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LAST week, the Archbishop of Canterbury launched a phone line that uses music to help combat the loneliness some people are feeling at this time. People who dial 0800 804 8044 are able to hear, and sing along to, well-known hymns.

Music from The Salvation Army can also be heard all day, every day, on Fortress Radio, an internet radio station at fortressradio.online.

The hope of both initiatives is that they will give comfort to people who are missing some of the elements of church life while lockdown is preventing congregations from meeting. There can also be something uplifting about listening and singing along to familiar songs.

But what of people who experience music in a different way?

Deaf Awareness Week ends tomorrow (Sunday 10 May), and in this week’s issue of the War Cry we speak with Holly Ferrie, a British Sign Language interpreter. She explains that signing the songs at her church has deepened her understanding of their lyrics.

‘When you interpret words into another language, you have to understand their meaning,’ Holly says. ‘My worship to God has deepened because I understand better what I’m singing.’

The words of another song have taken on new meaning in recent weeks. After the Queen appeared to reference it in her address to the UK last month, ‘We’ll Meet Again’, rerecorded by Dame Vera Lynn and Katherine Jenkins, became such a popular download that it reached No 1 in the iTunes charts.

The song, so synonymous with the Second World War, reminds us today that, once it is safe for the social distancing restrictions to be lifted, we will be able to join together in song and enjoy the company of other people.

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FEATURES 3

The day the peace came

75th anniversary of VE Day

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Signing up for communication

The value of British Sign Language

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The priests who defied the Nazis

A history of clergy in the war

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International Nurses Day

Continuing to care despite the challenges

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REGULARS 12

Browsing the Bible

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Now, There’s a Thought!

14 Puzzles 15

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Philip Halcrow sees how people were looking to the future on VE Day

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HEY had lived through ‘the end of the beginning’. Now it was the end. On 8 May 75 years ago people celebrated VE Day. Already gathering on streets the night before, people were expecting what eventually arrived during the afternoon: Winston Churchill’s announcement of ‘the unconditional surrender of all German land, sea and air forces’.

The day was declared a holiday.

Church bells rang and people put on street parties.

‘There were tables the length of the street,’ says Roy Ransley, who was 12 years old and living in Harrow on VE Day. ‘I can remember sitting and eating the most delicious food I’d ever tasted. There were iced cakes, but I don’t know where the icing came from.

People must have kept stuff in their larders from before the war.’

A year younger than her future husband, Pam Ransley remembers sitting with the other children at their party in Aldershot as the grown-ups served them sandwiches. ‘Then, at night, we all built a bonfire on the triangle of grass at the bottom of our road. The grown-ups were dancing, and we were singing “We’ll Meet Again” and “The White Cliffs of Dover”.

‘People were happy. No more going down air-raid shelters. We knew there wouldn’t be fighting any more. Children thought their dads would be coming home.

‘But after VE Day, life was very slow to change.’

Roy echoes Pam’s observation that there were mixed emotions around VE Day. ‘A lot of people were relieved

There was a sense of relief more than jubilation that their relatives weren’t going to get killed and were going to come back at some point. There was a sense of relief more than jubilation.

‘It was a bit of an anticlimax in terms of celebrations, because for the last 12 months of the war – although there was fighting – we knew we’d won and everything at home had settled. Life was normal except for the food rations.

And when VE Day came, the next day wasn’t going to be any different.’

Churchill had spoken in his VE Day announcement from Downing Street of ‘the toils and efforts that lie ahead’ and of devoting resources to the

‘completion of our task both at home and abroad’. Towns and cities needed rebuilding. The country was still at war with Japan. Struggles were not about to end overnight. An order of service from a ‘short thanksgiving for victory’ at Westminster Abbey reveals prayers for ‘peace among nations, peace in our dwellings and peace in our hearts’.

Three quarters of a century later, while new challenges emerge – such as the pandemic that has shifted anniversary commemorations from the streets to TV screens and that has prompted comparisons with wartime – the world is also yet to achieve peace among the nations and within communities. And we may recognise that we are far from knowing ‘peace in our hearts’.

