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12 The Parish Magazine - January 2024 Please mention The Parish Magazine when responding to advertisements Providing a reliable service 365 days a year delivering tasty, nutritious meals 2 course hot or cold lunch Wide choice of daily menu Free delivery 11:30am to 2:30pm No long-term contracts Special diets catered for Breakfast/afternoon tea packs Bread and milk service Home from hospital service More than a meal – well-being check, help in emergencies, plating up service, sign-posting to other support services We understand every meal counts, our service will not fail you! Independent, family-run funeral directors serving Sonning since 1826. We are delivering to an expanding area in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Please contact us to find if we are now delivering in your area. Our compassionate and professional team are here to help you with everything related to a funeral from pre-planning to bereavement support. Local branches in Caversham and Henley-on-Thames. www.abwalker.co.uk | 0118 947 7007 Tel 0118 214 8318 Mobile 07592 652210 Email enquires@bridgeshomecare.co.uk Bridges Meal Delivery Service, Henson House, Newtown Road, Henley-on-Thames Oxfordshire RG9 1HG LIVE LOUNGE AT THE GREAT HOUSE Join us from 3:30pm every Sunday afternoon in January, and enjoy local live musicians playing at the bar. Simply pop along or book a table for dining. Head to our website to see what is happening locally.
the parish noticeboard — 4 Claude's view from the pew Seeing all the Baden Powell troops in church for Remembrance Sunday reminded of my scouting days. One of my fondest memories was loading up a trek cart to transfer all our equipment to a local campsite for the weekend. The cart was about six foot square with timber cart wheels around three foot in diameter and a long handle big enough for two scout leaders to pull. This was also assisted by the scouts who would help pull the cart by ropes attached to the side of the trek cart. The ropes would be pulled over the cart in order to stop the cart from going too fast. On one memorable occasion when we were ‘braking’ the cart had been moving too fast for the accompanying scouts and left the leaders struggling to stop it. The situation was only resolved by applying a sharp turn to the left so that the cart would run into someone’s driveway bringing it to a safe but somewhat hairy halt. I don’t think the leaders were best pleased with the scouts leaving them to it! A 1936 Scout Trek Cart On another occasion, a pal and I were tasked with taking an empty cart back to the HQ. We decided that we would push it, rather than pull it. We soon found out to our cost why the ‘pull only’ rule existed. We lost control of the cart and it ran down Prospect Street in Caversham, eventually stopping when it collided with a limousine that was parked near the junction with Church Street and Gosbrook Road. It was our good fortune that the chauffeur took pity on a couple of wayward scouts and seeing that there was no significant damage, he waved us on. I suppose the whole thing would have been very different had the cart not been empty. From the editor's desk editor@theparishmagazine.co.uk Best parish magazine! The Parish Magazine - January 2024 13 When wondering what I would say in this column, an email arrived announcing the winners of the 2023 National Parish Magazine Awards — we had won two awards: one for the best A4 magazine and the other was the top award, the Best Overall Parish Magazine! There has been a lot of discussion of late among church magazine editors about the demise of printed parish magazines. It is thought that their demise has been hastened by Covid when many churches turned to online 'magazines', and it is thought that many are no longer being printed. They have been 'replaced' by websites. However, my email from the competition organisers, revealed that almost 450 entries were judged. As a journalist for over 50 years it is satisfying to know that so many printed church magazines such as ours are still being printed. In reality, while websites are an amazing source of information, and hardly a day goes by without me using one to research a story, many experts tells us they will never be a replacement for the printed word. Indeed, some mental health specialists advise us to stopped staring at screens about an hour before we go to bed. Instead, they say, pick up a book, or a printed magazine, and read that. It will help your brain relax and you will enjoy a better quality sleep. AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE This year, our magazine clocks up 155 years of service to the parish of St Andrew's Church Sonning. In the first issue, January 1869, the founder editor, Rev Hugh Pearson explained the purpose of the magazine. He wrote: First to supply amusing and instructive reading of a general character, at the lowest possible cost. This was followed by a list of specific church related matters that would also, and still are included. Today, we abide by the objectives, and I am pleased to report that we will continue to make it available at the 'lowest possible cost', namely free of charge! We can only do this, of course, if we are funded by local people, companies and businesses who are willing to advertise. If you are an advertiser, we thank you for your support, and if you are a reader, we ask that you support our advertisers. Please mention to them that you saw their advert in The Parish Magazine. And, of course, we hope that you find our magazine an 'amusing and instructive' read! FOR YOUR PRAYERS IN JANUARY — Our youth ministry; especially for Westy and Corinne — For all blighted by terrorism, especially in the Holy Land — For the Jewish community in this area — For Rev Kate Toogood as she begins her ministry at Earley St Peter’s Church Savchenko, dreamstime.com
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