Category: News & Events

Please see attached notice of road closure between Windmill Lane and Lampern Hill for roadworks, effective 29th September.

Road Closure Kingscote

Healthwatch Gloucestershire is keen to work with Parish Councils to reach more people and raise awareness about the work we do.

As part of our commitment to collecting local views and experiences we are holding public events in all localities in Gloucestershire, inviting people to come along to hear more about the work we do and how we use the information provided to influence the planning and delivery of local health services. We would be very grateful if you could display the attached poster and if possible include the paragraph below in your Parish newsletter to help us advertise this event.

Healthwatch Gloucestershire acts as a single point of access for health and social care information and provides an advice and signposting service to help people make informed choices. We also gather local peoples’ views and experiences on health and social care using these views to improve services locally.

If you would like to hear more about the work of Healthwatch Gloucestershire and would like to share your experiences with us please join us at our Public Event at The Westwood Centre, Bassett Road, Northleach GL54 3QJ on Wednesday 14th October 2015 from 7.00 to 9pm. There will also be a talk by the South Western Ambulance Service, which aims to give a better understanding of current ambulance provision. This will be followed by a Q & A session. Please call Healthwatch Gloucestershire on 0800 652 5193 to book your place.

Many thanks,

Helen Imm
Healthwatch Information Adviser
Healthwatch Gloucestershire
Community House 15 College Green Gloucester GL1 2LZ
Tel: 01452 504989 Freephone: 0800 652 5193 Website: www.healthwatchgloucestershire.co.uk

15.10.14 – BoardMeetingPoster-Northleach DRAFT

The Audit has been completed by the external Auditors and is available to view.

Please contact Anna on 01453 860244 or email: adavisonphysio@aol.com.

A chance to see “Faberge – A Life of its Own” film
Thursday 17th September
Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester

In aid of Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust

Tickets: hello@ghct.org.uk

Service Calendar for September 2015

Wednesday	2nd	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	6th	NailsworthKingscote Nailsworth Horsley	8.00 am9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am	Holy CommunionMorning Prayer BCP All-age service Holy Communion
Wednesday	9th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	13th	Christ Church Nailsworth	10.30 am	Joint service for Benefice and Christ Church congregations
Wednesday	16th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	20th	Kingscote Nailsworth Nailsworth   Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm   11.00 am	Family ServiceFamily Communion ‘One Voice’ service at Christ Church on Newmarket Road Family Communion
Wednesday	23rd	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	27th	KingscoteNailsworth Horsley Horsley	9.30 am11.00 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Holy Communion CWHoly Communion Messy Church Evensong BCP
Wednesday	30th	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 Room.

 

The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Lady Chapel on Tuesday 8 Sept.

 

The Harvest Festival Service this year will take place at 9.30 am on Sunday 18 October.

 

     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,

 

Where has the summer gone ? Time seems to pass so quickly these days (no doubt a symptom of increasing age !).

 

But a year ago I was writing my first ever letter and preparing to move in to

Nailsworth and take up the reins as Vicar of Horsley, Kingscote and Nailsworth. Everything was new, not to say bewildering.

 

That gave me an excuse when things did not go quite right …. but after a year the ‘honeymoon’ period is over and the excuse of ‘I’m new here’ no longer holds true.

Any slip ups are now, quite simply, my fault !

 

As I look back over the first year I can see it was quite a steep learning curve – not least trying to remember so many names in three very different communities. I can see that there were times when there wasn’t quite enough of me to go round when meetings or events clashed on the same day at the same time and I had to have the Wisdom of Solomon to make the choice.

 

But there are two things of which I have been sure:

 

Firstly, that this is the right place to be. Such a beautiful place, such warm and friendly people, such a lot to do !

 

Secondly and more importantly, that it has been God who has led me. He remains the same yesterday, today and forever. His love never falters, his wisdom is unbreakable.

 

So, with those two thoughts in my mind I head into the uncharted territory of year two with confidence !

