May 2021 No. 335 by Wriggle Valley Magazine

WRIGGLE VALLEY MAGAZINE No 335 May 2021

In this issue: Easter services take place across the benefice Dorset Art Weeks' exhibitions go online Nature notes – the clever disguise of hoverflies

POETRY PAGE

Christina Rossetti’s ‘The Pageant’ cont.

Rossetti’s text for A Pageant included a cast of ‘personifications’ (the months), to be played by boys and girls, along with stage directions - we include only those necessary to follow proceedings. This month has the text for May; each WVM in 2021 will feature the verse Rossetti wrote for that month. May arrives and gives April a kiss. April: Ah May, good-morrow May, and so good-bye. May: That's just your way, sweet April, smile and sigh: Your sorrow's half in fun, Begun and done And turned to joy while twenty seconds run. I've gathered flowers all as I came along At every step a flower Fed by your last bright shower, She divides

Of every bird in bower. The world and I are far too full of bliss To think or plan or toil or care; The sun is waxing strong, The days are waxing long, And all that is, Is fair. Here are my buds of lily and of rose, And here's my namesake-blossom, may; And from a watery spot See here forget-me-not, With all

that blows To-day. Hark to my linnets from the hedges green, Blackbird and lark and thrush and dove And every nightingale And cuckoo tells its tale, And all they mean Is love.

an armful of all sorts of flowers with April, who strolls away through the garden. May: And gathering flowers I listened to the song 2

June appears at the further end of the garden, coming slowly towards May, who, seeing her, exclaims: May: Surely you're come too early, sister June. to be continued

CONTENTS EDITORIAL 5 Calling all cooks p.10

THE BOOK PAGE

Travel

it is one of his best, but because it is e time of writing we do not know the best ever title for a travel book. we can travel and where. Rural ‘A View of the World’ by Norman Lewis, er’s personal choice of favourite thought by Graham Greene to be ‘one of writers can help fill the void. the best writers of the 20th Century’, is mong the Cities’ by Jan Morris is a a collection of 20 essays spanning 30 book with wide appeal as it years and is an ideal starting point for es 37 essays on locations around new readers of travel writing. (My orld from Beijing to Baghdad (and favourite Lewis book is ‘Naples 44’, an Bath). The great Paul Theroux said account of his time as a Field Security rris, “I don’t think there is a writer Service Officer in British Intelligence who has Jan Morris’s serenity or attached to the US Fifth Army in Italy, gth.” No more need be said. which is wonderfully er great book witty, observant of er is ‘Venice’ human nature and a Faber Modern tragic all at once). c. Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Old Glory’ is aphy of the Jonathan Raban’s city is arguably thoroughly involving s brilliant. account of a trip ack Lamb and down the Mississippi Falcon’ is in a 16 foot boat. cca West’s book W G Sebald, author Yugoslavia on of ‘Austerlitz’, one of ve of World War the great novels of blished in 1942) the late 20th century a mesmerising All books available new/used online wrote a breakthrough nation of elegant travel book, ‘Rings of Saturn’ describing g on the Byzantine, Islamic and his walk through the East of England. ian associations of the country ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ by perceptive analysis of the origins of George Orwell and ‘The Innocents m and terrorism, which made the Abroad’ by Mark Twain should also get so dangerous during the war (and a favourable mention. n the last century). ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert uce Chatwin - which of his star must have sent many a single female ? I go for his first book ‘In traveller on inspiring journeys (it was onia’, because it was so strikingly made into a film starring Julia Roberts) al at the time it was published You thought I wouldn’t mention Paul 7) and both its structure and style Theroux? ‘Dark Star Safari’ and ‘The n so today. I add a mention of his Great Railway Bazaar’ must be two of t am I doing here’ the last book the best travel books ever written. hed in his lifetime, a collection of s, essays and profiles, not because Rural Reader

Plastic free in Leigh on p.20

Rural Reader p.52

New patrons support the WVCC p.41

NEWS FROM THE VILLAGES

Batcombe 6 Beer Hackett 9 Chetnole 12 Hermitage 17 Leigh 18 Ryme Intrinseca 28 Yetminster 29

CLUB NEWS

POGLES WOOD EXPLORERS 43 NATURE NOTES

OTHER NEWS

OUR CHURCH COMMUNITIES 53 PLANNING 58 REGULAR EVENTS

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Last week saw the annual global event, observed on 22 April, of Earth Day, that celebrates the environmental movement and raises awareness about pollution and ways to maintain a clean habitat. Dorset has a Climate and Ecological Emergency Strategy and Wriggle Valley communities are playing their part; the need to preserve and protect our countryside and ancient buildings features throughout this issue, from the Batcombe Church Bolster the Beams campaign, to village litter picks, to action to go plastic-free in July (and in the future). Easter holds the promise of renewal and, this year, there was a particularly welcome return of the Easter church services across the benefice, with the additional joy for many of being able to sing outside in the sunny weather. The village sections report on congregations coming together and there are photos of the beautiful flowered crosses. We know Dorset to be a place of varied and stunning landscapes, steeped in history and culture. (p23) But it has hidden quirks and qualities too. This issue sees the introduction of the ‘Alternative Dorset’ column, highlighting some lesser known aspects of our county. This month – it’s red hot!

Kathryn Edwards Editor 5

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BATCOMBE

Gorse on Batcombe Down

Batcombe Church

We enjoyed an uplifting Easter Day Service in Batcombe church with a good mix of young and old, together with some welcome visitors from outside the village. There was lovely spring weather and we sang a hymn outside the church at the end of the service. The church was beautifully decorated with flowers.

Photo: J Gibbs

Mothering Sunday

On Mothering Sunday, a kind group from the church made 30 posies and delivered them to all the Batcombe households with women in them. A lovely and much appreciated gesture.

Photo: J Gibbs

HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Photo: Tattie Rose Isles

On Saturday 10 April our church warden, Susie Graham, tolled the church bell 99 times in honour of, and as a tribute to, the life of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Bolster the Beams The little Church of St. Mary Magdalene, dating from the 11th Century, is beautifully sited under Batcombe Down. Batcombe is a tiny village with a population of about 70 adults; we have no shop or pub and our Church is the only community building. The roof has been attacked by deathwatch beetles, which have chewed through the historic oak roof timbers and wall plates. We must stabilise and strengthen the structure and treat all the woodwork against further damage. The PCC has spent £16,000 of its own funds over the last 21 months for an architect, a structural engineer and other specialists to assess the damage and find a solution for bolstering the roof structure. We expect the repair project to cost a further £75,000 and we anticipate starting the work in 2022.

Hence the Bolster the Beams (BtB) fundraising. Anyone wishing to help with a donation, please contact PCC Treasurer, Julie Gibbs (email: julie.m.gibbs@gmail. com). You can also help the fundraising by supporting the events we run as a parish community such as the Batcombe Cream Teas on 27 June at Hilfield Friary, the jumble sale on 9 October, quiz nights and talks; bring friends to events; spread the word about events. You can also sign up to www.easyfundraising.org.uk and support the Batcombe Church Bolster the Beams campaign when you shop online with over 2,700 retailers. A percentage of what you spend will be donated to BtB, at no additional cost to you. Batcombe Church has stood for more than 800 years, through the reigns of numerous monarchs, and seen the impact on the country of the Black Death, the Plague, Covid-19, of wars at home and wars abroad. Thousands of village people have taken comfort from its presence in times of celebration – weddings, baptisms, festivals – and sadness – funerals, memorial services. It seems unconscionable that we let the ravages of a bit of weather and the jaws of a tiny wood boring beetle win the day.

Bailey Drove Easter daffodils

Batcombe Church

Photo: J Gibbs

The saga of Bailey Drove has moved into a new phase. As you may know, Bailey Drove is a footpath from south east of Scotley Farm (in Batcombe parish), becoming a bridleway (in Leigh parish) and running to Wriggle River Lane. Trail Riders Fellowship (TRF) are seeking to turn it into a Byway Open to All Traffic (BOAT). The case has been fought up to the Supreme Court and Dorset Council (DC) has now issued an Order, the effect of which will be to make Bailey Drove a BOAT. There will 7

be an objection to the DC Order on behalf of Green Lanes Protection Group (GLPG). Both Leigh PC and Batcombe PC have objected in the past and I hope that they will successfully object to the DC Order. I will keep you updated!

