THE

HOOK NORTON

NEWSLETTER

October 2001 Series 26 No 5


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CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORS
ST PETER'S CHURCH
ST PETER'S CHURCH ANNUAL CRAFT FAIR
BAPTIST CHURCH
WI
LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
GEOFF WALTON
FOHNCL
TRANSPORT
RAINFALL
WILDLIFE NOTEBOOK
HOOK NORTON GARDEN CLUB
HOOK NORTON C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL
QUEENS' GUIDE AWARD and CYCLING SAFETY
GUIDES
2nd HOOK NORTON BROWNIES
TRIP TO SWITZERLAND
1 st HOOK NORTON GUIDES WENT CAMPING
FIREFIGHTERS
LOST
A PLEA
ANOTHER HOOKY COINCIDENCE
MRS EVA SALE - THANK YOU
THANK YOU
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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PARISH COUNCIL
CHERWELL DISTRICT COUNCIL
'HEAR HEAR'
OUT OF THE BLUE
FRIENDS OF BOURNE END SURGERY
BLOOD DONING
CNCEC
HOOK NORTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTRE
WEA COURSES 2001 - 2
Do you run a voluntary-based club/society?
FARMERS' MARKET
DEDDINGTON MARKET














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BETCHA LIKE BETJEMAN
ST PETER'S TOWER PROJECT
ST PETER'S CHURCH CRAFT FAIR
C 2000
HOOK NORTON CHILDREN'S XMAS PARTIES
HOOKY PLAYERS
FILM SOCIETY
FESTIVAL OF FINE ALES
COTTAGE CRAFTS
HOOK NORTON BRASS BAND
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HOOK NORTON SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
CAR WASHING
MILLENNIUM SPORTS AND RECREATION PROJECT
HOOK NORTON HARRIERS
HOOK NORTON FOOTBALL CLUB
HOOK NORTON CRICKET CLUB






NEWSLETTER TEAM


Advertising: Judi Leader
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Distribution: Julian Bolton
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Treasurer: John Stratford
Directory: Diana Barber


FROM THE EDITORS

Global events have cast a shadow over our lives.
This has been another tightly packed Newsletter. Helen somehow manages to get quarts into pint pots with ease.
In this issue Barbara resigns as one of the editors and a replacement is sought. She will do one more Newsletter for December 1st and a new co-editor is then necessary for the Feb 1st issue. She has found it a very rewarding seven years and in many ways she is sorry to give up - but the time has come! Please consider whether you would like to take over her role.
It is to gather together text copy, check it for errors and edit it to the required amount of space available. Advertising is taken care of by Judi and the electronic putting together is done very smoothly by Helen and Martin. It is not too difficult and the work is mainly confined into six short but busy pockets of time before the six editions each year. You would need to be able to accept e-mail contributions but this aspect could be discussed. Help could be available initially.
Please think about becoming the next co-editor of the Newsletter. You might enjoy it. You would certainly get to know village news before anyone else!
The Newsletter is delivered free of charge. Advertising pays for much of the cost, donations from the public contribute a small but welcome amount and donations from Charitable bodies make up the rest. We collected £50.51 from the Post Office Box this time. Thank you.

Sadly we report the deaths of Eva Sale and Albert Green (late of Hook Norton) and on behalf of the village send our condolences to their families and friends.

e-mail Barbara@news-hooknorton.freeserve.co.uk or helen@monivea.freeserve.co.uk

The views expressed in the Newsletter are not necessarily the views of the Editors and the Team.
Advertising: £20 per page and pro rata - text for village activities free (a small donation is welcome). There is a charge for all inserts- commercial £20, village activities on request. Next advertising copy should be in by 14th November and final text copy by 17th November. Please place in the Newsletter Box in the Post Office.

