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ISSUE 142 July/August 2010
Llanferres
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Welcome Welcome to the Summer edition of News & Views. June was a busy month and hence a short introduction as we’ve had to squeeze a lot into this issue. Thank you to everybody for your contributions.. Just a reminder that there will not be a separate August issue; the next News & Views will be the September edition. Please let us have contributions by 20th August. Have a lovely summer. Paul & Siobhan Contact details: 2 Cae Gwyn Llanferres Mold CH7 5SL Tel: (01352) 810566 Email: newsandviews@llanferres.org www.llanferres.org
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July & August Birthdays Happy Birthday to the following July Birthdays Iwan Thomas on 3rd July Aislingh O'Garra on 7th July Alec Thomas on 12th July Si么n Edwards on 12th July Ben Ussher who will be 21 on 14th July Sam Llewellyn who will be 16 on 20th July Joe Hill who will be 6 on 25th July Helen Evans on 31st July August Birthdays Isabella Foulkes who will be 9 on 1st August Isaac Le Vay who will be 11 on 1st August Enya McGuire who will be 13 on 1st August Alexi Gould who will be 14 on 5th August Niamh Roberts who will be 14 on 6th August Emily Prtak who will be 15 on 10th August Theo Le Vay who will be 9 on 10th August Max Griffiths who will be 17 on 11th August Barry Roberts on 17th August Josie Le Vay who will be 13 on 23rd August Gemma Madigan who will be 12 on 24th August
Mike and Tony Raba would like to thank all those in Llanferres who helped give mum, Audrey, a wonderful farewell. It was pleasing to see so many familiar faces in the church, albeit changed a bit since we first met in the 70s. We would also like to thank the Rev Copping for a touching service and the Druid for the lovely buffet afterwards.
Congratulations to Ben Ussher on gaining your degree; BA Hons in Sociology from Liverpool JMU Lots of love from Mum, Paul, Becky & Lizzie
If you would like a birthday or special announcement included in News & Views please send the details to : newsandviews@llanferrres.org or 2 Cae Gwyn, Llanferres, CH7 5SL
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Local news In light of the Armed Forces Day on June the 26th it may be appropriate to congratulate a local member of the Armed Forces. As many of the village are aware, we have our own serving member of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, recently returned from duty in Afghanistan. Richard Hughes, of Tyn Llan, has served in both Iraq and twice in Afghanistan. Since returning home, Richard, as a member of the First Battalion, marched through Chester to receive the Freedom of the Borough and recently, watched by his proud parents, Phil and Margaret and Sister
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Nicola, met the Queen at a special ceremony at Chester Racecourse. We all share their sense of pride and wish Richard well in his next tour of duty.
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Community Council News -June Meeting Llanferres Community Council Meeting June 10th 2010
Tyn Llan notice board alteration, ongoing. The play equipment has been installed at Maeshafn.
Apologies: None Field adjacent to the school The Declarations of Office were signed This project will be known as the by Cllr John Almond, Chairman and Cllr "Llanferres Community Open Space David Jones, Vice Chairman. Project" Discussions regarding the purchase of Meeting Open to the Public the land and the financing of the project There were no matters raised. are ongoing. The Minutes of the meeting held on the Local Development Plan Consultation 13th May were accepted and signed. A special meeting will be arranged to discuss this matter. Matters Arising Cllr Jac Armstrong expressed his Memorial Stone Landscaping Project concern about the lack of a Llanferres Ongoing, the War Memorials Trust is Council representative on the Governing being consulted. Body of Ysgol Bro Famau. Mrs Dillon, Clerk, will make enquiries. Bills While DCC have granted the Council a Goalposts at Maeshafn play area licence for the siting of a memorial bench £536-13 in Tyn Llan there is still some confusion A cheque has been received from about the exact boundary of the land for MADRA to cover the cost of the goalposts which the County Council is responsible. Additional insurance for the memorial To clarify the matter the Community seat £2-87 Council have requested a meeting with Logging expenses £95 the Highways Dept. Clerk`s Salary A Drainage Survey has been conducted Clwyd Community Chest membership in Tyn Llan. (Denbighshire Voluntary Services),£10 Proposed diversion of a footpath at Colomendy. A site visit has yet to be Parking at Loggerheads arranged. Councillors attended a meeting with MADRA barbecue .Specific insurance Gwernymynydd Community Council conditions required by the Council`s where the parking problem was insurers will be forwarded to Mr David discussed with a member of the Scruton. Highways Authority. It is hoped that some The MADRA Garden Party at Pentre progress will be reported at the July Cerrig Mawr on Sunday 11th July meeting in Gwernymynydd. is from 1pm
