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SOUTH KILWORTH NEWS

February 2011 No. 405

DIARY

ADVANCE NOTICE Wednesday 9

th March South Kilworth News AGM Croft Acre, The Belt

Friday 25th

March Fish Supper Village Hall

Friday 29th

April Big Eat Village Hall

Thursday 5th

May Polling Day Village Hall

Friday 13th

May Andrew Garnier MP Village Hall

Saturday 8th

October 10 year Village Hall Celebrations Village Hall

Saturday 5th

November Bonfire Night Village Hall / Playing Field

Saturday 11th

November Safari Supper

Saturday 17th

December Children’s Party Village Hall

VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS

Contact Michael Murphy on 01788 861877 or 0777 6065385

The South Kilworth News is edited by Ann Saunders

Please send copy for the March edition by 21st February to

Ann Saunders Smithy House, Welford Road Tel: 575 338 Email: [email protected]

The South Kilworth News is printed by Colin Olle. Advertising enquiries to

Colin Olle Croft Acre, The Belt Tel: 575 791 Email: [email protected]

Tue 1st 10.00 MaMites, Village Hall

Thur 3rd

19.00 Art Club, Village Hall

Fri 4th

19.00 First Friday, White Hart

Sat 5th

20.30 Quiz Night, White Hart

Mon 7th

18.30 -

20.45

Football, Village Hall / Playing Field

19.00 Parish Council Meeting, Village Hall

Tue 8th

10.00 MaMites, Village Hall

Wed 9th

Mobile Library (School 12.00, Leys Crescent 12.30, North Road 12.50)

Thur 10th


Sun 13th

09.45 4th

Sunday before Lent, Family Service, St Nicholas Church

Mon 14th

18.30 -

20.45

Football, Village Hall

Tue 15th

09.30 Weekday Holy Communion, St Nicholas Church


19.30 W.I. Village Hall

Thurs 17th


Sat 19th

20.30 Quiz Night, White Hart

Sun 20th

09.45 3rd

Sunday before Lent, St Nicholas Church

Mon 21st 18.30 -

20.45


Tue 22nd


Wed 23rd

Mobile Library (School 12.00, Leys Crescent 12.30, North Road 12.50)

Thur 24th


Sun 27th

10.30 Avon-Swift Group Holy Communion at North Kilworth

Mon 28th

18.30 -

20.45


TEAM VICAR’S LETTER

“The whole world needs love . . .”

February has come again and I am drawn to think of love. All around there are pink and red hearts in

shop and restaurant windows. These are of course advertising St. Valentine’s Day, but they are a cheerful

reminder to me of how important love is to all of us – we all need to know we are loved. Love is a central

part of the mission statement of the Avon Swift Group of parishes, where we are urged to respond to

God’s love and to share it with others.

I have a little book all about love, written from the viewpoint of children. It features insights like: “I

think you’re supposed to get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so

painful” from Manuel (8). And nine-year-old John’s picture that falling in love is “Like an avalanche

where you have to run for your life.” I particularly like “Love is good and so are chocolate-covered

peanuts” from Pamela (8) and “If it means you never have time to go fishing, then love isn’t for me”

(Danny, age 6). It’s easy to smile and to move on, back to our serious adult world. But in amongst the

amusing observations are some thought-provoking ones too, like eight-year-old Walker’s statement:

“Love means never hating somebody just because they’re different on the outside.”

Children often seem able to cut through the complications of the adult world to find the very heart of

things. On one page of my little book about love there is a picture of the world being held up by five

people and underneath is nine-year-old Sharon’s thought: “The whole world needs love. But it takes some

people a long time to understand that.” The examples of suffering, of persecution and hatred to be found

in all corners of the world may well lead us to nod sagely at that. However, just because some do not

seem to understand the nature of love does not mean we should give up in despair. We all know that love

is present within our world and the power of love is strong enough to overcome hatred and apathy, just as

light will always overcome darkness.

