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In the Village Hall

Friday 6th October 8p.m.

(After the Harvest Festival 7p.m.)

Tickets £2

Finals Day was a fine sunny day enjoyed by many. Congratulations to all concerned. The results are as follows:

ALGAR CUP—OPEN SINGLES P.CROSSLAND

SUE EZARD CUP—RUNNER UP R.D.CORNER

CORNER CUP—GENTS SINGLES P.CROSSLAND

WALLIS TROPHY—RUNNER UP P.SCRUTON

RHEAD TROPHY—LADIES SINGLES J.CORNER

TATTERSHALL SHIELD—RUNNER UP A.WALLIS

WILSON CUP—PAIRS J.DANIELS & P.CROSSLAND

RUNNERS UP B.CORNER & T.SHELDRICK

RUNNERS UP A.MOORE, P.SCRUTON & H.FARROW

DRIFFIELD & DISTRICT BOWLS ASSOCIATION LEAGUE RESULTS:

WEDNESDAY TRIPLES LEAGUE was won by Leconfield and Rudston came 4th.

COMPETITION DRIFFIELD ASSOCIATION. Please let me know if you intend to enter by 1st January. Ladies singles. Open singles. Open pairs. Open triples. Veteran triples.

ANNUAL LUNCHEON will be in November. Discussions are still taking place and I hope to have the information at the A.G.M.

Our thanks to everyone who has helped in any way this year, especially Alwyn Ward, Arthur Moore and Duncan Corner who maintain the green. To all the cleaners and helpers in the kitchen. To David Peace, a non-member, for picking up Carrie regularly and to Carrie our staunch supporter and to Jessie Allan, also a non-member, for manning the kitchen for our friendly home matches. Not forgetting Jeanette Ward who organised The Friendlies in my absence.

EAST RIDING PAIRS FINALS DAY. W as very successful and everyone enjoyed it. Many thanks to everyone who contributed food and helped on the day.

INDOOR BOWLS. Wednesday Practice will start on 4th October with 2 sessions 1-3pm and 3-5pm. Names please for Tuesday League Pairs as soon as possible.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING WILL BE ON MONDAY 9th OCTOBER. At 7pm in the Village Hall, please try to be there.

Further information about the Bowls Club or the Indoor Bowls - Contact: Pauline Warters.

The next meeting is on October 3rd—it is the Annual Meeting to be held in the Village Hall at 7.15 pm. This is a very important meeting so will all members try to attend please.

Tea Hostesses: J. Sellars and C. Gatenby.

The next meeting is on October 17th at 7.30 pm. Venue: Shirley Harland, Speaker: Joy Barker, Leader: Alison Cope, Vote of Thanks: Connie Stephenson, Hostesses: Shirley Harland and Hazel Conner.

Have you members of the nobility in your garden? A Lady Hennifer or Duchess of Oldenburgh or maybe a Lord Hindlip or Derby: You may be highly honoured with either Kind David, King Albert or King George V or Queen Mary. If so, don’t bother about the red carpet, this is a list of just some of the thousands of apple varieties found growing in the U.K. and in Europe. Our own East Yorkshire can boast a few apples although we are not a commercial fruit producing county: most cottage gardens and farm gardens have or certainly had apple trees to give those wonderful cooking fruits for pies and pasties. Our rainfall is one of the lowest in the land and we do not have the best of the sunshine, yet good kitchen apples do grow and it’s not too difficult to get good eaters providing one plants the best sorts for our area. Years ago, it was the village schools that encouraged children to become interested in gardening. Most schools had a school garden where fruits, flowers and veg’ were grown and apple pips were sown. There are still old trees that were raised by my grandparents years ago. These have their own names and being hybrids are not usually listed in the National Apple Register, where six thousand are named. I’m told by an apple grower in Kent that if one ate an apple variety each day it would take sixteen years to sample every named sort!! My grandmother used to talk about Keswicks, Warners King, Newton Wonders when the apple season started in late July and I guess most folk know the name Bramley, the world famous green cooker. Today, we have newer cookers although it’s debatable if they are any better than the oldies. George Neal, Howgate Wonder, a good show apple and Bountiful, all cookers. And for eating, the newer Discovery, Katja, Spartan, Braeburns, Greenselres, John a Gold, Starkes, Jupiter and Suntan, plus a dozen more. These are replacing the older varieties such as Beauty of Bath, Epicure, Exquisite, Worcester Pearmains, Ribston Pippins, blenheim Orange and to a certain extent—the British grown Cox.

The Russet family has forty varieties and every County has it’s own. We have in the Riding, Fillingham, Red Laxtons Superb, Hornsea Herring, Craggys Seedling, Sugar Apple, Nancy Jackson, Balsam, Cockpit, Arram White and Lundy seedling that I know of. Perhaps these notes will encourage us all to plant fruit especially apples this autumn. Choose a variety worked on a semi-dwarf rootstock for a quick, early crop and for ease of picking and pruning.

More later on Plums and Pears.

