June 2016 - Claines Church

ST. JOHN BAPTIST
CLAINES
June 2016
50p
MON 9.30am – Ombersley Mem. Hall
MON 6.30pm – Claines Church Hall
TUES 6.30pm – Martley Village Mem Hall
TUES 7.35pm – Martley Village Mem Hall
WEDS 9.30am – Hallow Parish Hall
WEDS 6pm – St Martin’s Church Hall
THUR 7pm - Leigh & Bransford Hall
FRI 10am – Martley Village Mem Hall
£4.50
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Church House is a working farm, conveniently
situated just five minutes from Junction 6 of
the M5 motorway and two miles from the
centre of the historic city of Worcester.
There is an extensive range of good local pubs
and restaurants to choose from, with the
renowned Mug House, just a two minute walk
away.
We welcome all guests, whether your visit to
the area is business related, attending one of
the numerous cultural or sporting events, or just
taking the opportunity to explore this lovely
area. We very much look forward to welcoming
you.
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Claines
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LETTER FROM OUR READER JEAN
The song tells us that “June is busting out all over” and in Claines it certainly is! We
have the Queen’s official birthday, our Patronal festival plus a Church fete to mention
just a few of the events happening in June. Busy times for busy people but we all hope
that other busy people will come and support all the events that are being organised.
You know the old saying “if you want something done, ask a busy person” When Jesus
invited his Disciples to follow Him and become “fishers of men”, He was asking busy
people to find time to witness His ministry, to learn from Him, to accept changes in their
life and to become the people who would start to spread the Good News throughout the
world.
This Good News has encouraged people to care for those less fortunate. We hear of
people who have busy lives but manage to do a little extra by finding some time in their
day and it is not a modern phenomenon. In the Acts of the Apostles we read of many
instances where families help families and also help the poor and needy. These were
all busy people leading busy lives. So today we are following the example of the early
Church and the caring for others continues.
We can have fun as we celebrate but at the same time our efforts do bring help and
relief to those less fortunate. Jesus may not be here in person, but His call to become
“fishers of men” is as strong today as it always was and always will be.
Jean Smallwood
Reader
Parish Priest
THE REVEREND JO MUSSON
The Vicarage, Claines Lane, Claines, Worcester WR3 7RN
T: 01905 780200 E:rev.jomusson@gmail.com
(normal rest day - Friday)
ASSOCIATE PRIEST
Reverend Jennie Hayward
T: 01905 29545
(normal rest day - Wednesday)
CURATE
Reverend Peter Davies
T: 01905 356714
(normal rest day - Friday)
CHURCHWARDENS
Phil Kear, 1 Hadley Villas, Droitwich Road,
Rachel Cramp, 11 Willowslea Road,
Northwick, Worcester WR3 7QP
Worcester WR3 7SW
T: 01905 451099
T: 01905 457749
E: warden@clainesfriends.org.uk
E: warden@clainesfriends.org.uk
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PARISH OFFICE
Parish Administrators: Gwen Clifford and John Brady
Claines Church Hall, Cornmeadow Lane, Worcester WR3 7NY
Open: Monday-Friday 10am to 1pm
T: 01905 759702 E: claines.stgeorge@gmail.com
All enquiries for Baptisms and Weddings should be made to the Parish Office
ABOUT ORGANISATIONS
Children's Ministry: Ann Sansome 01905 754561 ann@clainesfriends.org.uk
Little Fish: Pat Price 01905 455514
Little Friends Baby and Toddler Group: Jennifer Chow 07563 509715
Messy Church: Amy Causier a_causier@hotmail.co.uk
Mothers’ Union: Gwen Clifford 01905 451574
LinC Lunches: Pat Harris 01905 451305
Church Hall and Institute bookings: Katrina Boucher 01905 759215
Magazine Distribution Secretary: Margaret Sturdy 01905 456624
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Editor and Treasurer: Stephen Taylor, The Crest,
257 Droitwich Road, Fernhill Heath, Worcester WR3 7UH
T: 01905 457165
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PARISH CALENDAR – JUNE
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
1
2
3
4
10.30am
