2016-08
August/September 2016
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
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Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about
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Regular readers of Impact will have picked
up a while ago that gardening isn’t really
my thing. Outside of the house we tend
to let nature run wild and inside the house
we kill almost every plant we own (the
one exception being my son’s cactus which is
surviving quite happily).
That isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy gardens –
particularly other people’s – and it’s even possible
that given the time I might be able to do a little
pottering about myself. Our favourite gardens
that we visit are those in Chatsworth, and not
just the magnifi cent grounds with the rocks, the
water features and the sculptures. The kitchen garden with its multitude
of different herbs giving off wonderful scents of rosemary, mint, sage etc.
are also a great favourite.
The garden that I know best is the one that I grew up playing in, in my
parents house on the outskirts of London. My parents bought a house
that was a wreck with a garden that displayed nature at its worst. The
bottom of the garden was a permanent marsh with water that regularly
fl ooded the concrete bomb shelter that was an unwanted feature of the
landscape. Neither the house nor the garden had been tended for a long
time and my father, displaying talents that I sadly never inherited, set
about improving both.
Over the course of some 25 years the bomb shelter was demolished to
make a patio, the marsh was drained and turned into a vegetable patch,
paths were put in, dead trees cut down, fl owers planted and the lawn
relaid. Neither house nor garden now display any sign of their previous
neglect.
The love that many of us have for gardens comes, I think, out of the
knowledge that beauty comes at a cost. The pleasing lines and colours
that make up a good garden are certainly not “natural”; they are the
product of human imagination and initiative working with the raw power
and spontaneity of nature. Too much order and the landscape feels
artifi cial, too much spontaneity and it is simply fi lled with weeds.
If we do feel closer to God in a garden, as Dorothy Gurney’s poem
says, then I wonder if it is because in our own lives we recognise a
certain interplay of creative order and chaotic spontaneity.
I know that if I lived entirely according to my own selfi sh
desires I would be weed-ridden and unpleasant. I need
God to fashion me and be the gardener to my soul
bringing out the best of me and rooting out the worst.
And like all gardens, if I neglect my spiritual life for too
long, the weeds soon come back with a vengeance.
If we’re feeling messy and weedy then perhaps we
need to look to the Good Gardener to prune, weed and
nurture us?
Rev Toby Hole, Vicar,
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats
Closer to God in a Garden?
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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A little boy was sitting
in his garden with his
mum when a lorry went
by loaded up with rolls of
turf.
“I’m going to do that
when I’ve got a garden,”
he told his mum.
“What’s that dear?” she
asked.
“Send my lawn away to
be cut!” he replied.
A man walked into
a fi sh and chip shop
with a salmon under
his arm.
He asked “Do you
sell fi sh cakes here?”
“No,” was the reply.
“That’s a shame, it’s
his birthday!”
Why do potatoes
make good
detectives?
Because they keep
their eyes peeled!
What did the traffic
light say to the
car?
“Don’t look, I’m
changing!”
“We were told you only accepted
creatures on the ark in pears!”
Why did Cinderella
get dropped from
the football team?
She ran
away
from
the
ball!
What
happened
to the
plant in
the maths
lesson?
It grew
square
roots!
What’s brown
and runs round
the garden
A fence!
Why did the
tomato go out
with a prune?
Because he
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Because they
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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 the Visitors
Centre at Abbeydale Industrial
Hamlet;
•Thursdays - 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley
Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley
Road, Lowedges;
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at the JG Graves
Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane.
) Call 0114 203 9337 for details
regarding any of the walks.
August 2
Dens and Fires Wild Play
Woodland Discovery Centre,
Ecclesall Woods
10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm
Children’s session with the Wildlife
Trusts. Price £5 per person.
Booking is essential on 0114 263
4335.
August 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31
Make your Own Wednesdays
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
10am - 12.30pm
Fun family craft activities.
Normal Hamlet admission
applies with a small fee charged
for crafts.
August 9
Butterflies & Bees Wild Play
Woodland Discovery Centre,
Ecclesall Woods
10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm
Children’s session with the Wildlife
Trusts. Price £5 per person.
Booking essential on 0114 2634335.
August 14, 28 and 29
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Abbeydale Road South
1-5pm
The regular open days at
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.
