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Greetings from Christ Church Dunstable! One of the most memorable meals of my life was when I was back living in Albania. I was invited to dinner by a family attending a local church up in the old town of Gjirokaster. There are various customs in Albania that I wasn’t prepared for; especially coming from a British background. To the table came some chicken - and some vegetables, following that came a loaf of bread, potatoes, and a mound of rice. Then a plate of pasta was set in front of me. As I ate, I was offered more and more, and being British it was difficult to refuse as my generous hosts insisted I had more. It wasn’t until I had been there for a year or two I learned various tricks to be able to refuse more effectively. “S’ka më vende!”/“There’s no room left!” is usually successful. Coming from a comfortable background and entering into another’s world can be a very humbling experience. Albania isn’t known for its wealth. Areas I was going to were very poor and I got to witness a different kind a wealth; a wealth of generosity and hospitality in the face of poverty. Sadly, this issue of poverty isn’t exclusive to other parts of the world but is very real to many in our Dunstable community. Christ Church Dunstable is proud to partner with the Dunstable Food Bank which is part of Trussell Trust. We, along with New Life Church and St Augustine’s church, provide emergency food parcels to those in need throughout the week. The need for the Foodbank is ever growing and we are so thankful to all of you who have donated food and toiletries, as well as financial gifts. It is thanks to you that we are able to run the Foodbank week by week.

• Donations received per month: 3900kg • Stock given out to clients per month: 4031kg • Number of people/households fed over the last 6 months in total: 2753 people (44% of whom were children) / 930 households. Statistics on a page can look very impersonal but it is important to remember that each of these numbers represents an individual or a family that for whatever reason has found it difficult to provide for themselves.

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Having considered the stats, the answer may seem obvious: because there is a great need! But the answer runs deeper than that too. As Christians we feel called by God to do what we can to help other people. God calls us to love others as he loves us; which is a sacrificial love as he sent his one and only Son, Jesus, to die for us, providing for our greatest need; our need of forgiveness. For us Foodbank is an act of love. But it is also an act of worship.

Jesus says in Matthew 25:35, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.”

He explains that serving others in this way is the same as serving the Lord himself. If you require the use of Foodbank then please see the timetable across the page. If you need emotional, spiritual, or personal support then you’re always welcome to visit us here at Christ Church Dunstable.

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Do you know a nursery, school, college, or community group that would like to make a difference? Did you know that our Charity works alongside nurseries, schools, colleges and community groups to help make a difference to their local hospital? You can carry out your own fundraising activities, such as read-a-thons, race days, disco’s, or you can take part in our events such as Jolly Jumper Day, Give a Gift or World Book Day! We send regular newsletters throughout the school year and there are lots of opportunities for you to get involved. Get in touch with our Schools Coordinator today to book a visit or to find out more! EmailSabine.Hazell@ldh.nhs.uk or call 01582 718 289.

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Hello again to everyone in our community! What a start to Summer! I do hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather but please keep safe and remember to stay hydrated and wear your sun screen and hats! So, what’s been happening since the last issue? To begin with I can tell you that donations to local events and organisations amounted to over £200 with more fund raising planned during August right through to October. We have also been holding various events for NHS charities, one event, held in our cafe, saw 5p from every hot drink sold donated to the NHS Big Tea weeks campaign. Fundraising for our partnership charity Together For Short Lives is now in full swing and I would like to thank everybody that has donated to this wonderful charity. If you would like to donate it couldn’t be easier, either use one of the collection tins or let your cashier know at the till and they will be able to add your donation to your bill. I would also like to take the opportunity to say thank you to Houghton Together who have donated over £160 to buy products for the local food bank. The food bank provides us with a list of items that they are running short of so I was able to put the money to best use. We also use this list to make our ‘Pick Up Packs’ which are available for customers to buy and donate. These can be found near the swing gates at the front of the store. I realise that at this time that things might be tight and there are lots of thoughts around the cost of living so I have made up bags to range between 98p and £3. If you can, and would like to donate a pack simply pop one in your trolley and take it to the checkout. So far, with the help of our amazing community, we have managed to donate £3,680 worth of food and supplies to the local food banks. This really shows how much the community supports each other Out in the community, I had the great pleasure of attending a local event to mark the anniversary of Houghton Regis Memorial Hall and got to meet the

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amazing team and also learn lots about the history of the hall. I also had the great pleasure in visiting St Thomas Whitehead School where I spent the morning talking to the children about how the food we eat gets from field to plate and how long process can take for some of the items to get to our stores from the time of harvesting. The children were particularly interested to learn about healthy eating and products from the ‘Save The Rainforest’ and ‘Fair Trade’ lines. The children were truly amazing. Thank you Thomas Whitehead for allowing me to come in and I look forward to arranging another visit in the near future. Once again I’d like to remind you about the Community Notice Board in store. This board is there for you to use to promote local, non-profit organisations, as well as to inform people of what’s going on in Houghton Regis. It is a great source of information for the community so please take a look when you visit. Unfortunately we do not permit advertising for businesses or for-profit organisations and all notices should be checked by either the Community Champion or a member of staff at customer services prior to posting on the board. If you are a local charity (registered) or fund raise on behalf of a local charity, please get in touch if you would like help with any fund-raising events. Pop into the store or send me a letter and we can see what help we may be able to provide, in the form of a donation or practical help such as the use of a room in store for small meetings. We love to help! There are many things to look forward to later this year, The Skate Park competition, Houghton Rocks, The poppy Appeal as well as in store events for our charity but more about that next time... On a final note, do you have a More Card? If you do, watch out for up and coming events that will be free for you to join in. Not a more card owner? Don’t miss out! Make sure you enquire about one next time you are at the store! Until next time, have a fantastic summer, Keep Smiling Sandra - Community champion Morrisons Houghton Regis