Holy Communion with refreshments
9.30am
9.30am
1011.30am
Saturday Surgery, Claines Institute
Choir Practice
5
6
7
MU coffee morning Saint George's - Raising Awareness
of Ovarian Cancer
8.00am
11.00am
6.00pm
6.30pm
tbc
The Second Sunday after Trinity
Traditional Holy Communion
Choral Eucharist
Youth Group, Claines Parish Hall
Evensong
Youth Group trip
10.00am
12-3pm
Little Friends, Claines Parish Hall
Accidental Artists, Claines Parish Hall
2
Wednesday
8
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
9
10
11
Sunday
7.00pm
7.30pm
10.30am
Churchwarden's Admission Service at Pershore
Mothers’ Union
Holy Communion
10.30am
2.005.00pm
Messy Church Saint George's
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Monday
Tuesday
13
14
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
15
16
17
18
Sunday
19
Summer Fete in church and churchyard
8.00am
11.00am
1.00pm
4.00pm
6.30pm
The Third Sunday after Trinity
Traditional Holy Communion
Worship Together Service with Worship Band
Baptism
First Holy Communion Class, Institute
Contemplative Communion
9.30am
10.00am
12-3pm
7.30pm
Kingdom Arts, Saint George's
Little Fish, Claines Parish Hall
Accidental Artists, Claines Parish Hall
Deanery Synod at Claines Institute
10.30am
12.30pm
9.30am
12.30pm
1.00pm
Holy Communion
Open the Book, Claines School
Choir Rehearsal, Church
LinC Lunch, Claines Parish Hall, Cornmeadow Lane
Wedding
8.00am
11.00am
12.15pm
6.00pm
6.30pm
The Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Fathers’ Day
Traditional Holy Communion
Parish Communion
Burial of ashes
Youth Group, Claines Parish Hall
Choral Evensong
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
20
21
22
23
10.00am
12-3pm
10.30am
Friday
Saturday
24
25
11.00am
Worcester Diocesan Synod, St. James Church, Welland
Little Friends, Claines Parish Hall
Accidental Artists, Claines Parish Hall
Holy Communion celebrating St. John Baptist
Polling Day – Claines Parish Hall
Birth of St John the Baptist
Wedding
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Sunday
8.00am
11.00am
1.00pm
4.00pm
6.30pm
The Fifth Sunday after Trinity
Traditional Holy Communion
Holy Communion (The theme will be Stewardship)
Baptism
First Holy Communion Class, Institute
Celtic Prayer
10.00am
2.00pm
10.30am
Little Fish, Claines Parish Hall
Quest, Claines Parish Hall
Holy Communion
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
27
28
29
30
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
July
3rd July 11am Service of First Holy Communion and Celebration
5th July 12noon Accidental Artists 12-3pm
8th and 9th
CATS show, Claines Church
9th July
Saint George's Summer Fair
16th July 7.30pm Ukelele Concert at Saint George's
21st July 9.30am Claines Y6 Leavers' Service, Church
26th July 7.30pm Claines PCC, Institute
9th August
Family Fun Day
PARISH REGISTERS
Holy Baptism
8 May
Elsie Elizabeth Telford
Holy Matrimony
23 April
14 May
Daniel Anthony Nash and Rachel Lucie Cox
Christopher James Imm and Clair Louise Tipper
Christian Burial and Cremation
5 May
10 May
17 May
18 May
Christopher Jenkins
aged 57 years
Nicholas Lawrence Farr aged 70 years
Charles Jefferies
aged 86 years
Sheila Gronan
aged 85 years
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In May the members enjoyed a fun
evening at Extreme Bowl.
We meet again in the evening of 8th
June for our Garden Communion at
the home of one of our members when
Rev David New will lead the service.
We are hoping that the ladies and
gentleman
from
Saint
George’s
Mothers’ Union will join us and, of
course, we are praying for good
weather.
Mothers’ Union members were pleased
to be able to take part in the Kingdom
People Wave of Prayer during the
week leading up to Pentecost. Some
of us met in the Lady Chapel to pray
together and the rest of our group
found time during the hour allocated to
Claines and Saint George’s Churches
for private prayer. Mothers’ Union sees
prayer and worship as vital to all that
we do. We are always encouraged
when people join us in prayer. Prayer
can make huge differences to lives
both on an individual and community
basis.
You would be made very welcome if
you would like to come along – just
contact Gwen in the Parish Office –
729702.
