2011-02
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
email: office@stchads.org
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Ever since I can remember I have loved reading. As a six year
old my delight was Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and Secret
Seven. As a teenager I became obsessed with science fiction
and thrillers, looking forward to my monthly visit to the local
library from where I would return laden down with hardback
fiction. At university I was introduced to some of the classics of
English and European literature, sometimes curling up for hours
with a book, oblivious to the world outside. Whenever I move to
a new house, before I think of anything else, I plan where the
bookshelves are going and what books are going on it. The
technical word for someone like me is a bibliophile (meaning
book lover). I think biblioholic might be more accurate!
But the world of books is changing fast. Second-hand
bookshops are closing down fast as on-line retailers like Amazon slash the
price of buying books. E-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle, the i-pad or the
Sony equivalent are changing the way that we think about reading. The time
may well come when the only books that exist are antiquarian – relics of the
pre-IT age – and can only be bought from specialist retailers.
I have one e-book and that is the Bible. I keep it on my handheld electronic
diary (you see I’m not a complete dinosaur when it comes to technology). For
a book the size of the Bible electronic format is very helpful. I can find verses
and key words very quickly and the whole thing handily fits into my pocket.
The Bible was one of the first books to be produced in electronic format, which
isn’t surprising because the Bible has often been at the forefront of changes in
reading habits and technology. It began life as scrolls carefully carried across
the Roman world to the tiny scattered churches that met in Rome, Corinth,
Ephesus and other towns. In the Middle Ages monks across Europe would
spend years copying and decorating Bibles for use in worship – the
Lindesfarne Gospels being perhaps the most famous. With the advent of the
printing press the Bible suddenly became mass-produced and with mass
production came the desire to allow the masses to read it. The age of
translation had begun.
This year sees the 400 th anniversary of the Authorised Version, or the King
James Version, of the Bible. Along with many other churches in Britain we will
be celebrating this anniversary by taking a fresh look at the Bible and
encouraging each other to read it with new eyes. I believe the Bible remains
the most amazing book ever published. It is not only the foundation document
of the Christian faith, it also lies at the heart of British culture – political,
literary, artistic and linguistic. In 2011 see if you can get hold of a Bible (you
might have one knocking around the house somewhere) and read some of it –
I think the Gospel of Luke is a good place to start. You might be surprised at
how fresh some it’s ancient words seem to you.
Rev Toby Hole
Vicar
St Chad’s Church
Woodseats
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Telephone sockets
Computer tuition, setup/
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Sheffield S8 0GW
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What do
you
get if
you
cross
a pig
and a
telephone?
When is an English
teacher like a judge?
When she hands out
long sentences.
Crackling on the line!
Did you hear
about the
undertaker
who buried
someone in the
wrong place?
He was sacked
for making a
grave mistake.
How does a
barber cut the
moon's hair?
Eclipse it!
A mother was teaching her
three-year-old daughter The
Lord's Prayer.
For several evenings at
bedtime, she repeated it after
her mother.
One night she said she
was ready to pray it on her
own. The mother listened
with pride, as she
carefully said each word
right up to the end..."And
lead us not into temptation",
she prayed, "but deliver us
some e-mail, Amen."
What did the cat
do after he had
eaten some
cheese?
He waited by a
mouse hole with
baited breath!
Who was the first
underwater spy?
James Pond!
Why did the bus
stop?
It saw the zebra
crossing!
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St Chad’s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.
Health Walks
Mondays – 10am: Graves Park.
Meet at the Animal Farm car park;
Tuesdays – 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at Abbeydale
Industrial Hamlet;
Thursdays – 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Community
Wing, Lowedges Junior School.
Call 0114 203 9337.
National Council for Divorced,
Single and Widowed
Tuesdays 8-11pm
Norton Country Club
Club offering friendship and social
activities.
Call Magdalen on 0114
2394326.
January 30 - February 5
AEGON British Tennis Tour
Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre
World ranked players compete
alongside local Sheffield players.
Call 0114 283 9900.
February 5
Book Sale
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
10am-12pm
Good quality second-hand books
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s
Society. Donations of paperback
novels or biographies in good
condition are welcome (but not
larger books due to space
limitations).
February 5
Free Environmental Activities
Millhouses Park
10.30am-12.30pm
Obstacle course and stream
dipping activities for 8 - 13 year
olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
February 8-12
Jamaica Inn
Ecclesall All Saints Church Hall
7.30pm
A play presented by Ecclesall
Theatre Company. Tickets: £5.
Call 0114 230 8842.
February 12
Free Environmental Activities
Millhouses Park
1.30-3.30pm
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13
year olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
February 12
Free Environmental Activities
Ecclesall Woods Sawmill
10.30am-12.30pm
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13
year olds.
Call 0114 235 6348.
February 20
Why Not Try A Bike
Greenhil Park
10am-2pm
Rediscover your cycling skills in
Greenhill Park. The rangers will
provide a bike, helmet and
instruction. Meet at the Bowls
Pavilion, Greenhill Park.