August 16
Natural Art Wild Play
Woodland Discovery Centre,
Ecclesall Woods
10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm
Children’s session with the Wildlife
Trusts. Price £5 per person.
Booking essential on 0114 2634335.
August 19
An Elizabethan Wardrobe
Revealed
Greenhill Library
7pm
A talk, demonstration and display
by Maureen Taylor. Learn about
men’s and children’s fashions,
social habits, hats, and more.
Tickets are £5 and will be
available from the library.
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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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.
Lowedges. Meet at the Community
Wing, Lowedges Junior School.
Call 0114 203 9337.
February 12
Free Environmental Activities
Millhouses Park
National August Council 20 for Divorced, September 11 and 25
1.30-3.30pm
Single The Great and Widowed Greenhill Bake Off Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
Tuesdays Greenhill 8-11pm Library
Abbeydale Road South
Norton 2pm
and
Country Club
1-5pm
bug hunting activities for 8 - 13
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August 23
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Why Panda. Not Advance Try A Bike booking strongly
Book Woodland Sale Discovery Centre, Greenhil
recommended.
Park
36 Ecclesall Crawshaw Woods Grove, Beauchief
10am-2pm
10am-12pm or 1.30-3.30pm September 18
Rediscover your cycling skills in
Good Children’s quality session second-hand with the books Wildlife Nether Edge Farmers Market
Greenhill Park. The rangers will
for Trusts. sale in Price aid of £5 the per Alzheimer‟s person. Nether Edge
provide a bike, helmet and
Society. Booking Donations is essential of on paperback 0114 263 12-4pm
instruction. Meet at the Bowls
novels 4335. or biographies in good Stalls and entertainment in the
Pavilion, Greenhill Park.
condition are welcome (but not streets around the old Nether Edge
Booking is essential.
larger September books due 11 to space
Market Place.
Call 0114 283 9195.
limitations). Farmer’s Market
Greenhill Library
10am-4pm
February 5
Food and crafts from local
Free Environmental Activities
producers at Greenhill Library’s
Millhouses
third Farmers
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and Artisan Craft
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10.30am-12.30pm
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Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Capability Brown
World-renowned
landscape
gardener
Lancelot
‘Capability’
Brown transformed the
gardens at Chatsworth in
1760 designed out of what
was then working farmland
– a challenge for the great
designer who often talked of
a garden’s ‘capabilities’ which
earned him his well-known
nickname.
Born in 1716, he is
thought to have fi rst visited
Chatsworth in 1758.
This year the Capability
Brown Festival is celebrating
the 300th birthday of the
man seen as the ‘father of
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In June 2014 the St Chad’s
Reshaping the Church project
was launched. You may
remember reading something
about it at the time in Impact.
At the time of the launch we
set ourselves the task of raising
£300,000 from the congregation,
from the sale of property and from
grants. Rather predictably, the
costs escalated quite considerably
and we have ended up raising
the remarkable sum of £430,000
which covers all the predicted costs
with the exception of VAT (most of
which we can reclaim under the
listed places of worship scheme).
We also now have all the
permissions in place from Sheffi eld
Council and the Diocese of
Sheffield. As I write, exploratory
work is taking place on the
foundations of the church with
full works due to start on July 4.
I hope that by the time that you
are reading this, work will be well
underway.
When the project has been
completed, the church will have a
new kitchen with facilities to feed
30 or so people, a new parish
office, more accessible toilets,
better-equipped meeting rooms
and a more attractive worship area.
We believe that the new building
will be of tremendous benefi t
not just to the regular Sunday
congregation, but also to the wider
community as the church will be
open longer for private prayer
and contemplation and there will
be greater opportunities for us
to extend Christian hospitality to
those in our neighbourhood who
need it most.
Hopefully you are already aware
that we have been worshipping
at Abbey Lane Primary School
since January where we are
holding our Sunday 9am and 11am
services. It has been
a great experience
worshipping
in a different
location
and we are
extremely
grateful to the
governors of
the school and
the head teacher,
Maxine Stafford,
for allowing us to
use the school building.
Perhaps you’ve never been to
church before because the idea
of coming into a religious building
puts you off. If that’s the case then
come to the school and see what
Church outside of a church looks
like!
Our friends at Woodseats
Methodist Church have very kindly
allowed us to use their building for
our regular Thursday 10am service
of Holy Communion, and we hope
that this will give us an opportunity
to share worship across Christian
traditions.
