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BIRSTALL FLOWER CLUB Finals Day at St On 27th November at 7.15pm, we have our “CHRISTMAS OPEN EVENING” in Birstall Village Hall. We have NAFAS demonstrators Kate Russell & Patti Dawson coming to present “Christmas is coming, here we come again”. These two ladies have been to our Club before and we welcome their return. We have seen them in many roles; medieval maids, 18th century country house guests, and who can forget Kate as a Christmas turkey?
Margaret's Bowls Club September is the final month of the outdoor season and this year was marked by a long run of fine sunny weather giving plenty of opportunity for playing the later rounds of any remaining club competitions. Club Finals day was held on 15th of the month which was dry, bright but slightly overcast, recognised to be the perfect weather for bowls. The green was living up to its reputation as one of the best playing surfaces in the county.
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Since launching last year lottery players have raised over £22,000 for a variety of good causes including village halls, community libraries, swimming clubs, play groups, scout groups, and various charities. Over 37,000 tickets have been sold in the first year, 92 players have won cash prizes and 730 people have won 3 free tickets. Cllr Deborah Taylor, lead member for communities said: “I’d like to thank everyone who has brought tickets and supported good causes through the lottery over the past 12 months. “The lottery was launched to help raise money for good causes in the borough which is exactly what it’s done. “We’ve also had a number of players who have won a variety of cash prizes over the past year, so I’d like to congratulate them and thank everyone who has supported the lottery. I’m looking forward to seeing more groups and organisations signing up to the lottery and more money being raised over the next year.”
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Our hospitals are full of lonely people TWO IN five hospital patients never have any visitors, according to a recent survey. And a recent poll of 200 hospital nurses by the Royal Voluntary Service found that many nurses believe that the lack of social contact hampered patient recovery. People with no visitors are less likely to be stimulated by conversation, or move away from their beds, or even to follow the medical advice given to them. As one doctor explained: “Human contact is a crucial part of recovery and that’s why we’re so passionate about ensuring everyone has the option of being supported by volunteers.” The Royal Voluntary Service runs several hospital services, including assistance with meals, patient transport, trolley services and volunteer-run cafes and shops. More details at: https://www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk/
ST. JAMES MONDAY GROUP Although it rained (and rained) on our first fund-raising coffee morning, £200.00 was raised for Glebe House, Loughborough, our charity for this year. Another of our members is hosting a further fund-raising event in their home in the near further; hopefully free from the rain! And (surely) as successful. We always seem to be fortunate on our 'away-days' though, as our trip to Lincoln was blessed with lovely weather and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, with many thanks to the organisers of this day out. Medals must be given out to the members who came to our October meeting, battling through the relentless rain which made the roads into rivers. Talk about intrepid! They were rewarded by a most entertaining talk on the 'Story of the music hall' by Felicity Austin, who, with good use of hats, shawls and skirts, and with full audience participation, led us through this most vibrant episode of our history in the singing of the well-known songs of the Edwardian music hall. In November our speaker will be Jo Golby and 'The Laura Ashley Story', so if you enjoy fashion and design, this will be very interesting. We meet, as usual, in the Day Centre rooms of the Village Hall, School Lane, on the 2nd Monday of every month, at 7.30 p.m.
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What’s your favourite plant? I bet your answer falls within two categories. It’s either an annual - those lovely little plants that give their all for one season before popping their clogs – or, it’s a herbaceous perennial – those spreading Choisya x dewitteana 'Aztec Pearl clumps that appear from nowhere each year to give a tremendous display before retreating into the soil once more. There’s enough between the two to utterly mesmerise, and it’s no wonder that many gardeners find time for little else. But what about shrubs? They might quietly get on with it whilst the rest of the garden demands your attention, but if you want a beautiful garden then ignore them at your peril. Shrubs are the back row of the gardener’s chess board, giving structure and strength whilst those tender-stemmed pawns play their silly, short-lived games. Come winter they add height and interest when everything else has been seen off. They can be among the most beautiful plants in the garden, with an almost infinite array of flower and foliage forms. There’s just so much more to them than the tightly-clipped, generic blobs you see lining supermarket car parks. Here’s some unique cultivars of lovely (but often overlooked) shrubs that will bring year-long interest to your garden: • Berberis ‘Pink Queen’ - A spikey brute, it’s true, but add this to a lesstravelled area for a splash of subdued pink. • Choisya ‘Aztec Pearl’ - An unassuming plant. Until it flowers, that is. Beautiful, heavenly-scented flowers everywhere! • Euonymus ‘President Gauthier’ - A striking variegated shrub. Vivid, lush foliage year-round and so easy to grow. • Ceonothus thyrsiflorus var. repens - A little ground-cover Californian Lilac that can brush off colder winters. A haze of blue in May. NOVEMBER TIP: They even sell spring bulbs in petrol stations these days, so you’ve no excuse to forget to get some to plant now. But do think about expanding beyond just daffodils. Snakes Head Fritillary, Lilly of the Valley, Puschkinia – there’s plenty more to consider!
