News & Events – Page 66 – Kingscote Online

As many of you know Voneus, with our satellite broadband product “Together” has started to roll-out a satellite broadband trial in the villages and hamlets of Kingscote, Bagpath, Ashcroft and Hazlecote. We are currently at phase two and are about to begin the third and final phase of the trial before we begin to move towards rolling it out to other parts of the country and indeed converting trial participants into paying customers.

For those of you who originally showed an interest late in 2014 we shall be in touch within the next two weeks to let you know when we plan to return to get you signed up and included in the trial.

For those already on the system we continue to finesse the process and make improvements in terms of reliability and performance. We are well aware that we have faced some challenges but we think that we’re getting better in respect of the reliability aspect of the service so we’re now turning our attention to increasing the speed and overall download performance of the system.

As a key part of this short-term improvement programme we’ll be replacing some of the Wi-Fi radios that are deployed in some locations with more powerful versions and with different settings. This should increase the intra-site communication and therefore the speed you get. We’ll also be replacing some of the satellite dishes with equipment that is our fastest yet, with a potential downlink of 60/mps.

We continue to be very grateful to those of you providing feedback and now, having met most of you a number of times, am more than happy to take feedback raw and as it comes! It is in Voneus’ interest to get it right and get it right is what we’ll do.

My numbers are below and you are welcome to get in touch whenever you like.

Finally, part of the feedback that we have received is that we need to communicate with you more. And we shall try and get a newsletter out to you at least once every three weeks and we’ll be visiting the village towards the end of May to update the village formally on progress and next steps.

Matthew L. Appleton
Technology Director

020 3021 1831/0753 463 6140
matthew.appleton@voneus.com

www.voneus.com

Southgate Office Village
1st Floor – Block B
284A Chase Road
London, N14 6HF

Service Calendar for May 2015

Sunday	3rd	KingscoteNailsworth Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am	Morning PrayerAll-age service and Baptism Holy Communion
Wednesday	6th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	10th	KingscoteNailsworth Horsley	9.30 am10.30 am 11.00 am	Holy Communion BCPJoint service at Christ Church for Christian Aid Week Family and pet Service
Wednesday	13th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
*Sunday*	17th	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley	9.30 am11.00 am 11.00 am	Family ServiceFamily Communion & Baptism Holy Communion
Wednesday	20th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
SundayPentecost	24th	KingscoteNailsworth Horsley Horsley	9.30 am11.00 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Holy Communion CWJoint service with Christ Church and then bring & share lunch Informal Worship Evensong BCP
Wednesday	27th	Nailsworth	10.00am	Holy Communion
Sunday	31st	Nailsworth	11.00 am	Benefice Service

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Room.

The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 2 June

We thank the flower team for the (as always) beautiful Easter flowers in the church.

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,

Latest estimates put the number of official Christian denominations (brands of church !) at something over 30,000. It is an incredible number.

I was struck on a recent visit to Malawi, as I walked down the main street in Zomba, that every other shop front was yet another church. When I asked the locals why, they could point to a disagreement within a church that had caused a group to split off and start another one !

The month of May, however, contains two events which make us think of our unity rather than our (often petty) differences.

May 10th marks the beginning of Christian Aid Week. Christian Aid is a major force for good in the world, bringing relief in times of trouble such as natural disaster and also offering help to communities to enable them to develop agriculture or micro-economies to help to lift them out of poverty. Christian Aid does exactly what it says on the tin ! Denomination is forgotten in the name of working together to ‘love our neighbours as ourselves’.

May 24th is Whitsunday or Pentecost when Christians celebrate the day when the Holy Spirit came to a group of frightened disciples and transformed them into ardent witnesses to the truth about Jesus. It was the beginning of a worldwide movement that is still growing fast today – the Christian Church. It reminds us all that, whatever our history of falling out and fracturing, we share a common root and we should celebrate that and do all that we can to work together and display a united face to the world.

I guess that makes me a double united fan !

With every blessing,

Mike Smith

Flower Rota

3 and 10 May17 and 24 May31 May and 7 June

Zoe NicholsSue SpandlerJane Nichols

Weddings: Saturday 9 May, 2.00 pm Eliar Jamalfar and Isobel Robinson

Saturday 30 May, 1.00 pm Mathew Kemp and Jessica Attree

Lorna Reynolds

ELECTIONS

Voting for National and Cotswold District Council elections will take place in the Village Hall on Thursday 7 May between 7.00 am and 10.00 pm. Our votes are important to ensure that we have a representative and stable new government.

The Editor

Cleaning Team

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 11 May. We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team – we need one or two more members to maintain the strength of the team.