Proposal for 272 holiday lodges at Clay Pigeon The original proposal last year was for 313 holiday cottages. The resubmitted proposal is materially the same, with some fiddling at the edges. All the issues remain, i.e. a ludicrously huge holiday park in the wrong location, with significant traffic and other issues for Batcombe and the surrounding countryside. It beggars belief that anyone thinks they can shift 14,000 weeks of holidays per year with no local attractions other than the A37. It is shown on the planning website that the decision is delegated to be made by

the planning officer; whereas many of us think that such a large and contentious project should, as a minimum, be heard by a full committee with public representation. Objections can be made to https://planning.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk up to 10 May. See note in Planning on p.59.

Thought from the Rise of the Wriggle “To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one’s personal and even the world’s troubles seem small and petty.” HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Johnny Gibbs

Photo: J Gibbs

BEER HACKETT

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

Photo: Jean Parker

St. Michael’s Church

Photo: John Bingham

On Low Sunday, 11 April, we were pleased to be able to worship in church for the first time since December 2020 and were delighted to welcome Gifle Valley neighbours in a congregation of 21. Our liturgy was changed at the last minute to the special service issued by the Church of England in memory of His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Henry Johnsen with his father James had erected our flagpole at the top of the tower the day before and affixed the Union Flag at half-mast. Henry tolled a bell 41 times before the service. Revd. Tony Gilbert included in his sermon a warm appreciation of a long life of service and some reflections on his meetings with Prince Philip while in the RAF. We look forward now to Sunday services being able to carry on. Please continue to refer to the notice board and the website www.threevalleysteam.org. 9

Annual Parish Church Meeting (APCM) This will be held in church immediately following the 10.00am service on Sunday, 9 May, and will be followed by a short PCC meeting. The APCM is open to everyone on the civil electoral roll. You are warmly invited to join us for both the service and the meeting, or even just the meeting afterwards at approximately 10.50am. This is your opportunity to hear all the reports on the finances, activities and plans of your PCC. John Bingham

If you would like to contribute your favourite recipe, please send it to the Secretary either by post or email. Please include the name of your recipe along with full details of ingredients and cooking instructions. Please also include your name and contact details, if only an email address, so that if the book is launched and you would like to purchase a copy – we can be in touch to arrange. This request for recipes is not confined to Beer Hackett – all other local villages are very welcome to contribute. Defibrillator – volunteers

Friends of St. Michael’s Church Membership subscription renewal A kindly reminder – please renew your annual subscription if you have not already done so. The ‘Friends’ are now a registered Charity and are thus able to collect Gift Aid. Renewal letters including a Gift Aid form were included with the recent Contact Magazine distribution. However, if you require further copies of the Gift Aid form, or indeed any of the renewal paperwork, please do not hesitate to contact me. Beer Hackett recipe book The ‘Friends’ have come up with an idea to publish readers’ favourite recipes in a book to be sold locally. The idea has been floated in the hope it will help raise monies for our Church. 10

On behalf of our hamlet and surrounding community, the ‘Friends’ are desperately trying to find volunteers who are willing to collect and deliver the defibrillator should the need ever arise. Currently we have just three volunteers. Response to this request has not been very forthcoming and so we would ask you all again to consider

putting your name forward for this very worthwhile purpose. Obviously, the younger the person is the better – but it is far more important for the defibrillator to be delivered as quickly as possible to an emergency – even if it takes a little longer for us ‘oldies’. After all this last year has highlighted the fact that none of us know what is around the corner! Once we have a few more people on the list it will be published and distributed around the hamlet. Olive Davison, Secretary Firemoon2015@hotmail.com 07552818389 Green Acres, The Mead, Beer Hackett DT9 6QT

Happy Hacketteers Our village ‘Whats App’ group, set up last year during the first lockdown, is still going strong and proving a useful community resource for information sharing and updates plus humour, recipes, images, local traffic updates and a lot more. Do please join in as it does help to be able to rapidly share information in these strange times!

Dorset Council timetable

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recycling

There are some printed copies of the refuse/recycled/garden waste collection rota in the Church porch for anyone doesn’t have the facility to print.

John Parker

CHETNOLE with

Hamlet, Melbury Bubb & Stockwood

REP: Liz Tebbatt 873140 tebbatt.towers@gmail.com DISTRIBUTOR: Stan Darley

We say farewell and good luck to Nicola Berry who has crossed the border into Devon and moved to Seaton. Nicola and her family have been Chetnole residents for a long time and we’ll really miss them but wish her many years of happiness living by the sea. Covid-19 has put paid to Dorset Art Weeks for 2021 but you can still get some culture by viewing Bee Grant-Peterkin’s online exhibition – see p.50 for details. And don’t forget to take a look at this year’s Flower Show & Fete’s schedule on Instagram, Facebook or our Parish Council website to get ahead with your entries. The Chetnole Chuckers have resumed playing social boules, limited to two separate groups of six players, on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons. Also, read on for how you can join the five new patrons of Wriggle Valley Cricket Club, it won’t be long now before those blissful afternoons watching the match on the playing field will be with us again. The Yetminster road, Chetnole will be closed for essential work on the water supply network from Tues 4th to Fri 7th May inclusive. Access for residents only. Have a great May and enjoy the long weekends it brings. Liz Tebbatt 12

ST PETER'S CHURCH CHETNOLE

CREAM TEAS in the CHURCHYARD (in village hall if wet)

with TEDDY BEAR PARACHUTING

Sunday July 4th from 3.00 to 5.00 p.m. Once again Teddy Bears will be jumping off St. Peter’s church tower. Bring your parachute and teddy bear (or any other soft toy) and have a go! Any size or design will do, provided it fits into the basket for hoisting up the tower. Make sure your Teddy’s name and your family name are clearly marked. Children and adults of all ages welcome. All entrants get a certificate and the slowest descent (that lands in the churchyard!) will win a prize. £1 per jump for church funds.

Friends of St. Peter’s Chetnole The Friends of St. Peter’s Chetnole are sadly not yet able to organise any fund-raising events. In the meantime, here is an update on what we have been doing, and what we hope to do in future. Back in February last year we did manage to have ‘An Evening with Matt Harvey’, which raised nearly £500 for the Friends. That, along with a stall at the fete, a generous donation from the Flower Show Committee and membership subscriptions to the Friends, allowed us to give nearly £2000 to St. Peter’s at the end of 2020. We were pleased that this money paid for the repair of the organ, and anyone who attended the Easter service will have noticed a significant difference. This year we plan to have another stall at the Fete and Flower Show and hope to take part in the Ride and Stride. However, we also plan to hold a raffle at the Teddy Bear Parachuting afternoon on Sunday 4 July. Do come and buy a raffle ticket and find out more about the Friends at the same time. All monies raised go to help pay for necessary repairs to St. Peter’s. If you would like to find out more, then please get in touch with Jackie Jones on 873742. The Friends of St Peter’s Chetnole

Chetnole Chelonians

Welcome to the latest addition to our garden: two spur thighed tortoises named Ellie and Pancake... Chelonians in Chetnole! (Chelonians being their species). Bred in captivity by a couple from Longburton, they are 28 years old already and could live to well beyond their hundredth birthday. They absolutely love dandelions. Jim and Michele Aldhouse

Chetnole fuel group If you would like to order some domestic heating oil, please call John Sanford on 01935 872973 at least five working days before the next delivery date which is 17 June. 13

HERMITAGE

REP: Tom Beels tom@beelsandco.com DISTRIBUTOR: Faith Hervey

Photo: Jeremy Cozens

Welcome to Sally Roohan and Richard Withey, who have moved into Blackberry Farm with their dog Ralph. We hope that they will be very happy in Hermitage and look forward to seeing them at village events when these start up again.

St.Mary’s church The church continues to be open all day on Sundays and Wednesdays for anyone to go in for some quiet time. We had our first service since Christmas with a full church to hear the Banns read for Cheryl House and Ben Rieper, who will hold their wedding here on 29 May. We hope to settle into a regular pattern of services soon; until then we will let you know via e-mail, WhatsApp or phone calls. Elizabeth Kenton Churchwarden

Annual Church and Parish Meetings At the Annual Vestry and Parochial Church Meetings on 13 April, Elizabeth Kenton was appointed as Churchwarden and the Parochial Church Council was elected as: Chair: Rev G Moody (when available) Vice Chair: Elizabeth Kenton Secretary: George Grazebrook Treasurer: Jan Pescott Fabric Officer: Martin Savage Electoral Roll Officer: Cindy Durham Deanery Synod rep: Elizabeth Kenton Safeguarding Officer: Jocelyn Buck (with EK until training is complete) Activities during the coming year are not yet known, but it is likely that there will be a Spring Cleaning Working Party during early summer (probably June), Ride and Stride is expected for the second weekend in September, and we are hoping that the normal Hermitage Green weekend activities will take place on the second weekend of August as usual. Volunteers for Spring Cleaning please! George Grazebrook  A nice photo taken by Joss Buck. A handsome fellow who was finishing off the fish in her pond.