Big print copy available at the library in a stiff cover.
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ST PETER'S CHURCH
Harvest Thanksgiving was celebrated with a Service followed by supper on Friday 21st September and the Harvest Eucharist on Sunday 23rd.
The Bill Clarke Memorial Concert will be on Sunday 14th October at 7.30pm in the Church. This is always a very enjoyable occasion.
Don't forget the cake stall and coffee in the Church on the fourth Saturday each month - 27th October and 24th November .
On All Saints Day, Thursday 1st November , there will be a special Service in St Peter's at 7.30pm, on 3rd November the Annual Craft Fair in the Church. See elsewhere in the Newsletter for details.
Remembrance Day falls on a Sunday this year so on 11th November the Remembrance Service at 10.45am will be preceded by the procession from the Green, organised by Angus Irvine.
Work on erecting the glass screen at the back of the Church will start the next day, Monday 12th November, having been delayed to accommodate the Service.
The Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Reverend Colin Fletcher, is coming to conduct the Confirmation Service in St Peter's Church on Sunday 18th November .
Activities in aid of the Tower Fund are reported separately.
R.J.


ST PETER'S CHURCH ANNUAL CRAFT FAIR
This well established popular event will take place on Saturday 3rd November 10am to 5pm . As always there will be a wide variety of high quality handmade crafts, offering unique ideas for original gifts, As we now have such good facilities in St Peter's with our kitchenette and loos, I have been able to invite several new crafters providing an even greater selection of crafts and demonstrations to enjoy.
The Grand Prize Draw will take place at the Fair; first prize this year a Sony DVD player, plus of course many other luxury prizes including the super Christmas Hampers. Draw tickets are available from Jan Hughes and Jenny Mead. Please come and join us in St Peter's. We look forward to welcoming old friends and new. Jan Hughes

BAPTIST CHURCH
Recent fine weather has really helped the harvest and this year as we celebrate within our churches, all the crops will be safely gathered in. Some recompense for farmers who cannot sell livestock and have had no income for months. Church life, having been somewhat disrupted during the school holidays with many people being away, now restores some order. 'Housegroup' starts again and following another brilliant Holiday Club, the 'Saturday Specials' return to capture the children's interest and imagination. There will be a lively 'Nite Lite' party for the children on 31st October and you need to watch this space as we try to arrange a Holiday Club Reunion with Ian and Elaine. The regular Wednesday coffee morning with card and board games is a must if you are around the village between 10am and 12 noon. During October we will be welcoming Rev'd Bob James to tell us something of the work of 'Operation Christmas Child'. Do come and hear what he has to say and you may be inspired to make up a shoebox for this work. A new venture at 'Parents and Tots' on Friday mornings will be the occasional snack lunch and the chance to watch a video on parenting skills, plus lots of chat and laughter. We do value all our team as they seek to move forward and provide for the village in a spirit of genuine care and concern. We would love to see you at any of these events and at our service on Sunday mornings at 10.30am.

For your diary;
6 October, Saturday Special .
7 October, Harvest Festival with guests Terry and Liz Puttick from London City Mission.
14 October visit of Rev'd Bob James .
Julie Warren

Many thanks to all involved with our Holiday Club again! A great time was had by all. See you soon - Luv Chloe, Sacha, Chelsea & Bronte XXX


