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Mobile Library Every fourth ThursdayVillage Old time New time LocationMatlaske 12:20 pm 12:30 pm Old Post OfficePlumstead 13:00 pm 13:15 pm Walnut FarmBaconsthorpe 14:25 pm 14:45 pm Council Bungalows

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Books can be dropped off out of hours in the letterbox labelled ‘bookdrop’ in the blue door.

Post Office Baconsthorpe Village HallTuesdays 12:30 pm to 4 pmFridays 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

For a full range of services offered at this branch and all other enquiries call 712139.

Norfolk Constabulary 101 for non-urgent calls Holt Safer Neighbourhood Team

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EditiorialMy first edition of this newsletter just so happened to coincide with the start of the debate about whether or not to approve a wind turbine in Bodham. My opinion has wavered but one thing that I have felt I should do is understand the truth behind the options.

A friend in our village has sourced all sorts of material about this and it looks at the bigger picture. Whether we like them or not, it would appear that we should approve such structures. Here is the reasoning.

Big businesses make decisions that have enormous implications if they get them wrong so they employ organisations such as Bxxx to investigate and come up with facts that are in no way influenced by political/lobbying motive. They present their findings on energy as follows: But there is a bigger picture re biodiversity, resouces being used up

Police ConcernsDuring the past couple of weeks we have seen a rise in vehicle crime, in particular thefts from vehicles. A small number of these have been opportunistic thefts of handbags from insecure cars in car parks along the north coast beauty spots. The most significant crime is the theft of tools from the back of vans or other vehicles. One method is to drill the door lock; other methods include bending back the door, smashing windows or otherwise breaking the lock. These are mainly overnight but can be any hour. Catalytic converters have also been stolen from vehicles that are higher off the ground, such as four-wheel drive, people carriers and transit-type vans. Officers are currently employing a number of tactics to identify and apprehend those responsible and we would be interested to hear from anyone who may have information.Crime prevention tips include:• Private vehicles should be kept in a well-

secured garage where possible, and if no garage is available, in a well-lit public area.

• Vehicles can be parked in such a way as to make access to the catalytic converter difficult or parallel with another vehicle if you own one.

• Commercial vehicles should also be kept in a locked building or compound.

• Use alarms, lighting and CCTV to deter thieves.

• Mark your catalytic converter – etching the part and spraying with heat-resistant paint. Contact your local crime-reduction officer on 101 for more information.

Please keep your eye out for criminals or suspicious activity and be very security conscious. If you see something suspicious please call police on 101.

Police Street SurgeriesMeet your local police community support officer (PCSO) to discuss any issues in confidence. Dates and times are advertised on local notice boards/bus shelters and, from time to time, in this newsletter.

Bodham Wind TurbineThis planning application has been resubmitted and any representations about it will be accepted until the day of the Development Committee meeting. This date has not yet been decided. The planning application number is PF/14/0925 and representations can be made by post to the District Council offices or on the NNDC website: tinyurl.com/pondfarmwt2

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ApologyMany apologies to YG for her e-mail alerting us to Hempstead’s participation in the Norfolk Show slipping into the August newsletter as copy. Ed and Sub-ed

