2015-10

October/November 2015 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD

WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church, 

Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed 

to over 5,000 homes in S8. 

St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of 

Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about 

St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church 

office on 0114 274 5086. 

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House 

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Church & 

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Office 

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Despite never having been very good at maths, 

numbers hold a fascination for me. They are, on 

the one hand, an entirely human invention, and 

at the same time there seems something eternal 

about them as though they are built into the very 

fabric of the universe. Words, said TS Eliot, slip, slide, 

perish and decay with imprecision, but numbers appear 

to be rather more solid. 

Except, of course, numbers are rarely as clear cut as 

they seem. A popular programme on Radio 4 is ‘More 

or Less’ which seeks to pull apart the various statistics 

made by the media or the government and show that 

what is an easily quotable headline fi gure is often far 

more complicated and skewed by bias. A billion can 

mean two different numbers - one with nine zeros after 

it or one with 12. The precise value of Pi will forever 

remain unknown. 

We live at a time when precision is greatly valued. Our lives are 

dominated by values of one sort or another. Our BMI will tell us whether 

we are overweight or obese, even though there are many factors that 

determine our weight. The decennial census demands ever more 

information from us. Polls, which rarely take a sample of more than 

2,000 people, tell us how as a nation we think and act. Our store loyalty 

cards keep a plethora of data on us which is then used for bespoke 

marketing. In the cult 1960s fi lm The Prisoner, the eponymous hero 

famously declares “I am not a number, I am a free man”. Today we could 

easily claim that we are many numbers. It’s a moot point as to whether 

these numbers free or enslave us. 

The development of numeracy and mathematics was one of the 

key stages in the growth of human civilisation. It is through our 

understanding of mathematics that science becomes possible, that 

architecture is more than mud huts and that all the accoutrements of 

modern life that we take for granted are available. Numbers should be 

our servants and not our masters, but too often they become sources 

of anxiety or obsession. Oscar Wilde once defi ned a cynic as someone 

who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. Perhaps we 

are in danger now of knowing the value of everything and the meaning 

of nothing. A bank account is nothing but a fl uctuating set of 

digits unless we use our fi nances with meaning. We can 

catalogue and place values upon so many aspects of our 

lives, but if we are unhappy then what do these values 

mean? 

Jesus asks what it profi ts a man if he gains the whole 

world but loses his soul? We might add that it is the 

things that can’t be measured that ultimately provide the 

meaning that we crave. 

Rev Toby Hole, 

Vicar, St Chad’s Church, Woodseats 

Making it Count 


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After a maths 

test, the teacher 

called Billy over 

to his desk and 

said, “Billy, I 

think you’ve been 

cheating. The first 

question was, 

‘What is 25 times 

by 4?’ and Mary, 

who sits next to 

you put 100, and 

so did you.” 

“So, everyone 

knows that 

answer,” said 

Billy. 

“Yes,” said the 

teacher, “But the 

second question 

said ‘What is 300 

divided by 5?’ and 

Mary put ‘I don’t 

know,’ and you 

put, ‘Me neither’!” 

Why did the pony cough? 

Because he was a little horse! 

Why did the scientist insist he 

had a knocker on his front door? 

Because he wanted to win the 

No-bell prize! 

“I missed it. Which one came first?” 

Did you hear about the two 

aerials which met on a roof, 

fell in love and got married? 

The reception was brilliant! 

A man walked into a bar 

with a newt on his shoulder. 

The barman asked what he 

called it. 

‘Tiny’, replied the man. 

‘Why’s that?’ asked the 

barman. 

‘Because he’s my newt!’ 

What’s a 

hedgehog’s 

favourite 

food? 

Prickled 

onions! 

What do you 

call a bear 

with no ears? 

B! 

Dad: ‘What 

do you want 

to do when 

you’re as big 

as me?’ 

Son: ‘Go on a 

diet!’ 

Just for Laughs 

Mon/Fri 9am - 12 

Tue/Wed 9am - 2:45 

Fri 12 - 3pm 



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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

section, email impact@stchads.org 

Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet outside the Rose Garden 

Cafe; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at downstairs in 

Jack’s Bar, car park entrance, at 

the Beauchief Hotel; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley 

Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley 

Road, Lowedges. 

) Call 0114 203 9337 for 

details. 

October 3 

Dore Male Voice Choir Gala 

Concert 

All Saints Church, Ecclesall 

7pm 

October 3&4 

Steam Gathering & Antiques 

Fair 

Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 

10am-5pm 

An annual celebration of steam 

with rollers, road locomotives, 

engines and cars. Enjoy live 

music and the Whirlow Hall Farm 

barbecue, traditional crafts and 

skills demonstrations, community 

and family activities and antiques, 

vintage and craft stalls. 

October 4 

Family Treasure Hunt 

Beauchief Baptist Church 

4.30-6pm 

Family fun event. 

October 4 & 18 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Abbeydale Road South 

1-5pm 

The regular open days at 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway. 

For details visit www. 

sheffieldsmee.co.uk 

October 5 

M:eating Place Luncheon Club 


12.45-2.15pm 

A three-course home-cooked 

meal and the opportunity to meet 

new people. Cost £3.50. 

October 10 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 


Second-hand books for sale in 

aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. 

Donations of good condition 

paperback novels or biographies 

are welcome. 

October 12 

Fun Time Drop-in Session 

Greenhill Library 

10-11.30am 

A time for 0-4 year olds to play 

and sing, and an opportunity for 

parents and carers to meet. 

