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From the Vicarage.

June 2011.

A friend of mine is a rare book dealer and he phoned last week to say he had

managed to obtain a volume I’ve been after for a while, The Poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben, edited with a Memoir by Robert Bridges. Many will know who Robert Bridges was, Poet Laureate between the wars, and writer of the

hymn

All My Hope on God is Founded. Finedon folk will recognize the names Mack-worth Dolben, squires and parsons for centuries here; but Digby, who was born

in in 1848, is particularly noteworthy. To say he was eccentric, even by the

standards of the family, doesn’t quite do justice to his memory. For example, if

he thought his hair was a little long and unkempt instead of going to the barber

he’d set fire to it with a candle, patting out the flames when he thought it had

reached the desired length. Don’t try this at home. He was also deeply pious,

annoying his masters at Eton with excesses of High Church zeal. He liked to

dress in the robes of a Benedictine monk, perhaps inspired by the Medievalism

of his father, whose buildings still give Finedon a Gothic feel; but Digby must

have looked more like Boy George than Brother Dominic, the name he gave him-

self. The unfortunate young man did not live long. He drowned, like his older

brother, aged only nineteen, swimming in the river Welland. According to

Bridges he was buried ‘under the altar’ in the parish church, but his headstone

is actually in the cemetery opposite the churchyard – a mystery John Bailey

might be able to solve?

A colourful story with a tragic ending; the poems, however, survive, and while

not to everyone’s taste – plenteous dowers of April showers feels a bit soggy to me – there are flashes of real originality and power. In one of the more affect-

ing, called The Lily, the poet anticipates his own death. He writes of a child reaching for a lily on a river bank and slips into the shiny depth beneath; while through the tangle and the ooze up bubbled all his little breath. Digby Dolben died on June 28th, the eve of the great feast of St Peter and St Paul, when

deacons and priests are ordained in cathedrals from Carlisle to Truro. Spare a

prayer for Digby Dolben, and for all those who dedicate their lives to the

Lord’s service as deacons and priests and bishops, especially for John Holbrook,

new Bishop of Brixworth, installed that day in Peterborough Cathedral.

Yours in Christ,

Fr Richard.

From the Registers

Funerals 9th May

Marion Murkett, Age 91

Holy Baptism 1st May

Samuel Thomas Howes - 8th May

Daisy-Fleur Ophelia Howe

Floodlight Sponsorship

1st May The Bell ringers - in memory of past Bell ringers Velma & Bob Munns & Family - in Memory of Winnifred & Arthur Munns 8th May Tracey Hawkes - in memory of her mum, Joyce Robinson Mrs. M. Brookes - in memory of Robert Curtis. 15th May Delia & William Kerr - to Celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary Mr Brian Ager - in memory of his father Mr Ronald Ager Mary Shipton & Jean Wills - in memory of their mum Nora Moisey Isobel Swords - in memory of her husband Peter Swords on what would have been their Golden Wedding Anniversary. 22nd May Nancy Bollard - in memory of Raymond Arthur Bollard Connie Piggott - memory of Arthur Piggott In Memory of Len Gibson On What Would Have Been His 90th Birthday from his Family Mark & Martin Robson - in memory of Doris & Fred Robson 29th May Anonymous - a memorial donation Mark & Martin Robson - in memory of Kathleen May Robson

Young Musicians Concert

A Concert by Young Musicians from Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Service. Will be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 13th July at Finedon Parish Church

Music for a Summer's Evening: The Northamptonshire County Youth Choir, County Senior Girls Choir and County Wind Dectet will be performing an inspiring and varied programme of sacred, secu-lar and popular music. There will something for everyone with over 100 of North-amptonshire's finest Young Musicians bringing their final performance of the aca-demic year to Finedon. Tickets: £6 adults, £4 concessions available from Kathy Roberts 07711 890027 or on the

door. Interval with refreshments.

