2010-06

St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

email: office@stchads.org 

Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 2 website: www.stchads.org 

Tel: (0114) 274 5086

I love the BBC comedy Outnumbered, which, as I write, is 

showing its third series on Thursday nights. It is witty, wellobserved, 

and bears an all-too realistic depiction of family 

life. My own family seem not too far removed from the 

family on-screen. In a recent episode the Granny is trying 

to explain to the seven-year old girl, Karen, that it doesn’t 

matter what shape or size a woman’s body is. Karen, ever 

alert to the absurd, comes back with “what about a 

hexagon?” 

When we talk about getting into shape we often have a 

specific shape in mind – perhaps the shape that we were 

ten years ago or perhaps an impossible body shape that 

we have seen on the cover of a magazine – but the great 

thing about being human is that we are all shapes and sizes (though none 

of us, thankfully, are hexagons). 

For me, getting into shape means re-ordering my attitudes. It certainly, in 

my case, means being more disciplined about physical exercise, but it 

also means getting my emotional, mental and spiritual attitudes right as 

well. Sometimes we can be fit in body but flabby in mind. The problem 

that I find is that there are so many things in the world that conspire to pull 

me out of shape. Too much time in front of the television or on the 

internet is not only bad for my physical health but it’s not great for me 

spiritually or mentally. I need to shape up. 

St Paul wrote that Christians should not allow themselves to be shaped by 

the world but to be changed from the inside-out by the power of God. 

That involves a different set of exercises altogether – the exercises of 

prayer, of love and forgiveness. In their own way these exercises are just 

as gruelling as training for the London Marathon and I think the rewards 

last longer. Perhaps the next time we think about how we would like to be 

slimmer, lighter or fitter, we might also think about how we would like to be 

more loving or more thoughtful. Perhaps even more prayerful. 

I want to be the shape God made me. That will almost certainly mean that 

I never have a body of an Olympic athlete but I think that it means that I 

will have the heart and spirit of someone who loves and is loved and who 

trusts that God is changing me to be more fully human. I think then that I 

will be someone who shapes the world and is not shaped by it. 

Rev Toby Hole 

Vicar 

St Chad’s Church 

Woodseats 




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All types of electrical work 

Part P qualified 

Burglar alarms 

Telephone sockets 

Computer tuition, setup/ 

repair and upgrades. 

Malcolm Holmes 

77 Holmhirst Road 

Sheffield S8 0GW 

Tel: 0114 2490889 

Mob:07966 141780 

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Where do rabbits learn 

to fly ? 

In the Royal Hare Force! 

How did Robin 

Hood tie his 

shoe-laces? 

With a long bow! 

Why did the football 

pitch end 

up as 

triangle? 

Somebody 

took a 

corner ! 

A young girl and her four-year-old brother were 

at a wedding. 

“You're not supposed to talk out loud at 

weddings,” she told him. 

"Why? Who's going to stop me?" he asked. 

Pointing to the back of the church, his sister 

answered: “Those men are the hushers!” 

What do you 

call a man with 

a spade on his 

head? 

Doug! 

What do you 

call a man 

without a 

spade? 

Douglas! 

Doctor, Doctor I 

feel like a pack 

of 

cards. 

Peter found he had a few extra friends 

when he learned how to walk on water 

I'll deal 

with you 

later ! 




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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. 

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. 

June 5 

Mind the Gap coffee morning 

Woodseats Baptist Church 

10am-12noon 

Coffee morning with market stalls 

to raise funds to send parcels to 

Zimbabwe. 

June 6 

Discover Bishops’ House 

Bishops’ House 

11am-3.30pm 

Explore the Bishops' House and 

find out about life in Tudor 

Sheffield. There will various family 

activities and a guided tour of the 

house. Suitable for children of five 

years and over. 

Admission free. 

Call 0114 278 2600. 

June 18 

Chantryland Summer 

Conservation Day 

Graves Park 

9.30am-12pm 

Join the Friends of Graves Park, 

supported by the Rangers, to 

enhance the flower meadow, pond 

and surrounding woodland habitats 

of Chantryland Meadow. Meet at 

Norton Lees Nursery (Crendon 

Building). 

Bring waterproofs and wear boots 

or shoes that are suitable for 

walking in. There will be 

designated resting points en route. 

Car parking available. 


Call 0114 283 9195 

June 19 

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). 

June 19 

My Time - River Deep Mountain 

High 

Carterknowle Methodist Church 

1-4pm 

A creative relaxation afternoon. 