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Length, Distance And Area Many people who are much younger than me (that’s not difficult!) and who have been brought up on the Metric system (where everything is based on the number 10, eg 10 little’uns = 1 big’un and 10 big’uns = 1 giant, and so on) must be thankful that they didn’t have to go through the agonies of the old Imperial system which was anything but regular and usually based on something historical. The Imperial system regarding length (and distance and area) is particularly prone to such nightmares and I can remember that, as a boy, it took a long time to get even the important units, and how they related to each other, sorted out in my head. But there were still loads of obscure units which were left over - units you never hear of today. The keystone of Imperial length is the Inch - this is the basic unit - and most of the other lengths and distances are multiples of this basic. There are, however, some units which are less than an inch and these, like the majority of early units, are derived from agriculture (because in medieval and pre-medieval days, nearly everyone worked on the land so such things were familiar). Let’s make a start ; and you’ll be pleased to know that you recognise a lot of these units. Although the Inch is the basic unit, it is the barleycorn and the poppyseed which are the first exemplars and we have 4 poppyseeds = 1 barleycorn and 3 barleycorns = 1 inch I can remember that an inch was either 3 ears of barley laid side by side, or it was the distance made by a bent thumb. But the latter is much bigger than an inch in my case - perhaps the original thumb belonged to a king’s young son or his missus! I also feel that 3 ears of barley laid side by side are bigger than what I know

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as an inch (but maybe crops were physically smaller in medieval times?). In the metric system, an inch is 2.54 cms (centimetres). After the inch, we get into more familiar territory and have 12 inches = 1 foot ; 3 feet = 1 yard ; 1760 yards = 1 mile (where a foot is roughly 30cms , a yard is a bit less than a metre, and a mile a bit more than 1.5 kilometres). But before we get too confident about these older units of length, let’s consider some of the less common ones which can also get us to a mile. Units such as:- 3 inches = 1 palm ; 3 palms = 1 span ; 2 spans = 1 cubit ; 11 cubits = 1 rod, pole or perch ; 4 rods = 1 chain ; 10 chains = 1 furlong and 8 furlongs = 1 mile. Note: the palm and the span are based on the size of someone’s hand - and there’s also a measure which is actually called a hand (still found when talking about the height of a horse) where 2 inches = 1 stick ; 2 sticks = 1 hand (= 4 inches). There are also nails, digits and fingers. It’s a real nightmare! The rod, or pole, was, originally, a long stick which was laid out on the ground in order to allocate land and it’s still used today for allotment plots. Its equivalent, the perch, originated as the Roman pertica and was roughly the length of the pike - a military weapon. In the 16th century, it was defined as “the total length of the left feet placed heel to toe of 16 average men as they left church” (not very precise and why the church?). When the business plots (called “yards”) for the first burgesses of Dunestaple were being laid out in the early 1100s, the allotted plot was 8 rods wide and 50 rods long (which worked out as a 2.5 acre plot which, at one shilling per acre rental, was half a crown a year. Not bad! How times have changed. A rod is roughly 5 metres in metric.

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Doing the simple arithmetic, it follows that a palm is 3 inches ; a span is 9 inches ; a cubit is 18 inches ; a rod is 198 inches (or 16.5 feet or 5.5 yards) ; a chain is 792 inches (or 66 feet or 22 yards) ; a furlong is 660 feet or 220 yards ; and a mile is 5280 feet or 1760 yards. A long way round to get to the same place! It’s interesting to note that a cricket pitch is one chain (ie 22 yards) in length - which means that a ball bowled at 90 mph doesn’t take very long to reach the batsman! That’s why top batsmen have some of the quickest reactions in sport - certainly as quick as F1 drivers. Another old unit which, I believe, is still used in the tailoring industry is the Ell. This is 5 spans in length which makes it 45 inches. It was originally the distance from the shoulder to the wrist and could have been an approximate measure when reeling off from a roll of cloth ; it’s similar to another measure which I remember, namely that a yard is roughly the distance from the tip of your nose to the end of your fingers. It works remarkably well for adult men. Many of these early measures have origins based upon the physical sizes of kings, dukes or local members of the aristocracy, eg it’s been suggested that a foot was the length of Henry 1st’s foot (although this would give him very big feet). And from an agricultural base, a furlong comes from “furrow long” and represented the distance a plough team of 8 oxen could “furrow” without having to rest. Also 10 square chains equalled an acre which was the area of land able to be ploughed by a team of 8 oxen by 1 man in 1 day. But this - and pretty well all the other early units - must have varied tremendously from place to place and soil to soil. It was not until the 19th century that they were stabilised. The unit called the nautical mile comes from 6 feet = 1 fathom ; 100 fathoms = 1 cable ; 10 cables = 1 nautical mile. But this comes to 6000 feet whereas the accepted figure is 6080 feet so where has the extra 80 feet come from? The answer seems to be because 6000 feet is very close to 6080 feet and this is the length of a minute of latitude. So the nautical mile has been set at 6080 feet. A further nautical distance is the league which is 3 nautical miles. Many of the older units have a Roman origin and we had 2 palms = 1 shaftment ; 5 shaftments = 1 pace ; 2 paces = 1 grade or step ; 4 steps = 1 rope ; 5 ropes = 1 chain ; 50 chains = 1 Roman mile. Do the arithmetic and a Roman mile becomes 5000 feet (compare with 5280 feet). We could also get to the same point

