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Church & Village News
Briningham Benefice Community
In Touch
May 2020
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www.brininghambenefice.org.uk
THE BRININGHAM BENEFICE
BRININGHAM St Maurice STODY St Mary
BRINTON St Andrew SWANTON NOVERS St Edmund
HUNWORTH St Lawrence THORNAGE All Saints
Rector: Churchwardens: (01263)
Reverend Jennifer Elliott de Riverol BRININGHAM:
Rest Harrow Miss Sylvia Took 862785
The Street Mrs Karen Siddall 860057
Swanton Novers BRINTON:
NR24 2QY Mrs Esme Bagnall-Oakeley 860247
Mr Jeremy Bagnall-Oakeley 860247
HUNWORTH:
Mrs Charlotte Crawley 713306
Please note the Rector’s post is part time. Her working days are Tuesday, Wednesday and on Sundays except in emergency and for funerals.
Ms Lucy Woodall 861114
STODY:
Mrs Nicola Baker 862247
Mrs Morag Lloyd 860407
Advertising rates for the SWANTON NOVERS:
‘In Touch’ magazine: Mr Roger Langston 860163
1/8 page: £25 per annum THORNAGE:
1/4 page: £50 per annum Mr Joe Ashley 862298
1/2 page: £100 per annum
Full page: £200 per annum Editorial Team:
Invoices and receipts will be sent. BACS payments
or cheques accepted. Contact: Teresa Anderson at;
Cover Design: Denise Clark
Views expressed in ‘In Touch’ are those of the individual contributor, and do not always reflect the official doctrine of the Church of England, nor necessarily the views of the Rector.
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Our Rector Writes
At the time of writing this, we are still in lock-down. We’ve lived Easter as never before and we long to be able to see family and friends again and return to our usual way of life. Hopefully, we’ll have learned by this unprecedented experience of having to stay home and maintain social distancing on the occasions we’ve been allowed to go out. There has been a tremendous sense of community, with our villages organis-ing shopping and medication for those who need it. With the impossi-bility of being able to have our Annual Parochial Church Meetings as planned, we are grateful to our church wardens who will continue with their duties until we are able to resume normal church life. With our churches closed, we have had to resort to other ways of worship. There have been numerous on-line opportunities to keep us in touch and to enrich our prayer life. We were able to renew our ordination vows with the Bishop of Norwich, on-line by using Zoom. The Archbish-op of Canterbury ministered to us from his kitchen. He has reminded us that even though we love our church buildings, “the church” is actu-ally the people who worship there. We are the body of Christ. Bishop Graham writes in his Easter message:“Public worship in our churches may be suspended, but our joy in the Resurrection is not. We believe that on the cross God has confronted and defeated evil, death and des-pair because of the great love he has for us, the love in which he holds us even through these difficult and challenging times”. The Easter peri-od in the Christian calendar continues until May 24th. Nature is coming alive and it is a splendid time for focusing on our faith or perhaps dis-covering it for the first time. May the light of Christ, rising in glory, banish all darkness from our hearts and minds. Amen
Please note that RICHARD HUNTLY has died following a long illness. He was well known in Swanton Novers and would worship with us when he was visiting from St Albans. We send our sincere condolences to Janet, his widow.
Jennifer
Rev. Jennifer Elliott de Riverol
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Prayer Requests for Our Parishes
Disclaimer—Information about events advertised in this magazine was accu-rate at the time of submission/printing. However, given the fast developing situation that we are facing with the Coronavirus outbreak it is possible that events may have been or may yet be cancelled. Please check, before attending any events that they are still on, and also please give careful thought to whether it is appropriate for you to attend given recent Government guide-lines.
FROM THE CHURCH REGISTERS Evelyn Bertram Funeral at St Mary's Stody on April 15th 2020 May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
Rev. Jennifer Elliott de Riverol Jennifer continues to progress and improve on her health and has told In Touch that while she is still poorly she is much better and hopes to return to work at the end of the month early May. In her absence please contact the Rev Jeremy Sykes, Area Dean for urgent
church matters on: 01263 860280 We wish her well for her recovery. In Touch.
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FOR HIRE
All Saints Church, Thornage
Hunworth and Stody Village Hall
Our Village Hall has a well-equipped kitchen, plenty of parking, quality tables and chairs and is available for hire from £7 per hour.
