From the Book of Remembrance

From the Book of Remembrance for

All Saints’ Bramham

1st Amelia Kitchen 1940

Neil Isaiah Lewis 1944

2nd Ethel Winifred Clayton 1975

5th Doris Hebbron 1979

7th Mary Jane Sanderson 1976

8th Robert Simpson 1981

11th Victims of Atocha Station bombing Madrid 2004

13th The Innocents of Dunblane School 1996

14th Mary Hilda Young 1991

Thomas Young 1992

15th Elizabeth Smith 1947

Nellie Bond 1978

22nd Harry Lund 1983

23rd Alfred Richardson

May Booth 2002

24th Amy Smith 1985

25th Mary Agnes Emily (Lady Bingley)

Edith Annie (Toppy) Albrecht 2004

26th Ernest Hatfield 1994

29th Alan Wilkinson 1983

30th Alice Stirk 1982

31st Harry Vernon Broadhead 1984

Arthur Hyde 1991

James Herbert William Cook 2004

May they Rest in Peace

Baptism

5th February Georgia Louise Dunn

St Luke's Clifford

Funeral

7th February - Ernest Charles Hare (56) Lawnswood Crematorium

Holy Days and alterations - as announced

St Luke’s Clifford - Every Thursday 10.00 am - Holy Communion (BCP)

All Saints’ Bramham - Every Friday 10.00 am - Holy Communion

10.00 am Holy Communion with Imposition of Ashes at

All Saints' Bramham

7.30 pm Sung Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes at St Luke's'

Sunday 5th March - All Saints' Bramham in the 9.30 am Service

Sunday 12th March - St Luke's Clifford in the 11.00 am service

Usual Procession 9.20 am at Bramham and 10.50 am at Clifford

7.30 pm - All Saints' Bramham - Mass of the Lord's Supper, Washing of Feet and Vigil before the Garden of Gethsemane

Devotions 12 noon - 1.00 pm - St Luke's Clifford

Devotional Service 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm - All Saints' Bramham

Traditionally, we place white lilies in church at Easter in memory of our departed loved ones.

If you would like to do this at All Saints' Bramham, please let Dolly Mullen, Peggy Kitchen or Gillian Young have your donation by Sunday 2nd April.

The Annual Parish Meeting will be held in the Village Hall on Wednesday 5 April at 7:30 pm. This is not an ordinary Council meeting, but is a meeting ordained by statute to give the opportunity for all the electors in the parish to have their say. It is possible for residents to request discussion on any topic in which the Council has a responsibility or involvement. If you would like to nominate any items to be discussed, please contact me before Friday 24 March, so I can put them on the agenda. It is hoped that the various Parish Plan Working Groups will take the opportunity to present a review of their activities over the last 12 months. The Annual Parish Meeting will be followed by a normal Council meeting.

Leeds City Council has announced the return of the Streetscene LEAP programme. For a period of one week, a team of three Streetscene operatives and a van will be available to the outer North East area to target litter hotspots, street cleaning, general clearance work, cleaning ginnels and small grounds maintenance tasks such as strimming and cutting back weeds.

In 2006, the weeks in which this will operate in this area are those commencing on 10^th April, 12^th June, 14^th August, 16^th October  and 18^th December. If we wish to take advantage of this facility, I need to know the areas to be considered at least one clear week before the published date.

Note that this activity only applies to areas under Leeds City Council control; it does not cover private property, the A1 (which is Highways Agency responsibility) or the beck (Environment Agency).

Last year, a variety of films was shown on a monthly basis to an enthusiastic and dedicated audience at the Riley Smith Hall in Tadcaster. The films were well-attended and popular and have now become part of a regular calendar of events.

The film shows for the first part of this year will be on Wednesdays beginning at 2.30 pm with an interval for refreshments. Ticket price is £2 and tea/coffee and biscuits are available at £1. The dates are:

22nd March – MRS BROWN (PG)

12th April – HALF TERM SPECIAL FAMILY FILM AFTERNOON

19th April – EMMA (U)

3rd May – SOME LIKE IT HOT (PG)

14th June – HIGH SOCIETY (U)

More details: 01937 834113

Colin Pool

Fun Family Day - Something for everyone

If you would like to help - email Keith: keith@innocent.fslife.co.uk

Richard: rich@richhannam.freeserve.co.uk

Sue: cravensu@aol.com

or phone Sue Craven 01937 842991

to share your ideas. Hope to see you then.

We started the New Year with a very interesting talk and demonstration on the properties of Aloe Vera, given by Mrs Sandra Burbidge, at which we were able to pamper our hands and faces with samples of various creams and lotions!