This workshop's theme is taken 

from natural landscapes. 

Admission: £15. 

Call 0114 258 7495 

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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June 20 

Ranger Event: Fly a Kite 

Greenhill Park 

1-3pm 

Join the Rangers to make paper 

kites, bring your own kite and fly 

it. Meet at the bowls pavilion in 

Greenhill Park. 

Bring waterproofs and wear boots 

or shoes that are suitable for 

walking in. Light refreshments 

available. 

July 3-4 

Cliffhanger 

Millhouses Park 

10.30am-6.30pm 

Britain's largest open-air event for 

outdoor activities. Climbing, 

mountain biking, orienteering, 

caving and lots more. 

Admission: £5 

Call 0114 273 6433 

June 4 

Discover Bishops House 

Bishops House 

11am-3.30pm 

Explore the Bishops' House and 

find out about life in Tudor 

Sheffield. There will various family 

activities and a guided tour of the 

house. Suitable for children of 5 

years and over. 


Call 0114 278 2600. 

July 5 

Woodseats Festival Literary 

Evening Competition 

Woodseats Methodist Church, 

Holmhirst Road. 

7.30-9.30pm 

Last year writers from all over 

Sheffield sent in their work, 

poems, monologues and short 

stories. Off the Shelf have agreed 

to do the shortlisting again and two 

local judges will decide the 

winners. The writers of the work 

shortlisted will be asked to read 

their work on the night. 

July 9 

Music For a Summer Evening 

Mount View Methodist Church, 

Derbyshire Lane. 

7.30pm 

An evening of music with City of 

Sheffield Teachers' Choir. 

Call 0114 230 2685 

July 11 

Woodseats Festival Parade Day 

A parade through Woodseats and 

various other events as part of the 

Woodseats Festival 2010. 

For more information on the 

festival, turn to pages 21 and 22. 

July 11 

Run in the Park 10k Race and 3k 

Fun Run 

Graves Park 

11am 

In aid of Weston Park Hospital 

Cancer Charity’. You must register 

in advance for this event, there will 

be no entries on the day. Entries 

must be received by Tuesday, July 

6. 

Register on 0114 226 5751; 

general enquiries: 0114 226 5370 

July 17 

SOUND CLASH @ the theatre 

Abbeydale Picture House 

Dead Like Harry, Neil McSweeny, 

Feelix and Scoundrel play with all 

profits going to the fund for the 

renovation of Abbeydale Picture 

House. 

Tickets: £7. 

Call 07775 966 106 




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A 

S a keen photographer, I take 

a sharp interest in the shapes 

I see around me; sometimes 

people wonder why I've taken 

pictures of a dead branch or a rusted 

old piece of machinery – well, they're 

just such intriguing shapes! 

The whole shape of the landscape 

around us is changing right now, as 

trees are transformed from 

skeletal outlines to rounded 

masses of greenery; it's a time 

of year when concern about my 

own shape arises, as I can no 

longer camouflage it under 

layers of winter clothing...maybe 

some change is needed there 

as well! 

What if I were like Odo, the 

Star Trek character who can 

take on any shape he chooses? 

What shape would I choose to 

be? What about you – what shape 

would you choose to be? 

In reality, of course, we're all 

shaped by our upbringing and 

experiences, and also by the 

circumstances we find ourselves in – 

at home, work, school or wherever. 

How much can we in turn shape or 

influence our situations? By the time 

you read this, we'll have voted for a 

new government; what “shape” (or 

colour) will that take? Or will we have 

the shapelessness of a hung 

parliament? 

Speaking as a photographer 

again, I sometimes think a picture 

can be improved by removing 

something – or even someone – from 

it. Computer software makes it easy 

to do this, and to fill in the empty 

space very convincingly. But what if 

you or I were actually removed from 

a situation: what sort of space would 

be left? What difference is made by 

the shape of your life, or mine? 

The Old Testament prophet 

Jeremiah wrote about a time when 

God told him to go and watch a 

potter at work, shaping jars out of 

clay; as he watched, God said to 

him, “As the clay is in the potter's 

hand, so are you in my hand.” 

That was a message for the nation 

of Israel, but it can apply to 

individuals too. We can each choose 

to go our own way, to make what we 

can out of our lives, to use what 

influence we have to achieve our 

own aims. Or we can consciously 

place our lives in God's hands, 

asking him to shape us, our 

characters, our circumstances, as he 

sees best. 

