Everyone is most welcome to come for an informal chat with Paul Hodgkinson, the Lib Dem Candidate for this constituency at the May General Election.
When: Wednesday 11th March
Time: 7.30pm
Where: Village Hall
Georgina Harford
March Hare Motorcycle Event – Sunday 1st March
Please see the note below:
“Please be aware that on Sunday 1st. March 2015 the Golden Valley Classic Motorcycle Club intends to hold an event for Solo and Combination motorcycles that will pass through your Parish. This is NOT a speed event, only a portion of a single lap route linking various sections on private land. Your indulgence and co-operation in this matter would be much appreciated.
It is intended that the event will be run in the opposite direction to last year using a virtually identical route.”
Start and finish is from the Hunter’s Hall Inn with the first bike leaving at 0900h.
The Forerunner – March 2015
Service Calendar for March 2015
| Sunday | 1st | Nailsworth | 8.00am | Holy Communion BCP |
| Kingscote | 9.30am | Morning Prayer BCP | ||
| Horsley | 11.00am | Holy Communion | ||
| Nailsworth | 11.00am | Family Service | ||
| Wednesday | 4th | Nailsworth | 10.00am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 8th | Kingscote | 9.30am | Holy Communion BCP |
| Nailsworth | 11.00am | Holy Communion | ||
| Horsley | 11.00am | Informal Worship | ||
| Wednesday | 11th | Nailsworth | 10.00am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday Mothering Sunday | 15th | Kingscote | 9.30am | Family Service |
| Nailsworth | 11.00am | Family Communion | ||
| Horsley | 11.00am | Family Service | ||
| Wednesday | 18th | Nailsworth | 10.00am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 22nd | Kingscote | 9.30am | Parish Communion CW and Baptism |
| Nailsworth | 11.00am | Holy Communion | ||
| Horsley | 11.00am | Holy Communion | ||
| Horsley | 6.00pm | Evensong BCP | ||
| Wednesday | 25th | Nailsworth | 10.00am | Holy Communion |
| SundayPalm Sunday | 29th | Nailsworth | 11.00am | Joint Benefice service with distribution of palm crosses |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Rooms.
The next PCC meeting will be on Wednesday 4 March at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall.
Lent study groups in Nailsworth Continuing as follows:
Tuesdays 7.30 pm at Christchurch, Wednesdays 2.00 pm at St George’s.
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,
Already the year seems to be galloping away !
But March – often a month when we see things beginning to change as new life comes to our gardens – is also a month which, in the Christian Church, contains three very contrasting Sundays.
Mothering Sunday on 15 March used to be the Sunday on which those in domestic service were allowed home to visit their Mothers with gifts of simnel cake and the like. Today we use it as an opportunity to say thank you for our Mothers – living and departed – which we shall be doing in our churches.
Passion Sunday on 22 March is the Sunday on which we begin to turn our thoughts to the events nearly two thousand years ago, as we see Jesus ‘set his face towards Jerusalem’ and (in the words of Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise) ‘boldly go where no man had gone before’.
Palm Sunday on 29 March is a Sunday of mixed emotions. We join the crowd to celebrate Jesus entering Jerusalem to be hailed as King, but knowing it marked the beginning of the end of his life on earth and heralded the awful events of his arrest, torture and murder. This year the churches of Nailsworth, Horsley and Kingscote will gather together in St George’s Church Nailsworth to celebrate Palm Sunday and prepare for the memorial events of the last week of Jesus’ life.
Perhaps you would like to join us on one of these special days and discover something more about the incredible story of Jesus’ life on earth.
Mike Smith
The Bishop of Tewkesbury, The Rt Revd Martyn Snow
The Bishop of Tewkesbury will be visiting Holy Trinity Church, Cirencester, at 7.30 pm on Thursday 12 March to lead an evening of presentation, discussion and prayer on the theme The Beginner’s guide to praying. Bishop Martyn is a young and impressive church leader who is not to be missed.
NB: Holy Trinity Church is NOT the large Parish Church in the Market Place but lies on Watermoor Road at GL7 1NE, best approached from the fire-station roundabout.