What the building works do
mean is that we are unable to
conduct funerals and weddings
in the church until the project is
completed and any baptisms will
take place in the school and not the
church. We also do not yet know
what Christmas services we will be
able to hold as the completion date
for the works is set for February.
We apologise for any
inconvenience that the building
works may cause, but we are
confi dent that the new building
will be a wonderful asset to our
parish and we hope that as many
of the parish as possible will feel
encouraged to come along and
visit once the work has been
completed.
Rev Toby Hole
Reshaping the Church
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
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St Chad’s Church has
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Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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If you go down to the woods
today, you’re sure of a big
surprise! A well-known
line from a great children’s
song. Well, we’re hoping
this is true for our pupils at Abbey
Lane School as we embark on a
massive woodland project.
We are very fortunate to have a
large woodland area on our land,
one that the children love to go
to and experience nature, look
for mini beasts, bird-watch, build
dens – you name it. BUT there is
one drawback. The area offers no
shelter from the elements and is
quite overgrown.
Since I became a Governor,
the teaching staff and pupils have
mentioned how they would love to
be able to use this area more and
to really develop it and allow it to
become an extension of our school
buildings and classrooms. We
have spent many an hour talking
about how we could do this and
what we would like to achieve. The
Governors gave the teaching staff
a ‘magic wand’ and asked what
they really wanted, we also asked
the children how they felt we could
improve the woodland area.
Their replies involved a
classroom, a swimming pool, a
singing circle and a gardener’s
club! We vowed to try and make
their ideals a reality, minus the
swimming pool! And so, fast
forward a year and we have
started to fundraise for our
woodland classroom.
On Friday June 24 our staff,
Governors, parents and pupils
all took part in a sponsored walk
around Millhouses Park. Fancy
dress was encouraged and prizes
were awarded for imagination as
the children also took part in a
scavenger hunt along the way.
After the walk all participants
received a wooden medal and we
all enjoyed a picnic, stoned baked
pizza and a few games. It was a
lovely event, the children really
brought a smile to our faces as
they raced round the course.
We haven’t yet added up all the
sponsorship money as it is still
coming in, but we are very hopeful
we will have made a dent in our
£6,000 target!
Jemma Taylor
Chair of Governors, Abbey
Lane Primary School
Woodland Learning
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
Photographing the
L
Landscape photography is a great
passion of mine. It had always
been a hobby and just over 10
years ago, when changing career
from surgery to photography,
I was fortunate enough that it could
become a large part of my work. Being
out in the landscape, for me, is so
inspiring, invigorating and revitalising –
something I aim to convey to the viewer
in my images.
Much careful planning is usually
involved in getting myself in the right
place at the right time – striving to
capture the landscape in all its glory
demands perseverance and patience.
Some images are captured quickly
whilst others require several visits –
often returning empty handed. It is easy
to become demoralised after failed
outings, but persistence is usually
rewarded and the rewards far outweigh
any downside.
There is nothing quite like the buzz
you get on the way back home when
you just know that you’ve got a cracker
in the bag!
For most of us, life is busy – a
continual rush from one place to the
next. Landscape photography can be a
much needed antidote to this. For me
to make meaningful images, I need to
slow down to absorb my surroundings
and to take careful note of the details,
before piecing together the composition.
For those viewing my work, I endeavour
to reveal those hidden details and most
transient of moments that are all so
easily missed as life passes us by.
Living in Sheffi eld, the Peak District
is just a stone’s throw away and is a
constant source of inspiration – what
a place to have on the doorstep! The
landscape is so varied, offering endless
opportunities throughout the seasons.
It is divided into two main areas, the
dark peak and the white peak. The Dark
Peak, with its gritstone plateaus and
edges, forms an upturned ‘U’ shape
which encases the White Peak to the
north, east and west. The White Peak,
which lost its gritstone cap during the
last ice age, offers a rather different
landscape – a gently undulating
limestone plateau interrupted by
spectacular dales and steep-sided
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Landscape
valleys. Whether photographically
minded or not, it is well worth a visit.
Finally, when a photograph comes
together successfully, it can be tempting
to take all the praise and glory. But in
reality I am merely recording glimpses
in time of the wonderful creation we
find all around us.
For more information about my
work and the prints and workshops
I offer, or to see a larger selection
of images please visit www.
grahamdunn.co.uk or telephone
07957 166937.
