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Pete Loam
From Iona...
Our strap line has now changed to 'Iona to Lindisfarne - Our 2020 Vision (plus one!)'
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Meanwhile, team member Karen has put together a record of the route through daily 'virtual' posts and these can be seen on our Facebook page and on our Website. They are great fun and show just how beautiful (and arduous) the walk will be.
£1500 has already been raised by Pilgrims for People to help refugee charities through our Virgin Giving site which is still open for donations. Additional funds have been raised through other means and we are discussing new ideas for fundraising at our on-line team meetings. We also hope to begin our team training walks again soon.
The organising team, Karen Tindale, Jacqui Carrick, Patrick Norris and myself, would like to thank everyone who has supported our project so far.
Website: www.ionatolindisfarne.co.uk/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/IonatoLindisfarne/
...to Lindisfarne
Keeping a weather eye out for problems
Ast I write this, the rain is coming down nice and steadily - music to a farmer’s ears after the long dry spell.
Thankfully a month ago we had time to use an aerator, - basically a large version of the garden machine used to spike lawns. hill sheep will have been treated for ticks. It’s exactly the same as treating your dogs and cats and is vital because there’s quite a number of ticks around this year.
This will allow the rain to get to the Hefted sheep - sheep that have lived roots of any grass that is still there. on the same farm for generations - build up immunity to Springs are finite things and you would probably be amazed at the number of farms that still have no mains water. That is why the level of concern in the farThe wool between the old and new wool on a sheep’s fleece is called the ‘rise’ and that’s where the shearers will cut. If there’s not enough ‘rise’ the shears won’t clip well and the sheep is said to be ‘claggy or sticky’. ticks and the like. They get to know the hill - where they want to lamb and where the sweetest grass is. It takes years for this to be accomplished which is why there were ming community problems after the rises as the water table levels drop. foot and mouth disease outbreak when new sheep had to be introThere have been several fields cut duced onto hill ground. for silage and even hay. It’s poor quality but better than going to Shearing has started and is genseed - just like bolting rhubarb. erally going well. With the quarantine restrictions for Enough talk of the weather beshearers coming in to cause, as you know, farmers are althis country, it bodes ways moaning. well for local youngsters to make some All the lambings are over and the money. Pete Loam
Church contact list
Wooler, Kirknewton, Doddington, Chatton, Chillingham, Eglingham, Ilderton (Cheviot Benefice) Ingram, South Charlton Rev Suzanne Cooke, 01668 283502, (Breamish & Till Benefice) suzanne@cookehouse.co.uk Vacant Rev Judith Dobson. judedob@gmail.com Lowick, Ford, Etal, Ancroft, St John the Baptist (Vacant) Wooler URC Jean Armstrong (Secretary), 01668 Milfield Methodist 216205, jean.arms50@gmail.com Rev Kim Hurst, 01289 306291, www.woolerurc.org.uk www.lindisfarnemethodistchurches.org.uk Glendale Crossing Places Rev Bill Eugster, 01668 282176, bill.eugster@glendalecrossingplaces.org Crookham URC Rev Mary Taylor, m.taylor_1@btinternet.com www.glendalecrossingplaces.org Wooler Christian Brethren Wooler St Ninian's (Roman Catholic) David Pulman, 01668 216520 Father David Philips, 01665 574240 Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Wooler Evangelical Church Michael Veitch, 0777 900 4253, michaelgveitch@yahoo.co.uk www.wooler-evangelical.org.uk Community of the Holy Mother of God and St Oswald. Reader, John-Michael, 01668 215397, email, ikons@gmx.com
As we go to press...Churches are still closed because of coronavirus restrictions.
Useful telephone numbers continued from back page
Cornhill Parish Council
Bowsden Parish Council Ingram Parish Council Carham Parish Council parishclerk@cornhill-on-tweed.co.uk 01890 820501 01289 388871(Clerk Mike Simpson) 01665 578906 clerk@carhamparish.org 01890 850 336
County Councillor:
Glendale Gateway Trust:
01668 281062(Cllr Anthony Murray) Anthony.Murray99@northumberland.gov.uk 01668 282406 ggtadmin@wooler.org.uk
U3A: 01668 281362 ww.u3asites.org.uk/wooler/home
Cheviot Centre, Wooler: 01668 282406 ggtadmin@wooler.org.uk Glendale Hall, Wooler: 01289 388387 Kirknewton Village Hall: 01890 850285 kirknewtonvillagehall@gmail.com Chatton Village Hall: villagehall@chatton.uk Lowick Village Hall: 01289 388285 Bowsden Village Hall: 01289 388543 hgew13@gmail.com Etal Village Hall: www.etalvillagehall.org.uk Crookham Village Hall: 01890 820446 Ford Village Hall 07790 457580 ladywaterfordhall@gmail.com Bolton Village Hall 01665 574689 Ingram village hall 01665 578980
Wooler First School:
Glendale Middle School:
Ford Village School:
Lowick First School:
