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October 2020
The Parish Magazine
The Parish Church of
All Saints
Rotherfield Peppard
Contacting the clergy or churchwardens
Rector
The Revd James Stickings
Please do not contact at present thankyou
Associate Priests
The Revd Shelia Walker Telephone 0118 972 4861
Email swalk2@btinternet.com
Churchwardens
Kathie Anderson Telephone 0118 972 2694
Email keapeppard@gmail.com
Valentine de Haan Telephone 0118 972 3806
Email valetinedehaan@hotmail.com
Organist and Director of Music
David Butler Telephone 0118 972 4065
Email dbutler380@gmail.com
Junior Choir Mistress
Rebecca Bell Telephone 0118 972 2967
Email Kenyon.bell@btinternet.com
Flower arranging
Ann Butler-Smith Telephone 0118 972 1871
All Saints' Church website: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/5977/
(Please do not use the website called "allsaintspeppard.org.uk", even though
it appears under Google search. This is not the church website and we are
taking steps to having it removed)
The Parish Magazine In this month’s magazine Contact page 1 Contents page 2 Guest editor’s page 3 Reflected faith, music and singing 4 PCC Membership (Keith and Richard) 5 Parish register 6 A Rector of Peppard and a Celtic saint 6 /8 PCC matters 9 Valaries corner 10 Bishop Colin’s leaving service & Choir practice 11 Fly tipping 12 Cross word 13/14 Electoral Roll /cross word answers 15 Farming memmories 16 Advertisement 17/18 Service rotas rear cover
Quest Editor A busy month with the Church trying to get some feeling of normality back in place. The senior choir has started to practice again and there is a photo on page 11. Sev- eral contributions one covering Keith’s and Richard Gough’s term of service on the PCC. Keith has written an article on a former incumbent who became the principal to St David’s College, Lampeter. He also remembers the late Diana Rigg filming at All Saints Church. Ian Heriot tells us about the importance of the PCC and encourages attendance on 25th of October for PCC members at the APCM. Valarie’s corner re- calls a God incident and friendship. There is an article on fly tipping and Reflected faith through music and hymns. These articles are from the parish pump. I have brought some farming memories to paper to tie in with Harvest Festival. Thank you all to those who have contributed to this months magazine Valentine de Haan 01189723806
Editor: The Revd Dr Jo White continues her series on symbols in our churches. This began in March and will run for the rest of 2020. Reflected faith: Music and Singing Many churches are holding Sunday, weekday and pastoral (Baptism, Wedding and Funeral) services again in their buildings. However, for most of us no singing is allowed; and this often means no music is being played. Whilst the churches were closed, one of the key things about worshipping together that people missed was the communal singing and the listening to the organ or other instruments. If we look at the time taken to sing in each service (approximately a third of the whole service) and the amount musicians are usually paid, we can see the level of importance churches give to singing together. So, although we understand the science behind the ‘no singing rule’ (breath is exhaled more forcibly so reaches further) it is still very strange to be in our normal church build- ings but not to be able to sing. Singing hymns and songs helps us to learn about our faith, to pray and to express our praise – but what is it about singing together that lifts our hearts in our time of worship? There are plenty of said responses during most services, but they don’t have that same lift! Is it the physical breathing aspects, the sounds we aim to make, or indeed the way our voices join and blend together? All through the Bible there are passages telling of times of singing: of musicians leading processions towards a place or time of worship. There are many exhortations in the Psalms to the people to come together, ‘singing with joy and thanksgiving’. The Bible also talks about a time to put down our instruments and refrain from singing. Let’s hope and pray that our time for restraint will pass quickly and we will soon rejoice together with thanksgiving, joyful and loud singing! This month: How can you best sing to the Lord? It is usually easier to sing along with a video of people singing than to a recording alone. Have a look for suitable videos to join in with their singing, a recording if that’s not possible, or even a hymn book. Perhaps video call a church friend and sing the first verse of a couple of your popular songs and hymns together.
