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TH O U G rR iT for the week
To know anything, to know how it works and
know its context, where it fits in. You probably know your
kitchen pretty well, but that knowledge includes where it is in the house and what work is done there: its context. And then, of course, there’s the context of your house as a whole. What about the context of everj'thing? The first thing about “Every
thing” , so obvious that it is gen erally overlooked is that it is there, out there. That there is nothing but something, and that that something has been made.
what it’s for, you’ve got to The big picture
The complexity of our unimagin ably large universe, we are told, seems to have developed from something so simple and unimaginably small that it could rest on the palm of your hand and you wouldn’t be able to see it, so small and dense that within it, the laws of physics didn’ t apply. But that origin, that seed, containing all things, was made, and the only way of making things is in love. Love alone is creative. Things
are conceived and made in love. Whether you make a painting or a child, in some way and to some degree you make it in love.
The next universal event came
about 14 billion years later and was so astonishing, so wholly wrong-headed and irrational, that you could never deduce it from the facts alone and someone has to tell you that the original creative love that made the uni verse entered its own creation and became subject to its inex orable laws. And in what form would you imagine creative love entered the universe? As an intense wave of light, a winged omnipotent figure, as an over whelming presence not seen but merely sensed, or as a child, itself dependent on being loved for its
very existence? And so creative love, growing into a man and subject to the laws of its own uni verse and to the will of its own mankind, was tortured and slain, but could not finally he destroyed, and returning in a new mode of life guaranteed, finally and for always, the suc cess of its o"'n vast venture. And henceforth we know that though this created and creative uni verse may change again beyond our imagination, it will never be destroyed. Something will never now return to Nothing.
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ABOUT 100 people from Chatburn were out of work due to a disastrous fire at the village mill. It was thought to have been caused by a short circuit in the electrical system and, within 40 minutes of the out break, a large three-storey block of the factory containing the warpdressing and warehouse departments had been gutted. O A special meeting of Clitheroe magis
trates was held to consider a proposal that Sabden cases should be transferred to Padiham. At the time the newspaper went to press, the result was not known. O Clitheroe Central Football Club was
holding a grand concert at the public hall, featuring soprano Miss Grace Shorrock and Mr W. G. Webber from the Lan cashire Basso. O Doans Backache Kidney Pills
claimed to be the medication to cure kid ney disease. Available to buy, the pills were advertised as “ helping backache, a symp tom of the disease” .
Junior beats the giants!
F you have ever dealt with a customer sendee department, the followng story' may well strike a chord.
My son, aged two-and-a-half, is currently
in the throes of potty training, but has not y'et mastered the art. Consequently we fall back on the safety net of a securely fastened nappy for trips out, and certainly at bed time. I long for the day when “nappies” no longer appear on the weekly shopping list, not least because of the e.xpense, but for now at least, they remain a fi.\ture. Most parents favour a particular brand
and moist, smelly e.xperience has taught me that one particular supermarket chain’s own- brand nappies out-perform the rest as far as Smith jun. is concerned. Recently though, they have been as scarce as rocking horse droppings. I have tried four different branches of the
supermarket in question, including a giant megastore version among the bright lights of Burnley, but none had the nappies in my boy’s size, which happens to be size si.'C, the biggest in the range. All the other sizes were there and the packaging on those other sizes shows the full range, up to size six, but the nappies themselves were nowhere in evi dence.
After repeatedly clicking the “any other
As I see it . . b y D i m c a n S m i t h
Asking at the in-store customer service
desk at two of the branches brought little more than blank stares and lots of tapping on computer keyboards, all to no avail. Was I speaking a foreign language? Do you have to be a parent of a nappy-clad toddler to understand my dilemma? This was, after all, the supermarket’s own-brand product. Never fear - technology to the rescue. I
would seek an answer on-line. Ha\’ing Googled my way through cyber
space to the store’s website (now I really am speaking a foreign language!) I eventually found the “Contact us” section, ft seemed to have been designed exclusively for people who actually do their shopping on-line and have it delivered to their door. All the sec tions which I was required to fill in dealt with problems of shopping on-line, or late deliveries, or the wrong product delivered. It did little to inspire me to shop online.