Struggles continue for communities and individuals. But words that were said in Westminster Abbey on VE Day suggest that so does a source of comfort for our darkest hours. The lines from the order of service echo an announcement repeated throughout the Bible that God’s ‘mercy endureth for ever’.

The meaning is clear – if we put our trust in God, we can find hope for the future and know the love that he has for us day after day.

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To mark Deaf Awareness Week, which ends tomorrow (Sunday 10 May), HOLLY FERRIE tells Emily Bright why she decided to become a British Sign Language interpreter

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RACTISING your GCSE-level lingo in front of hundreds of fluent speakers sounds like a nightmare.

But that’s exactly what British Sign Language (BSL), interpreter Holly Ferrie did when, at 18 years of age, she filled in for the regular interpreter during a year volunteering at a Brighton church.

‘It was a bit of a baptism of fire,’ she remembers. ‘There was one Sunday morning where the worship had started, and I looked up and nobody was signing. Looking around, I realised that I was the most qualified person there!

‘I fudged my way through the first verse of a song. That moment is ingrained in my brain because it was so terrifying. But after that moment, I thought: “Actually, maybe I can do this.”’

As we chat over a video call, I can detect Holly’s enthusiasm for BSL. I can understand why she excelled at learning the language, reaching degree-level standard within four years of starting her first qualification. She is now registered as a fully qualified BSL interpreter.

Holly says that she was emboldened to start learning BSL by an encounter with

God at a Christian youth festival called Newday in 2008.

‘It was at one of the evening meetings,’ she says. ‘When I closed my eyes, a picture appeared in my mind of an ear and mouth crossed out, and a pair of hands. And as I opened my eyes, the BSL interpreter for the deaf delegation at the festival was directly in my eyeline.’

Although Holly enthusiastically embarked on research in the fortnight that followed, the busyness of life took over, and BSL took a back seat. Then she received a timely reminder when she returned to the festival the following year.

She recalls: ‘Our campsite happened to be on the same patch as a church who filled most of the BSL interpreting team at Newday.

‘As we rushed into the evening meetings, trying to get as close as we could to the stage, we often found ourselves behind a group of deaf young people. I felt God was reminding me of what he’d told me the previous year.’

When Holly returned home, she discovered that a local college was running

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Within each sign language, there are regional accents Holly Ferrie a BSL level one course and joined it with a friend.

After she attained her level two qualification at a different college, equivalent to GCSE level, Holly participated in a year-long training and development programme at a church in Brighton. She specialised in working with the church’s deaf community.

When a deaf church member requested to take part in the same programme as Holly the following year, she volunteered to be his full-time interpreter.

‘Signing for theology training was

utterly exhausting,’ Holly says. ‘But it showed me that if God asks you to do something, he will empower you to do it.’

She later worked at a deaf school in Brighton, before joining a friend’s BSL interpretation business. Within a couple of years, the company hit financial difficulties and Holly was made redundant. She was given half of the client list, though, and she took the opportunity to fulfil a longheld ambition to set up her own business, Signs and Wonders.

‘We provide support workers of all kinds, not just interpreters but mental health support workers, coaches and one-to-one specialist support,’ she explains. ‘I wanted to make our services available to anybody with any kind of disability or need.’

As a newcomer to British Sign Language,

I’m intrigued to learn how it works.

I draw on Holly’s extensive experience, and ask her to teach me some of the basic concepts. ‘We place the subject at the start of the sentence and the question comes at the end,’ she says.

‘We use lip patterns for nouns and pronouns. Only 30 per cent of the English language can be read through lip patterns. Pretty much everything else is shown through facial expressions and actions.

‘Each language has its own sign language, which in turn is influenced by that of other countries. Ours is more like the German one, whereas the American one is more like the French.

‘Within each sign language, there are regional accents. So someone from up north will have a different vocabulary

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As a person who can learn the language, why wouldn’t I?

From page 5 for things like numbers from someone from the south.’

Holly reflects that in the years since she first learnt these basics, she has remained reliant on God to keep her going in what she sees as her vocation.

‘There have been tough times,’ she says. ‘But I knew that this is what God wanted. He has been there all along, and I trust that whatever comes up, he will bring me through.’