The outcome, the shape of our 

lives if we deliberately place them in 

God's hands, will probably surprise 

us. Many people find themselves in 

undreamed of situations through 

making this choice. 

Jesus, facing the horror of 

crucifixion, prayed what I've always 

seen as a very honest prayer: “Oh 

my Father, if it be possible, let this 

cup (the pain and death of the cross) 

pass from me: nevertheless, not as I 

will, but as you will.” 

By placing his life in God's hands, 

Jesus changed the shape of history 

forever. His death and resurrection 

have reshaped millions of lives, 

which in turn have had a shaping 

effect on the world around them. 

What shape will your life take? 

One of your own choice? Or will you 

let God shape your life and make it a 

shaping force for good? 

Ken Goodier 




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C 

HILDREN are, as we all know, 

adventurous and inquisitive 

little people. We can't know 

what a tiny baby thinks of the world 

around him as he begins to focus on 

people and objects, but we know that, 

as soon as he is able to reach out 

and grasp things, his adventure with 

shapes has begun. 

What is small enough to hold, but 

too big and has to be left alone? 

What can be put in his mouth, but too 

large and has to be dropped? It's all 

a matter of discovery — and trial and 

error, too. As a child develops and 

begins to crawl, he can explore his 

environment more and, 

subconsciously, form his own 

perceptions. Play is a child's work 

and, though learning is fun, it can 

also be hard work, too. Children can 

see and feel shapes anywhere in the 

home, or outside — not just in their 

toy box. Gradually they discover that 

round shapes can roll and pointed 

shapes can hurt. They discover that 

some shapes can fit together and 

some can be used to build with, 

successfully or not! 

Visit to any toy shop and you'll 

discover a wide choice of materials 

and games to encourage a young 

child's awareness of shape 

recognition. Apart from the ever 

popular building bricks, there are 

shape sorters where the shapes can 

only be inserted into the correctly 

shaped space; lego and jigsaws to 

suit differing stages of development; 

mosaics, stickers and books — to 

name just a few. These will all help a 

child's development — they challenge 

and help with problem-solving. 

However, you can still give your child 

the experience and have fun at the 

same time, by being creative and not 

spending any money whatsoever. 

Drawing round shapes and/or cutting 

them out to make collages, finding 

and making collections of similarly 

shaped objects, make shapes out of 

play dough, preparing or cutting food 

into shapes, going on shape finding 

hunts shapes in the home or in the 

street, imagining and guessing 

shapes in the clouds, and so on - all 

these activities give your child the 

opportunity to experiment with ideas 

and, most important of all, to make 

mistakes. You can make a game of 

shopping then fitting the groceries in 

bags, or storing them in the 

cupboards at home—that way, your 

child gets a learning experience and 

you get some much needed help! 

There are some excellent educational 

programmes for young children on 

the television and some very good 

inter-active learning opportunities on 

the internet, too, and though it's not a 

good idea to encourage too much 

screen-watching, they do have their 

place in today's world. However, 

don't forget that modern technology, 

fun though it may be, is no substitute 

for spending time talking, sharing and 

playing with your child. 

Playing and experimenting with 

shapes is the most basic and 

fundamental way in which children 

learn to sort, organise and compare, 

and provides building skills which 

help with reading and writing as, later 

on, they come to recognise letters by 

their shape. My little grandson, Tom, 

could write and recognise his name 

at a very early age because, as he 

proudly pointed out to me, "it has a 

circle" in the middle. Once a child 

knows the names of the shapes, he 

can then verbally identify similarly 

shaped objects and differentiate one 

object from another. It has been said 

that young children are natural 

mathematicians and scientists, and 

certainly ideas related to shape, 

which have been understood at an 

early age, help children with maths 

and physics in school. So, who 

knows - I may have a budding 

Einstein in the family! 

Chris Laude 




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M 

Y Dad took me to my first 

ever Sacred Harp Singing 

Convention when I was 14 

years old – I had never heard 

anything like it. 

Sixty voices in four-part harmony 

all singing from their gut with raw 

passion and energy. I had sung lots 

of music and been in choirs before 

but never heard anything like this. 