Gwen Clifford
Whilst they looked towards the heavens, Rachel tracked the star on her iPad app
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by all the children. Afterwards the
children made their own sheep model
to take home.
At Claines Parish Hall
Cornmeadow Lane
10am-11.30am
Bumps, babies, toddlers,pre-schoolers –
everybody welcome
Light refreshments and the chance to
have a chat!
Tuesday 28th June
The Story of the Big Picnic
LITTLE FISH IN ACTION
On Tuesday 19th April at Little Fish,
Rev Jo used Godly Play to act out the
story of the Good Shepherd. The
children were encouraged to move the
sheep and help the shepherd on his
journey. Miss Fish and Spanner
("helped" by Annie and Jan from
Mothers' Union) asked the children to
help them find their lost sheep (Jane,
another MU member who was hiding in
the hall). The children all agreed!!!!
The morning ended with a fun round of
the Hokey Cokey where the children
and adults all joined together to have
fun.
Jan Hayden
NORTH CLAINES WI
May was the month of our Annual
Meeting and also a chance to debate
and
vote
upon
the
proposed
Resolutions that would go forward for
further discussion and vote at National
Federation of Women’s Institutes
Annual Meeting in June.
This year there were two resolutions
namely; “the WI calls on all
supermarkets to sign up for a voluntary
agreement to avoid food waste,
thereby passing surplus food on to
charities thus helping to address the
issue of increasing food poverty in the
Miss Fish and Spanner sang a song
(twice) while the children helped search
for the lost sheep. Great fun was had
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UK” and secondly “We call upon HM
Government and the NHS to provide
facilities to enable carers to stay with
people with Alzheimer’s disease and
dementia that have been admitted into
hospital”. We did not have to vote for
one resolution against the other merely
whether we were for or against the
individual propositions.
I would like to remind members that
were unable to attend the last meeting
that names were taken for our annual
outing on Wednesday Aug. 3rd and
menus circulated.
Our Annual Meeting followed and for
light relief there were 53 pictures of
“celebrities” for the members to name!
The winner achieved 45.
Jill Cale
The speaker for Wed June 1st is Jean
Wilson from "New Hope Children's
Charity". Visitors are welcome and the
meeting starts at 8pm.
Some of our members have visited the
gardens at Hewell Grange under the
National Garden Scheme. The garden
was created by “Capability” Brown and
added to further by Repton and the
gardeners are constantly discovering
delights that have been hidden for a
long time.
Our next meeting is on Wednesday
June 1st when Pervez Hussain will be
talking about “Chasing the Bean”. For
more information please look at
www.northclaineswi.moonfruit.co.uk
TABLE TOP SALE
The sale on Saturday 23rd April along
with the cream teas helped to raise
£174.00 for Church funds. A lot of
people attended, many from our
various children's groups associated
with Church and it was lovely to meet
families in a social setting. Trade
appeared brisk at the stalls with a lot of
bargains being picked up.
Heather Pitts
CASS
Our May meeting was very enjoyable
when our speaker Cathy Jones took us
on a trip round "The Isle of Man"
showing slides of the most interesting
places
Throughout the event there was a
feeling of “togetherness” and a true
community spirit.
This sale was a trial, and after
evaluation we have decided that we will
certainly repeat such sales, perhaps
every 6 months, so please keep an
eye out for our next one.
I feel it gave most of our members
enthusiasm to holiday there as the only
thing that you usually hear from the
island is the big T.T. Races, but I can
assure you there is a lot more of
interest including very nice beaches.
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Someone recently stopped taking the
magazine because there are "too many
adverts". Yes there are a few, but I
make no apology for this. You don't
have to look at the adverts if you don't
want to, although I hope that
sometimes they are useful. They also
bring in useful income which not only
helps keep the magazine finances in
good order, but keeps the subscription
cost down and, in the last two years,
has enabled us to contribute well over
£2,000 to ailing church finances.
Editor
SHOULD BELLRINGERS BE PAID
DANGER MONEY?
Thanks especially go to Jennifer Chow
and Vicki Briand for helping set up the
event, advertising and selling of tables.
I had never rung bells before until my
wife and I visited the Swan Bell Tower
in Perth, Western Australia. This
modern tower is home to 18 bells.
