Service Calendar for May 2015
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.