August 2020

St Stephen Hounslow

Know God’s Love and Believe

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PARISH E-MAGAZINE – AUGUST 2020

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CONTENTS

August 2020

2 Book review
3 From the Clergy
4 Welcome home and services
5 Intercession themes and services for August 2020
6 Your magazine online / Our new website
7-9 Life moves on apace / Life online – experiences shared
10 Dominic – 8th August
11/12 Outside the Back Door
13 Mouse Makes
14 Cookery Corner / Proms anniversary
15 Wordsearch / Cartoon
16 Contacts / Wordsearch solution

BOOK REVIEW

Traidcraft was a true pioneer of the fair trade
movement, and it played a major role in
changing the landscape of ethical shopping.

This book charts the history of Traidcraft from its
birth in 1979 up until its 40th anniversary in
2019. The story is told through the eyes of one
of its longest serving members, Joe Osman.

Traidcraft was always an initiative rooted in the
Christian faith, and the book explores how the
company put its faith into action through a
different way of doing business. It also includes
contributions from many ex-members of staff,
including its founder, as well as external
collaborators and producers.

Parish Pump

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From the Clergy

A Journey – My journey into the unknown

My fascination for travel started as a child. My name means ‘Christ-bearer’ and is
associated with the Patron Saint of Travellers. This interest into what l saw as the
unknown started with my late father, Desmond C. Henley, FBIE., OBE and his
stories of travelling the world.

My first ‘proper’ journey was at the age of 13. I was selected to represent the
Paddington Scouts on a boat trip to Norway, Denmark and Sweden. My journey was
underway but not as exciting, daunting, emotional, challenging and rewarding as my
journey into ordained ministry.

As a child Jesus was always my friend. Baptised at St Matthew’s, Bayswater, my
earliest recollection of ‘Church’ was attending St Stephen’s, Paddington at the age
of 4. It was at St Stephen’s as a young teenager that my Priest said to me ‘God may
want you to be a Priest one-day’. Shortly after this conversation the vicar from All
Saint’s, Margaret Street was a guest preacher. After the service he approached me
and said ‘Christopher, God may want you to be a Priest one-day’.

Still very young I was encouraged to speak to +Mark Hodson who told me to get
some qualifications and do some vocational work for three months. I started work
with NatWest in the City, saved enough and went to a private college to do my
GCE’s. For my vocational work the choice was the Police (my uncle was a Met
Officer) or funeral service as my father was the Royal Embalmer with JH Kenyon
funeral directors. I would be the fourth generation of my family to work at JHK. What
could possibly go wrong?

Not long after joining l was instructed to fly to Vancouver to interview the families
whose relatives had boarded Flight IA238 which crashed off the SW coast of Ireland.
My Three months became 40 years; attending 30 major disasters globally
specialising in identification, repatriation and mass burial funeral cerem onies.
Incidents were invariably in places that were inaccessible or dangerous. I deployed
to Iraq and Afghanistan throughout 2003-2006. On one particular incident l was
working I experienced something which challenged me. Where was God in this. On
reflection I looked at where God was at the Crucifixion. He was on the Cross.
Returning to England I spoke to a Priest about my experience, the Director of
Ordinands and began discerning ordained ministry.

Fr. Christopher Henley
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WELCOME HOME!

Services have returned to our church buildings, just not quite as you know it!

Congregations are invited to return to the 11.00am Eucharist at St Stephen’s on
Sundays, although capacity is strictly limited (admittance is on a ‘first come first
served’ basis and hygiene measures will be in place, including no singing or physical
contact and communion in one-kind only).

The Public Health England guidance for social-distancing and advice on sanitising is
being observed. Data is also being collected should it be required by NHS Track
and Trace.

Public worship on Sundays is supplemented by live-streamed services available on
the Parish Facebook Pages [St Stephen’s or Ss Philip & James].

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philipjameswhitton/
https://www.facebook.com/SaintStephenHounslow/

YouTube: SsPJ with SSH
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiJb u RG XnYi ho7cqPzF H5 bA/
Catch up with all services here.

