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THE LANTERN ~OCTOBER 2020~

NEWS OF THE PARISH OF ST ANDREW’S BREDFIELD

Cutoff for NOVEMBER issue:

15th OCTOBER 2020 Please submit entries to

Alison Cannard

lantern.bredfield@gmail.com

01473 737707

Inside this issue: From our Ministry

Team 2

Diary Dates 3

News from Bredfield

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FROM OUR MINISTRY TEAM

We have just returned from a narrow boat on the Oxford Canal and were amazed at the abundance of berries of all sorts on the trees and bushes beside the towpath. Black, red, purple shone out in the sunshine against the leaves starting to change into their autumn colours. As we travelled at walking pace, we could take time to appreciate the profusion of variety and generosity of God’s creation. During Lockdown life has changed pace enormously, for which we are truly grateful. Time to be thankful for all we can see, hear, smell, touch and make with our hands, be it baking, gardening, sewing or even dialling and talking to others on the phone, even when we can’t meet up. Every breath is a gift, especially appreciated by those who have suffered with Covid. Things get into perspective when crises come, a kind of dying to the old way of doing things and rising to the new or different way of living which might look quite different. However we feel about this year with all its changes, we can trust the constant presence of God who is always with us. Sandra Watson

BREDFIELD PRAYER CIRCLE Mindful of the current situation, please be aware that we do have a Bredfield Prayer Circle. This is a group of Parishioners united in prayer for the needs of our community. The Prayer Circle operates in confidence. It does not discuss your requests but simply includes your needs with their private prayer. Please give just a first name and enough details to make your request meaningful to those who will be praying with you. If you are in need of prayer, or praying yourself, and would like the prayer of others please contact Anne Ackerley 01394 384805 or Alison Cannard 01473 737707.

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DIARY DATES

BACK IN CHURCH AT LAST! Sunday 18th October, 10.00 am

Rev Bill Herbert has offered to lead a service in the Church on Sunday 18th October, starting at the later than usual time of 10.00 am. There will be some strict Covid19 safety measures in place, which will be explained to you as you enter. Please wear a face covering when you arrive. Numbers will have to be limited to maintain social distancing, so if you would like to attend, please contact Paul or Alison Cannard by email lantern.bredfield@gmail.com or on 01473 737707. St Andrew’s PCC AGM (APCM)

The PCC is planning to hold its AGM - the APCM - immediately after the service on 18th October. Precisely how this can be done to comply with all current rules and guidelines is not yet clear, so please look out for details to appear on the notice board outside the Church and on Mailchimp messages. If you would like to attend, please register your interest with Paul or Alison Cannard by email lantern.bredfield@gmail.com or on 01473 737707.

Private Prayer Although we are beginning to resume services in the Church, we are not yet able to open up the Church at other times for private prayer.

2020 Poppy Appeal Due to Covid restrictions, there will be no house-to-house collection for the annual Poppy Appeal this year. There will, however, be a box of poppies and other items for your donations – including 2020 and VE Day enamel pins – as usual in the shop nearer the time.

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NEWS FROM BREDFIELD

SUFFOLK HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST RIDE AND STRIDE 2020 What a pleasure it was that this event took place despite Covid restrictions! The weather was excellent and, with less to organise, I realised I had the opportunity to take part for once. Opting for a ‘Source to Sea’ route, following the line of the Byng Brook out of the village I headed for Ufford (and the river Deben), thence Melton, Woodbridge and villages downriver from there to the estuary at Felixstowe ferry. As with any journey, there were some surprises along the way:-

1) The number of people I met who I knew even towards

Felixstowe

2) The friendship of other participants and quite a few ‘meet and

greet’ volunteers who sat well away from the check-in desks

enjoying the sunshine

3) The harvesting – both people picking blackberries, sloes and

samphire and farmers bringing in onions and sweetcorn

4) The quiet lanes around Waldringfield and Kirton with very little

traffic

5) How long the clinker track is from Falkenham to Felixstowe

ferry when your feet are sore

In total I checked-in at 16 churches and chapels and walked over 19 miles. My thanks go to several families raising money for St Andrews, Bredfield who rode rather than strode, some even by tandem! Well done to all. Final total on amounts raised in next Lantern… Finally, I came across the following on my walk, it seemed very apposite for the day: ‘Set up road markers for yourself, make yourself signposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you go.’ Jeremiah 31, v 21 Anne Ackerley