Please contact Des Simmonds at Ivy’s Cottage, Stody, on 01263 862523 or 07305 585279 or
[email protected] As usual, the keys will remain with the Crawleys at Hunworth Hall and all payments should continue to be posted through the Crawleys’ letterbox,
on collection of the keys.
Furniture, crockery and cutlery
Briningham Village Hall
With over 100 years of history, our village hall has lots of vintage character and is the ideal venue for clubs, events or groups. Available for hire at £30 per day or £5 per hour. For further information or to book, please contact: Mrs E
Senington on 01263 862920 or Mrs J Rix on 01263 861323
Mobile Library Service - Suspended Considering the current advice from the Government, we have taken the decision to suspend the mobile service for the foreseeable future. We will continue to offer e-media services and we will also be arranging an online weekly bounce and rhyme (videoed without an audience present), plus a daily story time will be available online for our younger customers. If you are a mobile library customer with books on loan we will automati-cally renew them until further notice. Norfolk County Council
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Our Heroes
I'll tell you a tale that's been recently written, Of a powerful army, so Great it saved Britain. They didn't have bombs and they didn't have planes, They fought with their hearts and they fought with their brains. They didn't have bullets, armed just with a mask, We sent them to war, with one simple task. To show us the way, to lead and inspire us, To protect us from harm and fight off the virus. It couldn't be stopped by our bullet proof vests, An invisible enemy, invaded our chests. So we called on our weapon, our soldiers in blue, All doctors, all nurses, your country needs you! We clapped on our streets, hearts bursting with pride, As they went off to war, while we stayed inside. They struggled at first, as they searched for supplies, But they stared down the virus, in the whites of its eyes. They leaped from the trenches and didn't think twice, Some never came back, the ultimate price. So tired, so weary, yet still they fought on, As the virus was beaten and the battle was won. The many of us, owe so much to so few, The brave and the bold, our heroes in blue. So let's line the streets and remember our debt, We love you, our heroes, lest we forget. By Matt Kelly Contributed to the magazine by Karen Siddall
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The Black Boys When we first lived in Thornage thirty years ago we rented Chapel Cottage from a friend. One evening we walked just up the road to have supper at a restaurant then in the Good Food Guide, The Black Boys. The proprietor sat down with us for coffee and we chatted amiably about this and that. As we got up to leave, he asked,’ I don’t suppose you’d like to buy this place, would you?’ Six months later our solicitor gave us the title deeds and, wrapped in pink ribbon, were the earliest documents relating to our new house. The first was a copy dated 1822 of an entry from the King’s Silver Of-fice, 1772. It described the buildings as ‘One messuage, one cottage, two stables and half an acre and one rood of land.’ It is not clear whether this was then an inn. Mary Hardy’s diaries reveal a big auc-tion on the death of a very rich brewer, Henry Hagon. At the ‘Sign of the Feathers’ in Holt there were twenty lots under the hammer con-sisting of land holdings in Holt, Letheringsett and Saxlingham. Item vii was ‘An estate situate at Thornage consisting of a messuage, Barn, Stable, Orchard, and four acres of inclosed land, now let to Peter Wil-liams, at the yearly rent of 6l 18s.’ So Peter Williams was the first, or at least the first named, landlord of ‘The Black Boys’… Beer was being drunk here as the Bastille fell in 1789 and as the Napo-leonic wars and two world wars were waged. Trade dwindled after the second war and it was delicensed in 1969. So, why ‘The Black Boys’? Three possibilities: either workers from the foundry just up the road, or black servants from Thornage Hall, or named after Charles II, popularly known as ‘the black boy’. Take your pick. Before the virus struck Peter Hammond and I were hoping to put to-gether an account of Thornage, its buildings and inhabitants. We hope we can start again when all this is over. Meanwhile I thought I would jot together a few ideas on the building I obviously know best. John Smart
Letters to the Editorial Team
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Letters to the Editorial Team
To: In Touch Briningham Good morning, Morrisons telephone shopping has launched new services: Morrisons Customer Services team have set up a dedicated elderly and vulnerable phone line for those customers to place an order over the phone. They can choose from a Food Box (please see the link) morrisons.com/food-boxes/boxes or place an order from a selection of 45 essential groceries for doorstep delivery. You can add pet food etc to the order. (this is not online at the moment). The order is then matched to a local store who picks the order and de-livers it directly to the customer the following day. If you have friends or family in need of this help and are unable to shop instore, please ask them to call 0345 611 6111 and select option 4 to or-der a Food box or 5 to place an order for Doorstep delivery. The order will take 24 hours to process, and payment will be taken through a contactless card by the delivery driver. No contact with the driver will be made and the machine will be placed on a wall etc for people to put their cards into. This service is available 8-4pm Mon-Friday excluding bank holidays. Sonia Shuter Health and Communities Manager 01263 516173 Morrisons.