Booking is essential.
Call 0114 283 9195.
Beauchief Abbey holds a variety
of services and anyone is
welcome to attend. For more
details see the Abbey notice
board.
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February 21
Half-term Environmental
Activities
Meersbrook Park Walled Garden
10.30am-12.30pm
Make bird feeders, bird boxes and
bird ID. Activities for 8-13 year olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
February 27
Wild Designs: Pyrography
Ecclesall Woods Sawmill
11am-2pm
Learn how to create designs in
wood using a pyrograph (heated
needle). Booking is essential.
Call 0114 283 9195.
March 6
Junk Boat Race
Millhouses Park
11am
Using your engineering skills, some
glue and a bag of junk, build a
boat and race it on Millhouses
lake. Meet at Millhouses Park
Cafe. Booking is essential.
Call 0114 283 9195.
March 20
Step Out from Greenhill Park
Greenhill Park
10am
Join the rangers on an
exploration of the footpaths from
the park into the countryside.
Meet at the Bowls Pavilion.
Call 0114 283 9195.
March 27
Grass Sledging
Meersbrook Park
11am-1pm
Sledge the slopes of Meersbrook
Park with the rangers.
Call 0114 283 9195.
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A
bookmark is usually a piece of
paper or card, or even plastic
or metal which is used to keep
the reader’s place in a book, or
the point at which one has stopped
reading. Bookmarks were used
throughout the medieval period,
consisting usually of a small parchment
strip attached to the edge of folio (or a
piece of cord attached to headband).
As the first printed books were quite
rare and valuable, it was determined
early on that something was needed
to mark one's place in a book without
causing its pages any harm. Some of
the earliest bookmarks were used at
the end of the sixteenth century, and
Queen Elizabeth I was one of the first
to own one. The use of the term has
transferred easily to the world of IT –
you use bookmarks to save favourite
or useful items of data.
I am one of those people who has
always valued books and hated to see
them being misused or damaged in
any way. When I was a child books
were expensive and I always tried to
look after them. Nowadays, with more
use of computers to read, and more
money to throw around, people don’t
seem to worry so much about looking
after their books. I used to have
constant arguments with my children,
who used to write in the margins and
scribble on those books that they were
using for school. I found this appalling.
Some books, used frequently, will
have a permanent marker, like a ribbon
– you will often see this in religious
books like the Bible or Quran and in
diaries. I always think it looks very
elegant to open a page marked in this
way. I personally use bookmarks
RECORD-BREAKER!
The world’s biggest published book is
an Atlas measuring 2 x 3 meters. The
book contains maps of continents, as
well as images of famous sites.
promoting a charity or which are
purchased to raise money for a good
cause. One thing is certain – I will
always use a bookmark and not curl the
corner of the pages over, as one of my
aunts used to do.
About 30 years ago I remember my
local library in Ipswich published a
report which included an interesting
piece on the diversity of objects that
their borrowers had used to mark a
place in their current reading matter –
rashers of bacon, lettuce leaves,
combs, and some items that the library
were too shy to mention, had been
returned over the counter with the
books – to be discovered later by some
unsuspecting librarian.
Returning to the increased use of
laptops and other IT equipment to read,
I suppose that the bookmark, or
indeed, the conventional book, will go
out of fashion. I find that I can’t read
lengthy documents on line, I would
much rather print them off and read a
hard copy. Not good for the
environment I know, but I am not alone
in preferring the printed word to the on
screen version. There are handheld
gadgets now that resemble
electronic books but I will always
have a need to have books round
me, on shelves, books to borrow
and lend to friends, something to
get hold of, and, of course, a
bookmark as an essential
accessory, to me at least.
David Manning
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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B
ooks! I have always loved
books and read almost
anything from detective
novels to Booker winners.
They bring pleasure, relaxation,
education and solace in times of
sorrow. One of my favourite holiday
occupations used to be browsing in
second-hand bookshops. Several years
ago, on holiday in Beer, Devon, we
followed handmade signs to ‘secondhand
books’. It turned out to be
someone’s garage completely lined out
with books with a cash box fixed to the
wall. On the open doors of the garage
were several newspaper articles about
the book sale: the owners had, over
several years, raised £30,000 for their
local church restoration!
My mum has been suffering from
Alzheimer's disease for 12 years. The
Sheffield branch of the society has
been a support to me through those
years and I wanted to raise money for
them. I was intrigued by the garage
sale in Devon and decided to see if I
could do something similar. I started
out with a trestle table and about 200
books. Getting books has been no
problem, I often come home to neat
boxes of books on my doorstep and
people are incredibly generous, often
giving new books that have only been
read once.
Now I have about 2,000 books and
hold a book sale most months. Many
customers have become regulars and
meet up to have a coffee and talk
about their favourite books or look for a
new author they might enjoy. They can
RECORD-BREAKER!
The world's most expensive book was
a copy of John James Audubon's Birds
of America, sold on December 7, 2010
at Sotherby’s for just over £7.3m.
