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MOT back
MOTHERS, Others and
Toddlers, our popular
playgroup, is back in
action after extensive
refurbishment to Brook-
side Methodist Church
hall. The group meets
every Friday at 1.30pm
in term time, and new
children from babies to
under-fives are wel-
come.
See also page 2.
Greetings to all
A blessed Christmas
and happy new year
from the Rector and
congregation of St
Mary’s to everyone in
the parish of St
Mary’s, East Barnet.
Greetings also from
the Editor of the
Church Hill Herald
and all our writers.
Our next edition will
be in February.
Singalong with the Prince this christmas THE Prince of Wales will be full of
the Christmas spirit along with
some of the best singers and musicians in East Barnet and choristers from
St Mary’s on Thursday December 18, starting at 8pm. That’s not the Heir
to the Throne we’re referring to, of course, but the cosy hostelry on the
corner of Church Hill Road, where this festive evening has now become an
annual tradition with everybody joining in carols, some familiar and oth-
ers humorously less well known.
THURSDAY DEC 18: MAKE IT A CHRISTMAS DATE!
Christmas Services: See page 2
‘The light
that comes
into the
world and
shines on all
mankind’ John, Chapter 1
FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION
TODDLER PRAISE St Mary’s Church 10.30 to 11.45am,
MONDAYS Dec 1&15
Info: Claire Driscoll, 07957 584516
SUNDAY’S COOL 10am Sunday December 14 In Church Hill School
All children from 5 to 11 welcome.
Mothers,
Others and Tots (MOT) Pre-school Playgroup, every FRIDAY 1.30-3pm in term time.
Brookside Methodist Church hall. Info for all activities: Parish Office, 8441 4401
Festive Calendar
2—Church Hill Herald December 2014
Sunday December 7
ADVENT 2
10am Parish Eucharist
6.30pm Evensong
Sunday December 14
ADVENT 3
10am Parish Eucharist
6.30pm Broken Alt. Service
Thursday December 19
8-10pm Carol singing for
everybody in the Prince of
Wales, East Barnet Village
Sunday December 21
ADVENT 4
10am Parish Eucharist
4pm Christmas Carols
6.30pm Christmas Carols
Wednesday December 24
CHRISTMAS EVE
3.30pm Carols
for Peace
in Oak Hill Park
4pm Crib Service
11.30pm
Midnight Mass
Thursday December 25
CHRISTMAS
DAY
10am
All Age
Worship
Sunday December 28
HOLY INNOCENTS
10am Parish Eucharist
Sunday January 4
EPIPHANY
10am All Age Worship
6.30pm Evensong
Sunday January 11
BAPTISM OF CHRIST
10.45 Partnership Covenant
at Brookside Church
6.30pm Evening Prayer
Sunday January 18
EPIPHANY 2
10am Parish Eucharist
6.30pm Evensong
Sunday January 25
CONVERSION OF PAUL
10am Parish Eucharist
6.30pm Evensong
Church Hill Herald December 2014—3
From the
Rectory JAMES MUSTARD,
PARISH PRIEST
THIS Christmas we will be
recalling on Christmas Eve in
Oak Hill Park, the
extraordinary events of
Christmas Day 1914 when, at
various points along the
Western Front, men left
their trenches and exchanged
gifts and played games before
returning to the unimaginable
horror of that most dreadful
of conflicts.
Those events have been
presented to us this year by the
J Sainsbury plc Christmas
Advertising Campaign with the
assistance and support of the
Royal British Legion, to whom
Sainsbury is offering some
sponsorship.
That advertisement makes me
very uneasy. As an honorary
chaplain to the Royal British
Legion in East Barnet, I
wholeheartedly support the
work they do in this place and
further afield.
Had J Sainsbury offered to
make this film for the Legion’s
Poppy Appeal, I would have
been very supportive. But, as it
stands, J Sainsbury has used
this story to increase its
Christmas sales, and thereby its
profits. Those uncoordinated
gestures, one hundred years
ago, of peace, solidarity,
generosity and extraordinary
courage are being used to sell
us mince pies and turkeys. The
sharp contrast between the
courage of those men and the
corporation that seeks to profit
from them is so bitter, one can
almost taste the difference.