Service Booklets for download or print are available at
www.whittonchurch.com/coronavirus

SERVICE TIMES ARE:

Sundays: 09:30 Parish Eucharist – live streamed
11.00 Parish Eucharist – in church – limited numbers
Morning prayer – live streamed
Monday 09:30 Holy Communion (1662) – live streamed
Tuesday 09:30
Wednesday 09:30 Morning prayer - live streamed
Thursdays: 09:30 Parish Eucharist – live streamed

Sidespersons for August 2020:

2nd John Barnes
9th Sarah Mackintosh
16th Brendan Gash
23rd Paul Shaw
30th Elizabeth Malone

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INTERCESSIONS FOR AUGUST 2020

St. Stephen’s is a praying community and we welcome you to that life of prayer.
Contact us if you have a matter of concern that you would like us to hold in prayer
for you and with you.

For ourselves:
2nd For those on holiday

9th For the teaching and ministry of our Parish
16th For those receiving examination results
23rd For our Treasurer, John

30th For our Associate Vicar, Revd Christopher Henley

For others: For those who work in our care homes
For those who suffer in body, soul or mind
2nd For those in debt
9th
16th For all in need
For keyworkers delivering essential services in our borough
23rd
30th

READINGS FOR AUGUST 2020

To help you follow services at home, here are the designated readings for the
Sunday morning Parish Eucharist throughout August.

2nd Aug Trinity 8 (Proper 13)
Genesis 32 v.22-31; Romans 9 v.1-5; Matthew 14 v. 13-21

9th Aug Trinity 9 (Proper 14)
Genesis 37 v.1-4, 12-28; Romans 10 v.5-15; Matthew 14 v.22-33

16th Aug Trinity 10 (Proper 15)
Genesis 45 v.1-15; Romans 11 v.1-2a, 20-32; Matthew 15 v.21-28

23rd Aug Trinity 11 (Proper 16)
Exodus 1 v.8 – 2 v.10; Romans 12 v.1-8; Matthew 16 v.13-20

30th Aug Trinity 12 (Proper 17)
Exodus 3 v.1-15; Romans 12 v.9-end; Matthew 16 v.21-end

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YOUR MAGAZINE ONLINE

Thank you for all the positive responses to the A5-Flipbook format that I’ve used for
the past couple of months. As it’s working well for our online readers, I hope to
continue using that format.

I have received a couple of enquiries asking when the Magazine will go back into
printed format and once more be distributed to the parish. As with so many things
that have been changed by the pandemic, this isn’t straight forward. I conti nue to
liaise with Fr David and we are keeping a close eye on the advice being given by the
Church of England. Unfortunately paper can transmit the virus (for up to 24 hours)
and house-to-house deliveries put people in contact with multiple surfaces.

A further complication is that things are changing so fast! To allow time for the
printers to produce the paper edition, the deadline has to be the second Sunday in
the month whereas the online edition can be produced in the last weekend of the
month, meaning that the information is as up to date as possible.

The online and paper editions also require different formatting and that takes time. I
won’t even try to explain the differences, suffice to say that it’s complicated! So
please bear with us, paper will return at the appropriate moment!

Elizabeth Malone
Editor

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!

https://saintstephenhounslow.church/

Hopefully you will know this already as you will have received notification of where to
find this online magazine!!

So where did this new website suddenly come from? As if he didn’t have enough to
do during lockdown, Fr David has been beavering away on WordPress! If you were
impressed by his IT skills in being able to live-stream services and also upload the
back catalogue to YouTube, you’ll be even more impressed to discover his web-
editing abilities!

The new address is above. Please make sure you update any links or bookmarks
you may have for the old site. The old site is still there but with a redirect link, just in
case anyone stumbles across any old links embedded elsewhere.

(Ed.)
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LIFE MOVES ON APACE

For several years, Sunday mornings have consisted of breakfast, Holy Communion
at Pip & Jim’s, Morning Prayer at St Stephen’s, Holy Communion at St Stephen’s,
and finally Sunday lunch.