That’s because 

this was Shape Note 

music. The tradition 

is American, but has 

its roots in early 18th 

century English 

choral music which 

traveled over to New 

England. Singing 

schools were set up 

to teach young 

people sacred music, 

and from this came 

the invention of the 

shaped notes, each with an 

associated syllable to make sight 

reading music easier. In normal 

musical notation note heads are 

round, but this system uses triangles 

(‘fa’), squares (‘la’) and diamonds 

(‘mi’) as well as the traditional circles 

(‘so’). This is like the more familiar 

system of ‘do re mi’ but with only four 

shapes with the pattern repeating up 

the scale so the reader knows the 

interval between the notes. For 

example, a major scale is: fa so la fa 

so la mi fa. 

Due to its roots as a form of 

worship, Sacred Harp singing is not a 

performance for an audience. We are 

singing for each other so we sit in a 

hollow square facing inwards, with 

one side for each of the four parts – 

tenor (melody line), bass, treble and 

alto. Each person is given the 

opportunity to ‘lead’ a song of their 

choice by standing in the centre of 

the square and beating time to keep 

the singers together. The centre of 

the square is the best place to hear a 

song – a wonderful wall of sound 

from all sides. Having your fellow 

singers encouraging you, supporting 

you, celebrating with you, or even 

just simply enjoying the music with 

you, can be the most uplifting and 

moving of experiences. 

Sings can last all day – some 

even last 2 or 3! We sing as many as 

80 songs per day, so 

food and 

refreshments are a 

integral part of the 

Sacred Harp tradition. 

Food is provided on a 

‘bring and share’ 

basis so everyone 

gets to enjoy each 

other’s cooking. 

To me, Sacred Harp 

singing means 

community. Everyone 

is welcomed, 

regardless of beliefs or musical 

ability. We sit with each other all day: 

singing, talking and eating together, 

sharing something of ourselves with 

each song. After I’d been to a few 

sings I started associating the music 

with people, either because they’d 

always choose the same song to 

lead, or because a song had 

particular meaning for them on a 

certain day; a few of my friends sang 

Sacred Harp songs at their 

weddings; some songs remind me of 

singers who have passed on; others 

remind me of special occasions – 

anniversaries, christenings, even for 

getting new jobs or houses. 

To me, the songs and the people 

who sing them are now inseparable. 

Sacred Harp singing is not just about 

a bunch of great songs, it’s about the 

people who come together to sing 

them and the community they create 

each time they sit down to “sing the 

shapes”. 

Carmel 




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W 

OOD-TURNING is not all 

about round shapes! 

Applying your God given 

skills of creativity, dexterity and 

imagination through wood turning 

can result in some very unusual and 

often beautiful shapes. 

To understand how some of the 

more naturally beautiful and unusual 

shaped pieces are achieved you 

have to understand where, from the 

tree, the wood is taken for the item 

being turned. For table legs and 

other spindle shapes obviously the 

grain has to run lengthways through 

the piece for strength. The converse 

is true for turning platters, bowls and 

other receptacles. For these items 

many people imagine the wood is cut 

transversely from a tree trunk or a 

branch to give you a circular piece 

from which you turn your bowl. This 

is not so. The piece has to be cut so 

the grain runs sideways through the 

bowl. 

This guy is cutting himself some 

bowl blanks from a log. The short 

“planks” will then be cut on a band 

saw to give the circular piece for 

mounting on the lathe. 

Now, if you want to turn a natural 

edged bowl, having a rim that is 

uneven, then the bowl will be taken 

from the outer “plank” and the shape 

will be turned so that the outer 

surface or bark surface will be un-cut 

and remain on the finished shape. 

The rougher and more fissured 

the bark is then the more 

complex and beautiful the 

shape is. 

Some trees have unusual 

growths on their trunks, these 

are known as “burls” or “burrs”. 

The surface of the burl is often 

very uneven and the grain is 

extremely random. These burls 

are very sought after to make 

fantastic natural edged bowls 

with wonderfully unusual 

figuring of grain. 

Finally some extremely skilful 

wood turners can create very 

unusual shapes by mounting the 

piece on more than one axis and the 

results can be amazing—literally 

eccentric! 

If you can, type this link into your 

web browser and take a look at this 

video you’ll be amazed! 

http://www.in.com/videos/ 

watchvideo-woodturning-eccentricgoblet-2-2788459.html 

Jonathan Siddall 




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Ship-shape and Bristol Fashion 

Meaning - neat, tidy and fit for purpose. 

Derived from - two phrases merged 

into one, "Ship-shape" was first 

recorded in 1644 in The Sea-man's 

Dictionary when part of the structure 

was described as having no practical 

use for the ship, other than making the 

ship "shapen", or strengthen its 

construction . 