Graham Dunn
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Places available this September at
St Chad’s Pre-school
Directly opposite Abbey Lane
School with a large outside
space to grow strawberries and
run to your heart’s content, St
Chad’s Pre-school is a
small and friendly setting that
has been running for over 25
years.
Providing a warm and
caring environment, the
‘Aunties’ support children
between the ages of twoand-a-half
and fi ve, helping
them to grow and develop.
Here are just a few quotes from
satisifi ed parents:
“The outside space is brilliant - my
son goes out every day. The aunties are
pretty special too, always putting your
child fi rst and offering a lot of love and
numerous cuddles!”
“Esme has settled in quickly and
really enjoys her time there. The
aunties are wonderful, very
caring and attentive, and have
many years of experience.”
“The many years of
experience make for a
welcoming, happy and fun-fi lled
setting.”
Call us on 0752 6100 755 for
a chat or to arrange a visit, or email
stchadspreschool@gmail.com. We look
forward to hearing from you!*
St Chad’s
Pre-school
St Chad’s Church House
56 Abbey Lane Sheffi eld S8 0BP
We are open from 9am until 12noon
Monday to Friday (term time only)
We provide sessions for children aged 2½ to primary school age
A fun and exciting environment awaits your child all with the
support of experienced and qualifi ed staff
Children learn through play to help them reach their full potential
We offer free early learning funding to eligible children
Why not call in to see us and collect an information
pack or contact us for further details?
Telephone 07526 100755
Our setting is registered with Early Years Ofsted
We are also a member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
What sort of soil are
you? It’s a funny
question to ask,
but one that Jesus
asked of people. He
is well known for his parables –
the teaching stories that he told.
Since the surrounding society
was predominantly agrarian,
he commonly used examples
involving the landscape and
environment. One of his most
famous parables is called the
Parable of the Soils.
Jesus imagines a farmer
sowing seed. He scatters the
seed liberally and it falls on four
different kinds of soil. The first
is the path. Fields in Israel were
separated by paths where the
ground had been trodden hard
by generations of feet. The seed
cannot grow here, and the birds
eat it up. The second is on rocky
places, where the bedrock is just
below the surface of the ground.
The plants grow quickly, but
because they can’t put down good
roots, they soon wither. The third
soil is among thorns, which choke
the plants and stop them being
fruitful. The final soil is the good
soil, where the plants can grow
and bear a healthy crop.
Jesus explains to his disciples
that the parable is about how
people hear his message. Some
people hear the message, but it
bounces off. Others hear it and
think that what Jesus says is
great. But when hard times come,
they don’t have any root and give
up on following Jesus. Others
are like the seed sown among
thorns, and although they hear
the message of Jesus, things in
their lives just get in the way. But
the good soil is for people who
hear the message of Jesus and
respond, and go from strength to
strength.
I think back over my last two
years here in Woodseats, and
I think I’ve met all four groups
of people: People for whom the
message of Jesus just seems
to bounce off; people who are
enthusiastic, but don’t want it to
cost them anything; people who
are interested, but then life gets
in the way; but wonderfully also
people who respond to what
Jesus has said and have their
lives transformed.
So what sort of soil are you?
Jesus has shaped our society
more than anyone else in all
history, so I think that all adults
should take the time to think
about the claims he made and
what he said and did. Sadly
all too many people live their
lives with no more knowledge
of Jesus than that which they
picked up at school. Why not join
us on a Sunday morning to hear
more? Whether you’re a sceptic
or a seeker, all are welcome.
Rev Duncan Bell
The Parable of the Soils
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Services at St Chad’s
During our Reshaping project, our
services are being held in different
venues. Full details are listed below...
Sunday Services
Held at Abbey Lane School
Sunday Abbey Lane, Services
Sheffield S8 0BN
The The 9am 9am Service service
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in
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style
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● Includes
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sermon
sermon &
hymns
hymns
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● • Includes
Includes Includes refreshments afterwards
Sunday refreshments Services afterwards
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Worship: worship Holy
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communion
The 9am Service
● Traditional in style
Lifted,
Lifted the
– the 11am
11am Service
service
● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns
● Informal
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and ● Includes relaxed refreshments
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in
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style afterwards
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families families
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to 10.45
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at 10am
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families
being held on the first Sunday of
● Includes music, led by a band
most months – see our website or the banner outside Abbey
● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am
Lane School for confirmation and full details
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Evening Prayers
Held Monday
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Thursday
Thursday
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5pm
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Holmhirst Road,
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Weekday Services
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Prayer and Praise
Prayer and Praise
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
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There are more than 50
mentions of gardens in
the Bible; in the very first
chapters of Genesis we
are in the Garden of Eden,
planted by God. At its heart
grows the tree of life.
