Beer Hackett

BEER HACKETT REP: John Parker johnwincanton@gmail.com DISTRIBUTOR: Susan Ferdinand

Photo: Ben Keene

Friends of St. Michael’s Church

Summer celebration

The ‘Friends’ are pleased to announce (subject to Covid regulations) that we are planning to hold a Village Get Together in/around St. Michael’s Church on Saturday 3 July 2021. Entry will be free but voluntary donations will be much appreciated.

We are delighted to announce that the celebrated Wriggle Valley Jazz Band will be performing plus a special vocal performance by one of the Trustees, Kathy Smyth. Bonny Sartin, long time member and lead singer of the ‘Yetties’, poet and story teller, will also be taking part in and supporting the event.

We will have tabletop stalls selling plants together with a few small trade stands, so bring along your pennies. If you wish to have a tabletop stall, please contact the secretary for more details. Non-alcoholic refreshments will be free and contributions of commercially purchased sweet and savoury plates welcome. An idea for cream teas is under review and, if this comes to fruition, this will be announced as soon as possible.

Children will be welcome, along with their favourite teddy or cuddly toy, and there will be a ‘teddy bears’ picnic party table’ especially for them.

Hopefully, the weather will hold fair but there will be ample gazebo and marquee coverage in the church grounds if it is raining or you need to get out of the sun!

We shall be holding a raffle and prize donations would be gratefully accepted. Please leave any raffle donations in the church porch in the special box provided or drop them off to the Secretary; alternatively, we can arrange collection.

We hope that the entire village community will come along to enjoy a lovely relaxing afternoon – plus a chance to meet up with our residents both old and new after the long lockdowns.

Lastly, please don’t forget that I’d be glad of all your favourite recipes for inclusion in the proposed Beer Hackett

Recipe Book.

Olive Davison, Secretary Firemoon2015@hotmail.com 07552818389 Green Acres, The Mead, Beer Hackett DT9 6QT

Photo: Ben Keene

St. Michael’s Church

We held our annual parochial church meeting (APCM) and parochial church council (PCC) meeting in church on 9 May. Happily, we were able to approach planning for the coming months with some new optimism. Sunday services have resumed and all being well, post 21 June, it might be possible to sing again inside church.

We plan to hold our long established annual wine and cheese party again (after cancellation last year). Please make a diary note for Friday 6 August. Details later.

We intend becoming involved with the A Rocha ECO Church initiative and are currently switching to fully ethical banking and green energy supply.

Please also make a diary note for our carol service – Wednesday 15December.

If you are interested in any of our APCM reports, please email john.jbt@ btinternet.com.

Manor Farm, Knighton Hill, Sherborne DT9 6QU

Come and enjoy the arboretum, wildflower meadow, woodland walks and cottage garden at Manor Farm, Knighton Hill, in between Lillington and Beer Hackett. £5 per person entrance (under 12s free) and ‘Tea on the Terrace’ (£5 per person all ages). In aid of St. Michael’s Church.

Parking available. No toilet facilities. Signage from A352 Dorchester Road and the Yetminster road.

Enquiries: 07961 080513

Happy Hacketteers

If you are not already signed up to the Village Whats App group, do please consider joining. The group members were able to share useful information and updates during the nine hour power outage that the hamlet experienced during the awful storm in early May – luckily the only major casualties were a plastic green house that moved gardens and, sadly, a tree was lost in Brounlie Wood.

Help!

As if there wasn’t enough water around at the moment, a burst water main flooded the road too!