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Community Council News Planning Matters 21/2010/0515 Hill Crest Maeshafn. Remodelling of dwelling. No objection, following a site visit 21/20100438 "We Three Loggerheads " Ruthin Road, Loggerheads Conversion of outbuilding to residential accommodation. No objection 21/2010/0684 Erw Las, Pant Du Road. Erection of extension and temporary siting of a mobile home No objection 21/2010/0589 Pen Barras Lodge, Forestry Road. Erection of a replacement dwelling. Not Supported. Correspondence Maeshafn Playing Field. Hanson quarries have no objection to granting the Community Council a licence to use the playing field and to erect equipment, subject to conditions.
A copy of the" LDP Register of Alternative Sites:-Consultation", has been received. Matters brought to Councillors` attention The road surface in Maeshafn is on DCC`s list for attention. The cutting of the grass at the end of Cae Derwen will be discussed at a meeting with the Highways Dept. County Councillor Christine Evans raised the question of a possible reduction of the speed limit on Ruthin Road from 40mph to 30mph in the interest of the safety of pedestrians, particularly children, who wish to cross to the bus stop. This matter will have to be discussed with DCC and the Highways Authority. Date of Next Meeting Thursday 8th July 2010 David Jones Vice Chairman .
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Have your say The Community Council are considering the possibility of improving the area surrounding our Memorial Stone. It is felt that such a development would provide a more accessible and appropriate area for the Memorial services.
If you have any suggestions that you would like to be considered, including changes or additions to the current situation, or aspects which you feel should remain the same then please contact me via: jac.armstrong@spc.oxon.org or telephone on 01352 810259.
As I am currently pursuing possible funding opportunities, Many thanks, through War Memorial grants, I Cllr Jac Armstrong. would like to invite the views of other residents regarding this proposal.
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July Diary Dates 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
9.30 Holy Communion. 7.30 Twmpath Tegeingl at the Druid 7.00 Bowls Club 6.00 Brynhyfryd School Fair Community Council Meeting OAP Trip to Llandudno
11.00am Songs of Praise Family Service 1.00pm MADRA Garden Party 12th Mon Gardening Club Meeting 13th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club 14th Wed 15th Thu 16th Fri Last day of school term 17th Sat 18th Sun 9.30 Holy Communion 19th Mon 7.30 Playing Field AGM 20th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club 21st Wed 7.30 Dance Club in the Village Hall 22nd Thu 23rd Fri 24th Sat 25th Sun 11.00 Bishop's visitation at St. Mary's Mold 26th Mon All week 27th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club Cookery school for 28th Wed young people at 29th Thu Caffi Florence 30th Fri 31st Sat 11th
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For updates and future dates see the What’s On page on www.llanferres.org
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August Diary Dates 1st Sun 9.30 Holy Communion 2nd Mon 3rd Tue 7.00 Bowls Club 4th Wed 5th Thu 6th Fri 7th Sat 8th Sun 11.00 Family Service 9th Mon Gardening Club Meeting 10th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club 11th Wed 12th Thu 13th Fri 14th Sat 15th Sun 9.30 Holy Communion 16th Mon 17th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club. 7.00 Romeo & Juliet at Loggerheads 18th Wed 19th Thu 20th Fri 21st Sat 22nd Sun 9.30 Holy Communion 23rd Mon 24th Tue 7.00 Bowls Club 25th Wed 26th Thu 27th Fri 28th Sat 29th Sun 10.30 Group Holy Communion in Rhydymwyn 30th Mon Bank Holiday 31st Tue 7.00 Bowls Club Two important dates in September: Saturday 4th September - Annual Garden Club Show Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th September - Chain Reaction MJTB Marathon Cycle event (formerly the Merida) - BBQ in the Druid for all marshals after the event supported by a donation from Marston’s Brewery.