Adam and Eve are placed in
this garden, to enjoy it, to look
after it, to harvest their food
from it.
In the evenings God joins
them, walking in the garden.
Amazing! But disobedience to
God sees Adam and Eve driven
from their garden and denied
access to the tree of life. Death
now enters the world, bringing
a sense of futility to human
existence.
But this is only the start of the
story, not the end.
Old Testament prophets Isaiah
and Jeremiah promise that if we
trust in God our lives can become
like a well-tended, well-watered
garden.
Jesus told stories about
gardens, even saying that if we
believe in him we become like
branches growing from a vine;
like a gardener, God will prune us
(Ouch!) to make us more fruitful.
Jesus went to the Garden of
Gethsemane to pray on the night
he was betrayed; John’s gospel
tells us he was crucified and
buried in a garden.
So the first thing he saw after
rising from death was – a garden.
In fact he fitted into it so well, his
friend Mary mistook him for the
gardener.
In the final chapters of the Bible
we’re shown a new earth, with
everything harmful removed from
it.
At its heart is the new
Jerusalem: down its central street
flows a river, the water of life. On
the banks grows the tree of life.
Everything humanity lost in
Eden is now restored; death itself
is abolished, we can live forever
with God.
If we want to enjoy this garden
of God in the future, we need to
let God into the garden of our
lives now.
I know from experience that
a garden will produce weeds,
brambles and thistles very easily if
left untended.
Growing anything beautiful or
fruitful requires a lot of work, and
a certain ruthlessness.
Brambly, prickly attitudes and
weedy, pointless ideas grow all
too easily in my life, and I need
to let God prune and weed as he
sees fit.
I need to allow his Spirit to
change me, producing the fruit
of love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control
spoken of by Saint Paul.
Ken Goodier
WAITING FOR THE WORD
Gardens in the Bible
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Designing t
When I was 14, my parents
bought me a book on
garden design written by
John Brooks MBE. They
knew that I was creative
and enjoyed the outdoors so assumed
that garden design might spark an
interest. Spark an interest it did! The fact
that you can change and infl uence the
world around you, whether for nature,
for play, or for people’s physical and
emotional well-being was a revelation. A
revelation that led me to choose A levels
that would ultimately guide me to study
Landscape Architecture at the University
of Sheffi eld.
Following over 16 years in practice as a
landscape architect and garden designer,
I fi nd myself continually reaffi rming my
belief that the importance we attach to
the landscape around us is well placed.
Whether it be a windswept moorland,
rolling farmland, a public park or, on
a much smaller scale, our gardens,
the landscape infl uences our mood,
our health, the value we place on our
environment and the way we interact with
it and with one another.
A recent study by the Royal
Horticultural Society (RHS) titled
Gardening Matters: Urban Gardens
notes that 85 per cent of the population
live within urban environments and that
between 22 per cent to 27 per cent of our
towns and cities comprise of gardens,
which in turn represents broadly half of all
the urban green space available today.
Given this statistic it is unsurprising that
owning a garden can add signifi cantly to
the value of our homes. One of the many
reasons people employ me to work with
their gardens is a desire to increase its
value. According to moneywise.co.uk
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the Landscape
and Jan Hytch, (president of the National
Association of Estate Agents), a welldesigned
and maintained garden can
add up to ten per cent onto the value of
your property and can positively influence
its sale. I always hope, however that my
involvement helps to broaden my clients’
understanding of the wider benefits
that gardens provide. Gardens connect
us with nature, they promote physical,
psychological and spiritual wellbeing, as
well as adding value to our houses.
Every garden has the potential to
provide valuable habitat for local wildlife.
