October 2003
Churchwardens: Mrs. J. H. Mannings, Mr. J. R. Wyld
Tuesday 28th October 2003 is the Feast Day of St Simon & St Jude, Apostles.
Very little is known about these two saints in the New Testament, apart from their names being included in the list of Apostles.
The aspects of their lives I am highlighting in this article are concerned with the closeness of family relationship that they have with Jesus. In September 2000 I wrote an article on St Matthew and included the following statement and quote:
I think we need to realize the fact that Jesus was related to many of his disciples. Matthew may have been a first cousin of Jesus, as were his brother James the Younger, together with James and John, the sons of Zebedee. Ronald Brownrigg makes this point in his book 'The Twelve Apostles', "The significance of family relationship in Jewish thinking and its influence on the foundation and progress of the Christian movement has not yet been fully grasped. The fact that the first leader of the Christian Church in Jerusalem was not one of the apostles, not even Peter himself, but James 'the brother of the Lord' is a remarkable indication of what a family affair the beginning of Christianity was." (p.89).
Virginia Raguin has written an article entitled "The Holy Kinship" which tells of the tradition surrounding the extended family of Jesus. I offer it here as a pointer to our own thoughts on the subject, printed by her kind permission.
"The Holy Kinship refers to the extended family of Jesus descended from His grandmother St. Anne. According to popular legend, five of the twelve apostles were actually related to Christ. The Virgin Mary had two half-sisters, Mary Cleopas and Mary Salome, who bore St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. James the Greater, and St. John the Evangelist. Therefore these apostles were Jesus's cousins. The holy women often referred to in the Gospels were identified as his aunts. Their familial relationship was celebrated as the Holy Kinship and emphasized the political/familial ties that were essential to late medieval life.
St. Anne, married to St. Joachim, was without child for several years. At this time, the Jews construed barrenness to be a punishment from God, therefore once when Joachim went to the Temple to sacrifice with the men of his tribe, he was rebuked by the high priest who saw Joachim as cursed by God's law and therefore unfit to offer a sacrifice. Seeking the desert in his despair Joachim was visited by an angel who told him he would give birth to a daughter, Mary, who would bare the Son of God. At the same time, an angel appeared to Anne and gave her a similar message. When Joachim returned home, Anne conceived and eventually gave birth. Catholic tradition believes that Mary alone out of all mankind was conceived without original sin.
Soon after Mary was dedicated at the Temple, Joachim died. According to Jewish custom, his brother, Cleopas then took Anne to be his wife. Again a daughter was born and again she was named Mary Cleopas. When afterwards he died, his brother Salomas took Anne as a wife. Another daughter, Mary Salome, was born to them. Mary was betrothed to Joseph when she conceived Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit and she is believed to have perpetually retained her virginity. Her half-sisters were respectively wed to Alpheus and Zebedee. Mary Cleopas gave birth to four sons, three of which numbered among Christ's Apostles: St. James the Less, St. Simon, and St. Jude. Likewise Mary Salome bore two future Apostles: St. James the Greater and St. John the Evangelist. Not only were five of the twelve apostles related to Christ by blood, the three Marys appear in the Gospel accounts of the resurrection. Included among the cousins of Christ is St. John the Baptist, who was born of St. Elizabeth, the daughter of St. Anne's sister, Hismeria."
Hugh Bonsey
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CHURCH NEWS On Sunday, 31st August we held another of our special Children’s Services. Again it was well attended even though it was still holiday time. The children walked from St Julian’s Well to the church with stories and games on the way. At the church there was a short service when parents and friends joined them. They showed us things they had found on the way leaves, flowers etc even oranges! The service finished with everyone joining hands in a circle and singing "He’s Got The Whole World in his Hands". We then went to the North Field for a picnic tea. The weather was kind to us and we all had a lovely afternoon. Our thanks to everyone who organised this event it was well worth it, and we look forward to the next one. Churchwardens
WELLOW CHRISTMAS CARDS Christmas cards sold in aid of St. Julian’s Church, will be on sale in the Parlour Shop in early November. This year the card shows a picture of the church in the snow approached from the west gate. The cards will sell at £2.75 for ten. The cards have sold very well over the last couple of years, and the card this year is delightful. Jill Tremellen 833506
WELLOW PARISH COUNCIL held a monthly meeting on Monday, 15th September at 8 pm in the Village Hall, attended by all councillors, Gitte Dawson and nine interested parishioners.
