Yetminster

YETMINSTER REP: Michaela and Graham Plaice: gplaice@gmail.com 872921

Happy New Year to all residents of Yetminster, I do hope that your festive arrangements were not too disrupted. The dreaded COVID plague visited our family, we had to host two Christmas Day dinners to accommodate our 5-yearold grandson.

By the time you read this section, the White Hart Pub will have finished their refurbishment (redesigned bar above) and re-opened on 19 January. Ellis and David make a good team and have helped to restore the pub to its rightful place as the beating heart of the village. The pub’s initiative to let street vendors sell their produce outside the pub and allow customers to eat their food within the White Hart is inspired, it is a win/ win/win all round for the pub, street vendor and the local community. Let’s get behind the dynamic duo and make the pub a great success.

As we celebrate the efforts being made by Ellis and Doug, let’s not forget the tremendous efforts being made by Andrew Perlejewski and his family in running the Sports club.

I feel a little like Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher by imploring every eligible person in the village to vote in the upcoming Referendum on the Neighbourhood Plan, due to take place on the 22February. The Neighbourhood Plan

team have worked so hard to produce this Plan, not an easy task, and always with a view to protect the interests and way of life for the village. David Torrance has written a great article outlining what this involves, and I commend you to read it and vote. All the necessary information can be found on the Yetminster and Ryme Parish Council website: http://yetminsterparishes.gov.uk/. Plans are afoot to carry out repairs to the Yetminster Hamcrate Playpark with initial repair work carried out in January. There is a small team from the Parish Council involved in this project and I am sure they would be delighted to accept any offers of help from the community.

In response to several Facebook posts, the 1st Yetminster Scout Group have arranged to help the Sherborne Food Bank this winter. Items can be taken to the Scout Hut on a Monday evening. They are also collecting plastic milk bottle tops, which can be left in the container just outside the scout hut door. Point of contact for this issue is superstar, Paul Hollick.

With the many depressing local stories regarding COVID and families not being able to see their loved ones, it was lovely to note that John Ferreter managed to visit the USA to see his family, and Alan Guy visited his in Australia. He, unlike Novak Djokovic, was inoculated before he went.

A quick reminder that the Great Western Railway December 2021 timetable has started, with both weekend and weekday changes. Online timetable journey planners have been updated, and you can download copies of specific timetable booklets from our website on https://www.gwr.com/planjourney/train-times. 2022 sees many activities being planned within the community. Please make sure you forward details to the magazine’s Editor and Diary Planner. The deadline for input is always the 12th of the month.

Michaela and Graham Plaice

The White Hart

Despite the terrible weather over the festive period, we were bowled over by the amazing level of local support and a big thank you to all concerned.

The planned refurbishment of the bar is now complete which will allow us to gently launch several new initiatives to widen further the community hub that is the White Hart. The presence of the acclaimed Bakerman Dan and Tikka Trak on our forecourt has also been a tremendous success with the ‘eat in the pub’ facility being very popular.

David Morgan

St. Andrew’s Church

February... winter coming to an end and spring around the corner

We are looking ahead to longer days and more sunshine. Our pattern of services is evolving in February and March and will be as follows: 1st Sunday – 10.00am Holy Communion 2nd Sunday – Worship and Praise at St. Andrews School 3rd Sunday – Choral Holy Communion 4th Sunday – 6.00pm Evensong

As usual, I will add the other services in the Benefice each week to the Round Robin. If you would like to get this weekly update on services and local news and events, please let me know on the email below. We hope to continue the online services via Facebook etc too. Up to date service schedules are posted at the church main gate, and on the church notice board.

Please note that the main church path is slippery, so do take care. Professional cleaning has been booked.

Clock update: the online Faculty application (planning permission) is now with the Diocese, and we have received donations so far of £5,250. Grateful thanks to the Yetminster Fair Committee! More funding applications will be made in the coming months, as we cannot start the repairs until all the funding has been raised (some £32,000 inc VAT.) We will be hosting monthly fund raisers for the church and clock, and more of this next month.

Welcome back to Coffee, Cake and Chat in the Hall, with grateful thanks to Angela and Grace. Please note new day and timings below.

Looking forward to a bit of midsummer madness in the depths of winter with tea, coffee, cakes, light lunches and cream teas at the Rectory, Holwell, on Saturday 5 February from 10.30am – 4.00pm. All are welcome. In aid of Benefice funds, the Agricultural and Rural Chaplaincy, and DorSAR (Dorset Search and Rescue). All subject to local Covid arrangements on the day.

