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A very happy New Year to everyone, although the celebrations all seem a long time ago… I notice the Easter Egg adverts have started already!

Welcome to any newcomers to the village.

Thank you to the sponsors and advertisers for keeping the Rudston Newsletter running during 2001. Your support is very much appreciated.

Last year the sponsors were:-

John Langcaster

Women’s Institute

Eric & Doreen Turner

Bosville Arms Hotel

Parish Council

Bowls Club

Ruby & Paul Haddock

Thorpe Hall Caravan Site

Proctors Plant Hire

All Saints Church Rudston

I’ll publish a list of sponsors for 2002 in the March issue, there may be a month or two to find sponsors for.

There are one or two changes of note in this month’s issue, namely the inaugural edition of Crosslands’ Column! Philip has been writing up the news from the Parish Council for a long time, but there was some feelings in the village that what was written was not, ‘strictly speaking’ just Parish Council news, and often did not represent the views of members of the Council. Now it seems there is dissention at the heading ‘Village News’—intended as a general ‘catch-all’ for Parish Council news, views and opinions—and hence, another change! While it’s not always possible to please all of the people all of the time, this title should cover anything that Philip wishes to say without upsetting or misleading anyone at all! I’m sure he will continue to focus on Parish Council news in the main, and include other issues that are relevant to the village, without the need for ’disclaimers’ or other ‘additions’ each month that qualify the ‘general’ nature of Philip’s writing!

We are at present in the process of appointing an architect to conduct the Feasibility Study. We are talking to three ‘possibles’ at the minute one of which should, hopefully, have started the process by the time the next News Letter appears.

David Peace.

Co-ordinator - Rudston Village Hall Committee.

Tracey Murray East Yorkshire College,

By Dick Robinson

The start of a New Year in the garden, like the farm, is one of hope— hope for a more successful year, far better results and dare I say, better returns for the food we produce. Gardeners always expect to have bigger onions, better sweet peas, roses in fact, better everything—they are real optimists which is as it should be! Now is the time to plan, yes the word plan can grate on the mind a bit—many is the time I’ve heard the phrase "too many planners and not enough doers" but the really successful grower knows how essential it is to plan ahead. Seed orders should be settled by now, some of us obtained our seed last year in time for Christmas! Where a heated glasshouse is available it is not too soon to sow tomatoes, just so long as 60 degrees F temperature can be kept up, all depends on the weather. Check over those roots in store, the carrots, beets, potatoes and apples etc. as mice can ruin this years’ work, especially in apples. The Dahlia and Begonia tubers and corms too need watching so there is always a job this month even if by chance we’re 6 foot deep in snow. If we are then a dram or two of the best malt and a good book is the answer!

I never seem to have a break from mowing the grass at home and doing a bit of edging up. The weather does of course, limit all outdoor gardening work at times but my grass, poor as it is, seems to have the urge to keep on growing especially if one goes away for even two days. Moss this last winter has really thrived on my patch in spite of a dressing of moss killer. For a few weeks the area took on a brown shade which I was sure meant the moss, at last, had been given the kiss of death, but no it’s still there and competing with the grass!

I always try to mow raising the blades during the winter but still I’m on a losing battle, so this spring it’s going to be a good dressing of a weed and feed manure and perhaps the grass will smother the mosses. I rake and gather up the rubbish that seems to gather and dispose of this in the bin—not the compost heap! I expect other gardeners will have lawn problems, I tend to concentrate on the fruit and vegetable plots and the flower borders, the lawn is the last area to receive attention. My early training on flat bowling greens goes by the board I’m afraid, yet I do appreciate seeing a well managed piece of turf and admire the green-keepers and grounds-people who do such skilled work on the sports areas.

I was talking recently to a keen gardener who had moved into a new house and was planning the garden area. A new hedge was on the plan and I was asked about suitable subjects. The soil was a reasonable looking loam so the choice was wide. At the RHS gardens at Wisley examples of different hedges are there for visitors to see. It is surprising just how many species can be made into a good ornamental hedge, for a flowering kind pyracantha, the firethorn is ideal, also Exallonia especially the species macrocantha, very good for our coastal area.