The street at Weavers Farm development is to be called Weavers Orchard. Thank you for all your suggestions.
Gitte Dawson referred to a recent press release from B&NES concerning admissions to rural schools. At present all brothers and sisters of existing pupils automatically get places in a school regardless of how far away from the school they live. Local ward members and parents are concerned that their village school will not have enough room for their children because places are going to siblings of existing pupils, who live a long way away.
Work has been done to the entrance of the car park at bottom of Station Road. It will be easier to get there.
More pressure to be put on B&NES to fulfil their promise that Wellow would have a 20 mph speed limit this year.
There was very little response regarding the vacancy for the position of Parish Clerk. Someone must be willing to do this interesting job.
New planning applications considered were:
i) App 03/01344/Ful by Mr and Mrs Halle, Oxleaze, Wellow re materials to be used for single storey extension and extension of conservatory.
ii) App 03/01904/FUL by Mrs M K Pitt, Middle Twinhoe Cottage for rear conservatory.
iii) App 03/02000/Ful and 03/02166/LBA by Mr and Mrs Banks, The Glebe, Wellow for two storey rear extension and veranda with glazed roof.
iv) App 03/02030/FUL by A L Brooks re use of field to park six cars at Stoney Littleton.
Permitted Decisions Received
i) App 03/01344/FUL by Mr and Mrs Wilkins for retention of use of building for livery stables.
ii) App 03/01398/FUL by Mr Hawkins, Canteen Lane for rear conservatory.
iii) App 03/01573/VAR by A G Phillips & Son to extend timescale at landfill.
iv) App WB 1600/W by Mr and Mrs Horler re conversion and extension of two barns to provide two dwellings and alterations to The Batch.
v) The application for building at Fullers Earthworks, Folly Down, has been turned down by the Secretary of State.
vi) Footpath BA 25/14 which passes through a parishioners garden to be deleted.
Next meeting will be held in the village hall on Monday, 20th October at 8 pm
ST JULIAN’S PRIMARY SCHOOL At the beginning of my third year as Headteacher of St Julian's School, we have 101 pupils on roll and also welcome two new teachers to the staff: Leah Wiltshire is full-time in Class 3 and Martine Duggan takes Class 4 for 3 days per week. Tracy Soccorsy is still with us, teaching Class 4 for two afternoons per week, whilst Sue Rodford remains in Class 1 and Karen Cook in Class 2. An excellent team this year - we are all really enthusiastic and positive about the year ahead. We are currently raising money for Action for the Blind with our Guess the Height of the Sunflower Competition and half the proceeds will be spent on new play equipment. We have new links with Barnardo's Family Centre who are sending a play worker once a week to help us with lunchtime play and have also granted us cash to refurbish an old shed to use for play equipment. The new Multi-Sensory Play Garden was cleared in the summer holidays and the landscaping is now well under way. All are most welcome to join us for our Harvest Festival Service at on Friday, October 3rd at 2.00 pm in St Julian's Church, but don't be surprised to see most of us wearing jeans on the day, in support of the charity Jeans for Genes. Extra curricular activities have now reached an all time high with more clubs than ever before and on every day of the week! Clubs include: Football, ICT, Netball, Arts, Gym, Pop-up Books, Spanish, Hand Bells, Cricket, Orchestra, Recorders, Choir and Chamber Choir. Finally, we now have two beautifully painted Friendship Benches - one in the main playground and one in the paddock. These benches help the children to spot others who may not be having a happy playtime and enable them to do something about it. We're still in the novelty phase, but it does seem to be working well. Sarah Jones
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD Last year gift filled shoeboxes were sent to 1,185,318 children in East European Countries. In most cases the shoebox is the only gift that these children receive at Christmas. If you would like to fill a shoe box this Christmas please use the O.C.C. leaflet which gives clear instructions, and deliver the box to me by 10th November, I will see that the boxes reach the collection points. The school too will, as usual, be collecting O.C.C. boxes. Jill Tremellen
LUNCH CLUB
Thursday, October 23rd at 1 pm in the Village Hall is the date to put in your diary for this month's lunch. Hope to see you there. Janet Earp and Marian Osborne 832561
VILLAGE HALL NEWS Everyone seems to like the newly refurbished kitchen – thank goodness! Abandoning wild dreams of Lottery money has taken a weight off our minds and we are looking forward to spending some of the funds raised over the years on other improvements to the existing structure. There are a number of ideas about what to do next. We hope lots of you will come along to the AGM on 13th October at 7.30 pm with your own opinions about how the Hall should be given a new lease of life.