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Time has again proven my wife right (aren’t they always?) I should have bought a digital camera six years ago, I should have recognised the advances in things like ipads that are able to show the night sky and locate the stars and planets. Maybe now was the time to buy a fully computerised GOTO telescope? I set up my trusty 30 year old mechanical telescope one last time. The wooden tripod legs that I had so lovingly varnished all those years ago still glistened in the fading light. The lumbering black metal mechanical mount still guided the telescope to those distant stars and planets, most of the time, more or less. The old girl was showing her age, she has been a loyal friend all these years but was now barely working, it was time to say goodbye. I packed her away in the footlocker one last time and whispered a sad farewell.I ordered my new computerised telescope and was delighted when it arrived, it looked so smart, all chrome and white painted aluminium. I set it up and keyed in the basic data it needed, and was ready to go. When it was dark enough I placed the telescope on its concrete base, pointed it north and switched on the hand controller. After that all I had to do was enter the date and time, line it up with two stars the computer selected and that was it, ready to go in 2 mins. compared to 30 mins. with the old one. I decided to try out ”Guided Tour, Tonight’s Best” and pressed GOTO. With a busy whirring noise off it went, swivelling the telescope until it aligned on Jupiter and gave a friendly little beep to say it was ready. Jupiter was dead centre in the eyepiece, its dark bands clearly visible and four of its largest moons. Satisfied, I pressed a button and off it went again whirring and buzzing and within a few seconds gave another little beep. This time it had selected the Orion Nebula, one of my favourite astronomical objects and it looked amazing. After that it went to the Perseus Double Cluster, a beautiful sight, billions of stars clustered together like diamonds on black velvet. I was convinced, such ease of use, I should have bought it years ago.Technology is a wonderful thing, it has its place in modern society, but I think it also has its downside, it can make us lazy. I learned astronomy the hard way, using star charts and books, I know what I am looking at and I know my way around the night sky. I remember the thrill of finding those first distant galaxies and the sense of pride it gave me that began a lifelong fascination with the stars. The current generation of young astronomers only need to know how to press a button to see the wonderful sights the heavens have to offer, it is so easy for them. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Will they be inspired for a lifetime or just a few minutes?

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Church Matters

Church Services31 Aug Trinity 11 10 am Communion Plumstead Church

Priest: Ven Michael Handley 7 Sep Trinity 12 10 am Matins Matlaske Church

Priest: Rev John Chandler 14 Sep Trinity 13 10 am Communion North Barningham Church

Heritage weekend – Priest: Rev Brian Faulkner 21 Sep Trinity 14 10 am Communion Baconsthorpe Church

Priest: Rev Canon Fiona Newton28 Sep Trinity 15 4 pm Choral Patronal Evensong Plumstead Church

Bishop Tony Foottit 5 Oct Trinity 16 10 am Communion Hempstead Church

Priest: Rev Brian Faulkner

Molly on the MarshDear FriendsAs I write, Molly our golden retriever lies resting at my feet. We have been out on the marshes at Morston where amazing smells seem to abound for dogs. When we walk there, it takes only moments before the sights and sounds of that wild landscape tune me to the rhythm of this amazing earth. I can hear the distant sea pounding on the shingle of the Point... and I am left wondering at the distance it has travelled and to which in a few hours it will retreat. It seems to echo our own journeys. Some of the stones on the shore look worn thin by their bashing: but in being so, there are intriguing shapes and hues criss-crossing each one.

I asked a shop-keeper yesterday if he ever has a break – a holiday. He smiled. ‘Whatever would I need one of those for?’ he said. ‘I live in a beautiful place. I’m my own boss. What more would I want?’ His journey may have been long, focussed and hard work, but I was struck by his thankful attitude. It reminded me this morning as Molly and I walked together, to give thanks to God for the broad skies, the fertile earth, the ability to hear sea and birdsong – and for my own journey to this point.    

There is something profoundly holy about living in thankfulness for our place, our purpose and for the people we love. With my prayer for your own journeys – and for your journeys as congregations of disciples in transition,

The Revd Canon Fiona Newton (who is taking the service on 21 September)

Invitation from the Bishop of LynnThe Bishop of Lynn invites all parishioners (whether regular churchgoers or not) to meet him in Baconsthorpe Village Hall at 7:30 pm on Thursday, 25th September 2014 when he will outline various options currently being considered by the Diocese about the future of our Benefice. Everyone who is interested will be welcome to hear what he has to say. Refreshments.