God comes to earth at
Christmas as an expression of
God’s love for us, not to make a
profit. The tiny, vulnerable
baby shows us the fullness of
God’s love for us, the love that
gives itself for us, the love that
gives and does not count the
cost. God asks nothing from us
except that we act with
generosity and love towards one
another and towards God.
Those men who stepped out of
the trenches were an
inspirational example of that
message of brave, vulnerable,
unconditional love. If we give
as they did, and do not count
the cost, we love one another as
God loves us.
I wish you all, and those
whom you love, a holy and
blessed Christmas.
DEADLINE for contributions for
our next edition is
January 8 at the latest.
Christmas
2014
Sunday Nov 30
6.30pm: Advent Carol Service
Thursday Dec 18
8pm Carol Singing
(Prince of Wales Pub)
Sunday Dec 21
4pm and 6.30pm: Christmas
Carol Services
(followed by mulled wine)
Christmas Eve, Dec 24
3.30pm: Prayers for peace, on
an Oak Hill Park football pitch
(WW1 anniversary)
4 pm Crib Service
(for children, parents and
carers)
11.30pm: Midnight Mass
Christmas Day, Dec 25
10am: All Age Worship
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LAST MONTH, St Mary’s
chorister Anne Foley related
how she was descended from
the real-life Mr Pickwick, of
Dickens fame. She continues
her story...
Of course, as is known, many of
Dickens’ characters are based on
people with whom he was ac-
quainted. Pickwick was, proba-
bly, one of the first in a long line
of wonderfully named charac-
ters.
As a point of interest, I received
from Charles Dickens’ great
grandson, the late Cedric Dick-
ens, a book titled “The Miracles
of Pickwick” and it shows a por-
trait picture of my ancestor,
Moses Pickwick, the proprietor
of the coaching business where
Charles Dickens set eyes upon
the name Pickwick. This con-
firms all the facts written in our
family tree which are absolutely
true.
Further points of interest about
the Pickwicks include other de-
scendants of Moses Pickwick the
first, among them William
Eleazer Pickwick (baptised
1776). He was granted a Coat of
Arms in 1838 but died, a bache-
lor, in Boulogne in 1843 so the
Arms were not passed on.
Another great grandson of the
first Moses Pickwick, Charles
Henry (1831-1885) changed his
name from Pickwick to his
mother’s maiden name which
was Sainsbury. That remains,
and probably will always re-
main, a family mystery!
I have often thought that if that
baby had not been found at Pick-
wick some 300 years ago, would
it have affected Dickens’ whole
career? If it had been a different
name on the stage coaches,
would Dickens have chosen it?
Would it have affected the per-
sonality of his character and the
success of the book? Another
point is, by dint of the family
tree, that I may not have even
been here to write about this!
So to continue the Dickens
theme this Christmas, as Tiny
Tim, another Dickens character
observed, “God Bless us, every
one”.
Mr Pickwick and me
Mr Pickwick, in real life an
ancestor of Anne Foley.
Church Hill Herald December 2014—5
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IT IS ONE of the great Christmas
carols. It is, of course, particu-
larly beloved by carol singers who
are less than entirely sober.
The verses tend to go well enough,
but then we get to that refrain:
“Gloria! Hosanna in excelsis!”
The word “Gloria” is fairly drawn
out. Even in church, fairly few sing-
ers can get to the end of it without
taking a breath. On the doorstep, it
gets longer and longer and more
and more tuneless, until the singers
are gasping for breath and trying
desperately to remember what key
they started in.
It's not an enjoyable experience for
those of us blessed with the gift of
hearing. Despite all that, it's actually
one of my favourite carols, because
it's so full of joy.
Some people get annoyed at the
commercialisation of Christmas. I
understand it, but in fact I think we
as a country are very good at cele-
brating Christmas. It's true that
fewer people go to church today
than was once the case. Nonethe-
less, our society celebrates Christ-
mas with enormous joy. And joy is
fundamentally what Christmas is all
about.
