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All Saints Mudeford & High Cross Somerford The Parish of Mudeford

Issue 85 June 2020 £1.00

The Anchor

Coming slowly out of lockdown. New life in the New

Forest and Stanpit Nature Reserve. A Rainbow to say

thank you to the NHS. Thanks to Paul Smith for his print

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From the Editors:

Dear Readers, The theme for the July magazine will be

Favourate Places in Dorset and Lockdown (continued) Meet the Team:- Editorial Team John Ward Vikki Miller, Judy and Tony

Eden, Anthea Bell

Production Tony Eden

The magazine is published by Mudeford Parochial Church Council (P.C.C.).

Copyrights acknowledged. The Editor reserves the right to change copy or

material submitted. No responsibility or liability is accepted by the Editor or

P.C.C. for errors or omissions. The views expressed are not necessarily those

of the editor, or the Incumbent. Advertisements are not endorsed by the

P.C.C. or the Incumbent. © 2019 Mudeford P.C.C.

Church website allsaintsmudeford.org

Priest in Charge Revd. Andrew Jablonski. Tel. 01425 240018

E.Mail. andrewjab@gmail.com

Our Vision for Mission: This Parish seeks to be inclusive in extending God's kingdom,

by encouraging the whole community to grow in the Christian

faith through prayer and worship, and to care for others

through pastoral and practical support.

The Editorial Team thank you for all your contributions

last month and yet again for June. This month we deal

again with lockdown and feature our gardens in all their

glory. Some of our groups are not functioning but we

keep going with the power of the Internet. The Art Group

has been particularly active this month and their contri-

butions appear throughout the magazine. Thank you for

your kind comments for last months effort and I apolo-

gise for several glitches in photographs and the small

piece of up-side down print. Thanks to Vikki for her tire-

less efforts in getting material to me. Keep it coming John

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We face a shining future

I wonder what types of music particularly lift your spirits and cause your soul to soar? Although for me I could think of many genres of music that do, electro techno dance music was not one that had ever particularly inspired me. Howev-er, an item on BBC Radio 4’s “Loose Ends” some time back, caught my attention about the group Underworld’s album “Barbara, Barbara, we face a shining future”.

At the time I was striving to create Coronation Chicken for the first time for a Street Party celebration whilst listening to the radio, a source of constant learning and ideas for sermons etc. I learnt that the techno-dance group Underworld had been around for 35 years having initially formed in Cardiff. One of the two main people in this group, Rick Smith, had had a father in Swansea who had been a lay preacher and a pillar of the Community and was known for his great wisdom; he had a wife Barbara. Near the end of his days, his wife Barba-ra was fearful for her future without him; some of the last words this wise man said to his wife were “Barbara, Barbara we face a shining future”. His words of many years ago in-spired the group’s first album in five years and it was highly received. Their creative energy found inspiration in the un-likeliest of places.

We can at times feel rather weighed with the current difficul-

ties, feeling concerned for the struggles that we face keeping

our lives together. We could be sad at not being able to see

loved ones or at the loss of someone dear to us. We can em-

pathise with the fears of Rick Smith’s mother and hear the

encouragement of his father.

Message from the Vicarage

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This vision that we “face a shining future” is worth grasping and in-deed, as the good man would have realised, has a sound foundation in the Bible.

Proverbs 4:18 says, “The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.” Jesus picks this up in the Sermon on the Mount encouraging his followers, “You are the light of the world; a city on a hill cannot be hidden”, Matt 5.14. In Philippians 2:15, Paul tells the Philippians that they are to be blame-less and pure Children of God shining like lights in the world. Paul tells the Corinthians that “they are being transformed into the Lord’s image with ever increasing glory”.

Perhaps most famously is Isaiah’s acclamation:

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

This, of course, is gloriously featured in two sections of Handel’s Mes-siah.

Each of these passages is written to people struggling against adver-sity so they are not superficial platitudes

The Psalmist proclaims in Psalm 40:

“I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.”

We are called to be incarnational, living in the world, selflessly kneel-ing alongside people in need and making a stand for justice and fair-ness praying “Thy Kingdom come”. Even in the desolate pit or the miry bog may we still be facing towards God in prayers and knowing something of the brightness of his face.