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Local news LLANFERRES OAP WELFARE COMMITTEE Annual Day Out Friday 9th July to Llandudno Final Arrangements Leaving: Llaferres Church 9.30am Maeshafn 9.40am Cadole 9.50am Tafarn-y-gelyn 10am Day out in the lovely sunshine with dinner booked at the Stanford Gate, Holywell. Let us know your choice of beef or turkey or veggie. Looking forward to seeing you all.
BUS TIMETABLES Because Denbighshire and Flintshire produce separate timetables the new Flintshire one is very misleading about the through express bus from Ruthin to Chester. The times are as follows:
Service 1A Ruthin 9.25 Llanferres 9.39 Mold 9.49 Chester 10.25 Service X1 Chester Foregate (Stand D) 10.45 Mold 11.23 Llanferres 11.36 Ruthin 11.59
12.45 12.59 13.07 13.53 St 14.00 14.45 14.58 15.07
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Monthly recipe from CAFFI FLORENCE We have recently held a Food from the Wild workshop and this was one of our most popular recipes. It is a very refreshing drink that is perfect for a lazy summer evening. Our lanes and hedgerows have a lot of Elder and early July is peak flowering time. This recipe only needs 4 flower heads so there will be plenty left for my bees and other insects. Do pick away from main roads and you will get better fermentation if you collect flowers on a dry sunny day.
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Church News Services for July 4th 11th 18th 25th
Holy Communion at 9.30 am Songs of Praise Family Worship at 11 am Holy Communion at 9.30 am Bishop's Visitation service at St Mary's, Mold at 11 am
Please ask churchwardens for details of any 'together at 6' services on the fourth Sundays. Looking forward There will be two different services to attend this month: we shall be having a Songs of Praise Family worship on Sunday 11th July and we invite you to choose your favourite hymn. Just give your title or first line to the churchwardens. We shall also be thinking about Saint Berres after whom our church and village are named - come along to learn more! There will be tea and coffee after the service. On 25th July you will have an opportunity to meet Bishop Gregory who has been in his post over a year now. His Visitation, as it is termed, to the Deanery, which includes the five churches in our Bro Famau grouping, as well as many others, will take place at St Mary's, Mold at 11 am on that Sunday. Bishop Gregory will be the preacher. Again, coffee, tea and biscuits will be served after the service. Services in August These will follow the normal pattern of 9.30 am Holy Communion with Family Service on the second Sunday at 11 am. The fifth Sunday, 29th August, will be a 10.30 am Group Holy Communion at St John the Evangelist, Rhydymwyn. A big thank you So many of you, and also Mold Rotary, supported our Fun in the Garden in so many ways and again the weather was perfect, enabling us to set up gazebos on the Friday afternoon. Thanks to you all, we raised a magnificent sum of around ÂŁ1100 (some of which was specifically donated to the NCF) to be shared between the church and the Northern Cleft Foundation. The surgeon who came to talk to us at the event indicated that each operation costs in the region of ÂŁ200 so the church
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Church News has decided to add a small sum to the Foundation's share of the £1100 raised to give an amount payable to the Foundation of £600. Furthermore, Wendy has received a donation to the Foundation of £100 from a local choir who knew about the Foundation from the fundraising efforts, including Wendy's pancake party, in Llanferres. And thank you to News & Views for featuring the event on the front of the magazine! Regrettably we won't be doing the same event again but no doubt other ideas will take its place.
