The Mallard

Issue 348 October 2020

The Sun Shines for the

Village Sale
O n Sunday 6th July, Great Massing-
ham held a ‘yard and stalls round
the green’ sale. We were blessed with
wonderful weather and lots of people
visiting our lovely village.
Thirty stalls were dotted around the vil-
lage & green. The area was left immac-
ulate at the end and very good to see.
As you all know, the Macmillan Coffee morning was not able to go ahead this year.
2020 has been a difficult year for everyone and fund raising has been hard. I was
amazed that on this ‘Yard & Green’ day we raised £625.89 which included £160 in
donations. A raffle, run by Linda
Brown, raised a further £300. Many
thanks for your hard work, Linda.
Brilliant! A very big thank you also to
David Butterworth and Barbara who
donated the £70 raised on their stall.
The total on the day was £995.89.
Many thanks to all who contributed
and helped in
any way.
Caroline has donated the woodland chair which has been
displayed on the green and the raffle for it continued to run
until the 25th September. Ticket sales have gone very well.
We will give the final figure in the November issue.
It is hoped that the total for Macmillan could be as much
as £2,500 . Amazing and so typical of our village!
Thank you everyone. Chrissie Warnes One of the carvings on sale

COMMUNITY CAR SCHEME NEWS

We are pleased to report that The Community Car Scheme re-opened at the begin-
ning of September (subject to driver availability). Some restrictions have needed to
be applied so please see our website at massinghamcommunitycars.co.uk or contact
the office for information, preferably by email if you have it or by phone. We can
then send you the latest news/updates. Email address & phone number as follows:
communitycars@btconnect.com / 01485 520823 - Many thanks and best wishes.
Great Massingham Area Community Car Scheme Committee and coordinators.
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 This parish magazine is
published every month for the ‘Histry Bits’…. Rough Tough and Wonderful!
residents of Great and Little
Massingham with the support ofOne of the few sad things for me about coming back to
the Great Massingham Parish Massingham after so many years away has been the lack of a
Council, the Parochial Church
Council and Massingham football team. Not so long ago every Norfolk village had one.
Village Hall Trustees. A little short on skill, maybe, but it more than made up for it in
www.greatmassingham.net enthusiasm and passion – especially amongst us village boys.
e-mail:
mallard.editor@btinternet.com We weren’t much interested in Manchester United, or even in
Editorial Committee Norwich City, come to that. What really mattered to us was
Editor: Bev. Randall. Massingham’s position in the North West Norfolk League, and
6 Abbeyfields whether our crack centre forward – my uncle Ivor - could add
Great Massingham
01485 520 899 to his fifty-goal tally for the season. It would be difficult, but
Treasurer: David Baines not impossible – especially in those days of full-blooded physi-
01485 520 966 cal contact, when anything short of grievous bodily harm was
Website : Contact the not just permitted but actively encouraged. And when bundling
Editor - Details above. not just the rain-sodden, heavy-as-lead match-ball, but your
Deadline for the opponent’s goalkeeper into the back of the net when the going
next issue got rough!
Away matches were serviced by one of Eagle’s rattling green
17th October coaches, which made a whistle-stop tour of the village, collect-
ing players and spectators as well as distributing Massingham’s
In this issue red and green shirts which had been dutifully boiled clean after
• Yard and Green Sale the previous week’s mud-mud-bath. I well remember the play-
• Community Cars ers stripped to the waist, pulling the stiffly-ironed garments
• ‘Histry’ Bits over their heads, and puffing on lit cigarettes as they did so.
• Help with Graves The most exciting matches of all, were for the Norfolk Primary
• School 100 Club Cup. This county-wide competition was (and still remains) the
• Quiz Night gold-standard for village teams. It was first won by Massing-
• Gert & Daisy
• Lockdown Cycling ham in 1927, a feat that remained unmatched until the nineteen
• Village Hall Latest -eighties. Depending on the the draw, our team could end up in
• Film Night outlandish places such as South Repps on the east coast, or
• Biodiversity Project Welney, deep in the fens. The Welney match involved a seri-
• Charity Walk Latest ously early start for the two coach-loads of players and sup-
• Dog Aware! porters who travelled with them, followed by a contest of even-
• Quiz Night
• Joy Smith’s message ly-matched brutality when they reached their destination. The
• Grassroots Malawi result.? A four-three victory for Massingham, celebrated by
• Parish Council numerous stops for liquid refreshment on the long, dark jour-
• Church News ney home. Magic! (See pictures Right) David Miller
• Church Services
• Mauritius Oil Rescue Please Help Tidy Two Family Graves at Little Massingham
• Samaritan’s Purse There are two family graves in Little Massingham Church
• Dates for your Diary cemetery of a well-known village family - Jarvis - that are in
need of some tidying. They are the graves of Walter & Fanny
DON’T FORGET TO Jarvis and Mary Alderton née Jarvis.
SUPPORT OUR The granddaughter/daughter is no longer able to maintain them.
LOCAL Remuneration will be discussed with suitable applicants.
BUSINESSES
Our Village Store Please contact Bev Randall at the Mallard by email on
The Cartshed mallard.editor@btinternet.com
Our Village Hall or call Angela on 01508 531 987
Our Pub We do hope there is someone out there who is able to help.

