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Uley, Owlpen & Nympsfield January 2021
Village News
Supporting Church, Community and Local Business
uleyvillagenews@gmail.com
JANET WOOD
MIKE GRIFFITHS
Uley Parish Council
JULIET BROWNE
Mr John Kay | T: 07841 204404 | E: clerk@uleyparishcouncil.gov.uk
TIM MARTIN
Parish Councillors
Jonathan Dembrey
DISTRICT Chairman
COUNCILLOR 07801 217230
Melanie Paraskeva Vice-Chairman 07929360221
JIMJoDEWEY
Dee cllr.jim.dewey@stroud.gov.uk
01453 861566
Janet Wood 01453 860236
COUNTY COUNCILLOR
Mike Griffiths 01453 860463
Juliet Browne 01453 860710
LORAINE PATRICK
Tim Martin
loraine.patrick@gloucestershire.gov.uk
07772268473
District Councillor
COMMUNITY WELL-BEING AGENT
Jim Dewey cllr.jim.dewey@stroud.gov.uk 01453 860795
County Councillor
AMBER WALTERS clare.lukes@independencetrust.co.uk
Loraine Patrick loraine.patrick@gloucestershire.gov.uk 01453 546995
Other Information
Community Well-Being Agent
Amber Walters clare.lukes@independence.co.uk 07817 866354
The Parish Council normally meets in the Village Hall on the firs
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From the Editors
Hello and welcome to the first Village shown how important face to face
News of 2021. This month’s edition interaction is for our well being.
has been jointly edited by Atlanta, The Village News has been an
who has been the editor for the last excellent way for everyone in the
year and a half, and Angela, who will local area to connect with the
be taking over the editor role from community around us during these
next month. strange times. A big thank you
goes to Atlanta for her hard work
January is often a month for both throughout her time as editor.
reflecting on the year that has just
passed and looking forward, perhaps Looking forward, you may notice that
creating New Years Resolutions (and the Village News has a slightly new
trying hard to stick to them past the look, which we hope you enjoy.
first few weeks!)
Wishing you a very happy new year
Looking back over 2020, it certainly and the best of luck with those
was a year which I’m sure none resolutions!
of us would like to repeat. Being
separated from family and friends for Atlanta and Angela
longer than we would have liked has
Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield
Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew
The Rev’d Canon Michael Cozens Churchwardens
T: 01453 546459 Mrs P Thomas, T: 860047
E: mgcozens86@btinternet.com Mrs A Hardy, T: 860876
Parish day off - Friday All bookings for the Church and St
Messages listened to daily Giles Room to Marion Kee, T: 860364,
E: maronkee@gmail.com
www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk
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A letter from Canon Michael
Dear friends The deadline for submitting material
for the January edition of the Village
This comes with my best wishes News falls in the week leading
and prayers for a happy new year. up to the third Sunday of Advent
How much we all long for 2021 to be which is also sometimes called
very different from the year we’ve ‘rejoicing Sunday’, from the latin
just left. As we enter the new year, word ‘gaudete’, meaning ‘rejoice’.
most of us will probably be looking The theme is echoed in the readings
back and reflecting on how our lives for Gaudete Sunday, taken in this
were affected by the Coronavirus; a year from the first letter to the
thing that virtually none of us had Thessalonians, chapter 5; ‘Rejoice
ever heard of in January 2020. The always, pray without ceasing, give
impact on everyone’s lives due to thanks in all circumstances’. A
the lockdowns, the restrictions and, different reading, also from the
for many of us, the isolation. The epistles, is from chapter 4 of the
huge effect on our local schools and letter to the Philippians; ‘Rejoice in
on our children and young people; the Lord always; again I say rejoice.’