Saint Who? What do you know about Saint Berres after whom our Church and village is named? Come along and find out at our
Bishop Gregory will be visiting the Deanery
Bishop's Visitation Sunday 25th July 2010 at St Mary's, Mold at 11 am
Songs of Praise Family Service in Church, Sunday 11th July at 11 o’clock Ideas for hymns at this service welcomed – contact a churchwarden (see page 34 for their details)
Bishop Gregory is visiting the Deanery, which includes the five churches of our grouping, and you are invited to this special service in Mold Parish Church to meet him. He will be preaching and there will be tea and coffee after the service. There is no need to give your name to anyone – just come along and enjoy a wonderful occasion. Coffee, tea, squash and biscuits after the service
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Llanferres Parish Gardening Club Our visit to Philip Hunt's garden on Monday June 14th proved to be a great surprise and so different to 'National Garden Scheme' gardens we have visited over the last eight years. Mature trees and shrubs planted over the last 30 years of such an eclectic variety, one wonders at the diversity growing in the one garden. Mr Hunt showed us round the garden - his knowledge wide-ranged - of an area the size of three house gardens, each arranged as a separate entity. In a unique 'cruck house' garden shed complete with sedum roof, we enjoyed refreshments chatting with a most knowledgeable horticulturalist. Our thanks to Mr Hunt for making us most welcome. Our next meeting will be on Monday July 12th at the Village Hall when Mrs C Riden's talk will be entitled "The Saffron Crocus". Our August meeting on Monday 9th will be to make final arrangements for our Annual Show on Saturday September 4th in the Village Hall. Show schedules are still available from Mrs G Roberts, 7 Ty'n Llan, Tel 810 358; Mr D Jones, 18 Rectory Lane, Tel 810 511; Mrs J Almond, 20 Cae Derwen, Tel 810 808. Mrs Joan Almond Hon Secretary 810 808
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Llanferres Parish Gardening Club 2010 Show Saturday September 4th Errors have been found in a small number of the schedules distributed last month. Please check that the centre pages have the following classes listed. Floral Art Class 85 Reflection 75cm 86 Summer Sunshine 75cm 87 Autumn Glory 75cm 88 Credit Crunch 50cm 89 On the Box 50cm 90 Petite:-Sweet Sensation (25x25x25cm) 91 Novice Class (for an exhibitor who has not won a first prize at Llanferres Show) Garden Delight 75cm
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Maeshafn CC news Well what a busy month it has been! We were top of the North Wales League for quite a bit of it, although now languishing in 2nd place.
Cup against Shotton and had a match against Corwen abandoned We have now won 3 games in the with ongoing midweek league, beating the Red Lion action in Handbridge twice, Carmel CC once involving the (much to their surprise and ours), and league. put up a good fight against Gresford. We also went In the weekend league since the last on tour for the weekend in early June News and Views we have fairly to Cambridge/Wisbech/Stowmarket narrowly lost to Llangollen, the league and St Neots, and what a fun time was leaders now, beaten Rhewl, had a had by all. match conceded due to the World Dave Williams experiences a new part of life in the British Isles each WYAU MAES-YN NATURIOL time we go and this time he got to experience meeting a rather tired and emotional old man who liked dressing up in (very tight) ladies clothes (not Dave Williams I hasten to add).
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Maeshafn news Mr Muscle at the Wetherspoons in Mold, and two great games of cricket against 2 v. nice groups of lads/chaps. We beat Old Newton Cricket Club (their first match for 43 years) and lost to Wisbech's 4th team. Great weekend away - no wives, children or cares in the world.... playing cricket isn't all bad...
