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Alex Grieg is offering a large trampoline about 10 ft diameter. In perfect working order but no safety net. Free to good home but must be collected from Brook House. Alex will help to dissemble. Contact Alex here or call him on 861272.

Jo Wookey’s dog, Harvey, was found this morning in Hay Lane, rather quiet and a little bruised, but otherwise none the worse for a night on the town.  Jo would like to thank everyone for their kind concern.

Jo Wookey’s dog, Harvey, has gone missing this evening whilst being walked in Kingscote Woods.  He has a poor sense of direction and may have run miles looking for her.  He is white with fawn markings, had a collar on, and is microchipped.

Please contact Jo if you have seen him or know of his recent whereabouts on 07863 336031, or email her here.  Thank you.

Service Calendar for November 2015

Revised Service Pattern for November

* The wreath will be laid on our behalf by Major Mark Spandler MBE who grew up in Kingscote.

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets at 10.00 am on Fridays at Nailsworth Church.

Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Room.

The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 10 Nov.

     Diocesan News                 www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/publications

                                          www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/blog

     Nailsworth Benefice        www.stgeorgesnailsworth.org.uk

     Kingscote Community      www.kingscoteonline.co.uk

The Vicar’s Letter

Dear Friends,

One of my worst subjects at school was history. I only ever took one examination and got 7%. However in my defence I had only been at the school for 6 weeks and had not done any history before that ….

But it was a subject that I never really took to.

Part of that is a personality thing – I live in the present and once the past has gone it is forgotten. That is why I have to write things down, because if someone tells me something and I don’t, I tend to forget.

The problem is that the past has shaped who we are. That is true as a human being and it is certainly true as a Christian.

As I get older as a human being I discover that I get more and more like my Dad – having sworn as a teenager, for example, that I would never have his attitude to modern music (you know – turn that row off, that’s not music) I have said exactly the same thing to my own children (Well rap really isn’t music!).

But a Christian looks back to Jesus all the time as a point of reference, remembering what he did, who he was and how he taught us to live out our lives like him. Without that constant looking back and learning fromthe past, wewould not be the people or the Christians that we are today.

So as Remembrance Sunday looms and we look back again, I shall do it with respect, honour and sadness, hoping that this is one lesson of history that we can all learn from – me included.

With every blessing,

Mike Smith

Flower Rota

Weddings: There are no weddings booked in November.

Lorna Reynolds

First female bishop in the Lords

History was made last month when Bishop Rachel became the first female bishop to sit in the House of Lords. She is now one of the Lords Spiritual.

Bishop Rachel has said: “Through the parish system, which covers every part of England, the Church of England has a detailed understanding of what is important to people’s lives, and where transformation is most needed. This is the voice I seek to bring to the House, together with the wisdom and transformation which only comes from the Good News of Jesus Christ.”

(Taken from the Diocesan Messenger for November 2015)

Cleaning Team

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 16 November.

Anyone interested and prepared to spare an hour in the afternoon on the second Monday of the month, occasionally or regularly, please contact me on Tel. 860 367.

Teresa Day

Gordon Bateman 1937 ~ 2015

Gordon came to Bagpath with Jane and their family in 1966 and set to work renovating Bumpers Island farm. At that time he was working as an electrical engineer for British Aerospace on guided missiles and Concord, until he took early retirement in 1988. This provided Gordon with more time to enjoy his cattle farming and to use his skills in helping with the upkeep and development of the Village Hall and the Church. With his sense of humour and down to earth approach he was someone you could always rely on to help out at village events. He was a great supporter of the Kingscote Branch of the British Legion, and served on the parish council where his common sense approach was greatly valued. Gordon will be sadly missed by so many people.

Graham Nichols

Village Hall Programme

Film night – Tuesday 10th November, 7.30 for 8.00 pm, The Lion in Winter starring Katherine Hepburn and Peter OToole. Admission free, pay bar.     

      The Vicar’s Tale – Friday 13th November, 8.00 pm. From the gasworks of            Oldham to the leafy lanes of Kingscote – tales of an itinerant man.     