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One of the most wonderful blessings in the Bible is about knowing the brightness of God’s face shining upon us (Num 6v24-26):

‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.’

In beholding something of the brightness of God’s face and our future may we know a new song in our mouths and new music in our hearts. Over these days of praying the Novena for “Thy Kingdom Come” or during this time of lockdown you may have been inspired in your thoughts, prayers and activities. May we continue to seek, and encourage people, to express new songs and music, art or poetry, that well up in our hearts even when it might not be a genre that we would initially find pleasing. May we shine out in new ways in the future. I have sent in one of my poems this month; hoping it gets past the edi-tors! Rev Andrew.

(How could we editors refuse our Vicar!! See later page

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Now we move on to look at lockdown and our gardens.,

but first a look at VE day.

Gardens from Paul and Ann Smith

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VE Day: then and now

Barbara Miles has shared her memories of VE Day, 1945:

I am very proud as I had three brothers and one sister in the armed services in WW2 who all returned to Blighty safe and sound.

On this special V.E.Day ,they all said that they were going to celebrate with the victorious crowds. Firstly in Trafalgar Square (which was within walking distance of where we lived). There they said they would paddle in the fountains. Then onto Buck-ingham Palace to see the Royal Family on the balcony where they would dance, sing, climb on buildings, walls, lampposts and make a lot of noise.

Naturally, I begged them to take me but they said no and that this was for adults only.

Personally, I had never seen adults behave so badly behaving- just like children.

I was so upset and was sulking but that was 72 years ago and I was only 7 years old.

An example of celebrations in Trafalgar Square on VE Day

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Mary Thomas has sent us a copy of the recollections of her brother, Hugo. At the time they lived in Aldershot. He was thir-teen and she was three:

I remember it well. We had heard of the German unconditional surrender the previous day, and that Mr Churchill would speak to us on the radio at 3.00 pm to tell us that the war in Europe was over.

The older children in the road formulated a plan immediately after breakfast: we would build a bonfire in the field which backed the houses on one side of our road. Every child was mobi-lised. We went out onto the nearby heath land where the older children hacked down gorse bushes, several of which were then bundled together and hitched behind someone’s old bicycle (no one had a bicycle less than six years old then) to be hauled to the bonfire site. We worked all day, and the resulting heap was enor-mous. Meanwhile grown-ups were bringing tables and chairs, and food and drink.

At the first sign of dusk the bonfire was lit. It felt a bit strange. This was the time when, if you had a bonfire in your garden, you would go out and ensure that every last ember was out, using buckets of water if necessary, so that when darkness came no glimmer of light would show. That evening some children saw, for the first time lights, shining from houses where already the black-out curtains had been removed.

I don’t remember much else until I went to bed. My window faced the field, and I could hear singing. I could not see the bon-fire, but it was clearly still going well, as there was a red glow in the sky in the direction of the bonfire burning about two hundred yards away. It was the same direction as that in which for fifty-seven successive nights in 1940 there was a huge red glow in the sky as London was burning about thirty miles away.

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Of course the war was not over. My Daddy was in Burma (now Myanmar), and the Japanese showed absolutely no sign of sur-rendering. But I do remember feeling thankful that the threat of the Germans dropping a bomb on us or hitting us with a doodle-bug (flying bomb) or a V2 rocket was now over.

Vikki Miller writes:

I was attempting to declutter our loft this week and found my father’s diary for 1945. On VE Day he was in Luneburg, Germany. He wrote, ”Did nothing all day-sort of holiday”. He was in The Royal Signals and a few weeks later bemoaned the fact that he had been on duty all day and had not had one message to en-code.

Of course, celebrations for the 75th anniversary of VE Day were dramatically curtailed this year but some managed to celebrate. Mary Thomas has sent a photograph of Tony and Judy at their (socially distanced) street party:

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Meanwhile Heather Trenchard has been busy decorating the church garden and her windows. The window display also cele-brates the NHS.