Jan Hayden
Events Committee Chair.
Twelve of the set are historic bells from
St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in
Trafalgar Square in London; six others,
cast in recent times by the Whitechapel
Bell Foundry, round off the set. The St.
Martin-in-the-Fields bells were donated
to the State of Western Australia as
part of the 1988 Australian bicentenary
celebrations; the additional bells were
cast with a subsequent donation of
metals mined in Western Australia.
COVER PICTURE
This month's front cover picture is of
lathyrus latifolius or perennial peavine.
It is a herbaceous vine closely related
to the annual sweet pea. The
interesting thing is that it is not in
evidence for a good part of the year
and then suddenly appears as if by
magic. Although very colourful, unlike
the annual sweet pea, it does not have
any scent.
The six newer bells include five that
were presented to the University of
Western Australia, the City of Perth
and to the people of Western Australia
by the City of London, the City of
Westminster and a consortium of
British
and
Australian
mining
companies, and one bell was
commissioned
by
the
Western
Australian Government.
It is as a result of our new advertiser,
PJ Home Improvements, that colour
covers are assured for the remainder of
the year. Having a colour page is still
quite expensive and the advertiser is
helping to subsidise the cost.
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in casualty three times and two of
those were due to bell ringing, the
other being when the clapper broke
free and sent him soaring upwards with
the friction from the rope burning his
hands in the process.
I think the lesson here is that these
things have to be treated with respect. I
take my hat off (well I would if I had
one) to our bell ringers.
Editor
THE DEAN'S CHALLENGE
Throughout June and July the Dean,
Peter Atkinson, is cycling 1000km
throughout Normandy in support of
Friends of Worcester Cathedral.
The Swan Bell Tower, Perth WA
The Dean will follow the route taken in
1897 by a famous English clergyman,
Percy Dearmer, who was a follower of
Ruskin and Morris, and a friend of
Woodbine Willie and Lord Beauchamp.
It was here that we were given handson experience at ringing the bells. I
think I then realised that this activity is
actually very hard work and not for
wimps.
However, there is a double challenge,
one for the Dean to complete his cycle
ride, and one for the Friends, because
for every kilometre sponsored it is
hoped that a new Friend will be
recruited.
A former colleague of mine who has
been ringing been bells at Kempsey
Parish church for over 40 years was
recently involved in an accident whilst
ringing. Apparently he was giving
someone else some tuition when the
little finger on his left hand became
entangled in the rope. He thought he
had just cut his finger and went to suck
the blood off it when someone spotted
the top inch of his finger lying on the
floor. He hadn't realised that the rope
had acted as a guillotine and taken the
top off his finger. It would have been a
bit of trouble to try and sew it back on
so he has decided he can live without
it.
Peter says:
“The Friends of Worcester Cathedral is
an excellent organisation, founded in
the 1930’s to raise funds for the
Cathedral. One of their earliest
members was Sir Edward Elgar, who
conducted so much of his music in the
Cathedral at the Three Choirs Festival.
“Today the Friends number about 700,
but we could do with more members.
So I have challenged the Friends to
recruit new Friends, by giving away
one year’s membership at a discounted
He recounted to me that in his 65+
years on this planet he has only been
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rate of £10 (it’s usually £15) for every
kilometre I cycle in France. My target is
a thousand kilometres, which means
that the Friends’ target is a thousand
new Friends. I am glad to say the
Friends are responding splendidly, and
many new Friends have already been
recruited.”
It is now in need of urgent repair, and
to fund this the Cathedral is offering the
opportunity to have your initials carved
for posterity on one of the new stones
which will be needed to restore it. The
cost of immortality begins at £50 per
stone. Donors will also have a
dedication inscribed in a ledger to be
placed in the historic Cathedral Library
for future generations.
Recruiting 1,000 new friends will raise
£10,000 and this money will contribute
towards the repair of the Edgar Tower,
first built by King John.
With regular careful maintenance, the
Cathedral authorities expect your stone
to last another 700 years. For more
information, please contact Rebecca
Fielder in the Cathedral’s Development
Office:01905732902
To find out about becoming a Friend or
to simply sponsor Peter’s cycle ride,
please
visit www.worcestercathedral.co.uk
rebeccafielder@worcestercathedral.org.uk
WHEN A VICAR WON WIMBLEDON
EDGAR TOWER
MAKE YOUR MARK CAMPAIGN
“Lawn Tennis,” wrote J.B. Priestley, “is
a name with the mildest associations. It
suggests a companion pastime to
croquet, a late-Victorian thing, bright
with petticoats and delicately clouded
with curates.”