LEIGH

REPS: Philippa Toulson philippa.toulson@gmail.com Eddie Upton upton.eddie@gmail.com DISTRIBUTOR: Judy Tuke

Photo: Fiona Parks The elusive Leigh Tulip

Please look at Alan Bennett’s Parish Council update and give some thought to attending the village annual meeting. What the council does affects us all so we should all show a healthy interest in this meeting. Thanks to two eagle-eyed and quick-witted villagers we can include photographic evidence of two remarkable aspects of Leigh life. Fiona Parks has tracked down and photographed the rare Leigh Tulip and has even researched its Latin name, Tulipa Sylvestris. Until now we have had to rely on the drawing in Barbara Boswell’s book, so well done Fiona. A couple of years ago a house was demolished in the village and a toilet was left standing while building work went on around it. Thanks to Michelle Read whose photograph suggests that Leigh’s open air toilet has mysteriously reappeared! 18

Finally, a very warm welcome to the village to Jessica and Boz who have moved into Rosemarie Cottage in South Street, and to Sally and Brian who have taken up residence in one of the new houses on Chetnole Road. Philippa Toulson and Eddie Upton

affection. We will also be able to record events After several months of that help us remember listening to online and past lives. The book is radio services, we were there for any of us to able to celebrate Easter in write in. It doesn’t have glorious sunshine in the any legal standing, but churchyard. It was lovely we hope it will hold to be able to come together emotional significance again and to sing as well as for us all. worship. After so long away On 31 March we held from the church, it was a our first Remembering real pleasure to welcome Past Lives service in 43 people to that service. the churchyard. We Let’s hope this signals a wish to hold this short return to a regular pattern service of reflection and of services. Whenever celebration at 10.00am possible, we will hold our on the 31st of each services in the open air. month containing 31 We are planning three days, so the next one services in May, each at Easter cross at St. Andrew's will be at 10.00am on 10.00am. There will be a 31 May. Again, please bring your own Rogation Sunday Communion service on chair with you. The new Memorial Book 9 May, another Communion service on will be brought to each of these services. 16 May and a lay-led service on 23 May. The return of our monthly coffee We have a few chairs available in the mornings is getting ever closer. The first church, but it would help greatly if you of these will be on Tuesday 1 June at could bring a picnic chair with you. 10.30am. Covid-19 restrictions mean this will be in the churchyard – please bring a mug as well as a chair. After June we hope that regulations will allow us back into the church for these First Tuesday coffee mornings. Finally, we ask everyone’s co-operation regarding our care of the environment and of the churchyard. Since 2007, the Church of England has clearly stipulated that artificial flowers should not be used Photo: Michelle Read in churchyards. We feel that we cannot Prompted by the death of Prince Philip, ignore this ruling any longer, and we there is now a Memorial Book in the ask that from 1 July, we only have real church. This gives us all the opportunity flowers in the churchyard. to record the death of someone in the Alaistair Cumming and Eddie Upton Churchwardens village, or of whom we have particular

St Andrew’s Church, Leigh

Plastic Free in Leigh Plastic Free July is a global movement that encourages all of us to be part of the solution to the dreadful environmental damage caused by plastic pollution, so that there can be cleaner streets and oceans as well as beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?

plastic free shopping

As the Leigh Climate Group’s first major project we have decided to see how we get on taking part in the campaign initiated by plasticfree.org in Australia. And – much the most important news – we hope that as many of you as possible will join us in the attempt. None of us is perfect, and it will be truly remarkable if anyone manages to go entirely plastic free for the month, but every small step will be an achievement and we will be sharing the experience with each other. Our plan is to make cotton kitbags that can be used as shopping bags and give one to every family that wants to 20

join the attempt. The bags will include some simple goodies, discount cards, and suggestions for ways of reducing the role of plastic in our 21st-century lives. At the beginning of June, we are going to ask you to sign up for the kitbags. They will be ready for you at the end of the month, then we will all embark on our attempt together, sharing discoveries and information as we go, during July. With luck we will learn some skills and tips that we can continue to employ in our everyday lives and at the least we will have become more aware of how incredibly difficult it is to avoid singleuse plastic. There will also be a competition and prizes for both under-18s and adults who come up with smart suggestions. We will be posting updates on the Leigh Climate Group’s Facebook page, and hope you will post suggestions and questions too. It will be fascinating to discover how we all get on. Thank you in advance for supporting this initiative. Sally Salvesen

Until three years ago, Leigh had an active ‘Community Speed Watch’ (CSW) patrol; vehicle speeds were monitored in village locations approved by Dorset At the March parish council meeting, it Police, and speeding offenders were was decided to close the ‘Leigh Lifeline’, accordingly written to by them. While as it had not been called during the past the system was operating, speeds three months. It had been established a through the village were demonstrably year ago to support the most vulnerable reduced but then sadly, due to the team residents during periods of lockdown. leader’s relocation to pastures new, the However, the associated page on patrols fell into abeyance. However, Facebook will continue. I know that many recent developments indicate that we will of our residents have been most grateful soon have a new team leader. Assuming for the support that was provided via the this is so, we will also need about eight ‘Leigh Lifeline’; I am sure that all in the assistants (so that a patrol of three or parish will join in the council’s heartfelt four people can be mounted regularly). thanks to Julia Jepson for initiating the If you are prepared to consider joining scheme, and to all this group, please those – too many to contact Beverley mention – who acted Harrison (leigh@ as support coordinators. dorset-aptc.gov.uk) Their efforts showed our – no commitment community at its best. is sought at this As we (hopefully) stage. Once the now return to a more Leigh CSW has normal way of life, re-formed, patrols concern has been can be mounted as expressed regarding the often as the leader speed of some traffic and assigned team through the village. feel appropriate. After discussion with These topics Dorset Council’s Highways department, and others will be on the agenda for the the intention is to add to the existing forthcoming annual village meeting – road markings, and refresh those already 7.00pm on Tuesday 18 May. Assuming in situ. The areas under consideration the roadmap for relaxation of the for these upgrades are: the approaches current Covid regulations progresses as to the narrow parts of the Chetnole Road planned, it is intended that the meeting by the church and between the Fudges will be in person in the Leigh village and the Back Drove junction; and the hall. This is your chance to raise any road between Leigh Cross and Bridge issues that might be of general concern Garage. An application has also been to the parish’s residents – so do come made, in conjunction with High Stoy along and give your view on current or parish council, to extend the present proposed future initiatives. 40mph zone through Totnell so that it Alan Bennett arcbennett@hotmail.co.uk includes Three Gates.

Leigh parish council update and forthcoming annual village meeting

Measures to improve road safety in Leigh for cyclists and pedestrians Further to Alan’s piece above, Leigh Parish Council are having discussions with the Dorset Highways Team to improve road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in the village. The section of Chetnole Road by the church/Leighcote and the section immediately after Back Drove towards the New Coach House are blind corners, narrow and without a footpath. There is also concern regarding the stretch of road between Greenham House and Orchard Hollow/Bridge farm with a risk of collision at the driveway of the Old Stores. Dorset Highways suggest they refresh the SLOW signs on the Chetnole Road spots, highlight them with a yellow bar on either side of the SLOW and put in white side bars along the roadside to emphasise the narrowness of the section. They will consider the issue of the road adjacent to the Old Stores. Before any of the above markings are improved, Dorset Highways wish Leigh residents to be made aware, to identify any strong opposition to the intended markings. Please email cate.m.dixon@ gmail.com to record your support or objection to these measures. Thanks. Cate Dixon cate.m.dixon@gmail.com

and drink to supplement the excitement and tension that always accompanies the bidding for Alton and Beere/Bere/ Beer Mill meads, as the candles flame and flicker, sometimes for twenty minutes, sometimes for 20 seconds? It’s like the last day of a closely fought test match! Hope to (be able to) see you there. Gordon Morris Chairman, Leigh Parish Lands Trust

Viscount Hugh le Hardy 1921–2021

Leigh Candle Auction 2021 Well, the hall is booked, the Trustees are primed and so, if all goes according to plan, this year’s Candle Auction will be held in Leigh Village Hall on Wednesday, 23 June (7.30 for 8.00pm). We hope – indeed, intend – to run the grub and bar bonuses in the pre-Covidnormal way. That said, who needs food 22

Viscount Hugh le Hardy died on 2 April aged 100, ten days short of his 101st birthday. Hugh came frequently to Kingsleigh, Leigh, from Belgium. He loved Dorset and had many friends here. He enjoyed all the field sports.