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Weekly EventsMondays * 7:30 pm Baconsthorpe Line Dancing 711320Tuesdays † 10 am Hempstead Charcoal Drawing 711282Tuesdays ‡ 10 am Baconsthorpe Diocesan Play Van 07918 027092Tuesdays * 7:30 pm Baconsthorpe Indoor Bowls 711320

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29 Aug Fri @ 10:30 am Hempstead Coffee & Gossip Village Hall  4 Sep Thu @ 12:30 pm Mobile Library Van See page 2 for times  

17 Sep Wed @ 7:30 pm Hempstead Film Club Village Hall  

Special Events1 Sep Mon @ 7:30 pm Hempstead PC Meeting All welcome

6–7 Sep 10 am–5 pm Hempstead Arts See page 11Come and view the work of a variety of artists in the Village Hall over the weekend. All items will be for sale. Refreshments including soup and roll at lunch time. In aid of Hempstead Church. www.hempsteadarts.co.uk

8 Sep Mon @ 7:30 pm Baconsthorpe PC Meeting All welcome13 Sep Sat @ 9 am–5 pm Churches Cycle Ride See page 1116 Sep Tue @ 2:30 pm Matlaske PCC Meeting16 Sep Tue @ 7:30 pm Baconsthorpe VH Meeting All Welcome25 Sep Thu @ 7:30 pm Meet the Bishop of Lynn See page 526 Sep Fri @ 10–noon H’stead Macmillan coffee morningSee page 927 Sep Sat @ 3–4 pm Hempstead Police Surgery Bus Shelter

Further Ahead2 Oct Thu @ 7 pm Hempstead Quiz

Come on your own, with a partner or as a team (teams of up to five can be allocated on the night) – £6 per person includes a choice of hot dishes before the quiz starts at about 7:30 pm – Winners’ Prizes and Raffle – Book early to secure your place – Call Tony Collier 713004

3 Oct Fri @ 7:30 pm Baconsthorpe Chandler Green Concert50s, 60s, 70s and 80s music and song. Tickets £5 per person to include refreshments on sale now from John 711320 and Evelyn 577315. There will also be a raffle. There should be a small space for Dancing.

10 Oct Fri @ 7 pm Matlaske QuizOur very popular quiz at the Old Stables, Barningham Hall. Many thanks to Thomas and Amelia Courtauld for their support in letting us use this venue.

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Baconsthorpe NewsEvents in Baconsthorpe

8 Sep 7:30 pm PC Meeting16 Sep 7:30 pm VH Meeting25 Sep 7:30 pm Bishop’s Visit

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Village Hall NewsThe Jumble sale was very successful and raised £250 which will go towards the Village Hall insurance.

Please buy your tickets for Chandler Green Concert on Friday the 3rd October – see What’s on section.

You can now book the Village Hall through Evelyn 577315 or John 711320.

All are welcome at the next Village Hall meeting on Thursday, 16 Sept at 7:30 pm. JC

WelcomeWelcome to Steve and Annie Nicholson who have come to live at ‘Wayside’. We wish them much happiness in their new home.

Baconsthorpe 200 Club£25 John Youngs; £10 Roger Hall; £5 David Youngs and Geff Reason.

Barningham NewsCongratulationsA huge well done to George Seaman of Dairy Farm, Barningham who gained two Bs and a C at A levels from Gresham’s School, Holt and has gained a place at Newcastle University to read Agriculture. George is off to Australia to do some farming and travelling before he goes to university in the autumn of 2015. We wish him well in his travels.

We also send Henry Parker of Barningham Rectory our very best wishes and lots of luck as he is also off to Newcastle University to study Agricultural and Business Studies in a few weeks time. Henry has spent the last year working for John Neill of Thurgarton to gain some practical experience on the farm.

Hempstead NewsEvents in Hempstead29 Aug 7:30 pm Coffee & Gossip

1 Sep 7:30 pm PC Meeting6–7 Sep 10–5    Hempstead Arts17 Sep 7:30 pm Film Club26 Sep 10 am Macmillan Event27 Sep 3 pm Police Surgery

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Macmillan Coffee Morning

Hempstead Village Hall, 10–noon on Friday, 26 Sept 2014. Coffee & Cake for Donations.