Marion and Stephen Hart remind us of Lockdown……. To be

continued later. Stephen and l are spending our mornings on three to four days of the week on Stanpit Marsh. On one occasion Stephen was not prepared for the exceptionally high tide and found the walk pain-ful in bare feet. I was fine in my waterproof shoes and sloshed happily through the water. As well as the mares with their foals, we’ve seen ducklings, cygnets and the usual birds and, of course,

rabbits.

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Memories of VE Day by Rayner Skeet I had just turned 11 years old the month before VE Day. Our family had moved from Poole to Southbourne, a suburb of Bournemouth, in July 1944 the month after D-Day and I still had a year to go before I would start secondary schooling. Portsmouth Grammar School had been evacuated to South-bourne in 1940 and the Junior School was housed in a build-ing called ‘Colvin’ formerly Southbourne Preparatory School. The school had accepted pupils who lived in Southbourne and my parents sent me to the school for a year. I was still a pupil at the school on Tuesday 8th May 1945 and used to walk to the school from our new home in Watcombe Road each day. We had been told on Monday we would have a day off lessons the next day but we were still to come to school as usual. On VE Day there was a celebration in the extensive grounds of ‘Colvin’. The rhododendron filled grounds were bedecked with flags and bunting and there was a model railway built by the headmaster adding to the celebrations. I remember that year at PGS as one of the happiest years of my schooling largely because it was so musical and we sang most days. VE day itself is a day I will never forget as there was so much happiness and relief that after five years the war was over. There was plenty to sing about! Most of the Portsmouth boys, who had boarded at South-bourne hotels and in ‘Colvin’, had returned to Portsmouth at the beginning of 1945 so it was left to us local boys to cele-brate the end of the war. The 20 boys in my form lived local-ly and we would often meet up out of school during that year. I could walk to the school rather than have to catch a bus.

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It is the music lessons I most recall from that year as I had begun playing the piano. Once a week the junior school would march down to the nearby St. Christopher’s Church for an assembly and it is there that I first heard and saw a church organ where I eventually had organ lessons and joined the choir as a boy chorister. My piano teacher was the choirmaster and organist. In the autumn term 1945 I became a pupil at Bourne-mouth School having passed the 11 plus but unlike PGS there was no music at that grammar school at all – no mu-sic master, no music room and no choir! Yet the BSB head-master’s surname was Parry! So even though I have never lived in Portsmouth and only spent one year at Portsmouth Grammar School that one year remains in my memory as one of the happiest of my schooling. As an old Portmuthian I frequently get invited back to reunions and concerts and shows put on by pre-sent pupils

Photo found on internet!!

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Thanks to Lovedy for this painting.

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CAMEO (Come and Meet Each Other)

Contact Anthea 01425 280927

WWJD What would Jesus do?

Ring Jenny 01425 271863 or Pauline 01202

241395 for info

Bible Group and Mainly Men.

ALL GROUPSHOPE TO BE BACK SOON.

Thanks to Lovedy again

Thanks to Paul Smith.

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The Joy of the Garden

The Joy of The Garden began last Christmas Eve. We were

having breakfast at Stewarts Garden Centre with our son

Sean, as he enjoys looking round Stewart's at Christmas.

While we were looking at the plants I saw the polyanthus

and thought they would be perfect for the back garden.

I planted them in the border by the kitchen window and

every morning I look out and love the colour. It is now May

and they still look beautiful.

Before my retirement I was a postman, and I was deliver-

ing the mail one day and saw a bed of Californian poppies

in a garden, so I bought some seeds and every year there

are many more poppies than we need. I love the colour and

the bees love the poppies.

Next month the border by the kitchen window will be full

of flowers until October. I hope by November I might be

able to buy a coffee at Stewarts and many more polyan-

thus.

Dave Galpin

Jenny Galpin writes

My joy in the garden mostly consists in sitting in it and

reading, as I am a bit arthritic (and lazy!) I enjoy watching

Dave puttering about as he gets so much pleasure from it,

and he can manage it with his MS. He keeps the bird feed-

ers topped up and it is lovely to see the starlings feeding

their babies, and having a good splash in the flower pot

tray which is their preferred receptacle for bathing, having

ignored the proper birdbath. We feel very blessed to have

a garden, especially in these difficult times.