Only 119 complete copies of the 19th
Century book are known to exist, with
108 owned by museums and libraries.
also write up requests for books and
make recommendations.
When people make requests I
always say that sooner or later it will
come through my garage. On one
Saturday an elderly gentleman came
with just one book- about the siege of
Leningrad - I must admit that as I took it
and said thank you I was wondering
who might buy this book. After he had
gone the next person through the door
lighted on it with delight - he was a
collector of Russian history!
I leaflet my immediate area and a
couple of kind regulars leaflet their
roads. Another kind neighbour comes
every month and sorts books by author
and finds books for customers. I have
been very grateful to Impact magazine
for bringing word of the book sales to a
wider audience.
A few of my friends occasionally
take a box of books into their workplace
and quite a bit of money is raised this
way. We have raised £6,000 so far - we
have quite a way to go to equal the
sale that was my inspiration, so if
you are a book lover, look for the
dates in Impact magazine and
come along and meet likeminded
people. Or if you feel
able to take a box of books to
sell please get in touch.
As for me - I don’t browse in
second-hand bookshops any
more – I seem to have acquired
my own!
Carol Smith
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
email: office@stchads.org
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M
ass production has its
advantages.
Paperback books are
cheap to make and
cheap to buy. But let’s face it, they
really don’t last very long.
I have kept all my old children’s
books, fondly imagining that I would
pass them onto my children and their
children. Yet, in one reading by my
eldest son, Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory has moulted several chunks
of yellowed pages – leaving me
feeling that I must be really rather old.
It’s understandable, then, that
people are attracted to the craft of
bookbinding – taking time and effort
to create a book that’s meant to be
treasured and handed down. A quick
web search uncovers tutorials on
making a ‘painted leather journal with
medieval sewing’; ‘how to sew the
secret Belgian binding’; and ‘how to
make the folded fan origami book’ –
not to mention copious equipment for
sale, such as cold gluing machines,
brass finishing tools, and manuals on
how to test for grain direction.
A little bit beyond me at the
moment, I fear. So, following the
principle that it’s best to start
somewhere, I have test-driven for
Impact readers a guide to making
your own – very simple – book
(drawn from Teach Yourself
Calligraphy by Patricia Lovett,
available from Woodseats library).
You will need:
Paper
String or ribbon
A drawing pin or something else
with a sharp point
A needle
Start with a few sheets of
rectangular paper, all the same size.
Fold each in half. Then lay one inside
another like this:
You can choose how many sheets
you use. Four sheets, folded as
shown, will give you 16 pages
including the back and front cover.
But it may become too bulky to close
properly if you use any more than
eight folded sheets. (If you wish,
make the cover page of thicker paper
or card, and slightly larger all the way
round than the inner pages.)
To bind the book, mark the
midpoint along the spine with a
pencil. Then pencil in two more points
on the spine, one each side of the
midpoint. (If you’ve got room you
could add two more points, making
five altogether, evenly spaced down
the spine.)
Open the book out and rest it,
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inside down, on a board or piece of
old cardboard. Push a drawing pin
through each marked point, all the
way through your pages, leaving you
with three (or five) holes.
Then sew it up, using your string
or ribbon, in the following sequence
(for three-holed spines):
Tie the ends into a knot or bow.
Or, for five holes:
There you have it – a little book.
Now comes the fun part – filling the
pages! You could insert photographs
or copy a poem into it to make a
present for a family member or
friend. Or give it, blank, to a child, so
they can write and illustrate their very
own story. It’s a great way to
encourage a reluctant hand-writer.
And – you never know – it could be
just the start of a flourishing literary
career.
Amy Hole
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Cooking The Books
Meaning - deliberately distorting financial
accounts in order to avoid payment of tax,
commonly known as "creative accounting".
Derived from - changing one thing into
another, as in cooking - the ingredients are
converted into a meal which, at the end of
the process, looks quite different from the
original. The phrase was in use as early
as Tudor times for in 1636 in his 'Letters
and Dispatches' the Earl of Strafford wrote,
"The proof was once clear, however they
have cooked it since". The phrase was in
common use by the 18th century and
Tobias Smollett's "The Adventures of
Peregrine Pickle" published in 1751, made
the link to finance explicit - "Some falsified
printed accounts, artfully cooked up, on
purpose to mislead and deceive".
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S
ave time and money by giving
all your laundry to the local
charity shop. You can buy it all
back for 50p a week later – all
washed and ironed!
But while you’re going there you can
also take all those old thrillers and
novels with you, so two other people
can benefit: someone receiving help
from the charity, and the person who
buys your old books. Yet perhaps this
is the greatest advantage of good old
fashioned printed books – they can be
passed around for others to enjoy.
In our modern world of e’s and i’s (ipod,
e-mail, i-player) you may have
come across the increasingly popular
e-book. The ‘e’ stands for
‘electronic’ (and in case you were
wondering, ‘i’ is for ‘Internet’). So e-
books are simply electronic versions of
any other book, but without the paper.
