October 2012

ROTHERSTHORPE

NEWSLETTER

The Newsletter for the Community of Rothersthorpe

www.rothersthorpe.info

CHURCH CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER 2012

Sunday 7th October Harvest

4.30pm

No morning service

Shared tea in church followed by

Benefice Harvest choral evensong

Sunday 14th October 9.30am Morning Worship

Sunday 21st October 9.30am

2.00pm

Holy Communion

Baptism

Saturday 27th October 10am to

12 noon

Have fun with the bible at

Bugbrooke

Sunday 28th October 8am

9.30am

Holy Communion

Morning Worship

Tuesday 30th October 7.00pm Confirmation at Newnham church

What does it mean that our Father is in heaven?

For more years than I care to admit, once again this August Bank Holiday Week I took on the role of Chaplain to the members of the North Staffordshire Boys and Girls Brigade annual camp on a camp site ten miles short of Blackpool.

Apart from eating and laughing too much, my role is to lead the whole camp in daily worship of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit along with leading the Officers Prayers before breakfast each morning. In these early morning prayers this year, I took the leaders through ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ posing the question ‘Do we say the prayer with too much familiarity?’ For if we say the prayer seriously it is not only very challenging as we make some phenomenal statements about and to God our Father, we also undertake to live in a way that is often far from our personal day to day experience!

This is no truer than when we open the prayer with ‘Our father in Heaven’. This very statement not only places God in the supernatural realm we also have both the audacity and privilege of calling Him Father.

A title that can either have warm and gratifying overtones as we have a good experience of our own earthly Father, or fills us with fear and loathing as put upon God our negative experiences of an earthly Father.

As I too struggled to put the picture of a powerful and awesome God with the picture of an intimate loving God that stoops down to us and not only to call Him Father but Abba Father, Daddy.

The following extract from ‘I Am Your Father’ by Mark Stibbe (p119 Monarch Books 2010) helped both me and the officers in our reflections and struggles, and I now offer the same to you to ponder on. So the next time you pray ‘Our Father in heaven’ it may take on a new dimension......

It means that there’s no one bigger than our Dad – our Dad rules.

He flung stars into speckled space.

He fashioned the blazing sun and deep lagoons of clouds and cluster.

He created the planets, the constellations and the galaxies.

He conceived the Milky Way, the Helix Nebula and the Pleiades.

He made bubbles and arcs, nebulae and auras.

He paints supernovas in effervescent colours and stellar jets of irridescent glory.

He out thinks the physicist and he dazzles the theologian.

He preoccupies the astronomer and inspires the poet with abundant wonder.

He is beyond the reach of the Hubble telescope or the probing range of any Orbiter.

He is what Einstein called “The Superior Reasoning Power” and the Bible calls “the Father of Heavenly Lights”.

He is my Dad and He is your Dad.

Our Dad, who is in Heaven, the Third Heaven.

Who swells in unapproachable light and will one day make His home with us, on this tiny dot that is Earth.

Stephen French Rector of Bugbrooke, Harpole, Kislingbury and Rothersthorpe

Church Cleaning October 7th - Sue & Mike

October 21st - Lindsay & Christy

November 4th - June & Jane

VILLAGE SPEED WATCH

I HOPE NONE OF YOU WERE CAUGHT

Well the first week we did find a few people

speeding through Banbury Lane and Kislingbury

Road, however by the second week this number

reduced considerably helped by some wet days when the gun is not

used due to the risks of drivers braking sharply.

A few statistics from the first week:-

Over 8 sessions and a total of 6 hours

20 minutes the speed gun was in use.

Speeders identified a total of 29,

13 female & 16 male drivers

Popular car colour silver closely followed

by blue

The worst offenders drove Volkswagen

cars (only 5 though) but there were a wide car variety of offenders.

I could not believe the increased number of car manufacturers and

models – gone are the days of Morris 1000 and Triumph Heralds!!

Many thanks to all the volunteers who turned up regardless of time

and weather. Jane McCarthy

Thruppsters

Meet in Mumford Drive on Monday 1st. October

at 2.00 for a trip out for tea at the Bell

Plantation Garden Centre Towcester.

Peter Doran

Rothersthorpe Village Fair

Many thanks to all who helped and to those who came – I believe

that all who came enjoyed it. We raised just over £450 for Church

funds. This will be matched by Barclays for the repair fund.

As well as an opportunity to boost Church funds, this event has been

an invitation for village groups and local charities to raise funds for

their own good causes. This year, those benefiting included Guide

Dogs for the Blind (courtesy of the Skittles team), the WI,

Thruppsters, Tools for Self Reliance (Northampton) and Caring and

Sharing.