LOOKING BACK 50 years ago
AN enthusiastic audience gathered in Glitheroe Parish Church Sunday School Hall to hear a pianoforte recital. Given by the distinguished pianist Mr Kendall Tay lor, under the auspices of Clitheroe Music Club, the programme opened with a per formance of the “Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue” . O Seventy-nine years of age at the end
of the month and still working was the proud record of Mr Arthur Nutter, of Mitchell Street, Clitheroe. The slater and plasterer was believed to be the town’s old est working building trade operative. Despite retiring several times, Mr Nutter kept returning to work as he found enforced leisure too irksome. ® A cookery demonstration was being
held at the Electricity Service Centre, in Clitheroe. Featuring “Belling” cookers, the trader based in King Street, was offer ing customers expert advice to help them make their appliances work better.
query” box, I finally found a space to write my query down. Be nice, I thought, butter them up and you’re more likely to get a response, so I "Tote that their nappies were the best I’d found, but I could no longer find them. I told them the brand (their own), the size and asked if they still stocked them? The speed at which a reply arrived (less
than a day) was impressive. Sadly the reply was not. In a very matter-of-fact fashion the “customer ser\'ice ad\riser” adwsed me that in order to pursue my query further she would need “an e.xact product description and barcode” . I replied as follows: “ 1 e- mailed you asking about a product which I can no longer find in your stores, ha\'ing tried four so far. You have replied asking me to supply an exact product description and bar code for the product. I cannot do so as I do not have the product to refer to. You see, I have been unable to find any in your stores, which is why I e-mailed.” Several days have now passed w'ithout any
further correspondence, but I take some small pleasure in the knowledge that, at just two-and-a-half, my boy has utterly confounded a giant of the British retail industry. That’s my boy!
E x citin g tale o f treason
and som e roy a l intrigu e by Jonathan Keane
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n author’s interest in lives buried in time has led to an exciting discovery and a new short book.
Mr Reg Postlethwaite, a retired English
teacher, has already published two volumes of Slaidburn Parish Register in collabora tion with his friend, Mr Chris Spencer, head of CRGS’ Information Technology depart ment. Using an infra red lamp to bring out the
faded inscriptions in old parish records, the pair created a document that brought to light the year-by-year rhythms of life in the area 400 years ago. The self-financed print run of 300 leather
bound copies was a sell-out among local his- torians, historical societies and local libraries, with copies on bookshelves as far away as America, Australia, Portugal and Canada. Now, after further research, Mr Postleth
waite, pictured, has traced the lineage of two apparently disparate family lines to a shared connection in Cumbria, finding a rel ative with a somewhat colourful life story in the process. Mr Postlethwaite has detailed the exploits of his distant ancestor in
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Lawrence Banastre, of Slaidburn, and “Treason and Plot” in the reign of Elizabeth I. The protagonist of the tale appears 450 years doNra the maternal line and was solic itor and “my steward in the North” to Thomas Howard, the fateful fourth Duke of Norfolk. As such Banastre was implicated in Norfolk’s abortive plans for an uprising in the north against Elizabeth and marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, both with a view to putting the Duke on the throne. Despite Banastre’s professed allegiance to
Elizabeth, his stronger ties to Norfolk led to his arrest and incarceration in the Tower of London in 1571. Even on the rack, confronted with letters
from Norfolk to Mary Queen of Scots that he himself had set in cipher, Banastre remained silent and proved worthy of Nor folk’s conviction that, “ surely Banastre dealt no way but honestly and true” . Postlethwaite notes that Lawrence does
not appear to have been tried or found guilty personally, but was indicted on the basis of Norfolk’s guilt. Those who would like to find out more
about Banastre’s fate can obtain a copy of the book directly from Mr Postlethwaite at 72 Rydal Road, Haslingden, BB4 4EF.
Take another trip down Memory Lane 25 years ago
CLITHEROE taxi firms had banded together in a bid to control fare-cutting, which was threatening to put them out of business, in the face of spiralling costs. From the Sunday, an increased standard ised fare was introduced to stop clients shopping around for the cheapest ride. 9 'The future of four more Ribble Valley
village schools was in the balance. Before a decision could be made on the possible clo sure of Bolton-by-Bowlad school, others in the area were being reviewed, which included the 75-pupil Gisburn County School, Brennand’s Endowed School in Slaidburn, with 45 pupils, the 30-pupil Grindleton CE School and the tiny Tos- side Parochial School with 16 pupils. ® Ribble Valley Council’s Recreation
and Leisure Committee intended to re build Clitheroe Castle bandstand destroyed by fire the previous year. The committee had decided to obtain plans for a cheaper stand.
WHERE are they now? Margaret Ingham (nee Hurst)
and Patricia Taylor (nee Pearson) are organising a reunion for pupils of Ribblesdale Secondary Modern
School, Clitheroe. All those who attended the
school between 1956 and 1961 (who should also be celebrating the arrival of their bus passes! ) are invited to attend the Swan and Royal Hotel, Clitheroe, on October
21st, from 7-30 p.m. Pictured above are the pupils,
taken in the late ’50s and, right pupils taking part in a production of “The Gondoliers” at the school, organised by Mr Wiseman and Miss Finch. Among those pictured are Patricia Taylor, Jean Walters, Audrey Boreham and Rosemary
Cook. Anyone wishing to attend should
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