 

With every blessing,

Mike Smith

 

Flower Rota

 

6th and 13th September 20th and 27th September 4th and 11th October

Jenny Tibbert Elin Tattersall Vivienne Ainsworth

Weddings:

                Saturday 12 September, 1.30 pm Richard Tyler and Jessica Mullan

                Wednesday 16 September, 3.15 pm Luke Osbourne and Amy Elliot

                Saturday 26 September, 1.30 pm Julian Cooke and Laura McGinty

 

Lorna Reynolds

 

Cleaning Team

 

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 14 September.

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

 

Film Night – Tuesday 8 September, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing of Enigma fame: 7.30 for 8.00 pm, admission free, Pay Bar.

 

Coffee morning – Tuesday 15 September: Coffee and cake £1.50, 10.30 to 11.30 am.

Carol Paton

 

Village Hall Committee

 

We are looking for new members to join the committee this Autumn – and in particular for a treasurer as Viv Ainsworth, who has been dealing very successfully with our finances for the last few years, has decided that she would like to stand down.

 

Our finances are currently on a sound footing and Viv says that it is not a particularly difficult or time consuming job and she would be happy to talk to any would-be treasurers !

 

We would also like some of the new people who have moved into the village to join us. We meet every 4 ~ 6 weeks over a glass of wine to discuss future events and any maintenance issues. Please contact Carol Paton on 860 649 if you would be interested.

 

 

Grumbolds Ash Group

 

On Tuesday 8 September we visit the famous David Austin rose garden and nursery. This gives us a chance to see first-hand and order plants for our gardens next year. We meet at 9.30 am at the VH to share the driving.

 

Austin Roses, Bowling Green Lane, Albrighton, nr. Wolverhampton, WV7 3HB

 

Jutta Tubbs

 

Book Club at 8.00 pm

 

Wednesday 2 September, Towers of Tuscany by Carol M Cram, at Viv’s.

Wednesday 7 October, Life after Life by Kate Atkinson, at Louise’s.

Monday 2 November, Go set a watchman, 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 callafternoons.

 

 

Kingscote Parish Council

 

The next meeting of the Parish Council will be on Tuesday 13 October at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.

 

Planning Applications

 

        St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed            building.

Preliminary notice of possible future application to develop a solar farm at Woodleaze, Kingscote.

21 Kingscote, first floor extension.

 

Planning Appeal

 

Anearobic Digester at Chavenage (Stroud District).

 

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 4 and 18 Sept.

 

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 4 and 18 September.

 

Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

 

 

Mobile Library

 

The next visit will be on Friday 4 September 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 September to

H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.

 

The Editor

 

Ride and stride – Saturday 12 September

 

This annual event organised by the Gloucestershire Historic Churches Trust raises funds for the restoration of churches of all denominations in Gloucestershire. They have been most generous in supporting our parish church over the years.

 

Many churches all over Gloucestershire are manned, supplying refreshments and recording the visits. Sponsorship forms are supplied and people are encouraged to visit as many of them as possible. Half of the money raised goes to a church of your choice and half to the Trust for its discretionary allocation.

 

If you prefer to visit more churches with fewer inclines, the Sharpness canal path by Frampton is a good choice.

 

Georgina Harford

 

A date for your diary: Concert in Kingscote Church on Saturday 17 October

 

We are delighted to announce that The Robinson Ensemble is kindly putting on a concert in Kingscote Church on Saturday 17 October, 7.00 to 9.00 pm. They are also including Mike Revell for a performance of the Mozart Horn Quintet.

 

Tickets will be £5, with donations welcome, and all monies will go towards the upkeep of the church.

 

Further details will be given in the October issue of the Forerunner.

 

Georgina Harford

Memories of Growing up in Kingscote

 

The little book written and published by Rosemary Sims our organist has now been accepted by the British Library for its collection and register, which is a nice milestone in the story. However she has had to supply 5 copies to an agent in Edinburg for distribution to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and elsewhere. The price of fame !