To read an e-book you need to buy an
e-book reader device such as
Amazon’s ‘Kindle’ (for £109). There are
cheaper versions and a quick flick
through the Argos catalogue shows
that you can buy a new one from
around £80. This is still about 10 times
the cost of a new paperback book! But
once you’ve bought your e-book reader
you can store thousands of e-books on
it – your own ‘electronic library’.
You can of course read an e-book
on a computer or most modern mobile
phones, and individual e-books are
much cheaper than their paper cousins
– you can buy many for less than £1
each. There are also many classic titles
that are free such as “Gulliver’s
Travels” and “A Christmas Carol”.
E-books have some advantages
over printed books. For example, you
can highlight text and add your own
notes without damaging the original.
You’ll never run out of space on your
book shelf (the Kindle can store up to
3,500 books) and you can search your
e-book for particular words or phrases.
But what if you drop your e-book
reader or sit on it because you’ve left it
in your back pocket? I know of many a
paper-back book that has been
dropped, thrown, and used to wedge
open a door, yet they never stopped
‘working’.
I don’t know about you but whenever
I visit someone’s house, particularly for
the first time, I like to have a sneaky
glance at their book shelves to see
what kind of books (if any) that they’re
into. You can tell a lot about someone
by the books they read. One e-book
reader looks very much the same as
another, and evokes a different kind of
snobbery (‘look at my expensive flashy
reader – I have lots of money!’) than
does a bulging book shelf (‘look at all
the important books I’ve read – I am
very clever!’).
If you’ve ever dreamt of becoming
an author, e-books are a great way to
get yourself published! You can
download free e-book publishing
software by doing a Google search for
‘mobipocket
creator
publisher
edition’.
Download it
and write that
novel you’ve
always wanted
to write. How
to publish?
Easy – Google
again for
‘Amazon
Digital Text
Platform’. It’s
free to
register, and
you can get your e-book published for
free and earn up to 70% royalties on all
your e-book sales!
All I ask is that when you become
that best selling millionaire e-book
author, perhaps you might remember
where you got your inspiration from
(this article?) and donate 10% of your
sales to a worthy local charity like the
Besom in Sheffield
(www.thebesominsheffield.co.uk)!
Daren Craddock
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
email: office@stchads.org
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Sunday Services
The 9am Service
● Traditional in style
● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns
● Includes refreshments afterwards
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
Lifted, the 11am Service
● Informal and relaxed in style
● An emphasis on families
● Includes music, led by a band
● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
• Monday to Thursday at 9am
Evening Prayers
• Monday to Thursday at 5pm
The Thursday 10am Service
• Traditional in style
• Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
• Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
Other Services
Prayer and Praise
• Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
Ash Wednesday Service
• Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm
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M
ick Herron has
published six thrillers;
the most recent, Slow
Horses (2010), was
shortlisted for the Crime Writers’
Association’s Ian Fleming Steel
Dagger, awarded to the year’s best
thriller, while his novella Dolphin
Junction won the Ellery Queen
Readers’ Award in 2009. Amy Hole
asked him about his work
What started you writing fiction?
It started with reading, of course.
When I was young I preferred reading
to real life, so wanting to write was a
natural progression from that. I wrote
stories as a child, poetry as a young
adult, and started writing a novel once I
realised I didn’t actually need anyone’s
permission to do so. Reading is always
a catalyst for the young. That’s just one
reason why the planned closure of so
many libraries is a long-term disaster in
the making.
Why thrillers?
I need a solid framework to hang
everything on, otherwise I flounder. I
was 18 months into my one serious
attempt at a non-genre novel, and had
written something like 100,000 words,
before realising that I didn’t know what
it was about. The crime/thriller genre
provides a focus I lacked on that
attempt; and it works as scaffolding, not
as a straitjacket. Slow Horses, for
instance, has a fairly complex plot, but
what interested me most was that it
involved a cast of characters who were
all, in one way or another, failures,
looking for redemption. In this, as in
much else, I’ve been encouraged by
the work of writers like Reginald Hill,
who show what’s possible within the
confines of genre.
How do you start writing a novel?
By putting the moment off for as long
as possible. I have a vague idea for the
book after the one I’m writing now – so
won’t be ready to work on for another
year at least – but have pushed it to the
back of my mind where it can
grow quietly in the darkness. I
haven’t committed anything to
paper yet, on the ground that if
I forget it that easily, it’s
obviously not up to much.
When I’m ready to start
work, on the other hand, I’ll
throw as much as I can onto
paper as quickly as possible –
fragments, mostly; snatches of
dialogue, random descriptions
of places, much of which won’t be used.
But I need a lot of material to hand
before I write the opening words, and
admit I’ve started something new. It’s a
way of avoiding blank page syndrome, I
suppose.
When do you write?
Most days, between about 7.15 and
8.30. More at weekends.
What are the best - and worst -
aspects of what you do?
The best part of writing is redrafting.
The hard work’s been done, and there’s
a peculiar joy in deleting as many words
as possible. Some evenings I struggle
to get down 300 words or so, but I
never have difficulty in removing that
many.
