helping our neighbours in wrawby
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September 2020
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Helping Our Neighbours in Wrawby
With the news of lockdown looming due to Covid-19, the Facebook Group Helping Our neighbours in Wrawby was started on the 15th March. It was a way to let all our neighbours know that if they were self-isolating or shielding then a volunteer from their street would help them out by picking up some shopping, collecting a prescription or having a friendly chat on the phone. I was astounded by the number of volunteers and how quickly everyone rallied together (albeit apart) to deliver leaflets to every single household in the village.
As well as the shopping and phone calls we have been working alongside Well-being and Community Aid: North Lincolnshire and North Lincs Community Aid: Covid-19 to get donations for Brigg Foodbank, with The Old Chapel kindly taking in donations from Wrawby residents and delivering them to Brigg Foodbank.
The group has also been a great source for information sharing, bin collection reminders (very helpful when no-one knew what day it was), pharmacy hours changing and local businesses providing delivery/take away services.
It has been truly heart-warming to see our brilliant village come together to help each other out and to keep our spirits up. Seeing lots of households join in making window decorations of rainbows and teddies for children to spot on their walks, treasure hunts and pavement challenges, doorstep portraits and a fantastic “Stay at Home” Street Party to celebrate VE Day 75th Anniversary.
I would like to say a HUGE thankyou to every single volunteer for helping to put this together, for spreading the word and helping each other through the strangest of times.
I am so proud to call Wrawby my home.
Clare Drayton.
I’m sure that you would all like to join the Editors in passing on tremendous thanks to Clare and all the
volunteers for their ongoing work in helping other villagers. The Wrawby community spirit during these strange
times has been unbelievable!
New planning applications in Wrawby can be viewed on wrawby.org.uk/councilmeetings.html
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Wrawby Directory
St Mary's Parish Church
Clergy
Currently in Interregnum
Licensed Reader
Nigel Good 658883
Churchwardens
Peter Dale 408135
Treasurer
Peter Townsend 656817
Wrawby Methodist Church
Minister
Rev Barrie Leah 530116 Church Steward
Jim Marr 650114 Church Treasurer
Jonathan Dibdin 655277
Wrawby St. Mary’s C E Controlled Primary School Acting Head Teacher Mrs. T. Hotchin 655579
Chair of Governors
Mrs R Hoyle 01469 561071
Other Organisations
Roman Catholic Representative
Marie Owen Brown 653579
Wrawby Pre-school 07960 021517
North Lincolnshire UA Councillors Rob Waltham 652021
Nigel Sherwood 657882
Carl Sherwood 655202
Parish Council - Chairman
Ian Smith 652084 Parish Clerk
Graham Foster 651250
Community Police 101
Wrawby Neighbourhood Watch
Mrs. Julie Smith 652084
Wrawby Windmill
Mrs. Susan Day 653699
Wrawby History Group
Mrs. Kay Rothery 653315
Wrawby Playing Fields Assoc.
Mr. Paul Dalton 654665
Village Hall Committee Chairperson and Bookings
Mrs Susan Day 653699
Village Hall Secretary
Mrs. Kirstin May 658206
Wrawby Community Choir
Chiara Griffiths 07840407590
Sue Rawlings 07846676991
Ladies Afternoon Club
Barbara Green 653039
Wrawby Horticultural Society
Treasurer
Mr Paul Coult 659088
Wold Court Residents' Association
Wrawby Wrigglers
Kirby Stephenson 781404
Please contact any of the editorial team with news etc. for next month’s magazine: Pete Townsend 656817, Diane Coult 659088,
Emma Rowson 281107, Liz Hirst 651371, Jim Flewker (website) 656446,
You can also e-mail to [email protected]
Advertising: Sheila Wright at [email protected] Tel: 652229
Distribution: Susan Day 653699
Deadline for the next magazine - 18th September 2020
Please note that events advertised in this magazine are the responsibility of the organisers. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information in Wrawby News, neither the Church or the
Editors have any control over the events or information supplied by others.
Jolly Miller and Miller’s Barn
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Takeaway and Delivery Service Wednesday – Saturday 5.00pm - 9.00pm
Sunday Carvery Delivery 12.00pm - 2.00pm
We are offering a New Menu for Delivery/Takeaway and also in the Restaurant
WE ARE KEEPING TO GOVERNMENT GUIDELINES DURING THESE UNCERTAIN TIMES
Telephone Sam for further information on:
01652 655658
Facebook: Jolly Miller Wrawby www.jollymiller.co.uk Email: [email protected] Brigg Road, Wrawby, DN20 8RH
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Facebook: Millers Barn Wrawby
Email: [email protected] Miller’s Barn, Brigg Road, Wrawby, DN20 8RH
T: 01652 655658
Covid-19 Jokes Why do they call it the novel coronavirus? It’s a long story….
What’s the difference between COVID-19 and Romeo and Juliet? One’s the coronavirus and the other is a Verona crisis.
If there’s a baby boom nine months from now, what will happen in 2033? There will be a whole bunch of quaranteens.
Nail salons, hair salons, waxing centre and tanning places are closed. It’s about to get ugly out there.