Then IT came along and everything changed. Breakfast was followed by a service
on my computer (when I could access the internet) or else reading the services for
myself from my own prayer books and Bible.

Then in July everything began to change again. After breakfast, Marion and I were
able to go to the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace for Holy Communion. Two
weeks later and breakfast and the Chapel Royal were followed by Holy Communion
at St Stephen’s. Now I am looking forward to going ‘home to Cornwall’. There I will
receive Holy Communion in St Just in Roseland Church.

This leads me to ponder about September. I wonder what will happen then? How
have you been doing in 2020? I would be interested to read about it in a future
edition.

Fred Michell

Read on to see what life online has been lik e for several of our congregation!

LIFE ONLINE – EXPERIENCES SHARED

By Sarah Mackintosh, Elizabeth Malone and Genna Martinez – the 3 ‘M’s!

First up - Sarah
17th March 2020 started like any other normal working day until 4pm when we were
told to head home. Hasty goodbyes and "see you when we see you" came from
colleagues. Home-working had begun! Cocooned in my spare-room bubble has
found me feeling more connected to my immediate colleagues since then, than I did
in the offices. Hot-desking and working over two sites had put paid to me getting to
know my team members before, but now with first Skype and then MS Teams daily
meetings, it is a different story. I don't feel so isolated. Through MS Teams and
Skype, I have participated in and contributed to new system training, whilst meeting
colleagues from other services that I would have never been able to put the name to
a face before. It all makes for greater cohesion now that we have built a personal
rapport and, yet, it has set me wondering if I will complete my contract without ever
seeing these colleagues or the offices in person again!.

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Outside, my community singing group has taken a break, as has my Guiding as my
unit has failed to embrace online Guiding. Yet, I have found myself busier and more
fulfilled: completing my Talk English training qualification remotely with frantic emails
from tutors regarding portfolios; helping others with less IT access or knowledge
who felt isolated from society; and talking to people who have lost their job and
needed guidance regarding benefit claims. Zoom has played a role too with church
meetings and other social gatherings; I even took part in a Foot Spa via Zoom!

Lockdown commenced with a very worried Sarah on how I was going to cope
without face-to-face social interaction. Its easement is finding me reluctant to return
to the old "normality" wanting to continue with lunc h in the garden and my three daily
walks amongst the trees and wildlife. I have enjoyed every minute.

Elizabeth returns to the library
On 13th July I returned to my physical work place for the first time since 24th March.
Why the 24th and not the 23rd? Because when I left work on the 23rd, I didn't
realise that the government were going to take us into total lockdown that night and
I'd left my laptop charger behind! In the 4 months that I'd been away, life has been
entirely on screen. In one week at work I did online meetings in MS Teams, Skype,
Zoom and even GoogleHangouts! I was in danger of getting lost in cyberspace.
Monday singing rehearsals moved to Zoom and church moved to Facebook. At
times I've actually felt more connected to the churches. Every morning messages
pop up on my phone showing me that people are participating in the services. The
downside is that I'm normally in my daily management team catch-up at that point so
not able to join in. Working from home has been enjoyable - coffee in the garden,
watching spring evolving around me, a more flexible work schedule, but it has also
been very demanding. No sooner had we finally embedded all our remote services
than we had to start planning our return to campus and the detail that has required
has been phenomenal. That said, the delight with which a group of us all met on the
13th, without the frame of screen around us, was really striking. There was a sense
of excitement and also camaraderie as we walked around inspecting our 22 newly
installed hand sanitisation stations! The thought of going through a pandemic
without modern technology is quite frightening but nothing quite makes up for seeing
people in person!

Over to Genna
I have, I have been assured, some good qualities, one of those, however, is not
keeping an eye on time, or dates. As my mum will attest, I often need to be told the
precise date and time of events - otherwise I end up in curious circumstances ! I also
have a terrible tendency to be a bit tardy replying to personal emails and messages.
At least a dozen times a year somebody will say, did you get my email? Are you
able to do this-or-that? To which my internal response is often oh my, but I only got

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that email yesterday! Which is why in some ways it feels that we only entered lock -
down two weeks ago.