Flowers provide nectar sources for bees
and butterflies, trees and large shrubs
provide opportunities for birds to nest and
forage, and a woodpile or pond (however
small) provides a home to invertebrates,
amphibians and reptiles. According to the
RSPB, gardens may provide a breeding
habitat for at least 20 per cent of the UK
populations of house sparrows, starlings,
greenfinches and blackbirds, and without
people regularly feeding birds in their
gardens their numbers would significantly
decline. My wife regularly restocks the
feeders and the sighting of a bull finch or
jay always sparks delight.
Gardens help us exercise
and avoid stress. Gardens
have been credited with
improved cognitive function,
alleviation of attention deficit
disorder (ADD), improved
relaxation and an ability to
cope with trauma. Colour
and fragrance in gardens
can help dementia suffers
reconnect with memories
and provide stimulus for
those with severe learning
difficulties such as autism.
Furthermore, gardens provide space for
us to grow our own food and recycle our
kitchen waste. The use of edible plants in
gardens is a particular interest of mine.
My son Thomas is a regular visitor to the
strawberry patch and likes nothing more
than running about and stealing peas or
tomatoes.
Gardens can provide important
space for prayer and meditation.
Many of England’s best loved gardens
such as Chatsworth include walks for
contemplation, labyrinths (also known as
prayer paths) and planting which seeks to
reflect the Garden of Eden. Many of the
country’s finest kitchen gardens belonged
to former monasteries and cloisters, and
more recently a trend for ‘quiet gardens’
or gardens of remembrance is growing in
popularity.
Whether your garden extends to acres
or is restricted to a small balcony with a
few pots, my years in practice have shown
me that for every penny spent, and for
all the time passed in our gardens, they
are always rewarding and their real value
immeasurable.
Nathan Edwards
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
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Our own Environmental
U
Don’t worry if you have
never heard the term
‘environmental up-cycling’
– I just made it up! Having
had your attention caught
by the headline though, you may
decide that the term isn’t so far off
the mark.
There is an entrance to the
Woodseats Allotments site off Abbey
Lane down a narrow track between
numbers 118 and 120. If you have
ever gone down the track and
walked past the allotment tenants’
car park to gain access to the
cemetery, you will have noticed a
large area of very overgrown land to
the right hand side. Over the years
the boundary fence has collapsed
under the weight of fallen branches
from the massive cypress trees that
border the cemetery. Sycamore
saplings, brambles, nettles and even the
dreaded Japanese Knotweed colonised
the area which became a magnet for fly
tippers and, worst of all, plastic parcels of
dog excrement.
Then along came Richard Lee, a
Woodseats Allotment Society tenant and
committee member, with a plan to turn
this dreadful eyesore into a community
orchard and picnic area. His first task
was to consult with the Allotments Office
and, through them, the council’s ecology
team, to gain the necessary approvals for
the project. His next task was to fund the
project without impacting on the limited
funds of Woodseats Allotment Society.
He applied to the Skipton Building
Society who run a national competition
for their Grass Roots Giving Awards. Only
projects that benefit the wider community
are chosen to go through to a public vote.
Successful projects are those with most
This picture of an allotment tenant’s children
helping clear ivy on the site, won a national
competition for amateur photographer and
keen gardener Sarah Peet
Woodseats Allotments Society would like
to thank the following for their help:
zzThe council’s Woodlands team who cut
down the unsafe trees;
zzThe Allotment Ranger who removed
rubbish, helped chip tons of brush wood
and replaced the boundary fence;
zzVolunteers (including children) who
cut up and removed logs, helped remove
bigger tree stumps and helped cart
countless barrows of wood chippings.
zzAnderson Tree Care who provided
enough chippings to mulch much of the
one-acre site!
zzSarah Reynolds who donated two metal
gates and an ornamental archway to go
over a third.
zzThe council allotments department which
is committed to eradicating Japanese
knotweed on the site and has been very
supportive
zzSkipton Building Society’s Sheffield
branch for its interest and support.
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Up-cycling
votes. In November 2015 Richard
heard his bid for a £500 Grass
Roots Giving Award had been
successful. Then the serious work
began!
Six months later, and following
a lot of hard work involving
allotment tenants, local residents
and family members, Richard’s
vision to improve the space,
was achieved. What was once
a heavily overgrown no-go area
is now a community orchard and
picnic area and a safe play area for
the children of allotment tenants.