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THE FIRST POST-LOCKDOWN SERVICE IN CHURCH The service planned for 18th October will not be the first service in the church since the lockdown began. The first was the wedding of Charlotte Miller and Jonathan Butters on 19th September. A lot of work had been done in the preceding weeks to remove the scaffolding from the chancel, and to clean and polish everything in sight, to bring the church back to its full glory after its enforced hibernation. The wedding should have taken place in June, but had to be postponed due to Covid 19 rules, and changes had to be made to the planned service and reception, but it was a glorious day and a wonderful way to celebrate the re-opening of the church. It was also the first wedding taken by recently ordained Rev Bill Herbert – another reason to celebrate!

Charlotte and proud Dad Mr and Mrs Butters Photos by Ann Pilgrim

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READ A BOOK DAY 6 SEPTEMBER, ROALD DAHL DAY - 13 SEPTEMBER

The September window display celebrates two similar National Awareness days this time; Read A Book Day and Roald Dahl Day National Awareness - Read A Book Day 6 September Books can challenge our perspectives on the human experience in ways unmatched by other media. In a world deluged by technology, National Read a Book Day encourages us to silence the noise and turn the pages for a while. Roald Dahl Day - 13 September (his birthday anniversary). Although I personally never read Roald Dahl children’s stories, plenty have and/or heard of his books; Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, The BFG, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. And my display

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is a nod to Fantastic Mr Fox (modernised the concept) but the original actress Scarlett Johansson named Fantastic Mr Fox as one of the five books that made a difference to her. Plus in 2012, Dahl was featured in the list of The New Elizabethans to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. Dahl was among the group of people in the UK "whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character". Roald Dahl was born in 1916 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales to Norwegian immigrants. This was his Father’s second wife’s child, his first wife having died. Roald Dahl was actually named after a Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen. His first language was Norwegian, which he spoke at home with his parents and his sisters Astri, Alfhild, and Else. The children were raised in the Lutheran faith and were baptised at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff. There was much tragedy for young Roald, both his Father and a sister died in the same year when he was 3 years old. Despite being on her own, his Mother decided to stay in Wales rather than return to a supporting family in Norway, purely to give her children a good Public School education. Unfortunately Roald had a traumatic time at boarding school too. The only brightness in his childhood being the Summer Holidays he spent with his Grandparents back in Norway. After school, Roald hiked across Newfoundland with the Public Schools Exploring Society, then trained and was employed by Shell Petroleum to work in Kenya and finally Tanzania. In August 1939 the WWII loomed and Britain wanted to round up the hundreds of Germans living in Tanzania, so Dahl was commissioned as a lieutenant into the King's African Rifles, commanding a platoon of Askari men, indigenous troops who were serving in the colonial army. Roald would later sign up to be a Fighter Pilot and ended up in Intelligence Corp and finally left the service with the rank of squadron leader.Dahl married American actress Patricia Neal on 2 July 1953 in New York City. Their marriage lasted for 30 years and they had five children: Olivia, Sophia, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy. On 5 December 1960, four-month-old Theo Dahl was severely injured. For a time, he suffered from hydrocephalus. As a result, his father became involved in the development of what became known as the "Wade-Dahl-