WI
The first meeting after the Summer break, on September 18 was greatly enjoyed by members and guests. President Pat Fletcher thanked everyone for their hard work in producing the crowning glory of the WI year - 'Wine and Roses', developed from her inspirational idea, for which she was complimented by Sheila Lilley. The Memorial Hall was transformed on Saturday 8th September by a wonderful rosy and happy atmosphere, with stalls of crafts, gifts, games, balloons galore, delicious teas and of course roses, with a dash of complementary wine - and wine gums in the lucky dip for children. There was also a splendid raffle with luxury prizes. Thanks are given to everyone who came to this event and helped to boost WI funds - commiserations to those who were unable to come!
The speaker at the meeting was Mrs H Hammond of Bodicote who gave a most interesting talk on 'Hilary's Hats' with a brief history of hat making and fashions. Some fabulous hats were displayed and members enjoyed trying them on during the tea break.
Summer events have included a special visit to Secretary Suzie Bolland's lovely garden in Tadmarton, which is opened annually under the National Gardens Scheme and is well worth a visit. There was an outing to Friars Court in August and a visit by some members to WI's Denman College where many educational and recreational courses are on offer, for which an annual bursary was awarded to one of our members.
For many years, Hooky WI have enjoyed Christmas dinners and lunches at the 'Gate Hangs High' and we were sad to learn that Joyce and Stuart Rust are shortly to retire. On August 30th, a farewell lunch at the 'Gate' combined with a presentation and our good wishes for a happy retirement, was attended by about twenty members and the usual good fare and hospitality was enjoyed. After discussion at the meeting in September it was agreed that we would like to give the new landlord the privilege of enjoying our company for our Christmas lunch in December!!
An outing to Oxford to see the ballet Cinderella is planned and some members will go to the Group Meeting in Cropredy on October 18 . The meeting on October 16 in the Baptist Hall will feature a talk with the intriguing title 'What the Eye Doesn't See' - a talk on underwear by Mrs Nye. On November 20 we will hold our annual Mini-show . It was good to note that two members, Pat Fletcher and Sheila Rider were Cup winners at the Garden Club Autumn Show.
It is apparent from the numbers attending our meetings that Hooky WI is flourishing, with several recent new members. Meetings are on the third Tuesday of each month in the Baptist hall at 2pm. We are planning to have a stall at the November Market. Look out for posters and announcements about meetings in the 'Village News' in the Banbury Guardian. Guests are always welcomed on payment of a very small fee to include genuine home made WI cakes, a cup of tea and good company.
Marion Roberts


LOCAL HISTORY GROUP
The group started off its season with the return visit of Martin Baxter who enthralled us again with more aspects on Roman Civil Engineering. We traced the water source from its start through the Pont du Gard viaduct into Nimes. Martin also built a a model Roman bridge before our very eyes.
Our next speaker is Trevor Rowley who will speak on the Oxfordshire Landscape on the 2nd October and the Rev Robert Nind will speak on his Memories of a Hook Norton Childhood on the 6th November .
Meetings are held in the Brewery Visitor Centre usually on the first Tuesday of the month from 7.30pm. Programmes on request from Sheila Terry. Visitors are very welcome and a small charge towards refreshments is requested.
The museum has been pleased to receive a further amount of Hook Norton Brass Band instruments and clothing to add to its display. Ironstone memorabilia is needed. Does anyone have items which could be displayed in the museum? We would welcome them.
The list of names for the Millennium book is not quite ready for your inspection. Look out for posters which will tell you when it appears in the Library.
Jo Chadwick has produced a special millennial video about Hook Norton. It compliments the Group's Millennium book well and would be worth getting to send to relatives and friends or to keep. Obtainable in the Post Office and Village Shop.
Sheila Terry - Chairman
Barbara Hicks - Archives and Museum