October 21 

CAP Money Course launch 

St Chad’s Church 

7pm 

A free money-management 

course to help you have more 

control of your finances. 

Call Karen on 0114 250 7369 or 

email karen@kilner.eclipse.co.uk 

For more details see page 12. 

October 25 

Light Party 


4.30-6pm 

Family fun event. 

November 2 

M:eating Place Luncheon Club 


12.45-2.15pm 

A three-course home-cooked 

meal. Cost £3.50. 



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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact, 

St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB. 

2394326. 

January 30 - February 5 

AEGON British Tennis Tour 

Graves November Tennis 9 and Leisure Centre 

World Fun Time ranked Drop-in players Session compete 

alongside Greenhill local Library Sheffield players. 

10-11.30am Call 0114 283 9900. 

A time for 0-4 year olds to play 

February and sing, 5 and an opportunity for 

Book parents Sale and carers to meet. 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm November 14 

Good 

Book 

quality 

Sale 

second-hand books 

for 

36 

sale 

Crawshaw 

in aid of 

Grove, 

the Alzheimer‟s 

Beauchief 


Society. Donations of paperback 

Second-hand books for sale in 

novels or biographies in good 

aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. 

condition 

Donations 

are 

of 

welcome 

good condition 

(but not 

larger 

paperback 

books 

novels 

due to space 

or biographies 

limitations). are welcome. 

February November 5 17-21 

Free Bedroom Environmental Farce by Activities Alan 

Millhouses Aykbourne Park 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Ecclesall Church Halls 

Obstacle 7.30pm course and stream 

dipping Ecclesall activities Theatre for Company’s 8 - 13 year 

olds. 

Call 0114 263 4335. 

Anderson Tree Services 

Free Environmental Activities 

Ecclesall Woods Sawmill 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and latest bug production. hunting activities for 8 - 13 

year olds. 

November 28 

Call 0114 235 6348. 

Christmas Brass Band Concert 

Woodseats Methodist Church 

February 

7.30pm 

20 

Why 

A concert 

Not Try 

with 

A 

Loxley 

Bike 

Silver 

Greenhil Band and Park special guests Kristina 

10am-2pm Hickman, Michael Hickman and 

Rediscover Susan Ellis your in aid cycling of the skills Motor in 

Greenhill Neurone Park. Disease The Association. rangers will 

provide Tickets a are bike, £8 helmet for adults, and £6 

instruction. concessions Meet and at £3 the for Bowls children 

Pavilion, and include Greenhill interval Park. refreshments. 

Booking ) Call is 0114 essential. 250 0078. 

Call 0114 283 9195. 

Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a 

of variety services of services. and anyone For is more 

welcome information to attend. see page For 29. more 

details see the Abbey notice 

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Give a Gift of Joy this 

C 

As I write this the school summer 

holidays are only just over 

and it seems very early to be 

thinking about Christmas. But 

as you read our magazine the 

autumn term will be well underway and 

we will be heading towards the half-term 

break. 

I am a volunteer with Operation 

Christmas Child, the charity which sends 

fun-filled shoeboxes to needy children 

around the world. We work with local 

churches and charities overseas to 

distribute the shoeboxes to those 

who need them, regardless of their 

background or beliefs asking 

nothing in return. The children 

may be in schools, hospitals, 

orphanages, homeless shelters 

or impoverished neighbourhoods. 

Like many other people, 

throughout the year I collect 

small toys, books, crayons, hair 

accessories, and toy cars to 

fill my shoeboxes which I have 

already wrapped in festive paper. I 

still need a hat, gloves and scarf to 

help combat the cold conditions the 

children will experience. A toothbrush, 

toothpaste, soap and a comb will also 

fit in. Lastly I will find room for a small 

cuddly toy as well as some sweets and 

a donation toward shipping costs (£3). 

More ideas can be found on the website 

– www.operationchristmaschild.org 

This seems like a list of simple 

things which we and our children take 

for granted but these shoeboxes will 

probably be the only Christmas gift the 

children will receive. 

The appeal is supported by individuals, 

families, schools, churches, businesses 

and other organisations throughout 

the UK and many other 

countries. 

My husband and I coordinate 

the collection of shoeboxes 

from schools, churches, and offices 

in Sheffield, Dronfield, Barnsley, 

Rotherham, Anston and Wakefield. 

These will be brought to a Sheffield 

warehouse which we still have to find, 

where they will be checked to make 

sure there are no unsuitable items 

included such as toy guns, fragile goods 

or clothing other than hats, gloves and 

scarves, then sealed with special tape 

for customs purposes and packed by 

age and gender into cardboard boxes 

ready for dispatch. 

During late November and December 

these will be loaded on to large lorries to 

begin their journey. From our area last 



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Christmas 

The Abbey Public House 

year we received and processed 17,550 

shoeboxes which went to Azerbaijan and 

Belarus. 

Leafl ets will be available at St Chad’s 

from October 1 and completed boxes 

can be brought to church or taken to the 

church offi ce until the end of November. 

If you would like to know more about 

this appeal, or want to come along to the 

warehouse to help check shoeboxes, 

please contact me through the church 

offi ce on 0114 274 5086. 

PLEASE consider fi lling a shoebox this 

year – it can be fun fi nding lots of things 

to fi ll the box. 