What’s so special about rhubarb? We stew it and enjoy pies and even jams although I’m not particularly keen on the jam, I prefer damson jam when damsons are available. Nothing very exiting about a bed of rhubarb, most country gardens used to have large beds and by late summer the stalks were tough and green and the leaves the size of umbrellas. Now all is changed, a new use for the plant has been found. In the eastern parts of Germany, roots from the rhubarb are used for tanning and colouring high quality leathers, luxury cars will soon be fitted out with this new leather, in fact, Audi are to fit their A8 Limousine models with leather coloured from the humble rhubarb root. It is estimated that to tan leather for ten thousand pairs of shoes, two and a half acres of rhubarb is required, so look out when next in a shoe shop, the pictures I’ve seen of shoes tanned from rhubarb show wonderful shoe shades. It seems different varieties of rhubarb give variations in the end products, as there are one hundred and fifty sorts of the rhubarb family one wonders what next will come along. The stalks from flowering plants can be used to make cleaning agents, it must be the acid contents that count in this case.

For us gardeners I think we will stick to the older and the newer varieties for stewing and for pies, the old twins Albert for early and Victoria late are still worth growing but my tip for new gardeners are Timperley Early from Cheshire, a kind that can be pulled in early February, it’s roots are covered in December and the best one for showing raised in Yorkshire called "Stockbridge Arrow," the sticks are a deep red throughout and always catch the Judge’s eye at our shows.

I remember rhubarb called "Cherry" and an old early one called "Harbinger" ; there are lots more in gardens and the early forced rhubarb we see in shops in December and January is growing in forcing houses in the Wakefield area, although fewer growers carry out this process these days. It was only in the early 1800’s that we started to use rhubarb as a vegetable, or do we call it a fruit??? Don’t forget— the best time to plant is in November.

Need Money? The Beginners Guide to European Funding.

Find out about the European Grants that are available to Community & Voluntary Groups in the East Riding.

When: 1PM to 4PM Monday 9th October 2000.

Where: The New Community Resource Centre, 4-6 Victoria Road, Bridlington.

Trainer: Catherine Charlton –VONEF

Cost: FREE Interested? Phone 01262 677555 or 01377 241019

At Low Caythorpe, Rudston

Arthritis Of The Foot

at Burton Agnes Hall.

Friday 20th October. Tickets £8 including supper.

Let Mike know if you are interested please. Tel. 420237.

We’ve got computerised! This is my first effort on the Parish Council’s new (used) computer, so if you’re reading this that’s the first hurdle!

The Parish Council is currently in negotiation with East Riding of Yorkshire Council over traffic calming on the main road but so far without success. If it takes as long as it did to get the speed limit in the first place, it’ll be years not months though.

A local policeman has just been confirmed as being able to attend the next meeting, so if anyone has any thought about matters to raise please see your nearest member. Telephone contact with police will be at the top of the list, no doubt. The next Parish Council meeting will be on 11th October.

Those who use the "little bus" will know that it is now being run by another firm. The initial contract with Appleby’s expired on 1st September, and presumably they either lost it or didn’t wish to renew it. Nothing official has been heard but I would expect the new one to be a year-long contract (the first with Appleby’s was described as "temporary").

Any parents of disabled children or anyone interested in the subject, are invited to a ‘pop-in’ session at the Community Resource Centre, Victoria Road, Bridlington, on Wednesday 25th October, or 29th November, between 11.30 am and 1.30 pm. This is a pilot scheme which will continue if found to be successful. The contact name for anyone interested is Sharon Lowe, NCH Action for Children on 01377 272155.

That was the subject of one of the numerous posters I’ve had to display. Another was about a series of Winter Classical Concerts in Bridlington. A number of booklet-type leaflets were included with this and are available in Church for anyone interested in classical music. For those not familiar with church, you just go through the door and there is a whole range of leaflets there on your right!

I would like to share this from the Clerk’s Magazine if I may. The Mayor of Hexham Town Council told members "I never believe anything I read in the newspapers except the date and the price. Anything else could be fiction." The Newcastle-on-Tyne Journal responded by announcing that it was happy to declare Cllr. Ferguson to be the best Mayor Hexham has ever had and that he was a splendid, handsome fellow to boot! Well, I thought it was funny, anyway.

News from Bosville Arms Country Hotel

Your chance to own the shirt worn by the England cricket captain Nasser Hussein.

As part of the charity appeal mentioned in last months newsletter, where we reported the donation of £1854.66 to the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Charity, in aid of little Harriet Smith Butkus which was raised in one evening at the Bosville Arms this summer.

The English cricket captain who has led England to a great test series victory this year. Has donated, and signed, the very shirt he played in for the one day test against Zimbabwe for this charity.

To be the proud owner of this unique item, your sealed bid needs to be forwarded to the Bosville Arms in the next few days. Nasser has placed a minimum amount he is willing to let this be sold for, so please be generous for this good cause.

Top new chef appointed.

Following the unexpected departure of Emma as head chef. We are delighted to announce that Phil Wright will be joining us on 5th October. Phil is a highly qualified and experienced chef. He has led the development of the Ferns Farm for the last eleven years. He will be reviewing menus and introducing many of his great specialities in the weeks to come. High on his agenda was the Christmas menu, which is now in print and for which booking are being taken.