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

Village Hall Programme

Village Hall Committee AGM – Tuesday 5 May, 7.00 pm. Everyone welcome to attend . Agenda: chairman’s report, 2014 accounts, election of new committee. The accounts may be inspected in advance either on the community web-site or by contacting Viv Ainsworth on Tel 861 683.

Howden Jones concert – Friday 8 May. If you missed them two years ago do come and hear this excellent singer/songwriter duo …. and take your mind off the election result ! Tickets £8 available from brianmctear@btinternet.com, pay bar.

Coffee Morning and bring and buy Plant Stall – Wednesday 20 May 10.30 to 11.30 am, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.

Carol Paton

Grumbolds Ash Group

On Tuesday 12 May we visit Blenheim Palace, a masterpiece of 18thC Baroque architecture and the birthplace of Winston Churchill (Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1PP).

Entry to the house and gardens – adults £22-50, concessions £18.

Entry to park and garden only – adults £13-50, concessions £10-20.

Lunch at the water Terrace Cafe or in the Pleasure Garden Deli.

We meet as usual at the Village Hall at 9.00 am to share transport.

Jutta Tubbs

Plants for sale at Bumpers Island, Bagpath

During the second week of May there will be plants for sale as usual. If you need more information contact me on Tel. 860 498.

Jane Bateman

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Wednesday 3 June The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, at Jane’s.

(We have given more time to this book due to its length)

Wednesday 1 July The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion, at Louise’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 Parish Assembly will be held at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 19 May in the Village Hall, followed by the Parish Council AGM. All parishioners are invited and encouraged to join the Parish Assembly and take part in the discussions on matters relevant to our community. Information for the meeting will be progressively posted on the community web-site before 19 May.

Planning approvals

Parkview, Kingscote, cut back branches of sycamore overshadowing adjacent garden.

Plannng applications

Folly Cottage, Kingscote, erection of first floor extension and a porch, and erection of single story garage.

Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244

New Churchyard Plan

We do not have a comprehensive plan of the burials in the churchyard, and bearing in mind that burials have been taking place for nearly 800 years it would be unrealistic to expect to have one. However in order to keep the churchyard ‘alive’ for our parishioners we need to use the space that is there carefully.

Having considered several approaches, we decided that aerial photography was the best place to start, so on 1 April we welcomed a photographic drone to take a series of overhead shots on what was an ideal day – no rain, no wind, no sunshine to throw strong shadows. The drone operator has been very clever and has stitched the various shots around the churchyard into one 26 MB file.

The result is excellent and in addition to locating most of the monuments, it also shows from ground shading where many unmarked graves lie.

We are feeling our way on the next stages, but one possibility is to lay tracing paper over a large print of the image and mark with a small black spot the location of each monument and possibly the location of unmarked graves by black outlines. The resulting line drawing, without the unnecessary visual scenery, can then be scanned as a reasonably small PDF file onto which identifying index numbers for each grave can be added with software. We are therefore now looking for a traditional architectural or engineering detail draughtsman to prepare a nice line drawing from the photograph.

The PCC

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 1, 15 and 29 May.

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 1, 15 and 29 May.

Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

Mobile Police Van

The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote on Tuesday 26 May from 3.15 to 4.15 pm. However after June the Mobile Service will not visit Kingscote due to its deployment over a much wider area in Gloucestershire.

Mobile Library

The next visit will be on Friday 15 May when the van will park as usual in front of The Walled Garden from 9.30 to 11.30 am.

Magazine

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

The Editor

A gem from the American comedian Bob Hope

‘I was on a plane and suddenly it started to go into a spin and head straight for earth. Everyone was panicking and someone said “Do something religious”. So I took up a collection.’

Attributed to a lifeboat crew member

‘Most of the people we rescue believe in God.’

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

Christopher Marlowe 1564 ~1593 should have been a contemporary of

William Shakespeare 1564 ~1616 but he was murdered in a pub fight in London

in 1593. He was more comprehensively educated than Shakespeare so achieved

fame sooner, and was in that sense a predecessor of Shakespeare.

Come live with me and be my Love,

And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and valleys, dale and field,

And all the craggy mountains yield.

There will we sit upon the rocks

And see the shepherds feed their flocks,

By shallow rivers, to whose falls

Melodious birds sing madrigals.

There will I make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,

A cap of flowers, and a kirtle*

Embroider’d all with leaves and myrtle.

A gown made of the finest wool,

Which from our pretty lambs we pull,

Fair lined slippers for the cold,

With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy buds

With coral clasps and amber studs:

And if these pleasures may thee move,

Come live with me and be my Love.

Thy silver dishes for thy meat

As precious as the gods do eat,

Shall on an ivory table be

Prepared each day for thee and me.

The shepherd swains shall dance and sing

For thy delight each May-morning:

If these delights thy mind may move,

Then live with me and be my Love.

Christopher Marlowe

* frock

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.

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.

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