also, of course, for those who had the
virus, or had loved ones who suffered This year on ‘Rejoicing Sunday’, it
with it and maybe died, the lasting feels as though there is something
damage that has been done by it. to rejoice in; the news of the
vaccine gives us some cause to
At the time of writing, the virus has rejoice, although maybe we do that
not gone away of course; we are cautiously and also with a sense
told it never will, but vaccinations of deep sadness for all that has
have just started and there is, after happened during this year. There
so many months of uncertainty, real are other reasons for rejoicing, I
hope for the future. As I write, the would suggest. We might want to
Church is still in the season of Advent rejoice in those who have shared this
and hope is one of the great themes year with us; perhaps those people
as we look forward to celebrating the who have particularly extended
hope born in a baby in Bethlehem; their love and care to us; those who
the one who is called Emmanuel, have supported and encouraged
‘God with us’; the one born to take us, especially when things were very
away our sins and share his gift of difficult. We rejoice in those who,
eternal life with us. through the work they do has put
4them in that special group we now However you marked the beginning
call ‘key workers’; those whose work of this new year and whatever this
has been so significant in our lives year holds for you and for us all, look
and in the life of our community. for those things which cause you to
Also during these months when the rejoice; ‘rejoice in the Lord always;
virus has overshadowed us, many of again I say rejoice’.
us have been able to find more time
in our days to simply pause and to With my prayers and best wishes
appreciate the wonder and beauty of
our world and to rejoice in creation Canon Michael
and in all the blessings we receive
from it.
Church News
Internet connection to St Giles services; allow access to the internet
and emails (at times other than
For some time we have been aware services!) in the church and in the
of how good it would be to have an St Giles room. We hope that this
internet connection in our churches. will provide us with much more
That’s a very easy thing to say but not flexibility and also be useful for other
quite so straight forward to achieve! users of the building, such as Uley
However, we have started with Primary School. We are aware of the
St Giles and put in an application importance of bring a welcoming
for a Faculty (the legal permission and technologically up-to-date
required) to establish an internet community!
connection in the church. This will
involve running an underground As part of the Faculty process
cable from the road and the plan is there is a period of consultation.
for this to be laid under or next to Notices about this are posted at the
the existing path to the porch. An entrances to St Giles churchyard
internet connection will allow us to and also on the notice board in the
live stream more of our services for porch. More details can be obtained
those who are not able to physically by emailing the Administrator on
join us; allow access to material ewelmeparishoffice@gmail.com
for downloading and using in
5Uley Parish Council News
A big thank you from Uley PC Census day is March 21, 2021.
For more information visit:
Thank you to the shop, the school, www.census.gov.uk
the church and Phil Rymer for the
amazing Christmas Trees. Also to New Noticeboard
Matt Summers for the reindeer
herds, to Lilja for the 2021 Uley Uley Parish Council are pleased to
Calendar now in store and to all announce that the new community
those who have decorated their noticeboard has been installed
windows for the Advent walking at the Fop Street crossroads. This
trail. A great effort to brighten our noticeboard will be for both parish
Christmas. council and community news.
Should you wish to display a notice
Ready, steady, census please contact the Parish Clerk.
The decennial census is almost upon The noticeboard was constructed
us. Households across the area will and installed by local contractor: Matt
soon be asked to take part in the Summers Furniture. Gloucestershire
nationwide survey of housing and County Councillor Loraine Patrick
the population. It has been carried supported a funding bid to the GCC
out every decade since 1801, with the Growing Our Communities Fund of
exception of 1941. £1,060 toward the total costs of £1,210.
Information from the digital-first
census will help decide how services
are planned and funded in your local
area. This could mean things like
doctors’ surgeries, housing or new
bus routes.
Households will receive a letter
with a unique access code in the
post, allowing them to complete
their questionnaire online. Paper
questionnaires will be available on
request.
6Uley Community Stores & Post Office Diary
Tel Shop: 861592 | Tel Post Office: 860203 (Eileen, Ailsa, Carolyn and Angela)
www.uleycommunitystores.co.uk | Run by Volunteers
A very Happy New Year to All! Year Party. However this will not
be happening until completely
I do hope you all have managed a safe. I would like to reassure all the
good festive season during these volunteers, including those that
very unusual times. The Uley have had to shield, we will eventually
windows of Advent have been truly have a great party. If you would like
wonderful plus all the other very to become a volunteer then you too
special decorations around the could join in the fun in the shop and
village. All so bright. Maybe this could the party. We have now worked out
be a new tradition?? ways to safely train at a distance.