POPPY APPEAL Poppies on behalf of the appeal by the Royal British Legion will go on sale on 25th October. Sometime between then and the 8th November there will be a house-to-house collection as well as poppies available from the Village Shop. Last year £293 was collected in the village. You might reasonably ask why this appeal deserves your support. Last year the Legion spent over £41m caring for ex-servicemen and women and their dependants. The RBL runs a number of residential care and convalescent homes, provides advice on pensions, assists ex-servicemen to find employment and provides holidays for severely disabled people. Many ex-servicemen and dependants from WW2, the Falklands and Gulf wars, Korea, Bosnia and now Iraq, to mention only the main theatres of operations, need help. Please help us help them.
A number of kind people assist in the village collection but if anyone else would care to help please contact me. Colin Tremellen 833506
FROM THE PAST
The Will of Anne Skidmore of Whiteoxmead, widow, in the parish of Wellow, 11th March 1632
To the church of Wellow, 6s 8d, to the Poor of Wellow 20d.
To my daughter Elinor Lansdowne one pair of sheets and a coverlet. To Giles Hicks, son of my daughter Rebecca, three pounds six shillings and eight pence when 21.
To Mary and Ann Skidmore, daughters of my son George Skidmore, deceased, £3 6s 8d apiece when 18.
If these three children die under age their bequests to Thomas Skidmore, son of George Skidmore, deceased.
To son Thomas Skidmore the furnace in the kitchen, one diaper table, table cloth, brass pan, one feather bolster, one bed, one flock bed with feather bolster, long table board with great chest, one forge in Great Parlour, my brass pot, one great pan, my gilt covered drinking cup, my gilt salt cellar, one yoke with an iron ploughrope, a drag and paire, the residue of all my cattel and chattels not given or bequeathed, my wearing apparel, wool and linen excepted, which my will is shall be equally divided between Elinor Lansdowne and Sarah Lansdowne whom I make my sole executrix.
Overseers: My well beloved friends Edward Middlecott, John Collins, Richard Lansdowne and my son Thomas Skidmore.
Anne died in May 1636, and an inventory of the house was made, but that’s another story.
Gordon Hewlett
WELLOW’S GRAND QUIZ This will be on Friday, November 21st at 8.00 pm at the Village Hall. Teams should consist of four persons (or less) and entrance fee is £2.00 per person.
There will be a cash bar and, we hope, a raffle.
Please get your team (s) together as early as possible as there could be a cut-off point if entries are too high for the size of the hall. (Who’s kidding who?!).
I have to tell you that I was going to announce at the quiz that it would be the last quiz that I would be preparing and hosting. However, I happened to mention this while talking to Shirley Betts who, as you know, usually persuades me to organize a quiz for the Horticultural Society each spring, and Shirley said that she was willing to put the questions together if I would be willing to continue to be quizmaster. This seemed to be a great compromise and I am very pleased that Shirley came up with the idea.