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Anthea remembers the Chelsea Flower Show

2019

On Wednesday 22nd May 2019 I was taken by my son and enter-tained by St. James’s Place to a day at the Chelsea Flower Show on Members Day. In all our finery and very comfy shoes we caught the 6.30 a.m. coach from Ringwood to Victoria. We walked from Victoria to Chelsea along streets full of flowers and on arrival were given a champagne breakfast. What a great way to start our day. We then began to explore walking round the large Show Gardens to the Artisan Gardens. There was just so much to see and the scent was indescribable- from the heavy scent of lilies to the subtle scent of old fashioned roses. We wan-dered through the garden designed by the Duchess of Cambridge but didn’t try the rope swing. We met Sophie Raworth as she presented Gardener’s World from the Pavilion amid what felt like miles and miles of magnificent floral displays. In between all this we returned to the Raymond Blanc hospitality area for coffee, cocktails, lunch and cream tea and a sit down. It was almost too much to take in in one day. One little gem was a small garden de-signed by Kingston Maurward College. A little oasis of calm beau-ty. After a very eventful journey home with broken down coaches and accidents on the motor way causing motorway closures, we eventually reached Southampton at 10 p.m. A very full, ex-hausting but amazing, exhilarating and magical day.

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Mission Pot update for June

At the end of last year, the PCC agreed on a programme for our

Mission Pot for 2020. Unfortunately circumstances have changed

dramatically since then and we are receiving requests for help in

ways we did not imagine a few months ago. Our own needs have

changed totally with the loss of finances from hall lettings, social

events and the week by week income from church members who

do not contribute through the Parish Giving Scheme. However,

many church members have responded to my requests and we

are very grateful for your continuing financial support. Very many

thanks.

Our Mission Pot is used to help the most vulnerable people both

at home and around the world. During May we have been sup-

porting the work of Christian Aid. In June we had planned to sup-

port the work of St. Francis Hospital in Zambia. However, my col-

leagues who have worked at the hospital have made a contribu-

tion to complete the renovation of the Labour ward at the hospi-

tal. During our visit in 2018, we undertook some work then, but

the condition of this part of the hospital left much to be desired.

So, we have been able to send the money to complete this work.

Last week we received an urgent call asking if we could support

the work of CMS and in particular that of our mission partners

Chris and Veronica Padayachee. They are facing a £6000 short-

fall in their funding this year, due to the impact of the coronavirus

pandemic and I would urge everyone to make this our June Mis-

sion Pot challenge. Whatever you can afford to give, will be

gratefully received.

Tony Eden

Churchwarden/Treasurer

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It has been splendid to join in the prayers every Monday morning

as usual. We hope to continue this online service until we are al-

lowed to use the church again, so many

thanks to all the contributors.

Mary Sumner house is the headquarters of

the worldwide Mothers’ Union.

Mary Sumner founded the Mothers’ Union in 1876, after her

daughter, Margaret gave birth and she was reminded of the bit-

tersweet burden of motherhood. She realised how important it

was that young mothers be supported and encouraged in this vi-

tal role. Initially the organisation was run from ever larger rented

rooms in Church House, Westminster. In 1916 fundraising was

instigated to raise £50 000 to build a house. Members were asked

to give 1d a month for three years although larger and smaller

amounts were gratefully received. The house was finally built in

1923 with the foundation stone being laid by Mary Sumner’s

daughter Louise.

‘Thy Kingdom Come’ started in 2016 as an initiative by the Arch-

bishops of Canterbury and York who asked everyone to pray dur-

ing the nine days between Ascension and Pentecost and has since

grown to a worldwide event. For the third year running, Mothers’

Union organised a ‘Global Moment’ in Coventry Cathedral as part

of ‘Thy Kingdom Come’. As you are probably aware, this had to be

cancelled and the service was an online affair.