With all this talk of Corona Virus, the people who make sanitising gel are rubbing their hands together.
My body has absorbed so much soap and disinfectant lately, now when I pee I clean the toilet.
They said that a mask and gloves were enough to go to the supermarket. They lied, everyone else has clothes on!
So many coronavirus jokes out there, it’s a pundemic.
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Best Kept Village 2020 Result Congratulations to all in Wrawby in achieving third place in our category, large villages. The marking and general comments are detailed below.
General comments
Wrawby has many attractive features, with some good examples of community planting. At the entrance to the village on Brigg Road, there is smart village sign with a bench and two planters. This is replicated at the east entrance to the village where there are pots and a planter by the smart village sign. Further good community planting is found at Tunnel Road, Vicarage Avenue, Little Lane, Highfield Lane, Applefields, Vicarage Road where there are two planters, planting under the millstone and an information board. Residents also play their part in making this a pleasant village in which to live, through their efforts in tending to their gardens. There were particularly good examples of effective planting and colourful displays at the following properties: 2 Barton Road End, Stone Garth, Vale View and Hawthorne House on Barton Road, 17, 23, 28 and 30 Bakersfield, Ellan Vannin on Tunnel Road, 10 and 19 Markham Way, 39, 41 and 42 Vicarage Avenue, The Hawthornes on Vicarage Road, 1 Applefields, Coleridge on Brigg Road, Lilac House on Highfield Lane, Curzon, Cairnlea and Charlton on Melton Road and 3, 7 16, 17 and 19 Kettleby Lane. Special mention must also be made of the excellent displays of planting at Top Cottage and Millfield on Barton Road and the colourful planting outside the bungalows on Vicarage Avenue. The village also has a large playing field behind the good-sized village hall. On the west side of the field is a well-maintained playground. The parish church is also an attractive feature with a tidy and well-tended churchyard.
Max Mark
1 General Tidiness & Appearance Litter, fly tipping, graffiti, including at bus stops & telephone boxes. General maintenance of hedges, trees, verges, fences, walls, paths and seats
50 49
2 Community Facilities Community centres, village halls, schools, parks, playing fields, churchyards/cemeteries, chapel surrounds, war memorials and public noticeboards
50 48
3 Gardens & Community Areas Gardens, window boxes, hanging baskets, tubs and planters, community planting, public areas, and allotments
70 66
4 Other community features Shops, inns, farmsteads, workshops, business premises, advertisements and signposts
30 28
Total 200 191
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BE KIND TO HEDGEHOGS!
Here are a few gentle reminders about garden safety for hedgehogs. Unfortunately they are now on the red list of creatures vulnerable to extinction, but we can all help by observing a few simple measures such as:
• always checking bonfires before lighting them,
• checking before using lawnmowers and strimmer's (especially strimmer's!),
• avoiding using slug pellets and other poisons.
• A small gap in fences and hedges helps them move easily around gardens in their search for food.
If anyone is really interested there's a great deal of useful information on the website of the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk
NEW CHURCH ELECTORAL ROLL
The Church electoral roll needs to be completed before our next PCC
Annual Meeting which, due to Covid, will this year be in October (date to
be finalised), it will need to be a new roll so all who wish to be on the
church electoral roll need to re-apply. Forms will be available in church
at services and from Nigel Good on 01652 658883.
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For all your gardening, window–cleaning and DIY needs
Back to School September sees children starting pre-school, school, new schools and heading off to university. It is always a time when student’s may feel more anxious but may be more so this year, given how long it has been since some children were last in school and concerns over covid-19. We wish everyone well as the new term starts. Headteachers, teachers and other staff have all been working hard to ensure everything is in place to meet the new requirements to deal with the threat of coronavirus. As this edition is going to press there is much discussion about whether children over eleven should be required to wear facemasks and there will, no doubt, be changes to requirements as experience is gained of schools being open again. Good luck to all the students, staff, parents and guardians for the new academic year.
THINK LOCAL! August has seen the government subsidising eating out at the beginning of the week, to encourage people to return to having meals out. This scheme finished at the end of August but, hopefully, you have had an opportunity to benefit from this scheme. Many cafés, restaurants and pubs have struggled during lockdown.
They have had to look for novel ways to maintain their businesses, such as our village restaurant, The Millers Barn, providing a delicious take away and delivery service. Please try to support local businesses if you are thinking of going out for a meal. It is not only the local catering industry that has been struggling during lockdown. Other local businesses have also felt the impact of covid-19 so, if you are looking for a product or service, why not consider those who advertise in this newsletter. If you are still looking to maintain some level of isolation think about local businesses that may have started a delivery service, as well as big national companies.
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Around Wrawby
The editors are happy to include details of villagers’ births, marriages and funerals that are held in venues other than Wrawby church. Please inform them using the details on page 2.
The funeral of Donald Hull (age 86) took place on the 1st April at the Crematorium. Donald died on the 15th March and a funeral had been planned in Church but was cancelled due to lockdown. Sadly his wife was unable to attend the commemoration. Our deepest sympathy goes to all the family and all others who may have been affected by similar events.