.PCC Membership In the very different times of the 1970’s All Saints’ Church was attending to its own affairs and free of the major organisational distractions to come in future years. PCC meetings took place in the tin-roofed church hall building by the road junction close to Peppard Stores. Keith Atkinson went along to the 1972 annual meeting simply as a church mem- ber, not a member of the PCC, and without any prior warning came to be proposed and elected as Lay Chairman of the PCC. Richard Gough accepted election to the PCC in 1976. Keith and Richard have both decided the time has come for them to resign from PCC membership. Keith and Richard have shown extraordinary devotion to All Saints’ Church and the church community and have freely given very long service in a wide range of roles to support the management of church activities. They have seen it all, whether reorganisa- tions, urgent buildings requirements great and small, the pressures of financial manage- ment, matters of employment, fund-raising or changes in patterns of worship. What they have contributed to our community and our Christian mission over so many years de- serves generous acknowledgement and thanks. Their outstanding service has been rec- ognised beyond the parish and benefice in their appointment as members of the Fellow- ship of St Birinus. The examples briefly stated below can only hint at the scale of what’s been done. Keith was Lay Chairman for many years from 1972, regularly chairing PCC meetings and monthly meetings of the Standing Committee. During the interregnum between the Reverends Tracey and Butler-Smith he was involved in making arrangements for visiting clergy and for maintaining production of the Parish Magazine. He served as a churchwar- den for eight years, gave long service on the Deanery Synod and acted as secretary of the Organ Committee which oversaw the installation of the Copeman Hart organ at All Saints’ in 1993. Keith has been more than fifty years a choir member and is a strong sup- porter of opportunities for junior singers and a well-known champion of church music. With his remarkable memory and eye for detail Keith is seen as a determined guardian of tradition. Anne Gough had already served as PCC Treasurer when Richard joined the PCC in 1977. They had come to Sonning Common in 1972 and had chosen All Saints’ after care- ful consideration. Richard explains he immediately felt at home when seated before the East Window and in the peace and order of the churchyard – to the maintenance of which he has for many years been making a big contribution. For a couple of years around the turn of the century he served as a churchwarden. He gave substantial service as PCC secretary and for twenty-five years until 2014 was a member of the Deanery Synod. To appreciate the extent of Richard’s many, largely unheralded, contributions to events at All Saints’ it is necessary to look closely at the detail of what’s involved, for ex- ample in arranging for lay or family involvement in services. Richard has proved to be a master of the art of gentle persuasion. RH
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Disestablishment: A Welsh centenary – and a rector of Peppard and a Celtic
saint.
After visiting Scotland, Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cornwall, Kent and Cam-
bridgeshire in writing about some of our saints, it is time to go west to the Principality of
Wales. October sees the feast day of a saint with family connections and this year
marks the centenary of the disestablishment of the Church in Wales (Bell, 1969). The
actual date of disestablishment was 31 March 1920, though this would have taken
place earlier but for the First World War.
I wonder how the prolonged debates in Parliament over
this issue and the immediate, turbulent effect on Welsh
parishes was felt in the Rectory at Peppard. Rector from
1916 to 1923 was the Revd Dr Maurice Jones (1863 –
1957), by all accounts a staunch Welshman, a brilliant
preacher (in English and Welsh) and an eminent theolo-
gian. Born in Merionethshire, the son of a shoemaker,
Jones was educated at Friars School, Bangor, Christ Col-
lege, Brecon and Jesus College, Oxford where he gradu-
ated with 1st class honours in divinity. Following ordina-
tion and curacies in Caernarfon and Welshpool, he
served as chaplain to the Forces from 1890 to 1916. On
leaving the army, he accepted the benefice of Rotherfield
Peppard, the gift of our patron, Jesus College, Oxford.