Learning BSL has also deepened her understanding of the Bible and the significance of worship songs, she tells me.

‘When you have to interpret words into another language, you have to understand their meaning in the original language, otherwise you have no hope of interpreting them.

‘So when I don’t understand what a worship song is trying to say, I’ll go and find the Bible passage it has come from or read the context. The words suddenly have so much more depth and meaning to them.

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significance that BSL holds for Holly, I’m interested to hear whether she thinks it’s important for wider society to learn the language.

‘People who can hear can learn how to use sign language, but deaf people cannot learn how to speak,’ she says.

‘So my feeling is that, as a person who can learn the language, why wouldn’t I? Without it, deaf people can be surrounded by others but still feel isolated.

‘Even if all you do is learn how to say your name and ask how somebody is, it is worth it. There are lessons available on Youtube, and you can enrol on BSL courses online for whatever level you’re at.’

Holly herself provides some online

resources, as she records BSL interpretations of her church’s livestreamed services, and she has been moved by the response she has received.

‘People have said that they’re thankful they can join in online. They know that our church wants to make sure they’re included, and for them, that makes the world of difference.

‘BSL recipients are often very grateful for the thought and the time that is put in.

It’s about reminding them: You are worth the effort – and you don’t have to be left out. You’re part of something.’ l For more information visit signsandwonders.co.uk

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‘It’s an astonishing story of sacrifice’ Yesterday (8 May) was the 75th anniversary of VE Day, marking the victory of the Allies in Europe during the Second World War. To commemorate the day, Emily Bright speaks with the Rev FERGUS BUTLER-GALLIE about his book on Christian resistance figures in Nazi-occupied Europe

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STRIDE a tank, a portly priest in a cassock rolled into Dijon on 11 September 1944 to liberate the city in style. He was no ordinary man of the cloth. Canon Félix Kir returned from exile as a Resistance hero who had survived a Nazi assassination attempt just months before.

The Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie, who has written a book called Priests de La Resistance! about Canon Kir and 15 other Christians who fought fascism in the 20th century, describes the clergyman as an ‘astonishing figure’.

Fergus explains that when the Nazis occupied France in 1940, the 64-year-old canon did not shy away from the fight.

‘The elected mayor fled the city as the Nazis arrived in Dijon,’ he tells me. ‘And Kir simply went in and installed himself as mayor.

‘When the Nazi colonel first arrived, he saw Canon Kir and demanded the surrender of the city. Kir replied: “Dijon is a city of first rank, and I will not be surrendering it to anyone under the rank of general.”

So the Nazis had to bring a general down.

‘Kir then spent the next four years making life an absolute misery for the German occupiers by co-ordinating jailbreaks, tricking them into saving

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From page 7 building a bathing lake named after himself. Quite how he persuaded the Nazis that this was important for the war effort is a mystery, but he did.

‘He would then take hundreds of men to work on the project and every time, a tenth of them would disappear after being smuggled out of the country. He was certainly not lacking in bombast or confidence.’

It is estimated that through Kir’s scheme, nearly 5,000 prisoners broke out from the camp during the war.

Kir also participated in gunrunning and manufactured propaganda for the Resistance. A thorn in the side of the occupying force, he quickly became a target for the Gestapo. Unwilling to make a martyr of him, the authorities avoided a show trial and instead hired French fascists to assassinate him.

On 26 January 1944, the fascists charged into his apartment and fired five shots at the canon. Bleeding from bullet wounds, he fell to the floor.

But, summoning all his strength, he suddenly lurched to his feet to face his attackers head on. Fearing that Kir had in fact risen from the dead in a divine miracle, the assassins fled. Kir’s friends took

Kir made life an absolute misery for the German occupiers

him to hospital, where they realised that his wallet, filled with papers to help him evade the authorities, had stopped a bullet from hitting his heart. He went into hiding until his memorable re-entry into Dijon.

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cross the border in Rome, Irish priest Hugh O’Flaherty was proving equally troublesome to the authorities.