GEOFF WALTON continues his memories of Hook Norton:
Unfortunately it was at this stage that Barbara my wife, was stricken with an incurable and recurring illness, which blighted the rest of her life and of course had a devastating effect on our family. Things were at times very difficult but we coped with the help and understanding of our friends, colleagues, neighbours and the people of Hook Norton. We received particular help from the Bowlers and the Painter family with whom we had become great friends. Mrs Painter was almost the Matriarch of the village and would hold out a hand to anyone in need of help. In fact Mr and Mrs Painter and their daughter Margaret were often the help we turned to in times of difficulty.
During our first year or two at The Glebe children would turn up at school with gifts of produce (apples, carrots, sprouts, beans, etc.) always with the same message, "Dad (or Mum) says you can't have got your garden organised yet. Can you use these?" These gifts came in a spirit of friendship and were accepted as that. I repaid wherever I could with help and advice on gardening matters (harvesting, pruning, choice of plants, etc). Well a flower show secretary is supposed to know about these things isn't he?
One of the boys in my woodwork class, Richard Coleman, came to me one morning and said that he had spoken to his mother about me and my family and as they lived on a remote farm, she would love us to visit her and have a cup of tea on the following Saturday. Our only transport was by bicycle and Graham, now about 15 months old, seemed quite happy in the seat I had made for him, so on Saturday we set off to find Cowpasture Farm. The route had been carefully explained to me by Richard. Taking the road for Sibford Gower we were to turn left just before Joe Sabin's orchard and keep on till we reached a T- junction. Here we must turn left, (if we turned right we would go to Traitors' Ford and on to Brailes), so we turned left and at about the third farm-gate on the left we would enter the roadway leading to Cowpasture Farm. There was apparently another Cowpasture Farm in the area, but that's another story. Over the brow of a slight hill we came upon the most delightful rural farmhouse ever to be imagined. We were greeted by Kate and her husband Dick and the three boys, Richard, Joe and Albert and of course Fly the brindled farm dog, in the grandest fashion and enjoyed hours of chat, cups of tea and slices of wonderful home-made cake before we retraced our way back to Hook Norton. Dick was an extremely interesting man, an ex-cavalry man, now engrossed in his farm and his family, but his love of horses and the countryside was always bubbling to the surface. Kate was the daughter of the locally famous, Doc Walker, (self taught animal doctor of Long Compton) and she had many stories to tell of early 20th Century rural life, but now a typical working farmer's wife. Kate was later the subject of that wonderful book by Sheila Stewart called "Country Kate" which immortalised a unique and interesting woman who I am proud to have known and been able to call friend. We spent many such interesting hours at Cowpasture over the subsequent years until the boys had all left school and I had eventually left Hook Norton.
April 1951 brought the Census. I learnt the extent of the village. From Grounds Farm to Traitors' Ford, from Nil Farm to Duckpool, and from the Kissing Trees to the Brewery and all the dwellings in between. The people were very co-operative. They revealed their secrets unstintingly. I could never have guessed at the volume of hardships and family secrets which were exposed to me in the strictest confidence and remained inviolate under the oath taken by the census takers and will remain so for 100 years. This experience was repeated in the census of 1961.
Geoff Walton, 32 Lingfield Crescent, York, YO24 1EP8



FOHNCL
Friends of Hook Norton Community Library held their annual AGM at the Brewery Visitor Centre on 11th September. John Wheatley was elected Chairman, Bob Coulderon Secretary and Moira Dorey will continue as Treasurer. A committee was formed.
Formal business finished quickly and after an interval for refreshment the membership listened to local authors Brian Rider and Peter Millar who gave us insight into the life of a writer and its sometimes hilarious side. It is anticipated that a busy and productive year awaits the friends.
We would like to wish Brian Rider a speedy recovery from his recent illness.
John Wheatley, Chairman


TRANSPORT
Buses Chipping Norton - Banbury
The usual thing happened two months ago, that just after press day for the Newsletter I received details of important changes to the bus service. The editors were clever enough to include these, but a couple of further changes came in after publication. The new service is:

To Banbury at 7.23*, 7.48, 10.23, 12.23, 2.58 and 5.08
From Banbury at 9.05, 11.05, 1.05, 3.45 and 5.50
To Chipping Norton at 9.42, 11.42, 1.42, 4.22 and 6.27
From Chipping Norton at 7.30, 10.05, 12.05, 2.40 and 4.50
(*the 7.23 is a Cheney bus, and does not run on Saturdays)

In Bloxham, all buses now use the main road and none go round the back of the village. Stagecoach have put the new timetable on the bus stops at the Church and The Green. Copies are available in the Post Office, the Library and the travel office at Banbury bus station, showing details of connections and through fares to Oxford.
Peter Fry


RAINFALL JULY - AUGUST
July managed to overtake both February and April with a massive 3.75 ins (95.25mm), over double the 10-year average for the month.
August gave us a heat wave but, surprisingly, until the last day no very heavy rainfall following it and ended up with a very average figure of 2.02 ins (52.58mm) as against the 10-year mean of 2.07 ins (51.31mm).