 

The Editor

Cosmic Clarity

 

Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

 

Patrick Kidd, The Times 4 August 2015

 

Bills into Mills – Copied from the Diocesan Messenger for September 2015

 

Did you know that the Gloucester Diocese has a partnership with Stroud-based green energy company Ecotricity ? The company puts its profits back into building windmills, with its ‘bills into mills’ model.

 

Ecotricity does this in pursuit of a vision for a Green Britain – a place in which we all live more sustainable lives and where ethical business is the norm – pursuing outcomes other than just profit. All Ecotricity customers are on the latest, best and same price, no matter when they joined or how they pay.

 

Switching to Ecotricity is one of the single biggest things you can do to cut your carbon emissions. Its only electricity tariff is 100% green and it also offers one

single green gas tariff.   What’s more, there are no exit fees or penalties for leaving.

Switch to Ecotricity and you get a voucher worth up to £25 to spend at Waitrose or John Lewis. Plus, for every household, vicarage or church that switches, Ecotricity will donate £25 to the Diocese of Gloucester into a special fund that will support new, local environmental projects.

 

Friends

 

 

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it.

Death cannot kill what never dies.

Nor can spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same

divine principle, the root and record of their friendship.

If absence be not death, neither is theirs.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas;

They live in one another still. For they must needs be present,

That love and live in that which is omnipresent.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die,

Yet their friendship and society are in the best sense,

Ever present, because immortal.

William Penn (1644 –1718)

 

 

Dag Hammarskjöld

 

(A Swedish diplomat who died in a suspicious plane crash in

Africa in 1961 as Secretary General of the United Nations;

the prayer below was later found in his personal papers)

 

Have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon our efforts, that we before thee,

In love and in faith, righteousness and humility,

May follow thee, with self denial, steadfastness and courage,

And meet thee in the silence.

 

Give us

 

A pure heart that we may see thee,

A humble heart that we may hear thee,

A heart of love that we may serve thee,

A heart of faith that we may love thee.

 

Thou

 

Whom I do not know but whose I am.

Thou Whom I do not comprehend

But who has dedicated me to my fate.

 

Thou –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.
 

Dear All, 

Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on SUNDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2015 at APPROX 9.45PM for approximately 8/10 mins and will be run by Coates Fireworks.

Kind Regards,

 

Apinya

Apinya Clark

Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE

01453 861161

From Anna Davison: please see the note below and try and pass the word around to those without access to email.  Works are also expected in KIngscote.

————————————————————————————
Please be advised of the following temporary road closure:

401501 Hunters Hall To Barnhill Farm Road, Kingscote

This road will be closed (as per the attached) from the 17th September to 23rd September 2015, to allow for essential carriageway resurfacing by Amey, working on behalf of Gloucestershire County Council.

If you require any further information regarding this closure, please contact the office on 08000 514514.

Regards

Bill Bellerby

Road Space Co-ordinator
Gloucestershire County Council
Street Works Team
Network & Traffic Management
Shire Hall
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
GL1 2TH

Dear All,

Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on FRIDAY 21ST AUGUST 2015 at 10.00pm 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

Service Calendar for August 2015

 

Sunday	2nd	Nailsworth Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley	8.00 am    9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am	Holy Communion BCP Morning Prayer BCP All-age service Holy Communion
Wednesday	5th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	9th	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am	Holy Communion BCP Holy Communion Family Service
Wednesday	12th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	16th	Kingscote Nailsworth Nailsworth   Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm   11.00 am	Family Service and Baptism Family Communion ‘One Voice’ service at Christ Church on Newmarket Road Family Communion & Baptism
Wednesday	19th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	23rd	Kingscote Nailsworth Horsley Horsley	9.30 am 11.00 am 11.00 am 6.00 pm	Holy Communion CW Holy Communion Messy Church Evensong BCP
Wednesday	26th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	30th	Kingscote	11.00 am	Benefice service followed by shared Picnic Lunch*

* By kind invitation of Godfrey and Vivienne Ainsworth this will be held, weather permitting, in the garden at Kingscote House. In addition to your picnic, please bring available tables, chairs, rugs, gazebos etc. Some wine, tea, coffee and soft drinks will be available.

