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New Blackmore Vale, 13th May 2022
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Events Guide • Sherborne Literary Society hosts Saul David on ‘SBS Silent Warriors, The Authorised Wartime History’, on Friday, 13 May, at 7pm at Digby Memorial Church Hall. Saul is a Sunday Times best-selling military historian, novelist and broadcaster. • Shaftesbury Library’s Knit and Natter group is leading free knitting and crochet sessions on Saturday, 14 May, 10-10.45am and 11-11.45am. Due to this event’s previous popularity booking is essential to guarantee a place. Total beginners or those who want to improve their skills are welcome to go along and pick up tips from the friendly and helpful Knit and Natter team. • Thanksgiving Service in Sherborne Abbey on Saturday, 14 May, for the Friends of Yeatman Hospital giving 70 years of support to the hospital. Procession starts 2.30pm, service begins at 3pm. Free tickets available from admin@ friendsoftheyeatman.org.uk • Wimborne St Giles Church is holding a spring fair on Saturday, 14 May, from noon-3pm in the church and on the village green. The event includes big book jumble, good quality jumble and bric-a-brac, home-made jams and cakes, light refreshments and music. Entry and parking is free – donations towards the church roof repair fund. The post code for sat-nav users is BH21 5LZ. • Collective Exhibition and Art Trail ‘It’s Up To Us’ opens Saturday, 14 May, at Poundbury’s newly refurbished Jubilee Hall (next to Waitrose, Queen
Mother Square). Casterbridge Art Society has created the umbrella group, Art In Poundbury, inviting fellow creatives from Artwey, Dorchester Camera Club and 3Cs Calligraphy to take part, along with new and established artists, all based in that part of Dorset. Runs until Wednesday, 1 June, open daily, 10am-4pm. Free entry. www. artinpoundbury.co.uk • Sherborne Market in Cheap Street, Abbey Road, Half Moon Street, Digby Road and Pageant Gardens features more than 170 stallholders – all local artisans and food producers. The event is on Sunday, 15 May, from 10am-3pm. • Bring your teddy – 18in/45cm maximum – to Sherborne Market to take part in the Rotary Club of Sherborne Castles’ Teddy Bear Zip Line on Sunday, 15 May (weather permitting). Owners should sign in, with the help of Sherborne Air Cadets and can then watch their toy descend from The Abbey’s tower to the green below. Owners will receive a certificate to commemorate the bear’s bravery! All proceeds from any donations go to good causes the Rotary Club supports. • Cerne Sheep Group is holding its first outdoor meeting of the season at Homestead Farm, Cheselbourne, Dorchester DT2 7NR by invitation of Richard Haskett on Monday, 16 May. The farm has milking goats from which the farm makes its own goat’s milk ice cream. June visit to be arranged. • The Sunset Café Stompers with blues and gospel singer Julia Titus are at Cheap
Street Church, Sherborne, on Wednesday, 18 May, at 7.30pm. Tickets £15 – bookings by email to raymondwood1949@gmail. com • Sturminster Newton Museum is holding two exhibitions looking at everyday issues. Throwaway Living examines people’s relationship with waste over the years, from items which could not be re-used because they were broken and inedible, through to the onset of industrialisation in the Victorian era, to the effects of excess plastic and its consequences. Among the exhibits are ceramic glass pots and bottles discarded by the Victorians. A mainly humorous exhibition will look at dentistry through the ages, centred around the museum’s retro dentist chair, used in Sturminster Newton during the 1930s. Meanwhile, the Mill is in action on Saturday and Sunday, 14-15 May, for National Mills Weekend. For more details visit www. sturminsternewton-museum. co.uk/events/ • Church of St Peter & St Paul Wincanton is holding a coffee morning and plant sale on Saturday, 14 May, from 10am-noon. Cakes, books and raffle. Everyone welcome. Phone: 01963 824503. • Sherborne Library hosts a ‘Story Den’ on Saturday, 25 June, from 10-11am. Help build a den in the children’s area – a perfect place to listen to stories. Suitable for children aged three-plus. Booking essential – phone 01935 812683. • Filgroup’s next meeting is on Thursday, 19 May, and will be a guided tour of
David and Celia Hazelgrove’s garden, followed by a glass of Pimms and David on hand to answer any questions. For more info email filgroup15@ gmail.com • The Powell Theatre, Abbey Road, Sherborne, is the venue for a talk by bestselling, prize-winning author Toby Harnden on ‘First Casualty: The Untold Story of the battle that began the war in Afghanistan’ at Sherborne Literary Society on Tuesday, 24 May, at 7pm. • Sherborne Castle Fair and Rare Breeds Survival Trust show is on Sunday, 29 May. Everyone welcome. • Dog lovers should head over to Martinstown village hall on Sunday, 21 May, for a fun dog show. If it is sunny the show will take place on the grass outside but it will go ahead indoors if it is raining. Classes include veteran, rescue and Heinz 57, all at £2.50 each. Fun classes cost £1 each, or you can enter the lot for £5! Pick from dog most like owner, waggiest tail, ‘doggy’ fancy dress and many more. Entries will be taken from noon and the show proper starts at 2pm. Enquiries to Antonia 07813 196958. • St Gregory’s CofE Primary School is hosting a Jubilee quiz night and auction on Saturday, 21 May, at 7pm at Marnhull village hall. Quizmaster Simon Hoare will kick off proceedings at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £12.50 per person and include a locally sourced ploughman’s supper and raffle ticket. If making up a team please supply names and team name along with full payment. Places are limited – tickets available via Robin Hill