Edgar Tower, the gateway onto
College Green, stands on the site of
the original monastery gatehouse. A
former tower on the site was reputedly
commissioned by King John in 1204.
So it seemed with the development of
Wimbledon’s All England Lawn Tennis
Club from its beginnings in 1869 as a
Croquet Club, at which “Gentlemen are
requested not to play in their shirt
sleeves when ladies are present.”
However, with the addition of tennis
courts to the grounds, the new game
gained ascendency, and the first
Wimbledon Tennis Championships
took place in 1877.
Over its long history it has been a
defensive bulwark against unruly mobs,
a prison, a home, a schoolroom (up to
the present day), a jail and home for
Cathedral officials, including the
monastery "janitor" or door-keeper.
It was at the third tournament of 1879
that the Rev J.T. Hartley, vicar of
Burneston in Yorkshire, won the AllComers Gentlemen’s Singles out of an
entry of 45 competitors at Wimbledon,
and repeated the feat the following
year.
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THE WAY I SEE IT:
OUR SERVANT QUEEN
On the middle Sunday of the
tournament, he was obliged to dash
back to Yorkshire to deliver his church
sermon before returning once again to
complete his triumph at the All-England
Club.
The whole country will this month be
celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday.
She has splendidly fulfilled the promise
made on her 21st birthday and when
her father, King George VI, died she
came to the throne at the age of 25.
She dedicated ‘the rest of my life,
whether it be long or short’ to the
service of the nation and the
Commonwealth. She has certainly
proved that she meant what she said.
Hers is already the longest reign of any
British monarch.
Never again was a clergyman to win
Wimbledon. (Though in their dreams I
am sure many clergy have appeared in
the final a number of times!)
Those years have seen huge changes
in the world: the end of apartheid in
South Africa, the transition of scores of
countries to independence within the
Commonwealth, the advent of space
exploration and men on the moon, the
arrival of the computer and the internet,
social media, Twitter and so on.
Through it all she has remained a calm,
reassuring figure, head of state to 12
different prime ministers and leader of
a resilient and growing Commonwealth
of Nations.
Many of the early players were highly
idiosyncratic. In the 1921 quarter-finals
Randolph Lycett was playing Zenzo
Shimidzu on one of the hottest days in
memory. During the third set, Lycett
had to be revived with gin every time
he changed ends. In the fifth set,
muzzy and staggering, he ordered a
bottle of Champagne to be brought out
onto the Centre Court, and he
consumed the last drop of it as the
umpire called, “Shimidzu leads by nine
games to eight in the final set.” The
gallery hardly knew whether to object
or sympathise when Lycett dropped his
racket, and then on hands and knees
crawled round in search of it. To most
people’s relief, Shimidzu won the
match.
The Queen has quietly moved with the
times. Her rather tortured ‘royal’ accent
of the forties and fifties has broadened
into a quietly spoken Received English.
Uneasy about it at first, she has made
herself an effective performer on
television and through it all she has
openly acknowledged that her own
Christian faith is the bedrock of all that
she is and has done. In recent years
she has been more willing to talk about
that faith, notably in her Christmas
messages.
Today a Bosnian, Novak Djokovic, as
world’s Number One, leads a dazzling
array of players who - almost
universally - see Wimbledon as ‘the big
W’ - that can seemingly make a man or
woman immortal.
To mark her 90th birthday, the Bible
Society has published an attractive
illustrated book The Servant Queen,
setting out, largely in her own words,
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the essential heart of that faith. The
Queen herself has written a Foreword.
The aim of the publishers is that the
book should be widely distributed, so
that people up and down her kingdom
can share her evident enjoyment of a
committed Christian faith. It’s subtitle is
‘And the King she serves ‘. As
advertisers say, ‘every home should
have one’.
factory and terraced houses in the
entrance road. The thoroughfare was
later closed by Act of Parliament and
replaced with a railway siding which
ran from Lowesmoor to Shrub Hill
Station. As recently as the last century
the railway crossed the main Shrub Hill
Road and traffic had to stop to give
way to railway engines, but instead of
traffic lights they had a railway signal in
the roadway.
