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Beer Hackett
BEER HACKETT REP: John Parker johnwincanton@gmail.com DISTRIBUTOR: Susan Ferdinand
St. Michael’s Church
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Our annual Wine & Cheese Party will be held back in the centre of Beer Hackett this year, at Church Farm opposite the church. Together with Ben and Susannah we look forward to welcoming you to this long established, friendly and enjoyable event.
Our services during the summer will be on the last Sunday of each month: 31 July and 28 August. Please keep an eye on the notice boards and schedules.
John Bingham
Friends of St Michael’s Church
Maintenance Day at St. Michael’s, 14 May
A big thank you to all those who turned out on Saturday 14 May, to help with the Maintenance Day at St. Michael’s Church. The weather was lovely, enabling us to do much of the outside work as well as focusing on the interior.
The list of jobs seemed ambitious but, with the help of villagers old and new, a huge amount was achieved … graves were tidied, hedges trimmed, trees pruned, drainage improved, gates and hinges repainted, doors treated, rubbish removed, floors hoovered and woodwork and brass polished. A great team effort!
Photo: Nick MacBean
You are cordially invited to our annual Wine & CHeeSe PARTY
Friday 5th August 6:30pm to 8:00pm at Church Farm, Beer Hackett, DT9 6QT by kind invitation of Susannah & Ben Keene
Tickets £5 at the gate. To include a finger buffet and glass of wine. (Donations of savoury plates are welcome)
Raffle prize donations welcome (either in church porch or on the night)
All proceeds towards the upkeep of St. Michael’s Church, Beer Hackett
Village Jubilee Breakfast, 2 June
Beer Hackett got the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend off to a great start on Thursday, 2 June by holding a Village Breakfast in the Church grounds. Neighbours joined together for bacon rolls, toast and marmalade, tea and coffee and a celebratory glass of Buck’s Fizz.
After an enjoyable couple of hours spent in the sunshine, chatting, laughing and catching up with one another, the morning concluded with a prize draw of Afternoon Tea and Prosecco hampers and Chocolates, won by Andrea, Susannah and Sandra respectively.
Thanks go to Helen, John and Jean, and Betty for kindly donating the prizes, to all those who helped setting up, cooking and serving breakfast, and to all the villagers for joining in. Over £150.00 was raised through donations for the Church funds.
Sylvia Whitman
As old age creeps up on us, thoughts inevitably drift to some form of ‘bucket list’ – either for those things we must do whilst time or, more likely, those things that perhaps we’ve left too late anyway? However, just as one despairs that it’s all beyond reach, somebody in their later years will come along and achieve something quite extraordinary to encourage us all.
This is very much the case with Graham Keene, father and grandfather to the Keene family who live at Church Farm, Beer Hackett. On 13 May,
Graham, at 68 years, became the oldest British climber to scale the summit of Everest (29,000 ft) overtaking Sir Ranulph Fiennes who was 65 years in 2009 when he reached the peak.
According to the Himalaya database of ‘members’ who have attempted to summit Everest, Graham is in the top 20 of successful oldest climbers of the nearly 7000 who have stood ‘on top of the world!’
Graham’s interest in scaling mountains started almost 25 years ago when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with his sons, Ben and Daniel in 1998. In 2004 he climbed the highest point in South America, Aconcagua. Since ‘retiring’ he has slowly trained, trekked and climbed summits around the world, from Mt. Vinson in Antarctica (2017), Mt. Elbrus in Russia (2019), Putha Hiunchuli in Nepal (October 2021) and Cotapaxi in Ecuador (February 2022).
So for all us daunted by the walk to the post box – remember there’s definitely still time ...