We may assume that by 1923, Jones was confident, at
least in his own ability, to return to Wales and to become
Principal of St David’s College, Lampeter. Founded in 1822, only 70 students were in
residence when Jones took up office but, by the time of his retirement in 1938, he had
been responsible for a rise in numbers to 200. They were mostly ordinands who went
on to serve in the Church in Wales.
As a geography undergraduate in London, I can well remember a lecture by Em-
rys Bowen, delivered with hwyl – “a stirring feeling of emotional motivation and energy”.
Bowen (1900 – 1983) held the Gregynog chair of geography and anthropology at Aber-
ystwyth. A few years earlier, Bowen had published his account of the Welsh settlements
of the Celtic saints (Bowen, 1954) in which (page 3) he explained that “dedications to
Celtic saints are sometimes associated with the word Merthyr as in Merthyr Tudful in
Glamorgan or Merthyr Cynog in Brecknockshire. Merthyr used in this respect is equiva-
lent in meaning to ‘memorial’ – a memorial to the saint thus named”.
Cynog (born 434) is the saint with the family connection and his feast is celebrated
on either the 7 or 9 October. Merthyr Cynog is a tiny settlement high (315 m or 1050 ft
above sea level) in the Mynydd Epynt and adjacent to the Sennybridge military training
area (SENTA). In 2011, the scattered population of the parish was 245. Cynog was the
eldest son of King Brychan of Brycheiniog. In his youth, Cynog retired from his father's
court to a hermitage not far from the Brecon to Battle road, about a mile from Caer Efong
(Y Gaer), his father's capital. He spent his life ministering to the religious needs of the
people of Brycheiniog, as well as making sojourns to other Welsh kingdoms where
churches dedicated to him may still be found (for example, three different settlements
called Llangynog). He even travelled over the Bristol Channel to Cerniw (Cornwall),
staying for some time at Both-Cynog (Boconnoc), near some of his siblings.
According to David Nash Ford’s biography, “in later life, Cynog was desirous
of a more stable form of solitude, so he joined a community of religious men leading an
organised hermitical life upon Y Fan Oleu (the Van), a mountain in the parish of Merthyr
Cynog. There he built him a small hermitage under a steep rock near the mountain's
summit. Cynog and his fellows lived by the labour of their hands and had no water
except that which they fetched from the river at the foot of the mountain. The hermits
continually bemoaned the long climb back up the steep hill, but Cynog underwent the
journey very cheerily and reprehended the others for their sloth; for he considered such
labour holy in itself. Thus the other hermits came to resent Cynog's presence.
“Resentment soon turned to hatred when the Lord sent Cynog a miraculous
spring above his little cell, in consideration of his aged state. The hermits resolved to
murder poor Cynog in order to gain access to his water supply. Mounting the rock one
Sunday morning, 8th October, they found him at prayer, his feet in the crystal spring.
They ran at him furiously and cut off his head with a sword, which was then dropped into
the well. As Cynog's head also hit the water, the spring immediately dried up. The saint,
however, continued to walk about with his head, first hanging from his body and then
taken up by his hands. He carried it down the hill and onto some rising ground. At this
point, one of the hermits snatched Cynog's famous torc from under his habit and the
saint dropped his head under a bramble bush. He was buried at this spot and the old
parish church of Merthyr Cynog was raised as a martyrium over his grave.”
By tradition the church at Merthyr Cynog is the burial place of
St Cynog who established a settlement there before 500. It
was reputedly a clas, a native Christian church in early medie-
val Wales. The churchyard boundary is sub-circular suggest-
ing a pre-Christian site and a fine example of a medieval llan.And the family connection? Sandra was born at Merthyr Cynog. Her father was
incumbent and had been a student at Lampeter when Dr Jones was the college
principal
The church of St Cynog, Merthyr Cynog
BELL, P. M. H., 1969. Disestablishment in Ireland and Wales. SPCK, London. 392 pages.
BOWEN, E. G., 1954. The settlements of the Celtic saints in Wales. University of Wales
Press, Cardiff. 175 pages.