One of our players achieved the dubious distinction of being the first person in 43 years to get a duck at Old Newton, Dear Maesh and it wasn’t Steve Pugh. afn Cricket C lub, Tom Hall did not go on would like to tour (there we go - got hat appeare complain about a recent d in the New article the Tom Hall reference in). s & Views. I om cover to re co nywhere. Usu ver but could not see my ad it a na ur times in e lly you refer to me thre me A letter was recently ach report, yet in the la e or as not in at a received from Tom Hall st o ll. make sure y As such, I have included ne I ou are sat d a with a complaint, printed p ho to of myse own y swoon) and written a po when looking at my pic lf (ladies here. tu em about my self for public re as you name is Tom ation: H ed to have lo all and I'm a bowler of That’s it for now - hope to the ball. ng ar a pink ca hair like a girl and I'm have more from the Saviour p and like si no tting on Dave t very tall. wish I wasn't Williams' lap so small. in the next edition! See the www.northwalescricket.co.uk e myself a ni ck y fellow tea name recently - from no website for details of our mmates as th w on I am to e "Saviour". be known fixtures over the next month. Thomas has b h at approp een assigned to serve m riate moment e s in our matc with cups of orange Jonathan Fagan, Maeshafn CC n personal m hes, and Ste asseur. Incid ve Pugh is entally I was that the rea he so an't bat, bo n people become wicke ard at the last match Llanferres Playing Field & wl t keeper (Steve or field, although I have keepers is because Recreation Association to Pugh) is the obvious exce say that our own ption. A.G.M. hes to all my fe doff their ca llow players, although in Monday 19th July ps whenever walking past future I will expect me in the fie 7.30pm ld. Ty Bach) Ha ll
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Ysgol Bro Famau News It looks like Christmas has come early at Ysgol Bro Famau. Pupils at the school have been excitedly viewing the range of new equipment purchased by their After School Club. The club successfully applied for funding from the Awards for All scheme, part of the Big Lottery, with the help of Hayley Roberts of Clybiau Plant Cymru Kid’s Clubs. The cheque for £4,983 was recently presented to the Club and Club Manager, Gloria Hall is already busy spending it on much-needed equipment! Amongst the purchases already made are; new indoor and outdoor sports equipment, including mini-goals; a complete play kitchen; musical instruments (including steel drums!); educational tools such as a weather vane; YSGOL BRO FAMAU arts and crafts materials and much much more..
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Ysgol Bro Famau News Left: Elise LaFlamme proud winner of the “Guess how many sweets there in the jar” competition.
(Right) Mrs Thomas was one of the lucky prize winners in the raffle. Then there was that intensely competitive “tug of war” competition, won by the girls! More pictures (of the adults) on www.llanferres.org
Llanferres Dance Club Invites you to a fun evening of Social Ballroom Dancing at
Llanferres Village Hall Wednesday 21st July 7.30 - 10.00pm Dances include: Salsa, Waltz and Jive “Taster session” for new beginners class starting Wed September 8th 2010 £6 per adult Please brig own refreshments For more information please contact Yvette LaFlamme-William 01352 741112
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Ysgol Bro Famau P.T.F.A. Summer Fair Thank you to everyone who supported this year’s Summer Fair. We raised a fantastic
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Dr Christine's July letter I get the feeling this lovely June weather will turn into summer showers, any minute like last year, even though the plant watering is required I love the warmth. I went to a very pleasant lunch and afternoon party at 19 Cae Gwyn, lovely garden. Also I have taken the youth club camping, we have some Llanferres youths in our group when we camped at Gelli Gynan. Thanks to the Scouts who provided the equipment and the leaders. For some the weather was hot, the games exhausting and the walk too long but the getting of a bouncy castle allowed for shade and relaxing, doing nothing. The girls found the portable loos a bit of a turn off . All in all much enjoyed and there were 5 dogs, who had the best of times. There was an extremely wet water race at the end. See photo. I have spent a great deal of time dealing with planning applications. We live in an AONB and how lucky we are. The AONB take great care not to allow planning which will spoil the look of our beautiful landscape, for example further static caravans are no longer allowed, and wind turbines, over their dead bodies. However because in the past more cunning property developers have built large houses on previous small dwellings, the AONB planning views all development with scepticism. I feel that this makes life hard for any of the people trying to improve their small local businesses and make them competitive and also supply accommodation.. I believe the welfare of the people in the community is