I have now organised the fair for the past 5 years and others have

organised similar events in the past. It’s probably time for a re-think

and for me to pass the baton on to someone else. It’s not hard

work – just a bit time consuming. The hardest part is attracting the

volunteers! This year, although I advertised in 2 successive Village

Newsletters, I didn’t have time to chase people, nor ask individuals.

Thank goodness for those I’ve listed above who are pro-active in

providing stalls and side-shows and just get on with it! Thanks also to

“the usual suspects”

for helping with

setting up, clearing

away and manning the

stalls, not forgetting

Mr Dickens and his

colleagues on the

steam roller.

If you’re interested

in making sure this

little bit of Village Life continues, do let me know.

Val Bridges 832422

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MATRIX

Northamptonshire County Council Mobile Library Stops in

Rothersthorpe Village on Friday 12th October from 16.30 to 16.55

at the top of Church Street. Please make use of this facility where

you can make local enquiries, bus pass registrations, large print, children’s and

audio books. Join free without ID

Harvest Festival There's a warm welcome to the Harvest service in

Rothersthorpe at 4.30pm on Sunday 6th October, with a

shared tea in Church followed by choral evensong.

You are invited to bring a plate of food to share for tea.

Just a reminder that there is no service in the morning,

News from Rothersthorpe School:

To celebrate our return to school in September, we started

the new school year with two days of artistic activities on the theme of the children’s book ‘’Tom’s Midnight Garden”. The children took part in a range of activities including designing and making a garden and a kite, helping to make a button mosaic of a butterfly, making wind chimes and painting their own ‘Impressions of Monet’. On Friday afternoon, we all enjoyed a fabulous performance of the story from our regular visiting theatre company.

Our Olympic Legacy carried on into September, as we finally managed to hold

our Olympic Sports day, which had been cancelled in July because of bad weather. Team ‘China’ were victorious and all our parents enjoyed watching the opening ceremony dances!

Continuing the Olympic theme, we were fortunate to have a

visit from Mark Fosbrook (Fossy to his friends), a paralympian, who shared his knowledge of wheelchair basketball, volleyball and rugby!

Hot School meals are proving to be a hit with many of the

children in school – toad in the hole the favourite so far!

We will be holding our annual Harvest Festival service in the

church on Monday 8th October at 9.15am. As always, the gifts donated by the children will be distributed to villagers and then the bulk of the provisions will be given to a local charity.

School closes for half term on Friday 26th October and re-opens to children

on Monday 5th November.

If your child is due to start school in 2013 (date of birth Sept 2008 – August

2009), we are holding two sessions for prospective parents on:

Friday 9th November at 9.15am & Thursday 15th November at 1.30pm

Please telephone Mrs Watt in the school office (830995) to

arrange an appointment or find out more information about the online application process. An application for a school place must be submitted for all children, even if they live in the village or have siblings already at the school. Carol Watt

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Available every Friday 9am to 6pm at Parkslope Surgery, 32 Stoke Road, BLISWORTH

Telephone 01604 878000 for appointment

Fee £20 per consultation (home visits may be available for housebound)

Parish Council Meeting

The next Parish Council meeting will be held on

Monday 22nd October at 7.30pm

in the Committee Room at the Village Hall.

As always, anyone is welcome to attend and

address the Parish Council in the public open

session at the beginning of the meeting.

Please come along and participate in your local community

decision making process.

Date for your Diary

Rothersthorpe Art Group will be holding their Art Exhibition

in the Village Hall on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th November

from 10.00am until 4.00pm

PHONE YOUR SURGERY IN OCTOBER

TO BOOK YOUR VACCINATION.

PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLU

Village Hall Activities

Day Time Club Name Contact person Phone number Cost

Monday 7.30 to 9.30pm Rothersthorpe Art Group

Judy Hamilton (Ring after 4/10/12)

859786 (Vacancy for 1 person)

£3 Includes refreshments

Tuesday 7.00 to 9.00pm Short Mat Bowls Club Laurie Ring if interested

832787 £2 weekly Includes refreshments

Wednesday 6.30 to 8.30pm Guides aged 10 to16 Kayleigh 07851136935

Wednesday 8.30 to 10.30pm Badminton Club Friendly easy group

Judy Wood 832150 £2 Includes refreshments

Thursday 6.00 to 7.30pm Brownies aged 7 to 10 Alison 0754065000

Thursday 7.45 to 9.30pm Table Tennis Club All standard welcome

Clive Appleton 831900 £3 weekly Includes refreshments

Friday 6.00 to 7.00pm Rainbows aged 5 to 7 Laura 0773481931

The Village Hall and Committee Room are used for many different activities during the course of the week. I thought it

would be useful to include a table for the new residents in the village and to refresh the memories of long time residents

who may decide to take up a new sport or pastime..