The project was officially opened
on July 10 by Allison Edgeler,
manager of the Sheffield branch of
the Skipton Building Society. Allison was
the first to make a wish on the ‘Wishing
Tree’ and to place a memory on the
‘Memory Tree’. Allison’s daughter, who is
eight years old, was the first to follow the
‘fairy trail’.
Three picnic benches have been
located towards the bottom end of the
site. We hope that people living in the
area will come to appreciate this new
green-space and enjoy it. In a year
or two there will hopefully be fruit for
people to harvest and enjoy – unless the
squirrels get there first of course!.
There is sufficient money in the funds
to replace the three fruit trees that did
not survive the winter. Eventually Richard
would like to populate the entire site with
fruit trees to leave a legacy for future
generations. Hopefully, an overgrown
eyesore of a site will, in time, become
an attractive and productive area for the
benefit of all. Environmental up-cycling at
its best don’t you think?
Sue Lee,
Woodseats Allotment Society
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What to do With an Untidy Corner
What do you do
with a very untidy
corner of your back
garden? The other
corner has a shed
in it. It may be full of junk but,
outwardly, with the door shut, it
looks okay. However, its partner
across the other side is a mess.
Old flower pots; broken children’s
toys; assorted rocks; ladders. You
name it, it’s there.
We thought we would have
a summer house but they are
expensive and we wouldn’t have
used it anyway, there being very
little sun in S8 let alone in that
dark spot. While we decide, I
am happy to allow some weedy
foliage to hide the problem.
To make more room, I have
decided that our old conifer is too
tall and straggly and will have to
go. I have started that process by
cutting off all the lower branches
and burning them in my new
toy, a garden incinerator. I can
recommend these highly. If you
have had a stressful day, cut a
few branches and have a burn-off.
Feel all your troubles vanish as
you stoke and burn.
When that tree has gone, and
there is nothing left to burn, the
question remains – how to fill that
corner. The latest idea is to
have a covered double seat,
with floral arrangements
around it. Perhaps a bit of
decking and a raised bed.
Once the conifer has gone,
the apple tree will spread
and prosper.
Some people have
gardens that are too neat
and regimented. Perhaps
a garden reflects its owner.
I like disorder, with wild
flowers and piles of old wood
which attract insects. However,
some folk go the other way, with
sofas and old tyres littering the
place. Colour is essential so you
must tend to your borders, keep
the grass cut and prepare some
hanging baskets.
Children are key to how a
garden looks. If you have kids it
is a waste of time trying to keep
your garden neat and a waste of
money buying too many plants.
Keep everything in the borders
and yell frequently at them to keep
off, or else! When the children
grow up and leave (if ever) then
you can devote some time and
expense on making the garden
look colourful and interesting.
One last tip. If you have a small
patch of grass, either at front
or back of your house, get rid
of it and convert the space with
pebbles. They don’t cost much
and once you have put them down
they are low-maintenance. They
look good and you can move pots
on and off as you like.
Happy gardening.
Son of the Soil
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Digging up Gardens’ H
I
took a stroll through the Botanical
Gardens recently with a friend who
works as a volunteer there and I
learned a great deal. For instance,
did you know that the gardens
cover approximately 19 acres, that they
were the result of a locally-organised
petition in 1833 to create an open and
healthy space for the people of Sheffield
to enjoy, and that farmland was bought
with £7,500 raised by selling shares?
There was a competition to design the
gardens’ layout and the judges chose
Robert Marnock’s design. He was
the gardener at Bretton Hall, now the
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and became
the first curator with an annual salary
of £100. Victorians liked to plant trees
on ‘mounds’ allowing their roots to
be exposed. Marnock favoured the
fashionable ‘carpet bedding’ – formal
areas planted to resemble the intricate
patterns and colours on Indian carpets.
When the gardens were first
opened, admission was restricted to
shareholders and annual subscribers,
the general public only being allowed
access on four gala days a year, with
tickets costing 2s 6d. During four days
in 1836, more than 12,00 people came
through the turnstiles, only one of which
remains at the Botanical Road entrance.
I often wondered why it was there!
Over the next 150 years, the Botanical
Gardens had its share of ups and
downs – financial difficulties, changes
of ownership, rival attractions in the
shape of new ‘free-entry’ city parks and
considerable World War Two damage.
Sheffield Town Trust, a group dating
back to 1297, still owns the gardens
but the council manages them. By the
1980s the pavilions were in danger of
The Botanical Gardens
collapse and the gardens were beginning
to look rather dilapidated.
