Wilmslow and Alderley and Knutsford Advertiser from Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England • 8

Page 8 'Hi Advertiser April 21 1977 cmtikm eoRNez JOKE OF WEEK LITTLE girl visiting her grannie: did you ask ms to have an apple and I hear you? Patient: I keep thinking a pair of curtains Doctor: Sit down and Bull yourself together They can win £1000 for their church Patient: People keen me Doctor: Next please YW 1410 Children at the Wilmslow Library EXCITEMENT WITH THE POACHERS Mr Jessett with his star choirboys Geoffrey Kelley and Mark Drackley TS 1413 ACCORDING to tradition Wilmslow Library has again organised a holiday play session for local children This time 40 youngsters aged four to eight attended a craft and story-telling session last week under the expert eye of Mis Shiela Houldin the divisional librarian After listening to a story the children spent some time colouring in a spring frieze which is now displayed on the library wall They ended the session by making Easter baskets to take home For tasty fingers THIS is a quick and easy recipe for making shortcake fingers Always use butter rather than margarine as this gives a better flavour and remember to ask for adult help with the hot oven The quantities make 36 biscuits You will need 8oz plain flour pinch of salt 3oz cornflour loz semolina ground rice or ground almonds 4oz castor sugar 8oz butter Put all the dry ingredients Into a bowl and rub in the butter until it is like fine crumbs Press the mixture into a shallow Swiss-roll tin about 12 inches by eight inches prick all over with a fork and bake at gas mark 2 or electricity 300 degrees for 55 minutes or until a very pale gold Remove from the oven and while still warm sprinkle with castor sugar and mark into fingers Leave it to go really cold before taking it out of the tin and third prizes winners will receive a television set stereo equipment and cassette recorders for thamselvn as well as cash awards £1000 £250 and £5 respectively for their churches Man: The water is up to my neck You said it was only an Inch deep Wife: It looked It on the ducks What did the traffic light sy to the bus driver? A look changing 0 Who never does a work? A A night watchman Woman: How long will the next bus be? Inspector: The same length ae all the others RED LETTER DAY STAMPS YOUNG STAMP collector In the Stockport area can chalk up next Saturday ae a red letter day a day when the cream of local collection will be displayed and they will have a chance to add important item to their own album The North West Federation of Philatelic Societies is taking over the Brabazon Suite at Manchester Airport for its annual convention at which the hosts will be the South Manchester Philatelic Society Admission is free and during the day auction of 350 lots will take place Mr Colin Duff of 2 Derwent Drive Bram-hall is supplying catalogue In addition special flight covers are being issued in a limited edition of matched pairs one set being flown today from Ronaldsway Isle of Man to Ringway and the other on the return flight A special airmail etiquette a special Ronaldsway Control Tower handstamp and other relevant official backstampe will endorse the cover together with the cachet Jubilee Flight" MEMBERSHIP COUPON name ddree te of BlrttJ i too post go the Advertise 'lollect of these coupon: with different late April 21 No appointment needed Ear Piercing WITH STUDS aM MASSEY Watchmakers and Jewellers 5 la LONDON ROAD ALDERLEY EDGE Tel 683665 Bring your repairs te the Speolallets OLLIVANT AND BOTSFORD for high grade repairs to Silverware renovations re-plating ALL WORK GUARANTEED Free estimates and reports watch clocks jewellery Wilmslow Ttl 26700 AMONG recent releases is Champion of the (50p) The book which I have already seen on local bookshelves is by Roald Dahl writer of other classics and the Giant and and the Chocolate It is indeed one of the most exciting tales I have read for a long time No one can oondone dishonesty and poaching is after all a form otf stealing so if you bear this in mind and treat the book purely a a make-believe story not to be taken seriously nor copied then you can enjoy the excitement of Charlie's poadhlng expedition Charlie lives an idea! life His home 1b an old gypsy caravan behind the tiny petrolfilling station and repair shop run by hi father There are just two of them his mother having died when he was a baby and they have great fun together After lesson at the village school Charlie likee nothing better than to help hi father repair car engine The real excitement begins however when Charlie is nine and his father confeeee that he likes to poach pheasants Their target Is rich Mr Hazell a really nasty character whose overbearing manner ha Detail of hds life are obscure but his cult appears to have been established In the middle of the 4th century Bom In Lyckla Palestine he became a senior army officer but was tortured and beheaded at Nloomedla on April 23 for declaring himself a Christian and refusing to Join In pagan sacrifice The story of George and the Dragon first appears In the publication Golden Legend in 1275 This tells the tale of a dragon threatening the village of Silene in Libya and demanding first sheep then people as sacrifice One day the local princes was being led out to her sacrificial death when George appeared and protected by the sign of the Cross attacked the dragon He wounded it so severely that it submitted to capture and was led into the city where it head was cut off George was honoured in England from the 7th century but his great popularity was largely the result of the Crusades when he inspired Richard the Lion