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pendent on “a book th a t changed your life”, he responded: “The Bible. I t turned me into an atheist.” And I can sympathise. A


superficial encounter with the Jewish and Christian Scrip­ tures is terrifying and seem­ ingly nonsensical. We are con­ fronted with God who knocks together planet earth in six days then puts his feet up. Then, when the human race mucks things up, He (and it is usually “He”) decides to drown the lot - except the vir­ tuous Noah, his family and his zoo. I t gets worse. Divine


instructions ordered a favoured nation to commit genocide. The resident tribes in Pales­


tine - men, women, children and livestock - are to be anni­ hilated. The Hittites, Amor- ites, Perizzites, and all those Old Testament titles which Lesson Readers dread, are for the chop. And the tale rattles on


through 1,500 years of human b rutali ty with confused or


Y favourite comedi­ an, Andy Hamilton - the one with the


CALDER S E R V I C E S


the breeze for several hours. And there is something about “pegging


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out” that makes me feel like a “proper” housewife. I have been fortunate enough to have


spent my children’s formative years work­ ing part-time, while being a full-time mum. I ’ve juggled the school and work runs, with the weekly shopping and house­ hold chores, attempting - though not always achieving - to leave the weekends free for family activities. . Now with the children at nursery and


school and the husband and myself at work more often than we aren’t, some of


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I just love the feeling of pegging out my washing


PEG out with pride! I love it. There is nothing better than the smell of wash­ ing which has been blowing about in


As I see i t . . . by Natalie Cox


my housewifely tasks are having to take a bit of a back seat. I am now dot.com-ing my shopping and am tackling the cleaning and vacuuming with my new “as and when” tactic. But pegging out is the one thing I am


not giving up. Take Friday morning. I had two lunch-


boxes to prepare, two children to deliver to school and nursery and work to get to


reach by 9 a.m. At 7-45 a.m. with two loads of wet washing ready to go, I aban­ doned all other chores, grabbed the basket and the peg bag and headed for the great outdoors and 10 minutes of peaceful peg­


ging. Once there were two lines full of wash­


ing, depicting our family in a flash - foot­ ball kits for the six-year-old obsessed by the game of two halves, a Barbie Rapun- zel dressing-up dress for the three-year-old whose life’s ambition is to be a mermaid and the regulation work uniform of suit shirts for the other half - my daily domes­ tic duties were complete. Then it was time to leave my other job


behind, grab my notebook and pen and head back to the real world.


Misguided atheism


imagined divine instructions, reaching a kind of climax when the Galilean Rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth, is tortured and executed. And this collec­ tion of ancient documents fin­ ishes up with a bewildering document mostly written in secret code, which religious extremists have often exploit­ ed as a means of dominating gullible believers. A dangerous book! There are be tte r ways of


approaching this fascinating library of human history, with its myths, poetry, legends and prayers. The cultural gap between


those authors and ourselves is vast - but human nature remains recognisably the same - they hurt where we hurt and ask the same questions. To begin at the beginning,


that Creation story, properly called a “myth”, sounds an optimistic note about our mysterious existence. “God”, according to the story, “saw that it was good” so, despite the pains and contradictions of human life, we are invited to dare to believe in a moral and benevolent force behind it all!


And this spiritual dynamic


seems to break into the story from time to time; Abraham


feels “called” to take his fami­ ly out of a corrupt society and go in search of a utopia; Moses, happily married in a comfortable rural environ­ ment, felt a “command” to challenge an Egyptian tyrant and lead his kinsfolk out of slavery. In the inevitable chaos that


followed, Moses withdrew to a mountain solitude to discover the 10 basic regulations by which he could teach the social responsibility which liberated people have to learn. (Were those 10 rules taught, I won­ der, on 10 fingers for pre-liter­ ate people?) The list of “break-throughs”


goes on; Amos, a mere garden­ er, enraged at lavish religious ri tu a ls amongst grinding poverty, gets his place in the evolution or ethical religious thinking, and Hosea, whose wife ran away as a prostitute, loves her back home and guesses that Divine Love must be at least as forgiving. Job, in a superb, but rather


