ISSUE 132 June - July 2020 If you need a printed copy of Local Lynx 132, please call or email your village rep or [email protected]. Wishing all our readers well. And Stay alert (!) RH, Editor Lynx 132 is now online at www.locallynx.co.uk 1 WHAT’S ON Local Lynx is a non-profit-making community JUNE* th newspaper for the ten villages of the benefice. 17 Wed. Binham, Cosy Club, MH 2-4pm _________________________________________________________________________ We welcome articles, drawings, photos, poetry and JULY* th advertisements for publication from all ages but 6 Mon. Binham, Coffee Morning , MH, 10.30am th the editor reserves the right to edit or omit 15 Wed. Binham, Cosy Club, MH, 2-4pm submissions. A maximum of 400 words is recommended. Please contact your local rep on CURRENT REGULARS IN LOCKDOWN their email or phone number listed under your own Tues, Thurs, Sat – Langham Blue Bell Pub Shop 9-10.30am village heading. Wednesdays Field Dalling Village Van Shop, 2pm All submissions must go through the village rep. Wednesdays Langham Mobile Post Office VH 9.10-10am Wednesdays Langham Village Van Shop, 12.30pm For general information: [email protected]. ________________________________________________________________________________ Deadlines for submissions to reps are: 6 January, REGULARS (subject to social distancing restrictions 6 March, 6 May, 6 July, 6 September & 6 November being lifted/changed) Tuesdays Binham, Art Group BMH 9.30am - 12.30pm Newsletter and Website Advertising First and third Tuesdays in the month Binham, Sew and For enquiries about advertising in Local Lynx, contact Natter, The Gallery in the Chequers, 7-9pm Maxine Burlingham: [email protected] Wednesdays term time Binham Youth Group BMH 6-8pm. Rates for advertising (pre-paid) are: Third Wednesday in the month, Binham, Cosy Club, BMH, One column x 62 mm (1/8 page): £72 for six issues. 2-4pm Small Ads Panel on the back page: Third Thursday in the month Binham & Hindringham Open Available for individuals and businesses Circle Meeting, Hindringham VH 7.15pm providing local services. Cost: £36 for six issues. Fourth Thursday in the month Binham Local History Group BMH 7.30pm SERVICE COLLECTIONS APPEAL First & third Saturdays in month Langham Coffee Mornings, VH 10am -12noon MOBILE LIBRARY* *Thursdays 25 June & 23 July Langham Mobile Library 3.30pm St Mary’s & 4.00pm The Cornfield An on screen MOBILE POST OFFICE service led by the Field Dalling Every Wednesday, 10.10-10.50am, VH Revd Canon Fiona Newton with technical support provided by Ian NEW CLASH DIARY Newton. If you are arranging a big event, contact your village rep to Dear Readers, add it to our clash diary, then check the diary to see what Collections taken at services are an important source of else is going on. funds for the churches in our benefice, and the closure of the November churches due to the coronavirus pandemic means that in 2020 Sat. 28th Field Dalling Christmas Fair 10am - 12.30pm these funds are likely to be massively reduced. If you were willing to consider setting up a standing order on your bank account in favour of your local PCC, any such GLAVEN CARING UPDATE donations would help to offset the lost service collections. For example, if 10 parishioners each set up a SO for as of 24 April £5pcm, this would amount annually to £600, plus a further The well-being of our clients is paramount. The centre £150 if gift aid were consented to and claimed on these dona- was closed some 5 weeks ago. Hairdresser, hearing aid and tions. Your local PCC treasurer can supply your PCC’s bank podiatry clinics stopped. Almost all of the staff have been details and a gift aid declaration form. You would of course placed on furlough. be able to terminate the SO whenever you so wish. If you Our manager and chef have been retained and are would like to help, please get in touch with the relevant per- producing hot meals daily for our clients and anybody else son for your parish: that would like the service. This service is covering Blakeney and the Glaven Valley but also going out to clients Bale: Martin Moore [email protected] in Hindringham, Holt and High Kelling. A phone service Binham: Neil MacArthur [email protected] takes place on a Monday morning with the weeks menu, so Field Dalling: Louise Shone [email protected] they can have a choice which days they would like one. Gunthorpe: Penny Brough [email protected] Almost 400 hot meals (main and dessert) have been Langham: Ann Sherriff 01328 830605 distributed over these last few weeks. They come in their [email protected] own heat-retained tray at a cost of £8.50. Morston: Anne Rolfe 01263 741125 annerolfe45@ We have been assisted by some great volunteers getting gmail.com