Hall hire prices are very reasonable and village people enjoy a 50% reduction in the normal price.

Contact Jenny Dellar for details 831929

Do you have skill or interest that other people would like to join in?

Is there anyone who would be interested in a

Camera Club?

It is all digital now but there may be hints and tips

that can be passed on, Village calendar or post-

cards to be created??

Contact Laurie on 832787.

Village Hall Activities

Day Time Club Name Contact person Phone number Cost

Monday 7.30 to 9.30pm Rothersthorpe Art Group

Judy Hamilton (Ring after 4/10/12)

859786 (Vacancy for 1 person)

£3 Includes refreshments

Tuesday 7.00 to 9.00pm Short Mat Bowls Club Laurie Ring if interested

832787 £2 weekly Includes refreshments

Wednesday 6.30 to 8.30pm Guides aged 10 to16 Kayleigh 07851136935

Wednesday 8.30 to 10.30pm Badminton Club Friendly easy group

Judy Wood 832150 £2 Includes refreshments

Thursday 6.00 to 7.30pm Brownies aged 7 to 10 Alison 0754065000

Thursday 7.45 to 9.30pm Table Tennis Club All standard welcome

Clive Appleton 831900 £3 weekly Includes refreshments

Friday 6.00 to 7.00pm Rainbows aged 5 to 7 Laura 0773481931

The Village Hall and Committee Room are used for many different activities during the course of the week. I thought it

would be useful to include a table for the new residents in the village and to refresh the memories of long time residents

who may decide to take up a new sport or pastime..

Hall hire prices are very reasonable and village people enjoy a 50% reduction in the normal price.

Contact Jenny Dellar for details 831929

Do you have skill or interest that other people would like to join in? A Gardening Group could be another idea,

there are a few spare slots during the week at

the Village Hall, also a Youth Club could be

resurrected perhaps if there are some

interested parents or youth leaders. Why not

have a chat to your friends and see how many

might be interested. Costs are low for the Hall

hire so this need not be an expensive venture. R

Women’s Institute

"It's our AGM next time, to be held on Monday

15th October at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall. We'll

be voting for next year's committee and president.

This will be followed by a social time and supper. All

to bring a small plate of food for the buffet and

drinks will be provided. We are so pleased that our membership is

increasing but we have room for more and you will be most welcome.

The cost for the evening is £3 which includes supper.

There is a skittles match planned on Tuesday 16th

October against the Ladies Village Team at the Bull

in Harpole. It's important that we get into gear

with our Skittles skills as the Annual W.I. County

competition will be starting just after Christmas.

It has been a busy summer time of activities for

our W.I. with the Queen's Jubilee Celebration at

Holdenby House, the Car Treasure Hunt, the Garden

Party and our Tombola Stall at the Church Fair.

By the time this Newsletter goes out we will have

had our Quiz Night. (see article further on in this newsletter)

There's still more to look forward to with our

November Wine Tasting Evening and the Christmas

Dinner. We have lots of fun and it's brilliant to get

to know new friends.

If any of these activities appeal to you then please

join us anytime. For more information please contact

Debbie on 831508

Christy 07760 114060 or

Jenny 831929

WI Quiz Night

Jane doesn’t go to the WI because she’s

always so busy but we do like a good quiz so we

decided to co-opt some friends into joining us

for the WI Quiz on Friday September 21st.

It was well attended and a really good night.

Christy did an excellent job as the quiz master with some really

challenging questions.

The half time food was superb mostly created by the ladies of the

WI and there was plenty to eat. It is obvious from the whole evening

that the WI have a really good time at their meetings.

We are looking forward to the next Quiz night. Many thanks to

Rothersthorpe WI!

Have you been collecting used stamps and have nowhere to send them?

The Royal National Institute for the Blind collect and make funds from used stamps. They need the stamp cut off the envelope with a border of approximately 1 cm.

If you do not want to send them yourself bring them in and post them through the door of 35 Church Street and I will forward to RNIB.

They take both foreign and British stamps.

The address if you wish to send them yourself:

RNIB Stamp recycling PO Box 185

Benfleet SS7 9BH

Steve Completes Cycle4Cynthia

Yesterday (23rd September) I took part in Cycle4Cynthia charity cycle ride. Jane is the cyclist in our family and normally I just go along for the ride but because of her recent accident I was left to carry the McCarthy flag on my own without my trainer and motivator. I confess I wasn’t looking forward to it especially as the weather forecast kept getting worse and worse and my fitness levels were not good.