Keith Atkinson
Mother Love
The death of the actress Dame Diana Rigg (1938 – 2020) on 10 September, so soon after the
televised showing of an instalment of All creatures great and small in which she played Mrs
Pumphrey (with her dog Tricki-woo), reminded me of the filming of Mother Love at All Saints’
Church in the 1980s. Diana Rigg played the part of Helena Vesey and wedding and baptism
scenes were filmed at church.
Keith AtkinsonPCC Matters In addition to maintaining three regular Sunday services, All Saints’ has long taken pride in keeping the church open during daylight hours for the benefit of visitors and those seeking refuge for private prayer. Sadly, the church has remained locked during the Covid-19 crisis and has only recently been re-opened on Sunday mornings for private prayer or a said Eucharist every third week. We owe a great debt to Valentine de Haan who has done all the hard work of preparing and cleaning the building each week to “sanitary” standards and for manning the church during the openings. Meanwhile, the church as an institution has to continue to operate and dealing with the on-going busi- ness is a duty that falls to the PCC. Throughout the pandemic it has proved impossible to hold our regular PCC meetings in the Parish Room. The scheduled meetings in March, May, July and September all had to be cancelled. The new 2020 Church Representation Rules allow proceedings and deci- sions to be done electronically in “virtual” meetings, but these decisions have to be rati- fied at the first “real” meeting following. Zoom has been a great benefit to many of us in maintaining family contacts during the pandemic but not everyone has this facility so PCC communication is limited to e-mail. In practice, this means that only straightforward decisions that do not require debate can be handled. Nevertheless, we have been able to maintain the continuity of church business and to take decisions on some 14 items. The Standing Committee has been able to hold two Zoom audio-visual meetings to prepare the ground for the virtual PCCs. Many non-urgent issues have had to be carried forward to a time when we can hold a “real” meeting. In addition some longer term is- sues, such as the Clift bequest, that require significant discussion have had to be de- ferred. It looks as though the next real PCC may be a rather long one! The APCM that should have taken place in April has had to be deferred until Sunday 25th October in church [Covid-19 permitting], so please pencil this date in your diaries. Bishop Stephen has signed a special order that gives dispensation to delay APCM meet- ings up to 31st October. A side effect of this delay is that all church officers and elected lay members formally remain in post until the next APCM and we must thank them for this unexpected continuing service. Two lay members of very long standing will not be seeking re-election: Keith Atkinson after 48½ years and Richard Gough after 44½ years. They will be hard acts to follow. Doubtless there will be opportunities to thank them prop- erly once the pandemic is over. Please give some thought to candidates for election to the PCC; have you thought of standing yourself? Finally, if you would like to be on the Electoral Roll but are not so already, please contact Jenny Wingrove without delay [existing members do not need to apply]. Ian Heriot, PCC Secretary
Valarie’s Corner
“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the
sea, And rides upon the storm.” These inspiring words by William Cowper are so moving
and memorable. In our hymns we have a treasure house of faith, wisdom and beauty.
The Butler Education Act of 1944, , as well as raising the school-leaving age to 15!, re-
quired “ a mainly Christian“ daily act of worship. I think the discontinuing of this has
been a very serious deprivation. Children used to grow up, as I did , blessed with a daily
service. Thus hymns became part of our being. Alan Bennett and Richard Dawkins often
quote hymns gratefully even though they do not go to church.
Nigel Downing , of this parish, has given me permission to quote an invention of his,
“God incidence “ to describe what may seem coincidence but is divinely led. A few
weeks ago, a friend introduced me to a very nice person who nobly offered to take on
cleaning my house. As we sat in the garden, chatting , I “happened” to say I had grown
up in Shiplake. She replied that she liked it, and 30 years ago had broken down in her
orange metro outside the farmhouse ,which is the last house in the village. A very nice,
very tall ,man in glasses had been so helpful. I burst in, “ I grew up there, and that was
my brother.” He was amused when I told him, and he remembers not knowing what to do
with the 50p she gave him for a telephone call. So now a God incidence has sealed a
burgeoning friendship with a lovely person who is transforming my life and home. She Is
a Christian and we often discuss hymns .