The more rational part of me is aware that of course lock -down has been going on
for longer than a fortnight. Witness the numerous birthdays, funerals, anniversaries
and even an engagement and a new baby, that have passed by uncelebrated, and
personal events unseen and unattended. My mum was the first person that I knew
whose birthday we had to celebrate remotely. Gifts were delivered from online
stores. Wishes and love sent via texts and video messages. I baked a small cake,
stuck a few candles in it, and sent her a video of me singing happy birthday, before
extinguishing the flames, and eating the whole thing myself over the next few days.

On a more personal note, I celebrated my first-year anniversary in my new job. I
sent an email as I was logging off that day, thanking everybody in the team for
making me feel so welcome and helping the last year fly by . Prior to lock-down I
had made the conscious decision that I wanted to go to work, go to the building, sit
with the team, and share the triumphs and stresses of the day with them. I felt that I
would miss the camaraderie, and would be somehow less efficient. I am very glad to
have been proven wrong.

Planned Zoom meetings are the new normal, both at work and at play. It's not
uncommon now to call staff via Microsoft Teams, and spend a few minutes talking
about personal issues, rather than purely work (the number of sweet cats and dogs I
have talked to / cooed over, and children I've spoken to is fantastic), to the point that
it's going to be hard to revert to the good old English standby of the weather if, and
when, we return to the office and use those hard plastic telephones tethered to the
desk. It's somehow very comforting to me to see people more as individuals, as I
get glimpses into bedrooms / studies / kitchens .

Outside of work, what few hours I have to spare, are more often than not spent
viewing and interacting with the world online. To me it is nothing less than
miraculous that I can spend Sunday morning with so many of you in communal
worship and feel a sense of unity and common purpose. There are many parts of
the worship that I do miss - preparing intercessions being one and singing hy mns
another. Musical expression is so important to me! There are still some
experiences that Zoom or Teams cannot replicate, singing being one of them.

And at the end of the day, all we can do is the best that we can do, and take each
day, nay, each moment as it comes, and look towards the future with hope and
positivity, and use technology to its best advantage to remain in touch, to remain
human.

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DOMINIC – 8th AUGUST

If you enjoy reading the Bible and in encouraging others to have
faith in God, then you will feel much in common with Dominic.
His passion for helping Christians to learn and proclaim their
faith led him to found the Order of Preachers, or Black Friars,
because of the black cape they wore over white habits. They
are also known as the Dominicans.

Dominic was born in Castile in 1170, the youngest son of the warden of the town
and nephew to the archpriest of Gumiel d’Izan. Becoming an Austin canon of Osma
cathedral, Dominic spent seven years as a priest, devoted to prayer and penance.
In 1201 he became sub-prior to his community.

In 1208 the Papal Legate was murdered. It sparked a crusade or ‘holy war’ against
the Albigensian heretics. Dominic worked for reconciliation, refusing to join in the
violence and massacres against them. Instead he used instruction and prayer to
woo the heretics back, which led to him playing a leading role in founding Toulouse
University. That became the foundation for his work in establishing the Friars
Preachers at Toulouse in 1215, which occupied the last seven years of his life.
(Three times he refused a bishopric, believing that this work was more important.)

Dominic’s ‘order’ provided communities of sacred learning, with monks devoted to
study, teaching and preaching as well as the usual prayer. Dominic believed monks
should do more than just commune with God; they should proclaim God’s love to
others. Dominic was an excellent organiser, and soon his order spread rapidly all
over Italy, Spain and France. It met an acute need in the medieval churc h, and in
time the Black Friars became a pioneering missionary force in Asia and even (much
later) the Americas.

Dominic travelled widely from 1216 until his death in 1220. His simple tomb was
later embellished by Michelangelo, and his usual attributes in art are a lily and a
black and white dog, which is a pun (Domini canis) on the name of Dominic. The
dog holds a torch in its mouth as a herald of the truth.