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‘History Bits’ Gallery and Other news

Who needs Man U ?

Picture above - from left…
Adults.. J Reynolds, M Beales, ?, & Slick Cross.
Boys.. D Miller, M Green, P Miller & J Morton.
Picture Left Match Report From the Lynn News
Picture below - from left
Back.. Mrs M Miller (ever present supporter), M Skipper, T
Daw, T Bunkle, M Newton, J Skipper, D Curry & M
Beales (linesman)
Front.. C Reynolds (trainer), R Norrington, I Morton, F
Skipper (captain), D Skipper & F Freestone.

Great Massingham Primary School 100 Club Results

We will do the last draw of this ‘year’ in October.

We are reviewing our plans for the coming year.
The restrictions with COVD 19 make it difficult to
operate as normal so we will update you in the next issue.

May Results June Results July Results

1st Holly Castle 1st Judy Goodings 1st Max Pratt
2nd Marion Pyskan 2nd Jane Haley 2nd Bev Randall
3rd Florence Doherty 3rd Judy goodings 3rd Daryle Lakey

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Mallard News
Gert & Daisy.... .... Well, how are yew awl gitting on? Autumn is here, int it? Our
vests hev bin on and off, one day hot, one day cold – but even the cold days are too hot
fer the liberty bodice. Dew yew remember them – rubber buttons and if yew hed the
special knickers yew could button them on ter them too!
We hev ter apologise ter Malcolm Hipkin – we really shud hev menshuned him last
month. Best wishes fer a gud and speedy recovery after his operation and special best
wishes ter Peggy. We know what thas loike lukking after eny man – very hard work and
awl them bed baths!!
We hev bin ter the Cartshed every week since that opened – well, more than once actual-
ly! We are writing this sitting at one of the tables out the front in brilliant sunshine.
Thas very warm and the shop is very busy. How lucky we are ter hev such a great shop
and now the teashop. The weight gain from the delicious cakes is the only drawback!
Well, the Rule of 6 is now in place. In a way we think thas a gud thing. At least we
can’t hev awl the kids round at once. If that larst til Christmas we ken hev a rest then
too.
By the toime yew read this the Fair shud be on the green. Thas sew meny years since
thas bin here. We used ter call it the Currant picking fair. They will hev awl the Covid
precautions in place and fer meny children that’ll be the fust toime they’ve sin it in
Massingham (the Fair not Covid precautions!). We ken well remember that coming
every year – Gert remembers other things she dun when the Fair wus here but we carnt
print them.
Congratulations ter Gert on now being a Great Grandma (I know she don’t luk old enuff
nor does Bert!) – her grandson William hev a little boy now called Harry. That also
mean that Gert’s mum is a Great Great Grandma and Mel is a Grandma!! Best wishes
ter them awl. Dew yew keep atroshing and don’t forget ter put yer clocks
back on 25th October! Gert and Daisy.
Now for some Keith Skipper humour and some questions about Norfolk
words and meanings. Answers next issue.
Just a cupple of words & things from the great Keith Skipper’s buk ‘Larn Yarself Norfolk’
Atwin - between Angry- painfully inflamed, eg.“My corns ent harf angry”.
And….Local Logic: The farmer turned to the lad who was late for work again.
“Dew yew know what tyme yew start work?”
“Yis – bowt fyve minnits arter I git here.”
“No, yew sorft young fewl………why are yew learte?”
“Thass lyke this here, marster. When that wuz tyme ter cum ter wak, I wuz asleep.
I knew that wunt no good a’cummin then……….so I wearted til I wook up!”
Questions:- If yew hed a ‘barney’ what wud yew actually be heving?
a) A savoury scone
b) An argument
c) A slap-up meal with your best friends
d) A long hot bath
If somewun gave yew a ‘dwile’ what wud yew be receiving?
A hand-carved wooden sculpture
A bag of homegrown vegetables
A floor cloth
A back-handed compliment