Get Well SoonJill Roy has had a awkward sporting accident. We wish a speedy recovery.

Hempstead 200 Club£25 P Wallis; £10 B Harmer; £5 R Matthews, J Wood and J Loach.

Churches Cycle RideHempstead topped the table in the Holt Deanery last year raising a record £1359. A remarkable achievement which we hope we can equal if not exceed this year. Please contact Yvette Gibson 712460 if you are able to participate in any way. See full item on page 11.

Inspector Barnacle thinks...PC Short is a fool. Find out at the Christmas Get-Together on 6th December 2014.

  

’Quote of the month

xxWilliam Feather  ’

FêteDespite heavy rain on Sunday morning and further warnings, we were given a two-hour window of dry weather enabling most of the usual activities to take place. As a precaution Teas and Cakes were moved to the Village Hall creating something of a two-centre fête.

Annie and Richard Brooks were able to complete a successful dog show despite there being no public address system, congratulations to the winners! Books, plants and produce, bric-a-brac, tombola and side shows carried on regardless with much-reduced but enthusiastic visitors.

The high point of the afternoon was the grand draw which took place in the village hall where the winner of the giant hamper put it up for auction adding to an all-time record profit for the draw of £1147. Well done Robin Carver! and thanks to all those that bought tickets.

Those that visited the church were given a great treat with Charlie Inglis’ wonderful exhibition of butterfly photographs.

The total profit for the afternoon, despite the difficulties, reached a grand total of £2256 (£2605 in 2013) which will be divided between All Saints’ Church and Village Hall.

Our thanks to all who gave of their time and energy to make the 2014 Hempstead Fête a success. We all look forward to next year’s event! MT

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  Memories from childhood.   My grandfather died just before I was born, but I was brought up with numerous stories of life in his household.   My father was the youngest of nine, living with domestic servants in a big vicarage.   Grandfather had a large parish in urban Southampton.   Many of his flock were illiterate sailors, so he read their letters to them, and drafted the replies.   In late nineteenth century Social Services and the like hardly existed, and often he was the only educated man they could talk to, so he spent much time dispensing wisdom on all sorts of topics.   Things were black or white, with no time for shades of grey.   We may now disapprove, but then the alternative was naked despair.   Nowadays it is all so different, particularly for parsons.   Daviid Durst

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Matlaske NewsEvent in Matlaske

16 Sep 2:30 pm PCC MeetingMore details on centre pages

DefibrillatorThere are now several people in the village who have completed a basic life saving course. They also found it beneficial to visit the old phone box and see how access to the defibrillator is gained after dialling 999 and look at the defibrillator. Comments were that in a stressful situation knowing how to get to the defibrillator will remove some of the unknowns.

Anyone who would like to be shown the phone box and defibrillator please phone Jim 577521. It may be advisable to access the defibrillator, if advised by the emergency services, even if the patient is just experiencing mild chest pains or pains in the arms. JS

100 Club£25 Chanelle Shepherd; £10 John Rounce; £5 Richard Rowe.

FêteThe final total raised came to £1,470. On behalf of Matlaske PCC a big ‘Thank You’ to all those who baked cakes, served teas, ran stalls and games and generally made the afternoon such a success. A special ‘Thank You’ to Marion for acting as Treasurer for the day and counting all the money afterwards! Matlaske Church has to have repair work carried out on the North roof so some of the fête proceeds will be set aside as a start to the funding of that project. Once again ‘Thank You’ to Thomas and Amelia Courtauld for hosting and organising the event in Barningham Park. DW

Plumstead NewsSuccessful FêteThank you to all those who helped and supported the fête. £764 was raised.