Fergus explains: ‘He used a network of informants in Rome, including the Prince of Pamphili, to set up an escape line that enabled soldiers, partisans, Jews and anyone who was in danger to be placed with people in hiding.

‘He was known as the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican. He used disguises, bribes and daring deeds to set up this network.

‘O’Flaherty ended up saving vast numbers of people, whether it was by dressing up as a nun or a coal delivery man or hiding in trams. He had the most amazing series of adventures.’

But once the Gestapo realised that O’Flaherty was responsible for the Rome escape line, they took action. They did not occupy the independent territory of the Holy See for fear of angering German Roman Catholics,

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the city’s synagogue, and generally being rude to them.’

In one instance, a German officer in command of Dijon was taken aback when the cantankerous canon sent him a note recommending a building for the storage of military supplies. Delighted at the canon’s apparent willingness to collaborate, the Germans requisitioned the site.

But unbeknown to them, the Germans were storing their weapons in a synagogue and preventing its destruction.

When survivors of the Holocaust returned in 1945, they were able to reclaim their place of worship.

Kir also allied himself with the Resistance movement. As part of that, he revelled in the freeing of prisoners from Longvic internment camp under the guise of borrowing them for slave labour.

Fergus explains: ‘His infrastructure project was

A memorial to Hugh O’Flaherty in Co Kerry in the Republic of Ireland

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but instead posted members of the SS to St Peter’s Square.

The soldiers painted a long white line, sending a clear signal that O’Flaherty would be killed if he crossed it and entered Nazioccupied territory.

Undeterred, O’Flaherty held meetings of the resistance on the steps of St Peter’s Basilica in full view of the German snipers.

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n Poland, a similarly bold clergyman called Maximilian Kolbe began issuing antiNazi propaganda and concealing refugees at the outbreak of the war in 1939. By

A waxwork of Maximilian Kolbe as seen in the Polonia Wax Museum in Krakow, Poland

early 1941, Kolbe was running a network of several thousand people, which hid almost 2,000 Jews in and around a Franciscan friary called the City of the Immaculate, about 25 miles west of Warsaw.

Once the network was discovered, the friar was imprisoned in the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw, where he was repeatedly beaten. In May 1941, when the Nazis discovered they could not break Kolbe’s spirit, he was sent to Auschwitz.

While he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, the SS decided to lock ten men in a barrack house to starve them to death.

When one of those selected begged to be spared, Kolbe stepped forward and volunteered to take his place. The SS commander asked him if he was mad.

Kolbe asserted that his life was of less importance, declaring his vocation as a priest.

He was subsequently sentenced to starvation. Two weeks later, the SS reopened the barracks to collect the corpses. As they entered, they spotted the solitary withered figure of the friar, who was still praying, and killed him.

‘It’s an astonishing story of sacrifice and of playing the part of Christ,’ says Fergus. ‘There are few places in the 20th century more synonymous with a sense of God’s absence than Auschwitz.

The fact that Kolbe managed to bring a tangible sense of Christ to even that is deeply moving.’

Reflecting on the Christians featured within Priests de la Resistance!, Fergus says he was struck by the sheer variety

of courageous individuals resisting the Nazi regime.

‘They’re also from all nations and from all contexts: monks, nuns, priests and laypeople from all denominations. It struck me that God’s Kingdom was being filled with a myriad of people who were unified by their faith and bravery.

‘They kept their faith in dark times, and attempted to bring something of Christ to a situation where the presence of God might seem far off.

‘There was a clear sense that their faith was what compelled them to do this. For them, loving God meant that they viewed doing the right thing as their duty.

‘There are, of course, tales of churches compromising and collaborating with regimes, so it isn’t a black-and-white story. However, there’s undoubtedly something about the core message of Christianity and the sovereignty of God that makes the Church a very natural place for resistance to start.’

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Some of the young people can’t talk about the things they’ve been through Ahead of International Nurses Day on Tuesday (12 May), which marks the contribution nurses make to society, Libby Delamare tells Claire Brine about the challenges of working on a mental health ward

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HEN I was 16 years old, I wanted to be a musician in one of the mounted bands at Buckingham Palace,’ says Libby Delamare. ‘But my application was turned down when I failed my medical. I thought my whole world had come to an end. Then I started thinking of other things I could do, and I knew I wanted a job that helped people. Particularly, I wanted to help young people with mental health difficulties.’

