess I may have met areas. a few of you by now. It has been over a year now since we completed on the On behalf of all the team we thank you merger of the Endless Street, St Anns for your continued support. and Three Swans surgeries. Time seems This letter refers to Jo Hobbis’ letter on to have flown by and as you can imagine page 7.