Golf trip

On Saturday 16^th September a small group of us had a wonderful afternoon playing Sawdon nine-hole golf course. The scores may have been somewhat on the high side, but a great afternoon was had by all that joined in. And even the weather, which started out quite dire in the morning, changed into a lovely sunny afternoon for us. Plans are now afoot to take a great step into the outside world and travel to Dartmouth for a short golfing break in March 2001. More details to follow.

Quiz Nights

Just a reminder that the Thursday night quiz started on 28^th September and will take place every week through the dark nights of winter. Everybody is welcome. It only costs £1 to enter for a team of four. And you might win whatever Johnathan decides will be the prize. Last winter it was a gallon of beer.

1 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion

6 – HARVEST FESTIVAL

7.00 p.m. Festival Evensong with the Archdeacon of the East Riding

followed by the Harvest Supper in the Village Hall

8 9.30 a.m. Harvest Mattins

15 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion

9.30 a.m. Sunday School in the Old School

18 – ST LUKE

10.30 a.m. Holy Communion

22 6.30 p.m. Evensong

28 – SS SIMON & JUDE

11.00 a.m. Holy Communion

29 9.30 a.m. Holy Communion [BCP]

November 1 – ALL SAINTS’ DAY

7.30 p.m. Patronal Festival Communion followed by refreshments in the Vicarage

1 Joan Conner Jean Burkitt

6 Margaret Reed

8 Dick Robinson

15 Barbara Burgess Joan Jackson

22 Jean Burkitt

29 Joan Jackson Alison Cope

1 Mrs S Harland Mr & Mrs T Turner

6 Harvest Festival – joint effort

Arrange Friday from 9.30

8 Harvest Festival – Mr & Mrs T Turner

15 please check your own flowers Lady Juliet & Mrs L Proctor

22 Mrs J Sellers Lady Juliet & Mrs L Proctor

29 Mrs J Sellers Mr & Mrs W Burgess

Wednesdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 am (8.30 on October 11, not on October 18)

Holy Communion at 10.30 am – there’s usually a cup of coffee after this service

Evening Prayer at 6.00 pm (not on October 18)

Saturdays: Morning Prayer at 9.00 am (8.30 am on September 23)

Holy Communion: at 9.00 am on October 14

at 11.00 am on October 28

at 6.30 pm on October 7

not on October 21

Evening Prayer at 6.00 p.m. (not on October 14 or 21)

Tickets for the supper in the Village Hall are available at £2 (children under 5 free) from Mrs Algar on 420318. The service (7 p.m. in church) is of course free! Our visiting preacher this year is the Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Ven Peter Harrison; Festival Mattins on Sunday October 8 at 9.30 a.m. is with Mr John Stork.

Meets on most Thursdays, 8 p.m. at the Vicarage. Anyone is welcome to come along and join in the study, prayer, fellowship and fun – just bring a Bible and yourself!

Tuesday October 10, 7.30 p.m. at West Hill.

Come to a coffee morning at Low Caythorpe – Thursday October 12, 10 a.m. to noon. Admission £2 – cake stall, bring & buy, raffle. All in aid of church funds.

With apologies from Stephen, who changed the date without asking anyone! Now to be held on Monday October 23, 8 p.m. at Westcroft.

There are two Confirmations coming up – the first is at Emmanuel, at 7.30 p.m., on Thursday November 9, and any adults who might be interested are asked to get in touch with Stephen very quickly. The second is at Wold Newton, at 10.30 a.m., on Sunday March 18 2001. Classes will start for younger people early in the New Year – anyone in school year 6 or above is welcome!

Stephen will be unavailable from October 16 to 21 both inclusive; part of this time is holiday, and part will be spent at meetings in London.

Have you ever noticed how the darkening days have got celebrations scattered among them to keep our spirits up as the sun goes down sooner and sooner? This month starts with one of the most important days in the rural church calendar, and ends with one of the most important days in the calendar of our church here, All Saints’.

So let’s celebrate! Come and join us at the start of the month, on October 6 (and 8), as we give thanks for the harvest, and that there is enough food in the world for everyone to eat and be satisfied. Yes, there are problems. As I write, it’s bucketing down with rain and there are still quite a few acres of wheat out there in the fields. We all know about the price of pigs, sheep and beef cattle – to the farmer, that is. And there are people in our plentiful world who are still starving, partly because of natural disasters, and partly also because of inefficient or just downright criminal governments. But what I always ask us to do is to put the problems to one side, and simply give thanks for what we have got and what we have been given, because as a whole we don’t say ‘thank-you’ anywhere near often enough.

And then come and join us again just after the end of this month, on November 1, All Saints’ Day, when we give thanks for all those great and wonderful people who have finished their earthly lives and have been holy inspirations for us – and also for those quiet, unassuming folk who have got on with their everyday lives and simply been Good. And again, there are problems, because by no means everyone who has been with us has lived a blameless life, and some have been positively rotten – but again also, this is the time for us to remember God’s forgiveness, and the fact that there is a kingdom of heaven, and just as much as it was theirs, so through Jesus Christ it can be ours. Happy celebrating! STEPHEN