Goldsworth News : 130 Final Mr Grumpy

Mr Grumpy for December.

Please would you be kind enough to look at this selection of sun rise and sun set times for Woking during this month of December:

Date:	1	5	10	15	20	25	30	31
Sunrise	7:45	7:50	7:56	8:00	8:04	8:06	8:07	8:07
Sunset	15:58	15:56	15:54	15:54	15:56	15:59	16:03	16:04

Can you see a pattern? Basically the sun rises around about eight o´clock in the morning and it sets around about four o´clock in the afternoon.

So why do many cyclists cycle around Goldsworth Park wearing dark clothing and without any lights on?

DO THEY HAVE A DEATH WISH?

It´s absolutely crazy and many of these cyclists are adults!

And before you car drivers tut-tut-tut in agreement, how many of you are driving around our Park with defective headlights, maybe a bulb not working or headlights aligned too high or just using sidelights (like in times of fog) when dipped beams should be on?

And now the pedestrians of Goldsworth Park are starting to tut-tut-tut in agreement! Well, remember there are many of you who walk down Lockfield Drive in the gloom wearing dark clothes. And when it´s wet, you walk in the cycle lane instead of the grass!!

So let every user of our roads do so safely and within the laws of commonsense as well as the laws of the land.

Maybe Father Christmas could bring some lights and reflective strips for the cyclists!

Talking of Santa,  last year I was allowed to print the Christmas story to remind us all of the reason why we celebrate Christmas.

I´m asking the editor to allow me this again:

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About that time Emperor Augustus gave orders for the names of all the people to be listed in record books. Everyone had to go to their own hometown to be listed. So Joseph had to leave Nazareth in Galilee and go to Bethlehem in Judea.

Mary was engaged to Joseph and travelled with him to Bethlehem. She was soon going to have a baby, and while they were there, she gave birth to her first-born son. She dressed him in baby clothes and laid him on a bed of hay, because there was no room for them in the inn.

That night in the fields near Bethlehem some shepherds were guarding their sheep. All at once an angel came down to them from the Lord, and the brightness of the Lord's glory flashed around them. The shepherds were frightened. But the angel said, "Don't be afraid! I have good news for you, which will make everyone happy. This very day in King David's hometown a Saviour was born for you. He is Christ the Lord. You will know who he is, because you will find him dressed in baby clothes and lying on a bed of hay." Suddenly many other angels came down from heaven and joined in praising God.."

After the angels had left and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what the Lord has told us about." They hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and they saw the baby lying on a bed of hay.

When the shepherds saw Jesus, they told his parents what the angel had said about him. Everyone listened and was surprised. But Mary kept thinking about all this and wondering what it meant.

As the shepherds returned to their sheep, they were praising God and saying wonderful things about him. Everything they had seen and heard was just as the angel had said.

When Jesus was born in the village of Bethlehem in Judea, Herod was king. During this time some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem and said, "Where is the child born to be king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him." When King Herod heard about this, he was worried, and so was everyone else in Jerusalem. Herod brought together the chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses and asked them, "Where will the Messiah be born?"

They told him, "He will be born in Bethlehem.

Herod secretly called in the wise men and asked them when they had first seen the star. He told them, "Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, let me know. I want to go and worship him too."

The wise men listened to what the king said and then left. And the star they had seen in the east went on ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. They were thrilled and excited to see the star.

When the men went into the house and saw the child with Mary, his mother, they knelt down and worshiped him. They took out their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh and gave them to him. Later they were warned in a dream not to return to Herod, and they went back home by another road.

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Well that´s all folks now and for ever as this Mr Grumpy is retiring and leaving Goldsworth Park. It´s been a fun two years where I´ve been able to get things of my chest, but time moves on and so shall I.

But, all is not lost as during these 24 monthly issues, there have been other "Grumpys" around and they probably still live on our Park. I´m hoping that they will write in and vent their anger at local issues.

SO LONG LIVE MR AND MRS AND MS AND MISS GRUMPY WHO WILL FOREVER BE A THORN IN THE SIDE OF THE WRONG DOERS OF GOLDSWORTH PARK.

I will still be receiving this magazine and will still read it with interest and, who knows, maybe I´ll still send in a contribution from time to time.

Take care,

The original Mr Grumpy of Goldsworth Park.

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The Editors would like to say a big thank you to Mr Grumpy for all his monthly articles and to wish him well in the future. We would encourage all residents to send articles in as often as possible, as we have a big gap in the magazine to fill in future.

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