"Bristol fashion" was added later - it 

appears in Two Years Before The Mast 

written in 1840 during Bristol's its 

heyday as successful trading 

port. Situated on the Avon estuary, 

several miles from the sea, Bristol had 

been an important port for over a 

thousand years. The harbour has one 

of the most variable tidal flows in the 

whole world and the level of the water 

can vary more than 30 feet between 

tides, so that some vessels are 

beached every low tide. Consequently, 

any ship entering the harbour had to be 

strongly made to withstand the 

possibility of being left high and dry, 

and any goods had to be securely, and 

neatly, stowed in their holds. 




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S 

O here it is – the ultimate 

exercise that just about anyone 

can do, takes hardly any effort 

at all and is guaranteed to give you 

immediate and effective results! It 

won’t even get you out of breath! Do 

this exercise daily (at least three 

times a day) and you’ll be amazed at 

how much body fat you’ll lose. It’s 

very simple and you can do this 

standing or sitting, although most 

people would prefer to do this sitting 

down. Lift up your arm (left or right or 

even both, it’s up to you) so that the 

back of your hand is touching your 

chest with the palm of your hand 

facing away from you. Now, push 

your hand away from your body until 

your arm is straight. You only have to 

do this once. And that’s it! 

So how does this work? Simple – 

do this exercise during each meal, at 

the point where you’ve eaten enough 

until you feel, say, 80 per cent full. 

Bring up your hand to your chest, and 

push that plate away! 

Still confused at how this works? I 

was recently looking at some old 

family photos from the 1970s (I was 

born in 1970) and it struck me how 

slim everyone looked. Thinking back, 

it was a rarity to see anyone with an 

expanding waistline in those days. 

Look back at your own family photos 

and I suspect that you’ll notice the 

same thing. When I compare those 

old photos to more recent ones of my 

family it seems that just about 

everyone these days is carrying more 

pounds than they really should. Why? 

Because credit is so freely available 

(or at least was until recently) that 

most of us don’t think twice about 

paying out for a take-away dinner. 

Fast foods and microwave dinners 

are so full of fats, and we all seem to 

drive everywhere because life is so 

busy and we don’t have much spare 

time. 

Losing weight and keeping in 

shape all comes down to a very 

simple energy equation. When we eat 

food we store energy (this is our 

energy ‘input’). When we move about, 

do things and exercise we use up 

energy (this is our energy ‘output’). 

For most of us, our energy input has 

far exceeded our energy output over 

the years. The trick is to get your 

energy output greater than your input, 

by doing more and eating less. But 

here’s the thing – our bodies are so 

amazingly efficient that the energy we 

get from eating a single custard 

cream biscuit (57 calories) is enough 

to enable a person who weighs 12 

stone to walk for half a mile at a brisk 

pace! 

This should hardly be surprising as 

the Holy Bible says this: “I praise You 

(God) because I am fearfully and 

wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139 verse 

14) That word ‘wonderfully’ means 

that we are marvellous, set apart, 

separate (we are not just animals). 

And the word ‘fearfully’ has something 

to do with reverence. In other words, 

God has given us amazing bodies 

(you might not think that your body is 

amazing but it’s the pinnacle of all 

creation!) so let’s use our bodies 

reverently and take care of them this 

year by keeping active and pushing 

that plate away! 

One final thought: my daughter has 

recently started doing an early 

morning paper-round and once or 

twice I have done this for her when 

she was ill. I can tell that you I 

certainly burnt quite a few calories 

doing her round! And then it struck 

me – why pay for expensive gym 

membership when you can get paid 

for exercising by doing a paper 

round? (20mins brisk walking each 

morning for £50 a month!) Don’t all 

rush at once to the newsagents! 

Daren Craddock 




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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 10.30am Service 

● Informal and relaxed in style 

● An emphasis on families 

● Includes music, led by a band 

● Includes refreshments before the service 

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 

REFLECTIVE WORSHIP 

• Wednesdays June 16 and July 21 at 7.15pm 

• A contemplative and meditative form of worship. 

• Theme: Seeking Faith Through the Psalms. 

Celebration Praise 

• Sundays, 7.30-9.30pm - for dates see stchads.org 

• An evening of praise, worship and prayer 

• Music led by the worship band 




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P 

HYSICAL exercise and a life of 

prayer may not seem to go 

together (unless going down on 

your knees could be considered a 

form of exercise). 