As for the worst part: well, it’s a selfinvolved
pursuit. And an anti-social one.
My first thought on receiving any kind of
invitation tends to be: That’ll cost me an
evening’s work. Which is not a
response most people want to hear
from someone they’ve suggested an
outing to.
Which other authors do you like?
It might be simpler to list the books
I’ve most enjoyed this year – Nicola
Barker, Burley Cross Postbox Theft;
Paul Murray, Skippy Dies; Jonathan
Coe, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell
Sim; Barbara Trapido, Sex and
Stravinsky; Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic
Universe. Seamus Heaney’s latest
collection, Human Chain, is among his
best. And the books I’m looking forward
to are the new novels by Kate Atkinson
and John le Carré, and Philip Larkin’s
Letters to Monica.
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B
ooks, particularly old ones,
are one of my passions and
I find Book Fairs irresistible.
In July 2004 at the Southern
Cathedral's Festival, Winchester had a
book and music sale in aid of the
Cathedral choir and it was here,
rummaging through other people's
cast-offs, that I came upon a little red
book. It was in a "These Books 50p"
box among dusty old school books and
ancient "Penguins". Its handsome
maroon binding had turned to the
colour of a fallen leaf and the title had
long since faded from the spine and
cover, though the gilt-edged pages still
glowed through the dust. Turning to
the title page, I found it was ‘Sir
Edward Elgar’ by J. R. Buckley,
published in 1904. The introduction
was dated July 14th 1904 - almost 100
years ago to the day! I checked that
there were no pages or pictures
missing, put £1 in the "Honesty Box"
and went upstairs to look at the music.
Here I found three well-used vocal
scores - The Messiah, Elijah and St.
Paul - copiously signed on the inside
title page by famous singers of former
days. These were also 50p each and I
paid at the till.
Back home after the festival, I
examined the Elgar book more closely.
Inside the cover it was priced at 2/6d
(12 and a half pence) and, written at
the top of the page in blue ink with a
fountain pen, was the name "Elgar
Blake". My heart-rate doubled! There
was only ever one person called Elgar
Blake, and that was Elgar's daughter,
Clarice. The name was not in her
writing. In fact I as fairly sure it
was Elgar's own. But why just his
daughter's married name? The
name must have been written
between 1921, when Clarice
married Samuel Blake, and 1934,
when Elgar died. My research
revealed that Severn House,
Elgar's huge London home, was
put up for auction in the autumn of
1921, following his wife's death in 1920
and Elgar moved into a tiny onebedroomed
flat. Most of his
possessions, including his extensive
library, had to be disposed of. Picture
Elgar, now old and alone in his
mansion, sorting through the treasures
of a lifetime. And, to be sure, the little
book was a treasure - the first
biography, probably the publisher's
complimentary copy - it could not be
thrown out or sold, but was for Clarice.
Sadly, but proudly, he wrote her newlymarried
name inside the cover and
placed it in the box for her. Clarice
died childless in 1970, before
decimalisation, and the book must
have been sold for 2/6d with the rest of
her effects. Whoever bought it must
have died around 2004 and the book
cast into the 50p reject box in the
Winchester sale. And so, on its 100th
birthday, Elgar's treasure came to me!
In August 2004, I attended the
Three Choirs Festival at Gloucester
RECORD-BREAKER!
Sir
Edward
Elgar
The two current smallest
published books are the New
Testament of the King James
Bible (5 by 5mm, created in 2001)
and Chekhov's Chameleon (0.9
by 0.9mm created in 2002).
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and took the autographed scores and
Elgar's biography to the Antique Book dealer
there. He gave me £20 for the scores - not
a bad return for £1.50 - and valued the book
at £150. But it's not for sale! When I die, it
will go to the Royal College of Music to be
freely available to students and scholars,
which is what Elgar would have wanted. So,
it just goes to show, you really can't judge a
book, or a score, by it's cover.
Eddie Askew once found Jesus, or a
silver-coloured crucifix, in a box of junk at an
Antique Fair. He considered buying it to put
Him somewhere more respectable.
However, something told him that Jesus
would not want to be rescued but would
rather be left among the rejected cast-offs of
a throw-away society. So he quietly put Him
back and thought he saw Him smile - but
then Jesus always knew how to look
beneath the surface.
"Lord of the old and the new, open my
eyes to see your presence in everyone I see
today" - Eddie Askew from "Love is a Wild
Bird".
Sylvia Bennett
Beauchief Pre-School
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A world of discovery, fun & friendships awaits your child
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T
his year sees the 400 th
anniversary of the Bible. Well,
obviously that’s not really
correct, the Bible as we know it
has been around for certainly 1600
years and the books in the Bible have
been around for a good deal longer
than that. But for many people in the
English-speaking world the definitive
version of the Bible –the King James, or
Authorised Version (AV) – will be
celebrating 400 years this year.