“Ye fearful saints fresh courage take.”
OHCT Ride + Stride
The annual national effort to raise funds for historic places of worship took place on 12
September, but under circumstances which were far from usual. A lovely sunny morning
(not unusual in the Septembers of past years) was ideal for a stroll around the eight
places of worship in Wallingford. What was very different was that only one of them – the
Methodist Church – was “manned”. However, that did lead to an interesting cricket chat
with the gentleman on duty. At most of the other participants – St Leonard, St Mary le
More, St Peter, Ridgeway and Quaker Meeting House – a form was available to sign.
Only at St John RC and the Baptist Church was there no means of recording a visit. St
Mary and St Peter were both open to visitors.
I was not the only visitor on a similar mission. I began my walk at St Leonard and
my final church visit was to St Peter, where I saw that Margaret Woodward had begun
her walk there. Later, Margaret crossed the Thames and added Crowmarsh Gifford St
Mary Magdalene, which was open, to her church visits. Ian Fraser kindly set up a table
with a form for any visitors to sign at All Saints’ Church, but there was only one visitor
during the day.
Despite valiant attempts to maintain normality, it is inevitable that income for OHCT
and the other county trusts will be much lower this year and will be reflected in the half
share which automatically returns to the church of a participant’s choice.
Keith AtkinsonSave the date Bishop Colin’s leaving service
On the afternoon of Sunday 4 October we will be live-
streaming the service from Dorchester Abbey. Don't miss this
opportunity to share the celebration of Bishop Colin's ministry
and give thanks for all that he has given to the Diocese
Choir News
They are practicing again and it has been a delight to see the smiles on their faces as
they sit in their pews. It has been a long time but hopefully we will hear them sing on the
4th of October at the lay lead Harvest festival service, hope to see you there.Fly-tipping 14 …The king sent them after the Aramean army. He commanded the drivers, ‘Go and find out what has happened.’ 15 They followed them as far as the Jordan, and they found the whole road strewn with the clothing and equipment the Arameans had thrown away in their headlong flight. So the messengers returned and reported to the king. (2 Kings 7:14- 16) One good thing about coronavirus has been the reduction of litter on the roads. When the burger shops were shut, people did not buy a snack, eat it on the way home and then throw the plastic container and the milkshake mug and straw out the car window. What possesses people to do this? For another type of anti-social behaviour has in- creased: fly-tipping. Council tips have been closed, so irresponsible people have decided to turn a field entrance or a pathway into another tip. Fly-tipping costs money to deal with and it is also dangerous to people and wildlife. The government is tackling this problem and there are heavy fines and even imprison- ment for the offenders. Quite right, but it is not only the tipper who is responsible. You have an old settee and some bags of rubbish and need someone to dump it. A man with a van offers to do it for £20 in cash. A week later you get an email from the council to say that you are going to be investigated for fly-tipping as the man simply dumped your stuff on a roadside, and someone recognised the sofa and there were letters to your home ad- dress in the bags. Or here is another scenario: you are going on holiday and decide to leave some rub- bish at the back of your house. You phone a mate to come and collect it, but they for- get. Both of these scenarios could result in a heavy fine. In the 2018/19 year, local authorities in England dealt with over one million fly-tipping incidents, nearly two thirds of which involved household waste. But fly-tipping is a crimi- nal offence punishable by a fine of up to £50,000, or 12 months imprisonment if con- victed in a Magistrates’ Court. The offence can attract an unlimited fine and up to five years imprisonment if convicted in a Crown Court. What can we do as responsible people? We can report fly-tipping to the local authority and if there is a serious problem, we can ask our local and parish councillors what is be- ing done about it. When you go for a walk, you might sometimes take a rubbish bag with you, to collect stray litter. Just make sure you protect yourself with rubber gloves, and take care on the roads. You could even suggest that your church should organise a litter pick one Satur- day!