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Letters to the Editorial Team
Thanks Michele The editorial team received a great contribution from Michele Bishop of Brin-ton on the piece regarding local businesses that provide home delivery ser-vices. A very useful item which we have produced as a poster for village notice boards as well as an article included in this months edition. We would also like to thank Michele for her help in producing this months Cromer Food Bank notice and of course her own contribution as a trustee of the charity. Thank you Michele.
What he said left an abiding impression Religious turmoil in the 16th and 17th centuries gave many opportunities for debate and individual views. This momentum continued throughout the 18th century. The growth of religious sects frightened governments by chal-lenging all authority-the State, the Established Church and even moral au-thority leading to imprisonment and persecution. In 1706 a journalist produced a list of such sects. Among the Millenaries, Sabbatarians, Thraskites, Seekers, Ranters, Brownists, Behmenists and Sal- monists were a handful of groups that have been given more attention by recent historians. The Tryonists differed from many similar sects by insist-ing that followers be vegetarian. The Children of the New Birth were given to meditation and “Visions of Angels and Representations” whilst the Ad-amists referred to their meeting places as Paradise and their devotions were carried on in a state of nakedness. The Sweet Singers of Israel were “very poetically given, turning all into Rhime and singing all their Worship. They meet in Ale Houses and eat, drink and smoak --- They hold that there is no Sin in them: that Eating and Drinking, and Society is bles’d: That Death and Hell are a Terror only to those that fear it. ” There was also a Family of Love described as” a community of women” with sexual orgies instead of services but who also maintained a stock of goods for the poor.
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Adherence to a congregation was often brief and many moved from one sect to another or belonged to more than one group at the same time. Members of a dissenting sect were frequently nominal members of the Es-tablished Church while also following the belief systems of dissenting sects. The Established Church wished its preaching to be undertaken by licensed preachers but some who sought a Preaching Certificate were perhaps seek-ing to make a point rather than sincerely wishing to be part of the Estab-lished Church as can be seen from the following; I Samuel Andrews of the parish of Wighton in the County of Norfolk and the Diocese of Norwich do hereby certify to the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich, to his Vicar Gen-eral in Spirituals, to any other person or persons whom it doth or may con-cern, that a certain room called the Kitchen in my dwelling house situate in the parish of Wighton aforesaid is by me designed and set apart as a place of religious worship for Protestant Dissenters according to the Act of Parliament in that case made and provided and I do hereby request and desire that the same shall be registered accordingly. What is clear however is that the preachers were able to attract large gath-erings if they were regarded as charismatic. The diaries of Mary Hardy and her nephew Henry Raven of Letheringsett Hall (superbly edited by Marga-ret Bird) revealed that by 1773 Calvinistic Methodist preachers and Wes-leyan itinerant and local preachers were criss-crossing the county on their planned circuits. The Anglicans, clergy and flock, were similarly on the move every Sun- day. Many resident incumbents served consolidated liv-ings and preached in two or more parishes. The hard-pressed curates fill-ing in for non-resident clergy often served three parishes. Also, weekday evening services attracted Nonconformists and Anglicans alike. The flock showed no particular loyalty to their own parish and the two diarists wrote that sermon tasting was a well-established custom in their North Norfolk circle. As a family the Hardy’s tended to worship separately but would gather together to travel to Field Dalling, Briningham or Warham All Saints to hear a good preacher even if the weather was bad and they were in an open cart. A much-admired preacher in Norwich was a Mr Kinghorn whose rather un- usual style certainly resulted in large congregations. Cecilia Lucy Brightwell recorded that one of his favourite methods was to bring forth some imaginary opponent –“Here starts up an objector” he would say and then proceed to state the arguments generally used—this was done with much vigour and spirit.