There are many lycra clad people on the event who make light of cycling 50 miles but for me it’s

the toughest physical event I take part in so it is a serious challenge. However it’s in aid of two excellent causes (Cynthia Spencer Hospice and MacMillan Nurses).

After 20 miles I didn’t feel too bad and when it started raining at 30 miles I did have some doubts as to whether I was going to make it. Needless to say, I gritted my teeth and pressed on arriving at the finish after 4 hours and 20 minutes, soaking wet; thoroughly exhausted but still managing a smile. Thanks to Jane’s persistence we managed to raise nearly £500.

Many thanks to all the kind sponsors in the village and if you missed the opportunity and would like to sponsor me then call in at the Pig Yard 35, Church Street or follow this link:

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Stephen.Jane_McCarthy

If anyone wishes to join us next year please let us know and we can form a team Rothersthorpe! Steve McCarthy

POTHOLES

Please ensure you contact the County Council

Highways department to report any holes in the

road. Do not assume that someone else has done

it, the more people who bother to report a fault the quicker the

pothole is dealt with.

Ring 0300 1261000 or go to Street Doctor on the

County Council website Northamptonshire.gov.uk

Staying safe on Halloween and Bonfire Night

With Halloween and Bonfire Night approaching, North-

amptonshire Police will be launching an operation to ensure

people in the county can enjoy both evenings safely and

within the law.

There will be increased patrols in identified “Hot Spot” areas

and officers will be on hand to tackle any issues that arise and

offer reassurance. Be spooky but safe if you’re out “Trick or Treating”

Don’t knock on doors with a “No trick or treat sign”.

Children should be accompanied by an adult.

Plan your route — only go to places where you know the

residents.

Keep visible — stay in areas that are well lit and take a

torch.

Don’t go inside any house.

Be careful not to frighten vulnerable people.

Be a bright spark—remember, remember, on the 5th November

You must be over 18 to buy fireworks.

It is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to

possess fireworks in a public place.

It is an offence to throw or discharge a firework in

a street or public place.

If you let off fireworks between 11pm and 7am you

will be breaking the law — except on Bonfire Night

when this extends to midnight.

Don’t forget your pets — keep them safe indoors.

Keep in Contact and Keep informed

To find out more about what your local Safer Community Teams

are up to visit www.northants.police.uk, call 03000 111 222, or

call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 anonymously with information

about crime. Always dial 999 in an emergency.

Neighbourhood Watch

We are pleased to be able to say that again

we seem to have had a quiet month in our

village.

There have been a couple of incidents in

Kislingbury last week, and as we are only a

short distance away, I think it would be prudent, as always, to be

aware and make sure everything around and inside our homes is

secure.

If you require any tips on how to make your house safer then please

visit the neighbourhood watch page at northamptonnhw.org.uk, also

the Northants police website has an excellent page for

Neighbourhood Watch.

As always if you see anything suspicious then please ring 101.

If you require any further information on anything related to

Neighbourhood Watch then please get in touch. Thank you

Christy and Margaret Tel 831020

Village Web Site The web site continues to get a healthy number of

hits but there are very few posts or comments. If you have any issues about the village that you wish to raise whether it be Speed Watch, Village Play Area, Pot Holes or anything else it is quite straightforward to create a post or add a comment.

Recent updates include: Bulk Oil Prices; WI Quiz

Night; Village Fair; School page update; Parish Council minutes; and more.

Please make the time to take a look. Let me know if there is room for

improvement or if I can help you to use the site – add posts, pictures, or comments. Steve McCarthy (Parish Councillor & Web Site editor)

Good news for domestic oil users

First year savings. The Northants ACRE bulk oil

buying scheme for oil users throughout Northamp-

tonshire has now completed a very successful first

year of operation. Individual members are enjoying

average savings of around £80 per year.

We’d be delighted if you’d like to join our growing membership as

this will help to maximise our ability to negotiate the lowest

possible prices for the benefit of all. Now would be a great time to

join the syndicate and get the benefits for your heavy winter usage.

Dual Fuel opportunity. We are currently investigating

a new opportunity for further savings for those who use

both oil and electricity. Our professional negotiators

would be able to take the electricity needs of our oil

members and negotiate bulk purchase of their

electricity too. A dual fuel opportunity for those reliant

on oil! However, before we take this further we would ask for your

feedback as to whether it is something that would be of interest to

you.

For more details on these opportunities, please contact

Northants ACRE.

www.northantsacre.org.uk 01604 765888

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the needs of those in Northamptonshire's villages and rural areas.

Christmas Fayre

Stowe House is holding a Christmas Fayre

on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October

with all proceeds going to Stowe House

Preservation Trust.

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November 2012 edition should be submitted to Jane McCarthy at The Pigyard, 35 Church

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