Local Lynx No. 150 - June/July 2023

certainly welcome to join us for any of our times of prayer -
the chapel is open from 6am to 6pm.
You don’t need to be a Catholic or, for that matter,
anything. If you just wish a place of quiet to sit and ponder,
you are very welcome.
Like everyone else of course, we must work. So that
much of the rest of the day is spent making our living by
baking communion wafer. This income feeds us and keeps
up the house and property as best we can. We live pretty
simply in spite of the big property and we try to do as much
of the work as we can to keep down expenses.
Those of you who have lived in Langham for many
years will have noticed changes made to the property - the
addition of the Chapel in 1986 being the most obvious. It is
a listed property so, on the whole, it has not otherwise
changed all that much. We love the countryside around us
and are grateful for it.
There are eleven of us here. We have three sisters who
come originally from Lancashire, one from Yorkshire, one
from Sussex, one from Gloucestershire, one from Liverpool,
two from the United States, one from Canada and one from
Ireland. So you can see we are a real mixture, though, alas,
no one from Norfolk. Someday, perhaps.
FIELD DALLING
Contact: Julie Wiltshire
julie_wilson75@hotmail.com
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Animal Blessing Service
Sunday 13 th August 11am
Save the date for our popular blessing of the animals
service. They all behave amazingly well and seem to
know to be nice to each other, despite the fact they are
all on leads.
VILLAGERS’ HALL
We are actively seeking new committee members for
the Villagers' Hall. After nine years on the committee,
the chairman and treasurer, Steve and Susie Collins,
have tendered their resignations and will be stepping
down in October. The Villagers' Hall is in great shape; a
lot of work has been done to bring it into the 21st
century. It is a very worthwhile cause and asset to our
villages please support it.
200 CLUB WINNERS
April:
May:
£50 Stephen Allen £50 John Ridley
£25 Jenny Allison £25 Carol Wood
£15 Claire Pugh £15 Sarah Emmett
GUNTHORPE
Contact: Jane Paton 07989 534145
jacarwardine@googlemail.com
FOGPC
50/50 Club Draw Results
March
April
Ed Sinclair £20 Chris Starkings £20
Lin Dufour £15 Emily Lemberger £15
Pocket Sinclair £10 Victoria L-B £10
Valerie King £5 Fred Worsley £5
Karen Burton £5 Pippa Bunting £5
Elaine Francis £5 Roland Bohn £5
Sophie Walder £5 Callum Dryden £5
The last event in May, as usual, included additional
cash prizes to ensure that we balance the prize money so
that at least 50% of the value of subscriptions comes
back to members. Details will be in the next Lynx
magazine including the final total that the club has
contributed to the Friends.
During May we will have e-mailed or called all
current members of the Friends, along with villagers,
asking for the subs from those who wish to join or
renew for the next “Friends” year i.e., from Jun ‘23 to
May ‘24. As a reminder, subs for the Friends are £5 per
head (although additional donations are aways
welcomed) and for the 50:50 Club it is just £12 for the
year. All the subs for a family can be combined for a
single BACS payment, cheque (made out to Friends of
Gunthorpe Parish Church please) or even cash. BACS
payments should, please, be made to sort code 53-50-73
and account number 25727532 using your name and
“subs” as the reference. Please pay by 10 th June 2023 to
ensure that you are in the first draw, and if you pay by
BACS please e-mail me on jbconsult@btinternet.com
with the date and amount as I do not see the bank
statements. All payments by BACS that are notified to
me will be acknowledged by e-mail.
Thank you, and as always, we would welcome more
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