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I well remember how satisfying it was to see the adversary dislodged and his stronghold taken by storm. Mr Kinghorn’s impressive manner and appearance, his frequent emotion often testified by his faltering voice and gathering tears enlisted the sympathy of his auditors and imparted to his ministrations a special power. What he said left an abiding impression. (Source :C.B.Jewson,Simon Wilkin of Norwich) It has to be said that not everybody was as impressed. In 1825 the Marten family went to Mr Kinghorn’s meeting at St Mary’s. “Mr Kinghorn prayed in a very pleasing manner-his preaching was not to us so satisfactory-it was Essayish rather than experimental or practical and there wanted, as we all thought, a seriousness in his deportment. His pronunciation is very broad and his action rather restless than animated. (Source :Mr Marten’s Journal 1825 NRO MC 26/1) To go back nearly a century and a half to the middle of the 17th century the most well- known “fiery” preacher was Laurence Clarkson (sometimes referred to as Claxton) and many of his techniques were car-ried on by successors such as Kinghorn.Clarkson was born in Preston, Lancashire and be- came a Presbyterian. However, he tired of what he saw as Presbyterian intolerance and became an Independent. He then, while living in London, converted to Antinomi-anism and moved to Yarmouth and developed his “gift for preaching”. In particular he preached at Pulom but was “put out” by the Heads of the Parish and returned to itinerant preaching along the Norfolk/Suffolk bor-der. He then met up with some Baptist preachers and was himself bap-tised in the Thames. Returning to Suffolk he married and became part of a group of Baptists which included (the wonderfully named) Hanserd Knollys who caused riots by preaching in churchyards and pulpits after the official sermon. Clarkson and Knollys were arrested and imprisoned. Once freed Clarkson went to London to join the Seekers and became in-volved with the Levellers and indeed, he joined the New Model Army at Lincoln. There he heard of a sect called My One Flesh. This sect became better known as the Ranters and Clarkson became known as the “Captain of the Rant.” His activities however once again led to arrest and impris-onment. On release he became a quack doctor and astrologer but felt an absence of faith and having met the Muggletonian prophet John Reeve Clarkson became and remained a Muggletonian until his death in 1667. (for more information see A.L. Morton “Laurence Clarkson” in Suffolk Archaeology vol XXVI)
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It is here that I should admit that my interest in dissenting sects started with the Muggletonian’s and in particular E.P. Thompson’s “Witness against the Beast” which examines the background to the imagery of Wil-liam Blake’s poetry. Although not definitely proved it is believed Blake’s mother was a Muggletonian. Briefly, in the aftermath of the English Civil War and the defeat of the Levellers and Diggers, John Reeve believed that God spoke directly to him and chose him as “the last Messenger”. The date was 3rd February 1652.Reeve turned to his cousin Lodowick Muggleton and together they tried to rally a movement amongst the remnants of the Ranters. The movement was never very numerous-Muggleton’s funeral in 1698 was attended by 248 believers, and a” census” of male believers in 1803 showed only 100 in England; 35 in London, 20 in Kent, 21 in Derbyshire, 11 in Norwich and the remainder in diverse parts. For a long time, it was thought that the sect had died out sometime in the later 19th century but in the 1970’s E. P. Thompson in search of the Mug-gletonian archive was put in touch wIth a Mr Philip Noakes a fruit farmer living near Tunbridge Wells. It transpired that the archive had been held in a house in London which had been firebombed in the Second World War. Mr Noakes was one of three Muggletonian Trustees and had driven to Covent Garden with a load of apples and returned with the archive in eighty apple boxes. Mr Noakes was apparently quietly spoken and in no way the stereotypical fa-natic or crank. Although he spoke of “We Muggletonians” he did agree that his two fellow Trustees had died, and he was unaware of any other adherents. Mrs Noakes while sympathetic was not a believer. Despite some initial reservations Mr Noakes agreed that the archive should be transferred to the British Library where they were arranged in 89 vol-umes. Sadly, shortly after this decision was made Mr Noakes ‘s health de-clined, and he died in 1979 truly the last of the Muggletonians. Uniquely for such an obscure sect we have a precise date for its origins and for its final demise. Phil Anderson
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Whitsun Ale (Or Church-Ale, Parish Ale) Strong ale formerly brewed by the wardens as a Church fund-raiser at Whitsuntide, the seventh Sunday after Easter. Once widely practised, especially in the South-Western counties, as one of the Parish 'Ale Days' which might, varying from place-to-place, include celebrations of leet-ale (held on "leet", the manorial court day); the lamb-ale (held at lamb-shearing); the Whitsun-ale (held at Whitsun), the clerk-ale, the church-ale etc. Oxford Journal - Saturday 16 March 1776
Thomas Park's 1819 'Collection of English Songs' has;
The Churches much owe, as well we do knowe For when they be drooping and ready to fall,
By a Whitsun or Church Ale up again they shall go. And owe their repairing to a pot of good ale.