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News from the Churches The BIG news from St. James and Our Lady and St. Nicholas, Wanlip, is that we are about to lose our Rector! Not literally, of course, but he is moving on in the Diocese, and in his work, becoming a 'Diocesan Transition Enabler' a new role created by Bishop Martyn Snow and involving short secondments to other parishes within the Diocese. After 9 years in Birstall and Wanlip, this new role will present many challenges both for him and his wife, Sheryl, and for us as a congregation as we await the appointment of a new Rector. Vince's last Sunday with us will be the services on Advent Sunday (1st December). After all these years in Birstall and Wanlip he will be very much missed, but all of our good wishes will go with him and Sheryl in their new venture. Sheryl is continuing as Parish Administrator, though, so will be just as busy as she is now. Our Sunday School has just celebrated its 9th birthday (with a cake, of course) and shared by us all. Shared by many more in our wider community will be the donations of food given at the Harvest 'All Together' service, and much of which will go to the food bank in St. Theresa's Church Hall. Canon Anne Horton now has 90 photographs for the Church album. This will really be an interesting collection for both the church and the village. Anne is also leading a winetasting evening on 15th November in Wanlip Church Hall, to raise funds for the church. She has called it 'Around the World in 7 1/2 grapes' which is rather intriguing! There is a lunch in aid of 'Save the Children' at the White Horse in Birstall on Wednesday 6th November. Details can be found on ajbsavethechildren@gmail.com. The Mother's Union coffee morning in the Methodist coffee shop resulted in the grand sum of £295.25 which will be used in the work of the Mother's Union and other projects. As Christmas is within touching distance, the St. Nicholas Fayre at Wanlip will take place on Saturday 7th December from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m., so it is a definite date for your diary. The Community Hall and the Church will be in use for this event. Another date to look forward to is St. James Film Night. We will be showing 'Fisherman's Friend' on a Friday evening in January. As always, the entrance is free and there will be light refreshments, and donations will be welcome. Skipping madly ahead of ourselves, to 28th February 2020, we will be having a travel talk by Sue Ablett, well travelled and always interesting. This is another date for your diary, to look forward to, and details of both the film night and the travel talk will be published nearer the date.
Birstall Methodist Monday Women’s Group present two cheques! Birstall Methodist Monday Women’s Group chose to raise funds for two local projects during 2018/2019. It was decided that the money raised would be divided equally between The Day Centre which is held at the Village Hall, and Birstall Food Hub. Our Women’s Group put a lot of time and effort into our chosen Projects: we had a Saturday Coffee Morning, various Garden Parties, an evening of viewing the Christmas lights in a member’s garden, a Thrift Stall and Cake Stalls plus many other fundraising ideas. So we were delighted to present two cheques of £900 each to Gill Chester and Peter Molesdale from Birstall Food Hub and Olwyn Guildford from St James’ Day Centre. Olywyn said that St James’ Day Centre is a lifeline for many Birstall residents and the money raised will be used to fund a gardening project, entertainment and various activities which can be enjoyed by people who may spend hours at home feeling lonely. Birstall Food Hub will also use their donation wisely. Gill explained that on top of the generous donations of food in the Co-op trolley, it costs approximately £10 - £20 per week to buy fresh food such as bread, eggs and milk. They also need money for publicity etc. Both recipients of the cheques expressed their gratitude. Our Monday Group now has a new Project - Take Heart at Glenfield Hospital. We look forward to working together to fund-raise for another local project and we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support. We meet every Monday evening 7.30pm at Birstall Methodist Coffee Shop; so don’t sit at home feeling lonely, why not come and join us! Thank you
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Surprise Birthday Gift from Birstall Parish Council Mrs May Goodwin has provided her skilled calligraphy service, free of charge, to Birstall Parish Council since 1984 by recording memoriam messages and species of trees planted in Greengate Lane Cemetery. The Chair of Birstall Parish Council, Councillor Ann Marshall, was made aware that May has recently celebrated her 95th Birthday and of her care and generosity in recording the messages in the Tree Memorial Book for the last 35 years and wished to thank her, an sample of her work can be seen below. May’s friends at the Indoor Bowls club informed the office staff that May had fallen in love with a picture that was displayed in the village hall. The artist, Mr Mick Joyce was contacted and he agreed to sell his picture to the Chair, who then took the opportunity to present it to May as a special birthday gift and to thank her for the long and unique service that she has so generously provided to Birstall Parish Council. May was overwhelmed with the surprise presentation and was delighted to receive the picture that she had long admired.
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The White Horse Birstall Bake off, raises nearly £1200 for Cancer charity, Macmillan. 21st September saw an influx of creative cakes, super savouries and beautiful baking arrive at the White Horse for the seventh Great Birstall Bake off. “We were thrilled to receive over 50 entries, including over 20 from young bakers. There were a wide variety of offerings for the categories and the standard was superb” said Rebecca Kay who came up with the idea of the Great Birstall Bake off. “I wanted to offer the village a community event in which all could join in and it be a bit of fun!” The Great Bake off was just the first stage of a busy ‘cake fueled’ weekend at the White Horse as on 22nd September, the pub held its annual Macmillan Worlds biggest coffee morning. “Each year we are amazed by all the bakers generosity, from the cost of the ingredients, their time given and the talents and love put into the donations” said Charlotte Foy of the White Horse.
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Teddy Bear Best decorated winner, Amy Moores Teddy B In addition to the Coffee morning, Margaret Walden, Birstall ‘childminder extraordinaire’, also took part in Macmillan’s ‘Brave the shave’. Margaret shaved off all her hair, with the help of her hairdresser Kolbrun Hakonardottir, in memory of a friend recently lost to Cancer. Margaret raised a Hair raising £1106. She said “I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who has donated and thank you to all the Macmillan nurses who do an amazing Job”
The event was a great success and raised £1196.76 (including Gift aid donations), thanks to all the donated cakes for the Bake off and those who attended the Coffee Morning and gave generously. The cakes were judged by Janet Vaughn and Cath Jones from the Birstall WI Lisa Palmer, Angela Howlett, Louise Hull, Ben and Alice Howlett, Beth Roach, previous winners and Zoe White, Chef at the White Horse, of course following WI guidelines for appearance, texture and flavour. The winners received a prize of a rosette with the best overall Birstall Baker, Katie Morsli receiving a sash and also a limited edition Burleighs Marilyn Monroe Gin and distillery tour for her Burger Cupcakes and filled with love cake
Best under 16’s entry- Naomi Fellows, 8 layered rainbow unicorn The other winners were: Cup Cakes / tray bake - Lewin Brothers – Teddy bear Cup Cakes – Stonehurst farm visit Cake – Cat Hanlon – Caramel Cake – Boe Gin Hamper Biscuits – Olive Foy – Chocolate Chip Cookies – Outdoor Pursuits Activity Sweet Pastry – Joshua Smalley – Bakewell TartHamper of Crisps / Chocolates Savoury Bake – Anna Beams – Welsh cheddar Cheese scones – Pamper Hamper Bread – Phil Craxford – Pannetone Muffins – Spirits Hamper Free From – Hana- Louise Denton – Vegan Cake – Coffee Machine Best decorated - Amy Moore – Teddy Bear – Hamper of Cake Crisps / Chocolates Best under 16’s entry - Naomi Fellows – Unicorn Surprise – Baking Hamper
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Cat Hanlon’s winning Caramel Cake
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Charlotte and Beccy would especially like to thank everyone who baked for the event and hope many more will join in the fun next year so they can crown a new Great Birstall Bake off champion in 2020 and raise even more for Macmillan. For more information. Visit www.thewhitehorsebirstall.co.uk or call 0116 2671038
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Friends of the Charnwood Forest The first meeting of the Friends this season took place on Thursday 26th September at the Woodhouse Eaves village hall, where we were to have heard a talk on ‘Visitors to Charnwood forest’ by David Robinson. Unfortunately this talk had to be postponed for medical reasons, so Marilyn Palmer gave a talk on ‘The Making of the Industrial Landscape in Leicestershire’. ‘Landscape’ is perhaps best connected with Leicestershire through the work of W G Hoskins, late professor of local history at Leicester University. What people may not realise is that he came to dislike Leicestershire, and particularly its industrial landscape, and he retreated to Devon as soon as he was able. So what were the industries that contributed to this landscape? The talk covered the rise, and in some cases the fall, of these industries, from knitting and the boot and shoe industry to iron founding and engineering, and the bricks which made St Pancras station. Weaving was, of course, a very ancient occupation. At first sheep were shorn, the wool either combed or carded, then spun and knitted, all by hand. The first knitting machines may well have orginated in Nottinghamshire, and certainly by the mid