ALTERNATIVE DORSET

A series on the singularities of our county. 1. The Naga Chilli. No problem for birds.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR APRIL WINNERS. Winners for the April draw: 1st Ball 2nd Ball 3rd Ball 4th Ball

No No No No

157 Mr and Mrs S.Porter £40 33 Kevin Roberts £20 20 Trish Harvey £10 37 Heather Baldock £5

If you would like to take part, please contact: Julian Turnbull on 01935 873846 or Alastair Cumming on 01935 872401 It is only £1 per month

The Dorset Naga chilli, (its antecedence is in Bangladesh and North East India not Piddlehinton) is a substrain of the Bhut Jolokia, and was once talked of as the hottest chilli in the world. In fact it has ceded the No 1 position to the Carolina Reaper. The ferocity of chillis is measured on a scale called the Scoville Heat Unit. The Reaper delivers an explosive average SHU of 1.3 million,

The Naga: ideal for Budgies? and can go up to a nuclear 2.2 million. The Naga is a more delicate 923,000. on average. Delicate? That’s still about 400 times hotter than Tabasco Sauce. The fire comes not, as is often thought, from its seeds, but from the white spongy layer inside, the placenta, which contains the heat generating capsaicin which binds on to the TRPV1 receptors in your mouth. Wild chilli plants evolved with capsaicin to deter mammals from consuming them. Birds, lacking TRPV1 receptors, are able to eat them without trouble, thus helping the plant disperse its seeds far and wide. Described by one chef as having a sweet, slightly tart flavour with woody, smoky flavours the Naga is thought to be ideal for BBQs, though it’s not made clear if you should use it in the recipe or to light the barbeque.

Watery Lane in Leigh, when it was still watery!

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Welcome to Nick and Jan Clennett, who have moved from Hailsham to “Trendles”. Nick was in the pharmaceuticals business and Jan was a teacher. They enjoy tennis, walking, cycling, and gardening, and Jan enjoys painting as well. Hope they will be very happy here. It was great to have our annual litter pick which we missed last year. There was a good turnout of over 30 people, well spread out over all the approach roads to Ryme. The collected rubbish is piled up waiting for the council to pick up, happily not quite as big a pile as usual. Ryme now looks pristine. It was lovely to see so many new residents join 28

in, hopefully they will now have made some new friends in the village. Our next event will be the Churchyard Tidy up on Saturday 15 May at 10.00am. Please bring your own protective clothing and tools. There will be lots to do as everything is growing apace. On Easter Day we had a good gathering of 17 people who got up early and came to our 8.30am service, only the second one that we have had in the church since February 2020. Thank you to all the people that made it look so cheerful with lovely flowers in all the windows; Jan Millward’s flower decorated cross was wonderful as always. Gilly Wilson

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I start this article with the announcement that Christmas is officially over – the Christmas tree embedded in the village triangle is no more. Thank you to Andy Perlejewski and his small team for undertaking this task. This section of the magazine opens with measured optimism for our village community. The pub and sports club opened for outside catering and drinks on 12 April. The Spar, Gallery Café, and many other local businesses are continuing to provide a fantastic service to us all. It will also be a period when our local clubs and organisations will be thinking of slowly re-opening. This is a timely reminder to us that once they are all up and running to full capacity, we need to support them or the old adage of “use them or lose them” will apply.

The White Hart Pub: Carole and Jim have worked hard to enhance the outside areas for Yetminster residents and others to enjoy. A softly, softly approach to coming out of lockdown has seen them open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes for the last couple of weeks. Please keep an eye on the pub website and pub door for more info. 29

Easter was a wonderful period and it was fantastic to attend an actual church service. The Reverend George Moody celebrated Holy Communion. A small choir, conducted by the organist, Simon Eadon, opened with This Joyful Eastertide as an intro and sang three unaccompanied hymns from a distance in the chancel. Julie Simpson and I read the lessons. Patrick and Frances Moule led the prayers. The great, happy surprise was the gathering outside the church at the end when everyone sang! We also afforded us the opportunity to admire the re-gilded weathercock which will soon go back on top of the tower.

Family window

Easter Bonnets

The Easter decoration competition culminated in Julia Simpson winning the adult entry for her spectacular Easter bonnet. The children’s winner was Maggie Doody for her Easter basket, the judges were especially impressed by Maggie’s original artwork. Highly commended were Julie Hunter-McGiven for her beautiful family window and Easter Bonnets by Jessica Farrell and Issy Mills. A great deal of effort has been expended on the repair of the finger post, please read Geoff Goaters Article on page 33. I would commend reading the 30

Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Neighbourhood Plan Working Group article on page 32 which goes some way to allaying my fears regarding the Dorset Draft Local Plan and the numbers of proposed new dwellings for Yetminster. I would like to finish this month’s input by noting my astonishment on how fast you can lay tarmac. Village roads have been repaired in what I consider lightning-fast time, this must be progress, not sure about its sustainability. I am hesitant to say this, but enjoy the good weather, get back to the pub and sports club and stay safe. Michaela and Graham Plaice

50/50 Club Result of the April 2021 Draw 1st Prize £50 No. 47 Mr. H. Rowbothom 2nd Prize £30 No. 6 Mrs. L. Manaton 3rd Prize £20 No. 3 Mr. M. Hampson Want to join? – forms available at http://yetminsterparishes.gov.uk/a-z/ yetminster-fair-association The Association raises money for local organisations and is non-profit making and run entirely with voluntary support yetminsterfair@aol.com

St. Andrew’s Church May … Dorset’s most beautiful bluebell time of year. As I write just after Easter, we are looking forward to a fuller emergence from lockdown on 17 May ... roll on spring and summer! Easter update: a wonderful service was held at St Andrews on a gloriously sunny day, with the church as full as possible and more outside in the sun, with the service relayed via a sound system. The children from St. Andrew’s School had created a beautiful Easter garden in the porch. Afterwards everyone joined up outside to sing a rousing hymn together, Jesus Christ is Risen Today, and to enjoy their Easter eggs. Our golden cockerel glowed

Easter Garden

and sparkled in the sun – on display at ground level. Grateful thanks to Claire Thomson for his restoration and regilding. Congratulations to the winners of our Easter Decoration competition. Julie Simpson was the adult winner with her marvellous Easter bonnet, and Maggie Doody (age three) won the children’s prize.

via this link: https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UClAs6DNnfzkbnVe69u5TUvw Details of all our church services can be found in this magazine, on the church notice boards, and via the weekly Round Robin. If you would like to get this, please email me. With my best wishes Churchwarden Clare Churchwarden.yet@gmail.com

Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Neighbourhood Plan – progress report Maggie Doody

Our APCM (AGM) took place on Sunday 18 April, when we bade a fond farewell to both David Price and David Gould after their many years of service to our church, as Treasurer and Churchwarden respectively. We also welcomed three new members onto the PCC: Graham Plaice, Graham Simpson and Amy Whittlesea. Looking ahead we very much hope to open the Tower again this summer, with teas and the new churchyard map, on Saturday 26 June. Churches and services will be carefully re-opening, and possibly by the end of June some sort of normality will be back in our lives again. We have a new Curate arriving – Jenny Nelson is a teacher at Sherborne Girls School who will be priested on 27 June and will start working with the Benefice clergy as a self-supporting minister. We warmly welcome her and look forward to meeting her. Nick Swann has very kindly created a beautiful video of St. Andrew’s Church on Easter Sunday, which can be seen via his youtube channel England’s Old Churches, 32

This has been a busy month for the YRIPC Neighbourhood Plan Working Group as they have been agreeing and finalising the changes and amendments to the draft text following the assessment of the consultation comments and suggestions. This work is almost complete, and we are grateful for the assistance of the Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca Walking Group and of the former NP Steering Team Leader for the NP Business Group with this. AECOM’s consultant, who is advising us on conservation issues has now visited the sites with members of the working group (whilst complying with the Covid restrictions) and this has enabled him to complete his report. The assessments and recommendations are being reviewed and final decisions on possible changes to the number of identified development sites will be made soon. As part of this finalisation process Dorset Council were asked how they

derived their figures to determine the proposed 154 new dwellings, as identified in the draft Local Plan. This number is higher, even allowing for the shorter life period of the Y&RI Neighbourhood Plan, than that determined by the original NP Steering Group and it was felt to be helpful if the calculation could be understood. In reviewing their figures, it appears Dorset Council have found two errors that have consequently inflated the draft Local Plan’s overall housing requirement for Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca. Two major applications had apparently been inadvertently included in the small site’s windfall figure and several small applications had been missed. The revised list of small sites completions is now only seven permissions over the last six years (rather than 32), which has been projected forward as a revised requirement (after the Folly Farm completions) for 16 dwellings, rather than 74 dwellings, over the length of the Local Plan, which is two years longer than our own Neighbourhood Plan. This is a more manageable figure bearing in mind potential changes in the number of sites to be developed. Under the terms of Locality’s NP Financial Assistance package, an “End of Term” report must be produced to explain how the grant has been spent and this is in hand. Unlike other years the full grant allocation has been used and it is felt that the outstanding YRIPC NP funding as taken forward into 2021/2022 will be sufficient to enable the Plan to be competed and submitted. There is also the benefit of the additional £500 that has been set aside within the agreed precept should it be needed. YRIPC Neighbourhood Plan Working Group

Ryme Road Fingerpost You may be wondering where it’s gone. Volunteers from the village and the Parish Council dismantled the fingerpost on the crossroads to take it away for refurbishment. The ‘fingers’ were in trouble and had started to fail so the opportunity was taken to overhaul the whole post following the successful repair and reintroduction of the one in Ryme Intrinseca, at the junction of Common Lane.