In 1604 the Church of England canon law stipulated that "no Plays, Feasts, Banquets, Suppers, Church-Ales, Drinkings, Temporal Courts, or Leets, Lay-Juries, Musters, or any other profane Usage to be kept in the Church." Though along with other attempted prohibitions (like mince pies), nobody seems to have ever taken much notice.
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Norfolk Life This Months Guest Recipe
Braised Beef Pie with (Whitsun) Ale
Makes 4/5 small pies or one large one For the pastry First boil the water, butter, lard and salt until all the fats have melted. Then combine it with the flour in a mixer. Leave the pastry to cool but do not chill For the filling Heat oven to 160°C/140°C fan/gas 3. Using casserole dish with a lid, soften the onion and celery in the butter. Stir in the beef until well browned. Then stir in the flour until it has disappeared and add the Worcestershire Sauce. Crumble in stock cubes and add thyme. Pour over the ale, bring to a simmer, then cover and cook in the oven for 21/2 hrs. Remove the lid, add in the carrot chutney and cook for another 30 minutes – this should thicken the sauce nicely To assemble Flour a work surface and roll out two thirds of the pastry to 3-4 mm thickness. Line your pie tins with the pastry and roll out the remaining pastry for the lids – cut to the correct size. Once the beef mixture has cooled, fill the pie moulds and top with the pie lids. Keep a bit of the gravy back for serving. Crimp the edges with a fork, egg wash and make a small hole in the middle. Garnish as you wish although a little sprin-kle of cracked black pepper is always a nice touch! Cook at 180°C for 30-40 minutes if making four small pies. For one large pie cook 45 minutes to an hour or until the pastry is golden and crisp. Serve with the pie along with some mash, gravy and greens
For the pie filling 100g of Chutney (spiced if preferred)
1 onion, chopped 1 bottle of Norfolk Nog Ale
1 small celery stick, chopped For the hot water pastry:
2tbsp of butter 90ml of water
2tbsp of plain flour 75g of butter
700g of Beef shin, cut into chunks 75g of lard
1tbsp of Worcestershire Sauce 1/4tsp of salt
2 beef stock cubes 300g of plain flour
2 sprigs of thyme egg wash
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April Draw Results
1st Prize £15 Chris Ley No. 59
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Items for inclusion in the June magazine are welcomed and should be sub-mitted by Thursday 14th May please to
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Local Order to Deliver Services I’ve been compiling a list of local businesses that deliver, I am sure there are more but here’s a few for starters: HG Graves Butchers. Meat fresh fruit and vegetables and newspa-pers. [email protected] to 01263 869 333 The Village Van Delivers to 21 villages in North Norfolk including Brinton - they are carrying general supplies, milk, bread, pastries, oth-er local produce (the smoked salmon was lovely) and Newspapers. Card only. Please form an orderly 2m distancing queue and if you would like to know what sort of produce they are offering then check out their webpage https://www.neallskitchen.com/villagevan Currylicious https://www.currylicious.co.uk Deliver to the Holt area on Fridays. The Sidings bakery in Melton Constable - pre-order by noon for col-lection the next day Wed-Sat. https://www.sidingyard.co.uk/menu/ G.R.Bunnings Fresh Fish [email protected] 01362820702 who will deliver fish fresh or frozen to the Holt area Wednesdays. P&S Butchers Holt - (Meat, Fish, Bread) 01263 713227 Back to the Garden Farm shop is open as usual, lots of the essen-tials in stock. Delivery/collection service is available if required. Please email [email protected] or call 01263 715996/715540 ext 1 Michele Bishop - Brinton
Brinton
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Hunworth and Stody
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HUNWORTH AND STODY VILLAGE HALL NEWS You are welcome to our Coffee Mornings.