The Servant Queen is available from
the Bible Society in packs of ten for
£10,
or
singly.
Go
to:
https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/landing/
servantqueen/
HILL EVANS VINEGAR WORKS
I have just seen in the local freebie that
the HOPE Church has submitted a
planning application to convert "The
Granary", part of the former Hill Evans
Vinegar Works into a church,
community centre and cafe. Good luck
to the plan that could see new life
breathed into a derelict Victorian
building.
The casks of vinegar were then loaded
on wagons and despatched to Park
Royal in London for distribution to
distant lands.
As a sideline Hill Evans and Co
produced wine, sherry and port. You
could buy a bottle of sherry for half a
crown. Those were the days!
Messrs Hill Evans business started in
the Lowesmoor area of Worcester in
1830 and became the largest vinegar
manufacturer in the world with two
million gallons being exported across
the globe to the four corners of the
earth.
THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD IN THE
WORLD
They had the largest vat in the world,
which was capable of holding 114,821
gallons of vinegar. They had a large
skilled staff of coopers who constructed
and repaired the barrels in which the
vinegar was transported in bulk to
suppliers in the trade.
In late 2008 Joff Summerfield returned
home after spending two-and-a-half
years cycling around the world on a
penny-farthing he built himself. Rather
than resume his former career as a
Formula One race engine builder, he
began to make penny-farthings for a
living in a London workshop. But
ultimately he wanted to get back on the
road and in June 2014 he set off to ride
Originally there was a thoroughfare
running through the centre of the
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the world again, beginning by riding
through the Americas. Once again, he
chose to ride his penny-farthing.
Joff's latest tour started in Toronto but
ended prematurely in Ecuador 120
miles south of Quito. He was tied up at
gunpoint and robbed. They took almost
everything bar the bike, tent, sleeping
bag and the clothes he was wearing.
After four years in total on the road this
is the first time that something like this
has happened.
"Penny-farthings aren't particularly
practical, comfortable, easy to ride or,
let's be honest, efficient," Joff
acknowledged, "but are a whole lot of
fun. The most useful thing about the
penny is the doors that it opens.
Everyone seems to love the bike, and
when they discover that you're
travelling on it they seem to get the
whole crazy idea. If I had a pound for
every photo that has been taken of the
bike I would be a rich man."
Despite this, his 18 month trip had
many highlights. "there were so many
that it's hard to pinpoint just a few. Zion
National Park was stunning. It was
great to meet and ride with a lot of
fellow cycle tourists. You meet so many
wonderful people you sometimes forget
that a tiny percentage are evil," he
said.
The penny-farthing might be Victorian
technology, but he has added a
dynamo in the rear wheel from which
he can run a USB socket for charging
satellite navigation equipment and
cameras. He also has a solar panel on
the back to charge a slave battery to
keep his cameras topped up. He aims
to ride 40 miles a day and can do this
day after day as long as the road is
fairly flat, of good surface and at sea
level.
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GREAT WITLEY OPERATIC SOCIETY
Concert 2016
All this will take place at
Saint George’s Church, Saint
George’s Square, Barbourne,
Worcester
2.30pm
Saturday June 25th 2016
Tickets £10 each, inclusive of
Afternoon Tea, to be purchased in
advance, from Pat Bosworth on 01905
422789
Dietary needs are catered for.
This is a ticket only event
Following the recent success of their
production of Carmen, GWOS are
delighted to present an elegant
afternoon with the musical delights of:
‘The Romance of Novello’ with an
Afternoon Tea
Close harmony singing of such lush
music including ‘Waltz of my Heart’,
‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’, ‘We'll
Gather Lilacs’ and ‘Shine Through my
Dreams’, will take all the stresses away
of such a busy lifestyle, followed by a
beautifully presented Afternoon Tea.
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Special evenings for groups of ladies can be arranged.
Gift vouchers available
Stockist of Mavala and Decléor Products.
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Wishing Well Nursery - Claines
Before & After School Clubs
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Flexible childcare for all ages - Ofsted approved
Free Nursery Education Places available
Open 7.45am. - 5.45pm.
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