The fingerposts are iconic and of a design unique to Dorset, part of the county landscape and heritage. Since the County Council devolved the responsibility for maintenance of the items a few years ago, our Parish Council has taken up the mantle and is looking after all five posts within the parish.

The council is indebted to the volunteers as well as to Julian Bennett Joinery who generously donated and made the new ‘fingers’. We hope to see it back soon in all its new glory. Cllr Geoff Goater

Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council Chairman’s Notes – April Meeting Plans to repaint the children’s play area have been delayed as the person undertaking the work has unfortunately been taken ill. Quotes for the work to be carried out by a contractor were much higher than expected, so we will need to consider if we can fund this work in this financial year, or to undertake the work ourselves, possibly with the help of volunteers. Some good news for the play area is that Dorset County Council has agreed that the money allocated to provide a gate for the Pound can be spent on a new picnic table in the children’s play area. With the lease due to expire in August, a review has been undertaken on the operation of the Yetminster Community Sports Club. It has been disappointing that the pandemic has limited opening to 19 weeks in the first year of operation and that organised sport has been greatly curtailed. The work carried out by the tenants in decorating the building throughout and installing a new kitchen was recognised. It was decided to offer a new five-year lease with each party being able to give three months’ notice within that period. It is pleasing to report that the drains on the approach to Bow Bridge have been emptied and it is hoped that the culvert will be cleared shortly. We will be meeting with the Environment 34

Agency and local landowners to see what other measures can be taken to reduce flooding in this area. We are also expecting news from Wessex Water on their plans to improve the flooding at Brister End. The first meeting of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) working group has taken place. The group is made up of councillors and volunteers from the community and aims to identify suitable projects and initiatives that meet the funding criteria, while ensuring that any allocated CIL award is administered effectively. The awards must be used for the provision, improvement, replacement, operation, or maintenance of infrastructure needed to support development. In keeping with many other authorities, Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council has declared a Climate and Ecological Emergency and is committed to do everything within its power to assist a drive to net zero carbon emissions by 2035. We will be drawing up an action plan of things that we can do to reduce global warming. Our next meeting on 5 May will commence with our Annual Meeting, at which the accounts will be tabled. Permission for councils to hold virtual meetings ends on 7 May and, with restrictions in place until 21 June, there is some reluctance to hold a face-to-face meeting as scheduled on 2 June. We may therefore decide to hold meetings in July and August. The annual village meeting, at which representatives from local clubs can present their reports, will be delayed until it is safe to hold a meeting. Andy Perlejewski Chairman of Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council

1st Yetminster Scout Group The Beavers, Cubs and Scouts had their final Zoom meetings last month before returning to face-to-face meetings later in April. During their final virtual meeting, they all received a barn owl pellet and had great fun dissecting this and examining the bones found. The pellets were purchased from Suffolk Owl Sanctuary and help support their charity.

The Group continues to act as a collection point for food donations for Sherborne Food Bank and we are now also collecting clean used crisp packets for recycling through Terracycle.

The Group is currently looking for a new Chairperson and Treasurer as the current volunteers step down in July. If you would like to know more, please contact me by email or phone. Paul Hollick Groups Scout Leader Gsl.1styetminster@gmail.com 07815 135602 35

Anne Whittlesea 1942–2021

My dear wife of 50 years died on 27 March after an eight year struggle with very rare frontotemperal dementia. All the family were gathered around her bed until the last breath. If there is such

John Edward 1934 – 2021

On 14 January 2021, John passed away peacefully aged 86. A loving husband of Caryll and father of Serena, Philip, Dorian and James. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. A private family funeral took 36

a thing as a beautiful death, then Anne showed us. We moved to Yetminster in 2013 and had six very happy years in the village, with our daughter Amy, her husband Alex and their two children Danny and Pippa living nearby. There was another move to Thornford in 2019 where Anne lived her last eighteen months. She was a much loved mother of four children, Alex, Alison, Amy and Annalise, and grandmother to eight grandchildren. Her funeral took place at the parish church of St. Mary Magdelene in Thornford on Friday 16 April, and she was buried in the churchyard with lovely views across the valley, surrounded by primroses, daffodils and with ewes and lambs grazing in a nearby field. She lived to love – she loved to live. Adrian Whittlesea place at Hilfield church on 8 February. For his first 27 years John lived at Church Farm, Hilfield, working on the family farm. He loved the freedom of the countryside and was instrumental in setting up the popular Hilfield and Hermitage Young Farmers Club. When John married Caryll in 1963, they lived at Knapp House, Hilfield for two years, where Serena was born, before moving to Bishops Down where their three sons were born. He farmed there for 55 years. His last wish was to return to Hilfield at the end of his life. John is now buried next to his Mum and Dad. Donations if desired in memory of John for Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance C/O Peter Jackson Funeral Services, High Street, Henstridge, Somerset BA8 0RB.

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CLUB NEWS Wriggle Valley Cricket Club If your playing days might just be behind you but you are keen to support your local cricket club, did you know that you can become a WVCC patron? We are delighted to announce our first three Patrons: Gordon Ratcliffe, John and Ruth Sandford. Since the photograph was taken, we are pleased to report that they have been joined by David Russell and Stan Darley. Although becoming a patron does not come with access to the Long Room at Lord’s, you will receive a splendid WVCC cricket cap! There is a donation of £40 per year and the funds raised help towards the essential running costs of the club. If you are interested in becoming a

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Get involved, as a player or supporter Although we are fortunate to have Chetnole as our home ground, the WVCC is a cricket club for all the villages in the Wriggle Valley. If you live in Batcombe, Melbury Bubb, Leigh, Hamlet, Hermitage, Hilfield, Ryme Intrinseca, Yetminster, Beer Hackett or Stockwood, or indeed anywhere close by, and are interested in playing or supporting, do get in touch. Come and say hello at one of our preseason informal net practices, usually on a Thursday. Check first when it’s on with Jeff Beaumont, our captain, email: j.beaumont645@btinternet.com.

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WVCC 2021 Fixtures May Buckhorn Weston, Wed 12th 6.15pm, home T20 Compton House, Wed 19th 6.15pm, away T20 Blandford Flies, Wed 26th 6.15pm, home T20 June Ibberton, Tues 1st 6.15pm, home T20 Stour Provost, Sun 6th 2.00pm, home T30 Atrebates, Sat 12th 2.00pm, home T30 Montague, Wed 16th 6.15pm, away T20 Bournmouth Tchs, Sun 20th 2.00pm, home T20 Delhi Spearmen, Sun 27th 2.00pm, home T20 July Buckhorn Weston, Wed 7th 6.15pm, away T20 Thornford, Wed 14th 6.15pm, home T20 Compton House, Thurs 22nd 6.15pm, home T20 August Thornford, Wed 4th 6.15pm, away T20 Montague, Wed 11th 6.15pm, home T20 Stour Provost, Sun 22nd 1.30pm, away T30 Please note the above dates may be subject to last minute changes due to Covid restrictions.

Wriggle Valley Women’s Group Hello Friends I hope that you all had a peaceful Easter and what lovely weather we had! I have 42

been thinking about when and where we could all have a lovely evening together again and having spoken to many members, we have come up with the idea of having an evening meeting here in our garden at Rimpton Cottage, Chetnole on 20 July. Yes, July! If you are all happy with this idea, please could you bring a plate of food that we can share? I will happily provide all drinks. Last, but not least, please could you come with some ideas for our next programme? John and I look forward to seeing you here on 20 July at 6.30pm. Until then please take care of yourselves. Ruth Sandford

Now that restrictions are easing, more events are being planned, and hopefully, will be able to go ahead. We will restart the diary of events from next month, the June issue. If you would like an entry, please email the following information to Judith Palmer (ja_palmer@btinternet.com) by 12 May 2021 at the latest. The following information is required: day, date, name of event, time, and venue. Judith Palmer

POGLES WOOD EXPLORERS It was lovely to see groups of children back for Holiday Club in the Easter Holidays.

session starts with a picnic lunch from 12.00noon and finishes in time to collect school age children at 3.00pm. Please let me know if you would be interested. With a following breeze we might be able to think about some birthday parties – remember those? Please get in touch with tentative bookings. By the time you read this, all our foster placements will have moved on. The hens are now free to roam so will be heading back over the border to Somerset and Piglet the pony will be wandering back into the village to more spacious and grassy accommodation.