Will members please note that, to fit in with the Yorkshire Air Ambulance Fund Representative, who is attending our AGM to receive our cheque for the £400 raised during the year, the AGM will be on the 19th April, not in March as usual.

The speaker at the March meeting on the 15th, will be Mrs A Brain, on North American Beadwork. The meeting will commence at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall.

As always, visitors are very welcome.

Jean Dale

Little Tykes runs every Monday morning between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon in the Methodist Church on Low Way for parents or carers and their pre-school children and babies.

We have a wide selection of toys. Every other week we try to provide a craft activity suitable for the toddlers with a little help. Half way through the session we have a tea and coffee break with drinks and biscuits for the little ones too.

New mums, dads and grandparents are always welcome to come along and join us.

For further information please contact:

Mrs Iris Dew would like to extend her sincere thanks to everyone who welcomed her so warmly on her annual visit round the village collecting gifts for her Tombola stall for the Church Bazaar.

As always she was overwhelmed by the kind way she was received and for the many gifts and "bottles" given so willingly. Thank you to everyone who gave prizes and everyone who bought tickets.

Bramham Village Hall

The Bramham Big Beat Nite

Another Quiet Night!!

Junior Drama Workshop is back!

Come to the Methodist Chapel, Low Way, Bramham on

6.30 pm to 7.45 pm

Have fun learning new dance movements, great songs and stagecraft techniques.

Cost: - £2 Membership fee, plus £3 per child.

Contact: Gerry Taylor

if you require further information

Minister Rev’d Gary Ridley - Tel: 01937 842156

Sunday 5th March Holy Communion service led by Rev'd Gary Ridley

Sunday 12th March Service led by Mr Andrew Marshall

Sunday 19th March Service led by Mr Anthony Brill

Sunday 26th March Service of Holy Communion led by Rev'd Ken Marshall at All Saints'

Dear Friends

I recently attended a Regional Meeting for Prison Chaplains where the delegates were invited by way of an opening "get to know you" exercise, to divide into small groups, comprising of four people. Each person was then asked in turn to share four things around their life's story. The first appeared to be the least demanding of all, which was to address the question, "Where do you come from?"

However, the question is not quite as simple as it appears, especially for those who may have led what we might refer to a more itinerant existence. For me personally I have lived in about ten different places in the last 26 years, the last eight of which have been spent in Boston Spa.

I simply want to make the point that all humans beings need a sense of belonging. We all need roots. It is no coincidence that the Church is often called the family of God. If nothing else it must surely stand for a sense of belonging. Within it is a shared parentage, a shared history and a shared identity. It spreads across all nations, races and cultures.

Therefore, all Christians have responsibility to ensure that the church does not simply become another club that  promises community, but does not deliver it. St. Paul spoke about Christians being, "rooted and grounded in love". As the world becomes a more insecure place, as some think it is, the Church must continue to try to offer a new vision of community that values love and compassion and a shared sense of belonging .

There is, however, another side to the coin. As I reflect on the life of Jesus I see that rootedness was not necessarily to do with a particular geographical place, but more to do with a spiritual reality. Throughout the Gospel we see Jesus calling his followers away from their old root s to establish new ones. He stepped outside the recognised ministry of a Rabbi to minister to the Gentiles and He even took God out of the temple.

Roots of the sort Jesus offers are a God-given right and a God-given necessity. Christians are called to sink roots in the community to which they belong, but they are also called to look beyond our boundaries, to venture out, to send out branches across the great web of humanity connecting all people to the God in whom we live and move and have our being.

Gary Ridley

When my grandma got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toe nails anymore. So my grandpa does it for her now all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.

Rebecca - age 8

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouths.

Billy - age 4

Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on after shave and they go out and smell each other.

Kari - age 5

Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your chips without making them give you any of theirs.

Chrissy - age 6

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

Jack - age 4

Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.

Danny - age 7

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.

Sophie - age 6

Love is when you tell a boy you like his shirt, and then he wears it everyday.

Sam - age 7

Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.

Tom - age 6

During my piano recital, I was on stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.

Cindy - age 8

My mummy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.

Claire- age 6

Love is when mummy gives daddy the best piece of chicken.

Jane - age 5

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.

Mary - age 4

When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.

Charlie - age 5

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.

No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!

We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law suits.

We played chap-the-door-run-away and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.

We walked to friends' homes.

We also walked to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.

We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...they actually sided with the law.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

And you're one of them. Congratulations!

Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, supposedly for our own good.

Anon

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