May
2008
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A Soft Day |
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A
soft day, thank God! A
wind from the south With
a honeyed mouth; A
scent of drenching leaves, Briar
and beech and lime, White
elder-flower and thyme And
the soaking grass smells sweet, Crushed
by two bare feet, While
the rain drips, Drips, drips, drips, from the leaves.
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W. M. Letts |
Magazine for Falfield, Oldbury
Rockhampton & Shepperdine.
EDITOR Mrs
Maureen Bland.
Little Green Cottage, Ham,
Tel: 01453
811004
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Church Contacts :-
Thornbury & Oldbury.
Parish office 281900 Wed. Thurs. Fri. mornings
Revd
Methodist Rev Iesinga Vunipola 412269
Rockhampton, Falfield, Tortworth,
Tytherington & Cromhall
Revd Canon Pat Lyes-Wilsdon 294767
Christ The King Thornbury.
Father Alex 412223
Local Village Web Links www.oldbury-on-severn.com www.falfield.org.uk
www.MyThornbury.com
Oldbury Memorial Hall –
contact Len Hales 415144
Oldbury Youth Club 07831
849742
2008 CALENDAR DATES FOR OLDBURY
Sponsored by Ian Knapp Builders.
10th May Sat Oldbury Quiet Day – Chapel
21st May Wed
15th June Sun Fun Run
Songs of Praise 6.00pm The Pound
28th June Sat
& lots
more. Oldbury Playing Fields
29th June Sun Oldbury Open Gardens proposed date
5th July Sat Cricket Club Summer Do
12th July Sat
6th Sep Sat Oldbury Horticultural Show
13th Sept Sat
Coffee
mornings are held at the chapel on
the 3rd Saturday of each month in aid of charity.
A community
library will be held in the Oldbury Chapel School Room on the 1st
& 3rd Thursdays of each month 11.00 – 12.00 noon. Everybody is
welcome to come along for a chat and a cup of coffee.
If
you have any more fund raising or social events you would like to include in
this diary, please contact Ian Knapp on 419332
Oldbury
Deckers meet in the pavilion,
Friday 5.00pm
– 10.00pm
Primary age children have priority with all activities
before 6.30pm
The
contact number at club is 07831 849742
If
unavailable contact – Barry 07732 637246 or Bob 411506
The
Saturday night thing
Saturday
May 10th
7pm
– 9pm
This
month’s Theme :
"faithfulness"
Come
and join us!
At the Chapel
(open to 11 – 15 year olds)
“The cost for each session is £2. This is to cover the cost of the craft
(which has turned out to be
really popular) and also to cover other running costs.
Thank you!”
For more information contact Lucienne
416149
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Flower
Clubs |
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THORNBURY & DISTRICT |
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Meetings at Thornbury
Methodist Church Hall 2nd & 4th
Thursdays Demonstrations
and Practice Classes at 7.30pm |
Meetings
at Armstrong Complex, Thornbury Demonstrations 3rd Wednesday in the Month at
2.00pm |
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May 8th Demonstration What's Next' Jackie Beard May 22nd Practice Class `Say it with Flowers' |
May 21st
Katherine Lee - 'At Home' Comp
— 'Maytime' |
A
Project to Build a New Performance & Arts Venue in Thornbury
Reg.
Charity No. 1120422 ACT.Thornbury@yahoo.co.uk
Company
No. 6009419
Poetry, Pasties and Pints
As
part of its continuing season of fundraising events, ACT (Arts and Community in
Thornbury) is delighted to welcome two distinguished Gloucestershire poets to
Thornbury. Brenda Read-Brown and Peter Wyton (Gloucestershire Poet Laureate), who both appeared at
the Cheltenham Literary Festival last year, will present an evening called
Floods and Forward at Christ The King Church Hall in Castle Street on Saturday,
24 May at 7.30 pm. In the first part of
the evening, they will recall in poetry the floods which affected so much of
Gloucestershire in 2007 – the sense of sadness and loss but also the courage,
and warm community spirit. After the
interval, during which the pints and pasties make an appearance, Barbara and
Peter invite you to enjoy the lively experience of the fun and frivolity of
performance poetry.
Tickets
(£8/£7 for FACTS) will be on sale from April 21 from The Garden Shop in
Thornbury or by ringing Jackie Jackson on 01454 416421. Please note that pasties are included in the
price but not the pints!
Calling all golfers! The Golden Gromit
could be yours!