Anyone wishing to help or join the committee will be warmly welcomed:
Phone Di Rollason on 01263 862523
Look out for posters of forthcoming events
HUNWORTH AND STODY VILLAGE HALL
Our Village Hall has a well-equipped kitchen, plenty of parking, quality
tables and chairs and is available for hire from £7 per hour.
To book, please contact:
Des Simmonds at Ivy’s Cottage, Stody
on 01263 862523 or 07305 585279 or [email protected]
As usual, the keys will remain with the Crawleys at Hunworth Hall
and all payments should continue to be posted through the Crawleys’
letterbox, on collection of the keys.
WITH MANY THANKS TO ALL OUR REGULAR CLIENTS!
Items for inclusion in the June magazine are welcomed and should be sub-mitted by Thursday 14th May please to
Email: [email protected]
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An exciting Folk Concert at Swanton Novers Village Hall
Edgelarks Saturday 24th October
Tickets £14
Bar with Traditional Ale All proceeds to Swanton Novers Village Hall
Tickets are available from Chris Armstrong on 01263 860573 or [email protected] Or Facebook - Swanton Novers Village Hall
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N.D.Arb, Level 3 N.P.C.T. tickets
Ecology and conservation Public liability insurance
The Card Re-Cycling Club at Thornage Church
All Saints Thornage greeting card recycling group will recommence when circumstances allow. Many thanks to all those who provided used cards and indeed the response was so good that there are a great num-ber on hand so no more used cards are required in the immediate future. However whilst there is a sufficient number of used cards any donations of books would be gratefully received. Please leave any books at the back of the church.
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Thornage Village Draw
Due to current circumstances, the FROTH draw has been suspended temporarily. These will be mega-draws in due course!
Organised by FROTH the Friends of Thornage Group
Rob Palethorpe 01263 862284 [email protected]
The April draw will be made independently by the Thornage Coffee Morning Group.
Thornage
Thornage Events Calendar
Dates for Your Diaries
All of our events are currently suspended.
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The Cromer & District Foodbank needs the following:
If you feel able to donate any of these items we would be very grateful. Items for the foodbank may be left at:
• The donation box in Holts Budgens
• The main warehouse in Cromer, which is located at the back of the Methodist Church (NR27 9DT)
• If there are large donations then collection may be an option.
Foodbank 07826 376343
INSTANT SNACKS - JUST ADD HOT WATER
LONG LIFE MILK - SEMI SKIMMED OR FULL FAT
TINNED FRUIT SPONGE PUDDINGS
TINNED POTATOES CUSTARD
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Norfolk Life Sowers and Growers
Feed daffodils for better flowers Daffodils look fabulous in spring, but they can look even better the following year. Once they’ve bloomed, remove any dead flowers and feed the plants be-cause the extra high levels of potassium will help build the bulbs for next year’s displays. Don’t remove the leaves for the first six weeks after flowering. Grow veg and flowers in tandem Plant vegetables and flowers together. Runner beans and sweet peas are espe-cially good together. Plant sweet peas in early spring and runner beans in early summer. Also effective grown together are dwarf marigolds and tomatoes, which can both be planted out when the risk of frost has passed, or planted together in a greenhouse. The flowers not only look lovely, they’ll help attract bees which makes for a better vegetable crop. Thicken up a patchy lawn Spring is the perfect time to give your lawn a makeover if it is looking a bit thin – simply rake the ground gently to loosen the soil, spike it with a fork, sprinkle in a general garden fertiliser followed by a handful of fresh grass seed (approx. 35g per sqm). Rake the seed in, keep it well watered and the new grass will quickly fill in the patches. This tried and tested method is a favourite amongst grounds men. Give roses a boost When planting roses pop a banana skin in the planting hole – as the skin decom-poses it releases magnesium, potash and other nutrients which can boost the health and colour of the roses! For top results, feed them with Flower Power too, it helps produce lots more roses as well as stronger, healthier plants. Add butterfly-friendly plants Plant nectar-rich flowers to attract butterflies and bring life to your garden all summer round. Our top plant picks are the short-growing patio Buddleja ‘Buzz’, light and airy Verbena bonariensis, stunning Sedum ‘Matrona’ and any of the late summer flowering asters. For very best results, and lots more flowers, feed them regularly.