For more information to volunteer,
The lovely Christmas hamper please contact the shop.
donated by Debora and Paul
Lawrence our Chairman, will have If you have any suggestions for any
been drawn and won. Is it you? Or new items you’d like stocked in the
hopefully me! Details in next month’s New Year please let us know.
Village News.
Shop Opening Hours
Thank you to the Post Office ladies, Monday to Friday: 8 - 5.30
Eileen, Ailsa, Angela and Carolyn, for Saturdays: 8 – 1
keeping open during the lunch hour Sundays: 9 – 12
for the Christmas period. A great
help to us all. The ladies would like Post Office Opening Hours
to thank you the customers for your Monday to Friday: 9 – 5.30
patience throughout this more than (Wednesdays closes 4.30)
extremely busy time. Remember (Closed for lunch 1 – 2)
that the Post Office has now reverted Saturdays: 9 – 12.30
back to normal hours closing for Sundays: Closed
lunch 1-2pm Monday to Friday.
Stay Safe
Thanks to the shop Volunteers
who have excelled during these Pami Davis
very difficult times. They should
be looking forward to their New
7Memoirs of a Covid Survivor
It started on a Tuesday, when I felt a My wife rang 111, and out came
bit tired and thought I was getting paramedics, who told me I was on
a cold. At the back of my mind was the border of whether I should go to
a faint suspicion that it might be hospital or not. Six hours after that
Covid, but I didn’t have any of the I began to feel even worse. My wife
classic symptoms: no cough, no called out another ambulance – but
fever, no loss of taste. Then on the of course, the wretched thing broke
Thursday I developed a really sore down, and I had to lie in it for an hour
throat – and because I thought that until another picked me up.
was a sign, I booked a test online
at Gloucester for the Saturday. By then I was scarcely compos
To get the appointment, I had to mentis. At Gloucester Royal hospital
tell a lie, I said I had loss of taste. I spent a few hours in the Covid
triage ward. Another virus test
In Gloucester I took a drive-in test proved negative, apparently the virus
in a car-park set up with marquees. had already left my body. But by
There was a constant queue of then I had double pneumonia. I was
people coming in. The test was taken up to the high-dependence
efficiently run, but quite unpleasant Covid ward, and put on a course of
– swabs up your nose and at the steroids and antibiotics.
back of your throat. Within 24 hours I
got the result by text and email: you The next 16 hours were horrible. I lay
could have knocked me down with on my front wearing a C-CAP mask,
a feather, because I was positive – strapped tightly onto my face, which
must isolate for 14 days. blew air into my lungs with such
force that it felt like I was sticking my
I was still feeling relatively all right. head out of a car window at 80 mph.
But on Saturday I began to feel really
ill and went to bed. Luckily I had an There were six of us in the ward.
oximeter, which tells you how much One of the men was a really fit guy,
oxygen there is in your blood. My a weight-lifter, and he’d been there
readings were going down, and by for six weeks. But the man in the
the following Thursday - day 10 after bed next to me died. The staff were
the first symptoms – I was struggling fantastically competent and kind,
for breath, and the oximeter was but they were paranoid about blood-
reading 92. clots, because Covid thickens your
8blood, and I had four anti-coagulant I was fortunate to have been in
injections in my stomach. For 24 hospital for only five days. When
hours doctors rated my chances I came out, I had lost a stone and
of survival as 50-50. At one point I felt very weak – but I hope my
thought I was going to die, and sent experience will make others more
my wife a list of the thirty people I careful, and more inclined to obey
would like to go to my funeral. the Covid rules. Please bear in
mind that I was unlucky, as the vast
I made such a quick recovery that my majority of those who contract Covid
consultant was puzzled. ‘Your lungs have only very mild symptoms, or
are in very good shape,’ he said. So none at all.
I asked him, ‘Do you know Uley?’
‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I know it well.’ ‘Okay,’ I The author wishes to remain
told him. ‘Behind the village there’s anonymous, because people may
a steep hill called Uley Bury. Most mistakenly think he is still infectious.
mornings for the past fifteen years
I’ve walked up that with my dog.’
‘Ah,’ he said, ‘that’s why your lungs
are in such good condition.’