18th century the highest concentrations were in the Nottingham, Leicester and Derby shires. These evolved into power-driven machines which by the 1870’s formed the basis for a factory culture. Here the talk touched on the subject of the role of women in the growth of this industry. Meanwhile boots and shoes were being manufactured chiefly in Northamptonshire, but the industry spread north in the 1860’s, examples being the Wheatsheaf Works and the British United Shoe Machinery Co, both in Leicester city. Charles Bennion, the CEO of British United, was responsible for the presentation of Bradgate Park to the people of Leicester and its shire. Iron works arose at this time; Gimson’s works being a very good example. Its products may still be viewed at the Abbey Pumping station, which originally was designed to pump sewage to Beaumont Leys but is now a museum. To make things involves a source of energy, anything from man or horse power to the introduction of steam, the product of heating water using a coal fire. The next topic in the talk was, logically, about the coal industry. In the north western part of the county the coal measures have a fairly thin overburden and are easily mined. Unfortunately, between
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS: Authorised and regulated by the Finance Conduct Authority. Bentley`s Garden Buildings Limited, Loughborough Road, Wanlip, Leics, LE7 4PN (Company Number: 4807454) acts as a credit broker and not the lender and only offers products from Barclays Partner Finance. Barclays Partner Finance is the lender. Barclays Partner Finance is a trading name of Clydesdale Financial Services Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC. Clydesdale Financial Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register number 311753) Registered in England. Registered No 2901725. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London. E14 5HP.
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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES “It’s the best home improvement we have ever made. Our conservatory is now our dining room in the garden.” Mike Millis, Middleton On Sea
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LATER THAT DAY
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There are many reasons to change your conservatory roof with Green Space UK INSTALLED IN 1 DAY “What a difference a day makes as the saying goes, and yes, that’s all it took to install.” Mr & Mrs Barber, Wells
WARMER IN WINTER “There is no doubt that the conservatory is much warmer than previously, and no, the room is not darker either!”
COOLER IN SUMMER “You could have fried an egg on the table in the summer, I now look upon the conservatory as a new room. It is quiet, restful and cosy.” Carol Doyle, Surrey
David Birch, Chichester
REDUCES ENERGY BILLS “I’ve already turned the ZSIJWĆTTW MJFYNSL IT\S Lovely job guys, thank you!”
USABLE ALL YEAR ROUND “The conservatory is now used throughout all seasons of the year and is far more comfortable to sit in whatever the weather outside.”
QUIETER IN BAD WEATHER ê +TW YMJ ąWXY YNRJ NS years we do not have to close the door to the conservatory when it rains.”
Mr & Mrs Gibson, Portishead
Anne Bird, Bristol
Mr & Mrs Bailey-Webb, Warsash
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SUBSTANTIAL SUBSIDIES AVAILABLE We’re planning to make insulation a must have addition to every conservatory across the UK. We are therefore offering a SUBSTANTIAL SUBSIDY to a limited number of suitable properties in selected areas. 9T ąSI TZY RTWJ FGTZY YMJ GJSJąYX that the Green Space system can offer and see if your conservatory is suitable for any potential subsidies, contact us now.
For a free quote call:
CONSERVATORY ROOFS
0800 65 25 157 www.greenspaceconservatories.co.uk
*Finance subject to status, T&C’s apply. Subsidies are limited by area and not guaranteed. Putting off your enquiry could reduce the potential subsidy available to you