NEWSLETTER

Starting this month Colin Campbell, my next door neighbour will be printing out the newsletter for me. He was the only person who offered to help me with the newsletter. If there are any teething problems I hope you will bear with us.

May I ask you all who contribute to the newsletter to please hand me your articles no later than the 22nd of the month. We set this date so that we can get our draft copy printed, which then goes down to Bridlington where 200 copies are run off. We can hopefully get them out in the village before the start of the following month at the latest.

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Robin Woods for all he has done for the newsletter, he was very helpful to me at all times.

We are still wanting articles for the newsletter, if anyone has anything which they’d like to share with our readers.

Blue Stone Corner was at the corner of Church Hill and Eastgate, I can remember one in our garden when I lived where Beck ‘n’ Call is now. I understand that there were more at various points in the village.

This month’s newsletter is kindly sponsored by the Parish Council. Thank you to all who contribute to the newsletter and the sponsors.

All articles for the September newsletter, no later than 22 August please,

to: Barbara Lingard,

It is with sadness that we report the deaths of two inhabitants of the village. Mr K. White of Hilston House, Long Street and Mr J.M. Wastling also of Long Street. Our condolences to their families and friends.

Mrs White and family of Hilston House, Long Street.

Wish to thank all neighbours and friends for their kindness and sympathy shown to them on the sudden death of my husband Keith. Everyone has been so kind.

Gillian would like to thank everyone who helped her through Murrays’ illness and passing. Their kindness was a great comfort and very much appreciated.

No Parish Council news this month. Next Meeting, 20th August.

P.Crossland (Clerk)

A collection of the National Children’s Society boxes raised £98.00. Thank you to the box holders.

Chris Gatenby

Congratulations, Mum and Dad on your Ruby Wedding Anniversary - 10th August.

Much love to you both

Catherine, Chris, Linda, Annabelle and Sarah.

Ed. - May we add our congratulations and we hope that Ernest will soon be feeling better.

Boynton C.P. School P.T.A. would like to thank everyone for their support for the coffee morning held at Mr & Mrs Batty’s in June. £306.63 was raised for funds. Many thanks.

Come and see the pretty garden at Bijou Cottage, Middle Street, home of Mrs Maureen Hesp, on Tuesday, August 5th from 10 - 12 noon. Admission 75p includes coffee and biscuits. There will be a raffle and cake/bring and buy stall. All proceeds for All Saints’ Church. Items for the stall and raffle prizes would be much appreciated. These can be given to Mrs Hesp or Margaret Reed at The Old School.

A while ago I reported that the W.I. had been approached with a suggestion that an event be organised to commemorate/celebrate the Golden Wedding Anniversary of the Queen & the Duke of Edinburgh and appealed for any interested person or organisation to contact me with a view to arranging a meeting of those people to decide how to proceed.

Only one person rang me on behalf of herself and a friend, so apparently there was not sufficient interest in the idea to go ahead. At the moment therefore, there are no plans for any celebrations unless more support is forthcoming. Barbara Moorfoot, Tel. 420338.

The next meeting is on 19th August at the home of Joan & Hazel Conner at 4.30 p.m. The speaker will be Beth Roberts, Leader Joan Jackson. Thanks to Mollie Gatenby and hostesses, Joan & Hazel Conner. New members welcome.

A fellow resident of my mother in Afton Court Residential Home in Bridlington, knits ‘squares’ to make blankets for Oxfam. She would be very grateful for any oddments of knitting wool if anyone has any they wish to dispose of. Her daughter makes patchwork articles from material scraps for sale in Oxfam shops and dresses for children overseas from any larger pieces of material she is given. She would be delighted to receive any contributions if you have any surplus fabric you can spare. I would be pleased to pass on either wool or material for you.

Barbara Moorfoot,

Millennium Celebration - Ideas?

There is some discussion in the village, of how we could celebrate the Millennium. One idea is to clean up the Gypsey Race and perhaps improve the average water level running through the village. This leads to many questions such as where does the money come from, who does the work and of course, can the water level be raised and held? However, the principle of the idea is supported by the photograph below. Kindly offered for the newsletter by Mrs S.Harland. She wrote " The enclosed photograph was given to me by a friend, who’s husband took it a lot of years ago. Will it copy onto the newsletter to show how nice the beck could look. Mrs S.Harland, Wold View, Manton Lane.

Vicar: Revd Stephen Cope

3 9.30 am Holy Communion

6 - THE TRANSFIGURATION OF JESUS

10.30 am Holy Communion

10 11.00 am Mattins

15 - THE ASSUMPTION OF ST MARY

10.30 am Holy Communion

17 9.30 am Holy Communion & Holy Baptism

9.30 am Sunday School in the Vicarage

24 - ST BARTHOLOMEW

6.30 pm Evensong

31 9.30 am Holy Communion [BCP]

Welcomers Coffee

3 Barbara Burgess Margaret Reed

10 June Sellers

17 Shirley Harland Pat Stephenson

24 Christine Turner

31 Joan Jackson Elizabeth Harrison

Flower Rota Cleaning Rota

3 Mrs R W Overfield Mrs J Wood & Mrs P Cully

10 Mrs R W Overfield Lady Mary & Mrs C Evans

17 Mrs J Corner Lady Mary & Mrs C Evans

24 Mrs Mitchell Mrs G Wastling

31 Mrs B Burgess Mrs G Wastling

Graves (mow & strim) Ride-on mower Strimmer (N side)

4 Brian Coulbeck Paul Haddock

18 Thorpe Hall Thorpe Hall Thorpe Hall

Wednesdays - Morning Prayer at 9.00 am (not Aug 6 or 13)

Holy Communion at 10.30 am

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm (not Aug 6 or 13)

Saturdays - Morning Prayer at 9.00 am (not Aug 9)

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm (not Aug 9)

Holy Communion: August 2, 16 and 30 at 11 am

August 23 at 6.30 pm

not on August 9

Please check the notice-board for last-minute alterations.