Synod Members

At the PCC AGM in April, the following people from the Parish were voted onto the Deanery Synod. Janet Millington John Havlicek Neil Foster Denise Pruden The prime purpose of the Deanery Synod is to support and enable work in the parishes within the deanery The main role of the Synod members is to represent the interest of the parish

and to be a point of contact between the deanery and the parish and to partici-

pate fully in the life of the PCC.

Organ Scholarship

St. Mary the Virgin, Finedon, is seeking an enthusiastic individual keen to develop their keyboard abilities by complementing their piano/keyboard skills with that of the

organ.

The scholarship consists of regular organ lessons from the Director of Music to-gether with the opportunity to develop their playing in services. Extra musical sup-

port such as music theory and singing in the choir can also be included.

In return the scholar is expected to attend regular lessons with the organ tutor, prac-tise in their own time, and gradually support the music of the church by playing oc-

casional voluntaries and hymns at services or singing in the choir. The scholarship runs initially for 24 months from September 2011.

We have a fine three-manual organ attributed to Shrider, installed in the church in

1717. Weekly services are held on Sundays at 9.30am and choral evensong is sung on the first Sunday of every month at 6pm; choir practice is held on Fridays at 7pm.

The applicant should be at least grade 4 standard on piano or keyboard. There is no

age restriction on the scholarship. Applications by letter by 30th June 2011, or for more information, please contact the Director

of Music, Jonathan Harris, St Mary the Virgin, Church Hill, Finedon, Northants NN9 5NR

Tel. 07791 664507 email hjonathan83@aol.com

Stanley Vann, Organist of Peterborough Cathedral for many years, died last year aged 100. His collection of organ music has recently come into the possession of our Director of Music, Jonathan Harris, on the condition that the music is made available for others, particularly young organists, to borrow. The library, which consists of over 1600 pieces of music by over 370 composers, will be stored in the organ loft at St Mary’s and will be advertised for use via the Northampton and Peter-

borough Organists’ Associations. The catalogue can be viewed online at: http://www.pdoa.

co.uk/vann_lib2.html

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon

Saturday 18th June on

The Green, High Street 12.00 - 4.00 pm

Activities include Morris Dancers, puppet show, Boys Brigade band, tug of war

and maypole dancing

Stalls include: Tombola, cakes, books, bric-a-brac, children’s bracelets, nails by Kim, greetings cards, white elephant, Hot Dogs, bottle tombola and raffle.

Donations of bottles, preserves, cakes cuddly toys and raffle prizes would be very

much appreciated

Refreshments served in the Mission Room

Finedon Parish Church

Sunday School Welfare Committee

The Finedon Parish Church Sunday School Welfare Committee has disbanded after half a century of raising funds for the children of our Parish for Sunday School mate-rials, prizes and treats. They have not been active for a number of years as we have not had a vibrant Sun-day School since moving from the Junior School. On behalf of the Church many thanks must be conveyed to the committee for the hard work they put into raising funds for the children. Many of us still remember the May Day suppers, Crowning the May Queen and the excellent entertainment by provided by the Sunday School children. Also the time when the children went to the seaside for the day on the Sunday School treat. Three coach loads of excited children jumping up and down in their seats. Of course, Prize Giving that seemed to go on forever with 100 children on the Sunday School register. It was a great deal of continual hard work for a special group of people raising money for the children which has been greatly appreciated. Thank you to all on the Welfare committee - past and present. There are still funds left over from the Welfare Committee which will be kept sepa-rate for future use for the children of our Parish Church.

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Bell Ringers Visit to Norwich

Our visit to Norwich on Saturday 7th May started on a damp note as we boarded the bus; but the rain soon cleared and by the time we reached Nor-wich the sun was out to greet us. It was the Norwich Festival and the city was alive with street entertainers, added to which there were lots of very happy local football supporters. We were free to look round at our leisure, to visit the cathedral, the castle, museum, a trip on the river or even the shops and market. It was a shame that on this occasion we were not able to finish off our visit with evensong at the ca-

thedral as the service was said not sung and it was at the earlier time of 3.30 pm I would like to thank everyone who came along for their support and I hope that you all enjoyed the day out. The question has already been asked - where to next year? Thinking caps on!!

