GARGRAVE & CONISTON COLD Parish Magazine APRIL 2014 £1 Inside this issue CONTACTS David’s Dispatches 1 Farming on Scaleber Hill 16 St Andrew’s Church, Gargrave Diary and events 2 Moyra’s Migrations 17 Vicar Revd David The Vicarage, Church Lane, 748468 News 5 Schools 20 Houlton [email protected] Attentive to Beauty? 12 Children’s page 21 Churchwarden Jerry Ford 27 Marton Road, 748563 and treasurer [email protected] Business directory Centre Sketchbook 22 Churchwarden Pat Cockshott 11 West Street, 749586 Lent with a difference 15, 18 Parish Council 23 Organist Susan Watkiss 798660, [email protected] Evacuation – part 3 15 Rotas, railways and rubbish 24 PCC secretary Hugh Turner Kirk Syke, High Street, 748117 Gift Aid Sarah Curtis 11 Marton Road, 748510 St Peter’s Church, Coniston Cold Vicar Revd David as above Houlton Churchwarden Gerald Hall Robin’s Barn, Coniston Cold. 748497 Churchwarden Ethne Bannister Coniston Hall, Coniston Cold, 749551 & MU Leader [email protected] Treasurer Brenda Northrop 749212 PCC secretary Sue Hutchinson 01729 851082 Electoral Roll Jacqui Coates 01729 749300 Gargrave Parish Council Clerk vacant 668209 [email protected] Coniston Cold Parish Council Clerk Sandra Crawford 01729 830248 Gargrave Church of England Primary School Head teacher Sarah Peel 749433 [email protected] www.gargraveceprimaryschool.co.uk Gargrave PrePre----SchoolSchool Leaders Lizzie Hall and 748377 [email protected] Lyn Picton www.gargravepreschool.co.uk DDDatesDates for your diary 5 April Ellie Gillie Band Gargrave Village Hall Bookings Sally Thomas 01756 748098 [email protected] 11 April Film Show, Double Bill Vive le Tour and Velorama 12 April Jumble Sale, Coniston Cold Parish magazine 17 May Gargrave Open Gardens Editors and Beatrice Faulkner 2 Riversway, Gargrave, 749443 advertising Duncan Faulkner [email protected] 27-29 June Gargrave Autoharp Festival Subscriptions Ruth Abbott 9 Marton Road, Gargrave, 748483 13 July Duck Race 16 Aug Gargrave Show More thoughts for Lent MMMAAAYYY IIIISSSSSSUUUEEE DDDEEEAAADDDLLLIIIINNNEEE:::: TTTUUUEEESSS 111 AAAPPPRRRIIIILLL Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass – it is learning how to dance in the rain! [email protected] 01756 749443 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails. Anon www.gargravemag.co.uk Some people’s religion reminds me of a rocking-horse, which has motion without Printed in Skipton by Ellesmere Press on FSC recycled paper progress. Rowland Hill (cover pages from PEFC European farmed forests) 3 OOOrganisationsOrganisations Please let us know if you’d like to amend or add an entry DAVID’S DISPATCHES Caterpillar Club (0+) – St Andrew’s, Wed 10-11.30am, Gemma Tetley 07835 739899 Rev David Houlton Stay and Play (0+) Village Hall Annex, Mondays 9.30-11.30am, Sally Thomas 748098 ONE OF THE AMAZING THINGS about the Bible is how the people you read about RRRainbowsRainbows (5+) – Debbie Gomersall 01729 830589 seem just like people you know who are alive today. It's not filled with myths BBBrowniesBrownies (7+) – Rose Turner 01729 825886 about idealised gods and heroes who do amazing superhuman things. People in Young Farmers Club --- Coniston Cold,Cold Tues 7.30pm, Janet Bolland 01729 830505 the Bible, even in the oldest bits, are normal - a mixture of good and bad. And the Wednesday Club (over 60s) – Village Hall Annex, Wed 1.30-3.30pm, Veronica 749347 world they live is normal – a mixture of good and bad. Phoenix Group (over 65s) – The Anchor Inn, alternate Thurs 9am-1pm, On the other hand, an Atheist bible published a few years ago, was filled with Jean McHale 01729 850329, 07775 880577 idealistic statements and great sayings by philosophers, poets and so on. The BBC Meals on Wheels – Mon & Wed, Brenda Longbottom 749883 reported that the “... prescription for the good life includes wisdom "plundered" from writers and thinkers including Aristotle, Cicero and Lucretius, focussing on Bowling ––– outdoor Gargrave Bowling Club, Michael Cox, 748285 Cricket – Gargrave Cricket Club (over 13s) Tony Cockshott, 07788 100199 the meaning of the good life and how to live it....” Croquet ––– Craven Lawn Tennis ClubClub, Gargrave, Tues 2-6pm, Roy Berry 748065 The trouble is, Rev Giles Fraser complained on air, that it's all a bit tame; the Cycling – Gargrave Tuesday Club, Dalesman Café, Tues 9.30 for 10am start, Atheist Bible is 'a little "cheesy", in comparison with the "full-blooded version"'. Thurs 10 for 10.30am start, Trevor Pickles 01282 844788 The Bible is, after all, full of disasters and failures, heroic struggles between Football – Gargrave AFC (over 16s),, Tues eve training, Sat games good and evil and dramatic tests of faith. It is, he explains, "not a work of morality. www.gargraveafc.co.uk, Caroline Thompson 749235 It's actually a work of something deeper - the problem is not about just following Golf – Mason’s Arms