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by saying that a Roman mile was 1000 double paces (1000 grades) of the Roman foot soldier (ie 1000 X 5 ft = 5000 ft). Note that it is from the Latin mille passus (1000 steps) that we get our Mile. But these Roman distances are all slightly smaller than our British equivalents because the Romans were a bit smaller than we are so their marching pace would be less than that for a more recent British soldier. Other measures follow similarly - so Roman lengths and distances, although possibly having the same name as ours, are usually smaller. The early unit of area was the Hide which was commonly broken down into smaller fractions. When one reads the records of villages made during William the Conqueror’s Domesday survey of 1086, areas of land suitable for taxation purposes - because that was the object of the survey - were listed either directly in hides and/or in the different subdivisions. There is much controversy over the actual number of acres which make a hide but the usual number accepted is 120 (but can vary depending upon the quality of the land and, therefore, its taxable value). A hide (also known as a carucate) was an AngloSaxon unit and was considered to be the amount of land necessary to support a family. There are various sub- and super- divisions of the hide with multiples such as a ferundel being 7.5 or 10 acres dependent upon where you live. There were 2 ferundels making a bovate (or oxgang) having 15 or 20 acres. Then 2 bovates were the same as a yardland or a virgate and that 4 virgates made a hide. So a hide could be either 120 acres or 160 acres dependent upon your starting point. And with regard to the actual area of a hide, it varied from place to place around the country and was very dependent upon local factors such as soil fertility or difficulty of terrain. On the larger scale, there was (still is) the hundred which, again, has many different definitions amongst historians but is usually accepted as meaning an area of 100 hides. Hundreds were subdivisions of shires or counties (administrative units not defined by area) and larger counties had more hundreds than smaller counties (eg Bedfordshire, one of the smaller counties, has 9 hundreds). In Yorkshire, there were (still are) three ridings (the name comes from the Norse meaning a third - but they were never equal in area). At the Joe Everyman level, the basic area was the acre and we have already seen that an acre is the equivalent of 10 square chains or 66 ft by 660 ft (ie a chain by a furlong) which would have been understood by the ordinary man.

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What’s on place in the garden: Cinderella on 26th July and Romeo & Juliet on 2nd August. Talks and tours for groups are also available email office@lutonhooestate.co.uk phone 01582 721443 for more information as well as details of all our activities and events. Look forward to seeing you. Don't forget access is via the A1081 between Luton and Harpenden West Hyde Rd/Newmill End turning LU1 4LF - there is no entrance to or from the hotel.

Luton Hoo Walled Garden Come and visit a Capability Brown walled garden this summer on our Open Wednesdays. The 21st anniversary of the beginning of the volunteer project at the Luton Hoo Estate Walled Garden is celebrated this year. It was locally nominated independently for ‘The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2022” – the highest accolade given to volunteer groups across the UK.

Open Wednesdays

The results of the project can be seen on our Open Wednesdays from 10:30-16:00 until the end of September. Admission price is just £7.50 which includes a free guided historical garden tour by one of our researchers which will happen on the hour throughout the day. There may be opportunities for a tour of the Victorian farm buildings and also of the Dairy. You can book online: trybooking.co.uk/BMNU Come for the whole day with time for a tour; for buying produce from the garden including Luton Hoo honey as well as plants, seasonal fruit and vegetables and cut flowers; and time for that all important refreshment break or two from our Woodyard cafe in the Shooting Lodge which is accessed via our picturesque woodland walk. Not just for adults: under 5’s can come for free to enjoy the open spaces and even babies can enjoy the flowers. For older children there are workshops during the summer holidays (August 4, 11, 18, 25) and the popular Bug Hunt is on Friday August 19th see website for more details.

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The National Garden Scheme Open Day is on Friday August 5th, a study day on October 12th looking back on our 21 years of volunteering and an Autumn Open Day October 26th. See our Facebook page for more information: lutonhoo walled garden or on our website: www.lutonhooestate.co.uk where you will also find information about some theatrical performances taking

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