Yet there is in fact a long tradition 

of physical exertion and prayer. One 

of the most obvious examples of this 

is the practice of pilgrimage. From 

the early Middle Ages onwards 

people would travel as far as a 

thousand miles to visit the shrine of a 

saint in order to pray for healing, give 

thanks to God or repent of some 

wrong doing. A skeleton excavated in 

Worcester Cathedral in the 1980s 

revealed a medieval pilgrim dressed 

in walking boots and coat who had 

apparently walked all the way to 

Santiago de la Compostella in Spain 

and back – and picked 

up two arrow wounds for 

his trouble. 

The monks of the 

medieval monasteries 

also had a strong prayerwork 

ethic, believing that 

hard work on the soil 

went hand in hand with 

saying their prayers. The 

combination of hard work 

and a better than Whirlow Grange 

average diet meant that 

the monks of a thousand years ago 

were among the healthiest people of 

their time. I’m not sure the same 

could be said of vicars today. 

Today many people still go on 

pilgrimage – the journey over the 

Pyrenees to Santiago de la 

Compostella remains a very popular 

route for people of all faiths and none 

– but the link between physical work 

and prayer is less common. That 

being said many Christians still find it 

useful to take themselves out of 

“normal” life for a period in order to 

undertake spiritual “exercises” in 

which both the body and the spirit are 

focussed on meeting with God. 

These exercises might involve 

fasting for a period from food or they 

might involve a prayer vigil throughout 

the night. Many people spend some 

time – hours or days – in a retreat 

centre which specially caters for such 

times. 

We are fortunate living in this part 

of Sheffield that we have many 

opportunities to take ourselves briefly 

out of daily life to spend time finding 

God. Walking around Beauchief or 

Ecclesall Woods can be a great way 

of lifting us out of ourselves and 

starting to pray. The nearby Peaks 

are also great places to walk and pray 

in. 

If you are interested in the idea of 

going to a retreat centre for a day 

then you might want to try out 

Whirlow Grange (www.whirlow 

grange.co.uk) which is the Diocese of 

Sheffield’s retreat centre just off 

Ecclesall Road South. Whirlow 

Grange can offer residential retreats 

for those with the time to really step 

away from it all, but perhaps more 

practically for most of us there are 

quiet days with a simple lunch 

provided on the third Tuesday of 

every month. These days are an 

ideal opportunity to examine the 

shape of your spiritual life and to meet 

with God in a way that isn’t always 

possible in the rush of our busy lives. 

You might even want to walk there! 

Rev Toby Hole 




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A 

LTHOUGH it worked a 

commercial miracle, 'A 

Diamond is Forever' is only 

a catchphrase and not actually 

true. 

Diamonds may have formed at 

astonishing temperatures and 

pressures, and they may be the 

hardest substance in the universe, 

but they are only 'forever' if you 

treat them right. Diamonds are so 

hard that they can only be cut and 

shaped by other diamonds. They 

are, however, quite brittle and one 

badly aimed blow with a cutting 

tool can smash them to 

smithereens. 

Under certain circumstances 

they can actually vanish as Grand 

Duke Cosimo the Third found out 

when, in 1690s Florence, he fixed 

a diamond in the focus of a large 

burning glass. As he and his 

fellow experimenters watched, the 

stone cracked open and 

disappeared, leaving only a trace 

of ash behind. Unsurprisingly the 

experiment was not repeated and 

the mystery was only solved 100 

years later in 1796 by the British 

scientist, Smithson Tennant. He 

placed a weighted diamond in a 

golden tube with saltpetre and by 

looking at what remained after 

heating, proved that one of the 

most precious objects in the world 

was nothing more than a form of 

carbon which, like coal, is 

combustible. 

Although a finished diamond is 

of great worth, it takes a master 

craftsman to see its potential. 

When the famous Cullinan 

diamond was presented to King 

Edward VII, he was disappointed 

by its ordinariness. "If I'd seen it in 

the road"' he remarked, "I would 

The Cullinan diamond 

have kicked it". The Cullinan was 

sent to Amsterdam to be cut into 

nine large stones, the biggest of 

which is set into the British royal 

sceptre. Some of the other 

Cullinan stones, or 'Granny's chips' 

as the Queen calls them, were set 

into a brooch worn by the Royals 

today. 

The places where diamonds are 

cut and sold are often chaotic, dark 

and cramped. One such place is 

Gabi Tolkowsky's studio in 

Antwerp, Belgium. Tolkowosky is 

one of the world's greatest 

diamond cutters and, when he first 

sees a diamond, he asks of it 

"What do you want to become?" 

