“Summertime” … down Bell’s Lane behind the pub … 09-08-2017
Coming up … more details in church gazette and separate wel-e-bulletins
Sat 3 Sep Ploughmans’ & Puddings 12 for 12.30 pm Village Hall
Wed 13 Sep Meet & Mingle, 3.30-4.30 pm St Leonard’s church
Sat 30 Sep Macmillan coffee morning 10-12 Village Hall
Sat 7 Oct churchyard tidying day
Sat 14 Oct church cleaning day
Quiz of the month…
C2C? What is the shortest coast to coast crossing of England (from west coast to east coast)?
Answers from last month (as far as we know; tell us if you know better).
Wild flowers? There are several good displays of meadow cranesbill in the parish lanes. The biggest is on the Appleton road shortly after the
Round Tree (aka hanging tree) and there is a very good patch just past Nunns’ farm on the Deighton road. Nice to see them around!
Susan and Stuart Mackie on their wedding day. Stuart writes: Our wedding on 4 July at Crathorne
Hall all went to plan despite very wet weather and we enjoyed our honeymoon on the Orient
Express to Venice.
Alan Brooks by Roker Pier after his
sponsored C2C ride in aid of Welbury
church. To sponsor, please contact Alan. Information redacted for website publication, please contact us if you require further information.
Photo Joanne Hughes 11-08-2017
Weather from Rod…
After the warmest May and June in the past 7 years, last month proved to be the coldest July since 2012, with an average monthly temperature of 15.5 °C (cp. 17 °C last July). Temperatures peaked at 27 °C on the 17th and 18th, whereas maximum temperatures in July 2013-2016 were well above 30 °C. To accompany the cooler weather there was a lot of rain, 94 mm during the month, making it by far the wettest July since our records began in 2011: previous highest was 78 mm in July 2012. July 6th brought an afternoon thunderstorm with 19 mm of rain in less than an hour – the wettest day since 21st November 2016.
Up until 12th August, it’s been even cooler with a maximum of just 23 °C and an average temperature a couple of degrees below the same period last year. So far, there’s been 34 mm of rain, largely from another 19 mm downpour on the 8th. As August 2016 was the wettest month last year with 110 mm of rain, mostly falling in the latter part of the month, I suppose we could be in for some more………..
Book of the month…
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love
by
James Booth
To coincide with Hull’s status as a city of culture and the new Larkin exhibition in the library there, I have chosen to review this excellent book. In it James Booth succeeds in making Larkin more accessible than might previously have been the case and
provides the reader with some fascinating insights into the poet.
Having always admired Larkin as a poet, I was pleased to find that this book allows us to understand more about him.
While alive, he was constantly misunderstood and deemed himself an emotional failure. He is pictured here as a witty, provocative and entertaining individual.
His private life was complicated but the meticulous research of this book reveals that his life and his art were not really so deeply at odds with one another. This book is a fascinating read and one which will have you returning to Larkin’s poems if you are already a fan or getting to know them if you are unfamiliar with his work. A brilliant book and a superb biography!
Sarah Hoiles
White Rose… on Yorkshire Day 01-08-2017
W I Report (July)
from Dervor Hanson
Bill Coverdale is a fascinating man. He talked happily about his life experiences as healer of people who chose to come to him. Next month Yvonne Clinton talks about making floral buttonholes. The competition will be for anything beginning with B.
Wild flowers on Yorkshire Day 01-08-2017:
Meadow cranesbill on Appleton road (above), by Nunns’ farm on Deighton road (below left) and near Tilesheds farm on Harlsey road (below right)
Summertime down Bell’s Lane 09-08-2017