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An extract from The Rt Rev Dr Emma Ineson’s Sermon

at the Thy Kingdom Come’ Online Service: -

The whole point of ‘Thy Kingdom Come’ is that we can be

praying. Praying for those who don’t yet know the light of

Christ in their lives. Praying that their eyes may be opened,

that the darkness may be lifted and they may see Jesus for

who he really is. And that’s something we can do whatever

lockdown confinement we might be facing.

Jesus’ promise to us is simple; “if you follow me, you won’t

have to walk in darkness”. So today, as Mothers’ Union

members the world over, let’s be encouraged to be lights in

the world by Jesus who is the light of the world.

Jesus Christ who is the light of the world, help us to be lights

who are visible, attractive and shining in the dark places. Un-

cover the radiance that is within us O God to shine the truth

of your love and your light wherever we go. Amen

Ann Smith

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Telephone Carolyne for an appointment

01425 273724

Thanks to David Greenman for this photograph

of Arundel Castle Gardens.

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How to pass the time during “Lock Down”

Well, we are the ones you can see regularly walking our dogs.

We are the life and soul of Mudeford at 8.30 a.m. every day.

“Morning”, “Lovely day”, “Morning”, “Bit windy today”,

“Morning” and so on, day after day – always with a smile on

our faces.

Gardens

Margaret Snow tells me that she finds much pleasure in

being in her garden: gardening, reading and sketching. This

is just one of the sketches she has done since lockdown be-

gan.

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In having a dog you are never short of a friend – who has the

longest hair, who will have the |Pony Tail or Plaits first – will it be

us or will it be the dog? (The Groomers are Locked Down too!)

We talk about Poop or Pee, but we never seem to swap names,

but somehow we are a very close-knit bunch – all with dogs in

common. “Is the tide in or out?” “Has your dog eaten washed up

crabs on the beach?” “Has it pinched another dog’s tennis ball?”

and so on.

All this sounds very trivial, but as the sun shines on a spring or

summer day, or even in the winter as those cold winds blow, we

all agree it is wonderful out there and who would be without

their dog.

To stand at the water’s edge and look to the sky and say a little

prayer – this is perhaps the moment one is closer to God than

some could imagine. We all say thank you Lord for so much.

Jan Gilbey and Finn!

Not a picture of Finn!!

Another Lovedy

masterpiece

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Memories of Winkton Lodge / Homefield School

For many people a workplace is just that - a workplace, but for

me Winkfield Lodge and its grounds became a very special

place.

In 1979 I spent six weeks of the summer term as a temporary

teacher at Homefield Independent Preparatory School for

Boys in Tuckton but then was asked to apply for a post at the

Senior Department at Winkton.

Six weeks became twenty five years!

Prior to Homefield School taking over the building the house

had been established for many years and prints and photo-

graphs show that there had not been many changes to the ex-

terior. A photograph circa 1900 shows the back of the house

very much as I remember it from 1979 with elegant tall sash

windows and wisteria cloaking the walls.

The interior might well have suffered a great deal of change.

One local lady told me she had worked there when it was a ho-

tel and that guests stayed there in order to catch flights from

Hurn Airport while another remembered that it had been a

night club. The stone- flagged cellar where the school boarders

stored their trunks might well have served as an atmospheric

night club and not just as the source for ghost stories conjured

by the boys! However, many of the rooms used as dormitories

or office spaces still showed traces of the old grandeur.

If the house was the hub of the school then the lawn was the

heart and most of the classrooms built overlooked it. At all

seasons of the year it provided a backdrop for the house and

for the specimen trees.

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The tallest tree was always called ‘the redwood’ and its dramatic

height made it a focal point. Birds that nested under the eaves of

the house had no fear of the pupils and swooped dramatically at

knee-height across the lawn to catch flying insects .

I changed classrooms several times over the years but I was usu-

ally based in the teaching block in what had been the walled gar-

den. The wall adjacent to our entrance occasionally served as a

safe refuge for ducks to nest on the top. Safe from foxes maybe

but we held our breath when small ducklings parachuted down

onto our path. Then the ducks waddled off to go down to the river

shepherded by boys and overseen by members of staff as traffic

had to be stopped for them to cross the road. I hope ducks still

enjoy the lawn which must be much quieter now.