Many of the prickly Berberis, especially the yellow flowering B Stenophyella, best trimmed immediately after flowering in spring, lots of roses, and in a sheltered garden, the hardy Fushcia Riccantonii. For a normal garden hedge Hornbeam, Beech, Holly, Yew, Laurel, Cupressus varieties, Thuya plicata, Hawthorn, even Oak, all have a use. For a dwarf hedge the Lavender family are good especially on our chalk soils, Rosemary, Chinese Honeysuckle, Box and the dwarf Prunus "Crimson Dwarf" do well in our county. At Wisley, Virbernums, Cedrus, Bamboo, Hazel, Snowberry, Aucuba, Quince, Molus and other are used for hedging so we have lots to choose from. Finally, do be careful when considering the popular Cupressocyparis X Leylandii, remember it is a quick growing tree and can cause trouble with neighbours!

After the service,

coffee will be served in church.

The North Wolds Lions Club

Invites You to An Evening Of

This concert is by popular request

Following the very successful performance last year.

Tickets £12.50 to include a glass of wine and a buffet supper

Ticket sales limited to 80—available from any Lion, or tel.

01377 254172

11.00 a.m. Holy Communion and Candlemass ceremonies

3 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion

10 9.30 a.m. Special Service for the Dedication of the

Millennium Stained Glass Window

with the Bishop of Hull

13 – ASH WEDNESDAY

10.30 a.m. Holy Communion with Ashing ceremonies

17 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion

9.30 a.m. Sunday School in the Old School

24 6.30 p.m. Evensong

Welcomers Coffee Flower Rota

3 Shirley Harland Jean Burkitt Mrs E Robinson

10 Jean Burkitt Mrs E Robinson

17 Barbara Burgess Di White No flowers

24 June Sellers in Lent

3 Mrs G Wastling

10 Mrs G Wastling

17 Mrs J Jackson & Mrs J Pallister

24 Mrs J Jackson & Mrs J Pallister

Wednesdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 a.m. (not on Feb 13)

Holy Communion at 10.30 a.m. – coffee is served afterwards!

Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. (not on Feb 13)

Saturdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 a.m. (8.30 on Feb 9; not on Jan 12)

Holy Communion: 11.00 a.m. on Feb 2 & 16

6.30 p.m. on Feb 9 & 23

Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. (not on Feb 2)

Would you like to be confirmed? – it’s the ceremony whereby you declare for yourself your allegiance to Christ (along, of course, with everyone else who is being confirmed), and are welcomed into full membership of the church, and able to receive Holy Communion. Anyone can do this, from school year 6 to as old as you like – just let Stephen know. The confirmation will be on Wednesday May 15, at a venue to be arranged.

For Lent, why not join our regular group which meets on most Thursdays at 8 p.m. in the Old School? All are welcome for Bible study, prayer, and informal fellowship! Just bring a Bible and yourself…

This month sees what the church calendar quaintly calls ‘The Accession of Queen Elizabeth II’ - on February 6, with the death of her father, she became our queen, and also, as it happens, titular head of the Church of England, fifty years ago.

These days, questions are often asked as to what the monarch has to do with the church – but by being the established church of our land, it means that the Church of England has the responsibility for looking after everyone in the country, whether they like it or not.

Conversely, it also means that we, the church, are obliged to be there when anyone wants us, for weddings, christenings and funerals, for example. It is our duty to take these services, whether we like it or not (and personally, I do!).

Although we can argue about the detail of what the monarch means to the church (or, to be more precise, what the church has to say about Prince Charles and a certain Camilla), I think that having the church at the service of the nation as a whole is the nearest we can get to what Jesus would have had us do. A number of churches who don’t share our obligations seem only to be there for those who go specifically to those churches – but Jesus came to save everyone from their sins, and to offer eternal life to all who believe in him, regardless of when this belief comes about, or how.

The proposed annual outing of the Monday Club will be held at the end of February. Will those interested please hand their names to the Secretary. Only fully paid up members who have attended regularly will be accepted. An exception may be made for one honorary member.

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Please telephone David Peace

(01262) 420675

for an informal discussion

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MediBus 01482 395533,

E-mail: richard.willis@eastriding.gov.uk

The Library van calls every other Wednesday starting April 18^th, stopping in Eastgate and Long Street around 1.30.

Fishman – Chris Rudd calls every Wednesday, around 9am with fresh fish. If you want Chris to call, ring him on 605489 (home) or 0498 652675 (mobile).

Butcher – Mr Thompson from Burton Fleming comes every Tuesday and Friday.

Milk – is delivered by James Cole. Tel. 01262 604641

Many thanks to Pauline Warters for the above additions to this page. Please keep them coming!
East Riding of Yorkshire Council — Customer Services Centres:-

Tel: 01262 422500, Fax: 01262 422509

Tel: 01377 255556, Fax: 01377 253655

The end.. until March 2002!