The next PCC meeting will be at 8.00 pm in the Village Hall on Tuesday 8 Sept.

 

     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 it is now holiday time for many people I am also taking a holiday from writing as there is some good news for us in our diocese about the arrival of our new Bishop.

For me it is exciting as we welcome to Gloucester the very first female Diocesan Bishop. Bishop Rachel is young and outgoing and should give us the kind of lead that we need as we seek to reach out in new ways into our communities. The Dean of Gloucester has sent round the letter below, which I now share with you.

 

The Dean of Gloucester Cathedral writes:

 

It is my pleasure to announce that Rachel Treweek will formally begin her new role as the Bishop of Gloucester on Saturday 19 September. We are expecting over 1,000 people to attend a special event in Gloucester Cathedral to mark this occasion which will begin at 4.30 pm.

 

Rachel will be consecrated as the 41st Bishop of Gloucester at Canterbury Cathedral on 22 July, but the service on 19 September will mark the formal start of Rachel’s ministry in the Diocese of Gloucester.

 

Invitations to attend the service will be sent across the diocese and beyond.

 

With every blessing,

Mike Smith

 

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group will meet again in September.

 

 

Flower Rota

2nd August 9th and 16th August 23rd and 30th August 6th and 13th September

Tracey Pool Lorna Reynolds Carol Paton Jenny Tibbert

No Weddings in August.

Lorna Reynolds

 

Cleaning Team

 

The next church cleaning session is at 2.30 pm on Monday 10 August.

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

 

There will be no events in the Village Hall until September but the hall facilities, including two table tennis tables and a pool table, are available if anyone wants to arrange an event during the school holidays. Please contact Pauline McTear on Tel. 861 311 for details.

Carol Paton

 

 

Grumbolds Ash Group

 

On Tuesday 11 August Angela Wooldridge has kindly invited us to an afternoon tea party at her home from 3.00 pm, for which we are most grateful.

 

It would be helpful if you informed Angela on Tel. 860 697 of your intention to take part, particularly if you would like to contribute some food.

Jutta Tubbs

Book Club at 8.00 pm

 

• Wednesday 5 August Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey and/or The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins at Teresa’s
• September meeting to be announced later

 

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 13 October at 8.00 pm in the Hunters Hall.

 

Planning Applications

 

• St Bartholemew’s Church, Newington Bagpath, amended works to listed building.
• Preliminary notice of possible future application to develop a solar farm at Woodleaze, Kingscote.

 

Planning Appeal

 

Anearobic Digester at Chavenage (Stroud District), Kingscote PC has joined with other neighbouringcommunities to produce a joint submission objecting to the scheme. More information is available on the Kingscote website.

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 7 and 21 August.

 

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 7 and 21 August.

 

Bus Timetable Enquiries -Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

 

Mobile Library

 

The next visit will be on Friday 7 August 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 August to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194.

 

The Editor

Commercial Kingscote

 

The following US website www.houseofnames.com/kingscote-family-crest appears to offer a range of Kingscote branded goods such as coffee mugs and ceramic tiles carrying the Kingscote Coat of Arms.

 

The Editor has not used the website and can give no recommendation at all as to its integrity, but some residents might be interested in investigating it further.