Pat ParkerPat ParkerPat ParkerPat Parker

Envelopes.

The envelopes for 'planned giving' will be available in the next week. Please look for bright orange envelopes this time. If you would like to use envelopes for your 'planned giving', that is, Giving the same amount each week whether you come to Church or not, please speak to a Churchwarden or the Treasurer, Andrew Weatherill. Planned giving in envelopes and Gift Aiding helps the PCC to budget the Church's Finances for the year ahead. We need to raise £170.00 per day, £1,250.00 per week to meet our commitments. At present collections raise around £350.00 per week. Although we have to add gift aiding and fund raising to that amount we are a long way off our commitment

What is a Christian like

Some Christians are like wheelbarrows no - good unless they are pushed. Some are like kites - if you don't keep them on a string they will fly away. Some are like kittens - they are more contented when petted. Some are like balloons - full of air and ready to blow. Some are like footballs - you can't tell which way they will bounce next. Some are like trailers - they have to be pulled. Some are like neon lights - they keep going on and off. And some are like a gold watch - open face, pure gold, quietly busy and full of good works. Lord help us to live this day so that at the end of it we may be ashamed of nothing, and glad of something we have done, or have tried to do. Amen

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Friends of Finedon Schools News

Our joint schools summer fair will be held on Saturday 9th July from 12.00 to-3.00 pm in the Infant School grounds. Stalls include BBQ, bric a brac , games, have a go crafts, tombola , refreshments. Entertainmentwill be provided by the children from both schools and will include Maypole Dancing, Cheer Leading, School Choir, Country Dancing and instruments. Fun for all the family. Craft stalls are available to book please contact either school office or contact Jo Needle on

682098 for further information.

St Mary’s Church, Finedon

Afternoon Tea in the Church on

Sunday 5th June

Between 4.30 and 5.30 pm

Followed at 6.00 pm by Evensong and light refreshments

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Finedon

Meat Bingo

on Friday

10th June

at the Mulso School,

Wellingborough Road at 7.30 pm

Admission Free

Refreshments available, Raffle Everyone Welcome

Transport available.

For details please telephone

Andrew Weatherill 682212

Townswomen's Guild

Our speaker this month will be Mr Eric Nixon from Kettering who will tell us about ‘The Life of a Honeybee’. The meeting will take place on Thursday 2nd June at 7.30pm in The Town Hall. The committee will arrange the Social Half Hour and there will be a General Bring and Buy stall The competition will be for a preserve pot. Guests and prospective new members will be very welcome to join us.

Finedon Local History Society

The next meeting of the History Society will be held on Monday 27th June in the Mission Room, Well

Street at 7.30pm. The speaker will be Dr Cathy Smith who will give a talk entitled ‘Witchcraft in Early Modern Northamptonshire’. Admission is £2.00 for members and £3.00 for non-members including light refresh-ments. A raffle will also be held.

Borough Council of Wellingborough

Sports Development

Borough Council of Wellingborough Sports Development is arranging a programme of summer activities taking place from July - August in Wel-lingborough this year. Activities taking place include Cricket, Athletics, Judo, Badminton, Table Tennis, Basketball, Archery, Football and Disability Football. All deliv-

ered by the Borough Council of Wellingborough and local clubs. If you are interested in joining in with any of these activities please contact Sarah McVeigh, Borough Council of Wellingborough, Sports Development Assistant on 01933 231829

Summertime Music

Presents Anna Burgon LGMS in Concert on Saturday 25th June. at 7.00 pm ay St Mary’s Parish Church, Higham Ferrers Tickets are £8.00 including wine and light refreshments. Tickets are available from Anna Burgon 01536 710023, Tony Edwards 01933 276433 and

on the door.