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OUTSIDE THE BACK DOOR

PLASTIC, NOT SO FANTASTIC

It’s hard to believe it but avoiding the use of excess
plastic already appears to be ‘so last year’. The
Coronavirus pandemic may have given us clearer
skies and cleaner air but it’s done absolutely
nothing for plastic pollution which must surely be on
the rise again? So what can we gardeners do to try
to tip the balance in the other direction?

I confess that this isn’t an area of environmentally responsible gardening that I’ve
fully embraced. If I’m quite honest, it’s because it’s so difficult! I’m writing this sitting
on a hot patio surrounded by plastic pots; in the shed behind me reside several
plastic bags of compost; and I’m about to water the garden (it is parched) with a
plastic hose sitting on a plastic reel.

One thing that I’ve noticed about being ‘plastic conscious ’ is that my shed is in
danger of filling up with bits of plastic that “may come in useful” one day - a bit like
my Dad used to collect bits of wood! I’ve always kept the plastic pots that new
plants arrive in. I re-use them every spring for seedlings and potting stuff on.
There’s quite a lot of them in every size, shape and, since the need to make things
more recyclable, colour. When I re-use them, I do enjoy it if the label is still on the
side and I can see what originally came in it. Sometimes it’s a sad story of a plant
that didn’t make it but on other occasions it’s astonishing how small the pot now
looks compared to the thriving plant!

Re-using plants pots is an easy thing anyone can do but, in my desperation for
plastic not to be ‘single-use’, I’ve started to acquire a stack of strangely shaped trays
that have usually come from biscuits or fruit or other foodstuffs in the hope of
repurposing them for the garden in some obscure way . This spring I had great
success growing cosmos seedlings in plasticised fruit-juice cartons. Plenty of
gardeners extol the virtues of cardboard loo-roll tubes for sowing long-rooted
seedlings such as sweet peas. I did try this once but the cardboard went a bit
weirdly mouldy on me. I will try not to let this put me off giving it another go.
Fashioning pots for seedlings from newspaper is also another alternative but, as we
all buy less and less printed newspapers, this might actually cease to be an option in
years to come.

‘Re-use’ has to be the keyword when it comes to reducing plastic in our gardening.
If you’ve got something that is plastic, don’t replace it for the sake of it, just keep
using it until it finally bites the dust! Seed trays would be a good example. You can

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buy wooden ones or trendy bamboo, but if you already have old-fashioned plastic,
keep using it for as long as possible.

Plant labels are another good example. Plastic ones can be re-used time and time
again. However, I know that each year I lose a few! Eventually I will need to buy
some more. I have some rather nice slate ones waiting in the wings but a simple
alternative would be to use something like wooden lolly sticks.

The other heap of stuff that is in danger of overflowing in my shed is old compost
bags. It is possible to buy compost in non-plastic containers but generally speaking
I’ve found that this either applies to bulk-buying or requires time that I simply don’t
have. This spring, I think most gardeners were happy to take any compost they
could get, such was the impact of the lockdown. So whilst my compost might tick
the ‘peat-free’ box, sadly it fails on the plastic free front.

Which leads me to consider other packaging. Organic liquid fertilisers, such as
seaweed extract, are fantastic for feeding your plants and keeping them healthy but,
inevitably, they come in plastic bottles. In the spring I do use chicken manure pellets
which also come in giant plastic tubs. Some of these get re-used for storing bird-
food and keeping it safe from the mice, but I am thinking that I need to consider
purchasing more of the dry types of feed, such as blood, fish and bonemeal, that
come in cardboard boxes.

For the time being, my watering arrangements will remain unchanged. I have two
plastic watering cans that are almost certainly more than 20 years old. If one of
them suddenly gives up the ghost, then I will think of buying a non-plastic
alternative.

One thing I’m not guilty of is using plastic ties. I prefer old fashioned green garden
twine. At the start of lockdown I needed some urgently and included a ‘ball of string’
as part of an order to a local garden centre. The most enormous ball of garden
twine that you’ve ever seen arrived! I won’t need to buy twine for quite some time to
come!