As Christians, the concept of love is central. The heart of the Christian gospel is that God, the creator of

all, chose to identify with his creation by becoming one of us, and God did that out of love. It is out of

the recognition that we are loved by God that we find the hope, the motivation and the strength to reach

out to others in love, as well as the faith that this imperfect world will someday be transformed.

Thus we become like those people in the picture holding up the world, reaching out their arms to others,

while outside the picture, unseen, is God, holding everything in everlasting arms, reaching out to us in

love. This February, whether we choose to notice the pink and red hearts or not, may we take time to

discover God’s love for us, and how we may respond to it, so those in the world around us know that

extraordinary love for themselves.

With every blessing,

Revd Emma Davies

All enquiries regarding Church matters should be directed to:- The Revd. Emma Davies, The Vicarage, 5 Church Lane,Gilmorton, Telephone:-01455 556 573

The Revd Jane Kennedy, 17 Cromwell Close, Walcote, Lutterworth, Telephone: 01455 554 065

CHURCHWARDEN’S NOTES Our Team Rector, the Reverend Canon Kenneth Baker retired at the end of January. During the period until a

new appointment is made, the Reverend Emma Davies will look after the Avon Swift Team Ministry Benefice

and thus our parish. Sam Lloyd, Churchwarden.

PARISH COUNCIL MINUTES AND MEETINGS Due to computer problems the Parish Council Minutes for December 2010 cannot be provided in time for

the South Kilworth News February publication. Minutes for December will be provided for the

March issue of South Kilworth News.

There was no Parish council meeting January, due to illness.

The next Parish Council meeting is on Monday 7th February when a representative from Harborough

District Council will be attending to show us the proposal for switching off street lights at midnight

within the village. All Parishioners are welcome to attend the meeting which starts at 7pm in the Village

Hall.

Suzanne Taylor

NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL We recently enjoyed a visit from the author and illustrator Shoo Rayner. He spent the whole day with the

children telling stories, drawing and explaining to them how an author gets inspiration. We are now

hoping to see a development in our own story writing! After a wonderful day Shoo left us with some

signed prints and did a book signing session for the children.

The Key Stage 2 children have been looking at ways to save water with Severn Trent, we hadn't realised

how much water we all use every day and how much we take it for granted!

Angela Dewes

W.I. REPORT We started the New Year with a fun evening playing “Family Fortunes” - like the TV show.

The lady who organised this had asked 15 questions to over 100 people aged from 8-80, male and female

and different nationalities.

The first question was 'name the most famous school'. Answer - Eaton! According to her survey the

second most famous school was Hogwarts!

We had fun coming up with the answers, but also hearing the ones she - had especially from her own

hairdresser!

Extremely delicious home made refreshments followed.

Next month we have a lady visiting from the Youth Offenders Scheme - Tuesday 15th February at

7.30pm if you would like to join us.

Louise Boffey

ITCHY GREEN FINGERS ? Would anyone like to take on a large productive fruit and vegetable garden from January?

Situated on the Rugby Road, Swinford there is a shed, greenhouse and poly tunnel and easy parking.

Pat Robottom 860862

SOUTH KILWORTH NEWS AGM The South Kilworth News Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 9

th March at 7.30pm at

Croft Acre, The Belt.

FISH SUPPER FRIDAY 25TH

MARCH This very popular meal event is already selling out fast, tickets must be ordered and paid for in advance,

only a few left. Contact Ray Dorman on 018585 575518 /07780846002.

BIG EAT FRIDAY 29TH

APRIL A free family fun day at the village hall from 2pm to celebrate the royal wedding. Bring your own picnic /

barbeque.

EDITORIAL I have to apologise for an error I made in last months SK News by stating that our oil had cost over 70p

per litre when in actual fact it was 47.85p per litre (plus vat). I discovered this whilst looking for our

actual oil prices to give to Sarah Langvelde. Maybe I had transposed the figures and read the cost as 74p

per litre. It shows I should check my facts rather relying on my memory. As you will see from Sarah’s

article it appears that we actually paid less for our oil than she did. Apologies and thanks to Yobco.

If other people can provide their oil and gas prices it will be interesting to see what variation there is.