For many children there will not be 

any gifts to open but through Operation 

Christmas Child we can bring excitement 

and fun into the lives of some. 

Carole Titman 

We would like to welcome old and new 

customers back to the new Abbey. 

We now offer: 

Home cooked food, locally sourced 

A range of great real ales 

A welcoming & relaxing environment 

Come and try our excellent Sunday 

Roast with real roast potatoes and 

Yorkshire puddings. 

With a variety of special events 

throughout the year, come and see what 

we have to offer! 

Call us: (0114) 274 5374 

Email: info@theabbeysheffield.co.uk 

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An Unlikely 

When I tell people that I am a 

statistician, they mostly tell me 

they were never any good at 

maths. One person, when told 

I was a medical statistician, 

asked if I counted hospital beds for a living! 

People are always quick to remind me of 

the quotation, “There are three kinds of lies: 

lies, damned lies and statistics”, a phrase 

commonly attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, 

but probably of much earlier origin. The 

idea that statistics may be used to support 

dubious arguments is, of course, not very 

fl attering to my profession. 

I much prefer the words of an eminent 

Victorian social reformer, one of the earliest 

recognised statisticians, who said, “To 

understand God’s thoughts we must study 

statistics, for these are the measure of his 

purpose.” Rather surprisingly, this person 

was none other than Florence Nightingale, 

much better known for her works of 

compassion among the injured soldiers of 

the Crimean War and for being the founder 

of the modern profession of nursing. But 

she was also the fi rst female Fellow of the 

Royal Statistical Society. To her, statistics, 

compassion and faith went side by side. 

Always able at mathematics, Florence 

believed she was called by God both to 

nursing and to the study of statistics. Long 

before she went to the Crimea, she came 

to believe that studying statistics was the 

surest way of learning God’s plan and then 

acting in accordance with it. This divine 

calling gave much needed respectability 

to her study; in those days, intellectual 

pursuits like statistics were not regarded 

as respectable for an upper-middle class 

woman like her (or, indeed, any woman). 

On her arrival at Scutari Barracks (now 

Üsküdar) in Turkey in 1854, when Britain 

entered the Crimean War, Florence was 

horrifi ed, not only by the lack of resources 

in the military hospitals but also by the 

inadequate record keeping that went 

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Statistician 

on. Even numbers of deaths were not 

accurately recorded, never mind their 

causes. By collecting data, Florence was 

able to show more soldiers were dying from 

disease than from their wounds. 

Today we are accustomed to seeing data 

presented in all kinds of charts, but this 

was not common in the mid-Victorian era. 

Florence devised a polar-area diagram (a bit 

like a modern pie chart) to show the causes 

of death month by month in the army in the 

East. Only after a Sanitary Commission 

arrived in Turkey in 1855 did death rates 

really begin to fall. Studying the statistics 

changed Florence’s understanding of the 

problems in the army hospitals; she realised 

that it was poor sanitation rather than lack of 

resources which caused so many deaths. 

On her return to England she enlisted the 

help of other statisticians to explore how 

many people had died, and why. Many of 

her findings shocked her. For example, she 

discovered that even in peacetime, soldiers 

in England died at twice the rate of civilians. 

She began to campaign for reform of the 

Army Medical Service, writing an 830- page 

report and securing the support of Prince 

Albert to establish a Royal Commission. 

The changes she set in motion altered the 

design and practice of military hospitals for 

ever; by 1900, army mortality was lower 

than civilian mortality. 

Florence often worked herself to 

exhaustion and this, combined with the 

effects of a disease she caught in the 

Crimea, led her to become reclusive. But 

a relative wrote that when Florence was 

exhausted, the sight of a column of figures 

was “perfectly reviving to her”. 

She did not limit her work to army 

hospitals. She studied London’s hospital 

statistics and found that not only was 

data collection unreliable but little useful 

information was collected. Florence sent a 

letter to the 1860 International Congress of 

Statistics advocating the uniform collection 

of hospital statistics. The delegates took 

up her proposal which used a uniform 

classification of diseases and operations 

and formed the basis of the International 

Classification of Diseases used today. The 

work Florence and others did underpins 

much of modern medical statistics and 

evidence-based healthcare. Perhaps she 

should be remembered for her statistical 

skills just as much as her nursing reforms. 

Karen Kilner 

See www.sciencenews.org/pictures/mathtrek/112608/ 

nightingale.swf for an animated version of Florence’s data. 



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Are you looking for 

a room to hold your 

party or meeting? 

St Chad’s Church has 

two rooms available for 

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Your memories of 

maths from school 

may conjure up less 

thoughts of beauty, and 

more thoughts of pain, 

but for many mathematicians, 

maths truly can be a thing of 

beauty. 

Indeed, recent research in 

London put mathematicians on a 

brain scanner and showed them 

different mathematical formulae, 

and the brain responded in a 

similar way to the brains of art 

lovers being shown paintings. 

One of the formulae 

considered most beautiful is 

Euler’s Identity, which states: 

e iπ + 1 = 0 

This may not look very 

beautiful to you, but it relates 

five of the most fundamental 

constants in the universe. e is 

the base of natural logarithms, 

π is the ratio of a circle’s 

circumference to its diameter, 

i is the fundamental imaginary 

number, 1 is the multiplicative 

identity, and 0 the additive 

identity. 

What makes the formula all the 

more fascinating is that e, i and 

π are all incredibly complicated 

numbers, at first glance 

completely unrelated, and yet in 

this simply formula they all come 

together. 