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Norfolk Police has launched a campaign to support frontline services, by encouraging people to display sunflowers in their windows. Complementary to the NHS rainbows, when officers are out on patrol and see a sunflower, they’ll post sunflower seeds through the door for homeowners to plant and watch grow! Share your support on social media by tagging @norfolkpolice. Take part: norfolk.police.uk/news/campaigns/grow-your-support
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B1110 Needs our Help This road is the artery through the Benefice. For some it’s the road home, the Thornage Road, for me it’s the Holt Road, then it becomes The Street or further south it is Dereham Road. I live on it 36 inches away as my house sits hugging it as it passes and it has done for 300 years. I knew that when we moved here and in the main it’s not a problem. Thornage has recently taken on the speeding vehi-cles with the installation of ‘Gates’ either side on the village. Some in the Benefice have tried other meth-ods to tame the beast.
The issue is the mega trucks albeit in some cases delivering in the area trundle through our villages shaking our homes sometimes in the early morning. This brings added danger to us personally and for our pets. Signs showing restriction are around Swan-ton Novers and Holt but some are missing and not very prominent. They refer to the issue at Thornage but at both junctions Thornage is not signed so non local truck drivers are not sure where the restriction is. Instead of using the A148, which was up-graded to avoid Holt and our villages, they follow their known routes or their SatNav caus-
ing issues at the 90° bend in the road at Thor-nage. The Friends of Thornage (FROTH) would like to hear your views, ideas and the impact these mega trucks have been having on you. I know we are not going to be able to stop them but we can improve better signage and lobby the truck companies to make them aware of the impact they have on our road home.
Chris Major—Thornage Please let us know your thoughts. [email protected]
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The sort of thing that happens — from Phil Anderson
In these trying times it is of some benefit to still see the funny side of things. The cliché́ that laughter is the best medicine is almost certainly not strictly accurate (pharmaceutical products are often more effective) but the sentiment has great value. In this spirit I turned to Stephen Piles and “The Return of Heroic Failures” for inspiration. On a point of prin-ciple, I avoided the original volume on the basis that spectacular failures are in a way successful whereas the second division of failures are more interesting.
So, if you think that you are having a bad day consider the day that a Mr Brian Heise of Utah had in 1980. He awoke to find that a pipe had burst flooding his house. Deciding to hire a pump he went to his car only to find he had a flat tyre. Returning indoors to make a phone call he re-ceived an electric shock so great that he was hurled across the room and ripped the telephone out of the wall.
He then discovered that the dampness had caused the floor to swell and the front door was jammed, and he could not get out. He then spent some time shouting for help from an open window. Only when a neigh-bour heard him and smashed down the door was he able to get out and notice that his car had been stolen.
Eventually having informed the police, hired a pump, sealed the leak and cleaned the house did our heroic Brian feel able to relax. He went to a nearby Civil War pageant. Unfortunately, soon after arriving he felt in need of a sit down but stumbled and instead of a chair, he sat on one of the exhibits-an upturned bayonet. The story does have an upbeat ending in that having been rushed to hospital he did make a full recovery. Even the most well-intentioned actions still have a capacity to misfire. In 1944 King Haakon of Norway delivered a stirring address to his peo-ple on the BBC World Service. As the address was 40 seconds short of the allotted span the producer sent a request to the sound library for a fanfare to conclude matters. Haakon had finished his speech by com-mending his country to God when the air was alive with the sound of roundabouts and ribaldry. It transpired that the library had thought the request was for a funfair rather than a fanfare. Afterwards the king said it was “the sort of thing that happens”
Public information initiatives are vital at times like these but sadly they are not immune from disaster. Despite extensive and expensive adver-tising, the Post Office in 1985 were of the belief that the great British public had not fully embraced the concept of the recently introduced postcode system.
