Did you know?

...that singer Donovan, who is 74 today, actually used to live at the old brickyards in Shotley and still visits his sister-in-law Carol who lives in the village.

Donavan Leitch was born in Glasgow in 1946, and made 104 albums and 33 singles. Donovan who married Linda Lawrence in 1970, reached number one in America and number two in the UK with Sunshine Superman and number eight in Britain with Mellow Yellow, which reached number two in the States.

No matter what time you get up, enjoy the dawn chorus with the RSPB YouTube video

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Today's Peninsula sunrise: 05:07

Today's Peninsula sunset: 20:35

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Tide Times:

• 02:16 4.24m
• 08:05 0.27m
• 14.40 4.06m
• 20:27 0.32m

Beware on Strand as tides is above four metres and high winds.

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Weather:

Dry early on then, a better day for our farmers with some patchy rain and drizzle at times. Perhaps some late brightness developing. a top temperature of 18c and a low of 5c

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Sunday quotes:

Thrown like a star in my vast sleep

I opened my eyes to take a peek

To find that I was by the sea

Gazing with tranquility

Donovan

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Riddle: 

Why do we say "amen" and not "awomen?† 

Previous riddle answer:

Sometimes I am loved, usually by the young, I'm in hate, when you get old. Everyone has me if they like me or not. What am I?

Birthdays

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Today's food shop openings:

Holbrook Co-op: 07.00 -19.00Brantham Co-op: 07.00 – 19.00

Premier Stores Shotley: 08:00 - 13:00

Premier Wherstead - 08:00 - 17:00

Hollingsworth's: Closed

Orwell Stores: 08.00 – 13.00Click and collect available

Stutton Community Shop: Order and collect only 9am - 12.30pm: Orders delivered 2-5pm

Woody's butcher Holbrook – Closed.

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Surgeries and Pharmacies: Closed until tomorrow: Call 111 for emergencies.

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Bus services:

Check here for timetable

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Pause for Thought;

Government guidance around non-essential contact, advices that public worship is suspended until further notice. 

In the absence of church services here is a thought by Jane Gould to mark the start of Christian Aid week:

We believe that God hopes and works for a world

where all shall be included in the feast of life.

 

We believe that God's strategy for a new world

is to put the poorest first.

 

We believe that rich and poor alike can be generous, wise and creative

and that all are made poorer when they are left out.

 

We confess that we use our strength to protect ourselves

and to order the world to benefit the rich and not the poor

and that none of us can be trusted with too much power.

 

We believe that loving our neighbours means working for justice

so that all have a say in what happens to them.

 

We believe that God made the good earth to sustain and delight us

and that we are called to take care of it and enjoy it.

 

We believe that the God of all the earth is at work

beyond the churches more than within them,

making common cause with all who want the poor to be included.

 

We long for the time when the meek shall inherit the earth

and all who hunger and thirst after justice shall be satisfied.

 

We believe that, despite the persistence of evil, now is always the time

when more good can be done and we can make a difference.

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