FOBS (Friends of the Botanical
Gardens Sheffield) was created in 1984
and fundraising began in earnest. Nine
years later volunteers began to work
in the gardens – today there are only
five full-time staff but approximately
30 people who give several hours a
week to help maintain the gardens. In
1996 FOBS set up a trust in the hope
of getting grants for restoration. The
Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant
of over £5million and, after much hard
work and the incredible generosity of the
University, the Town Trust, the council,
local businesses and individuals, the
magnificently-restored gardens were
officially opened in June 2007.
There are 12 specific areas of
botanical interest including Himalayan,
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Hitler’s Canary
by Sandi Toksvig
This book tells how,
during the Second World
War, ordinary Danish
people tried to save their
Jewish countrymen from
deportation to Germany. It was
inspired by the author’s father’s
experience during the German
occupation.
The story begins as Bamse,
aged 10, is living in a fl at in
Copenhagen with her actress
mother, artist and set designer
father, older brother and sister
Orlando and Masha, uncle Max
and Thomas the wardrobe master.
They are a happy-go-lucky family
living in a fantasy world. In the fl at
above lives Anton, Bamse’s friend,
and his family who are Jewish.
In April 1940 German planes
fl ew over the city destroying
the air force on the ground.
Thousands of troops were
transported in by sea and, within
days, the government had
surrendered and the occupation
had begun. At fi rst nothing much
changed. Not all German troops
were unfriendly; the population
made fun of them and played
pranks which were tolerated.
Bamse and Anton enjoyed some
escapades. Bamse’s father
disapproved but Orlando joined
the Resistance saying that
Denmark was Hitler’s canary
locked in a cage singing to Hitler’s
tune.
Over the following years things
got tougher, food was short,
restrictions tighter and some Jews
were deported.
Some funny incidents
happened, not least the local taxi
driver kept his car going by using
methane gas from cows on with
the resulting smell. However
the Jews became increasingly
restricted and some were rounded
up. The family
and the taxi
driver were
involved
in daring
schemes to
hide them and
transport them
in coffi ns to
the hospital
cellars.
Bamse’s
family staged
a theatrical
performance
for the
Germans in
their home
with many
Jews hidden
behind a
false wall.
In these and other rescues,
not all Germans were bad nor
Danes good. Many German
soldiers including Masha’s friend,
turned a blind eye and saved
lives while some Danes betrayed
their friends. Uncle Max had been
a collaborator but helped in the
end. Thomas sacrifi ced his life
to save some Jews from being
discovered.
In all, some 7,220 escaped the
to Sweden by sea and only two
per cent of the population was
lost.
I enjoyed this book which was
originally written for children of
how a family living in a fantasy
world based reality and played a
key role in the war.
Mary Diskin
St Chad’s Third Age Book
Group
Book Review
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
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fasted for 72 days, having no food or
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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
Registers 2016
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.
Thanksgivings
Miraculous and loving interventions
May helped Yun for example jumping over
22 a ten Deni foot Eden wall; Forster walking through the
open doors of a high security prison
unobserved and walking after his legs
Baptisms
were so severely broken (he was told
April he would be crippled for life after this
28 punishment). Caroline Depner
Whatever Yun experienced, God
repeatedly demonstrated his
Confirmations
faithfulness never leaving him or his
May family to cope alone. We will
12 probably Craig Turton never experience this kind of
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Services & Opening times
During August & September 2016
Holy Communion 11.00am:
Sun 7th 14th & 28th August
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Evensong ( third Sunday)3pm:
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Heritage Open Days
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9th & 10th Sept 11am - 4pm
11th Sept 1pm - 4pm
The Abbey will be open
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4th August 4th September & 6th October
between 9am - 11.00am
Quiet & Reflective Prayer
View of Beauchief Abbey & Cottages,
Beauchief Abbey Lane S8 7BD
All Welcome
Our Services are based on the Book of
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Contacts
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
CHURCH OFFICE
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 email: offi ce@stchads.org
Please note: The church offi ce has been relocated during our building works – please contact us via telephone
or email during this time
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Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086
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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
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Besom in Sheffi eld
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Darren Coggins 07875 950170
Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086
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Ann Lomax 274 5086
Deputy Wardens Linda McCann 274 5086
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Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044
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