Some of the original outbuildings were utilised for school use. The

coach house became the woodwork shop and when girls joined

the school the octagonal dairy house with its slate shelves be-

came a cloakroom. We were saddened when the school closed in

2006 and we had to witness it fall into disuse and become vandal-

ised. The flagpole became rotten and collapsed, weeds and shrubs

made it look neglected and forlorn.

Now the house has been beautifully restored as ‘Homefield

Grange Care Home’ and when David and I went to visit a friend in

the nursing home in the grounds I was greatly pleased to see the

lawn, the redwood and the house looking as if time had stood

still. I enjoyed the lawn and house in every season of the year for

so many years and I am glad that Winkton Lodge lives on as a gra-

cious reminder of the past and continues to be an inspiration to

the residents. Josie Stevens

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The Home Front

Continuing our series for all those who are miss-

ing the great cakes cooked by our home bakers at

All Saints, here is Karen Dewdney’s recipe for a

Victoria Sponge cake.

Weigh 3 eggs in their shells.

Then weigh sifted self-raising flour, baking marga-

rine and castor sugar; each to the same weight as

the eggs.

Beat the eggs together with a teaspoon of tepid

water.

In a separate bowl cream fat and sugar together

until fluffy. Slowly add small amounts of egg while

beating. If it starts to split add a teaspoon of flour

with each portion of egg.

When all egg has been added pour in flour and

gently turn with a metal spoon until flour is incor-

porated. Divide into two well-greased and floured

7inch tins. You may prefer to line the tins with

grease-proof paper.

Gently smooth to even surface.

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Bake in a pre-heated oven at 160c, in the middle of

the oven, for 20 to 25 minutes. The cakes should be

firm to the touch. You can test with a toothpick in-

serted into the middle of the cake: if it comes out

clean the cake is done. Leave to cool slightly then

turn out on a rack to finish cooling.

Sandwich with a filling of your choice.

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MENTAL HEALTH.

So, how are you today?

(Adapted from the St. Lukes Wellbeing Programme during the corona-virus pandemic crisis).

When we meet or speak to someone on the phone, we often ask “How

are you today?” and the usual answer is “Thanks I am fine” regardless

of how we really feel. We don’t wish to burden others with our real

feelings. But this coronavirus pandemic is just too much for us to han-

dle. And this is not just for a couple of months, this is a marathon, and

most of us have not been in training for such a marathon. This virus

attacks health, our health in many different ways, however old we

might be, and whoever we are.

As human beings, we require to a greater or lesser extent, social inter-

action and that freedom has now been curtailed. In some cases we are

forced to be with our families all the time, and for others we are forced

to live on our own with little or no social interaction. Our lives often

seem to be in a crisis and there appears to be no way out. This is called

crisis fatigue.

Why does crisis fatigue occur?

We are not in control and we feel confused, baffled and vulnerable

for much of the time

We are bombarded with endless news (mostly bad news) updates

on TV and radio, comments on social media, texts and phone

calls

Uncertainty as to what is really going on, what is required by us,

what we can do and how do we help others

There is no space left to think of anything else, or manage anything

else, or be interested in anything else

How can we not feel under siege, how can we not feel fatigue?

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How can this affect us?

We become distracted or disinterested in other aspects

of life

Because we don’t know what to do or how to respond,

we can get fearful, and express it in anger or go silent

When we become fearful, we can either become less in-

terested in eating or over-eating because we are try-

ing to soothe ourselves

Our sleep patterns can become disturbed

If we are confined to our homes, we get bored and find

we have lack of concentration

We worry about what might happen to us, our families

and friends and to others and to the world.

So, what can we do?

Accept that this crisis is going to last for some time and pre-

pare ourselves for it

A: acknowledge that we are not in control and we need to

find ways of coping

C: compromise on what we would like to do and work out

what we can do

C: accept that there are consequences that are out of our

control

E: show empathy to others because this shows we are all in

this together

P: be passionate about caring for ourselves and those

around us

T: trust in ourselves that we are doing all we reasonably can

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Create a routine

Prioritise what needs to be done each day – make a list

of one or two things you need to do

Plan the day to give it a structure

Pace ourselves - all the cupboards don’t need to be

cleared out in one day!