Covid Thanks Poem
Thank you Thank You Uley Stores Please keep up the good work
What would we do without you And keep us happy and glad
For Pensions and stamps papers and Soon we will be needing wood
food When the weather gets bad
So helpful, and always in a cheerful
mood This little rhyme is sent to you
You have helped us
Through this virus year 2020 This year to get through
you always seem to have plenty With lots of laughter and little fuss
And from all of us from Nympsfield it
is quite a treat From Winne Morgan and all of us
To get and chat to the people we
meet.
9What is your Carbon footprint?
There has been time to think more about I did need to make some extra
environmental issues this Covid year, and assumptions that the calculator does not
to read around the concerns. I decided adequately provide. These were (all just
to try a calculation of my personal my guesses): an electric car counts 10%
Carbon footprint, using one of the several of a petrol/diesel car’s footprint (not 0%
‘Calculators’ available on the internet. because of the footprint in the charging
infrastructure, roads, etc); second-hand
My estimated Carbon footprint is the purchases have a zero footprint; Biogas
mass of Carbon Dioxide that I add to counts 90% of Natural Gas. How much
the atmosphere annually through my is ‘average’ consumption of Organic
heating, food, transport, and other needs/ Food, Meat, Dairy, and miscellaneous
activities through the year. The rising spending? I took values of 20%, 20%, and
level of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere 20% of my food bills, and assumed I was
is recognised as the principal driver of average on miscellaneous spending and
Climate Change (from the 300 parts per food wasteage.
million value that I clearly remember
learning when I was at school to the My footprint came out at 7 Tons of CO2
present published value of 414 ppm - per annum. This compares to a published
quite a rise in my lifetime!). UK average figure of 14.1 Tons and USA
average of 17.6 Tons (this made me feel
The ‘Calculator’ I liked best of the several good), and with figures of 6.2 for China
that I tried was at and 1.8 for India (which made feel less
www.carbonindependent.org. good).
This seemed genuinely independent –
those that suggest Carbon Offsetting It showed me which are my biggest
as a way to ‘reduce’ a Carbon footprint outputs, and so the areas I could target
can make money from your buying the if I want to improve. It is obviously
offsetting – it was not difficult, and the only an estimate, but if I make the
assumptions and conversion factors calculation using the same calculator
it uses are explained (the ‘read more..’ and assumptions next year it will be a fair
links). comparison; and the process of doing
the exercise has been interesting (while
I only needed my household annual locked down!) and certainly made me
fuels bills to hand, total car mileage and think about my environmental footprint.
mpg, and estimates of our household
recycling, and food and other purchasing David Lungley
(the final household figure is then
divided by the number in the household).
10poem she had penned especially for the
wider circulation.
Thinking caps were required for the nex
Uley WI Diary were all able to participate. Catherine D
out of 20 possible points. My meagre sc
nine ‘facts’, although I expect I will neve
good effect, but one never knows...
December
We all knew celebrating Christmas was Sally Lamerton, our Sally L
with a
bound to be different this year and it President, kept things her vi
was with some trepidation that the Uley moving by regaling us dustb
neigh
WI Committee invited all its members with a true ‘show and were
old in
to a Zoom Christmas Party. Members tell’ tale about her violin
mesm
were asked to wear something sparkly, that her father rescued fine th
seems
perhaps a funny hat and to have a glass from on top of her next what
of something festive within reach. Would door’s dustbin when she story.
anyone, other than the committee was a child. Sally thinks that perhaps
Perhaps fittingly for her
the new year, our n
members, turn up? But we need not neighbours might have hoped resolutionsomeone
for the 2021 national WI cam
one of five worthy resolution contende
have worried. As one member emailed wanted it and if so, they were quite right!
Wishing everyone a healthy, happy New
just afterwards, ‘The Uley WI Christmas Had she acquired simply an unloved,
Party via Zoom was BRILLIANT!! Really worn-out old instrument or did it hold
good to see so many there.’ And it really a hidden secret? We were mesmerised
was fun. by the possibilities. Chance really would
have been a fine thing, had the worn
After a little business was sorted, label hiding inside been authentic. It
Jacqueline Sarsby began the celebrations seems though that ‘Stradivarius’-labelled
by reciting the most delightful new violins are not always all what you
poem she had penned especially for the might hope for. However, its legacy is an
occasion: The Lonely Rook. Hopefully she entertaining story.
will publish it for wider circulation.