Crossword Across 1 He must be ‘the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well’ (1 Timothy 3:12) (6) 4 ‘For we must all — before the judgement seat of Christ’ (2 Corinthians 5:10) (6) 7 ‘They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their — end’ (Psalm 107:27) (4) 8 See 19 Across 9 It concerned who among the disciples would be the greatest(Luke 9:46) (8) 13 Formed by the Jews in Thessalonica to root out Paul and Silas (Acts 17:5) (3) 16 ‘He has sent me to bind up the — ’ (Isaiah 61:1) (6-7) 17 Moved rapidly on foot (Matthew 28:8) (3) 19 and 8 ‘ — a great company of the — host appeared with the angel’ (Luke 2:13) (8,8) 24 Hindrance (Romans 14:13) (8) 25 Comes between Luke and Acts (4) 26 Empower (Acts 4:29) (6) 27 ‘Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a — !’ (John 2:16) (6) Down 1 Sunrise (Psalm 119:147) (4) 2 The part of the day when Cornelius the Caesarean centurion had avision of an an- gel of God (Acts 10:3) (9) 3 He was one of those who returned with Zerubbabel from exile inBabylon to Jerusa- lem (Nehemiah 7:7) (5) 4 ‘No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born — ’(John 3:3) (5) 5 Animal hunted or killed as food (Ezekiel 22:25) (4) 6 ‘He encouraged them — — remain true to the Lord’ (Acts 11:23) (3,2) 10 Ruses (anag.) (5) 11 Jewish priestly vestment (Exodus 28:6) (5) 12 Visible sign of what had been there (Daniel 2:35) (5) 13 This was the trade of Alexander, who did Paul ‘a great deal of harm’ (2 Timothy 4:14) (9) 14 ‘This is my — , which is for you; do this in remembrance of me’ (1 Corinthians
18 Traditionally the first British Christian martyr (5) 20 Relationship of Ner to Saul (1 Samuel 14:50) (5) 21 Jacob had one at a place he named Bethel while on his way to Haran, fleeing from Esau (Genesis 28:12) (5) 22 Bats (anag.) (4) 23 ‘You strain out a — but swallow a camel’ (Matthew 23:24) (4)
0 "Electoral Roll This year sees a revision of the Electoral Roll. If you are already on the Roll there is nothing for you to do. If you wish to be added please complete and sign form E2 (available at the back of the church or on the website at www.achurchnearyou.com/ church/5977/) and return to Jenny Wingrove between 6th September and 4th October or hand it to a Churchwarden Crossword Answers ACROSS: 1, Deacon. 4, Appear. 7, Wits. 8, Heavenly. 9, Argument. 13, Mob. 16, Bro- ken-hearted. 17, Ran. 19, Suddenly. 24, Obstacle. 25, John. 26, Enable. 27, Market. DOWN: 1, Dawn. 2, Afternoon. 3, Nehum. 4, Again. 5, Prey. 6, All to. 10, Users. 11, Ephod. 12, Trace. 13, Metalwork. 14, Body. 15, Eber. 18, Alban. 20, Uncle. 21, Dream. 22, Stab. 23, Gnat.
Farming memories
Harvest festival is nearly upon us and as often as not my mother in law brings stories to
our dinning table. Her family were tenants to one of the Oxford colleges and the tradition
of paying the rent on Michaelmas in cash had some benefits. Her father and brother
would attend the college take a wad of notes out which was counted and signed for. They
then were shown into a large hall and received a splendid lunch. I think this tradition has
now stopped and in my opinion should be restarted.