But it’s not just formulae that 

may be considered beautiful. 

Often mathematical proofs are 

described aesthetically too. 

Pythagoras’ theorem (the square 

of the hypotenuse of a triangle is 

equal to the sum of the squares 

of the other two sides) can be 

proven in the following simple 

diagram: 

c 2 = a 2 + b 2 

On the flip side, formulae and 

proofs can also be considered 

ugly. 

One of the most famous “ugly 

equations” was discovered by the 

Indian mathematician Ramanujan 

for calculating π: 

Ramanujan for calculating π: 

Not quite so beautiful, I’m sure 

you’d agree! 

Rev Duncan Bell 

Beautiful Numbers 



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The Long 

Why do we buy beer and 

milk by the pint, yet we fi ll 

up our petrol tanks by the 

litre? 

Why do we measure 

ourselves in feet and inches even though 

our passports require metres? 

Why do we ask how much a newborn 

baby weighs and expect to be told the 

weight in pounds and ounces, yet the 

nurse in the maternity ward will have 

recorded it in kilograms? 

Mystifi ed? Me too! The metric system 

is in offi cial use within the United 

Kingdom, though the use of imperial 

units among the public is, as you can 

see, still widespread. 

Back in 1970, when I started 

my teaching career, all the 

measurements that we taught 

in school were metric. We 

found them easy to grasp 

as everything is based 

on a unit of ten. Metric 

measurements were used 

in mainland Europe and so 

I presumed when we joined 

the European Economic 

Union in the early seventies 

that would be the system we 

would adopt. I am sure that is what 

we teachers presumed back 

then. Now though, children are 

learning two systems and need 

to know how to convert one into 

the other. 

Maybe we are reluctant to 

give up on our imperial system 

because of its fascinating 

history. The origins of the 

imperial system are found 

somewhere in the mists of 

time. An inch is the width of a thumb, 



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and The Short of It! 

although Edward II decreed it 

to be the length of three barley 

corns. A foot is based on the 

human foot. A yard was a single 

stride, although Henry I decreed a 

yard to be the distance between 

the tip of his nose and the end 

of his thumb with his arm 

outstretched. A furlong is the 

length of a medieval fi eld. 

A chain is the length of a 

cricket pitch, which, by the 

way, is four rods! A mile is 

derived from the Latin ‘mille’, 

a thousand Roman paces or 

double strides from left foot to 

left foot. 

A horse is still measured in hands, a 

hand being four inches in length or, 

as Henry VIII would have it in 1541, 

from the outside of your thumb to 

the outside of your little fi nger. A 

cupful was the amount your hands 

could carry, a hundredweight being 

the most a person could carry, 

and a hand-sized stone was 

deemed to weigh a pound! 

No wonder we are loathe to 

give it all up for a more modern 

metric system introduced at the 

time of the French Revolution 

in a frenzy of destruction of 

all things ancient. In 1795 the 

French calculated (inaccurately) 

the distance between the North 

Pole and the Equator and divided it by 

ten million to produce a metre. It related 

to nothing on a human scale. Everything 

was to be based on the unit of ten. 

So I reckon we are just going to carry 

on converting for the foreseeable future 

as we cling onto our old ways. 

Sorry children. After 40 years of 

teaching metric measures, you still need 

to know that a metre is a little more than 

a yard, a kilometre is less than a mile, 

a litre is just more than two pints and a 

kilogram is a little more than two pounds 

(weight that is, not money!) 

Ann Lomax 



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Services at St Chad’s 

 

the 10.30am Service 

Informal and relaxed in style 

An emphasis on families 

Sunday Services 

Sunday 

Services 

Includes music, led by a band 

Includes refreshments before the service 

The 9am Service 

● Traditional in style 

The 

The 

9am 

9am 

Service 

Service 

 

Includes Traditional Holy in style Communion, a sermon & hymns 

● Traditional in style 

Includes refreshments Holy Communion, afterwards 

a sermon & hymns 

● Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns 

Taken Includes from refreshments Common Worship: afterwards Holy Communion 

● • Includes Monday refreshments to Thursday afterwards at 9am 

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

Morning Prayers 

Lifted, Evening the Prayers 11am Service 

Lifted, the • Monday 

● Informal to 

the and 11am 

11am 

10.30am Thursday 

relaxed Service at 

Service in style Service 5pm 

An Informal emphasis and relaxed on families 

in style 

● Informal and relaxed in style 

Includes An emphasis music, on led families by a band 

● An emphasis on families 

• Refreshments Includes Traditional music, in served style 

led by from a band 10.15-10.45am 

● Includes music, led by band 

• Refreshments Includes Taken from refreshments Common served from before Worship: 10.15-10.45am 

the Holy service Communion 

● • Refreshments Includes Holy served Communion, from 10.15-10.45am 

a sermon & hymns 

• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

The Thursday 10am Service 

Weekday Services 

Weekday 

Services 

 



Prayers 

 

Monday to Thursday at 9am 

•• A To Monday Monday half-hour be held to 

to service on Thursday Monday 

Thursday of prayer at June 9am 

at 9am and 20 and Bible Monday readings July 

18, 7.15-8pm 

• Every Monday to Thursday at 9am 

• A contemplative and meditative form of worship 


with Monday the theme to Thursday Seeking at 5pm Stillness with Jesus . 

• Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

Monday to Thursday at 5pm 

Evening Prayers 

Evening 

Evening Prayers 

Prayers 

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The Thursday 10am Service 

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The 

The 

Thursday 

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10am Service 

Service 

• Taken Traditional from in Common style Worship: Holy Communion 

Traditional in style 

• Includes Taken from Holy Common Communion, Worship: a sermon Holy Communion 

& hymns 

Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

• Held Includes in the Holy Lady Communion, Chapel at the a sermon back of & church hymns 

Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns 


Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

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Prayer and Praise 

Prayer Contemplative 

Sunday, and February Praise Night 13 at 7.30pm Prayer 

Prayer and Praise 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

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March and of 

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Service 

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Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus . 

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What is the difference 

between ‘zero’ and 

nothing, and what 

does a baboon’s 

bone found in The 

Congo in 1960 have to do with it? 

Well the baboon’s bone found 

had 60 notches cut into it. We don’t 

know what they represented but 

experts believe that they were not 

there by accident but represented 

ownership. The original owner of 

the bone had 60 ‘somethings’ but 

what they were is anyone’s guess. 

You can imagine a time long, 

long ago there was no need to 

count anything but, as civilisation 

spread, things became more 

complicated and there became 

a need to count things. It was 

probably important so that you 

knew how wealthy you were but 

also so you could be taxed on your 

wealth. I also imagine that if you 

bred chickens and wanted to sell 

some then you needed to have a 

concept of how many there were 

for sale. 

Scientists believe that the first 

number was ‘one’ and people 

who had lots of them, had lots of 

‘ones’ but had no way of saying 

how many ‘ones’ they actually had. 

You can see how cumbersome 

this system was. If you had a lot of 

animals you would have needed a 

lot of bones or sticks with marks on 

to represent your wealth and what 

happens if you sold one? How did 

you remove it from the stick? The 

Sumerians solved this by using 

tokens as a representation of how 

many things there were. If you had 

five sheep then you would have 

five tokens. If you 

sold a sheep then 

you would transfer 

the token to the new 

owner along with the 

sheep. The tokens would be 

sealed inside a pouch and then 

a mark made on the outside of 

the pouch to represent how many 

tokens were inside. Eventually 

they ditched the tokens altogether 

and just kept the pouch with marks 

on it. Even so, they were not really 

that sophisticated because it was 

still just a series of ‘ones’. 

It was the Egyptians who 

took things a stage further by 

developing the concepts of having 

symbols to represent numbers, 

although it took the Indians to 

develop the system further by 

giving each number from one to 

nine a symbol of its own – even 

though, confusingly, they are 

now called Arabic Numbers. The 

Indians also gave the biggest 

contribution to date when they 

invented the number zero so 

that they could reflect their many 

abstract philosophical concepts 

mathematically. Once you have 

big ideas you need big numbers to 

represent them. 

Which raises the question – what 

is the difference between nothing 

and ‘zero’. Well, to put it as briefly 

as possible – zero is a number, 

with rules, whilst nothing is an 

abstract concept. Let me illustrate 

this. If I have five chickens and 

give you all five that means that 

I have none (a number) but that 

doesn’t mean the chickens don’t 

exist. It just means that I don’t own 

them anymore. Or, does it mean 

that I have -5 chickens? Well that 

is an Indian invention devised to 

measure debt which we will have 

to leave for another time! 

Steve Winks 

The baboon’s bone discovered in The Congo 

Counting History 



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I 

struggle to remember 

numbers including telephone 

numbers, and especially 

my own mobile number. 

I also have a problem 

with house numbers and car 

registration numbers. I could, 

for years, remember the number 

of my first car (a 1957 Morris 

Minor) but that has now faded 

away. Some people purchase 

their own customised number 

plates. Sheffield is the place 

in the UK where this is most 

popular (usually with OWLs or 

UTD on them!) I regularly see 

several each day when I 

am waiting for the bus. 

Some are very clever, 

with the owner’s 

initials showing 

or the letters and 

numbers even 

forming rude 

words! 

House numbering 

is interesting. 

Some streets do 

not have number 13, 

it being unpopular with 

the superstitious. Some streets 

have missing numbers. Folds 

Lane, where I live, is missing a 

number 153 and several numbers 

between 77 and 90-odd are also 

nowhere to be seen. I suppose 

this is because older houses were 

pulled down and not replaced. 

Famous house numbers from 

history or from popular culture 

stick in my mind –10 Rillington 

Place (Christie murders), 221B, 

Baker Street (Sherlock Holmes), 

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (White 

House), 2 Macquarie Street, 

Sydney (the Opera House) and, to 

get silly, 740 Evergreen Terrace, 

Springfield (Ned Flanders, 

Simpsons) and even sillier – 

1313 Webfoot Walk, Duckburg 

(Donald Duck)! I am sure readers 

will have their own favourites. 

Some famous telephone 

numbers from everyday life still 

stick. Do you remember Whitehall 

1212? This was the famous 

telephone number for Scotland 

Yard. It was introduced in 1934 

and was used by the public to 

contact the London Metropolitan 

Police information room for both 

emergency and non-emergency 

business. With the introduction 

of 999 for emergencies in 1937, 

Whitehall 1212 (dialled as WHI 

1212) remained in use for 

non-emergencies until 

the 1960s. 