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It was decided to launch a quiz with only one question. In order to win a prize entrants only had to get their postcode correct. Some replies were received but disappointingly few. The reason was that in giving the ad-dress to which replies should be sent the Post Office had got its own post-code wrong. It was a printing error explained the Head Postmaster. Similarly, in 1987 wishing to enhance the country’s reputation for careful driving the French launched a safe motoring campaign. The idea was that free petrol tokens would be given to motorists who impressed roadside police with their considerate driving. After several days not a single prize had been awarded so the standard was lowered, and the tokens were to be given to any motorist who obeyed basic traffic regulations. When gen-darmes attempted to flag down the first winner the driver thought he had something wrong and sped off. So, in fact did the second motorist but he accelerated through a red light and instead of a token he collected a con-viction. Finally, the remaining tokens were given to any motorist who held a current driving licence and had seat belts in the vehicle. Good intentions can of course always go astray and the world of poetry (using the term very widely) provides many examples. Perhaps top place should be awarded to Mrs Amanda McKittrick Ros or to give her her full name Amanda Malvina Fitzalan Anna Margaret McLelland McKittrick Ros who was born in 1861. She had begun her literary career as a novelist but her four novels were out of print within a very short period after pub-lication. This was in part due to the fact that she discarded conventional grammar and regularly started a paragraph with a phrase belonging to a previous paragraph. Given the disappointing response to her novels (she acknowledged that it might take a thousand years for her genius to be fully recognised) she moved on to poetry. In the field of religious verse, she wrote her Ode to Easter with the memorable opening line;
“Dear Lord the day of eggs is here” As a war poet she was equally enthusiastic as the following couplet
demonstrates; “We know you will do your duty and come to little harm
And if you meet the Kaiser cut off his other arm”
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Difficult to surpass this but in the 1890’s Joseph Gwyer made a valiant attempt. Gwyer was a potato salesman in Penge who believed that Queen Victoria should have more than one Poet Laureate and so set himself up as an unofficial Laureate.
He published his first (and apparently last) volume of verse at his own expense but did offer readers the opportunity to buy his sacks of potatoes on a sale or return basis. His poetry did reveal a genuine honesty in that if events were beyond his powers to describe he simply said so. On the occasion of a procession involving the Prince of Wales he penned the fol-lowing lines;
At evening too, the dazzled light Illumed the darkness of the night
I can’t paint it for reasons best Twas grand ,though I in crowd was pressed
Gwyer’s real enthusiasm however was for teetotalism and his Ode on the visit of the Shah of Persia provided him with the opportunity to write the following;
Intoxicating draughts he never does drink If this we copied should we not be better, think?
A contemporary review advised that if there were any who were wavering between Mr Gwyer’s poetry and his potatoes they should definitely choose the latter. It is also the case that newspaper reports can be over enthusiastic particularly when reporting on apparent scientific break-throughs. Pride of place here goes to the Pacific Rural News who some years ago ran the headline
“Sterility may be inherited” Finally, however worthy the message every publication is aware of the destructive effect of misprints. In March 1978 The Times managed 78 misprints on one page. However, three months later this was put in the shade when the same newspaper achieved 97 errors in one story of five and a half column inches. The piece concerned Pope Paul VI who was re-ferred to throughout as “the Pop” and covered his “swiping swping ror-ganization ” of the papal curia. The article went on to advise that “Th Sctariat of Stat, the vatican’s forignoffic, gratly expand its activi- tis as Pop Paul pushed normalization of church relations with commu- nist and other countris.” What was truly impressive was that this standard was maintained throughout the rest of the article.
Any errors or misprints in this piece will of course be acknowledged and corrected in the next edition of In Touch.
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WORSHIP & EVENTS
May 2020
May 2020
Sunday Time Church Service Organist
3rd 9.30 am Stody HC Martin
11.00 am Thornage MP Matthew
10th 9.30 am Brinton MP Jeremy
11.00 am Hunworth HC (BCP) Matthew
17th 9.30 am Swanton Novers MP Matthew
11.00 am Briningham HC Martin
24th 11.00 am Brinton HC Benefice Jeremy
31st 11.00 am Stody Benefice HC Martin
Dear all, We will be in Lockdown until at least May 7th. We don't know as yet if our churches will be holding services in May. However, I attach the rota should we be able to go ahead. Many thanks and keep safe, Jennifer Rev. Jennifer Elliott de Riverol
HC Holy Communion (Common Worship) BCP 1662 Book of Common Prayer MP Morning Prayer (Common Worship)
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