wordy, docudrama, recognises for the first time that human suffering is not necessarily Divine punishment. Isiah, a prisoner of war in


what is now Iran, realises that those whose lives are dedicat­ ed to the highest ideals are


likely to suffer mockery, perse­ cution and death - and, sur­ prise surprise, in the New Tes­ tament, Jesus steps into that model, challenging in defence­ less love the corruption and evils of religion and politics, accepting the awful conse­ quences. Strangely, and as a fact of history, He remains a living influence for good to this very day. The last complex and the­


a tr ical book of the Bible revives the vision that began it all - an affirmation of the essential goodness of life and a hope that in the end there will be no more death, no more grief, or crying, or pain, because the Creator knows what he is on about and will see that in the end “all shall be well”. I wish I had the chance to


interview Andy Hamilton, because his atheism was understandable, but misguid­ ed.


Any informed and serious


approach to the Bible faces the reader with a question: is this unique collection of docu­ ments the record of humani­ ty ’s muddled search for God, or is the power behind all life patiently searching for us? IAN ROBINS, Anglican pricsl


1 \ son and Kerr in Clitheroe is


now the boss! During the last century, the


town was home to more than a dozen butchers. Now, there are just three surviving butchers with shop premises. In May, Roger Hope became


the fourth person to take the helm at Harrison and Kerr, tak­ ing over from Brian Hodges. Between them, the pair have put 48 years into the King Street business, Brian 28 and Roger, 20. Brian who took over from his


boss, Stuart Kerr, almost 10 years ago, began working at the shop as an apprentice for Stuart and his wife, Marilyn. At the age of 19 he won the


first Blackburn and District Master Butchers’ Association Challenge Cup at an under-20s contest held at Sawley Abattoir. To win it involved boning a 1401b forequarter of beef and prepar­ ing it for a shop window. I t is a traditional skill handed down from butcher to butcher, and one which has been passed on to for­ mer St Augustine’s RC High School pupil Roger. A father of two, William (six)


and eight-year-old Phoebe, Roger is being joined by his wife,


Adele, who will be his business partner concentrating on the books. The pair, who employ a staff of six, aim to ensure that the business continues as it has, a traditional long-established butcher’s offering excellent serv­ ice to the hundreds of cus­ tomers, many who have been loyally supportive for genera­ tions. It was Brian who introduced


outside catering, something which has been a success and is to continue, along with the pop­ ular barbecue side of the busi­ ness. Customers buying all their meat from Harrison and Kerr


are offered the use of one of the firm’s barbecue drums - an extra, but one which Roger says is always popular. Supporting local farmers has always been a priority; many of them being both suppliers and customers, and Bowland Foods is just one Ribble Valley business which has its products in the shop. Long hours are a fact of life


for the traditional butcher and Roger has grown accustomed to the 60-hour week, which are often a necessity. Bowing out, Brian, who is


now embarking on a complete change of direction - decorating


- extended his thanks to all his many customers, many of whom, he says, have become friends. Apologising for not being able to thank them all individually before handing over the reins, he conveyed his best wishes to his successor. And who knows what lies


ahead for Harrison and Kerr’s youngest apprentice Jack Hyde (18). If he follows in his boss’s footsteps, the King Street busi­ ness could be in safe hands for the first half of the 21st Centu­ ry at least! Our picture shows Roger and Brian. (B250507/8a)


Retiring Sue nursed many back to full health


FAMILIAR face who has spent the past 25 years looking after Ribble Valley folk with all man­


ner of minor ailments has retired. Sue Jackson began her nursing career


in 1964, training at Queen’s Park Hospi­ tal in Blackburn and qualifying in 1968. She held a variety of posts prior to


starting work in the Treatment Room at Clitheroe Health Centre, where she has worked for the past 25 years. Colleagues past and present gathered


for a special buffet lunch to celebrate and to wish Sue a long and happy retire­ ment. She received many gifts, including a


digital camera, crystal wine glasses and gift vouchers. Sue now hopes to spend more time on


her hobbies and interests, which include watercolour painting, bird watching and socialising with family and friends. She is pictured with colleagues and


friends at Clitheroe Health Centre. (A300507/3)


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