WILDLIFE NOTEBOOK
On the day that the last Newsletter was distributed I was very pleased to receive my first phone call from Margaret Bloomfield with the sighting on 28 July of a Red Kite in Osney Close. There was one seen in March and one in May, so this is very exciting news and may we see many more. Margaret also saw a Grey Wagtail on 31 May and a Holly Blue butterfly on 1 August.
There were certainly more butterflies around when the buddleias came into bloom, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Comma, Brimstone and Holly Blue. Buddleias also attract moths, hoverflies, bees and other beneficial insects. Butterflies also like lavender, honeysuckle, sedum, valerian and forget-me-not.
There were several sightings of Green Woodpeckers and one was seen in Isita Pickering's garden and was there for about half an hour eating ants. They have a long tongue so are able to probe into holes and passages of anthills, are 31 - 33cm long, have a wingspan of 40 - 42cm and have a bright yellow rump, which is conspicuous in flight when they usually give a shrill 'ku-ku-kuk' call which is quite easy to recognise.
In late July Swifts, Swallows and House Martins were flying around low. The swifts have all gone to warmer climes, but there are still some Swallows and House Martins around, the last of them being seen on 10 October last year. It will be interesting to see how long they stay this year, particularly as it is so cold.
On 25 July there was a commotion and a Hobby was seen being chased off by Swifts and Swallows. Hobbies are fast enough to be able to catch these birds.
One of the fascinating things which I saw was a Song Thrush and two juvenile Blackbirds sunbathing within two feet of one another in our back garden for at least half an hour on 18 July. There was a Willow Warbler in our garden on 5 August - we saw one at virtually the same time last year - but have not seen one any other time.
Foxes have been seen during the day and two large cubs were seen in a garden in the East End.
On 20 August three Cormorants and twenty Canada Geese were seen flying over. Herons have been seen on 15 August and 3 September.
As the birds are now in moult - which means old feathers are coming out and new ones are growing, which can take a few weeks and some birds are unable to fly well - they become rather elusive. You can see some larger birds are still flying, but have gaps in their wings and tails.
This year there has been a big fall in the wasp population due to the wet spring. Although we may not particularly like wasps as they can be a nuisance to us, they do serve the very good purpose of killing flies and other insects.
Now we are looking for the winter migrants such as the Fieldfare and Redwing.
I would really like to hear from you with your sightings.
Geraldine Moore e-mail: geraldine.moore1@btinternet.com


HOOK NORTON GARDEN CLUB
The Club's busy programme for the year continued in August when more than twenty members paid a visit to the garden of Folly Lodge in Halford. A bit further afield than usual for us but well worth it.
The big event of the last two months has, of course, been the Autumn Show on the 15th September. It was very well supported both in the number of entries (305) and in the number of visitors and the judges in the various classes were very complimentary about the entries.

The principal awards were as follows:
Phil Knight Comrades Cup......................... Tim Burchell
Debenham Cup.......................................... Nancy Longmore
Rose Brown Cup....................................... Felicity Dorey and Charlotte Mair
Edge and Bolton Cup................................ Pat Fletcher
WI Cup..................................................... Nancy Longmore
Presidents Cup.......................................... Tim Burchell
Brewery Cup............................................. Sheila Rider
Certificate of merit in Floral Art.................. Pat Fletcher
Cert. of Excellence in Horticulture............... Adam Curtis
Congratulations go not only to these but to all who took the time and trouble to enter. Our next meeting is the AGM on Wednesday 17th October and the final meeting of the year will be a talk by Mrs Grundy - Gardening for the Birds on Wednesday 21st November. Both meetings are in the Memorial Hall and all are welcome.
Frank Faulkner


HOOK NORTON C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL


As we are encouraging more children to walk to school, it is essential that everyone drives well below the speed limit to ensure the safety of all our children.



QUEENS' GUIDE AWARD and CYCLING SAFETY
Having had the opportunity to take my cycling proficiency when a pupil at Hook Norton Primary school, I appreciate the need to teach children the importance of learning to cycle safely. Therefore, during the summer holidays I gave up my mornings for one week to help with a cycling proficiency course held in Banbury. The course was run for children over the age of nine and they all really enjoyed it (helped I'm sure by the great weather we were lucky enough to have!). Working alongside two road safety officers and another volunteer, everybody learnt a lot. The children were taken through the processes of turning right and left from minor to major roads safely. At all times they were being checked for their safety, awareness and correct riding position. Every day the children were being encouraged to improve all of these aspects. The importance of cycle helmets was also shown by the "egg test". It reinforced the message for both children and parents alike when they were shown that an egg, representing the head, wearing an "egg cycle helmet" could be dropped from a great height without being harmed.
At the end of the week they were all watched by a different road safety officer, who passed them all for their cycling proficiency award due to their safe riding skills and knowledge of the Highway Code.
This course, which I undertook for my Queen's Guide Award, really high-lighted the need for children to be safe cyclists. I learnt a lot from doing it, and felt that I benefited as much from helping the children as they did from being helped. Cycling proficiency is a really good course especially for the summer holidays when lots of children want to be outside enjoying their freedom on bikes.
Jane Bruton