Table Top Sale

On Saturday 18th June the Finedon Independent Wesleyan Chapel is holding a Ta-ble Top Sale at the Chapel between 9.00 am and 12 noon.

Computers versus Cars?

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the com-puter industry with the auto industry and stated, If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.. In response to Bill 's comments, Ford is-

sued a press release stating: If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.....Twice a day.. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to

pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads

The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single. This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light.

The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to

let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car

You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off PS I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call 'customer service' in some foreign

country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!!!!

Events at The Community Centre....

Friday June 3rd The Finedon Sessions 1960s R &B Legends

THE PRETTY THINGS (acoustic) plus Daniel Champagne

Tickets £12.00 Licensed Bar,

Doors open 7.30pm Please call Phil to reserve tickets 01933 398377

Saturday June 4th Live JAM NIGHT

keeping Music alive in Finedon, come and see local talented musicians or even step up and join in

if you have a musical talent FREE admission ,

Licensed bar Doors open 7.30pm

Some talented professional and non professional musicians have made it to our stage recently

An enjoyable night of Music. for information call Steve

07970 632244

Thursday Saturday July 7th, 8th, 9th

PLAY STEEL MAGNOLIAS written by Robert Harling, Directed by Peter Darnell

All female comedy drama ... It's set in a Louisiana beauty parlour where four scenes spanning three years tell of

the lives & loves & small-town gossip of the staff and their customers Doors open 7.00pm for 7.30pm Performances, tickets

Adults £9.00, Concessions £7.00 can be reserved by calling 01933 398377 or 07970 632244

Performed by Centre Stage Productions (proceeds donated to Finedon Community Centre)

Early Notice

Reminder to those interested in this years Christmas Market on Sunday 20th No-vember. Please contact Pam on 01933 398377 for booking form Book now - limited stalls available

In My DayIn My DayIn My DayIn My Day the ramblings of Hubert James

In my day it was about this time of year that for a few years Finedon hosted a Fat Stock Show. It was a chance for local gentry to show off their pedigree beasts. Gentle lumbering Friesians, sturdy curly Herefords, rare black and white Jacobs sheep and even famous Glouces-tershire Old Spots. For one summer Saturday the Rec was awash with the cream of the beasts of the field. Particularly the cream of a Jersey or two. Course, this being Finedon, it was no run of the mill show. Only the posh-ist animals got in. Thoroughbreds who could trace their ancestry back to the Tudors. Pedigrees with chums not pals. Now in them days there was a couple of adjoining pig farms on the outskirts of town, owned by cousins George and Bernie Emsworth. All their lives they had tried to outdo each other by wagering. Now wagering was like an old fashioned type of bet-ting but a lot more innocent. So the bet would be things like, loser has to wear pur-ple Doc Martens for a month, or incubate an egg in their beard. Both lads had huge beards. So it was on a long hot summer night that Bernie spotted a scruffy, muck covered sow eating her way through Georges prize flower bed. The pig went by the name Eliza and was the dirtiest, rudest, laziest, creature Bernie had ever known. So he wagered that George couldn’t turn her into a sophisticated prize specimen, worthy of entering the show and winning first prize. George was delighted to take up the challenge. He scrubbed Eliza clean but she would roll back in the mud. So he’d scrub her again. Gradually, she began to enjoy being clean. He also managed to wean her off flowers and onto pig nuts and apples. Course, by then she’d only eat with a napkin tied around her neck to catch the drips.

Napkins generally being too small for the average pig neck, George borrowed a silk shawl that Bernie had in-herited from their grandma. George always reckoned it was half his, so this wasn’t stealing. The pig loved it and took to stretching out on it to show she was hungry. George got her into the show but only by letting her per-form on the shawl. She didn’t win but learned an impor-tant lesson about being herself. She went back happy to

her mucky sty. She did make headlines in the E.T. It read ‘Pig may lie on George and Bernard’s Shawl’.