Next Holiday Club dates will be during June half term – Tuesday 1st, Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th June. The day runs from 10.00am – 3.00pm and cost £20 per child. Places are limited so please book well in advance.

From 7 May we are hoping to reintroduce Muddy Monday for preschool children. First and third Mondays are what I have in mind currently. The

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cycle. More of the spectacular Hawkmoth species will start to emerge now, including the strikingly coloured Small Elephant Hawk-moth.

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Garden ponds will be teeming with life. By torchlight you may be lucky enough to find all three native newt species occurring in this area of Dorset, including the rare and highly protected Great Crested Newt.

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20% of sales made through this web page will be donated to St Margaret’s Hospice. We hope very much that we can see everyone again next year! Melita Frances Moule Secretary

Yetminster Group of Artists For the Yetminster group of artists, there will be an online presence. This will be advertised in the DAW App and also in Evolver Magazine. Please look at my website www. melitafrancesmoule.co.uk and then go to the Yetminster Group page which has a link to the group’s paintings.

Dorset and other places In aid of Save the Children, my exhibition, “Dorset and other places”, will be online at www. beegrantpeterkin.co.uk Open now! Bee Grant-Peterkin 01935 872255

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it is one of his best, but because it is At the time of writing we do not know the best ever title for a travel book. when we can travel and where. Rural ‘A View of the World’ by Norman Lewis, Reader’s personal choice of favourite thought by Graham Greene to be ‘one of travel writers can help fill the void. the best writers of the 20th Century’, is ‘Among the Cities’ by Jan Morris is a a collection of 20 essays spanning 30 travel book with wide appeal as it years and is an ideal starting point for features 37 essays on locations around new readers of travel writing. (My the world from Beijing to Baghdad (and favourite Lewis book is ‘Naples 44’, an even Bath). The great Paul Theroux said account of his time as a Field Security of Morris, “I don’t think there is a writer Service Officer in British Intelligence alive who has Jan Morris’s serenity or attached to the US Fifth Army in Italy, strength.” No more need be said. which is wonderfully Another great book witty, observant of by her is ‘Venice’ human nature and now a Faber Modern tragic all at once). classic. Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Old Glory’ is biography of the Jonathan Raban’s same city is arguably thoroughly involving just as brilliant. account of a trip ‘Black Lamb and down the Mississippi Grey Falcon’ is in a 16 foot boat. Rebecca West’s book W G Sebald, author about Yugoslavia on of ‘Austerlitz’, one of the eve of World War the great novels of II. (Published in 1942) the late 20th century It is a mesmerising All books available new/used online wrote a breakthrough combination of elegant travel book, ‘Rings of Saturn’ describing writing on the Byzantine, Islamic and his walk through the East of England. Christian associations of the country ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ by with perceptive analysis of the origins of George Orwell and ‘The Innocents fascism and terrorism, which made the Abroad’ by Mark Twain should also get place so dangerous during the war (and a favourable mention. later in the last century). ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ by Elizabeth Gilbert Bruce Chatwin - which of his star must have sent many a single female works? I go for his first book ‘In traveller on inspiring journeys (it was Patagonia’, because it was so strikingly made into a film starring Julia Roberts) original at the time it was published You thought I wouldn’t mention Paul (1987) and both its structure and style Theroux? ‘Dark Star Safari’ and ‘The remain so today. I add a mention of his Great Railway Bazaar’ must be two of ‘What am I doing here’ the last book the best travel books ever written. published in his lifetime, a collection of Rural Reader stories, essays and profiles, not because 52

CHURCH NEWS

News from the Three Valleys team Dear Friends We are now moving out of lockdown and our churches are beginning to open up to welcome us back. However, there is concern in the higher church circles that after so long a pause some people simply will not return. That being the case I thought that I would rehash something I wrote several years ago about why we go to church, as there are many misconceptions to put right. For instance, some say people go to church to earn a place in heaven – they won’t. Heaven is not earned. Or that people who go to church are hypocrites, claiming to be better than everyone else when in fact they are not. They don’t, and know they aren’t. In reality, most church goers recognise that they have failings and don’t pretend otherwise – that is why they are there. Or people feel they should be entertained. While it’s nice to enjoy what

Our Church communities

you do, that’s not the point. The point is to value God. We are not worshipping to be entertained but to sacrifice a bit of our time to God in thanks for what happened at Easter. Or sometimes people want to feel connected with their past. Partly right but generally a distortion of the Christian faith. Ideas do change; in Regency times people went to church as one of the few opportunities to meet people of the opposite sex. Not quite what the Church Fathers had in mind I’m sure!! Jesus did not invent collective worship. The Jews of his day had a wellestablished routine of meeting regularly together to hear the Scripture read and to say prayers. Jesus added to that meeting together, the breaking of bread and the sharing of wine, and he commanded us to continue – so we do. Yours Tony Gilbert Rector Three Valleys Benefice & Rural Dean of Sherborne 53

News from Yetminster Methodist Church Easter is so significant, the Christian Church celebrates for six weeks. This year, on reading the story of Holy Week in Mark’s Gospel from Chapter 11– 14, I noticed there are three stories about money. In Chapter 11:15-19, we love the story of Jesus angrily turning over the tables of the money changers, they were profiteering from the poor who needed to buy animal sacrifices from them to worship. Jesus seems to be critical of the church authorities who put up a barrier to worship. What do you feel the barriers are to you worshipping? Do you feel the church is hypocritical? What you see of the behaviour of the church and its leaders makes you think, why bother? Or perhaps you don’t know why you don’t try church. The biggest change to church during the pandemic has been going online. This makes it easier for people to drop in anonymously and see what is going on. Why not give it a go? The next story is about tax. Jesus skilfully outmanoeuvred the Pharisees attempt to trap him about the legality of paying taxes. ‘ “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were utterly amazed at him.’ (Mark 12:17 NRSV) Finally, the story of the anointing at Bethany. A woman came with a very expensive alabaster jar of nard and broke it, pouring the ointment on Jesus’ head. What an action, what a definition of worship. She wanted to show Jesus what he meant to her. She probably had little herself, possibly this bottle of ointment was her nest egg. She was not afraid to lavish her Lord with all she had to offer. Of course, onlookers scolded her that the 54

money was better spent on the poor. How many of us might have said the same in a Church Council? But Jesus said, “She has done what she could; she has anointed my body for burial.” (Mark 14:8 NRSV). She has done what she could. I wonder if we do what we can with our wealth.

As we come out of the pandemic (we pray Lord) what will our response be? How will we worship the Lord? What will we see as valuable? The pandemic has given us the opportunity to consider what is important. On Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday in Yeovil we sang outside, and it seemed very natural. Now, somehow, we feel enabled to take the church outside. Has that been the problem all along? The church expecting the community to come to church. Instead, what about Christians going out, as the first disciples did, empowered by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, to live their faith in a way that is attractive and empowering and makes a difference. What might happen then I wonder? Yetminster Methodist Church will reopen its building for worship at Pentecost, on 23 May at 10.30am. Rev’d Kate Konrad

The beautiful Wriggle Valley in spring

Photo: Gill Nash

Photo: Rose Roberts

THREE VALLEYS TEAM Rev’d Richard Kirlew

Team Office:

Team Rector:

e:3valleysoffice@gmail.com w:www.threevalleysteam.org

01935 873044 e: rector3valleys@gmail.com Jubilee Hall Yetminster ENQUIRIES: Three Valleys Benefice Office, Team Vicars 01935 872600 Rev’d George Moody e: 3valleysoffice@gmail.com The Rectory Church St,

Yetminster Jubilee Hall, Church Rev’d Tony Gilbert @RuralChaplain Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LG The Rectory, Church Rd, 01963 23570 01935 872600 Thornford, Sherborne. DT9 6QE e: rector3valleys@gmail.com

Opening hours Mon 9.30am – 12.30pm Tues 1.30 – 4.30pm

Yetminster DT9 6QE

01935 873214 e: revgeorgemoody@gmail.com

Yetminster Methodist Church Chapel Lane, Yetminster DT9 6LJ

Treasurer: Mrs S Gilbey

Minister: Rev Kate Konrad 01935-415837 Worship co-ordinator: Mrs Barbara Driver Tel: 01935 873690

All services begin at 10:30am followed by coffee.