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Till" (or WDT) valve, a device to improve the shunt used to alleviate the condition. The valve was a collaboration between Dahl, hydraulic engineer Stanley Wade, and London's Great Ormond Street Hospital neurosurgeon Kenneth Till, and was used successfully on almost 3,000 children around the world. Today his medical assistance legacy continues with the Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity, which helps and empowers every seriously ill child to lead a marvellous life. One way it does this is through establishing specialist Roald Dahl Nurses in hospitals & communities across the UK. In November 1962, Dahl's daughter Olivia died of measles encephalitis, age seven. Dahl subsequently became a proponent of immunisation and dedicated his 1982 book The BFG to his daughter. In 1965, his wife Patricia Neal suffered three burst cerebral aneurysms while pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy. Dahl took control of her rehabilitation over the next months; Neal had to re-learn to talk and walk, but she managed to return to her acting career. This period of their lives was dramatised in the film The Patricia Neal Story (1981), in which the couple were played by Glenda Jackson and Dirk Bogarde. In 1972 Roald Dahl met Felicity d'Abreu Crosland, niece of Francis D'Abreu who was married to Margaret Ann Bowes Lyon, the first cousin of the Queen Mother. After an 11 year affair, Roald divorced his wife and married Felicity. Roald loved his garden, and his wife at one point have a cookbook published with all his family favourite recipes which came with many seasonal photographs of the garden itself. Indeed, Roald acquired a traditional Romanichal vardo (Gypsy cottage/Wagon) in the 1960s, and the family used it as a playhouse for his children at home in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. He later used the vardo as a writing room, where he wrote Danny, the Champion of the World in 1975.

After such a long and distinguished writing career of both children’s and adult books, films and Television. Roald Dahl died on 23 November 1990, at the age of 74 of a rare cancer of the blood, myelodysplastic syndrome, in Oxford and was buried in the cemetery at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. According to his granddaughter, the family gave him a "sort of Viking funeral". He was buried with his snooker cues, some very

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good burgundy, chocolates, HB pencils and a power saw. Today, children continue to leave toys and flowers by his grave. The main-belt asteroid 6223 Dahl, discovered by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos, was named in his memory in 1996. In 2002, one of Cardiff Bay's modern landmarks, the Oval Basin plaza, was renamed Roald Dahl Plass. Plass is Norwegian for "place" or "square", alluding to the writer's Norwegian roots. And finally in September 2016, his daughter Lucy received the BBC's Blue Peter Gold badge in his honour, the first time it has ever been awarded posthumously. Perhaps I really should read a Roald Dahl book in the true spirit of `Read A Book Day’ after all? Lindsay Marriott (with thanks to Wikipedia)

Six best doctors in the world:

1. The sun

2. Rest

3. Exercise

4. Diet

5. Self-respect

6. Friends

Stick to them at all stages of your life and enjoy a healthy life…

If you see the moon, you will see the beauty of God,

If you see the sun, you will see the power of God.

If you see a mirror, you will see God's best creation.

So believe it.

We are all tourists, God is our travel agent who has already identified

our routes, bookings and destinations... trust him and enjoy life.

Life is just a journey! Therefore, live today!

Tomorrow may not be.

Charlie Chaplin (suggested by Anne Henderson)

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The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

(suggested by Anne Ackerley)

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AND FINALLY…

Over the past few weeks, the Village Shop has been operating a ‘serve-

at-the-door’ system. This changed on 24th July and shoppers are now

allowed back into the shop, providing they are wearing a face covering,

and no more than two customers will be allowed in at any one time.

The staff will be wearing either visors or masks and will continue to

observe strict hygiene procedures, and can still serve customers at the

door if they prefer not to come in.

Teas and coffees are now being offered in takeaway cups and can be

enjoyed at the outside tables.

Thank you for supporting the Village Shop!

100 Club Winners

1st Prize No. 22 S. Harnden

2nd Prize No. 86 A. Henderson

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SERVICES AT ST. ANDREW’S Service in the Church, to be led by Rev Bill Herbert on:

Sunday 18th October at 10.00am. Please let Paul or Alison Cannard by email lantern.bredfield@gmail.com or on 01473 737707.if you would like to come, as numbers will have to be limited.

RECTOR: REV’D. CLIVE HOWARD CHURCHWARDEN: Vacant. To contact the Rector and for all enquiries regarding St Andrew’s, contact St John’s church office on: info@stjohnswoodbridge.org.uk

Or 01394 383162

www.stjohnswoodbridge.org.uk