We see that nowhere more than in
Ding dong! merrily on high! The
first bells that ring out are in
heaven, before bells on earth join in
in the second verse. The first voices
that sing are angels' voices, joined
in the second verse by priest and
people.
Earth and heaven unite. All sing
together “Gloria! Hosanna in excel-
sis! Glory! Let there be praise in the
highest heaven!”
As God himself is born as a human
baby, heaven and earth are perfectly
united. Angels and shepherds and
kings, shop assistants and doctors
and police, barristers and bishops
and babies: all join in celebration.
On Christmas Day we celebrate
because the Saviour of the world
has been born. We celebrate with
joy, with exuberance and with a
certain lack of sobriety.
And, when we celebrate, we don't
celebrate alone. We are joining the
unnumbered choir of angels and
saints rejoicing, ringing out bells on
earth and in heaven.
So rejoice and celebrate this great
festival, the festival of the Nativity
of Our Lord. Celebrate with passion
and singing and laughter.
It's what Christmas is really all
about.
Christmas is a
time for sharing
all the love that
Jesus gives
Ding dong! merrily on high, In heaven the bells are ringing!
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East Barnet Village
Festive Fair Saturday Dec 13
Grand opening 4pm at Friend
in Need Centre
Stalls at Friend in Need (entry free)
Refreshments, Treasure Hunt,
Arts and crafts stalls ,
Carol singers, Raffles and competitions
Secret Santa, children can buy and wrap
presents for mum and dad.
Santa's grotto at FIN £3.
In the darkness
and the stillness
Jesus Christ was
born.
OCTOBER saw St Mary’s
once again embracing the
stage, this time with two per-
formances of the wonderful
Noye’s Fludde.
Conceived by Benjamin Britten
as a community opera, the pro-
duction brought together mem-
bers of our congregation and the
wider community, professional
and amateur musicians plus a
range of talented singers from
near and far.
Inside St Mary’s, the audience
were treated to the vision of a
Lowestoft trawler with an or-
chestra of over 30 musicians
arranged behind.
The instruments ranged from
the traditional to the bizarre –
including a row of mugs to be
struck by a wooden spoon.
Britten’s vision specified that
only the two lead roles should
be sung by professional singers
– as it happens we were treated
to our Rector and Parish Admin-
istrator playing the role of Noah
and his disbelieving wife with
the remaining singing roles be-
ing taken by children and mem-
bers of our adult choir as “the
Gossips”.
Both performances were sell-
outs with our small church
bursting at the seams. Audience
participation is key to Britten’s
opera and everyone enthusiasti-
cally joined in with the opening
hymn.
The spectacle of the children
holding beautiful animal masks
traipsing two-by-two on to the
ark was a joy to behold. We
were gripped as the tempest
took hold and joined with Noah
and family in a rousing rendi-
tion of "Eternal Father, Strong
to Save" to bolster our spir-
its. And we were relieved when
dry land was heralded by the
arrival of a dove clutching an
olive branch, even if the dove
was flying backwards at the
time!
Both performances were an
eclectic, moving and beautifully
staged retelling of the classic
story. A true community ven-
ture that will long be remem-
bered in our little church.
Beautiful opera in
church was simply
a joy to behold
Church Hill Herald December 2014—7
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My mother was the eldest of a
large family and Christmas was
always an occasion for a noisy
gathering at my grandparents’
house.
We children were given much
attention and our adoring aunts
were forever thinking up innova-
tive ideas for our amusement.
Every year they invented some
novel way of making present giv-
ing entertaining. One year they
acquired a huge cardboard Christ-
mas cracker which they filled
with numerous sweets and tiny
toys and then suspended from the
ceiling.
As the string was cut, the giant
cracker disgorged its contents
across the room and everyone had
to scramble for the prizes; need-
less to say, the grownups pre-
tended to take part, but it was the
children who retrieved the bulk
of the booty!
Another year, the aunts trans-
formed the space beneath the bay
window into a grotto decorated
with evergreens and crepe paper
and given a magical glow by the
clever positioning of a lamp.
