v THE NEXT HERALD IS OUT ON 9TH MAY v Page 68 • The HERALD • 18th April 2024 24” high from £550 30” high from £675 (Prices inclusive VAT) Installation anywhere in England and Wales Memorials refurbished and inscriptions added Colours and full range of memorials available Yours Faithfully... You are invited to BETHANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP Rollestone Road, Holbury Every Sunday, 6.20pm for 6.30pm Christian Worship & Teaching 023 8089 2153 Everyone Welcome Services in the Parish of Hythe from the Parish of Hythe At St John’s Church in Hythe we have just launched a new regular service pattern for our Sunday services. Sunday mornings kick o at 9.30am with Bubble Church, our brand new service aimed at little ones. Come along ten minutes beforehand to grab a co ee and croissant then join us for a short 30 minute service with songs and puppets. A er Bubble Church, at 10.15am, we have a short, informal Morning Worship service. Activities for children run alongside this service and there is modern worship and a short thought for the day. en, at 11.15am we have our more traditional Holy Communion Service with hymns and worship led by the choir. Come along from 10.50am to share in refreshments together before the service starts. On Sunday a ernoons we have a Café Church Service in St John’s Hall on the rst Sunday of the month at 5pm, and Evensong on the second Sunday of the month at 5.30pm. Everyone is welcome to join us. Please email o ce@stjohnshythe.org or 023 8084 4336 if you would like more information. Toddler Group at Cornerstone Cornerstone Toddler Group meet Wednesdays (during term time). 10am to 11.30am at Cornerstone Church, New Road, Hythe. Each session is £1 per family which includes drinks and biscuits. ey have a good variety of toys, books, playdoh, puzzles, simple cra and singing time. Children and babies 0-5 years and their parents/carers are all very welcome. An update from Waterside Climate Action Network (WaterCAN) Watercan’s next open meeting, ‘Ocean Impact’, is on the 29th April, 7pm to 9pm, in Hythe Library. Admission: £1 includes ra e ticket. Lee Attrill from Surfers Against Sewage will be talking about their work on combating sewage dumping in the UK’s rivers and seas. e nal part of the evening will be spent discussing what we can do at a local level to help combat dumping. Members of WaterCAN attended an open day at West Totton Community Centre on 21st March organised by Southern Water. e presentations were very thorough and well organised. e good news is that, on paper, Southern Water have plans in place to rectify many of the problems which have arisen in recent years around sewage dumping in the River Test and Southampton Water. e bad news is that, despite water companies’ pro ts having doubled since 2019 (according to Companies House data), household water bills face steep above in ation rises to pay for it. e technical problems resulting in the postponement of Ben Webster’s talk have been resolved and we hope to rearrange this as soon as possible. Please see website and Facebook for further details. WaterCAN members took part in Greenpeace’s Big Plastic Count from the 11th - 17th March. One member discovered that 10% of our plastic generated went into recycling, 9% would be exported, 13% into land ll and 68% incinerated. One issue highlighted was the high usage of plastic in fruit and veg packaging, much of which seems unnecessary. Many of our members use Sam Long’s fruit and veg stall in Dibden Purlieu on Wednesdays, ursdays and Fridays, which minimises its use of plastic. A reminder that Fawley Parish Council has received funding to purchase 16 Dryer Pods to distribute to families struggling to dry clothes. e pods dry a full load in 20 minutes and cost 29p a load to run. Any Fawley family can obtain further details by emailing: youthworker@fawleypc.gov.uk It’s been suggested that we should organise a combined community clear up and cook up in Black eld. is would involve litter picking followed by a meal at Black eld Baptist Church on a ursday a ernoon. Further details from our website and Facebook page. And nally, on the subject of litter picking, do you know what SpoGomi is. No? It’s a sport involving litter picking in teams of three. Even more surprising is that a British team are the world champions following the World Cup held in Tokyo last November. Anyone for a Waterside SpoGomi competition? For further information, check out our website on e-voice.org/waterCAN or our Facebook page, or email: watercan2024@gmail.com Mary Grayer Clarke lived locally in Dibden Purlieu until 2020 when the threat of lockdown saw her travel to Cornwall to stay with her son. During her time living in the Waterside, Mary became a member of a creative writing group in Hythe and started writing her rst book. To pass the time during the lockdown months Mary, who is in her 80’s, decided to nish the book that she had started and on its completion her family encouraged her to send it to a publisher. Mary was delighted to be o ered a book deal and later that year her rst novel ‘Dark Regressions’ was published by Austin Macaulay Publishers. By the time ‘Dark Regressions’ was in print, Mary had made the permanent move to Cornwall and had written the sequel ‘ Dark Revenge’ which has recently been published. Mary is a true inspiration embarking on a new career as a writer in her 80’s, enjoying the thrill of having two published books, Mary is not resting on her laurels and already has another book in the pipeline, ‘Dark Resurgence’ will be the nal book in her Dark Trilogy. Mary’s books are available from most bookshops, directly from the publishers and via Amazon. Past Member of Local Writing Group Goes On To Publish Two Novels Evergreen Club for Over 60’s Why not go along for enjoyable a ernoons? ey have a mix of meetings with speakers or entertainment, quizzes or bingo followed by tea and biscuits, sometimes cake! Find them at St John’s Hall, New Road, Hythe SO45 6BP on the first and third Thursday of each month from 1.45pm to 4pm. Join them on Thursday 2nd May for a Social, Thursday 16th May for a talk by Steve Herra titled ‘ e Chocolate Cream Killer’, Thursday 6th June for a talk by John Pitman titled ‘Life in a Village’ and Thursday 20th June for a Social. FIRST VISIT FREE. Annual subscription £6. Meetings £3 for members. Run by Royal Voluntary Service volunteers. For more information telephone Peter on: 023 8089 1721 or just call in on a club day. Bubble Church
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