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Mystery Solved!At Red House Farm, Hempstead, there is a tablet by Eric Gill, famous and notorious sculptor and typographer of the early twentieth century, which reads:

To the honoured memory of

SAMUEL FOWLERfor forty-five years keeper on the Hempstead Estate

Born Feb 1830 – Died Oct 1906

In testimony of their regard of some of those to whom he was ever a faithful servant and a pleasant companion

John Henry Gurney, Hugh, Ford, George, Cameron and Theodore Barclay, S Gurney, Edward N and

Francis W Buxton, Andrew Johnstone

The Gurney’s, Buxton’s and Barclay’s of the nineteenth century were not exactly in the avant-garde of the artistic world – how is it that they employed an up-and-coming sculptor of whom they had probably never heard?

At the Lettering Arts Centre at Snape there is currently an exhibition of the works of MacDonald Gill (the less well-known younger brother of Eric) who designed the standard gravestone for all the British dead in both wars (there is one in Hempstead churchyard). It is stated that he ‘studied lettering under the celebrated calligrapher and type designer Edward Johnstone’.

Pennies then dropped. In the Hempstead Village History it is recorded that the tablet was ‘commissioned and designed by Edward Johnstone for his brother Andrew’. Andrew was a Buxton son-in-law but nothing was known of his brother Edward who, as it now turns out, was the father of modern lettering and able to influence an important commission for one of his pupils – Eric Gill. Mystery solved!

The Gurney Hempstead Estate left several memorials. They built the Mill; three dams above it including Selbrigg Pond; built a famous duck decoy on the Pond; and, at the Red House, provided a honeymoon hideaway for Elizabeth Fry (recently pictured on the £5 note). RC

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18 Apr Fri @ 10:30 am Edgefield – Hot Cross BunsAt Church Farm, Edgefield from 10:30 am – Home-made hot cross buns and coffee – Bring and Buy Produce and Gifts – Cards in aid of ‘Multiple Sclerosis’ – Donations as usual – please come with your friends.

18 Apr Fri @ 7 pm Blakeney Church – Bach St John PassionOn Good Friday the Kelling Concert, orchestra and soloists, directed by Angela Dugdale, will present Bach’s St John Passion in St Nicholas Church, Blakeney – The Passion was first heard on Good Friday 1724 in St Nicholas’ Church, Leipzig. Admission is free but there will be a retiring collection in aid of the Pilgrim Federations of Church Schools ( Blakeney, Hindringham, Kelling and Walsingham). Members of the audience who wish to join in singing the chorales are invited to do so as they would have done in Bach’s day – please come at 6:30 pm.

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Churches Cycle Ride

This year’s Norfolk Churches Trust (NCT) Sponsored Bicycle Ride takes place on Saturday, 13th of September and should have something for everyone. If people want to explore a new part of the county and take the opportunity of so many churches being open then they can now get sponsorship to drive round (new this year). If they wish to test their endurance then they can aim to be in the top ten for the number of churches visited, either walking or cycling, and we will post it on the ‘Wall of Fame’ on the website. If they want a fun day out with the family then they can download some activity sheets from the website and take part in the photographic competition.

The Prince of Wales, who is patron of the NCT, has kindly agreed to sign a certificate that will be given to the individual who raises the most money in this year’s Bike Ride. If getting sponsorship makes people feel uncomfortable then we suggest sponsoring oneself or using ‘Just Giving’ which makes it all much easier (see the website for details). Please encourage family and friends to take part and be inventive about how they raise money. You can even raise money by volunteering to act as a steward in one of the churches and seeking sponsorship for the hours on duty. The more people who explore our wonderful churches the more they will appreciate them and want to save them for the future. Please visit the website www.norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk/sponsored-bike-ride for more information.

The money people raise is split between the church of the participant’s choice and

the NCT to provide grants for repairs to parishes struggling to meet the high costs of essential repair work to keep our churches beautiful and open.

Pump up your tyres, pack a picnic and plan a route from your own door around some of the most beautiful churches in Britain. This can even be done from the web site – here’s an example: mapmyride.com/routes/view/506899228

You can get a sponsorship form from your parish representative or the website www.norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk/sponsored-bike-ride where you can also find out more about the day.

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    Dates for 20149 April Wed @ 7:30 pm Village Hall AGM

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