Roman Catholic Services Roman Catholic Church

Hilfield Friary services continue but are closed to all visitors at this time, due to the pandemic. However, we are on Zoom. Information can be found on our website https://hilfieldfriary. org.uk and Facebook page www.facebook.com/HilfieldFriary so please look to see what we are up to. Our Sunday Liturgy Zoom link is https://zoom. us/j/94844024511 You can use the same link every Sunday at 8.30am.

The Sacred Heart & St. Aldhelm, Westbury, Sherborne DT9 3EL tel: (01935) 812021

Weekend mass times: Saturdays at 6.00pm Sundays 10.30am Holy Days 10.00am and 6.30pm Parish Priest: Monsignor Canon Robert Draper e: sherbornerc@prcdtr.org.uk w: sherbornecatholicchurch.org.uk

THREE VALLEYS TEAM LOCAL CHURCH SERVICES For complete list see www.threevalleysteam.org go to Services page Services are correct at the time of going to press but please continue to check the website (see above) and with your churchwardens for up-dates

SUNDAY MAY 2021

2nd

9th

16th

23rd

30th

EASTER 5

EASTER 6

EASTER 7 SUNDAY AFTER ASCENSION

PENTECOST

TRINITY

10am CW Holy Communion

BATCOMBE BEER HACKETT BRADFORD ABBAS

10am CW Holy Communion

CHETNOLE

10am CW Holy Communion

10am CW Holy Communion 10am CW Holy Communion 10am CW Holy Communion 6pm Evening Service

HERMITAGE HILFIELD

10am CW Holy Communion

LEIGH RYME INTRINSECA

8.30am BCP Holy Communion 10am Family Service

THORNFORD 10am CW Holy Communion

YETMINSTER

ON-LINE

10am CW Holy Communion via Three Valleys Team Facebook page

CW= COMMON WORSHIP

10am CW Holy Communion 10am CW Holy Communion via Three Valleys Team Facebook page

10am CW Holy Communion via Three Valleys Team Facebook page

BCP= BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

ASCENSION – 13th MAY THURSDAY

11am

HOLY COMMUNION

YETMINSTER

Regular Weekday On-line Services For Zoom services please email for link - see website for contact details Mondays

On-line

6pm

Compline

via Zoom

Wednesdays

On-line

5pm

Rectory Tea Room followed by

via Zoom

Wednesdays

On-line

6pm

Celtic Night Prayer

via Zoom

Fridays

On-line

6pm

Evening Prayer

via Three Valleys Team facebook page

PLANNING APPLICATIONS MAY 2021 BATCOMBE P/PABA/2021 /00297

05/02/21

RED ROSES, BATCOMBE – 00297 Erect agricultural building. Prior approval not required – 25 Feb 21.

CHETNOLE WD/D/20/003075 02/12/20

CHETNOLE FARM, HIGHER FARM JUNCTION CHETNOLE TO HELL CORNER – Re-thatching of dwelling roof & installation of thatched dormer window to the rear. No Decision.

WD/D/20/002874 13/11/20

MANOR FARM, DEEP FORD LANE – Formation of gated access. No Decision.

HERMITAGE WD/D/20/002029 25/08/2020 NORTH COTTAGE, HOLNEST PARK, HOLNEST – Conversion of existing workshop to accommodation. Granted 5 Mar 21. HILFIELD Nil LEIGH P/PABA/2021/ 00122

25/01/21

WD/D/21/000121 18/01/21

DRUMMERS FARM – 00122 BATCOMBE ROAD – Erection of roofs to 2 no. concrete yards. Prior approval not required 22 Feb 21. GREENHAM HOUSE, SHERBORNE ROAD – Develop the land by the erection of 1 No. dwelling. (Outline application to determine access and layout). No Decision.

MELBURY BUBB Nil RYME INTRINSECA P/HOU/2020/00398 30/11/2020 The Old Rectory, Access Road To Old Rectory – Erect single storey extension to house indoor swimming pool. No Decision. WD/D/20/003022 30/11/2020 CHURCH FARM, DOWNS LANE – Part conversion of garage/ workshop into self contained annexe (ground floor). PD. Within PD – 9 Mar 21. WD/D/20/002956 20/11/20

1 ELSFORD COTTAGES, FRANKHAM LANE – Part conversion of garage/workshop into self contained annexe (ground floor). No Decision.

WD/D/20/001057 05/05/2020 LAND KNOWN AS, CLIFTON FARM, CLIFTON FARM LANE, CLIFTON MAYBANK – Installation of a renewable energy scheme comprising ground mounted photovoltaic arrays together with substation; onsite connection to grid network; transformer stations; access; internal access track; landscaping; biodiversity measures; security measures; access gate and ancillary infrastructure. No Decision.

PLANNING APPLICATIONS MAY 2021 YETMINSTER P/PABA/2021/ 00565

25/02/21

MEADOW FARM, CHETNOLE ROAD – Erection of agricultural building. No Decision.

WD/D/21/000107 22/02/21

SPRINGMEAD FARM, BRISTER END – Convert double garage to annex and installation of windows & doors. No Decision.

WD/D/20/003084 22/02/21

KILBERNIE, CHAPEL LANE – Demolition of existing dwelling & erection of 3no. dwellings with associated landscaping and works. No Decision.

WD/D/20/002134 19/11/20

FIELD KNOWN AS HIRAITH, EAST OF CUCKOO HILL – Agricultural private way, hardstanding and store (Retrospective). No Decision.

WD/D/20/002933 19/11/20

SPRINGFIELD, BRISTER END – Alteration to roof increase in height for loft alteration, incorporating front dormers roof light and rear flat roof dormer. No Decision.

WD/D/20/002895 16/11/20

LAND NORTH OF MILL LANE – Erection of 1 No. dwelling with associated landscaping and parking. No Decision.

WD/D/20/002527 1210/20

BINGERS, RYME ROAD – Erection of 2 No. stables, Implement store and feed/hay store. No Decision.

WD/D/20/002439 16/09/2020 FOLLY FARM, THORNFORD ROAD – Modification of obligations on Section 106 agreement dated 12th July 2016 (original planning approval WD/D/16/000642). No Decision. The next Dorset Council – Northern Area Planning Committee meetings will take place on the 27th April at 2.00pm, this meeting is being held remotely as an MS teams live event. A full register of all past and present planning applications can be found at: https:// planning.dorset.gov.uk/online-applications/ applications. Note: due to publication deadlines these details only reflect the website records up to 12.03.21

Graham Plaice

Proposed Holiday Home Park There is an application in with the County Council for the redevelopment of the George Albert Hotel and Southern Counties Leisure site that is on the edge of the Wriggle Valley and currently fronts the A37, with additional access from Howdon Lane. The proposal is for 272 holiday lodges to be built there. The application number is WD/D/19?002710 and can be viewed at https://planning. dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/ We have until 10 May at the latest to make comments and/or put forward objections. Christopher Cook 59

HINDSIGHT. 80 YEARS AGO…

It was in April 1941 that the Army’s Dorset County Division formally came into being. After the Battle of France, Britain was seriously threatened with invasion by Nazi Germany, a threat only partially lessened by the Luftwaffe’s inability to defeat the RAF in the Battle of Britain. From Autumn 1940 on, the Army created nine County Divisions of 10,000 men, with the primary task of defending vulnerable coastline, allowing regular infantry divisions to counter-attack any possible German landing. DCD’s insignia was ‘adapted from the arms of Dorchester and the County Council’. The division’s existence was short-lived. After Germany DCD Insignia..from Council to Combat launched its attack on Russia in June 1941 and as Autumn approached, the threat of invasion declined. DCD was reduced to an administrative headquarters on 24 November and wholly disbanded on 31 December 1941.