Flower Rota
| 22 February to 4 April LENT
5 April and 12 April EASTER |
No flowers
Flower Team |
Lorna Reynolds
Rosemary Sims
We were delighted to hear that our organist Mrs Rosemary Sims has been invited to a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in May.
She has been indispensible in one way or another to our church here since the day in 1958 when the Rev Dutton and his wife left Kingscote and gave her the organ keys as a teenager. Without her lifetime of support to our parish church, in particular as organist, but also as Parochial Church Council member and team worker, it is quite likely that this community of 275 souls would have lost its opportunity for regular Sunday worship here.
She has also over many years, in addition, acted as regular organist for other local churches when the need arose, so her contribution has been appreciated in the district for generations.
Finally, she has provided for our community a brilliant little book ‘Growing up in Kingscote’ recording its history since WW 2. All of the proceeds from the sales of this have been shared equally by the Parish Church and the Village Hall.
Congratulations Rosemary and thank you for all that you do for us.
The PCC
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 9 March. We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.
Teresa Day
Village Hall Programme
Film night – Tuesday 10 March – The Book Thief starring Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. It tells the story of a girl who steals books to share during the war in Nazi Germany, 7.30 for 8.00 pm. Admission free, pay bar.
Coffee Morning – Wednesday 18 March, 10.30 to 11.30 am, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.
Bridge Events – contact Bella Lucy for more details on annabella@btinternet.com
Carol Paton
Paul Hodgkinson Meeting on Wednesday 11 March
The Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate at the General Election in May will be at the Village Hall on Wednesday 11 March at 7.30 pm for a public meeting explaining his party’s policies locally and nationally. He is a Cotswold District Councillor and could be quizzed on housing, roads etc. This is a rare chance to hear in person from any candidate !
Carol Paton and Georgina Harford
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Wednesday 11 March we will visit the Electric Picture House in Wotton under Edge where tickets have been purchased for seven of us for the ENO: La Traviata at 7.30 pm. We meet at 6.45 pm at the Village Hall to share the driving and parking. Please pay me the £10/£11 on the night.
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 18 March The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, at Angela’s.
Wednesday 15 April Elephant Moon by John Sweeney, at Nikki Shelton’s.
Wednesday 20 May The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, venue undecided.
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 will be at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 14 April at Hunters Hall.
Planning approvals
Bagpath Court Cottage, Erection of 2 story side and 1 storey rear extension, and 2 storey rear extension to existing dwelling, insertion of 2 dormer windows and roof-light to the rear.
Calcot House Kingscote, Erection of garage and part change of equestrian land to domestic curtilage.
Local social networking
Streetlife is a social network recently launched across Cirencester which might be of interest in our community. To get involved or to investigate further, sign up at www.streetlife.com with your postcode and e-mail address.
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
STILL AVAILABLE
For those who missed it first time round, DVDs of ‘A Year in Kingscote 2012’ which records events of that year in the village, are still available for £6 each.
Proceeds for the Village Hall. Order from Tim Sage, Tel. 860 563.
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 6 and 20 March.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 6 and 20 March.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Police Van
The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote on Tuesday 17 March from 3.15 to 4.15 pm.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 20 March 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 March to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
What is wrong with the Christians ?
Statistics show unequivocally that Christian worship and belief is in decline in Western Europe, and we see a gradual decline in our own parish. Why is this ?
A host of possible contributing causes suggest themselves:
- Material wealth and physical comforts making life easier.
- Entertainment, travel and sophisticated pastimes distracting us from thinking beyond the moment. The ‘background music’ effect.
- Atheist influences from the media and seductive scientists, denying any spiritual dimension to creation. The ostrich ‘head in the sand’ effect.
- Moral corruption of our society in multiple ways, poisoning the young.
- Pride, arrogance and hypocrisy displayed by active church members.
- Cases of theft, adultery, paedophilia by a tiny number of church officers and clergy, which become headline news in the press.
- Violent conflict between world religions spreading to Europe, leading to fear for the future.