as important as the beauty and that most people are not wanting to put up mansions or spoil the looks of the area.. It is however difficult to get anything bigger than a henhouse through. Also I have had requests to help with the very high business rates. It appears we were proud to say the council tax only went up by 2.5%. It seems that business rates are not now done by rateable value but also by business turnover, which rather puts the kibosh on trying to make a profit. The saga of the Loggerheads- Cadole road continues with both community councils. However as the county border crosses this area the AM from Clwyd West is having a separate meeting on 28th June in Colwyn Bay. Is this because the AMs are in different parties and don't talk to each other !!!! Have a good summer Regards Christine Evans, christinemaryevans@hotmail.com, mobile 078877749
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News from The Druid England have just got through into the last 16 of the World Cup thank goodness - as you read this they may have a quarter final place or be on theirs way home! Whatever happens don’t forget that all the games are available to watch here. We still have a few sealed sweep stake envelopes available and it’s your chance to win £80. Guest Ales: Ringwood’s Boondoggle 4.2% A.B.V. has proved so popular that we will be stocking it on a regular basis Next month we will have Brakspears’ Hurray Henley, Shipyard Independence, WINDOW CLEANING SERVICES Pedigree Diamond for you to taste. Sunday July 4th Local Welsh folk group Band Twmpath Tegeingl will be returning to play in the h pub from 7.30 onwards - why not call in to see them Gallon Walk Thanks to all who supported this year’s Professional, reliable service Gallon Walk, £30 was raised from Telephone: 01352 750342 selling route maps, which has been Mobile: 07933 803 972 donated to the Old People’s Welfare Email: arfontrevor@tiscali.co.uk Committee, along with a further £50 Address: from the OAP change bottle on the bar 28 Parc Hendy (Thank you - don’t those coppers add Mold CH7 1TH up!)
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Nature Notes At this time of year many birds stop singing while they concentrate on breeding and raising their young but not all do so. Walking in woodland on a hot and sunny day recently I was struck by the amount of bird sound, not all of which was musical. However, the fluting song of a mistle thrush rang out competing with blackcaps and the onomatopoeic calls of chiffchaffs. A buzzard mewed overhead, ravens croaked and there was the cacophony of jackdaws' ringing 'chacks'. Below, blue and coal tits could be heard while a great spotted woodpecker uttered its 'chink chink' alarm call to warn of my approach. Leaving the shade of the wood and emerging into hot sunshine I was immediately aware of a continuous buzzing sound coming from a patch of brambles now flowering. Bumblebees and hoverflies were frantically flying from flower to flower gathering nectar and pollen. The vast majority of the bumblebees were the yellow banded, orange tailed Bombus pratorum but there were lesser numbers of the white tailed B. lucorum and the orange coated B. pascuorum. Among the hoverflies were the drone fly, which emits a sound similar to honey bees, the larger blue and white Volucella pellucens and the yellow striped Episyrphus balteatus (no English names I'm afraid). There were also many small black flies which I could not identify and it all added up to a nostalgic sound of summer not often heard these days. Along the path a golden-ringed dragonfly
continually flew back and forth hawking for insects and passing within inches of my face. Serenaded by chaffinches, willow warblers and wrens, I eat my lunch along side a pony pasture resplendent with yellow birdsfoot trefoil complemented with the blue of speedwell and meadow cranesbill, violet self-heal and pink orchids. Common blue butterflies flitted continuously and sometimes spiralled upwards in nuptial dance with the duller females. Large skippers were here with brown argus, meadow browns, dingy skippers and a solitary dark green fritillary. Large red damselflies were flying in tandem looking for a place to oviposit, the male using its tail-end claspers to grip the female behind its head. There were also many bumblebees but it was noticeable that here they were mostly the black, orange tailed B. lapidarius. Grasshoppers fed in the grass and, while I sat, a seven spot ladybird paused from hunting greenflies to land on my knee where it was joined by a green lacewing and then a small blue-green weevil with the impressive name of Phyllobius pomaceus. A sharp prick on my arm alerted me to a mosquito which had pierced my skin and was filling itself with blood. . A small rodent found dead on the road was instantly identified as a shrew by its sharp pointed snout. Only 2½ inches (64mm) long with a 1½ (40mm) tail it was a pygmy shrew, our smallest mammal. Voracious insect eaters, they will
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COINCIDENCE? die of starvation if they fail to eat for about three hours and only live for less than a year. Quite common, shrews are seldom seen as they spend their lives scurrying about in the grass, although one can sometimes hear them squealing, especially when they meet another shrew with which they are likely to fight to defend a territory John Almond ' 01352 810808 One local resident found a novel, but effective way of highlighting one particularly large pothole on Tyn Llan. Within days the largest ones had been filled in by the council!!
