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Quire
- noun: four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight
leaves, as in medieval manuscripts - ORIGIN Old French
'quaier', from Latin 'quaterni' ‘set of four’
Boye
- from the
French; 'boyau'
- chambre à air - [perhaps] a debating place;
Twinned with the town of
Fuctifino, Italy.
WHERE
ARE WE?
Upper
Quireboye is situated amongst the pleasant South Downs in East
Sussex. The word Sussex gives us a clue to a part of the
history. Sussex means the land of the Southern Saxons - as
Essex was the land of the Eastern Saxons. Wessex was the land
of the Western Saxons, and Middlesex - well, that was the land
of those Saxons who had gender identification problems.
VILLAGE
HISTORY
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CHURCH
HISTORY
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undergoing redesign and updating - I know, I know, but I have
been busy, get a life already...)
SUSSEX
POLICE
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10 times more likely to be victims of burglary than households
where there are simple security measures in place.
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FROM
THE VICAR
Rev. Crispin Blenkinsop
Autumn Programme
In
the words of that beautiful song - this is the time of
year when it becomes (seemingly at least) Forever
Autumn.
The skies become a bit more deeper blue and there is a
slight chill to the air first thing in the morning and
in the evening. This is harvest time and of course our
Harvest Festival celebrations slip around once more.
Sunday 21st of September will be the date for our
Harvest Festival. Again, we shall be cooperating with
the schools in the parish for the collecting of food
items for distribution to the needy. This has always
been a successful and interesting exercise.
Please be very careful though. Last year, some very
generous allotment holder presented freshly produced
some 'Abyssinian cabbages' that are, I am told full of
goodness. Sadly these were spotted by a police officer
and the Harvest store was raided by the drugs squad who
took them away for destroying. I hope any home grown
produce will have come from a reliable seed provider
this season!
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I think I can advise all those concerned parishioners
that the world shall not end on the 10th of September
when the atom smashing Hadron Collider is switched on in
CERNE in Switzerland, in what is being termed
BIG BANG day.
There are, as I write, a number of legal cases in
America where the courts are being asked to stop this
action as there is a fear that what will result will be
the formation of a small black hole that will destroy
the world. This is not true. I am reliably informed that
American scientists are years behind what the Europeans
are doing and thus want to stop the project so they can
catch up and, to the US mentality at least, if the world
is going to be destroyed, it is an American who is going
to do it.
Village News
The guest speaker at the
recent village Debating Society was the village MP, the
Rt.Hon. Hugo Fuchs-Daly.
The recent events between
Georgia and the Russian Federation was analysed by the
speaker.
Oddly enough, he
admitted, he was coming down on the side of the
Russian's rather than the Georgian's, who the western
media have painted as the victims of aggression.
An analogy of what the
Russians did can be seen in the British armed forces
being sent to the Falkland Islands to kick out the
Argentinean invader, Fuchs-Daly said.
A Spanish invasion of
Gibraltar might be seen in similar fashion. The
provinces that Georgia was attempting to keep by
aggression wanted to be Russian, in the same way the
Falkland Islanders and the Gibraltararians wish to
remain British.
This, he said, is the
other side of the story that the western media have
neglected to tell the average person in the street.
2008 - A Feast of Sport
Jeremy Tosser
LONDON 2012: After Beijing, London is now the
Olympic city where a wonderful
carnival of sport is awaiting our country when London hosts
the only real Olympic Games in the whole of eternity - the London
Olympics 2012©.
Our
Team GB did so well in the recent games that there we
have hopes for London 2012©.
We shall see over the coming years
between now and the opening ceremony in London so much
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reporters, experts and pundits
involved in bringing sport to your television will ache
for years to come.
From Your Member of Parliament
 HUGO
FUCHS-DALY (Con)
ECONOMY CRISES -
BALLOONS AND PRICKS
I have been taken to task by several of my constituents
about the way things are panning out where the economy
is concerned - don't blame me, its the Labour admin
under Gordon Brown that is to blame.
However, I did have an interesting chat with one of our
local refuse workers in the pub the other evening. I had
been told that this man in the humblest of jobs, has
foreseen the present problems, so I went and talked to
him about it.