The teaching and example of Jesus Christ was and is adequate to lead us through this confusing situation, but it is not clear that we wish to follow. We seem in some way to be paralysed by a mixture of doubt and apathy. We do not seem able to muster the love and commitment which God as our creator hopes and deserves to have from us.
Harry Tubbs, Churchwarden
What is Lent about ?
Extracts from an article in the Diocesan Messenger for March by
Revd Canon Robbin Clark, Dean of Women Clergy
When many of us think of Lent (if indeed we do), we often think of giving up a treat like chocolate or alcohol or cigarettes, or some other thing we enjoy but don’t really think is good for us. It may feel like a burden or even an impossible effort.
But Lent is meant to be a ‘springtime of the soul’, not a punishment. It’s a chance for some interior personal spring cleaning – a time to clear away the cobwebs and spruce up our souls for Easter.
The Church recognises that Advent and Christmas call for serious periods of preparation. Advent focuses on attentiveness and anticipation. We face the ways we have failed to live up to the example set by Jesus and what this says about our gratitude to him for giving his life to save us and bring us back into harmony with God.
Three spiritual disciplines are associated with Lent:
Fasting for the good of our body.
Almsgiving for the good of our neighbour.
Prayer for the good of our soul.
I commend these to you, but I also suggest the more positive practice of ‘taking on’ rather than ‘giving up’ something for Lent, perhaps volunteer work or special spiritual study or a retreat.
The Church Urban Fund – Tackling Poverty Together
The start of Lent generally marks the beginning of a period of fasting or abstinence – a choice most of us make voluntarily. But for hundreds of thousands of adults fasting has become a way of life – a desperate choice between heating their homes and having enough food for themselves and their children.
This is a Church of England charity fund specifically helping urban churches to serve residents in their communities in cases of severe financial hardship due to Benefit delays and very low income.
The most convenient way of donating to this national charity is by the website www.cuf.org.uk/donate Note that the most deprived areas in the country may not be in Gloucestershire, but the Church Urban Fund is competent to allow for this factor and to direct funds to the people most in need.
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.
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.
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
Chris Seeley: Celebrating an Artful Life – 29th/30th June
Please come and help us celebrate the many aspects of Chris’s remarkably creative life: artist, teacher, ecologist, clown, writer, intellectual, ursophile, dog lover, bookaholic, sister, daughter, friend, partner, mentor, catalyst, designer…
We will be coming together for two days of exhibitions, installations, food rituals, music, clowning, storytelling, conversation, artful activities, sharing memories, poetry, quiet contemplation, and whatever else we can come up with. Do let me know if you have any ideas or would like to contribute in some way.
We’ve chosen to hold the celebration at Matara (where Chris and I got married) which is just 200 yards from Chris’s home in Kingscote village. It is also where her memorial stone will be placed in a wooded garden. Doors will be open between 11.00 – 20.00 Monday 29 June & 11.00 – 16.00 Tuesday 30 June.
Each day will offer a range of activities and you are welcome to come for one or both of them. There will be a “grazing bar” for tea, coffee and snacks throughout and something a bit more substantial at lunchtimes. Ask me for a list of local B&Bs and hotels if you need overnight accommodation. We are also hoping to have a “Skype Corner” so that folk who cannot come, especially from overseas can connect with us during the event.
The event is by invitation and request. Chris had a huge circle of friends and colleagues and I’m bound to miss some of you by mistake so if you don’t receive an invitation directly from me, know that you too are welcome. Also please feel free to pass the invitation on to anyone else you think might like to come.
Please email me geoff.mead@me.com as soon as possible if you intend coming (or think you might) and let me know on which day(s) so we can plan catering etc.
Love, light and blessings
Geoff
www.cominghometostory.com
geoff.mead@me.com
mobile: +44 (0)7966 840669
Streetlife – A new local community website for Cotswold
Streetlife, the local social network, has a simple aim: to help people make the most of where they live by connecting with their neighbours.
The website provides a free and easy place to share local news, views, recommendations and resources, enabling people with busy routines or reduced mobility to keep in touch with their community.
Conversations started on Streetlife have helped unite lost pets with owners, expose doorstep scammers, save threatened public services and recall local history. The site is also encouraging real-world friendships, with neighbours sharing gardening equipment, IT advice and dentist recommendations, organising craft groups, street parties and book clubs.