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 Terence has written this account for publication about his discoveries of the old railways
near Massingham. Thank you Terence. An interesting cycle route.
WALKING AND CYCLING THE OLD RAILWAYS NEAR MASSINGHAM
The absence of cars during COVID gave me the confidence to cycle further afield. I
quickly realized I was cycling past many reminders of the Midlands & Great Northern
line running from South Lynn to Fakenham from 1879 until1959. A driving force behind
the building of this line was the Reverend Joseph Brereton, from Little Massingham.
South Lynn station has disappeared but the remnants of
the bridge that carried the ‘Muddle & Go Nowhere’ rail-
way over the Great Eastern line can be seen from the
A149 between the QE Hospital roundabout and
the Hardwick roundabout. This stretch of the Great East-
ern line is still used for freight trains from Station Road,
Middleton Towers.
The first passenger stop out of Lynn was the Gayton Road
station, near The Sandboy pub, at Bawsey. Between Gay-
ton Road and Grimston Road station, the line continued
along the eastern edge of Roydon Common, one of five
places where you can walk along the route of the original
line. The railway transported sand from Grimston Warren
to Lynn and holiday makers to the coast at Sheringham.
Grimston Road station is on Station Road opposite the Union Jack pub. From there, on
google satellite maps you can still see the ‘shadow’ of the track crossing the fields to
Congham railway bridge on Saint Andrew’s Lane. From the bridge is a public bridleway,
the second place where you can walk the route of the old line. If you cycle up Church
Hill from St Andrew’s lane, this continues as a path which cuts through the brick ram-
parts of a railway bridge.
Next stop Hillington Station which is the single storey
Bridge between range adjacent to Station House, perhaps the station mas-
Grimston and ter’s house? From Hillington, walking the first half of low-
Hillington er Lynn Road east from the Dogotel you are following the
track to Little Massingham station with its characteristic
tall, narrow profile and white corner brickwork. But did you
know there is a beautiful signal box which can be peeked
through the hedge from the Weasenham Road? The second
half of the Weasenham Road east from Little Massingham
station to the first 150 yards of Grange Lane is the fourth section of line you can follow.
Next is East Rudham station, a single storey dwelling on Station Road between West
Raynham business park and East Rudham. Here is one of three places where a section of
platform can be seen. The second is the next station at Raynham Park, on the Helhough-
ton to Tatterford road, where there is also a signal box, rolling stock and a level crossing
gate. The remnants of a bridge can be seen over Broomsthorpe Road from Helhoughton
between East Rudham Station and Raynes Park station.
A humped backed bridge takes the lane from Shereford to Sculthorpe Mill over the rail-
way track. The fifth place to follow the line is the Wensum Walk from this bridge. The
third segment of platform can be seen at Fakenham West station, which is commemorat-
ed by a sign at Jewson’s car park on Dereham Road.
I recently saw engineers assessing one of the bridges – perhaps they are thinking of re-
opening the M&GN line! (more pictures on page 8) Terence Stephenson
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Mallard News
We are going to add Sundays, 12 to 6 pm,
to our opening times, as from Sept 20th.
If we don’t take enough to pay staff we will
have to reconsider so it is up to you to sup-
port the opening times that suit. If you use
The Village Hall and Bar Latest the Internet watch out for any updates of
Community Lunches opening times on our Facebook page.
We are missing seeing all our community Bar Opening times
lunch friends but I’m afraid Covid 19 are now:
makes it unsafe to meet.
Thank goodness Mark has opened his Cart
Thursdays - 7pm to 11pm
Shed so that some of you can venture out Fridays & Saturdays
with a friend. 5pm to 11 pm
We will restart Community Lunches next Sundays 12 to 6pm
year when it feels safe enough to do so. Please come along and support
Village Hall Bar The Staff and Directors are complying fully with
A big thank you to all of you who have the latest advice on Covid 19 prevention
measures to minimise the risk to members but
supported the reopening of the bar. Debs they will be relying on you to show patience and
Lambert has done a great job with getting it consideration for the safety of others.
up and running. Village Hall Trustees

Film Night Restarts - Forty-one people came to see Daniel Craig, with a very
peculiar accent, solve the whodunnit when ‘Knives Out’ was screened at the Village
Hall. "It's great to have Film Night back and it was all very safe and well organised,"
said audience member Mark Bailey, at the end of the evening.
The next film is on 15th October,
7 for 7.30 pm. Film and popcorn £5
The film is
‘Parasite’
Academy Best
Picture
2020
Book by email. Wear a mask.
massinghamfilmnight@gmail.com.