Here they had placed exciting
looking bundles of gifts, one for
everyone, each bundle wrapped
in a different coloured tissue pa-
per, making the whole look like
an Aladdin’s cave filled with
treasure. The gifts themselves
were neither expensive nor ex-
travagant; but the careful presen-
tation combined with the irresisti-
ble element of surprise added to
the fun of the occasion and before
long the floor was awash with
wrapping paper and the air filled
with cries of pleasure mixed with
shrieks of mirth as the more
amusing joke items were re-
vealed.
Another Christmas Day treat
was a Punch and Judy show.
A ‘theatre’ would be set up in the
dining room and we would enjoy
the traditional stories of Mr
Punch, complete with squeaky
voice, Judy, baby and Toby the
naughty dog, with his string of
stolen sausages.
Curiously, though, just before the
Punch and Judy man was ex-
pected, Grandpa always donned
his hat and coat and disappeared
to “see a man about a dog.”
Strange to say, no sooner had the
Punch and Judy man departed by
the kitchen door, than the sound
of Grandpa’s key was heard in
the front lock and we would rush
to tell him what he had missed!
Christmas night always ended
with a sing-song. Grandpa would
seat himself at the piano and
pound out carols interspersed
with many music hall and popu-
lar ditties, always including “Lily
of Laguna” which he would ten-
derly address to my grandma,
whose name was Lillian.
Everyone joined in lustily; we
children soon becoming sleepy,
despite desperate efforts to stay
awake.
In those post-war days, we, like
many families, had little spare
money for non essentials and our
parents and aunts became ingen-
ious at making gifts from inex-
pensive materials, but for me,
perhaps the most enduring mem-
ory of those Christmases is that
of being in the midst of a large
and loving family; a Christmas
gift that never wears out or be-
comes dated, and one that all the
money in the world cannot buy.
Happy Christmas!
Memories of a family
Christmas By LESLEY DANSON
Crackers and carols THE CLOCKS change, the days shorten
and suddenly we find ourselves hurtling at
great speed towards the festive season! For children of course, their excitement fuelled by
nativity plays, carol services, and the magical bril-
liance of lights against the perfect backdrop of
dark skies, Christmas can’t come soon enough,
and I clearly remember from my own childhood
that delicious, fizzing feeling of anticipation that
grew in one long, gradual crescendo throughout
the days of December.
All this... and
a Punch and
Judy show
Church Hill Herald December 2014—9
ADVENT is the nicest times of
the year for me, and one of the
reasons is my beautiful advent
calendar. Chocolate calendars are all well
and good, but I feel myself drawn
towards those without chocolates,
like the ones I admired in my
youth. As a child, I just loved look-
ing at the seasonal picture at the
front, usually a nativity scene that
didn’t resemble the stable in Beth-
lehem in the least; a snowy glade in
a pine forest, for instance, complete
with Baby Jesus, the Holy Family
and all kinds of cute spotted fawns
and squirrels having a look at the
infant.
My own calendar was a large angel
that, due to the rounded shape of
his frock, could rock from side. He
was wearing a bright red cloak and
had beautiful blond hair; long,
wavy and, the epitome of extrava-
gance, sprinkled with sparkly glit-
ter. The effect was truly heavenly,
and I didn’t mind at all that I knew
the 24 little pictures in the hem of
the red frock by heart because that
particular calendar made an appear-
ance year after year.
Old friends On the contrary, the little images
seemed like old friends that you
haven’t met for quite a while.
When you see them again, they’re
just as they’ve always been, and
you secretly wonder how you could
have forgotten what they look like.
Advent wouldn’t be advent without
a proper wreath, made of fir sprigs
and with four chunky candles.
Every Advent Sunday we children
used to sit around the wreath, eat-
ing tea and home-made advent bis-
cuits, and singing Christmas carols.
It was always lovely, especially the
delicious smell of the burning fir
needles that we secretly held over
the candle flames, ignoring the fact
that our parents had strictly forbid-
den playing with fire.