Streetlife has just launched across Cotswold, and everyone – residents, groups, local government representatives and businesses – is invited to share their knowledge, discuss the local issues they care about, and help build a stronger, better connected community.
Get involved!
- Sign up at www.streetlife.com with your postcode and email address
- You’ll automatically be linked to the people and conversations where you live
- You can post messages, events, polls and pictures, and locals will be able to respond
- You can customise your account so you control how often you receive local updates
Sign up and join the local conversation on streetlife.com.
Quiz Night Reminder – Friday 27th February – 8pm
Martin the Postie is running a Quiz Night in the Village Hall on Friday February 27th, starting at 8pm – back by popular demand after a very successful event last year.
Come as a team of 4 or as an individual and join a team. £10 a table, £2.50 a person. Pay bar.
You want your post to go on being delivered, don’t you?! Contact Carol on patonbagpath@btinternet.com – we’d love to see you there.
Kingscote – Highway Works
You will have seen the notices in the village and letters that have been delivered advising that there are roadworks taking place next week between 0730h and 1730h on 2nd-6th February.
It has been confirmed that the roads on the attached map are the ones that are being repaired, so most villagers should be able to enter/exit the village via Hazlecote.
Regards,
Webmaster
kingscote highway works
The Forerunner – February 2015
Service Calendar for February 2015
| Sunday | 1st | Nailsworth | 8.00 am | Holy Communion BCP |
| Kingscote | 9.30 am | Morning Prayer BCP | ||
| Horsley | 11.00 am | Holy Communion | ||
| Nailsworth | 11.00 am | Family Service | ||
| Wednesday | 4th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 8th | Kingscote | 9.30 am | Holy Communion BCP |
| Nailsworth | 11.00 am | Holy Communion | ||
| Horsley | 11.00 am | Family Service | ||
| Wednesday | 11th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
| Sunday | 15th | Kingscote | 9.30 am | Family Service |
| Nailsworth | 11.00 am | Family Communion, Baptism | ||
| & Marriage | ||||
| Horsley | 11.00 am | Holy communion | ||
| Ash Wednesday | 18th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion & |
| Imposition of Ashes | ||||
| Sunday | 22nd | Kingscote | 9.30 am | Parish Communion CW |
| Lent | Nailsworth | 11.00 am | Holy Communion | |
| Horsley | 11.00 am | Informal Worship | ||
| Horsley | 6.00 pm | Evensong BCP | ||
| Wednesday | 25th | Nailsworth | 10.00 am | Holy Communion |
The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets on Fridays at 9.45 am at Nailsworth. Refreshments served afterwards in the Parish Rooms.
The next PCC meeting will be on Tuesday 3 February at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall.
Lent study groups
During Lent there will be study groups in Nailsworth commencing as follows:
Tuesday 24 Feb. 7.30 pm Christchurch, Wednesday 25 Feb. 2.00 pm St George’s.
With sufficient demand, the Vicar could run a group at Kingscote on Wednesday evenings.
Please indicate interest to Harry Tubbs or Georgina Harford.
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,
As I sit to write this letter, the news channels and papers are full of the recent attacks in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebo and the Jewish supermarket by extremist Jihadi fighters linked to Isis and al-Qaeda.
The death of anybody in such circumstances is a tragedy and we are all losers as members of the human race.
As tragic in the aftermath of these events has been some of the reaction. Peaceful God-fearing Muslims (as the vast majority are) have been targeted and persecuted as if somehow, all Muslims are the same. There are stories of French Jews leaving France to move to Israel, abandoning their birthplace, business and the like.
The deaths are the result of a warped view of the world and God’s teaching – to love our neighbour as ourselves.
The deaths are the result of a warped view of the world and God’s teaching – to love our neighbour as ourselves.
Prejudice in any form is a destructive and evil force. But it is present in all of us to a greater or lesser extent.
During February the Christian church enters the season of Lent. It begins on Wednesday 18th – Ash Wednesday – when Christians are urged to take part in an act of penitence for all that mars God’s image in them, and to begin a 40 day period out of their lives during which they try to draw closer to God and to know him better.