Looking ahead: World Day of Prayer 10.00am Friday 4 March at Yetminster St. Andrew’s followed by refreshments. With my best wishes

Churchwarden Clare

Churchwarden.yet@gmail.com

Coffee, Cake and Chat

Coffee and Cake’s name has changed to Coffee, Cake and Chat. It will run the 1st Tuesday of every month from 2.30pm–4.00pm at The Jubilee Village Hall,

Yetminster. Each month we will collect for the Lords Larder food bank, so please bring any dry food donations.

In February we will be running a raffle which was postponed from Christmas. Everyone is welcome, including families and children we look forward to seeing you.

Angela and Grace

Yetminster Fair Association 50/50 Club draw

DECEMBER 2021 WINNERS BIG QUARTERLY YFA

JANUARY 2022 WINNERS

1st prize of £100 No. 62 Ms C Taylor 2nd prize of £50 No. 02 Mr A Reek 3rd prize of £30 No. 51 Mr M Fuller 4th prize of £20 No. 39 Mr S Cridland

1st prize of £50 No. 20 Mr D Mott 2nd prize of £30 No. 32 Mrs A Sparks 3rd prize of £20 No. 08 Mr R Pennington

Boyles Educational Foundation

At the Trustees’ meeting in October, held in the new Boyle’s Classroom based at St. Andrew’s School, 14 individual applications were put forward for consideration for a grant. Of these, 11 were supported with the remainder sadly declined as the applicants lived beyond the parish boundary constraints. It was pleasing to see an increased number of apprentice applications and that the money has been spent on such a wide range of books and equipment.

We wish all students good luck in their studies.

Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council

Chairman’s Notes – December Meeting

Over the last few months, the Community Web Group have been updating the website, removing unused pages, ensuring that the information is accurate and making the site look less formal. The website contains a lot of very useful information, but some of the questions posed recently on the village Facebook page would suggest that a lot of residents are not aware of this. You can find the website at www.yetminsterparishes.gov. uk and we welcome feedback on the format and content of the site.

You will be pleased to hear that work has now started on the Hamcrate Play Area. The existing safety matting has been cleaned in preparation for the spraying of a new surface. In the next few weeks, one of the pieces of equipment will be replaced and everything will be repainted. I am sure you will understand that, for safety reasons, the play area will be closed while the work is being carried out.

To achieve financial ‘self-sufficiency’ so that the allotments are not a burden on the Precept, it has been decided to raise the annual rent to £40 for a complete plot and £20 for a half plot and, in keeping with other parishes, there will be no concessions. Clearance of the two unused plots to the southeast corner of the site will be undertaken and the hedging and trees separating the allotments from the carpark will be removed, to be replaced with a fence.

The allotment holders have pointed out that a plot was sacrificed to create the car park but that this was now often full of residents’ cars. It is hoped that an amicable arrangement can be reached that leaves the car park free for allotment holders at the times when the allotments are being worked on.

The request by Yetminster Community Sports Club for a three-year lease was accepted, but it was felt that further discussion between the Parish Council and the tenant was necessary before a report submitted by the Hamcrate Working Group could be adopted.

The CIL Working Group has reviewed the 16 suggestions for projects that can be funded with the Community Infrastructure Levy, approving all but one. The total estimated cost of these projects exceeds the £107,738 that is available so attempts will be made to supplement the income with grant funding. The Group plan to meet soon to implement the first of the projects, a full list of which is included in the minutes of the December meeting which can be found on the parish website.

Andy Perlejewski

Chairman of Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council

Larry the Laptop says

Use the website Not just for events but road closures, Health Centre, walks, dog fouling and much more. Everything you need to know about the community. yetminsterparishes.gov.uk

Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Neighbourhood Plan

Referendum on the Neighbourhood Plan

The Examiner has now completed his review of the Plan and Dorset Council has subsequently confirmed that “a decision to proceed to Referendum” has been made. Copies of the report and correspondence, together with the final version (the ‘Referendum’ version) of the Neighbourhood Plan itself, together with the supporting documentation are available on the on the Dorset Council Website – https:// www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/yetminsterryme-intrinseca-neighbourhood-plan. This means that the Y&RI Neighbourhood Plan can now be given significant weight in any decisionmaking by the planners and pending the results of the Referendum.