So – you’ve still got me for the foreseeable future!
I look forward to hearing from you, to enter your reams(s) or for any information you may require.
Alan Taylor (Your genial inquisitor) 837894
WELLOW FLOWER SHOW Once again on behalf of the Wellow & District Horticultural I should like to take this opportunity to say a big THANK YOU to all those individuals who helped and supported the Flower Show. To everyone who gave up his or her time before during and after the show, also to those people kind enough to help run the numerous stalls and side shows so often the hardest task while the show is on. All the villagers who kindly gave raffle prizes and bottles/produce for the various side shows. Finally to all the exhibitors who took time out to enter numerous entries, and according to the judges a very high standard was achieved in Wellow. WELL DONE. The amount that was taken at the flower show has not be finalised as yet, but after taking out expenses and donations the final figure will be around a profit of £400. The full list of accounts will be available at the AGM in November. Shirley Betts (Flower Show Secretary)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS. MANY THANKS TO EVERONE
PRIZEWINNERS
WELLOW & DISTRICT CHALLENGE CUP Vegetables (Members) R.Tyte
PARTICK HARTLEY MEMORIAL SALVER (5 Vegetables) Alex Martin Wellow
PARISH CUP Vegetables (Open classes) Alex Martin Wellow
SPECIAL PRIZE (CLASS 19) (Collection of Vegetables) Alex Martin Wellow
SPECIAL PRIZE Alex Martin Wellow
NOVELTY/ Vegetable (Open Class) Mr. R.Tyte P.S.John
EGG CLASS (Open Class) Rosiland MacDonald Wellow
WELLOW DISTRICT CUP Flowers (Members only) Alec Hewitt Claverton
SOCIETYS’S CUP Flowers (Open Classes) Mr. B. Wilkes Newbury
LARGEST SUN FLOWER James Earp Wellow
FLORAL ART (Open Classes) Margaret Layzell Wellow
COMBE HAY CUP (Cookery) Bridget Barrett
SPECIAL PRIZE MENS ONLY CLASS David Halewood Wellow
WINE Alec Hewitt Claverton
SPECIAL PRIZE Alec Hewitt Claverton
THE ROYAL BANKSIAN MEDAL (For the Exhibitor with the highest total of points in the Horticultural Section) Vegetables/Fruit/Flowers Alex Martin Wellow
JUNIOR CLASSES
AGE 14-16
WELLOW JUNIOR CUP Judith Watts Wellow
THE RITTNER JUNIOR ART CUP Judith Watts Wellow
AGE 11-13
CHAIRMAN’S TROPHY Elliot Davis Wellow
HANDWRITING Oskar Newland St Julian’s School
AGE 9-10
HALES JUNIOR TROPHY James Kruk
HANDWRITING Emily Preater St Julian’s School
AGE 7-8
THE FAIRFIELD CUP Isobel Halewood Wellow
HANDWRITING Isobel Halewood Wellow
AGE 5-6
THE SOCIETY’S SHIELD Barnaby Wheeler Wellow
HANDWRITING Oscar Davis Wellow AGE 4 AND UNDER
SUE RODFORD TROPHY Rosie Wright Wellow
JUNIOR GARDENING CLUB SHIELD Isobel Twose Wellow
WELLOW & DISTRICT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
Talk - Plants for Difficult Places - By Daniele Altieri
on Thursday, 23rd October in Wellow Village Hall. We are
thrilled to welcome Daniele, a garden designer living in Box, once again.
On his last visit he gave a very inspiring talk and informative slide
presentation on Garden Design. We are sure that most people will benefit
enormously from this new talk, so do also bring along any questions on
those difficult planting places that you have in your garden. Come at 7.15
pm for tea/coffee and chat for a start at 7.30 pm. Members free,
non-members welcome £1.
(NB. this date is a change to the one printed in the last Hort. Soc.