Thornbury
Golf Centre will be buzzing with activity on Wednesday 11 June when ACT (Arts
and Community in Thornbury) will be hosting a Charity Golf Day in aid of their
project to build a new arts and performance centre in Thornbury. ACT already has the support of Nick Park who
will be entering a team from Aardman Animations, the
world-renowned film company based at Aztec West. Aardman has also
generously donated the trophy for the best individual stableford
score. This will be a Golden Gromit, a trophy especially made for this competition and
therefore a rare item – and undoubtedly a valuable collector’s piece for Wallace
and Gromit fans.
Teetimes
will start at 11am from both the 1st and 10th tees and the golf format for the
team prize will be a Stableford Bowmaker.
The teams of four can be all men, all ladies or mixed – and the team entry fee
of £130 includes coffee on arrival and a delicious two course buffet after the
game.
So
come on golfers – give your support to this amazing local initiative – swing
into action, putt your name down to play and you’ll have a ball!
Anyone
interested in participating themselves, sponsoring a team, providing
competition prizes or raffle prizes should get in touch with the
organisers. We are especially looking
for someone to sponsor the Team Trophy to be presented alongside the Golden Gromit. To request
an entry form or to offer help with any of the above, please contact Jackie
Jackson on 01454 416421 or Jenny Dennis on 01454 417038
Oldbury Rain Fall
March 2008. March 2007 March 2006
78.5mm 55.5mm 69mm
3.09" 2.18" 2.71"
Oldbury Church Flowers
May 4th Mrs Belbin
11th Mrs Belbin
18th Mrs Holliday
25th Mrs Holliday
June 1st Mrs C Grove
8th Mrs C Grove
Police Report
Hello, here is the police report for the month of
March.
The Safer Stronger Community Group priorities for
the police remain as speeding/inappropriate vehicles on the B4461 Elberton and
Rockhampton. Speeding enforcement has been carried out in both locations at
varying different times especially rush hour.
On those occasions no vehicles were driving over the speed limit.
March saw a total of 40 calls to the police, 15 less
than last month and 10 reported crimes, 3 of which were domestic incidents.
3 males in a white van with distinctive green
stripes stole batteries and other equipment from a yard in
Attempt theft of a tractor from a field, Main Road
Aust, the male abandoned the tractor 2 fields away and rode off on a push bike, this tractor was targeted approximately 3 weeks
ago. Offender gained entry to an
insecure vehicle outside Thornbury Sailing Club where they stole a
handbag. A stolen vehicle from
Gloucestershire was found in
A suspicious was seen in the grounds of
The next beat surgeries at Olveston Stores are on
8th May and 12th June.
Emergency Contact Number: 999
To report crime or for non emergency incidents: 0845 456 7000
Local community issues contact:
PC Roger Hopes or PCSO Kelly Dimery
on 0117 945 5959
THORNBURY LIBRARY
1. Healthy living during the month of
May!
With the kind help of
numerous local support groups we have a packed programme of events throughout
May to tie in with the National Year of Reading which you will be hearing about
in the national press. To celebrate the link between reading and health come
along to Thornbury Library on Wednesdays and Saturdays when you can do more
than read about it you can actually do it from playing table tennis to Salsacise dancing with a Tai Chi session and a massage in
between!
SATURDAY 3 MAY (10.30am onwards)
Thornbury
table tennis club
Complimentary
medicine
WEDNESDAY 7 MAY (10.00am onwards)
Fibromyalgia
syndrome support group
Age Concern
Hard of
Hearing support group
Carers support
group
SATURDAY 10 MAY (11.00am)
Tai Chi
MONDAY 12 MAY (2.00pm-3.00pm)
Meningitis
research foundation
WEDNESDAY 14 MAY (10.00am onwards)
Bosom buddies
Stroke support
group
Diabetes
support group
SATURDAY 17 MAY (10.00am onwards)
Lloyds chemist
(blood pressure testing etc)
In good
hands-massage
Nutritional
therapist
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY (10.00am onwards)
Can South
Gloucestershire Council keep you fit?
Drop in for lots of
ideas-you can even go on a guided walk starting and finishing at the library
SATURDAY 24 May ( 11.00am)
Salsacise (Sammy Hutchinson
Refreshments at events
kindly supplied by Thornbury Fairtrade
Please note times and events may vary please contact
the library for details on 01454 868006
2 Echoes from the Front Line: A collection of Local People’s WW2 Memories
edited by Jackie Ashman
Available now from Thornbury Library price £5.95
This is the
long awaited sequel to Echoes from the Home Front published July 2006, by South
Gloucestershire Council Museums & Heritage.