      Coffee Morning – Tuesday 17th, 10.30 to 11.30 am. Coffee and cake £1.50.

Carol Paton

Grumbolds Ash Group

Our proposed visit to Cardiff has now been cancelled, and instead we meet on Wednesday 11 November at 12.30 pm at the Egypt Mill restaurant in Nailsworth to say goodbye to Gill James, one of our long serving members, who is moving away from the parish. She has been a very good friend to all of us for many years and will be greatly missed.

Jutta Tubbs

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Monday 2 November, Go set a watchman, by Harpur Lee at Angela’s.

New members always very welcome.

Angela Wooldridge

Free-range eggs for sale

Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.

Kingscote Parish Council

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 26 January at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.

First Aid Course

This proposal was agreed at the last Parish Council meeting following discussions about the installation of a defibrillator in the village to treat emergency cardiac arrest cases. The course is sponsored and organised by the Parish Council and will be run by Barry Hathaway, lasting approximately 3 hours.

Those interested and anyone with strong preference for daytime or evening, weekday or weekend, please contact Anna Davison on Tel. 860 244.

 Planning Applications

Kingscote House, Kingscote: T1 reduce small tree T2 fell cotoneaster T3 lift low branches of large conifer to give 3m clearance above footpath.

Calcot House, Calcot: reduce crown of beech adjacent to garage by 3m removing 2 twisted centre branches.

Bagpath Court Cottage: Erection of replacement dwelling with demolition of existing Bagpath Court Cottage GL8 8YG.

Parishioners may be interested to know that a Cotswold resident has recently had to pay over £600 in fines and costs because he did not clear up mess made by his dog.

Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244

Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays.

Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 13 and 27 November.

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 13 and 27 November.

Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

Mobile Library

The next visit will be on Friday 27 November when the van will park in front of The Walled Garden at the NEW TIME from 10.00 am to 12 noon.

An appreciation

Recent purchasers of adjoining land over which I have a Vehicular Track Right of Way objected to my use and impeded my access. It has come to my notice that in desperate attempt to deny my right of way several residents were questioned by the objectors. I can only apologise for such intrusions.

It was necessary to obtain a Court Order to enforce this long existing Right of Way and the removal of the impediments. The matter has now been concluded and the impediments removed. The objectors did of course have to meet the costs of both parties – circa £40,000.

I would also like to thank the person who cleared a route for footpath users during this difficult period.

Irene Ingleby-Oddy

Magazine

Any materialwhich may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 November to      H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.

The Editor

The English Civil War in the Cotswolds

(copied from the web-site: www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine)

The English Civil war was in fact two wars: 1642 to 1645, and 1648 to 1649, fought between King Charles I with the Royalist Cavaliers, and the supporters of Parliament the Roundheads.

There were many reasons for the Civil War, not least of all Charles’ temperament and personality. Charles was arrogant, conceited and like his father James, a strong believer in the divine right of kings. From 1625 to 1629, Charles argued with Parliament over most issues, but money (he had none) and religion (he had married a Catholic Queen) were the most common ones.

When Parliament refused to do as Charles wished he dissolved it. Charles needed money to pay for a war against the Scots and levied heavy taxes on the people. By 1642, relations between Parliament and the king had broken down. Charles left London for Oxford to raise an army to fight parliament for control of England, and the Civil War had begun.

The Cotswolds were of great strategic importance in the Civil War; the king had his headquarters at Oxford and the Parliamentarians had garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol, with sympathisers at Malmesbury and Cirencester.

Edgehill, at the northern edge of the Cotswolds, was the site of the first battle of the civil war in October 1642. The battle was long and bloody and the following day neither side wished to resume the fighting. The king moved back to London whilst the Parliamentarians retired to Warwick.

The Battle of Stow, the last battle in the English Civil War, took place at Stow on the Wold in March 1646. A royalist army commanded by Sir Jacob Astley marched through the region in a desperate attempt to join up with the king at Oxford. They were met at Stow by a Parliamentary force under the command of Colonel Brereton. The fighting was fierce and deadly; the Royalists were defeated and over 1000 men were imprisoned in St Edward’s Church.