The King James Version was not the
first Bible written in English. William
Tyndale had translated his New
Testament 90 years before (and had
been executed for his pains). Henry
VIII had authorised the placing of an
English Bible (called The Great Bible) in
every church towards the end of his
reign. During Mary Tudor’s reign
Protestant exiles in Switzerland
produced the Geneva Bible which was
the first English Bible to have chapter
and verse. It also had various
footnotes hostile to the monarchy which
meant that it remained banned in
England. Under Elizabeth I another
English Bible (the Bishops’ Bible) was
introduced but it was never as popular
as the Geneva version.
Because of the various “unofficial”
English translations that were in
circulation, King James I ordered that
an “Authorised Version” of the Bible be
written.
He gathered together the leading
Greek and Hebrew scholars of the time
and together they produced one of the
most important works in the English
language. Those stranded on Radio
4’s famous desert island are always
given a copy of the AV along with the
complete works of Shakespeare.
The AV is heavily based on William
Tyndale’s New Testament, and Tyndale
is arguably the hidden genius behind
the translation. So many phrases from
the AV have become part of the warp
and weft of the English language: “my
brother’s keeper”, “they shall beat their
swords into ploughshares”, “a law unto
themselves”, “the wages of sin” and
“the root of all evil” are just a selection
of common phrases. Such is the
resonance of the language that many
subsequent translations still follow the
AV in its phrasing.
These days comparatively few
churches in Britain use the AV. From
the end of the Nineteenth Century there
have been a plethora of new
translations often known by confusing
initials (the RV, the RSV, the NEB, the
RNEB, the NIV and the TNIV are just a
few!). They are all however direct
descendants from the 1611 King James
Bible and the influence of the AV can
be seen in all of them.
Not that the AV was flawless. There
was a very limited print run of the AV
which missed out a rather crucial word
– “not”. The faulty text therefore read
“thou shalt commit adultery”. It became
known as the “naughty Bible”.
St Chad’s, in common with many
churches in Britain, will be celebrating
the 400 th anniversary of this remarkable
book with sermon series focussing on
specific books in the Bible – starting
with Genesis in January.
The congregation are also being
challenged to read the whole of the
Bible over the course of a year.
The AV’s translation of Ecclesiastes
12 says “of making many books there is
no end; and much study is a weariness
of the flesh.” That may be true of many
books, but of the inexhaustible riches of
the Bible I’m sure that it is not!
Toby Hole
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Here’s how little it costs to
advertise in act
Black and white adverts are priced at the
following rates for one year (six editions):
1/8 page: £78.50 1/3 page: £237.50
1/6 page: £118.80 1/2 page: £346.40
1/4 page: £173.40 Full page: £709.20
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T
he Smelly Sprout, Father
Christmas Needs A Wee,
Everybody Poos and "The
Queen's Knickers - these
were just a few book titles I came
across when searching for possible
gifts for my two young grandsons!
I'm sure that my mother, bless her,
would have been somewhat
disconcerted if she had been faced
with such titles and my
grandmother .... well, she would have
had to be revived with smelling salts!
The thought that anyone would
discuss articles of underwear
(especially Her Majesty's) in public,
let alone make them the subject of a
book to be read by children, would be
incredibly shocking - and as to
mentioning what went on behind a
locked bathroom door .... well, that
was utterly unthinkable! Yet Edward
and Thomas, along with their peers
no doubt, delight in such books and
roll about in hysterics when reading
them and looking at the pictures.
How children's books have
changed since I was little! I
remember learning to read at school -
we had Janet and John books.
Stories entitled Here We Go and Off
To Play were about the family -
Mummy and Daddy and the two
children, together with Spot the dog.
They were very ‘middle class’ and
their pleasures and adventures were
simple - they played in the garden,
went to the shops, took Spot for a
walk, and so on. Of course, as a
teaching aid the books were
excellent, because children learnt key
words very quickly - but the stories,
and their characters, were very dull,
at least by today's standard.
Of course, life was very different
when Janet and John first came on
the scene - children didn't know about
television, DVDs and computer
games - and I suppose our horizons
were rather limited.
The books reveal an age of
innocence which has, perhaps sadly,
gone for ever. I remember books by
Enid Blyton (now frowned upon),
Grimm's fairy tales and other
classics, and children's
encyclopaedias too, but I can't
remember seeing many particularly
eye-catching books in the shops or
the library.
Nowadays, the production of
children's books has become big
business. The content has evolved
along with society. There are more
imaginative characters and plots, and
real life issues are dealt with helping
children understand, and come to
terms with, difficult situations and the
challenges of today's world. Talented
graphic illustrators now provide a bold
new approach to picture books. From
wonderfully tactile books for babies,
to lift-the-flap, pop-up and scratchand-sniff
inter-active books for
toddlers, to vividly descriptive books
about history and science for school
age children. Harry Potter has
completely revolutionised children's
fiction to the extent that he has
become compulsive reading for
adults, too.
Books offer a gateway to learning
as well as an opportunity for
escapism - reading is fun and good
for the imagination. We all, young or
old, delight in the joy of discovery.