More Cycling
Pictures...
Left:
Bridge at
Broomsthorpe
Road
&
Right:
Raynham
Park Station

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Mallard News
Biodiversity Project News during September
During September volunteers cut the meadow and cleared the
dead material to avoid adding further nutrient to soil that is al-
ready more fertile than is ideal for a wild flower meadow. (See
picture right) The adjoining hedgerow and some overhanging
branches have also been trimmed back to reduce shade which
was beginning to reduce the flowering display. These tasks are
typical of the sorts of intervention that are essential to maintain-
ing the diversity of the site.
In other areas, flowering plants continue to be seen. In the damp
area between the notice board and the platform there is still flea-
bane in flower and a good display of
the varied forms of highly aromatic
water mint. (See picture left) In the
rough meadow there is even a small
second flush of ox-eye daisies to be
found. The hedgerow is now full of
ripening fruits to feed birds and small mammals: there are
blackberries, elder, hawthorn, sloes and guelder rose, among
others.
As we move into Autumn, the fruiting bodies of fungi become
more obvious. One of the log-piles on the project site has a
fine display of bracket fungi. The mycelium of the fungus will
be helping to rot down the
decaying wood, whilst the Bracket Fungi
log-pile itself provides val-
uable shelter for small
mammals, amphibians and
a host of invertebrate life.
More widely around the village there have been field
mushrooms, shaggy parasols and giant puffballs with
all three being in the churchyard in mid-September.
Although we mainly see these spore spreading struc-
tures in the Autumn, the fungus from which they grow
is at work under the soil or in rotting wood throughout
the year and the ‘mushroom’ or whatever form the
fruiting body takes is no more the whole organism
than is an apple on a tree! Tim Baldwin

Shaggy Parasols

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Mallard News

Rosemary Soldiers on
Through the Rain!
Rosemary Jewers began her ‘Peddars
Way Charity Walk’ on 22nd September,
as reported in the September Mallard.
Weather for the first two days was not
so bad but Friday 25th September as, no
doubt, you will all remember was pouring rain all day. She
writes on her blog…..
Just finished day 4: Quite a day! We arrived at Stowlangtoft
at around 10.45am near the church. Waterproofs at the ready
as it was raining and very windy.
We walked to Bardwell in the rain and wind - approximately
4 miles - really hard going. Cold wind and stinging rain. On
the way we met up with a Peddars Way enthusiast who
walked with us to Bardwell….
Rosemary is now in Norfolk and hopes to finish the trek on the 29 th September. What an
amazing effort raising money for roof repairs at St Andrew’s Church, Little Massingham.
Her Just Giving page is still open bit.ly/2wBvJS5 and will still be open when you receive
your Mallard, so please donate if you can. Lings Country Goods will also still be taking
donations for a little while longer. We will give a final report in the next issue.

BE AWARE! Dog Owners Warned of Thieves

After Mysterious Chalk Marks Appear Outside Homes
Pet owners are being urged to stay vigilant after mysterious chalk
markings have appeared outside homes with a family dog.
The strange white lines have cropped up on brickwork, gates and
wooden fences - with many fearing it's a way for cruel thieves to
target homes with puppies worth stealing.
The warning comes as a Scottish dog rescue charity joined calls
for the UK Government to make pet theft a specific criminal of-
fence with cases “spiralling” during lockdown.

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Church Message for Parishioners
News about Rev’d Jane is that she is home from Addenbrookes but her condition has not
improved. The Chronic Pancreatitis has deteriorated and she must continue to rest. We
will all remember Rev’d Jane in our prayers and we send our very best wishes.