Golf SocietySociety, www.masonsarmsgolfsociety.com, 749304 a few rules, there's something more deeply wrong with the human being". Hunt – Pendle Forest & Craven Hunt, Elizabeth Adams 01756 749772 And philosopher Mark Vernon added "To pretend that we can sort life out Pilates ––– Village Hall Annex, Fridays 9am-10am, Beatrice Faulkner 749443 with some neat and tidy philosophy, is just deluded.” "If life was that simple we Tennis – Craven Lawn Tennis Club,Club Beth Whitley 749664, www.craventennis.org.uk would have done that centuries ago and we would be living in a perfect world." Tai Chi – Village Hall Annex, Thur 7.30-8.30pm, Ian Cresswell 748540 But this world is not heaven, it never will be, and God has a different solution Walking ––– GAP GroupGroup, start outside V Hall, 1st Sun of month, 10am, Olive Coates 748379 for the mess of good and evil we live in. He has got involved personally. He Walking for Health – 1st Thursday of the month, 10am, Jean Maxwell 748851 became one of us; He showed and taught us how to live well, but in the real world YoYoYogaYoga ––– Village Hall Annex, Wednesdays 9.30-11.30am, Sally Thomas 748098 not just in theory. Zumba ––– V. Hall (16+) Tues 5.45-6.45pm until 22 April; Thurs 5-6pm, Mon 1-2pm from 28 April Julia Priestley 07769 692471 And, spiritually, He gave His life for ours. At the first Easter He took our Modern sequence dance – Village Hall, Mon 7.45-10pm & a monthly Saturday messes to death with Him. And He showed that He is God - even of death. So now (see diary, p.2), John Stephenson 01535 632935 we can have a new life – a life free from the guilt for what we have done, and Chance 2 dance ––– Village Hall Annex, Tap (3-18, adult) Tues 4.15-7.30pm looking forward to living forever in the real heaven. Ballet (3-18) Sat 9am-2.30pm, TheatreTheatre----craftcraft Thur 5-6pm Jaki 0758 2086345 So at this time of year, when the countryside is turning green, lambs are Thomson’s Dance Centre – (3 - adults) School Hall, Sat am, Kathy Thomson, 07912 441913 skipping in the fields, birds are feeding their young, and new life is all around us, Bell ringing – St Andrew’s, Mon 7.30pm Sun 9.30am Davina Cockshott 07772 179561 let's remember Easter. God became human and died for us, so that we can have th Bingo – Village Hall Annex, 4 Wed of month 7.30pm, Joan Philip 749468 new life too. nd Craft Night ––– The Swan Inn, 2 Tues of month, Georgina [email protected] Dog training ––– Village Hall, Wed 5-10pm, Helen & Brian Coates 751816 Fuchsia & Geranium Club ––– V.Hall, 1st Wed of month 7.30pm, Paula Jackson 752175 Gargrave Heritage Group – Tues 10am, St Andrew’s Church, Martin Thomson 748309 Knit and Natter ––– St Andrew’s, Tues 2pm, Norma Brothers 748392 Mothers Union ––– Ethne Bannister, 749551 Parish Council Meeting ––– Village Hall side room, 1st Mon of mth, or 2nd on bank hols Pendle Forest and Craven HuntHunt–––– Elizabeth Adams 749772 Snooker Club ––– Village Hall Snooker Annex, every day, Stewart Smith 749340 Stan Drew’s Community Choir ––– Ruth Abbott, 748483 WIWIWI – Village Hall Annex, 2nd Wed of month 7.30pm, Moyra Sonley 749634 st Masons Arms – Quiz Sundays 9pm, Acoustic live music 1 Friday of the month The Old Swan Inn – Quiz Thursdays 9pm 749232 1 DIARY FOR APRIL Sat 26 Coffee Morning, 10am to Noon, Village Hall: the monthly 100 club See back inside cover for regular weekly events and meetings draw for the Community Library will take place. Modern Sequence Dance 7pm, Village Hall. Gargrave Sun 272727 Communion 8am; Morning Prayer 10.45am, Church Tue 1 Communion 9am, Church Flea Market, 10am to 4pm, Village Hall. Lent course – afternoon group, 2pm, Vicarage Tues 29 Communion 9am, Church Wed 2 Fuchsia and Geranium Society, 7pm, Annex. Sun 4 May Communion 88amamamam;; Sung Eucharist 1010.45am,.45am, Church Sat 5 Coffee Morning, 10am to Noon, Village Hall Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Morning Prayer, 9am, Church Ellie Gill Band, 7pm, Village Hall. Tickets are £10 to include pie and pea supper and fully licensed bar. CCConiConioni�on�on Cold Sun 666 Communion 88amamamam;; Sun 6 Evensong 4pm, St Peter’s Morning Service 10.45am, followed by Annual Meeting of Sat 12 St Peter’s Jumble Sale in the Tottie Memorial Hall ParishParishiiiionersoners & Annual Parochial Church Meeting 11.15 am, Church Sun 13 Palm Sunday: Procession from Gargrave Summerseat 10.30 a.m, Mon 7 Parish Council Meeting, 7.15pm, Annex. followed by Joint Service of the Word 10.45 am, St Andrew’s Church Lent course – evening group, 7.30pm, Vicarage Sun 20 Easter Day: Book of Common Prayer Communion & renewal of Tue 8 Communion 9am, Church baptismal vows & Easter egg hunt 4pm , St Peter’s Lent course – afternoon group, 2pm, Vicarage Sun 27 Evensong 4pm, St Peter’s Wed 9 WI Meeting, 7.30pm, Village Hall Annex May 4 Evensong 4pm, St Peter’s Fri 11 Library Event – Double Film Night.