Santa didn’t exist for us, because
still today in Germany it’s Baby
Jesus who brings the presents.
He arrives just after the family
comes back home from church, and
the children have to wait outside
the living room until he has gone
again, having left his wonderful
gifts. Then the mother rings a bell
to announce that everyone may
now enter the Christmas room.
Presents
This is also the moment of lots of
‘Ahs’ and ‘Ohs’ when everyone
sees the Christmas tree for the first
time, usually lit with real candles
(and a bucket of water right next to
it, just in case), and the presents
underneath. I still remember how superhumanly
heroic I felt as a child having to
endure a long row of Christmas
songs followed by prayers and,
even worse, Bible readings before
I was finally allowed to race to my
presents and rip open the packag-
ing. Nowadays my children and
grandchildren have to suffer the
same tribulation, while it is now my
turn to ring the little bell after Baby
Jesus has left. Too bad I’ve opened
the last little door of my Advent
calendar by then, and it is soon time
to bring it back into the attic until
next year. A sad moment until I
remember, as I take off my Christ-
mas decorations, that Jesus is not
just here for Christmas. He’s here
to stay for us; not just in December,
and not just for Advent, but for al-
ways and for ever.
Bettina
Simply the best
time of the year
10—Church Hill Herald December 2014
1: Name the angel who told
Mary she would give birth to
Jesus.
2: What do we call Mary’s
song of praise after the
Annunciation?
3: Who was Mary's cousin,
mother of John the Baptist?
4. Who was John’s
father?
5: Which Roman emperor
ordered the census
for which Joseph and Mary
went to register?
6: How did the angel
address Joseph: descendant
of ……………….?
7: What does the name
Emmanuel mean?
8: Who was King of Judaea
when Jesus was born?
9: What gifts did the wise men
bring to Jesus?
10: To whom did Mary
and Joseph present Jesus in the
temple?
11: What do we call this man's
prayer?
12: What was the name of his
companion in the Temple?
13: Where did Joseph take Mary
and Jesus for safety?
14: What happened to all the
boys under two years old in
Bethlehem?
15: By the time the Holy Family
returned home, who had become
King of Judaea?
16: What prediction of the
prophets then came true? “He
will be called a . . . . . . . . . . ?
17: How old was Jesus when his
parents lost him in the Temple?
18: Which Jewish festival
was being celebrated at this time?
19: Who was emperor when John
began preaching?
20: In which river did John
baptise Jesus?
Answers on
page 18
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Church Hill Herald December 2014—11
IN A LONG and enjoyable
newspaper career I covered
many big stories, but never
one so wonderful and life-
changing as ‘the greatest
story ever told’ - the birth
of Jesus Christ.
Had this sensational event hap-
pened while I worked in Fleet
Street, this is how we might
have reported it . . .
BETHLEHEM, December 25
THE West Bank’s acute hous-
ing crisis reached epic propor-
tions last night as a teenage
mother was forced to have her
baby in a freezing stable.
The girl, known simply as
Mary, had travelled up with her
husband Joseph — believed to
be a descendant of King David
— from their home in Nazareth
to register for the census.
When they arrived every spare
bed in town had been taken —
there was literally no room at
the inn. The only available roof
over the young couple’s head
was a rickety stable housing
donkeys and cattle. It was there
that late last night Mary gave
birth to her firstborn — whom
the couple have decided to call
Jesus.
The new mum wrapped the little
mite in rags and gently laid him
to sleep in a manger filled with
straw. Their only heating came
from the animals’ breath.
An astonishing claim came
almost immediately as a
group of Bethlehem shepherds
said they had seen a band of
angels descending from the
skies at the same time Jesus
was born.
Yasser Zatsmaibebi, their
leader, told our reporter on the
scene: “The angels described
the baby boy as the saviour king
we’ve all been waiting for, then
directed us down to the stable,
which was illuminated by a
bright star. Then we saw the
infant. We were overcome and
gave thanks to God.”
The implications are likely to be
tremendous. Is this the Mes-
siah? Only time will tell.