these meals out. If anyone knows of anybody that would like to have this service delivered to their doors, please contact us Saxlingham: Liz Peart elizabethpeart@btconnect. com on the methods below. Sharrington: Martyn Sloman [email protected] t: 01263 740762 e: [email protected] Stiffkey: Heather Harrison heatherjh16@gmail. com Thanking you. Keith Barnes, General Manager 2 Church Services for the Stiffkey and Bale Benefice for June and July 2020 HC=Holy Communion. CFS=Church Family Service. MP=Morning Prayer. BCP=Book of Common Prayer Churches will still be closed during June, but may be allowed to open in July and there is a service rota below if this happens. This is a tentative step towards normality and it is highly likely that virtual services will run alongside during July, at least, for those who do not wish to leave their homes. If you wish to take part in Zoom services, usually at 11.00am on Sundays and made possible by Mr. Ian and the Rev’d Canon Fiona Newton, please telephone Ian Newton on 01328 830947 or email [email protected]. In the meantime if you would like to receive the Rector’s sermons please email [email protected] Parish 5th July 12th July 19th July 26th July Bale 9.30am MP 9.30am HC Field Dalling 11.00am CFS At Saxlingham 11.00am MP BCP Saxlingham At Field Dalling 11.00am HC At Field Dalling Gunthorpe 11.00am MP 11.00am MP Sharrington 9.30am MP BCP 9.30am HC Binham 11.00am HC 11.00am MP Morston 9.30am HC BCP 9.30am MP BCP Langham 9.30am MP At Stiffkey 9.30am MP Stiffkey At Langham 9.30am HC At Langham No Additional Services No Regular Weekday Services RECTOR’S LETTER practically and thoughtfully. Mr. Ian and The Rev’d. Canon Fiona Newton have Isaiah 40. 28 – 31 made possible on screen Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the services of Divine everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of Worship. (See page 2) For the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no many people years of searching of his understanding. practice in care, prayer, the He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no exercise of duty and the might he increaseth strength. determination to keep things going have proved Revd Ian Whittle’s Sunday service Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young their worth. These remain the online men shall utterly fall: living foundations for building a better tomorrow. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their People take comfort and find inspiration in a great strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they many things. Some we all share, some we do not. I love shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and wind and rain and being on top of a hill! But I also love not faint. a walk around my own garden in warm sunshine after a shower. I like the smell of wet sheep and a wet dog Dear Friends and Parishioners, outside; and beeswax and wood smoke inside. The late John Richardson, writer and collector, wrote Reversing the two would be very unpleasant. in his autobiography ‘At Home’: All over the world people have faced a great “I enjoyed the Blitz; it brought out good nature in reversal. But there is One who never changes. ‘They even the nastiest people’. The terrible time so many that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they have endured and the appalling consequences, will shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and mark us all for a very long time, and for those who have not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.’ lost those they love, for their lifetime.” Yours most truly, There has though been a great outbreak of kindness Ian Whittle, The Rectory, Langham 01328 830246 and of gratitude. All our parishes have responded the [email protected] 3 COUNTY COUNCILLORS’ NEWS LOOKING AFTER LOCAL LYNX …from Dr. Marie Strong covers 10 villages in North Norfolk Dear All, published every other month The support and help which so many individuals in voluntarily produced by village members our parishes are giving to those struggling with Covid- distributed to 1,260 households, pubs, churches, 19 is outstanding – including small but valuable acts of libraries, tourist information offices and shops kindness about which only the recipient will ever know. estimated readership 2,000 plus 300+ on-line Added to all such support Norfolk’s organisations readers at www.locallynx.co.uk and agencies continue to be ready to help families. ‘Just Until quite recently, all our production costs (mainly One Norfolk’ support and advice line for families can printing) were covered by donations we receive from Parish be contacted on 0300 300 0123 or log on to Councils and PCCs, and by advertisements.