Monday Walks: Monday walks have re-commenced, but due to Covid-19 advice car sharing is not allowed. Contact Sheila for walk start/meeting point beforehand Tel: 01652 652229 or email [email protected]. New people are always welcome!
Wrawby Village Hall is a great venue for parties, meetings etc. with very reasonable hire charges. Please contact Susan Day on 01652 653699 to book or discuss what the hall can offer.
Anything for the magazine: Is there anything you would like publishing? Perhaps there is something you want to tell others about or someone you would like to thank for assistance during lockdown. The editors will always consider any suitable item submitted.
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Don’t forget that the content of this newsletter, and previous editions, along with details of Wrawby Parish Council meetings,
links to North Lincs Planning applications, a gallery of local photographs and much more is available at Wrawby.org.uk.
12th August 2020 Funeral Dennis Hind
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Thought for the Month
(This thought was originally published in 2014. Things have been very different for school children this year but many
of the reflections remain relevant.)
At the recent Leaver’s Service in St. Mary’s, when the school and the community gathered together in order to
celebrate the achievements of those children moving in from Primary to Secondary School, and to pray for them, I
was asked to give an address on the theme of the Journey of Life. I’d like to pick up on that theme here.
In the service, we reflected on those people who have accompanied us on our journeys so far; those who have taught
us, inspired and influenced us, shared their love and friendship with us – the people in our lives who have formed and
informed us as we grow. Inevitably, we needed to give some consideration to how, during the journey of life, we
experience change – new friendships are formed, new teachers educate us, and so forth. And so as well as looking
back we also looked forward to what the journey of life might have in store for each of us. There is also something in
all of this about how we ourselves accompany others and how we contribute to their journey through life.
When we think about journeys, we usually think about going from A to B; and the journey of life, in one sense, is the
same; we are each moving from birth to death. However, just as a journey from A to B can be complicated by many
things – a wrong turn, road works and diversions, the decision to detour and visit a friend on the way – so too is our
journey of life. There are many factors, often beyond our control, which can affect our journey through life. This may
include our own decisions and choices, the decisions of others, our education, skill and abilities, the job market and
the economic situation and so much more. So our journey is rarely straightforward; it’s more of a zig-zagging, to and
froing journey and life can have many ups and downs, twists and turns.
As an individual and as a corporate member of society and the Church, as a priest and a Vicar, I firmly believe that
the one Person who is there throughout each and every journey of life – the constant – is God. We change, our
friends and acquaintances sometimes change, where we live, what we do and our personal preferences, tastes and
priorities may change. But God is unchanging. His love for us remains constant, as does His desire for us to be in a
relationship with Him. He long’s to bring us to our homeland in His Kingdom. And like any relationship, our
relationship with God requires our effort, our response, and our love towards Him. I also believe, and my own
experiences bear this out, that when we try to block God out and make our journey without Him, life becomes far
more complicated that it needs to be. That is not to say that with God accompanying us we will never be hurt as we
make or journeys, or indeed hurt others, but with God, we share in His suffering as He shares in ours, as we do in any
relationship founded upon love.
Wherever you are on your journey of life – just setting off, or nearing the end, at a place of joy and happiness or one
of pain and sadness – may God be with you to guide and protect you. May He give you His comfort and His peace,
His light and His joy, in this world and the next.
With my love, prayers and every blessing,
Owain
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Diary for September 2020 Sept. All services in St Mary’s unless otherwise
stated
1 Tuesday
2 Weds
3 Thursday Back to School
4 Friday
5 Saturday
6 Sunday
7 Monday 10am. Walk
8 Tuesday
9 Weds
10 Thursday
11 Friday
12 Saturday
13 Sunday 11am. Morning Prayer
14 Monday 10am. Walk
15 Tuesday
16 Weds
17 Thursday
18 Friday
19 Saturday
20 Sunday
21 Monday 10am. Walk
22 Tuesday
23 Weds
24 Thursday
25 Friday
26 Saturday
27 Sunday 11am. Morning Prayer
28 Monday 10am. Walk
29 Tuesday
30 Weds
Oct.
1 Thursday
2 Friday
The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Wrawby
All are welcome to attend Sunday Services at
St. Mary’s Church. Currently, during
Covid–19 restrictions, there is a service of
Morning Prayer on the 2nd and 4th Sundays
of the month.
To book a Wedding, Baptism or for all other matters please contact
Peter Dale (Churchwarden) on 01652 408135 , during this period of
interregnum.
Wrawby Windmill
No further Open Days possible in 2020
Visits to Wrawby Windmill can be arranged by getting in touch with Susan Day on 01652 653699 or [email protected],
Susan would also like to hear from anyone who wishes to get involved in volunteering at the mill. facebook.com/wrawbywindmill/
www.wrawbywindmill.co.uk
Registered Charity 1176402
Post Box Collections Mon-Friday Saturday
Kettleby Lane 9.00 a.m. 7.00 a.m.
Wold Court 4.00 p.m. 11.15 a.m.
Tunnel Road 9.00 a.m. 7.00 a.m.
Brigg Road 9.00 a.m. 7.00 a.m.