GUIDES

Catherine Crick who is working towards her Baden-Powell Challenge has set up a web site for the Unit: www.hookyguides.homestead.com. Try it out. She has worked really hard on it and included pictures.





2 nd HOOK NORTON BROWNIES
The 2 nd Hook Norton Brownies would like to thank everyone who contributed to our Foreign Coin Collection with both foreign and English coins. We recently shared £290 between the RNIB, the RNID, the Guide Dogs and Dogs for the Deaf. £165 of this came from the Coin Collection and the rest from the Table Top Sale we had in March. The girls enjoyed working on their senses and most of them attained their Deaf and Sight Awareness Badges. We will continue to collect coins which can be left at the Post Office or the Village Shop and the girls will decide where the next amount should go.
We went to Leamington to see the panto just before Christmas, and to Crystal Palace in February to celebrate Thinking Day. In March both the 1st and 2nd Hooky Brownies went to Cadbury world, and our donations from the Hook Norton Charitable Association paid for the coach, which makes a big difference to the cost of the day.
Although the Village Litter Pick was not on a convenient day for us to take part, we had a Brownie Meeting out and about around the village with our black sacks and protective gear and the girls were quite disgusted with the amount of litter, particularly cigarette butts and crisp bags. They were also surprised at the time it takes these items to degrade. (cigarettes and banana peel up to 2 years, plastic bags 10 - 20 years, tin cans 50 years and aluminium cans up to 100 years.) Let's hope they keep a healthy anti-litter approach to make Hook Norton a tidier place.
The girls got together with the Sibford Brownies last term for a Campfire, with Hot Dogs and ice creams and luckily it was a dry evening. Our last meeting however was far from dry and the planned walk from Traitors Ford to the Moody Cow in Sibford went ahead with just six girls, singing in the rain, finishing with a lovely end of term pub tea.
This summer we took 18 girls to Foxlease near Lyndhurst for Pack holiday 2001, with a 'Harry Potter' theme, and had the best ever time.
This term we are collecting old spectacles for the Help the Aged appeal. The glasses are recycled for people all around the world. If you have any old glasses, they can be brought to the Hall while we are at Brownies on a Tuesday night (5 - 6.30) or dropped off at Dove Close House, Scotland End.
The Girls have taken part in a pilot project to find out what changes might be needed in the Brownie Section, and their views have gone off to be analysed.
We now look forward to returning to Brownies in the revamped hall, with another fun packed term ahead of us.
Diana Barber


TRIP TO SWITZERLAND - 18 TH - 27 TH JUNE 2001
Little did I know that back in October 2000, when I went for International Selection - eight months later my dream would have come true! I was absolutely thrilled when I heard that I had been selected to go to "Our Chalet", in Switzerland, with nine other adults.
The lead up to my trip was an anxious time - I am not well travelled, and it was the first time that I had left the family for more than two nights. Also, I had not flown for 17 years! Before the trip we had two get-togethers to meet the other ladies in our party. ....
Excerpt:
Thursday 21 st June
The longest day - up at 3.15am - Linsey, Shirlayne and I joined another 18 for a sunrise hike. We wrapped up in lots of clothes, hat, scarf and gloves - it was freezing. We had a fantastic walk with torches - we went three quarters of the way up the mountain which was quite steep in places. We stopped for snacks and drinks and waited for the sun to rise. What a beautiful start to the day. The colours were magnificent. We returned to "Our Chalet" at 6.30am for a hot drink and shower and followed the normal programme. Today, we went to Grindleward to shop and then took a gondola up the mountain. We had our lunch and then had two rides on the toboggan, which was like a bob-sleigh run - your own sledge with a brake and you go down a metal run - at the bottom you are pulled back up on your sleigh! The views were fantastic. We laughed so much. From there we took the coach to Tr ü mmelbach Falls. This was the most amazing waterfall I had ever seen. We took a glass elevator up inside the mountain and then had to climb steps up to the top of the waterfall. The force of the water coming out of the mountain was quite incredible. We followed the path of the waterfall down the mountain to the gushing river at the bottom. Words cannot explain it......
[Julie Wood would like to thank everyone who has supported her in her fund-raising and helped her to go on the trip. She has written a full account of her trip and this is available to read in the Hook Norton library. Editor]