Today the 

switchboard 

number for New 

Scotland Yard is 

020 7230 1212, 

and the last 4 digits 

of the telephone 

number for a number 

of other Metropolitan 

police buildings end in 

1212. I remember public 

announcements on the Home 

Service (now Radio 4) when a 

call went out to a member of the 

public, on holiday somewhere 

or not seen for years, to contact 

Whitehall 1212 as their father/ 

mother etc was “dangerously ill”. I 

always thought that this probably 

meant they had already died and 

this was a way of gently breaking 

the news. 

As I get older, I find that it 

is a good discipline to try and 

remember numbers, including that 

of my mobile telephone. 

Time to go now. Countdown 

is on and I haven’t started my 

Soduku! 

David Manning 

Famous Everyday Numbers 



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Stumps, Strokes and Statistics 

At the Trent Bridge 

test match in August, 

against all expectations, 

England regained 

the Ashes against a 

fearsome Australian side who, 

many predicted, would win all five 

matches easily. England had won 

with a Test to go and in a shocking 

manner, with the Australian side 

bowled out for a measly 60 runs. 

Aside from the manner and 

jubilation of the victory, the test 

at Trent Bridge was also notable 

for a welter of statistics which 

Andrew Samson, the apparently 

encyclopaedic scorer of Test Match 

Special, dug up with some glee. 

England’s bowling hero, Stuart 

Broad, gained his 300th wicket 

and, in Australia’s first innings 

took a remarkable 8-15 – the best 

bowling analysis by a fast bowler in 

Ashes history. His first five wickets 

he took in 19 balls – the joint best 

five-wicket haul in test history. Ben 

Stokes took six wickets in the first 

innings and added to Anderson 

and Finn’s six wickets each in the 

previous test at Edgbaston, this 

became the first time in Test history 

that four different bowlers had 

taken six wickets in consecutive 

innings. The veteran commentator, 

Jonathan Agnew, was rendered 

speechless when Samson dug that 

particular nugget up. 

Cricket is a game that defies 

many modern notions of sport. It 

can last a seemingly interminable 

length of time; the laws are 

complicated and occasionally 

misunderstood even by the experts; 

it fits awkwardly in the world of 

television schedules, and indeed is 

now no longer accessible to anyone 

who doesn’t have a specialist sports 

package on their television. 

But in one way cricket thrives in 

our modern world, and that is with 

its obsession with statistics. In the 

world before the internet (that’s 

right, way back in the early 1990s) 

every cricket lover had a wellthumbed 

copy of Wisden of Playfair 

at hand so that they could know 

exactly the batting and bowling 

averages of the touring players and 

could keep an eager eye out for 

a record when it was about to be 

passed. 

Cricket, possibly more than any 

other sport, lives by its numbers. 

In a world where everything needs 

to be measured and targets set, 

cricket with its run-chases, limited 

overs matches and accelerating 

run rates has carved out a niche 

of its own. Though, of course, a 

well-timed cover-drive or a fast 

inswinging yorker ultimately defies 

statistical analysis. Somethings 

need to be admired without 

recourse to numerical values. 

One final thing. Numbers don’t 

play a huge part in the life of the 

church but on more than one 

occasion the numbers on the hymn 

board have struck me as looking a 

little bit like a cricket score card. I 

promise you that the hymns chosen 

for each Sunday are based on the 

Bible reading and theme of the 

day, but if in the wake of a famous 

English Ashes victory you happen 

one Sunday to see numbers 60, 

391 and 253 chosen, then perhaps 

you may spot the hidden meaning! 

Rev Toby Hole 



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100 days on just a bowl of rice, 

praying for a chance to 

glance at a Bible; his 

family were concerned 

for his sanity. To be 

Where’s that found with a Bible would 

have meant serious 

consequences and 

from..? punishment. God 

honoured this fast and 

Three sheets to the wind prayer sending Yun a 

Meaning - to be very drunk. Bible. He immediately 

read and memorised 

Derived from - a turn of chapters phrase from used the Bible. 

by sailors in the days when With boats few resources were 

powered by the wind alone. ‘Sheets’ 

weren’t sails but ropes which were 

attached to the lower corners of the sails 

to hold them in place. If one, two or 

three weren’t fixed securely, they would 

blow in the wind causing the sails to fl ap 

wildly and the boat to lurch about rather 

like a drunken man. Sailors enjoyed 

their rations of rum and there was a 

sliding scale of drunkenness - ‘one sheet’ 

and the sailor was just very happy, ‘two 

sheets’ and he was defi nitely tipsy, but 

‘three sheets’ and he was unable to stand! 

An episode in the novel, The Fisher’s 

Daughter by Catherine Ward, published 

in 1824, illustrates this scale perfectly - 

“Wolf replenished his glass at the request 

of Mr. Blust who, instead of being just 

one sheet in the wind, was likely to get to 

three before his departure”. 

a ten foot wall; walking through the 

open doors of a high security prison 

unobserved and walking after his legs 

were so severely broken (he was told 

he would be crippled for life after this 

punishment). 

Whatever Yun experienced, God 

repeatedly demonstrated his 

faithfulness never leaving him or his 

family to cope alone. We will 

probably never experience this kind of 

persecution but this book is testimony 

to the incredible power of God and his 

Holy Spirit. 