It seems to me that the world would be a safer place and that evil would be diminished if more of us drew closer to the teaching of Jesus and began to live out that teaching more in our lives.
Mike Smith
Thank you
Thank you so much for the wonderful hamper I was given at the Carol Service on Friday 19 December, the contents of which I have been enjoying.
Rosemary Sims
Flower Rota
| 1 February
8 to 15 February 18 February Ash Wednesday 22 February to 4 April LENT |
Jane Bateman
Wendy Ingram
No Flowers |
Lorna Reynolds
Cleaning Team
The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 9 February. We are always delighted to welcome anyone who would like to join the team.
Teresa Day
Late Results
Bagpath Carol Singing on 22 December – Carol Paton and her team raised £56 which was donated to the Nelson Trust, to be added to the collection at the Church Carol Service. Thanks to all who sang and those who gave. Georgina.
The Children’s Society – The 2014 House Box-holders collected £169-05 which goes to the same charity as the church Christmas Day collection. Gill James.
Village Hall Programme
Film night – Tuesday 10 February Enchanted April with Joan Plowwright – guaranteed to cheer you up ! – 7.30 for 8.00 pm. Admission free, pay bar.
Coffee Morning – Tuesday 17 February, 10.30 to 11.30 am, all welcome £1-50 for coffee and cake.
Quiz Night – Friday 27 February, 8.00 pm start, with Martin the Postie. Always a fun event – bring a team of 4 or join a team on the night. £10 per table or £2-50 each. Pay bar.
We hope to see as many of you as possible during the month, with hopefully something for everyone. If there are events or talks etc you would like us to hold then let a member of the committee know – we always welcome ideas … and of course it is YOUR village hall so please use it for events of your own. Rates are very reasonable !
Carol Paton
Grumbolds Ash Group
On Tuesday 10 February we will visit the Court Barn Museum at Chipping Campden which is open from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. This has a fine collection of exhibits referring to the Arts and Crafts movement which blossomed in the town and whose traditions of artistic handicraft are still maintained.
We meet at the Village Hall at 9.30 am. Car sharing is particularly advised as parking is always tight in Campden. The museum at GL55 6JE is close to the beautiful Parish Church.
Jutta Tubbs
Book Club at 8.00 pm
Wednesday 11 February – ‘Before I go to sleep’ by S J Watson at Viv’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 date of the next meeting will be announced in the March issue of the magazine.
Planning applications
Calcot House Kingscote, Erection of garage and part change of equestrian land to domestic curtilage.
Car parking
In January the CDC announced some useful improvements in local parking charges.
West Street Tetbury – £2 all day tariff
Beeches Car Park Cirencester – £2 all day tariff continues
Brewery Car Park Cirencester – No charges between 6 pm and 8 am
Sunday parking charges limited to 10 am to 4 pm
Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244
Composting
There is a pressing need to reduce the amount of green waste being collected and processed for Gloucestershire, and the County Council wishes to promote more local composting. As many of us realise, composting is not as easy as it looks and problems can range from a failure to achieve decay, to rats moving in.
The Gloucestershire Joint Waste Team (GJWT) in conjunction with Garden Organic are looking to find dedicated volunteers who would like to become Master Composters, and are offering a free 2 day initial training course this Spring. The course covers everything a volunteer needs in order to be confident enough to promote local home and community composting as a method of diverting waste.
Further information can be obtained from: katherine.cole@gloucestershire.gov.uk (Tel. 01452 426 525). Low cost compost bins are for sale via the Recycle for Gloucestershire website: www.recycleforgloucestershire.com/article/113096/Home-composting.
The Editor
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 6 and 20 February.
Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill
All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 6 and 20 February.
Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.
Mobile Police Van
The Mobile Police Station will visit Kingscote on Saturday 14 February from 3.15 to 4.15 pm.
Mobile Library
The next visit will be on Friday 20 February 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 18 February to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.