Today Libby is a deputy ward manager at the child and adolescent mental health in-patient facility at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury.

The ward provides treatment and support to young people aged between 13 and 18 years old who are suffering from a range of mental health conditions.

‘When young people are in crisis, they come to us,’ Libby explains.

‘They may be self-harming or in a drug-induced psychosis.

Some of our patients have tried to take their own lives. We never know what we are going to be facing each day, so it’s intense.’

Along with a team of nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists and occupational therapists, Libby helps to care for the young people during their stay on the ward. Her role includes preparing medication, but she also assesses what therapeutic measures need to be in place for creating longerterm care plans.

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I’ve had chairs thrown at me and I’ve been bitten and spat at too. Usually the young people can see our faces when we are talking with them, and that’s how they can tell we care about them.

But because of Covid-19, we have e ar to wear protective Libby Delam masks, so our compassion is being covered up. I know the masks are necessary, but it does upset me.’ person comes to stay with us, we look Even in more normal times, many of at their ability to function,’ she says. the young people who stay on ‘Can they shower and brush their teeth the ward are frightened. They properly? How well do they engage with don’t know what is going other young people? We talk through to happen to them. Not their struggles one to one and look at the many of them believe that coping strategies that may help them. But life will get better. As a some of them have been through horrific result, some of them things and can’t talk about it straightaway. lash out at the nursing As a nurse, I’m there to support the young staff around them. people in whichever way they need.

‘I’ve had chairs ‘As well as listening, we encourage thrown at me and I’ve our patients to take part in practical been bitten and spat activities such as baking or going for a at,’ says Libby. ‘But walk. At nighttime, we might run a group these young people do session on mindfulness, looking at the those things because benefits of relaxation before bedtime. Our they are frightened. And aim is to give the young people some in their situations, I’d self-confidence so that when they leave probably feel exactly us and continue their recovery in the the same. community, they can function.’

‘There are days While Libby and the nurses try to make on the ward the ward a safe and comfortable place for the young people, the Covid-19 lockdown hasn’t made life easy.

She says: ‘At the moment, parents are having to bring their children in, leave them at the door and say: “See you in six weeks.” They aren’t allowed to visit, nor can the young people go home for overnight leave. They’re finding it really scary and difficult.

‘As nurses, we are finding it difficult

that are really tough. But I believe that everybody needs someone to look after them, and these young people are in the most desperate time of their life.’

To help her through difficult days, Libby turns to her Christian faith for comfort. It inspires her to be the best nurse she can be.

‘While I don’t speak openly about God at work, I’d like to think that I can be a light for him,’ she says. ‘I try to be genuine, caring and compassionate when I’m dealing with people. But my faith is also about going the extra mile, so sometimes I might stay an extra hour after my shift has finished to support the night staff. Or if I’m talking with a young person, I’ll make sure I don’t look at my watch even though I might have some paperwork I need to do.

‘Every day, God gives me the courage that I need to do my job. He keeps me positive. And when I go home after a day that’s been a struggle, he reassures me that I can hand everything over to him.

His peace gets me through and helps me to keep going.’

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Prayerlink YOUR prayers are requested for Christine, that she will have strength as she undergoes her operation.

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the first names of individuals and details of their ­circumstances.

Send your Prayerlink requests to warcry@salvationarmy.org.uk.

Mark your correspondence ‘Confidential’.

Becoming a Christian There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God

Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.

Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.

Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.

Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Amen Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International

Nigel Bovey gives chapter and verse on each book in the Scriptures

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N this letter, the apostle John, introducing himself with the pen name of ‘the elder’, is writing either to a specific Christian woman or to a church that he cryptically calls ‘the lady chosen by God’ (1). Whoever the intended readership, it is more specific than that of his first letter included in the Bible.

He does, though, touch on areas that occupied him for much of that letter – the antichrist, truth and love.