Other parishioners in our Benefice have offered to write a message for our
magazine on the months when Rev’d Jane would have done so. This month
Joy Smith writes……
Dear Parishioners,
Autumn, ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’, according to John Keats
is a season I love. Happy memories of picking blackberries, apples, pears,
plums, etc., and helping my mum bottle them ready for delicious treats during the winter
months. Little glimpses of light in the winter months to come.
Well, this year, has been very strange for most of us with not being able to go out, meet
with friends and family and, when things were starting to get back to normal, it looks as
if they will be far from normal with even the prospect of Christmas having to be totally
different.. But, it has also been a time when we have been able to stop and look at doing
things differently. Perhaps trying to grow our own vegetables or make our gardens a riot
of colour. Rather than going to the gym, exercise was going for walks and enjoying the
benefits of nature, one of the joys of living in the countryside. Will things ever get back
to normal? We can hope, like those little glimpses of light in the winter months.
Hope - what a wonderful word. Hope is a dynamic thing, as indeed is faith itself - it
grows as we grow. The Scriptures talk of us starting off as children in the faith and then
growing as we begin to be fed on spiritual food. And it is the maturity that comes with
this growth that can help us to face those important moments in our lives when doubts
and fears creep in.
Even within the darkest of days, God is there. But there is more to Christian faith
than hope for now or the immediate future. Our hope rests in the Kingdom of God
and the promise of an eternity spent in the presence of God.
Now, if God is in your heart then you are living in the Kingdom. In the hereafter it is the
promise of the New Testament 'He who believes HAS eternal life'
Our hope lies in the victory of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection. It grows as we start
to trust God's promises, and act upon them, and then adds two other benefits, peace and
joy.
"So I pray that God, who gives you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you
believe in him. May you overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."
Joy Smith. Reader

GRASSROOTS MALAWI PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

7.30pm, 12th October via Zoom.
The stall on the day of the Yard Sale, on Sep-
tember 6th made £326 plus £240 from other If you wish to join the meeting
sales, to make a total of £566 for Malawi. please contact the Clerk. Phone
Our second stall on 19th September made a
further £491. Many thanks to you all for your
01328 823 391 or
tremendous support. Amazing! email: gmparishclerk@gmail.com
Our next sale is on 3rd October, near the You are able to join the meeting
well, from 9am, weather permitting. either by phone, computer or
Jenny Borley android/apple device.
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Church Services October
Date Time Service Location
4th October 9.00 am Holy Communion Grimston
11.00 am Zoom - Holy Communion On-line
Wed. 7th October 9.00 am Holy Communion Harpley
th
11 October 9.00 am Holy Communion Great Massingham
11.00 am Zoom - Morning Prayer On-line

Wed. 14th October 3.00 pm Zoom - Lectio Divina

th
18 October 9.00 am Morning Praise Grimston
11.00 am Zoom - Holy Communion On-line
Wed. 21st October 9.00 am Holy Communion Grimston
th
25 October 9.00 am Holy Communion Harpley
11.00 am Zoom - Morning Prayer On-line
3.00 pm Celtic Service Gayton Thorpe
Wed. 28th October 3.00 pm Zoom - Celtic Service On-line
st
1 November 9.00 am Holy Communion Grimston
11.00 am Zoom - Holy Communion On-line
At all our church services, in line with Government guidelines, it is now compulsory to
wear a mask when attending services in church (unless you have an exemption).
We are continuing with our live online services, via Zoom, each Sunday.
NEW TIMES are now 11.00 am Sundays, and, on two Wednesdays, 3.00 pm.
If you would like to join our Zoom services, either Sundays or Wednesdays,
please contact Steve Williamson either by
phone on 01553 636 413 or by email on stephenwilliamson001@gmail.com
We are continuing to review our pattern of Services as we receive more information
from the Church of England. For updates and readings for each Sunday,
please visit our benefice website at www.ggmbenefice.uk

We Are Here for Churches now open for Private Prayer are:
You St Andrew, Congham,
Even if you are Sundays 6am - 6pm
unable to go to St Lawrence, Harpley, & St Mary, East Walton
Church, the Church 8am until 6pm every day.
is still here for you. Please use hand sanitiser provided on entering
and leaving and observe the recommended
Call Rev’d Judith on 01485 610251 2 metre social distancing rule.

Sad News….. Ann O'Connor, eldest granddaughter of Herbert New, passed away on 24 th
August aged 87. She lived in the cottages next to The Bake House, in Great Massingham
before moving to Canada, in 1959. We enjoyed corresponding over the years, keeping
up with the goings on in Mass'num. She has left us with much written history.
Ant Robinson.
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Family run business
selling quality &

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produce, from our own
farm & local Suppliers
Heath farm Shop, Lynn Lane,
Great Massingham
WOODBURNERS King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE32 2HJ
01485 520 828
Comprehensive stock to view at our Open 9-5 Monday to Friday
showroom on 9-1 Saturday
The West Raynham Business Park.
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e-mail: firingsquadwoodburners@yahoo.com
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Welcomes old & new members