Perhaps fittingly for the new year, our
Thinking caps were required for the next meeting on 13th January 2021 will
next segment cleverly devised by Pat focus on selecting a resolution for the
Uglow: a quiz in which we were all able 2021 national WI campaign. It will not be
to participate. Catherine Day excelled as easy as Uley WI has to nominate only one
the worthy winner, scoring a magnificent of five worthy resolution contenders. We
15 out of 20 possible points. My meagre need to be ready to put it to the vote.
score of 11 was far less impressive, but I’m
now wiser about nine ‘facts’, although Wishing everyone a healthy, happy New
I expect I will never again be required Year from all in Uley WI.
to use this newly gained knowledge to
good effect, but one never knows... Ann Warrender
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village news?
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which may be of community interest: local history, a
poem, a favourite recipe, to name but a few. We would
particularly like to feature local photographs or artwork
on the cover.
Please send pieces in by the 10th of each month to:
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12Uley Society Village Lottery
Happy New Year to you All. Congratulations to the winners of the
December lottery:
I write in hope!!
1st (£15) - George Todd
2nd (£10) - Richard Polkinghorne
That from September, our monthly
meetings can begin again.
Are you a member? You’ve got to be
in it to win it!! Please email me for a
Also cross your fingers for this year’s form or pick one up from the shop.
Annual Uley Show. va.boroughs@btinternet.com
Please save the date: Vicky Boroughs
Saturday 11th September 2021.
Children’s Society From the
Box Collection Registers
Last year boxholders very generously Those whose Year’s Mind
gave over £580 in support of this very falls at this time:
worthwhile cause, helping children
and young people at serious risk. Dennis Ashton, Ivy Evelyn Bailey,
Kenneth Frederick Bartlett,
This January I will be collecting the Ray Burne, Norman Butcher,
boxes and prior to collection will be Derek Claridge, Trevor Clayton,
contacting boxholders individually so Nicholas “Nick” Edwards,
that boxes can be collected in a safe Don Downton, Val Easton,
and socially distanced manner. John Endacott, Basil Holloway,
It would be wonderful to recruit Mary Hunn, John Jones, Phyllis King,
some new boxholders! If you would Diana Lewis, Lynette Owen,
like to have a box do please get in Vivien Parsons, James Pegler,
touch on 01453 861152. Francis Penley, Sophia Schutts,
Bryan Davies, Doreen Busta,
Gift aid can be arranged for taxpayers Pat Stopford, Paul Mack,
which gives a boost to any donations. Antony Cook, Paul Weeks.
Erica Fawcus Gibbs
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The Ewelme Benefice
Parish of Uley with Owlpen and Nympsfield
Churches of St Giles, Holy Cross and St Bartholomew
The Revd Canon Michael Cozens - 01453 546459 mgcozens86@btinternet.com
Churchwardens - Ann Hardy 860876, Pauline Thomas 01453 860047
www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk
January 2021 Services
Sunday 3rd January Feast of the Epiphany
St Giles 10.00am Parish Holy Communion (CW)
Sunday 10th January Baptism of Christ
St Giles 10.00am Parish Holy Communion (CW)
Sunday 17th January 2nd Sunday of Epiphany
St Bartholomew 10.00am Parish Holy Communion (CW)
Sunday 24th January 3rd Sunday of Epiphany
St Giles 10.00am Parish Holy Communion (CW)
Sunday 31st January Presentation of Christ/Candlemas
Holy Cross 10.00am Parish Holy Communion (BCP)
Church opening times: Church Activities
St Giles
Tuesdays & Fridays 10am – 3pm Please be aware that due to the
St Bartholomew’s ongoing situation, all of this could
Wednesdays & Saturdays 10am – 3pm be subject to change.
Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals Tuesday 19th January 7pm Via Zoom
by arrangement. Please contact PCC meeting
Canon Michael
Up to date information can be
Parish Administration found on our website:
Please contact the Parish Office: www.ewelmebenefice.co.uk
ewelmeparishoffice@gmail.com
01453 549280
The office is open on reduced hours
at the present time but emails will be
answered and messages picked up.
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