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Take A Break Sudoku
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1 Path of one celestial body about another (5) 3 Dreadful (5) 6 Eminence (11) 8 Sprint (3) 9 Unbaked bread (5) 12 Beam of light (5) 13 The organ of sight (3) 15 Thinking back (11) 17 Bordered by (5) 18 Illuminate (5)
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Quick Quiz Horses For Courses 1. What name is given to a racehorse that has yet to win a race? 2. How many players are there in a polo team? 3. Which family group had a number two hit single in the UK in 1972 with Crazy Horses? 4. Which three racecourses in England have the letter "x" in their name? 5. Born in Liverpool in 1724, which famous artist was best known for his paintings of horses? 6. Which fictional character would 9. Which three racecourses stage the five classics say "hi-yo Silver, away" to his of the English flat season? horse? 10. What nickname does the TV character of Colin 7. Which horse won the 2009 Grand Ball have, coined because he apparently looks National? like a horse? 8. Which novel by Anna Sewell was sub-titled The Autobiography Of Answers over the page A Horse?
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Local Councillors Christine Evans, Denbighshire County Councillor for Llanferres, Llanarmon yn Ial & Llandegla. 07887774909 Gwyneth Dillon, Clerk to Llanferres Community Council, 01978 790269 Llanferres Community Councillors John Almond, Chairman, 01352 810808 David Jones, Vice Chairman, 01352 810511 Rob Armstrong, 01352 810259 Jac Armstrong, 01352 810259 Margaret Davies, 01352 810491 Yvonne Foden-McCorry, 01352 810867 Rob Jones, 01352 810500 Olive Parry, 01352 810294 Peter Williams, 01352 810287 Please contact any of the above if you have anything you would like to be brought to the attention of your Community Council.
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Village Organisations Archery Club - lan Logan, Tryfan, 17 Cae Gwyn, Llanferres Tel: 810627 Badminton Club - Jane Clough Tel: 810802 Bowling Club - Every Tuesday in the village hall, 7pm - 9pm Contact Dave Twomey Tel: 810690. Church - Rev'd Adrian Copping, The Rectory, 9 Pen-y-Coed, Nannerch, Mold, CH7 5RS Tel. 01352 741376. Email: adriancopping@hotmail.com Rector's Warden - Josh Griffiths, Jontindale, Ruthin Road. Tel: 810853 People's Warden - Mr. Brian Skelhorn 16 Cae Gwyn. Tel: 810422 Clwydian Conservation Campaign - Pen y Chwareli, Pant Ddu Road, Nercwys CH7 4DD F.L.A.S.H. - Moira Bonar, Booking Officer Tel: 0791 063 0138 Gardening Club - Mrs Joan Almond, 20 Cae Derwen, Llanferres. Tel: 810808 Llanferres Alcoholic Mountain Biking Soc. (LAMBS) - Gordon Jones Tel: 810305 Llanferres Community Council - Mrs Gwyneth Dillon, Rhosddigre, Llandegla, LL11 3AU Tel: 01978 790269 Llanferres Playing Field & Recreation Association - Secretary, Simon Hodge. Tel: 810686 Maeshafn Cricket Club - Secretary: Jonathan Fagan. Tel: 810373 Old People's Welfare Committee - Secretary, Jenny Studley. Tel: 810229 PTFA Ysgol Bro Famau - Lindsay Turner. Tel: 810403 Senior Citizens Club - Olive Parry. Tel: 810294 Village Hall Booking Secretary - John Roberts, 7 Tyn Llan. Tel: 810358 Village Hall Management Committee - Secretary, Sonia Evans. Tel: 810421 QUIZ ANSWERS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
A maiden Four The Osmonds Exeter, Hexham and Uttoxeter George Stubbs The Lone Ranger Mon Mone Black Beauty Epsom, Doncaster and Newmarket Trigger (in "Only Fools And Horses")
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