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furniture. Individually designed,
Excellent facilities and
a friendly atmosphere. personally installed by experts from
Good beer, real ale, wines and spirits
all at competitive prices. our Great Massingham workshops.
Separate snooker room. www.tenacityinteriors.com
Satellite, large screen TV.
Outside drinking area.
Entertainment throughout the year.
Membership applications can be obtained CALL TODAY
from the club bar 01485 521888

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 Useful Numbers
Organisation Contact Phone No.
Allotment Association Gill Goold 0750 824 2223
Biodiversity Project Tim Baldwin 520 813
Borough Council James (Jim) Moriarty 07879 492400
Bell Ringing Dale Gagen 520 024
Bowls Club Martin Matthews 520 707
Church Contacts Revd Judith Pollard 01485 601 251
Community Car Scheme Office 520 823
Coronation Club Jill Whitmore 520 609
County Council Stuart Graham Dark 07450 679 355
Dabbling Duck Pub Mark Dobby 520 827
Doctors Massingham Surgery 520 521
The Film Night Arthur Allen 520 628
Fishing Warden Paul Smith and Ken Perry Sue Nash 07802 670 711
Guide Trefoil Guild Shirley Rae 520 259
Massingham Historical Society Peter James 521 706
Tennis and Multi-Sports Club Clare Parker 520 469
Parish Council Sue Nash (Chair) & Sarah Harvey (Clerk) Clerk 01328 823391
Pre-School Pip Armitage 07807 185 746
Police Non-emergency 101
School Kirsten Stibbon 520 362
Village Hall Hall & Bar & Vic Cross 520 588/520 387
Village Stores and Deli Mark and Kerry Eldridge 520 272

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Landline (01485) 521707 payments accepted
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 Georgina Joins The Oil Rescue
You might remember that we fea-
tured an article about, local girl, Dr
Georgina Robinson, who grew up
in Great Massingham, attended
Great Massingham Primary School,
Litcham High School and Faken-
ham College and who has a suc- Georgina at the
cessful career as a marine ecologist. boom production
Her parents are Ant and Jeanne site at Anahita.
Robinson.
Georgina has been living and working on the island of Mauritius for some time. The
island is still reeling from the effects of oil spilled from the Japanese-registered MV Wa-
kashio freight ship which collided with a coral reef off Mauritius, on July 25 th and started
breaking up thirteen days later, releasing around 1,000 tonnes of oil and diesel into the
sea, close to two protected UNESCO sites.
Georgina joined fellow islanders in collecting sugar cane, even cutting her hair, to help
fill kilometres of booms to halt the spread of the oil. She also sought help from British
High Commissioner, Keith Allan and the UK Oil Spill Association and is currently liais-
ing with biotech companies to source enzyme and microbial-based products that would
accelerate the degradation of the oil and speed up the recovery of impacted coastal zones.
She says, “Mauritius is known for its beauty and incredible biodiversity, which attracts a
lot of tourism, so this has been disastrous for the environment and for the island economy.”
We wish Georgina & all involved every success in saving the island’s special biodiversity.

Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child

2nd to 8th November, 2020
PLEASE PACK A SHOEBOX. Start Collecting Now!
This event is, at present, still planning to go ahead following both National Government
& Local guidelines. The shoe boxes will be collected early in November. You also have
the option, this year, to pack a shoe box online, via the Samaritan’s Purse website.
There is suggested donation of £5 per box to cover volunteers’ training, transport etc.
Due to the pandemic shoe boxes will be needed even more this year to bring some joy
to children at Christmas. Suggestions will be in the leaflets or online.
Leaflets can be collected from Great Massingham village store or St Mary’s Church
PLEASE NO NOT INCLUDE USED OR DAMAGED ITEMS, WAR RELATED TOYS/GAMES,
SWEETS, FOOD, TOOTHPASTE, LOTIONS, MEDICINES, RELIGIOUS / POLITICAL ITEMS.
PRE-PRINTED SHOEBOXES ARE AVAILABLE TO PACK UNTIL THE 8th November.
Please contact Yvonne - 521706 or email: yvonne1inm@yahoo.co.uk
Drop off point - St Mary’s Church, Great Massingham.

October events
rd
3 Oct Stalls on the Green
From 9 am, near the well
12th Oct Parish Council Meeting
7.30pm via Zoom
15th Oct Film Night
7 for 7.30pm, Village Hall

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