Books make us laugh, they make us
cry and they can teach us just about
everything.
So perhaps The Smelly Sprout
isn't as dreadful as it sounds - the
story has a moral; Father Christmas
Needs A Wee and Everybody Poos -
they may well reassure a child who's
being toilet trained; and The Queen's
Knickers well, I'm not sure about
that one!
Chris Laude
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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W
e asked some of the
younger members of St
Chad’s about the books
they were reading. Here
three of them tell us about their
latest books
Epos the Flame Bird
by Adam Blade
I like Epos because it’s
about a flamebird. I
enjoy reading it. It’s
interesting. It is cool. It
is really exciting. It’s
extremely cracking.
A girl and boy go on a quest with
their animals, a wolf and a horse.
Magnus Hole (6)
Young Sherlock Holmes:
Death Cloud
by Andrew Lane
I was encouraged to
read this book after
watching the brilliant
Sherlock Holmes film.
It is about a boy called
Sherlock Holmes and
his friends Matthew
and Virginia and is set in London.
Instead of enjoying the sun during
the holidays they decide to hunt down
a murderer and his gang, who want to
destroy the British Empire with killer
bees. On their adventure they find
two dead bodies covered in marks, a
secret gang trying to destroy the
British army and a plot to kill them.
This is my favourite book because
it’s full of mystery and adventure. I
particularly like the part of the book
when Sherlock has to defend himself
against a human puppet who was the
leader of the gang, while Virginia has
to take down the whip master. I would
seriously consider reading this book!
Liam Reynolds (11)
Maximum Ride: The Angel
Experiment
by James Patterson
The story is about six
kids who are 98%
human and 2% bird.
They are on the run
from the erasers, wolf
men, and the scientists
who experimented on
them from the school, the place
where the experiments are held. Also
they all have special powers e.g.
mind reading abilities.
This book is one of the most
exciting books I’ve ever read and
always left wanting to read more even
when I finished it! James Patterson is
able to create the perfect picture of
what is going on in the story so that it
feels like you are actually there
watching it happen. He also explains
who the characters are and what their
relationships are that you feel as if
you really know them. Overall James
Patterson makes an obvious fantasy
seem like a real life situation.
Esther Goodier (12)
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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The Heavenly Man
by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
ISBN 185424597X
T
his is a remarkable and true
story of a Chinese Christian
brother called Yun.
It presents like a modern day
parallel to the book of Acts in the
Bible: spiritual warfare, the power of
the Holy Spirit, visions, dreams,
miracles, near death experiences,
torture and escaping from impossible
situations.
Brother Yun experienced all these,
after following God’s calling since the
age of 16. Through illegal house
churches he helped spread
Christianity through China, whilst
evading the Chinese authorities who
saw him as a dangerous criminal.
After his conversion, Yun fasted for
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
found with a Bible would
have meant serious
consequences and
punishment. God
honoured this fast and
prayer sending Yun a
Bible. He immediately
read and memorised
chapters from the Bible.
With few resources
other than his memory and God, he
started to take the good news of
Jesus to the people of China via
illegal house churches. This gentle
man brought many people into a
relationship with the Lord.
Yun suffered inhuman and
horrendous torture when captured by
the ‘Public Security Bureau’. He
fasted for 72 days, having no food or
water, living only by God’s grace.
During this fast Yun was repeatedly
tortured, humiliated and beaten by
Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In
prison violent and dangerous men
observed Yun’s faith and obedience
to God. They realised that he was not
a criminal, just a committed Christian
and came themselves into a deep and
loving relationship with Jesus.
Miraculous and loving interventions
helped Yun for example jumping over
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.
Sian Mann
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“
In Hallam, one manor with
its sixteen hamlets, there
are twenty-nine carucates
(area of land) to be taxed.
There the Earl of Waltheof* had an
Aula (hall or court). There may
have been about twenty ploughs.
Roger de Busli holds this land for
the Countess Judith. He has
himself there two carucates and
thirty three villeins hold twelve
caracutes and a half. There are
eight acres of meadow and a
pasturable wood. In the time of
Edward the Confessor, the whole
manor was valued at eight marks of
silver (£5.33) and now at forty
shillings (£2.00). In Attercliffe and
Sheffield, two manors, Sweyn had
five caracutes of land to be taxed -
this land is said to have been within
the land of the manor of Hallam”.
T
his is a translation of part of
the Domesday Book, the
great land survey of 1086
commissioned by William the
Conqueror. He wanted to assess the
extent of the land and resources
being owned in England at that time,
so that he could determine how much
tax he could raise. The survey also
served as a gauge of the country's
economic and social state.
The name ‘Domesday Book’ was
not adopted until the late 12th century
- the huge, comprehensive scale on
which the survey took place, and the
irreversible nature of the information
collected, led the people to compare
it to the Last Judgement, or
‘Doomsday’ described in the Bible,
when people's deeds, written in the
Book of Life, were to be placed
before God for judgement! Royal
commissioners were sent out to
collect and record information from
thousands of settlements around
England. That information was
combined with earlier records from
both before and after the Conquest,
and entered into the final Domesday
Book.
