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Come and visit me,
Nicky Baber
At my pop up Tea rooms.
In Poulshot Village Hall.
Thursday the 12th and 26th of October 2017
2-5pm.
Cream teas, cake, Tea, coffee and more cake.
Hope to see you.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness; not yet, more like hurricanes and storms , and
batten down the hatches , not just in America but here also.
Where has the summer gone ? The holiday seems a distant memory and in our case a
very good one with several celebrations, but the children are now back at school and as
someone said to me the other day, it is time to get a bit of structure back in our lives. I
feel like that with my church observances. During the summer, its lovely to visit other
churches whether in this country or abroad, but now I feel ready to fall back into the
pattern of things. Soon it will be time for our harvest festivals, (8th October Poulshot)
very important times in the rural church, and all those marrows will be safely gathered in
, and offered up I expect. Its amazing to think that whilst half the world is suffering from
storms and floods and hurricanes , so many people do not have access to clean water,
and so in Seend water bottles full of pennies are being collected for Water Aid. If
anyone in Poulshot would like to add to that, I’m sure that Seend church would be
delighted, and not least because the name of our benefice is now Wellsprings
At the time of writing, the world seems a very difficult and depressing place with horrid
threats coming out of North Korea , and once again so many refugees fleeing their
homelands , this time from Myanmar . When we say our prayers in church sometimes
we don’t know where to begin, but something special happened to me this morning as I
was going to say morning prayer. There in the porch in Keevil church, above the central
light , was a little nest of housemartins, and peeking out from it were two little heads.
When we came out from church, they had gone, flown, who knows where. What a
fabulous example of hope and faith in the future. I’m not sure whether they will come
back to the same nest next year; perhaps someone out there will tell me, but they have
shown what it is to be alive. They have faith in the future and have gone out to find the
world.
Now that might all sound a bit sentimental, and far fetched , but its in these little
observations that we can find hope for the future. God showed himself and goes on
showing himself in the beauty of his creation. We cry out in the storms of life whether
metaphorical or physical, and he/she responds with the still small voice, and that voice
says “You are all my creation and I love you”.
So don’t be depressed; go out into the countryside and notice the way nature is
preparing for the future, for the hard times of winter.. There’s a lovely children’s hymn
which sums it up for me.
Autumn days when the grass is jeweled and the silk inside a chestnut shell.
Jet planes meeting in the air to get refueled , all these things I love so well,
so I musn’t forget, no I musn’t forget to say a great big thank you, I musn’t forget.
So, faith hope and love and the greatest of them all is love.
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The year of the Duck family
The moorhens had built a nest on the water lilies in the big pond and hatched one baby (we called
it the ugly duckling!) By 25th May, the young ducklings had now started to use the big pond, so
war was declared by the moorhens , but Duck was having non of it and fought back and won! Duck
and her young had more or less wrecked the Moorhens nest, so they built a new one and promptly
laid 3 more eggs of which only one hatched. On June 15th, at just four weeks old, mother and
babies started to disappear in the late afternoon, we discovered the duck had decided to remove
them from our garden for the night and returning in the morning, by as most of you will know
waddling up and down the pavement and roads of the village. I followed them as they zigzagged
up the road from one side to
the other, shepherding them
and trying to flag down the
faster cars, (as recommended
by the duck website!) I think
quite a few of us did this when
they were on the move! they
went up to the pond at Planks
dairy, and I understand from
Kate Hunloke they went on to
the Rectory and then onto the
green to the Major's pond in the
corner and then back again, I
expect some of you will know
where else they went!!!
June 22nd a single duck appeared in
the morning with no ducklings, so we
assumed that they had fledged, but
no! on the 23rd June duck plus 5
arrived back again, they had learnt to
flap their wings and try to take off, but
they were obviously not yet strong
enough to fly . Mother duck was not
seen again after 21st July, so the
journey up and down the road
continued without her, with the
dominant duckling taking the lead.
They were visiting intermittently until
29th July when the ducklings visited
leaving our drive at 7.30pm and it
was to be their last journey up the
road and did not return to us again.
Although I was very sad to see them
go, I think we all hope that they have
flown off join the ducks on the Crammer or the canal.
The duck was an amazing mother. She managed to rear all 5 ducklings (all drakes) through all
the horrors of traffic, cats, foxes, and buzzards. It was an enjoyable time and a privilege for all of
us to watch them grow. Roll on next year and maybe mother duck will be back with another
brood !!
TONY PARSONS