Lower Slaughter and Upper Slaughter are two of the loveliest villages in the Cotswolds, just a few miles away. One might expect their names to reflect the bloody history of the Civil War but actually the name Slaughter derives from the old English word ‘slough’ or ‘wetland’.

The Editor

The Community of St Anselm

(www.stanselm.org.uk/)

On Friday 18 September 2015 Archbishop Justin Welby commissioned the first members of the Community of St Anselm at Lambeth Palace. The new monastic inspired community is open to men and women of any Christian denomination between the ages of 20 and 35, and this year includes Anglicans, Methodists, Roman Catholics and Pentecostals.

During the year the participants are committed to prayer, study and service to the poor. This year 16 of them will live in at Lambeth Palace and 20 will be

living in London and continuing their jobs in finance, media, education and the civil service etc.

The community is named after a Benedictine monk and brilliant scholar who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109 AD.

The Editor

Metal detectors in Kingscote

Congratulations to Graham Nichols who appeared impressively in the BBC TV Inside Out programme on 12 October as our local John Wayne, hounding out the dastardly rogues with metal detectors from our Roman site. We should all support this community cause.

The Editor

Parish Directory

Vicar:                    Reverend Mike Smith, Nailsworth, Tel. 07840 260 182

Curate:                  Reverend Sue Sobczak, Horsley, Tel. 01453 833 526

Reader                  Sue White, Nailsworth, Tel: 01453 835 693

Churchwardens:   Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP. Tel: 860 194

                            Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY Tel: 861 683

Hon.Sec.PCC:        Georgina Harford, Ashcroft House, Kingscote, GL8 8YF Tel: 01453 860 227

Hon.Treas.PCC:    Jane Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote, GL8 8YB Tel. 01453 860 534

Members of PCC:   The Churchwardens, The Hon. Secretary, The Hon. Treasurer, Elin Tattersall, Zoe Nichols, Chris Alford.

Flower and Clean Team: Teresa Day, Vivienne Ainsworth, Angela Wooldridge, Pauline McTear, Sophia Bond.

Nailsworth MU:     Trissa Jones, Tel: 832 551

Editor of Forerunner: Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP Tel: 860 194

Gift Aid and Envelopes:   Jane Nichols, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote Tel. 860 534.

Church Flowers Rota: Lorna Reynolds, Tel. 860 231

Organist:               Rosemary Sims, 15 Badger’s Way, Forest Green, Nailsworth, GL6 0HE Tel: 832 446

Sidespersons:         Harry Tubbs, Rod Tibbert, Elin Tattersall, Godfrey Ainsworth, Jane Nichols.

Electoral Roll:        Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182

Mowing Team:       Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy, Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies, Brian McTear, John Moore, Tony Wooldridge.

Village Hall:       Bookings: Pauline McTear, Kingscote, Tel. 861 311

                            Secretary: Carol Paton, Bagpath, Tel. 860 649

Parish Council Chairman: Graham Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote Tel: 01453 860 534

Parish Council Clerk: Anna Davison, Bagpath Court, GL8 8YG, Tel. 860 244

Village Agent:        Aileen Bendall, Tel. 07810 630 156 or 01452 426 868

Printer of Forerunner: Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Tel. 861 683                                                  

The Forerunner is published by the P.C.C. who are usually most willing to

accept copy from village groups and individuals. However, please note that the opinions and views expressed by the contributors within the Forerunner are not necessarily those of the Church, P.C.C. or Editor.

Dear All,

Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on SATURDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2015 at 10.35pm for approximately 8/10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks.

Kindest Regards,

Claire

Claire Shea
Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE
01453 861161

Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER 2015 at 9.00pm for approximately 8/10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks.

Kindest Regards,

Claire Shea

Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE

01453 861161

There is to be a Service of Thanksgiving for Gordon Bateman’s life at Kingscote church on Tuesday 20th October at 10.30am, following his funeral.  Friends are welcome to attend.

You might be interested in the attached:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34506797

Do try and watch “Inside Out West” on BBC1 at 7:30pm on Monday 12 October.

You will be very surprised at what goes on in the fields around Kingscote at night…

Kind regards,

Graham Nichols