All 413 pages of the survey were
handwritten, in a type of Latin
shorthand, on sheep-skin parchment
by one un-named official scribe and
checked by another. There are
13,418 places listed in the book and
amazingly, almost all of those places
can be found on present day maps,
though many of their names have
been altered over time. You can find
‘Sceathfeld’ (land, free of trees, on a
frontier near a river - Sheffield),
‘Wodesettes’ (Norton Woodseats),
‘Totingelei’ (a watching place -Totley),
‘Handeswrde’ (an enclosed
homestead belonging to Hand -
Handsworth) and ‘Aterclive’ (a village
near a cliff - Attercliff). The
Domesday Book provides a valuable
historical insight into 11th century
Norman England. It tells us about the
country's wealth at that time and the
feudal system which existed.
Through the centuries, the Domesday
Book has also been used as
evidence in disputes over ancient
land and property rights - surprisingly
enough, right up to the 1960s!
*The Earl of Waltheof was Earl of
Northumbria, too. He was the last of
the Anglo-Saxon earls still remaining
in England a full decade after the
Norman conquest. He was executed
in 1076 for his part in an uprising
against William1. His lands passed
to his wife, Judith of Normandy
(described as ‘Countess Judith’ in the
Domesday Book), who was in fact
William the Conqueror's niece. The
lands were held on her behalf, as the
book tells us, by Roger de Busli,
tenant-in-chief and one of the
greatest of the new wave of Norman
magnates.
Chris Laude
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Thanksgivings
November
11 Edie Lois TOWERS ELLIOTT
Ruben Ernest TOWERS
ELLIOTT
Kaden Paige PRESCOTT
Weddings
November
6 Matthew David EVERATT and
Helen Louise EDMONDSON
Funerals
November
8 Shirley ROBINSON (58)
10 Dorothy PRAGNELL (82)
25 Annie LEACH (75)
December
23 Joyce NEWSAM (88)
If you have recently had a new baby
and would like to celebrate that baby’s
birth with a service in church then please
come to our thanksgiving and baptism
morning at St Chad ’s on Saturday 5 th
February.
For Weddings & Funerals
Y
ou
don’t have to be a churchgoer to
have a wedding in church, nor do
you have to be ‘religious’ to have a
dignified and 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 church office. For funerals
please tell your funeral director that you
would like to have a church service.
The morning will explain the difference
between the two services and give parents
an opportunity to ask any questions they
might have. Please call the church office
on 0114 274 5086 if you are interested in
attending.
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W
hat is the most
dangerous thing that
you own? I imagine you
could put together a list
of things fairly quickly. Cars give us
a false sense of security and even
with all the safety features are quite
a dangerous thing to own. Stairs
are something we use everyday but
occasionally catch us out. Loose
carpets, knives, walking into doors,
wet tiles, and compacted snow
– the list is endless.
However if some
authorities are to be
believed the most
dangerous things
that you own are
books.
Here is a list of books
which have been banned at
one time or another or in various
countries across the globe:
There are some obvious ones
such as 1984, Animal Farm and
Doctor Zhivago - all banned in Soviet
Russia because of their perceived
criticism of the state and their political
system. How about All Quiet On The
Western Front, An American Tragedy
and The Call Of The Wild which were
all banned in Nazi Germany, again
because of their criticism of the
regime.
There are some less obvious ones
– Black Beauty (South Africa), James
and the Giant Peach (USA), Catch 22
(USA), Tom Sawyer (USA), Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland (China),
all the Harry Potter books because of
their witchcraft element and my
favourite one of all is Fahrenheit 451,
the temperature at which paper
spontaneously combusts, because
ironically it is a story about
censorship.
Why are books so dangerous –
because knowledge is power? It is
the same reason that one of the most
popular television programmes in our
house is University Challenge. We
find it fascinating. On a good evening
we can get maybe three or four
questions right between us and
sometime before the contestants
answer them. But, what throws us is
often the question not the answer. It
is not that we don’t know the
answers, which we invariably don’t,
we just don’t understand the
questions. Not only do
we not understand
the question but we
often did not
know that there
was anything to
be known, that
the subject even
existed. As
Donald Rumsfeld
once famously said “
but there are also unknown
unknowns. There are things we don't
know we don't know”.
Books are dangerous in the same
way. People are naturally inquisitive
and once their interest is aroused
they wish to know more, especially if
someone is telling them not to. I
would like to bet that the book which
has been banned in the most
countries, even the UK at one time, is
the Bible. There are many countries
in the world now which have made
owning a Bible an offence but that
does not stop people seeking after
the truth and many Bibles are still
smuggled into those countries
because people are passionate
about, and hungry for the truth.
Even now the biggest source of
inspiration for many people is the
humble book because books like
University Challenge expand our
horizons. Go on, live life dangerously
– read a book.
Steve Winks
St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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