He identifies, and warns against, the presence of itinerant teachers who are teaching that Jesus was not God in human form, and he describes any such teacher as ‘the deceiver and the antichrist’ (7).

Later in Church history, there were many heresies – false teachings – regarding the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ and his relationship to God and the Holy Spirit.

These heresies may have been rooted in two streams of thought that ran through the Jewish and the Greek worlds.

In the Old Testament, God is portrayed as being so holy that no member of the sinful human race could see him and live (see

Exodus 33:20). God could not, therefore, appear as a human.

Similarly, a line of Greek philosophy taught that the transcendent spirit was far removed from unholy material beings, such as humankind.

John’s remedy to the false teachers he identifies is twofold. First, it is practical.

Contrary to common practice – as seen, for

The community is not to offer hospitality to false teachers

example in the experience of the travelling evangelist Paul – the Christian community is not to offer hospitality to these false teachers. John reasons that by welcoming such a teacher, Christians would be supporting their erroneous teaching (10 and 11).

Secondly, John’s remedy is doctrinal. He reminds his readers that their faith is based on ‘truth’ and ‘love’ (he uses each word five times). They are to walk in truth (4), in obedience to God’s commands and in love (6).

While outlining the nature of a believer’s ‘walk’ with God, he warns of the danger that awaits the person who ‘runs ahead and k wal we ‘And this is love: that does not continue in the teaching of Christ’. He says that in obedience to his commands’ ) sion Ver al they will not ‘have God’ (9). tion rna Inte New (2 John 6

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EXPRESSIONS

Now, there’s a thought!

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quick quiz 1

Which planet in the solar system takes ten hours to complete one rotation?

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Who directed the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof?

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Which Oasis song begins with the words: ‘Today is gonna be the day’?

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What is the smallest bird in the UK?

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In the JK Rowling book series, the scar on Harry Potter’s forehead is in the shape of what?

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Which city in the United States is known as the ‘City of Angels’?

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ELIVERED in TV ads of the 1990s by actor Bob Hoskins, British Telecom’s slogan ‘It’s good to talk’ gained such widespread recognition that it found its way into the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Though technology for communications has developed since then, the truth behind the slogan remains. It is good to speak and listen to each other.

Last summer, before social distancing became a necessity, Avon and Somerset police set up ‘chat benches’. These benches, located in public places, were marked with a sign reading: ‘The “happy to chat” bench. Sit here if you don’t mind someone stopping to say hello.’ They were installed in an attempt to tackle loneliness.

A similar concept was designed in Zimbabwe in 2006 when psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda wanted to find a way to help people who had depression but couldn’t afford to travel to a hospital. He arrived at an unlikely solution: chatting to grandmothers on a bench in their community.

Since its launch, Chibanda’s programme, the Friendship Bench, has trained more than 600 grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy, delivered for free in more than 70 communities in the country. In 2017 alone, the programme helped 30,000 people.

It’s a strange phenomenon that some people we don’t know can make us feel so comfortable that we are willing to tell them about quite personal feelings or experiences. Whether we choose to talk to our loved ones or a stranger, we also have the opportunity to share our troubles with God. The lyrics of one hymn say: ‘What a friend we have in Jesus … what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.’ Prayer is simply talking to God, and listening to him. Sometimes he will communicate with us through the words of others or the Bible.

And at a time when many of us may be feeling isolated, if we hear what God has to say to us, it may even prompt us to give someone a call and listen to them.

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1. Jupiter. 2. Norman Jewison. 3. ‘Wonderwall’.