He asked the same question of the 

Centenary, one of the largest, 

colourless diamonds ever found. 

"You cannot go quickly", he says. 

"If you polish a wrong facet, you 

can never put it back". He talks of 

diamonds as a teacher might of his 

pupils. They are gifted, 

problematic and challenging - but, 

most of all, they are individuals. 

When you think about it, God is 




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a master craftsman too. The 

deeply flawed King David knew this 

when he wrote Psalm 139 - "My 

frame was not hidden from you 

when I was being made in secret, 

intricately wrought in the depths of 

the earth. Your eyes beheld my 

unformed substance. All the days 

ordained for me were written in 

your book before any one of them 

came to be" - vs.15-16. So, as with 

King David, God has known us a 

long time, faults and all, and will 

continue to shape and guide us 

towards our destiny. 

But I think, before He cuts too 

deeply, He will ask us what we 

want to be and will surely wait for 

our answer. The following verses 

are taken from the poem 

"Revelation" by Ann Lewin - 

(Lord) you are still creating, 

Bringing to life the promise that is 

there. 

Sometimes by hammer blows 

which jar my being, 

Sometimes by tender strokes, half 

felt, 

Which waken me to life. 

Go on, Lord. Set me free to share 

with you 

In your creative joy, 

To laugh with you 

At your delight in me, 

Your work of art. 

from: Watching for the Kingfisher 

So, as Tolkowsky the craftsman 

said of some of his more 

problematic 'pupils', "These are 

stones which people didn't want, 

and yet now they are the most 

beautiful". 

Sylvia Bennett 

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10am to 12 noon 

On the last Saturday of each month. 

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How well do you know your countries? Can you tell a country from its 

shape? Below are 20 countries —16 in Europe, two in S. America, 

one in Asia and one in Africa. Have a go at filling in the blanks. 

Answers are on page 25. Note: The diagrams are NOT to scale! 

1 2 3 4 5 

1 

6 7 8 9 10 

11 12 13 14 15 

16 17 18 19 20 




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T 

HIS year's Woodseats 

Festival takes place at the 

begining of July and 

organisers hope it will be the best 

ever. 

Various events are being 

organised and full details will be 

available soon on the festival 

website - 

www.woodseatsfestival.org.uk - 

but festival chair Diana Stimely 

has given Impact a sneak preview 

of some of what is on offer. 

The festival's football 

tournament taks place from July 

5 to 10 at Laycocks Social Club on 

Archer Road. There wil be 

competitons for Under 12s, Under 

16s, girls/women and adults. 

The team entry fee is juniors 

£15 and adults £20. 

To register contact David 

Cassim at Laycocks on 0114 236 

9104 after 4pm. 

A Best Garden competition 

will be taking place and is open to 

The popular 

Woodseats Craft Fair 

is being held at 

Woodseats Methodist 

Church Hall in 

Holmhirst Road and 

will see 20 stalls 

featuring high quality, 

locally produced 

craftwork including 

glassware, home 

accessories, knits, 

jewellery, cards, 

original artwork, 

textiles, photography, 

cakes, face painting and much 

more. Refreshments will be 

available and you can also enjoy 

the Festival Art Exhibition 

featuring the work of local artists. 

Entry is free. 

A previous year’s festival parade makes 

its way along Abbey Lane. 

residents living in Woodseats and 

the S8 area. 

Just fill in an entry form, which 

will soon be available. Categories 

will include Best Larger Garden, 

Best Smaler Garden and 

Greenest Garden. Judging will 

take place during Festival week 

(starting Saturday July 3). The 

festival organisers are also hoping 

that those taking part in the 

competition will open their 

gardens to the public on Saturday 

July 10 from 10am - 4pm. 

The Woodseats Festival 

Literary Evening Competition 

takes place on July 5 at 

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shortlisted writers reading their 

work. 

There will be a Punch and 

Judy Show on Thursday July 8 

from 4.30pm to 6.30pm outside 

Woodseats Library. 

Members of Molly Limpet's 

Festival-goers try their hand at the 

Name the Bear competition. 

Theatrical Emporium Ltd are 

taking part in the parade and are 

turning their shop into a Pirates 

Cave on Sunday July 11. 

An art competition is being 

organised as part of the festivak, 

for children. 