The Editor
Church attendance in Europe
Sandy Childress noticed the following data in a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal: Proportion of practising Christians attending at least weekly in 2012 –
Ireland 48% Italy 39% Netherlands 29% Spain 25% UK 21% Germany 11% France 10% Denmark 6%.
Green Grow the Rushes Oh !
This old English song was sung to considerable acclaim at the 2014 Christmas Carol Service in the Church by the Kingscote Village Choir. The meaning of some of the stanzas was not clear to all, so Sebastian Cooper has provided an interpretation which is summarised below:
Twelve for the twelve Apostles. The twelve first Apostles of Jesus.
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven. Following the betrayal by Judas.
Ten for the ten commandments. The Commandments given to Moses.
Nine for the nine bright shiners. Either prominent stars or angels
Eight for the April Rainers. The Hyades star cluster seen in April.
Seven for the seven stars in the sky. Probably one of several star clusters.
Six for the six proud walkers. Several possible biblical references.
Five for the symbols at your door. Religious or spiritual warning signs.
Four for the Gospel makers. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Three, three the rivals. Peter, James and John who argued as to which of them was the greatest.
Two, two, the lily-white boys Obscure reference possibly to Moses and Elijah at the Transfiguration.
clothed all in green, Ho.
One is one and all alone and This almost certainly refers to God.
evermore will be so.
If you would like a full copy of Sebastian’s analysis it can be supplied.
The Editor, Tel. 860 194
Science is now pointing towards the existence of God
Extracts from an article in The Times on Saturday 10 January by
Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Oxford and
Professional Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London.
It is remarkable how atheism is becoming fashionable. In Britain it has become almost compulsory to say that you do not believe in God. Very often the writings of well-known scientists such as Richard Dawkins are quoted in support of the opinion that science and belief in God are at odds. But there is much contemporary work in science that points in a very different direction. It could even be said that there is now a large amount of evidence for the existence of a spiritual dimension to the world. This is particularly so in quantum physics, which has turned the world of classical Newtonian physics upside down.
In the classical view, the world was made up of elementary lumps of matter (like billiard balls) which moved in accordance with absolute and unbreakable laws of nature, running along predetermined grooves in ways that could be predicted with certainty and excluded the possibility of any non-physical ‘interferences’ with the system.
Quantum physics has made that view of the physical world obsolete. Classical physics is not completely ‘wrong’, but it is totally inadequate. New quantum theories make belief in God entirely reasonable, and some quantum physicists even think that something like God is required to make sense of fundamental physics.
He continues at some length to discuss the philosophical and theological implications of these developments, but it seems that to make any deeper analysis one needs to consider Stephen Hawking’s equations ! He concludes …
The job of reason is to see that the evidence on all sides is fairly and accurately, critically and sympathetically, presented. So to present the evidence for God is to assemble those features of experience which point to a transcendent source of value and of intelligible order in the universe, and to integrate them into a framework which is theoretically elegant and pragmatically fruitful in practical and moral ways. That evidence will not, in the nature of the case, be universally compelling – just as the evidence for a scientifically based materialism will not. But quantum physics makes the case for a non-material mind-like basis of the physical universe pretty strong. Science and God may be more friendly than you think.
Richard Dawkins’ thrust seems to mainly involve ridiculing Biblical and Medieval images of God and creation. This article certainly weakens the temptation to ignore God as an important factor in our modern lives.
Harry Tubbs, Churchwarden.
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: 861683
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.
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.
Quiz Night – Friday 27th February – back by popular demand!
Friday 27 February, 8.00 pm start, with Martin the Postie as your Quizmeister.
Always a fun event – bring a team of 4 or join a team on the night.
Cost: £10 per table or £2-50 each. Pay bar.
Where: Village Hall
Steel Band – Members Needed!
We are a 6 strong Steel Band, blokes and lassies, looking for a couple of extra players – we meet every Wednesday at 7pm for a couple of hours in Kingscote Village Hall.
A good sense of rhythm would be helpful but no previous experience of playing steel pans (or anything else) is necessary as we are taught by a professional music teacher and pans are available.
Just turn up at the Village Hall after 7pm on a Wednesday. Give Gill Holmes a ring on 01453 860229 or email g.s.holmes@sky.com for more details.