This latest book covers the military stories of local people wherever
they found themselves during WW2.
These
stories were all individually researched by Jackie and supported by .
original photographs. Copies are also available
at
3. Silver Surfers Day- Friday 23
May 10.00-12.00 noon
Want to know the basics of using a computer but
afraid to ask?
Come along to one of our informal Silver Surfer
Sessions for some friendly one to one help.
Please note these sessions are for beginners only.
Please call in to the library to book a place or ring 01454 868006
For more
information on any of the above items please give the library a ring on our new
number 01454 868 006 (24 hour renewal line 08450 020 777) or visit our web-site
on www.southglos.gov.uk/libraries.
Remember you
can also access the web-site to renew your books, check the catalogue, reserve
items and consult a wide range of on-line reference materials including Oxford
English Dictionary Online; Oxford Reference Online; Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography; Grove Music Online; Grove Art Online. You will need your
borrower number and pin number (available from the library). We have also added
Ancestry.co.uk to the list but this is only available using the library
computers. You can also join the library on-line. We also offer a telephone
enquiry service on 01454 866 900 or you can email your enquiry to
askthelibrary@southglos.gov.uk
We also offer free internet access and word
processing in the library.
Please note we
can send your reservation and overdue notifications by text, email or voice
message. Please ask!
Rockhampton
Village Hall
March winners were :-
Stuart Oldland.
£15
David Clarke + Michelle
Chappell £10
Sandy Goode + Jean
Oldland £5
Oldbury Village History Group
Two things
this month. Our programme for the year has ended, but the exhibition which will be
held from Friday evening 13 June to Sunday afternoon 15 June – coinciding on
the Sunday with the Fun Run – is looming. The theme this year will be ‘Oldbury
Celebrates’, and Hugh Ferguson and I have decided it would be a good idea to
combine it with the flower festival which is being held in the chapel as a
change from the arts and crafts display which Will Denning organised in former
years.
For an exhibition we need
exhibits! Please look around and see what you could contribute in the way of
photos, programmes, commemorative mugs and plates (which we will be very
careful with) or anything else on the theme. We do realise it will overlap with
earlier exhibitions. We would be very pleased to be told about anything that
you can lend for this. If you could bring things to the chapel when we shall be
setting up on Thursday evening 12 June and on the Friday morning that would be
most welcome. Please contact Jane Bradshaw (see below), Rita Riddle or Joyce Tibbenham.
Secondly, we are organising
a trip to
Please contact me if you
would like to join us. If we get enough takers we will investigate transport,
otherwise we will take our cars.
Jane Bradshaw
The Bank House
Oldbury
Tel 01454 – 413199
Email: bradshaw@uwclub.net
Christian Comment
Faith and Faithfulness
Christians have
traditionally been unhappy to think of Mary simply as sharing in the depth of
our usual sin and failure; and it is surely true that her ‘yes’ to the angel
indicates that, from the beginning, believers have thought her freedom to
respond to God’s challenge a sign of some extraordinary depth of spiritual
integrity. But if we think further about Mary’s role, we may see that she is
not so remote from our situation as might appear at first. She comes
before us at the beginning of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke as a person of
intrinsic insignificance in her context – an unmarried woman in an occupied
country. She is summoned by God to a role that could only, in that context,
have marked her out more intensely as a failure and an outcast – a woman with
an unexplained pregnancy, an embarrassment to her fiancé. It is her acceptance
of risk, reproach and scandal that already points to her son, whose path will
be the same road of rejection. Her self-forgetfulness in accepting God’s call is the
foreshadowing of the scandal of the cross. She loves in advance the love that
Jesus will exhibit in life and death. In the cross Jesus demonstrates that he
loves the love his mother exhibited in accepting the shame and scandal of his
birth. He is not ashamed to be known as her son, and in affirmation of her he
affirms what is the nature of the faith we are all called to.
From ‘Ponder these things’ by Rowan Williams.
Contributed by Mike and Jane
Bradshaw, with thanks to Lawrence McCarthy.
General thanks.
Following the AGM for 4-ward magazine, those present wish to extend their thanks to all those who contribute in any way to its success. They all offer their services voluntarily; these include first of all the distributors, without whom none of us would receive our copy, then the advertisers who pay for the magazine to be printed. Talking of printing, we are indebted to Oldbury Deckers and their lead