SHOSCOMBE NEWSLETTER MAY 2007

EVENTS IN MAY
Saturday, 5 May Village Market (Plants)
Saturday, 5 May ‘Here Comes Summer’, at the Village Hall
Tuesday, 8 May Village Hall AGM – 7.30 pm everyone welcome
Saturday, 19 May Coffee Morning, Montague Cottage
FOSSA Barn Dance, Foxcote
Thursday, 24 May Parish Council AGM- 7.30pm in the Village Hall
Forthcoming Events
Sunday, 11 June Cream Teas, Glenshee, Shoscombe
Sunday, 23 September Harvest Festival, Foxcote
Saturday, 29 September Harvest Supper

United Benefice of Camerton, Dunkerton & Foxcote with Shoscombe
SUNDAY SERVICES AT ST JAMES THE LESS FOXCOTE—MAY 2007

6 May (Easter 5) 11.15 Family Service

13 May (Easter 6) 11.15 Holy Communion Reader J Coles Acts 16 v 9-15

20 May (Easter 7) 5.00 pm Service for Ten Lamps Group at Downside Abbey

27 May (Pentecost) 9.30 Holy Communion Reader R Goode Acts 2 v 1-21

The Rector writes

Spring and summer seem to have arrived together this year. We are glad to experience sunshine and see the new growth in field, hedgerow and woodland. Such pleasure is tempered with the knowledge that climate change seems to be acknowledged as a sign of impeding danger for our world. As we look on fields bright in green and yellow, and grazing livestock, we are also somewhat insulated from the realities that face farmers in our country. Though we live in a rural setting most of us are really urban creatures. Only a small minority of us in our villages are directly involved with agriculture and its related activities. Some of our older inhabitants can recall a time when very many people were needed to farm the land that we look at in the valleys of the Cam and the Wellow Brook.
We are used to the traditional thanksgiving for harvest in church. In discussion with others in the churches we thought it might be opportune to have an occasion when the land itself and stock might be blessed. Robert Gardiner, who farms from North Hill Farm in Dunkerton has kindly invited us to have a service there on Sunday June 3. This will be at 3 in the afternoon and replaces Evensong at Dunkerton Church that day. If wet we will be in a barn, but we hope to be able to worship outside. There will be space for car parking. North Hill Farm is on the north side of Tunley Road, between Tunley Village and the top of The Hollow. We hope that other members of the farming community will join us.
Whilst on this topic can I draw your attention to a request from Richard Maggs of Radstock Museum who is seeking photographs of local farms, farm activities, small holdings (particularly Somerset County Council holdings), farmers and livestock, or any other information on farms and faming families in north Somerset, traditions, folk-lore, etc. This is for a special issue of Five Arches. You can leave material at the museum or contact Richard on 01761 232085.

We had a well attended Group Service at Camerton last month. Can I remind you that this month, on Sunday 20th May, it has been arranged that members from churches in the Group will go to Downside Abbey at 5pm for the service there. Some of us had an interesting visit to Downside a few years ago. This is an opportunity to join in with the worship of the monastic community. If you need information or directions please ask me.

Bereavement Register
Some of you may have had the distressing experience of having continuing mail addressed to a deceased relative. Also some identity frauds use the details of dead people for criminal purposes. A free service has been established, The Bereavement Register, which will record the details of a deceased person, and make it available under strict licensing condition to direct mailing companies and others. There is no limit relating to the date of the death. I have been sent a number of forms which can be sent, post free, to the Register. If you know of anyone who has been effected in this respect I would be happy to pass on the form, or it can be obtained from The Bereavement Register, Sevenoaks, TN13 1YR.

The Revd. Kevin Tingay, The Rectory, Skinners Hill,
Camerton, Bath BA2 0PU
Tel/Fax: 01761 470249 E-mail: kgxt@btinternet.com

Coffee Morning– Mrs Ruby Rice invites everyone to a coffee morning at Montague Cottage, St Julian’s Road on Saturday, 19 May 10.30—12 noon. Raffle and bring and buy. Proceeds to church expenses. All Welcome.

Cream Teas— don’t forget - in the garden at Glenshee, Shoscombe, Sunday, 11 June—3.30—5.30 pm. Come and bring your friends.

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