Springtime … a bright approach to Welbury … 26-03-2017
Coming up … more details in church gazette and separate wel-e-bulletins
Sun 16 Apr Easter service followed by Egg Hunt, 11am St Leonard’s church
Sun 16 Apr BBQ & band from 9pm at the Duke of Wellington
Thu 20 Apr WI 7.30 pm Village Hall
Peter Bumby
With apologies for late news, Peter Bumby, long-time resident of Hillside Bungalow, just beyond the village hall, passed away peacefully on October 1st 2016 in a care home in York, aged 76. The funeral was at York crematorium.
You scratch my back …
Shetland ponies Vicky and Sonny from Cartegena Farm near Hornby enjoy a working holiday trimming the grass at Garden House, Welbury. 02-04-2017
Quiz of the month…
Bluebells in Welbury? Where are the best bluebells growing wild in Welbury parish? Do we have any growing wild? There are plenty cultivated in the gardens of course.
Answers from last month (as far as we know; tell us if you know better).
Spring flowers? Pat Wade was first to
respond with a name of a spring flower from the letters of “Welbury”: bluebell. Can’t think of any other, can you?
Weather from Rod…
For everyone who’s been desperately missing the monthly weather reports, they’re back with data from a new weather station……. With only 4 nights falling below zero and a minimum of –1.2 °C, March was much warmer than last year with a monthly average temperature of 7.8 °C (cp. 5.7 °C in 2016). It was also the warmest March since 2012 (average = 8.3 °C). That year, we had a high of 25 °C in late March, but this year it peaked at 18 °C on the 30th. In terms of rain, there was a single very wet day on the 3rd (9 mm rain), but overall March was fairly dry with 48 mm of rain during the month, a little drier than March 2016 ( 58 mm rain).
So far in April, there’s been 1 sub-zero night on the 8th (-0.3 °C) followed by our warmest day of the year on the 9th (22 °C). April rainfall to date is very low at less than 3 mm.
Book of the month…
Doughnut Economics
by
Kate Raworth
Something a little ‘avant garde’ this month! The premise of Kate Raworth’s book is that economics is broken! It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, recent financial crises,
its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty exists, while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year.
So, can economics be fixed? In this book, Oxford academic Raworth
identifies seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray and she sets out a way to bring humanity into an ideal state where the needs of everyone are met within the means of our planet. Raworth deconstructs the character of what she calls ‘rational economic man’ and explains what makes us tick – she believes that an obsession with equilibrium has left economists helpless when facing the boom and bust of the real-world economy. She highlights the dangers of ignoring the significance of energy and Nature’s resources – and the implications for economic growth when we take them into account. Raworth creates her own new, cuttingedge economic model fit for the 21st century.
The book is ambitious, rather radical yet aggressively argued. The author shows a creative approach to the subject which makes for an interesting read.
Sarah Hoiles
W I Report (March)
From Dervor Hanson
It is surprising how much we don’t see as we drive past. Mike Rooney talked to us about setting up an archaeology group in Deighton, what inspired him, what they have found so far in records and in the ground, and how much is still to be explored. His talk was well illustrated with aerial photographs and finds.
The competition “something I have dug up in my garden” showed that we too can find all sorts of interesting items from the past.
Dug up in the garden Photo – Dervor Hanson 16-03-2017
Village daffs 26-03-2017
Spring in Welbury 27-03-2017