4. The goldcrest. 5. A lightning bolt. 6. Los Angeles.

PUZZLES

QUICK CROSSWORD QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Perception (7) 5. Share (5) 7. Guided (7) 8. Glorify (5) 10. Loam (4) 11. Vegetable (8) 13. Remote from the sea (6) 14. Fairground game (4-2) 17. Indolent (8) 19. Respiratory organ (4) 21. Compass point (5)

12. Grabbed (8) 15. Pillage (7) 16. Tree-lined road (6) DOWN 18. Bitter (5) 20. Small flake 2. Exceptional (7) 3. Young woman (4) of soot (4) 4. Cleared up (6) 5. Interrogate (8) 6. Surpass (5) 7. Doubt (9) 9. Drowsy (9) 22. Wandering (7) 23. Withered (5) 24. Went in (7)

SUDOKU

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9

HONEYCOMB

7 8 9 4 2 3 7 3 5 3 8 7 6 4 6 3 1 9 5 6 5 4 1

HONEYCOMB HONEYCOMB 2 5 6 1 9

Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

1. Donkey friend of Winnie-the-Pooh 2. Solicitor 3. Scandinavian country 4. In abundance 5. Book in the New Testament 6. Fruit often used in salads

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Insight. 5. Quota.

7. Steered. 8. Extol. 10. Soil.

11. Beetroot. 13. Inland. 14. Hoop-la.

17. Inactive. 19. Lung. 21. North.

22. Nomadic. 23. Faded. 24. Entered.

DOWN: 2. Special. 3. Girl. 4. Tidied.

5. Question. 6. Outdo. 7. Suspicion.

9. Lethargic. 12. Snatched. 15. Plunder.

16. Avenue. 18. Acrid. 20. Smut.

HONEYCOMB 1. Eeyore. 2. Lawyer. 3. Norway.

4. Galore. 5. Romans. 6. Tomato.

3 4 2 7 1 5 6 8 9

1 8 5 6 9 2 7 4 3

6 7 9 8 3 4 1 2 5

5 1 6 3 2 7 8 9 4

7 2 4 9 5 8 3 6 1

8 9 3 1 4 6 2 5 7

9 6 7 5 8 1 4 3 2

4 5 8 2 7 3 9 1 6

2 3 1 4 6 9 5 7 8

SUDOKU SOLUTION

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4 6 1 6 3 5 4 1

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Stuffed sweet potato Ingredients

Method

4 large sweet potatoes

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/ Gas Mark 6. Prick the sweet potatoes with a fork and place directly on the oven shelf. Roast for 30 minutes or until tender.

4tsp olive oil 1 medium red onion, halved and sliced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 red pepper, thinly sliced 1 yellow pepper, thinly sliced 250g soya mince 2tbsp dried oregano 4 large vine tomatoes, cut into wedges 3tbsp water 125g baby spinach SERVES

Ground black pepper

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120g cashew nuts, roughly chopped 100g mixed salad, to serve

Ingredients For the dressing 4tbsp vegan mayonnaise

Chickpea, rocket and rice salad

½ tsp garlic, minced 5tsp dried mango powder

Method

Salt

To make the dressing, combine the vegan mayonnaise, garlic and mango powder with a pinch of salt in a bowl. Set aside in the refrigerator to chill.

For the salad 240g brown basmati rice, cooked 400g can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 60g red pepper, thinly sliced 60g carrot, finely sliced into 2cm lengths 60g red onion, finely diced 120g fresh mango, peeled and chopped into small pieces 4tbsp fresh mint leaves, finely chopped Salt and pepper 120g pea shoots 120g wild rocket leaves

Recipes reprinted, with permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org

To make the salad, combine the rice, chickpeas, red pepper, carrot, red onion, mango and mint in a large bowl.

Season with salt and pepper and toss together.

Place the pea shoots and rocket leaves in a shallow serving bowl, then spoon the rice mixture on top.

Pour over the dressing, to serve.

Heat 2tsp oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and fry gently for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Mix in the peppers and continue frying for a further 5 minutes.

Spread the soya mince and 1tbsp oregano on a baking tray and toss with the remaining oil. Roast in the oven for 15 minutes, turning halfway.

While the mince is roasting, stir the tomatoes and remaining 1tbsp oregano plus 3tbsp water into the ingredients in the frying pan. Cover with a lid and simmer over a gentle heat for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Lay the spinach on top, replace the lid and cook gently for 2 minutes until the spinach wilts, then mix in three quarters of the roasted soya mince and season with black pepper.

Cut the roasted sweet potatoes down the centre and top each with a portion of the vegetable filling, cashews and the remaining mince.

Serve with the mixed salad.

SERVES

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