Heart by appearing when the battle was at it height He finally took over from Edward the Confessor as the Patron Saint of England when King Edward III during his French campaigns became convinced of the value of the battle-cry George for earned him many enemies In the village Almost by chance Charlie hit on a scheme to poach all Mr Hazell pheasant in one glorious operation and thus become champion of the poaching world Surprise follows surprise as first one then another of the seemingly respectable members of the community confess to being avid poachers themselves and Join In the scheme to dispose of the bird Towards the end of the story there is a hilarious chapiter when Mr Hazel! is sent packing furious but helpless in the face of the scheme This is indeed a thrilling gitory the kind that might one day make an exciting television film ONE of the best fun books for ages arrived In my office recently and as a crossword addict myself I am delighted to recommend Young Puffin Book of by Mavis Cavendish The price is 40p The author Introduces the reader to the subject gently by explaining how words oan be written in strip of boxes which go across the page or down Then she goes on to encourage the writer to link words together by crossing them over each other and follows thi6 up with simple crosswords with picture clues Almost before you realise you are dealing with word dues and tackling fully-fledged crosswords A more expensive 75p book Which also comes from the Puffin range tackles a more ambitious hobby that of mode making The 87-page book a miniature deals step by step with a model-making project and was written by school teacher Mr Guy Wil- liams a a result of the mode! club activities at his London school All you need are simple materials like boxes cardboard button and various oddments to make a village a small as you like based on matchboxes or as big as you wish with dozens of cottages a manor house a farm and a wood BIRTHDAY go this weak to APRIL 21 Stephen John Shaw Arn-side Avenue Hazel Grove Yvonne Margaret Evans 173 Stockport Road Marpla Mark Sweeney 19 Davenport Road Hazel Grove APRIL 22 Timothy James Worthington 31 Lyme Grove Stockport Kathryn Anne Baguley 72 Twinnies Road Lacey Green Wilmslow lain Campbell 6 Cherry Tree Avenue Poynton Paul Woodbridge 24 Willow-bank Cheadle Hulme APRIL 23 Denise Jean Margaret nor 8 Perry Road Leverington Wisbech Cambs Richard Colin Beachwell 72 Claremont Road Great Moor Patricia and Jill Fisher 14 'St George for England1 AN award of £1000 Is going for a song to any church in Britain and two Stockport choristers are hoping their dulcet tones will win the cash for St Church Gatley Geoffrey Kelley (13) of Lawson Avenue and Mark Drackley (12) of Cranston Grove both Gatley are joint leading choir boys at the church where they have been singing in the choir for about five years The choir which Is trained by organist and choirmaster Mr A jessett of Warwick Road Heaton Chanel has a reputation for high standards Geoffrey who attends Moseley School and Mark a pupil of William Hulme School are among 1000 boys from all over the country who have entered the Rediffusion Awards for 1977 te find Britain's number one choir boy Training courses are being held by the Royal School of Church Music in various parts of the country from which 16 finalists will be selected to take part in the finale at 8t Church London on November 1 All the finalists will receive gifts while the first second NEWCOMERS WE welcome to our Comer this week: Samantha Ellis (4) of 8 Easthampstead Road Wokingham Berks Kerby Whittaker (4) of 55 Roewood Lane Macclesfield Paul Wood-bridge (5) of 24 Willowbank Cheadle Hulme GREETINGS Mayfield Grove Wilmslow Karen Butt 10 Almond Tree Road Cheadle Hulme Richard Rowland 71 Eastleigh Road Heald Green APRIL 24 Philip Alcoek 22 Easton Drive Cheadle Judith Catherine 108 Highways Avenue Buxton near Chorley APRIL 25 Joan Cyngell 16 Syddall Creen Bramhall Maxine Brooks 4 Timber-brook Grove Colshaw Farm Estate Wilmslow APRIL 26 Daniel Hadfield 33 Peter 8treet Hazel Grove Andrew Lil ley 1 Conway Close Knutsford APRIL 27 Carol Anne William 2 Cumber Drive Wilmslow Accent on MR EMRYS EDWARDS the Manchester policeman who is also an ornithologist and an expert photographer) now has another exhibition of his work on show locally A collection of his colour photographs mainly of birds which was recently on vies at Wilmslow has moved to Che die Hulme Library where If will remain until April 29 pC Edwards is msiul quite a name for himself as a visiting speaker to low group where he explains to fascination of his hobby art he is also selling a number a the photographs for people hang in their homes This particular exhibition has been touring the Gnsvr Manchester area for more tM six months but PC is already preparing a Mo up collection of more recea th" fi! time Flower Show in Platt in the summer FIND THE WORDS ALL THE 3 are a number Ta small river 'horrt SJS iff 5 Go an SATURDAY April 23 is St Day the day on which many patriotic Englishmen wear red roses In their button holes to honour the patron saint of our country Yet who exactly was St George and why should he be the patron saint of England? Most people accept the story of George slaying the dragon but there are in fact several stories relating to brave deed and whether or not they are all the same person is still a matter of conjecture One reference book 1 ohecked states that George the patron saint of chivalry and guardian saint of England died in 303 and is highly honoured in Eastern and Western KITCHENS? Where else but RUSSELL KITCHEN CENTRE '7BRAMHALL LANE SOUTH BRAMHALtTel (061) 439 4263.