Church Monthly Draw

Total receipts of £278.00 are divided equally between the winners and the Restora-tion Fund. Winning numbers for the May monthly draw are: 1st Prize No. 254 £69.50 2nd Prize No. 22 £41.70 3rd Prize No 201 £27.80 If you would like to join the monthly draw (£1.00 per share per month) which takes place on the first Sunday of the month, please contact Kathy Hobbs on 01933 398794.

At the Star Hall

The Boyfriend A Musical Comedy of the 1920's Music and lyrics by Sandy Wilson

on July 27th,28th,29th, 30th

Performed by Centre Stage Productions

Director Peter Darnell This show is going to be one to remember at

The Star Hall as our energetic, talented cast hit the boards

Not to be missed Tickets £9.00 adults, £7.00 Concessions

Contact Steve 01933 681765 or 07970 632244

All proceeds as usual to Charity.

Why not treat yourself to a night out to a night out.

Town DiaryTown DiaryTown DiaryTown Diary

June

2nd 7.30 TG Town Hall - Life of the Honeybee

3rd 7.30 Finedon Sessions, Community Centre

4th 7.30 Live Jam Night, Community Centre

6th 7.30 RBL Mullocks & Memories, Tom Partridge-Underwood, Bowls Club

7th 10.00 Coffee morning, Football Club

10th 7.30 Church Meat Bingo, Mulso School

13th 7.30 Mission Room - Spring Flowers & Gifts, Amanda Cameron

14th 9.45 Coffee morning, Bowls Club

15th-18 Tingdene Entertainers musical ‘Anything Goes’

18th 12-4 St Mary’s Church Summer Fete FIWC Table top sale

21st 10.00 Coffee morning, Football Club

26th 6pm Songs of Praise on The Green

27th 7.30 History Society, Mission Room, Witchcraft in Early Modern Northamptonshire, Dr Cathy Smith

28th 9.45 Coffee Morning, Bowls Club

July

4th 7.30 RBL Painting, Michael Peachy, Gladstone Club

7/8/9 7.30 Play Steel Magnolias, Community Centre

9th 6.30 St Mary's Church, Wine Walkabout

11th 7.30 WI Mission Room - Behind the curtains at Milton Keynes Theatre, Nicola Jelliman

13th 7.30 St Mary’s Church, Young Musicians Concert.

25th 7.30 History Society, Mission Room, Ironstone quarrying around Finedon, Francis Terry

27-30 The Boyfriend, Star Hall

August 1st 7.30 RBL I Bequeath 15th Century Wills, Jacqui Minchinton, Bowls

Club

4th 7.30 TG Town Hall ‘Music Therapy’

8th WI Garden Party

22nd 7.30 History Society, Mission Room, Swim Ginger, Malcolm Deacon

September

1st 7.30 TG Town Hall - ‘Educashun’

3rd 7.30 RBL Humour, Mike Leonard, Bowls, Club

12th 7.30 WI Mission Room, Fun with Wine, Margaret Morley

16/17/ 18th

St Mary's Church Flower Festival

October 1st FIWC Table Top sale

3rd 7.30 RBL, Dovecotes, Colin Ray, Bowls Club

10th 7.30 WI Mission Room, AGM, Glamour for the over 60’s,Sylvia Smith

19th 7pm Inter Church Quiz night, Wesleyan Chapel

24th 7.30 Mission Room, History Society, Finedon Past, John Bailey

November 7th 7.30 RBL, AGM, Bowls Club,

14th 7.30 WI Mission Room, Victorian Magic Lantern Show, Dr Mike Lewis

22nd 7.30 Mission Room History Society AGM & Slides

December 3rd 11-2.00 pm FIWC Christmas Bazaar

5th 7.30 RBL, Entertainment at Woodford

12th 7.30 WI Christmas Party