Several people in the pub said that a year ago Alfie
Munday had predicted the housing crash, and the
possibility of the massive jump in fuel prices. He
admitted that this was true. In his view, what was wrong
with the economy I asked.
"It is down to homogeneity" he said. Well, some of my
best married friends in the Party are that way inclined.
I asked him to explain. "When the economy is booming the
earnings are not evenly distributed across the economy,
but stay in one area of the economy that grows wildly -
imagine a balloon that is blown up. If you squeeze part
of that balloon between your fingers a small part will
expand like a blister and it will grow and grow."
I understood the analogy. He continued. "If that blister
is pricked from an outside source, or just expands until
it bursts, the entire balloon collapses out of control,
not just the area which was rapidly growing.
"If the economy grew evenly, a burst or prick would
deflate the economy slowly - and patching that trouble
point would be easier. The economy as we have it,
collapses uncontrollably".
"The burst from the inside was the prime-mortgages
scandal - who in their right mind buys
someone else's debt?"
The 'bright-brained' things in the City, obviously, I
thought. My friend continued. "The external prick is the
rise in oil. Don't you think it is strange that both
these market shifting occurrences have happened at the
same time?"
Yes it is strange -but there are rumours that there
unscrupulous traders in the various markets have been
manipulating the futures of oil and other energy
sources.
I thanked Alfie for his time. He went back to his little
cottage that he and his wife bought when times were
good. I wondered how this quiet man (whose wage cannot
be more that £18k a year) could see the obvious that
that others who are are often on grossly over inflated
salaries and expense accounts could not.
They must make things right and quickly. Or GO!! In the
meantime I shall take Alfie's ideas to David C and pass
them off as my own. I think a place in the shadow
cabinet beckons.
ASK
VERA
Have you any
comments, queries or thoughts you would like to send Vera?
Then e-mail* to:
The
Parish Clerk*
*delete
'spamfree' in the address bar before you send the e-mail
SPORT
NAZI: I find your so-called sporting views (your
so-called 'Jeremy Tosser') most objectionable and
totally out of place. Sport is for everyone to enjoy.
The fact the Olympic Games and the Euro football are on
this year is something that should be celebrated by
everyone.
Sport is enjoyed
by lots of people from all walks of life. Television
viewing figures for the recent Euro cup support the fact
that people are tuning into the games.
Sir Oddly Kweer,
Guildford
Vera replies: We
are so sorry to read that you (and a few other sport nazi's like yourself) were upset by Jeremy Tosser's
article. The TV companies were trying hard to justify
the relentless coverage of the Euro football, but when a
match was on, why were the roads so busy with cars
(driven by males); why couldn't I get into the pub gardens because
everyone preferred to be out in the pleasant summer
evening sunshine rather than watch the football match?
TV coverage is cheap broadcasting for the companies -
the actual cost of licensing coverage and paying
brain-dead has-been pundits to pronounce their views are
the only expenses.
PET DIETS: Given the fact
that pets and their owners look so much alike, if I put
my cat on a weight losing diet, will it mean that I too
shall loose weight?
Milly Down, Upper Quireboye
Vera replies: Only if you spend 20 hours
of the day curled up asleep in a warm sunny spot and use
next doors flower bed as a toilet.
MOTOR CYCLING TIP: Is it safe to wax your
crash helmet?
A Spendlove, via e-mail
Vera replies: How does it get so
hairy?
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Brief
History of Upper Quireboye
by
Bob Grover, President of The Upper Quireboye Historical Society
English
history, has a wealth of great names, such as Alfred The Great,
Richard The Lion Heart, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Sir Francis
Drake, Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, Queen Victoria; all
of whom have left their mark on the broad canvas of history, by
leading or inspiring their fellow countrymen.
Sadly
none of the above can describe anyone who has lived in Upper
Quireboye during the long back passage of time.
Updated
History & Story of Upper Quireboye links are being
redesigned and will be ready soon.
THOUGHTS
OF LITTLE FAT BLOKE
If the
bird of peace is the dove, then the bird of true love is
the swallow
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