Regular Meetings, Events & Activities Name Every Mon Table Tennis Bev’s Core Vinyassa Flow Yoga Cummunifit Sit & Strengthen Leigh Short Mat Bowls Yetminster Table Tennis Club Bev’s Core Vinyassa Flow Yoga Yetminster Bell Ringers Every Tue Men’s Yoga Topsy Turvy Toddlers Drop in Coffee Morning & PO Chetnole Art Group (until Easter) Beginners Pilates Cubs (in term) Every Wed Yoga Fit Community Coffee morning Gentle Yoga Croquet Coach/Play Wednesday Club (in term) Chetnole Chuckers Pétanque Club Women’s Table Tennis Croquet Junior WV Players (in term) Beavers (in term) Scouts (in term) Beginners yoga Yetminster Short Mat Bowls Every Thur Tai Chi Advanced Pilates Yetminster Short Mat Bowls Leigh Rainbows (5–7yrs) Leigh Brownies (7–10yrs) Guides Dance Fit Wriggle Valley Voices Every Fri Table Tennis Croquet Club (May – Oct) Croquet Every Sun Second Sunday Informal worship Chetnole Chuckers Pétanque Club

Time 9.30–12.30pm 9.30–10.30am 11am–12 noon 2–5pm 10–12noon 6.30–7.30pm 7.30pm–10pm 9.30am–10.30am 9.30am–11am 9.30–12 noon 10am–1pm 1.10–2.10pm 6–7.30pm 9.15–10.15am 10.30–11.30am 10.30–11.30am 3pm (until Oct) 3.15pm–4.05pm 3pm 2–4pm 5.30pm summer only 6–7pm 6–7pm 7–9pm 7pm 7–10pm 10am 10am 2–5pm 5.45–7pm 5.45–7pm 7–8.30pm 6.30pm (term time) 7.30pm 9.30–12.30pm 3pm 3pm 9 for 9.30am 3pm

Venue Leigh Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall Yetminster Jubilee Hall Leigh Village Hall Scout Hut, Yetminster Chetnole Village Hall St Andrew’s Church Leigh Village Hall St Andrew’s Primary School Chetnole Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall Scout Hut Yetminster Leigh Village Hall Old Vicarage Care Home Leigh Village Hall Yetminster Playing Fields St Andrew’s Primary School Chetnole Playing Fields Leigh Village Hall Church Farm, Hermitage Leigh Village Hall Scout Hut Yetminster Scout Hut Yetminster St Andrew’s Primary School Yetminster Jubilee Hall Leigh Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall Yetminster Jubilee Hall Trim Room, Yetminster Yetminster Jubilee Hall Yetminster Jubilee Hall St Andrew’s Primary Sch Chetnole Village Hall Leigh Village Hall Yetminster Sports Club Yetminster Sports Club Yetminster Jubilee Hall Chetnole Playing Fields

Regular Meetings, Events & Activities Name

Time

Venue

1st Mon

Chetnole & Leigh Garden Club

7:30pm

Chetnole Village Hall

1 Tue

Leigh Discussion Club (wint)

7.30–10.30pm

Leigh Village Hall

2 Tues nd

Wriggle Valley MU (alt months) 7pm

Church Hall, Yetminster

Yetminster & Ryme Garden Soc. 7.30pm

Yetminster Jubilee Hall

Senior Winter Lunch Outings

Sue Footner 873610

7.30pm

(not July/Aug) Halstock & Distr. British Legion

3 Tues rd

Sheaf of Arrows

WV Women’s Group

7.30pm

Wriggle Valley Lunch Club

12.15–3pm

Leigh Parish Council – alt mnths 7.30pm Last Tues Leigh Women’s Institute Pub Quiz 1 Wed st

Gable Court Leigh Village Hall Leigh Village Hall

7.30–11pm

Leigh Village Hall

7pm

The White Hart, Yetminster

Coffee ‘n’ Cakes

10–11.30am

Yetminster Jubilee Hall

Batcombe Coffee Morning

11am

tba

[not Aug & Dec]

Yetminster & Ryme Intrinseca PC 7.30pm

St. Andrew’s Primary School

2 Wed

Yetminster Historical Society

2.30pm

Yetminster Jubilee Hall

Police Support Unit

2–3pm

The Cross, Leigh

Chetnole & Stockwood PC

7.30pm

Chetnole Village Hall

2nd/4th Wed High Stoy Bible Study

7.30pm

Venue contact 872342

Last Wed Woodland Wednesdays

12.45–2.45pm

Pogles Wood nr Leigh

2nd Wed/alt mth

Police Community Support Yetminster Fair Association

By Church, Yetminster 7.30pm

Meadens Hall, Yetminster

Wed – Sat Friary Shop

2.30–4.30pm

The Friary, Hilfield

1st & 3rd Thu Yetminster Scribblers

6.30–8pm

Old School Gallery, Yet

Meadens Coffee Morning

10.30am

The Meadens

Leigh Short Mat Bowls

7–10pm

Leigh Village Hall

Pub Quiz

8pm

The White Hart

2 Thurs nd

Last Sat

District Council Members serving you in 2020 Cllr Mary Penfold Dorset Council e: mary.penfold@gmail.com Councillor for: Yetminster Representing the villages of Yetminster, Ryme Intrinseca, Chetnole,

Stockwood Leigh Hermitage Longburton, Melbury Osmond, Corscombe, Halstock and Evershot. 8 Waterside, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorchester DT2 9NY T: 01300341545

Unit 4, Barton View Business Park, Sheeplands Lane, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 4FW

WVM ADVERTISERS’ REGISTER MAY 2021 ART & ANTIQUES Old School Gallery

BED & BREAKFAST Chetnole Inn Hound House

18 70

CARE HOMES Old Vicarage Care Home, Leigh

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CARS, VANS & MOTORCYCLES, HIRING & SERVICING Addison Motors

Brotherwood

Express Equipment Centre

N.S Autos

West Country Cars

CHIMNEY SWEEPS

Grassby Funeral Services

JJP Plumbing

AJ Wakely & Sons

Pearce Energy Heating Oil

Sellick & Saxton

TS Boiler Services

Spearbuild

Burrow Water Treatment Plants 50

B.A Wallbridge

Frost & Butler, Master Thatchers 38

Westcountry Electrics

P. Houchen Dry Stone Walling

Sherborne Joinery

KDS Garden Machinery Repair

Sibley Property Maintenance

Chedington Compost

HOME, OFFICE & INTERIORS

The Log Man

KC Decorators

M&S Welding

Michael Sturmey Carpets

MAD Mowers

SBF Curtains & Blinds

Paul Hambidge Contracting

Wayne Timmins

Perrett Fencing

CM Furniture

Pestwright & Mole Catcher

Cut Flowers by Kate

GARDEN & OUTDOOR MAINTENANCE WM Groundcare

Alexander the Grate

Rampisham Timber Services

LEGAL SERVICES

A Clean Sweep, Roger Dodd

SCR Tree Care

Porter Dodson Solicitors

i Sweep, & video inspections

Tree Surgery (Westree)

Professional Will Writer

Steve White Chimney Sweep

Wriggle Valley Fencing

PETS & LIVESTOCK

COMPUTERS, MARKETING & IT

Will’s Walls, Dry Stone Walling 24

Dog Grooming & Stripping

Dalaric Managed Internet Services 48

HEALTH & WELL BEING

PHOTOGRAPHY

DMDH Computers

David Stanton, Psychotherapist 24

Chetnole Drone Photography

PDC Computing

Robert Frith Optometrists

POST OFFICES

EDUCATION

Tania Geere Chiropodist

Chetnole Village Hall (Wed am only) 39

Barn Owls Nursery

Therapy Barn Mandie Holloway 61

Leigh

Yetminster Health Centre

Yetminster

Lower Covey Montessori Nursery 15

EVENT VENUES Chetnole Village Hall

Leigh Village Hall

Yetminster Jubilee Hall

FOOD, DRINK & CATERING

PRINTERS

Lendology CIC

Remous, Milborne Port

AD Renovations

PROPERTY & HOLIDAY LETS

J Bennett Joinery

Holiday Home Nr Bordeaux

Ian Crossland Property Maint.

Mallows Cottage, Yetminster

Dorset Plasterers

PUBLIC HOUSES & FOOD

5 Star Bars & Catering

On the Boyle Café

Steve Jones, Carpentry & Joinery 15

Barfoots’ Bouncers

Spar Stores & PO Yetminster

Knott Roofing

TRAVEL

Tu Casa Tapas Takeaway

Lawrence Electricals

Brister & Son

HOME - BUILD & MAINTENANCE

Leigh Village Stores & PO

FUNERAL SERVICES

Stuart Goodier Boiler Servicing 60

Chetnole Inn

M Harris

SPORT & LEISURE

14 15

Heart Of Wessex Railway

Steve Mumford General Builder 60

Wriggle Valley Cars

Neal Electrical Services

WRIGGLE VALLEY MAG ADVERTISING

May 2021 No. 335

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REGULAR EVENTS

OTHER NEWS

PLANNING

NATURE NOTES

POGLES WOOD EXPLORERS

Ryme Intrinseca

CLUB NEWS

Chetnole

Leigh

Yetminster

Batcombe

Beer Hackett

Hermitage