Permission to know we can only do so much and seek-

ing help and support is NOT weakness

Take a break

Take time off from the news and worries

Create distractions that we enjoy; read a book, play a

game watch a popular film, do a jigsaw

Keep in contact with others we know and love and

those of our church family

Include time for a prayer, some meditation and wher-

ever possible take part in our church services or

watch services on TV

Create an exercise programme, walking, cycling or just

keeping moving regularly during the day.

We will get through this together!

Christchurch Foodbank: An Update

Thank you for your continued support of the Foodbank and

our communities. Things have really changed at the Food-

bank, we have new processes in place and are working with a

smaller tighter team to ensure the safety of our volunteers,

donors and clients. We were at an all-time low for donations

at the beginning as schools, churches and organisations

closed and again when supermarkets sold out and began lim-

iting items bought.

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We have started buying (at an average of £650 per week) fresh potatoes, veg, fruit and bread on a daily basis, this is such an un-expected blessing to those coming in and we are faced every ses-sion with people coming to us in despair and leaving with hope and one less thing to worry about. We have two door men/lady who are evangelising and praying for those who queue up out-side. It is wonderful to see. We are reminded that God must be our focus at this time and how thankful we are that we are part of helping those in our community who are struggling . There have been many occasions since lockdown that our hearts have been moved and touched, the generosity has been over-whelming, all our prayers are answered as we continue to be provided, enabling us to keep on giving. We were delivering food to a mum of three young children, they live on the third floor of a block of flats with no garden. On knocking the door the mum answered and was so grateful to re-ceived the food, especially the fresh, she went on to say that her electric had run out three days previous and that she had no funds to put money on her key meter ,thus no light or cooking facilities We took her electric key, topped up her meter and re-turned to the flat, through tears she thanked us. I said we will pray for you and the children, we are here for you during this time, I asked “is there anything else I can pray for” Surprisingly, she answered rain!! You will never know till you are stuck in a flat with three small children how hard it is to hear them ask can we go out? Can we go to the park? Can we go see nana….and always having to answer “No” and them not understand. Well praise God he came through On Tuesday morning I woke up to rain and thanked our amazing God for this one day of rest for the mum I had met on the Monday. I wonder what she thought when she awoke….. a prayer answered. We could not do such fantastic work helping those families and individuals without your generosity, love, peace, support and prayer. Thank you, together we can do this. Stay safe and God Bless from Tracy and the Foodbank Team.

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How you can help Christchurch Foodbank+ Supporting us in helping those in our communities How can you help? You can drop food do-nations in the foodbank donations box at Sainsburys or Waitrose, You can also drop them at the food-bank Mon 10-12pm Tue 9.30am Thur 10.30am Friday 1.30pm St Josephs Church Old Chapel 67 Purewell Road Christchurch BH23 1EH OR cash donations can be posted to the address above FAO Tracy Blick Or direct to CAF Bank, Faithworks Christchurch Foodbank Acc 00015300 Sort code 40-52-40 Referencing CFBfood and then let me know so I can trace and allocate. Christchurchfoodbank@gmail.com

People in the rain by Christine Masters

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Oh jocund meads ! Bedecked with flowers gay, As cuckoo flower and kingcups’ fine array, Where snow white swans may glide and nest in peace A green space where the town’s harsh clamours cease. Here clouds of tiny insects mill and throng Beside the weir, lulled by the thrushes’ song. Anglers sit and fish their private domain. They come here in all weathers, sun or rain. Here canny grebes will dive and swim away, Resurfacing again their crested heads display. Sometimes they’ll carry chicks upon their backs. You stand and watch them from the river’s track. You skirt the pylons tall to come this far, Happily removed from noise of truck or car. The Avon’s bends are full up to the brim Fringed by sedge, a haunt where moorhens swim. Last season’s bulrushes explode to rusty fluff. The river glitters, you cannot have enough Of all this beauty, tranquillity and calm. Our town’s flood meadows, shielding us from harm.Jill Barr (both Jill and Andrew have been participating in Paul Harris poetry courses.

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