As February is a short month I would be grateful if people could provide all articles by 21st of the month

to allow the March SK News (complete with bumper Parish Minutes) to be issued by the weekend at the

end of the month.

Ann Saunders

L.P.G. PRICES Thank you to everyone who contacted me, concerning prices of LPG gas, following the article in last

months’ SK News.

The main points that have been raised are:-

• Most people have a two year contract but if the supplier increases their prices by over 3.5p per

litre in any 3month period, you can cancel the agreement.

• If you wish to change supplier when the contract expires other suppliers will give you a better

price and change or takeover the existing tank for free.

• Alternatively some people then re-negotiate with their existing supplier and obtain a much better

price, especially if you threaten to change.

Another problem that has arisen when changing supplier is that the tank may be in a position which does

not comply with current health and safety regulations, therefore, it may have to be moved.

The best price I have received is 38p per litre from Flogas (obviously this could depend on your yearly

usage).

If anyone has any further comments of queries on the subject please contact me, [email protected]

or telephone 575691.

OIL AND GAS PRICES I found that reading Ann and Nick's comments about oil & gas prices gave me an uncontrollable urge to

create an Excel spreadsheet! (fellow accountants will understand). There is clearly a vast difference

between oil prices - I’m slightly shocked that we paid 11p per litre more than Ann for a delivery of oil on

7th December!

I think it would be useful to the village as a whole if we (I) keep track of the prices paid by each of us and

publish the information in graphical form each month. I can start this now and build a picture or, if

people can bring themselves to dig into their filing cabinets, people can give me information about their

last 12 month's purchases and I can produce a rolling 12 month historic view of oil and gas prices each

month. No personal info will be published, just an aggregate picture of what ppl was paid to which

supplier.

To do this, I need people to give me the following information:

Supplier name

Date delivered

Price per litre (p) (INCLUDING VAT)

Note if delivery was for more or less than 500litres (this may show a pattern of bulk discounting)

Note if you have a regular supply (auto top up) or whether you order as and when needed (again, this may

affect price)

I will produce separate graphs for oil and gas and hopefully we might be able to see a trend. If people

commit to get the information to me 5 working days before the copy date for the SK News, I will make

sure the updated info is published and it can be used in a timely manner (no point finding out Yobco was

the cheapest 3 months ago).

You can email the information to [email protected] at any time, but for those of

you happy to help me build up a picture now, sooner rather than later would be useful to give me enough

time to pull it together for next month's copy. For those without email access, you cap drop a note

through the door at Squirrel Bank, North Road (opp. Monte Bello).

Sarah Langeveld

SOUTH KILWORTH BIRDS January has kicked off a little like December finished – generally quiet on the birding front.

In the garden I have recorded the normal array of winter birds including coal tit, green woodpecker, great

spotted woodpecker, up to 7 pheasants and good numbers of winter thrushes. I have also had a small party

of long tailed tits visiting the feeder on a regular basis – always a good way to brighten up a dull January

day!! Keep your eye open for these distinctive birds as they move along hedgerows and trees in small

flocks. In January I also had a visit from a yellowhammer on a couple of occasions – uncommon in our

garden and great to see.

I had a message from a fellow birder in the village informing me that he had seen a treecreeper in his

garden. Not that rare in the county but still a good addition to the garden list.

Long tailed tit

Stanford Sightings

Large areas of the reservoir were frozen over

during December and early January forcing a lot

of the waterfowl away to other locations. I have

heard and seen a small flock of siskins around

the dam area on a fairly regular basis. I have also

seen a lone kingfisher several times. Winter

thrushes have continued to gather with large

mixed flocks of redwings and fieldfares.

My prediction of the arrival of waxwings in the

village has still not materialised. This is despite

the fact that we are surrounded by many

hundreds of birds in Northamptonshire and

around the city centre and suburbs of Leicester!!

Surely there must be one out there

somewhere???

Once we are through January and February

things will start to liven up on the birding front. I

dont know about you but I cant wait for those

first signs of spring!

Chris Hubbard

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