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Numbers in the Bible 

• 

The Bible is full of numbers 

– and some have special 

sigificance. We asked two of our 

regular Impact writers to choose a 

number and tell us a bit about it... 

begins at 40’ they 

say. Others see the 

‘BIG 40’ as the onset 

of middle age or even 

‘Life 

decrepitude! In God’s 

plan 40 is significant – it appears 

nearly 150 times in the Bible 

and on strategic occasions. The 

rains fell for 40 days with Noah 

in the ark. Moses lived 40 years 

in Egypt, another 40 in seclusion 

before his call to set the Israelites 

free from Egypt. Twice he spent 

40 days on Mount Sinai receiving 

the Ten Commandments. The 

Promised Land was searched for 

40 days but the spies’ refusal to 

enter in earned them 40 years 

wandering in the desert. 

During the period of the Judges 

the land had 

peace for 40 

years during 

Othniel’s, 

Deborah’s 

and Gideon’s 

leadership. The 

first three kings of 

Israel (Saul, David 

and Solomon) all 

reigned for 40 years 

and only one further 

good king thereafter. 

Forty days were also given to 

Nineveh to repent by the reluctant 

prophet Jonah. 

In the New Testament, we find 

Jesus tempted in the wilderness 

for 40 days – clearly a parallel 

with Israel’s disobedience. They 

The big 

failed, whereas he prevailed. 

So what might 40 mean? 

Some see it as a round figure 

representing a long time – more 

precisely it may stand for a 

generation (Numbers 32:13). If 

so, longevity would suggest a sign 

of God’s favour for a (mostly!) 

Godly rule. We can discern a 

pattern with the other instances. 

Forty either represents God’s 

judgement (e.g. 

the flood and 

wilderness 

wanderings) 

or a time of 

testing or trial 

(e.g. Moses’ 

and Jesus’ 

preparation 

before their 

life’s work) 

Are you 

going through 

your ‘40 days’ or even ‘40 

years’? Then be encouraged. 

It may seem never-ending, but 

the stopwatch is in God’s hands 

and He knows just when to say, 

“Time’s up. Move on to the next 

phase of your life!” 

Jeremy Thornton 

40 



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Ask a teenager to ‘dial 

a number’ and they 

might give you a 

funny look, yet those 

of us born before 

the 1980s will remember 

using rotary dialling to make 

a telephone call back in the 

days when we memorised 

the telephone numbers of our 

family and friends! Things have 

moved on since then, but numbers 

remain significant, whether it’s our 

PIN, DoB or WIFI password. 

There has been much 

speculation over the centuries 

about the meaning and 

significance of numbers in the Holy 

Bible. Contemporary 

writers and film makers 

have made fortunes with 

popular stories such as 

Dan Brown’s The Da 

Vinci Code or Michael 

Drosnin’s The Bible Code. 

These books are based on 

the premise that the Bible 

contains secret messages 

such as the timing of the 

end of the world. Such 

stories are indeed intriguing, 

hence their vast popularity and 

sales, but are complete fantasy! 

However, it is true that numbers 

appear throughout the Bible 

with some regularity, and some 

numbers in particular have 

significance. In the Gospels, Jesus 

took and blessed five loaves 

(and two fishes) and with them 

fed 5,000 – possibly many more 

people, including women and 

children. Traditionally the number 

five in the Bible is associated 

with ‘grace’. The first five books 

of the Old Testament (Genesis, 

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and 

Deuteronomy) are commonly 

High 

referred to as the Pentateuch 

(‘Penta’ means five). The Ten 

Commandments given to Moses 

by God contain two sets of five 

commandments, the first five are 

related to our relationship with 

God, and the last five concern 

our relationships with each other. 

Commandment five is the only one 

with a promise. 

David, in preparing for Goliath, 

took up five smooth stones. The 

Psalms contains five ‘books’, 

perhaps reflecting the Pentateuch, 

and in the New Testament it is 

widely thought that Matthew’s 

Gospel has five sections. The 

four Gospels plus Acts 

equals five books which, 

as a set, can be thought 

of as the ‘New Testament 

Pentateuch’. There are 

five books in the Bible 

that contain only one 

chapter (2 John, 3 

John, Philemon, Jude 

and Obadiah), and in 

St Paul’s letter to the 

Ephesians he describes 

five ministries (apostles, 

prophets, evangelists, pastors or 

teachers: Ephesians 4:11-12). 

Although there are no secretnumber-codes 

in the Bible 

containing details of the end of the 

world, there is however a sobering 

story that Jesus told about ten 

bridesmaids, five who were foolish 

and five wise. The wise ones were 

prepared and kept their oil lamps 

filled, but the foolish ones missed 

out on the wedding banquet 

because their oil ran out. Jesus 

concluded his story by saying: 

“Therefore keep watch, because 

you do not know the day or the 

hour.” (Matthew 25) 

Daren Craddock 

5 

Numbers in the Bible 



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Showing Compassion i 

• 

Members of St Chad’s and 

residents of Woodseats, 

Beauchief and Chancet Wood 

have been reaching out to those 

affected by the Refugee Crisis. 

Here we look at some of the ways 

people have been showing they 

care. 

Children from St Chad’s along 

with schools and pre-schools 

in the S8 area have joined 

youngsters from across Sheffield 

and the UK in showing support 

for refugees by sending them welcome 

messages attached to teddy bears. 

Project Paddington is the brainchild of 

trainee vicar Joy French who began a 

Facebook group with the idea at the start 

of September. 

The scheme sees children sending 

teddy bears to refugee 

children with a drawing 

of themselves and a 

message of hope. 