Elizabeth Malone

Read an illustrated version of this article at
https://outsidetheback door.wordpress.com

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COOKERY CORNER

MINIATURE MOZZARELLA IN CARROZZA

Well, I honestly did not know what to entitle this, but these small cheesey bites are
perfect for picnics or as appetisers / hors d'oeuvres, all of which are perfect at room
temperature. This recipe makes 12.

Ingredients:
 24 circles of bread using a small cookie cutter
 12 tsp shredded mozzarella
 3 tsp tomato pasta sauce
 3 tsp pesto
 1 egg, beaten
 handful of seasoned flour to coat
 2 tbs grated parmesan

Method:
Basically, these are miniature Italian fried cheese sandwiches - 12 in total for this
recipe, but easy to manipulate! Place mini-mounds of the shredded mozzarella on
12 of the bread circles. Delicately spread 6 of the remaining bread circles with the
pasta sauce, the remaining 6 with pesto, taking care to leave a border around.
Carefully squish the baby sandwiches together, taking care not to let the filling ooze
out. Swish in the beaten egg, then dredge in the flour. Fry in a little oil over on one
side, being careful not to over crowd the pan, when you flip over to cook the other
side sprinkle with some parmesan.

Genna Martinez

PROMS ANNIVERSARY

It was 125 years ago this month, on
10th August 1895, that the Proms
(Promenade Concerts) began in
London. In fact, the idea of promenade
concerts went back to 1838, referring to outside concerts during which the audience
could walk about – but in the form introduced by Robert Newman at Queen’s Hall in
Langham Place, London, the promenaders were standing members of the audience,
and this usage has persisted. Henry Wood was the original conductor, and his name
became firmly attached to the annual series of concerts. He was knighted in 1911.

In the current coronavirus crisis, the Proms will continue, but in a much-changed
form – “not as we know them, but as we need them”, say the organisers.

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MEDITERRANEAN WORDSEARCH

I hope that by the time you read this the restrictions on overseas travel might be

lifted. The wordsearch contains 31 places you could visit on a Mediterranean cruise.

The 7 unused letters form the name of a town buried when Mount V esuvius erupted.

Solution next month.

RHODESALERNOS John Barnes

AGPISAUCPAEAU

ETIOMEIRNETES

LALBNNNEPTEKA

LRPARAGNEYRIH

IAARMARLAECNP

ENLITOLOPCMVE

STMRTANTMNAOE

ROAOVEIAAELRC

ACKANOLECRABI

MONTECARLOGUN

GENOAIREMLADE

SNEHTAMALFIIV

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ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH
Parkside Road, Hounslow

Vicar: The Revd David Cloake

Email: [email protected]

Parish Office 020 8898 2694

Churchwardens: Mrs. Sally Billenness 020 8737 0477

Miss. Genna Martinez [email protected]

Hon. Treasurer: Mr. John Barnes 020 8570 8810

Hon. Secretary: Mrs. Sandra Bishop 020 8570 4570

Email: [email protected]

Children's Champion - Tracey Bunce 020 8230 4918

Safeguarding Officer: Ms. Vanessa Pimbert

Email: [email protected]

Magazine Editor: Mrs. Elizabeth Malone 020 8941 4722

Email: [email protected]

Keep in touch:

Website: https://saintstephenhounslow.church/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SaintStephenHounslow/

SOLUTION TO DOGS WORDSEARCH

AIREDALE, ALSATIAN, BEAGLE, BORZOI, BOXER, BULLDOG, CHIHUAHUA,
CHOW, CORGI, DACHSHUND, GREYHOUND, GRIFFON, HUSKY, LABRADOR,
LURCHER, PEKE, PEKINGESE, POINTER, POM, POODLE, PUG, SALUKI,
SETTER, SHIHTZU, SPANIEL, WESTIE. The 15 unused letters formed GOLDEN
RETRIEVER.

John Barnes

Magazine Deadline

The next Magazine will be the September 2020 issue. Items for inclusion should be
emailed to the editor – [email protected]
Please forward your contribution by Sunday 23rd August at the absolute latest!

Opinions expressed in articles in this magazine do not
necessarily reflect the views of the Vicar, Editor or the P.C.C.

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