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A SHOEMAKER had be-
come, by no fault of his own,
so poor that at last he had
nothing left but leather for
one pair of shoes. So in the
evening, he cut out the shoes
which he wished to begin to
make the next morning, and
as he had a good conscience,
he lay down quietly in his
bed, commended himself to
God, and fell asleep.
In the morning, after he had
said his prayers, and was just
going to sit down to work, the
two shoes stood quite finished
on his table. He was astounded,
and knew not what to say. He
took the shoes in his hands to
observe them closely, and they
were so neatly made that there
was not one bad stitch in them,
just as if they were intended as
a masterpiece.
Soon after, a buyer came in,
and as the shoes pleased him so
well, he paid more for them
than was customary, and, with
the money, the shoemaker was
able to buy leather for two pairs
of shoes. He cut them out at
night, and next morning was
about to set to work with fresh
courage; but he had no need to
do so, for, when he got up, they
were already made, and buyers
also were not wanting, who
gave him money enough to buy
leather for four pairs of shoes.
The following morning, too, he
found the four pairs made; and
so it went on constantly —
what he cut out in the evening
was finished by the morning, so
that he soon had his honest in-
dependence again, and at last
became a wealthy man.
One evening not long before
Christmas, when the man had
been cutting out, he said to his
wife, before going to bed,
“What do you think if we were
to stay up tonight to see who it
is that lends us this helping
hand?”
The woman liked the idea, and
lit a candle, and then they hid
themselves in a corner of the
room, behind some clothes
which were hanging up there,
and watched.
When it was midnight, two
pretty little naked men came,
sat down by the shoemaker's
table, took all the work which
was cut out before them and
began to stitch and sew, and
hammer so skilfully and so
quickly with their little fingers
that the shoemaker could not
turn away his eyes for astonish-
ment. They did not stop until
all was done and stood finished
on the table; and then they ran
quickly away.
The ELVES AND THE shoemaker
A little bedtime story by the
Brothers Grimm
S
Next morning the woman said: “The little men have made us
rich, and we really must show that we are grateful for it. They
run about so, and have nothing on, and must be cold. I'll tell you
what I'll do: I will make them little shirts and coats, and vests
and trousers, and knit both of them a pair of stockings, and you,
too, make them two little pairs of shoes.”
The man said, “I shall be very glad to do it;” and one night,
when everything was ready, they laid their presents all together
on the table instead of the cut-out work, and then concealed
themselves to see how the little men would behave.
At midnight they came bounding in, and wanted to get to work
at once, but as they did not find any leather cut out, only the
pretty little articles of cloth-
ing, they were at first aston-
ished, and then they showed
intense delight. They dressed
themselves with the greatest
rapidity, putting the pretty
clothes on, and singing,
"Now we are boys so fine to
see, why should we longer
cobblers be?" Then they
danced, skipped and leapt
over chairs and benches. At
last they danced out of
doors. From that time they
came no more, but as long as
the shoemaker lived all went
well with him, and all his
undertakings prospered.
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1 Gabriel
2 The Magnificat
3 Elizabeth
4 Zachariah
5 Augustus
6 David
7 God with us
8 Herod
9 Gold, Frankincense
and Myrrh
10 Simeon
11 Nunc Dimittis
12 Anna
13 Egypt
14 Killed by order of
Herod
15 Archelaus
16 Nazarene
17 Twelve
18 Passover
19 Tiberius
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Jesus is born to
be a light and
hope for the
world
A young mother
and her child
represent
domestic bliss
Christmas is
an invitation to
choose our way
in life
On sale now: the
stories of the 55
East Barnet men
who died in the
First World War
THEIR NAMES are inscribed on the
village war memorial and on a brass
plaque in St Mary’s Church, and their
names are read out in our annual Re-
membrance service. Bur now our acclaimed new book East
Barnet 1914-1918 tells the personal stories
of the 55 servicemen who served in the
armed forces during the First World War
but never returned from the conflict. From
Alfred Anderson to Nelson Wise, we learn
how they “joined up” and left the village
only to die in battles from Flanders to Gal-
lipoli. It is a fascinating read, and is on sale
at St Mary’s and Brookside Methodist
churches. There is no price, but a donation
of £2.50 is asked for the Poppy Fund.