 

 

The fall of English agriculture in the late Victorian era

 

An extract from the book ‘English Social History’

By G M Trevelyan

 

From 1875 onwards the catastrophe set in. A series of bad seasons aggravated its initial stages, but the cause was the development of the American prairies as grain lands within reach of the English market. The new agricultural machinery enabled the farmers of the Middle-West to skim the cream off virgin soils of unlimited expanse; the new railway system carried the produce to the ports; the new steamers bore it across the Atlantic. English agriculture was more scientific and more highly capitalised than American, but under the conditions the odds were too great. Mass production of crops by a simpler and cheaper process undercut the elaborate and expensive methods of farming which had been built up on well-managed English estates during the previous two hundred years.

The overthrow of the British landed aristocracy by the far distant democracy of American farmers was one outcome of this change of economic circumstance. An even more important consequence has been the general divorce of Englishmen from life in contact with nature, which in all previous ages had helped to form the mind and the imagination of the island race.

 

The other states of Europe, which still had peasantry and valued them as a stabilizing element in the social fabric, warded off the influx of American food by tariffs. But in England no such policy was adopted or even seriously considered. The belief in Free Trade as the secret of our vast prosperity, the unwillingness to interfere with the world-commerce on which our power and wealth seemed to stand secure, the predominance of the towns over the country in numbers and still more in intellectual and political leadership, the memories of the ‘hungry forties’ when the Corn Laws had made bread dear for the poor – all these circumstances prevented any effort to save the rural way of life.

 

Least of all did the Victorians see any need to grow food in the island to provide the necessities of future wars. After two generations of safety won at Waterloo, real national danger seemed to have passed away forever.

 

 

 

A WISH

 

Mine be a cot beside the hill;

A bee-hive’s hum shall sooth my ear;

A willowy brook that turns a mill,

With many a fall shall linger near.

 

The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch

Shall twitter from her clay-built nest;

Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch,

And share my meal, a welcome guest.

 

Around my ivied porch shall spring

Each fragrant flower that drinks the dew;

And Lucy, at her wheel, shall sing

In russet-gown and apron blue.

 

The village-church among the trees,

Where first our marriage-vows were given,

With merry peals shall swell the breeze

And point with taper spire to Heaven.

 

                                                                                                            S Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s war on Centre Court, but tennis teaches us to love

 

(Taken from an article by the Rev Dr Lincoln Harvey published in The Times on 4 July)

 

The church is best placed to explain why the unnecessary but meaningful nature of tennis makes it so popular. That’s because the church teaches that we are (unnecessary) too. God created our world out of nothing, and – because there is only one God – Christians believe that his act of creation was completely unnecessary. It’s not as if there was a bigger God in the background, cracking the whip, forcing God to create a world which would meet their stringent demands.

 

Nor was the one God in anyway deficient, with some intrinsic need forcing him to act. Instead, the church proclaims that God is eternally complete in himself, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, perfectly fulfilled. Therefore, when this God creates, it is a completely unnecessary act. God created us freely. The church believes that God created the world in order to share the life of the Trinity, which is to say the meaning of creation is love.

 

With all this in mind, a simple equation presents itself. Creation is fundamentally unnecessary but deeply meaningful in character, and so are sporting events.Therefore when we are sitting down to watch tennis, we are witnessing an event that is itself unnecessary yet meaningful and therefore expresses something of our deepest identity as unnecessary-but-meaningful creatures. The tennis effectively provides an arena in which our fundamental nature can be celebrated,giving us chance to resonate with our core identity as creatures who are created freely for love.

 

Of course, this way of seeing things raises as many questions as it answers. However, it helps us to see that it is good that Wimbledon punctuates the seriousness of our working life, reminding us that we are playful creatures, unnecessarily but endlessly loved into existence by the one true God. That’s what is really going on amid the strawberries and cream of SW19. We are celebrating who we are.

The Editor

 

 

A General Thanksgiving

 

(From the Book of Common Prayer)

 

Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men;

 

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

 

And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we shew forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives;

 

By giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days;

 

Through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Please find attached documents relating to the Planning Appeal above.

Appendix A Response to Statement of Case

Appendix C Accidents on Chavenage Lane (2)

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