Newsletter)
Treasurer Wanted Joyce Morphew will be leaving this
position on the committee soon after many years doing a great job. If any
reasonably well organised person is interested in taking over and
attending meetings, which are usually congenial and interesting, then
please get in touch with either Joyce Tel: 01225 833947 or Secretary
Shirley Betts Tel: 01225 833683. Please note no horticultural knowledge is
necessary!
Junior Gardening Club The next gathering will be on
Sunday, 19th October when we will be going on a trip to
Westonbirt Arboretum to see the Autumn colours and collect leaves and
cones etc. Contact Lisa Leyzell-Davis for further information Tel: 01225
309007. Mari Bartholomew
Willow Weaving Workshop on Thursday, 23rd
October, Priston Village Hall, 9.30 am – 5 pm.
Come along to this enjoyable workshop, for the beginner and experienced
alike, and learn a traditional skill. Make a basket, create a garden plant
support or even try your hand at willow sculpture. Places are limited, due
to the nature of the workshop with one to one tuition from an expert
teacher, to a maximum of 7 people, so it is advisable to book ASAP. The
cost is £35 to include all materials and drinks. Lunch will be 'to
share'.
To Book A Place: send a cheque, in full, (which is refundable up to 2 weeks before the start date of the course, and after that, if there is a replacement person), made payable to:- A. Southwell and send to; Mari Bartholomew, The Hollies, Mill Hill, Wellow, Bath BA2 8QJ. For further information please phone Andy 01761432 884 or Mari 01225 840889.
Christmas Willow Workshop will be on Friday, 14th November. We are also taking bookings for this workshop when we will be making decorations and gifts with a wide variety of smaller items to choose from.
WELLOW UNITED Well done Wellow - Thank you for all your support in the post flower show disco. It happened and from your enthusiastic feedback we believe that a good time was had by all. We owe the Horticultural Society many thanks for taking on the extra work, so please give Shirley Betts a "high five" for her service beyond the call of duty and her relentless positive attitude. Thank you Shirley, Colin Tremellen and all the other "Horts".
Thank you to Eric, Susanne and team, thank you baby-sitters and thank you to any non-dancing residents for your tolerance.
Whilst we await final invoices and outstanding pledges, we can safely say that the potential donation to the W&D.H.S. is looking healthy and if all those disco queens & kings come through with a donation, we are hoping to direct the excess to the "old clapper" replacement fund.
Let's wrap this up in time for the next newsletter to enable accounts to be outlined
Please leave outstanding donations (in labelled envelopes please) @ Parlour Shop, Foxleaze or Greenhayes. Cheques payable to "Wellow & District Horticultural Society.
Let us know your comments & suggestions for a 2004 event??
Best regards & thanks once again,
Jackie Halle & Alistair Colston
WE DROPPED A CLANGER
Well you've done it! Following our appeal in the July newsletter many villagers and others have donated, with the help of Gift Aid from the taxman, in excess of £1000 to cover the full cost of providing a new clapper for the tenor bell at St. Julian's Church.
What a magnificent response and on behalf of the bell ringers may I say "THANK YOU" for your generosity and good wishes.
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London is currently manufacturing the new clapper and delivery is anticipated by late September or early October. Once fitted by our tower keepers, Gordon Hewlett and Geoff Pike, you will once again hear the resonant sound of all six bells on a Friday evening and Sunday morning. We were truly overwhelmed with the kindness shown and trust our bell ringing will continue to improve and bear a harmonious witness to the spirit of our village. Thank you Richard Holland
WELLOW W.I. The next meeting of the W.I. will be on Thursday, 9th October at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall. The speaker will be Mr Coles, he will be talking about Sausage making. There will be a Bring and Buy sale. Refreshments will be served and visitors are very welcome. Pam Brigden
NEWSLETTER Please may I have all copy for the Newsletter by 20th October. It can be left in the shop or delivered to me at St. Julian’s Well. If you miss the deadline give me a ring it may not be too late. If you have email that would be very helpful. Thank you very much.
Jill Tremellen 833506 email julians.well@virgin.net