1 st HOOK NORTON GUIDES WENT CAMPING :

Guiders are Great
Being a Guide is easy
But hasn't it come to fate?
That without our Guiders -
We wouldn't be here
So simply our Guiders are great!

Thank you for taking us camping,
I had a brilliant time,
As you've probably seen through my -
Happiness and later verses in this rhyme!
But first of all I'm thankful
When I missed my home and my Mum
When you comforted me in my lostness
And when I felt all alone

So when you are watching the telly
Or staying up rather late
Just think of the great world around you
And that our Guiders are Great!

Becky Watkins (aged 10)


FIREFIGHTERS
We are able to report a comparatively quiet time for our firefighters during the last two months. Out of the sixteen incidents nine were standbys, three were alarms, one a factory fire, one a farm fire and one a shop fire. There was one road traffic accident at Milcombe.



LOST
A very smart, three wheeled, bright blue child's toy buggy. A very precious present from Nana.
If you have seen it around the village could you please return it to Elizabeth at Peverel on the High Street.


A PLEA
We moved to Orchard Road almost two years ago and bought the bungalow as a result of a probate. Originally there was an aerial photograph of the plot in the hall. I believe that this was taken in the 80s. When we moved in I was sad to see that they had taken the phootograph from the hall. Does anyone know the name of the original photographer and, or, has a phone number on the back of a similar photograph they may have had taken. There is a slim chance that the negative still exists and I may be able to get a copy of the original picture.
David Smith

ANOTHER HOOKY COINCIDENCE
Lynda Price moved into Ironstone Hollow recently. She was invited by next door neighbours for a welcoming drink. Sandy and Bruce Haslam were house sitting for their daughter Berry Wallis. They discovered that all of them had lived at some time in remote Amtali (now Mutare) in Zimbabwe and both Lynda and Berry had attended the same school.

MRS EVA SALE - THANK YOU
After being cruelly struck down on Sunday 26th August, my mum died very peacefully at home on the evening of Friday 31st August 2001.
I would like to thank the District and Community Nurses and Dr Pargeter, for their care and help in the six days of her illness and most of all the Lawrence Home Nursing Team members, without whose help we would not have had those precious days together. Thank you also to neighbours and friends whose support is appreciated. Thank you in particular to Den, Andy & Mel whose courage and love kept me in one piece.
Chris Sale.

THANK YOU
Betty Couldrey wishes to sincerely thank those friends and acquaintances in the village for their support, prayers, letters, cards of sympathy and donations, following the death of her much loved husband - Barrie.


ANNOUNCEMENTS



  • Martin David Stowe and Lyn Shillam were married at St Peter's Church on 4th August 2001.

  • Keith Beardmore and Gill Handley were married at St Peter's Church on Friday 27th July 2001.

  • Adrian Parker and Shanda Louise Palmer were married at St Peter's Church on 15th September 2001.




  • Bunny Margaret Rose, daughter of Robin and Joanna Bartlett was born 7th July and baptised at St Peter's Church on 16th September 2001.

  • Lydia, daughter of Marcus and Hailey Watkins was baptised at St Peter's Church on 16th September 2001.

  • Sophie Anna, daughter of Clive and Yvonne Brown was born 25th January and baptised at St Peter's Church on 12th August 2001.

  • A NEW BABY - Gary and Sarah Brown wish to announce the birth of their daughter 'Tallulah' born at home on 2nd August 2001 - a new baby for brothers Barnaby, Hugo and sister Tabitha. Thank you to all our friends in the village for their support and kindness.