The festival parade will 

take place on Sunday, July 

11 and will be led by the Air 

Training Corp Band, which 

is based at the TA unit at 

Meadowhead. 

Diana said: "Events being 

planned are certainly 

looking good and we are 

pulling out all the stops to 

make July 5-11 the best 

Woodseats Festival ever." 

For more details, go to 

www.woodseats 

festival.org.uk or contact 

Diana on 0114 255 6179. 

THE BEAUCHIEF SCHOOL OF 

SPEECH TRAIIG 

Pupils trained in the art of perfect 

speech and prepared for examination 

and stage work 

BARBARA E. MILLS, L.G.S.M.,A..E.A. 

(Eloc) Gold Medal 

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Easy Biscuits 

Preparation Time: 15 mins 

Cooking Time: 10 mins 

Ingredients 

250g plain flour, sieved 

125g softened butter 

125g caster sugar 

1 organic free range egg, beaten 

1 tsp vanilla essence 

Method 

1. Preheat the oven to 190C (gas 

mark 5). 

2. In a large bowl, mix the butter, 

sugar and vanilla essence together 

until light and fluffy. 

3. Gradually beat the egg into the 

mixture. 

4. Add the flour to the bowl and 

mix with the other ingredients until 

you have a firm ball of dough. 

5. Roll out the dough with a rolling 

pin until it is ½ cm thick and then 

cut out shapes with a cookie 

cutter. 

6. Place the biscuit shapes onto a 

greased baking tray and bake in 

the centre of the oven for 10-15 

minutes until the biscuits are 

golden. 

7. Once the biscuits have cooled 

on a wire rack they can be 

decorated with icing. 

For more seasonal recipes go to 

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Beauchief Pre-School 

Where learning is fun 

Ofsted inspected & approved 

for ages 2 1 / 2 to school. Free places 

available for 3 & 4 year olds. 

A world of discovery, fun & friendships awaits your child 

Drop in to see us or for a brochure, more information or to 

enrol your child please contact Sarah 274 6930 

Beauchief Baptist Church 

Hutcliife Wood Road S8 




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Thanksgivings 

April 

4 Molly May AYRES 

Katie Ann LAWSON 

18 Mylo Bayley EVANS-PRYOR 

Joseph Robert TAYLOR 

Weddings 

March 

10 Owen NOMAMIUKOR and 

Ruth Itebimie AIGBOKHAI 

Funerals 

April 

1 Alfred DAMS (69) 

7 Eric RENSHAW (70) 

20 Peter FRITH (63) 

For Weddings 

& Funerals 

You don’t have to be a churchgoer in order 

to have a white 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 

the St Chad’s parish office. For funerals 

please tell your funeral director that you 

would like to have a church service. 




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T 

HE name Chantrey is a 

familiar one to people living in 

Norton and Woodseats. 

There’s the Chantrey pub, Chantrey 

Road and there even used to be a 

Chantrey Picture House on 

Chesterfield Road. 

But how many people 

travelling through the area 

know about the man these 

were named after? 

Sir Francis Leggatt 

Chantrey was a famous 

sculptor, born in Norton in 

1782, but his influence 

reached far beyond our 

area. 

He started off as a wood carver 

but after receiving lessons in 

painting he decided he wanted to 

become an artist and went to try his 

fortune in Dublin, Edinburgh and 

London. While still working as a 

wood-carver, he devoted himself to 

portrait-painting, bust-sculpture, and 

Answers from page 18 

1.Argentina 2.Chad 3.Malta 

4.Finland 5.Italy 6.Germany 

7.Iceland 8.Portugal 9. 

Romania 10. Japan 11.France 

12. Norway 13. Netherlands 14.Chile 

15.Croatia 16.Cyprus 17.Austria 

18.Belgium 19.Hungary 20.Greece 

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clay modelling and also exhibited 

pictures at the Royal Academy. 

His sculpting talents were soon 

recognised and one of his first major 

works was the model of the head of 

Satan which was exhibited 

at the Royal Academy. In 

1819 he visited Italy and 

met the most distinguished 

sculptors of Florence and 

Rome. He became a 

member of the Royal 

Academy and was knighted 

in 1835. 

Chantrey's works are 

numerous and include 

statues of George 

Washington in the State-house at 

Boston, Massachusetts, George III in 

The Guildhall, London, William Pitt 

the Younger in Hanover Square, 

London, and James Watt in 

Westminster Abbey. 

He died in 1841 and was buried in 

a tomb constructed by himself in 

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