My mother-in-law had a sister and in those days girls education was not considered to be
essential, we are talking about the 1930s when the male line was all important. Her
mother deemed that the two girls would receive a decent education and set about find-
ing funds. She resurrected the three ponds dug by monks from ages past and encour-
aged the growth of water cress. She then planted her garden with flowers that could be
cut. All this produce was sold at Oxford market. It is amazing to think that both girls had
their education provided by a mother who rolled up her sleeves and got down to busi-
ness.
As a young child I always remember my father during early September taking me
out in the Land Rover with a chain and an old tyre. Harvest had finished and there was
tons of straw rowed up in the fields. We had no use for it and in those days we were al-
lowed to burn it. My father would fix the tyre on the chain and set it on fire. It was my job
to drive up and down the field in a pattern so the fire formed it’s own break. It would be
quite dark by the time we finished . Looking across to the Downs all one could see was
fields were ablaze. On the return journey we got an occasional look from some of the
residents of the housing estate. Some years later straw burning was banned and I think
most farmers agreed with that descions. However life is not simple and today a large
amount of spray is used to control a prevalent weed called black grass which would
have been controlled by the burning and rotation.Goods and Services Directory Home and car services All the basics for your Home 0118 972 3004 or 07794464273 Do you have jobs around the home which you cannot do, you do not want to do, or you do not have the time to do? I’m your man. Mr FIX-it Handyman services. Beacon Flooring 01491 454 095 Our family run business offers a friendly, polite, professional service: our Goring showroom caters for all flooring needs, including carpet, wood, vinyl and Karndean: we also provide a mobile service, bringing samples to your door. Free estimates, free fitting on carpets over £150, stair charge may apply. Contact us by phone or at www.beaconflooring.co.uk Compass Electrical 0118 972 3972 or 07737 413314 All domestic/commercial. Internal & external. ELECSA registered and approved. Local and reliable. Please call for a free quotation Computer problems 01491 680036 (enquires@influentialcomputers.com) PC outdated, misbehaving, virus infected? Fault diagnosis, maintenance and upgrades, networking, broadband, data recovery & migration , virus cleaning, website development and hosting, mobile phone boosting and much more. Phone Robin, Henry or Angus Piercey at Influential Computers. Eldon Tree Surgery (Ian Hogg) 0771 416 5840 Comprehensive and professional tree surgery and woodland management. Fully qualified, professional team .£2M insurance ; free quotations, trees inspection; 18 years of experience. T C Fuller Plumbing and Heating 0118 9724097 or 07800 914880 All aspects, installations, maintenance , service and repair. Free estimates . No call out charge. Design, supply and installation -gas heating, bath/shower rooms and plumbing refurbishments . Minor repairs and small jobs Glazing/Glass supply 01491 629 901 Henley glazing & window centre Ltd, Manor Farm, Peppard. Broken window replacement , glass cut to size. Mirrors, table tops and replacement windows. Mike Farina Auto Services 0118 972 4036 Servicing of all makes and Models. Tyres, diagnostics , MOT’s ,brakes, batteries and exhausts. 21 Sedgewell Road, Sonning common. Milo Technical Support 0118 972 4905( www.milotechnicalsuppourt@quickerwit.com) We fix any computer problem, software or hardware, on a no fix, no fee basis. Over 500 happy customers in Sonning Common and Peppard. Painter & decorator: P J Shackleford 01491 628564 Local painter and decorator (domestic) interior and exterior , small jobs welcomed, free estimates, established in 1985. Call Paul. Peppard Building supplies 0118 972 2028
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Benefice service Rota Sunday 4th Oct: ALL SAINTS: Lay-led Harvest Praise 10.30am Sunday 11th Oct: CHRIST THE KING: 9.30am Eucharist Sunday 18th Oct: ST JOHN THE BAPTIST 11am Eucharist followed by APCM at 12 noon Sunday 25th Oct: CHRIST THE KING 9.30am Eucharist. ALL SAINTS APCM 10.30am (regulations permitting!) Sunday 1st Nov: ALL SAINTS 10.30am Patronal Festival Eucharist
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