SLIP END TENNIS CLUB
We shall be holding our Annual General
Meeting on Friday 5th April in the Peter Edwards Hall at 8 p.m.
This is a time for us to elect our new committee and this
year we need a replacement for Chris Hannah who has been the
second signatory for many years but who has now moved to
Bedford. We shall also carry out the draw for this year's
Wimbledon tickets. As usual we ensure that the first pair of
tickets goes to a member who has not been fortunate in the
draw before. As well as looking back at the past year, we
shall be asking the members that attend the meeting for their
approval to take on a loan of £1500 to complete the cost of
repainting the tennis courts. The total cost will be £3600
which will make the courts look almost new. We are hoping
that many more people will take advantage and come down to
the Club and join us during the new season. We shall be
holding a Quiz Night on Saturday 13th April again in the
Peter Edwards Hall. As well as ten rounds of ten questions
with the usual joker to be played, there will be a Jigsaw
Marathon and Team Bingo throughout the evening. Teams are
nominally of six people but you can fit eight around a table
and we are happy to put teams together on the night if you
come without other people. The door will be open from 7:30 p.m.
and the first round will start at 8:00 p.m. promptly. There
is a choice of fish or chicken to go with your chips so
please place your orders by Wednesday 10th April.
The cost is £5 per person payable in advance or on the night.
There will be a raffle and the prizes will include a giant
tennis ball - after all, we are a Tennis Club! Please phone
Peter on 01582 733253 to book your places.
VILLAGE APPEAL
After
the appeal last month for memories or photographs of the
Methodist Chapel I thought it might be a good idea to see if
there are any residents in Slip End who have photos of Slip
End approximately fifty years ago. With the Queen's Jubilee
approaching fast, we could do a tribute to 'Slip End Jubilee'.
Now I have a scanner -
(and know how to use it!) it is fairly easy to scan
old pictures/photographs.
Please contact either Sue Cowell (733507) or David Kingston (416138)
if you can help.
We have already been lucky enough to receive some photographs
from 1950 - let's hope you can dig out some more.
Mr & Mrs R Carr celebrating
their wedding outside the Methodist Chapel on March 27th1954.
Happy Wedding Anniversary and thank you for sharing
your photos with the
Parish News.
In those days, there was no Peter Edwards Hall so they held their reception in the Methodist Hall after getting married at St Andrew’s
A happy congregation group inside the Chapel, c1950
And in 2002 the old chapel has long before been converted into a residence.
ST. ANDREW'S RAMBLERS
The St.
Andrew's Strollers or Ramblers (we're not sure what to call
ourselves .) have been meeting once a month since last
September. It was an unlikely time to start such a group,
just as the evenings were shortening with winter weather just
around the corner. However, we were only beaten by the
weather on once occasion in December. Our first walk was in
the Aldbury area, your picture postcard, typical English
village. October saw our best attended walk with a group of
17walkers with ages ranging from pre-teens to our more senior
of citizens, not to mention a dog or two, who enjoyed a very
pleasant afternoon walking along the canals and reservoirs in
the Marsworth area. In December, after weather postponements,
we stayed local, strolling around Stockwood Park, where we
visited the Mossman Collection (we recommend you take a look)
and the gardens behind the museum. Our younger walkers
enjoyed searching for clues for a competition being run that
weekend, and they even saw Santa! In January we discovered
some hidden delights on our walk around Harpenden, taking in
the "Nicky Line" (ex-Harpenden to Hemel Hempstead
railway), the "Oval, home of Youth with a Mission (YWAM),
the Lideker Gardens & Rothampstead Park. February found a
hardy few tramping along soggy, rather muddy footpaths around
Whitwell; but the views, the snowdrops, the good company with
a visit to the local at the end, all made up to a very nice
afternoon. So any-one wishing to join in will be welcome;
contact me on 725984 or check the website, slipend.co.uk
Sue Wiltshire
And a nice sit-down, a chat and a chance to recover at
the end!
TIME
Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each
morning with £86,400, carries over no balance from day to
day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening
cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use
during the day. What would you do? Draw out every penny, of
course! Well, everyone has such a bank its name is TIME.
Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night
it writes off, as lost whatever of this you failed to invest
to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no
overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each
night it burns the records of the day. If you fail to use the
day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back.
There is no drawing against the 'tomorrow'. You must live in
the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from
it the utmost in health, happiness and success! The clock is
running make the most of today...
To realise the value of ONE YEAR...
Ask a student who has failed their exam.
To realise the value of ONE MONTH...
Ask a mother who has given birth to a pre-mature baby.
To realise the value of ONE WEEK...
Ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realise the value of ONE DAY...
Ask a daily wage labourer who has ten kids to feed.
To realise the value of ONE HOUR...
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet,
or
To realise the value of ONE MINUTE...
Ask the person who has just missed the train.
To realise the value of ONE SECOND...
Ask a person who has survived an accident.
To realise the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND...
Ask a person who has won silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have!
And treasure it more because you shared it with someone
special... special enough to have your time... and remember
time waits for no one.
We all have the same amount of time what we
do with it is our choice.
TIMELY REMINDERS
Try to keep things in perspective. Fifty
years from now, children in history classes will be bored by
what panics us today:
Today's grafitti are tomorrow's cave paintings.
An antique is something your grand-parents bought for £5,
your parents sold for £50 and you bought again for £500.
The only thing certain in this life is change - and I've got
a jar full of pennies to prove it!
The longest odds in the world are those against getting even.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but
wish we didn't.
EDITORS CHOICE
With Easter almost over, I found a small verse by Patience
Strong to share with you:
The Garden Tomb, Jerusalem
Still it stands, that little garden near
the city wall.
Still the olives spread their branches
and the sparrows call.
All may stand where Jesus stood and
all may come to pray -
where He rose in glory on the Resurrection Day.
The place where Christ was seen of
Mary in the morning hour.
The garden of the miracle of
Love's transcendent power.
(I was lucky enough to visit Jerusalem two years ago and
it is a place that I shall never forget - once seen always in
your heart)
Finally, A lady from Slip End left a message on my answer-phone
a few days ago regarding an advertisement in the Parish News.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to make out the name and
the number of the caller although I have tried ringing the
number I thought it was. If she would like to ring David
Kingston on 416138 he will be only too please d to talk to
her and arrange something for next month.
Happy Easter to all our Readers from Sue Cowell and the
Parish News team. A very rushed issue as we have to go to
press in time for the Easter Holiday. Must dash, but at
beyond the last minute, this from Jill who doesn't know how
fine things were cut ……
SLIP END PLAYGROUP
A busy term has come to an end as we break
for the Easter holidays, so a good time to say thank you to
every one who has helped and supported us this term.
Especially thanks to all the mums, dads and grandparents who
have helped us to care for and play with the children at
Playgroup. Both the staff and the children greatly value this
help.
The Nearly New Sale on 15th March went very well. When items
are sold the owner of them has 80% of the money and Playgroup
keep 20% for our funds. This way sellers, buyers and the
group all benefit from the sale. The money raised is to be
used to stock up our craft supplies and support our projects
for next term including our Jubilee picnic and fun run on 31st
May.
We are expecting our new bookstand and books to have arrived
in time for the start of next term purchased thanks to a
grant from Beds County Council. We are looking forward to
plenty of new stories to read and share with each other.
The Summer Term begins on Monday 15th April.
Wishing you all a Happy Easter!
Jill Acton
Below: An earlier children's group in Slip End. Any suggesions what is going on?
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