This will take place on Tuesday 22 February and residents will receive voting cards and will be able to cast their votes at a local polling station in the normal way.

Once the Referendum process is completed, and if the plan is accepted, it will be incorporated into the Development

Plan for Dorset and will shape development in the Parish until 2036.

YRIPC Neighbourhood Plan Group

What’s new in the new year?

It’s rather late to be saying Happy New Year but in this gloomy period (weather, the C and O words, dark evenings etc.) it’s good to have a few bright points to look forward to.

First up (9 February) will be Susan Smith to inform us on the history and production of stained glass. It will be interesting to see what she covers. Thinking of stained glass, church or cathedral windows usually come to mind but there are many more applications than that, and stained glass goes back to Ancient Egypt. Whether windows or vases, it will be fascinating to know how they are produced. This meeting will take place in the Jubilee Hall where all recommendations for Covid security will be applied.

Next (9 March), Dr Amy Frost will tell us about William Beckford, the builder of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire. Amy is Senior Curator at the Bath Preservation Trust. At the risk of a spoiler, William’s grandfather (dare I say it?) was a plantation owner in Jamaica, whose wealth was further increased by his son after a successful commercial career in London. William was thus born into a massive fortune but preferred the arts to making money. He is also described as a sexual misfit and eccentric. It should be a good afternoon, and this will also take place in the Jubilee Hall.

Come April, the days will be longer and the weather warmer (I hope), and the visits part of our programme starts with Dorchester Museum. After a three year and £16m renovation it promises to be a good visit. In May, we see Halswell House at Bridgewater. Inhabited since Domesday and having undergone major restoration works in recent years, a guided tour has all the ingredients for a fascinating afternoon.

June brings us Shaftesbury Abbey and Museum. We have had an excellent presentation in the past on the Abbey so it will be interesting to see it for real. In July there will be a visit to St. Mary’s Church, Templecombe. The church was originally founded by Alfred the Great, and the Knights Templar established the Templecombe Preceptory in the village in 1185.

We have a very good programme to look forward to. Next Meeting: 9 February 2022, 2.30pm at the Jubilee Hall, Yetminster – Susan Smith will present Stained Glass: the History and Production of Stained Glass (as above).

New members are always welcome. Come along on the 9th or contact us at yetminster8@gmail.com

William Morris was born in 1834 in the Essex village of Walthamstow (now a London suburb). He was one of the great polymaths: artist, designer, poet, novelist, architectural conservationist, craftsman, retailer, printer, translator and politician.

He drove the Arts and Crafts movement, bringing culturalchange to Victorian Britain. He formed close friendships with the artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the architect Philip Webb. It was during the building

of Morris’s ‘Red House’ at Bexleyheath, designed by Webb, that Morris was inspired to form a group of ‘fine art workmen’, which eventually evolved into the famous Morris & Co, so influential of Victorian interior design, with many of his themes still popular today. In his lifetime, however,it was poetry he was best known for;his collected worksextend to 24 volumes. Morris(right)andBurne-Jones. This lesser-known poem, Notahairoutofplace.... ‘Tapestry Trees’ justifies reproducing his wonderful ‘Tree of Life’ tapestry, shown below.

TapestryTrees. ByWilliamMorris

Oak. I am the Roof-tree and the Keel; I bridge the seas for woe and weal. Fir. High o'er the lordly oak I stand, And drive him on from land to land. Ash. I heft my brother's iron bane; I shaft the spear, and build the wain. Yew. Dark down the windy dale I grow, The father of the fateful Bow. Poplar. The war-shaft and the milking-bowl I make, and keep the haywain whole. Olive. The King I bless; the lamps I trim; In my warm wave do fishes swim. Apple-tree. I bowed my head to Adam's will; The cups of toiling men I fill. Vine. I draw the blood from out the earth; I store the sun for winter mirth. Orange-tree. Amidst the greenness of my night, My odorous lamps hang round and bright. Fig-tree. I who am little among trees In honey-making mate the bees. Mulberry-tree. Love's lack hath dyed my berries red: For Love's attire my leaves are shed. Pear-tree. High o'er the meadflowers' hidden feet I bear aloft my burden sweet. Bay. Look on my leafy boughs, the Crown Of living song and dead renown!