Mum-of-three Joy 

said: “I was inspired by 

looking at the pictures on 

Facebook of children who 

had been washed up 

on the beach. I lay 

awake at night 

in bed thinking 

‘what could 

we do to show 

kindness?’.” 

Since its launch 

in Sheffield, the 

project has now spread 

across the country and has even created 

‘Welcome the stranger 

and love 

them as 

ourselves’ 

The Archbishop 

of Canterbury has 

spoken out on the 

refugee crisis. 

The Most Rev 

Justin Welby said: “This is a hugely 

complex and wicked crisis that 

underlines our human frailty and the 

fragility of our political systems. My 

heart is broken by the images and 

stories of men, women and children 

who have risked their lives to escape 

conflict, violence and persecution. 

“As Christians we believe we are 

called to break down barriers, to 

welcome the stranger and love them 

as ourselves, and to seek the peace 

and justice of our God, in our 

world, today.” 

interest in places as far 

afield as New Zealand 

and Dubai. 

Joy said: “The 

momentum that 

we have gathered 

means that we have 

a responsibility to give 

more than just teddies. 

“We are looking to 

partner with charities 

that are already on the 

ground and we would love 

to hear from haulage companies and 



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in the Refugee Crisis 

Tearfund is a charity which St Chad’s supports and has set up a refugee crisis 

fund to help those affected. The organisation is partnering with church groups 

in Europe, enabling them to offer care, support and aid to those who have 

already fled and are in huge need. 

logistics businesses who are excited 

about what we are doing.” 

“Our strapline is ‘children sending 

cuddles and kindness’ and I think there 

is a real need for children who have 

had everything taken away to know that 

other families care about them.” 

Anyone who wants to get involved 

with Project Paddington should contact 

the Project Paddington Facebook 

group, tweet @ProjectPadding1, 

Instagram Project Paddington UK 

or send an email to 

projectpaddingtonuk@gmail.com. 

Having a go ... and 

helping others 

One way St Chad’s 

has been helping 

those caught up in 

the Refugee Crisis is 

through fund-raising. 

It was decided to hold 

a stall selling produce and 

crafts in aid of Tearfund at our Have a 

Go Show in September which was to 

take place as Impact went to press. 



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Number Cruncher 

Across 

1. Nine times eighty-seven 

4. 8 across plus twenty-seven 

6. Five times 19 across 

7. 12 across divided by six 

8. Four times thirty-one 

10. 10 down minus six 

12. Minutes in four days 

14. 3 down minus 232 

15. 13 down minus twenty-fi ve 

17. 4 across plus six 

19. A gross 

21. Eleven dozen 

22. 21 across tripled 

23. 22 across doubled 

Puzzle It Out 

Down 

1. 6 across plus nine 

2. 20 down minus sixty-two 

3. 150 score 

4. 4 across minus fi fty 

5. Eight times twenty-three 

9. 17 across plus 119 

10. 4 down times seven 

Sudoku 

11. Months in ten years 

13. Five times 17 down 

16. Eight times 589 

17. 11 down plus thirty-three 

18. 23 across minus sixteen 

19. 9 down minus 149 

20. Three times 19 across 

Answers 

are on 

page 

29 

Write a number from 1 to 9 in each empty square so every row, every column, and 

every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 to 9. 

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Registers 2015 

Weddings 

July 

18 David Saunderson and 

Sarah Anne McAvoy 

August 

1 Charles Anthony Gilson and 

Emma Leonie Clare Crutcher 

7 Paul Martin Keith and 

Sandra Palmer 

27 Matthew Graham Locke and 

Michelle Bellamy 

Funerals 

July 

6 Jessie Petcher (94) 

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You don’t have to be a churchgoer 

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meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or Beauchief 

area, St Chad’s would be delighted to help 

you, whether it is planning the Big Day or 

saying goodbye to a loved one. 

For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

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funeral director that you would like to have 

a church service. 

• If you have had a new baby and would 

like to celebrate that baby’s birth with a 

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Services during October & 

November 2015 

Holy Communion: 

Sun 4th ,11th, 25th Oct 11.00am 

Sun 1st Nov 11.00am 

Sun 8th Nov 10.45 am 

Remembrance Sunday 

22 Nov 11.00am 

Mattins 29 Nov 11.00am 

Evensong (third Sunday): 

Sunday 18th October 3pm 

Harvest Festival 

Sun 15th November 3pm 

All Welcome 

Our Services are based on the 

Book of Common Prayer & 

Refreshments 

are served afterwards 

View of the Chapel & Tower 

Beauchief Abbey, Beauchief Abbey Lane S8 7BD 

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Contacts 

WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD 

CHURCH OFFICE 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086 

S8 0GA 

Term time offi ce hours: 

Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm; 

Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am 

Church Offi ce Administrator 

Helen Reynolds 


Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302 

email: toby@stchads.org 

Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086 

email: duncan.j.bell@gmail.com 

Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Readers 

Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, Pauline 

Johnson and Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld 

Steve Winks and 

Darren Coggins 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Jimmy Johnson 274 5086 

Linda McCann 274 5086 

Deputy Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555 

CHURCH HOUSE 56 Abbey Lane 274 8289 

Bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086 

VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.stchads.org 

PLEASE NOTE: The inclusion of advertisements in Impact in no way means the 

advertiser is endorsed or recommended by St Chad’s Church. 



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