Church Hill Herald December 2014—19
Keep eyes away from
that transfer window ON CHRISTMAS EVE this
year, at 3.30pm in Oak Hill
Park, we are remembering the
occasion when British and Ger-
man soldiers in the first World
War left their trenches and
played a game of football to-
gether (we suspect the Germans
won…) after they heard each
other singing the same carols.
Football does indeed bring people
together, and fans respect the com-
mitment of the fans of the teams
they play. A lot of good conversa-
tions are to be had on the way to
and from the games, as we all
know similar joys and frustrations
in following our teams.
The Bees are flying high at the top
of the Conference, and even man-
ager Martin Allen is surprised at
how well we are doing. However,
this may change in the next month
or so when the winter transfer win-
dow opens.
Will our favourite players be en-
ticed away by bigger clubs? Can
the team keep its winning ways
without them, if they are? Will we
“come down with the Christmas
decorations”? We do hope not.
Indeed, there may even be a
chance to strengthen the squad
further from players in the lower
leagues, and it is difficult to see
how our position going into this
nail-biting time could be stronger.
So, subject to the weather and cup
ties as yet unknown, here are the
fixtures for December and January
(all times 3 pm):
Saturday 6 December – away to
Torquay. The Gulls are currently
mid table and we will have played
them at home in November. They
were relegated from the League
last year.
Saturday 20 – home to Chester.
We played the Blues away at the
start of the season and beat them
5-0, but after this shaky start,
Chester have been playing well
and are currently mid-table.
Boxing Day – Away to Alder-
shot. The Shots are currently mid-
table. They were relegated with us
in 2013. We found them difficult
opponents last season, drawing
away and losing at home.
Sunday 28 - Home to Dover.
We beat the Whites 3-0 when we
played them away in September
and they are in the lower half of
the league. They came up to the
Conference this season.
Thursday January 1- Home to
Aldershot – let’s hope we will
have reason to sing “Can we play
you every week?”
Sunday 4 - Away to Lincoln,
who are currently mid-table. In
August when we played the Imps
at home we lost 2-1, and they tend
to be something of a bugbear team
for us. They are currently mid-
table.
Saturday 17 - Away to Grimsby,
who are near the top of the table
and reached the semi-final of the
play-offs two years running. We
lost away to the Mariners last sea-
son, but won at home.
Saturday 24 - Home to South-
port, who are in the lower half of
the table. We beat the Sand-
grounders 2-0 when we met in
August. They came up to the
Conference in 2010 but have
struggled to stay in it since then.
Saturday 31 – Away to Halifax,
who are near the top of the table.
The Shaymen lost in the play-off
semi-finals last season after finish-
ing fifth. We lost both times we
played them last season.
As usual, fixture updates, travel
details and ways to support the
Bees can be found on the club
website, www.barnetfc.com
“I’m dreaming of a nine point
Christmas, just like the ones we
used to know…”
Come on you Bees!
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8207 7355
Mobile:
07947 600512
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CHURCH DIRECTORY RECTOR (PARISH PRIEST)
The Revd James Mustard
The Rectory, 136 Church Hill Road, EN4 8XD
Tel: 8368 3840 [email protected]
ASSISTANT CURATE
The Revd Sam Korn
109 Margaret Rd, New Barnet, EN4 9RA
020 3524 5410 [email protected]
ASSOCIATE MINISTERS
The Revd Colin Smith (Methodist) , Parish Office
The Revd Dr Jenny King, Parish Office
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR
Mrs Margaret Cranfield
St Mary's Parish Office, Brookside Methodist Church,
2 Cat Hill, East Barnet EN4 8JB.
Tel: 8441 4401
CHURCHWARDENS:
Mr John Hawkins 8441 3931
Mrs Chris Mears 8368 6200
READER (LAY MINISTER)
Mr David Griffin
Contact through Parish Office
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