The Vicar will be unavailable from lunchtime on August 3 until teatime on August 14.

A coffee morning will be held on Tuesday August 5, from 10 am until noon, at Bijou Cottage, Middle Street, by kind permission of Mrs Hesp. Proceeds to church funds.

Meets on August 19 at Joan and Hazel Conner's, when Beth Roberts will speak.

Inspired by the recent arrivals, a few people are thinking of organising themselves to make new kneelers to beautify our church. Interested? Watch out for an announcement next month.

Every so often I stop and look at myself and think that I'm probably doing just a bit too much work - and certainly, if I am doing too much it's not just me. Strange, it seems, in a time when there is still a lot of unemployment, that some people have far too much to do, and some people have nothing to do at all.

But what really baffles me are workaholics who don't enjoy their jobs. Why do they spend so much time and effort in something they find so awful?

If there is any answer at all, I should reckon it has to do with money. Yes, some jobs really are quite poorly paid, and a bit of overtime is almost necessary. But most jobs give you enough to live on, if you're honest. So therefore, for most of these workaholics, the main reason why they do all that overtime is simply to earn more money. Not money they need, but money they think they want.

Wouldn't it be a better idea to stand back from all that activity and see what matters most? Isn't quality time (as they call it these days) with family and friends worth something? Don't you actually deserve a lie-in now and again? Don't you have a hobby you'd love to get stuck in to? And yet some people become locked into this relentless working more hours and striving for more money because that's what they think is the way to do things. They neither enjoy what they're doing, or even find time to enjoy the money they make.

When St Paul said that the love of money was the root of all evil, he probably had in mind more nasty forms of greed and extortion - but when the pursuit of money takes so much of our time that we waste our precious lives doing it, then we have most probably got our priorities wrong. God gave us life to enjoy, not to waste.

Stephen

Nature News

A few weeks ago a pair of collared doves built a flimsy nest of sticks against a telegraph pole by balancing the sticks on the wires where they joined the pole. It appeared to be an unlikely and exposed place to build a nest. Eggs were laid and one of the birds sat on the nest for about a week. Something then happened which stopped the bird sitting __ presumably the eggs were predated. A few days later a further clutch was laid and sitting recommenced for about a week. After this the sitting bird was again no longer to be seen having probably had the nest predated again. Then in an exhibition of waste not want not the birds were observed dismantling the nest stick by stick and removing it to a new unknown site. Many birds have had a much more successful breeding season with at least one and probably two pairs of long tailed tits raising broods of young. One brood contained at least six fully fledged young which were lined up on a branch noisily demanding food. Fledglings of many birds can at the moment be seen in gardens but many more birds are still at nest, while blackbirds , song thrushes and blue tits are in the process of rearing second broods. One unfortunate casualty not rearing young is a greater spotted woodpecker which flew into a window and broke it's neck.

Young hedgehogs have been reported from local gardens and comments have been made that the population of young rabbits is extremely high. The road between Rudston and Kilham has recently been closed due to a large hole caused by a badger sett, which had been dug under the road, collapsing and causing a serious road hazard. The fate of the badgers and their diggings is at present unknown.

In contrast to last year when there were hundreds of painted lady butterflies around not a single one has been reported this year and there have been only a few records of red admirals. Meadow brown, ringlet and small skipper butterflies have been on the wing since early July and the second brood of small tortoiseshell butterflies has recently appeared, but nothing unusual has been reported.

We are approaching the time when we start to take the geranium (Pelargonium) stem cuttings . I always think it is a pity to take these just when the plants are in their best flowering mode. In the Municipal Parks when I was a young gardener, each named variety was carefully propagated from stem cuttings taken in late August and early September. These were inserted in five inch clay plant pots in a mixture of loam and sharp sand plus a little riddled leaf mould and it was 90% successful, the rooted cuttings kept in a little heat and potted off into small pots in early February. At Thorpe Hall the cuttings once taken were left on the potting shed bench for a few hours to wilt and allow the cut base of the stem to dry over when a fine skin soon developed and, yes, they rooted. These days a lot of Geraniums are grown from seed , but the older variegated varieties are from cuttings. Geranium like a reasonably dry compost, not totally dry but care is needed with the watering as the grey mould fungus Botrytis soon attacks Geraniums if too wet.

We see hedges round the fields and gardens, our rural areas have miles of Hawthorn hedges still thank goodness. I know we have lost a lot on farms, but we have to remember that modern machines are large and need bigger fields if they are to be used economically. In our gardens Hawthorn can be can be a first class boundary hedge, if trimmed twice each year in July and September. Of course, we are covered with the conifer Chamemicyparis Leylandii in vast numbers; a good evergreen but it can become a bit monotonous seeing hedge after hedge of Leylandii!!

Beech is an ideal species especially on our chalk Wolds. Holly and Laurel also are first class plants, also the English Yew makes the perfect evergreen hedge and is not slow growing once it gets established. For a low three feet hedge the Lonicera Nitida is good, it lasts for years if trimmed twice each year. The shape of hedges is important, it should be wider at the base than the top and to keep it dense at the base. Do not plant other plants too close to the hedge as the light is important to keep a good solid hedge.