233 March 2011 Wriggle Valley Magazine

Photo by John Tatchell

Stan Darley

Issue No. 233 March 2011

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Contents News from the Villages Batcombe Chetnole Hermitage Hilfield Leigh Drifts of snowdrops by the bridge in Minterne Gardens

Editor’s notes…

Spring has sprung, Da grass is riz, I wonder where dem boidies iz?.. …this is always an exciting time of year with snowdrops popping up all over the place and birds working themselves up into a breeding frenzy.

We have a bumper issue this month with loads of interesting articles for your perusal. Remember this magazine is for you so please let us know what you think and how we can improve the content.

We would like to introduce competitions in the future, perhaps photographic or short story writing, so polish off your box brownies and pens and get producing. Any other ideas would be most welcome.

Ryme Intrinseca Yetminster March & April Diary Regular Meeting & Activities General News St Andrew’s Primary School News from our Churches Benefice Church Services Leigh Weather Watch Planning Applications Gone gardening..

Spotlight on our Community Club News

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Thanks to those who have sent in their local photos, keep them and your news coming in. Welcome to readers in Melbury Bubb and Stockwood.

Enjoy the Magazine.

WM V

Bella Neate-Clegg

The Wriggle Magazine is FREE but readers are invited to make voluntary donations towards the cost of production. These should be forwarded to the treasurer at Mallows House, Church Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LG. Cheques can be made payable to Wriggle Valley Magazine.

Thank you for your continued support

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Building advice, building surveys, drawings Planning & building regulation submissions Specifications and contract administration Building Maintenance, Farm buildings & maps Expert witness & dilapidation schedules

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News from the Villages BATCOMBE.....

Local representative: Alan Bastone (01300) 341351 Alan@FlowersFarmlakes.co.uk

There is an old country saying that “When the days do lengthen the cold do strengthen".

Let’s hope it’s not true this year - the first snowdrops are out in flower in St Mary’s churchyard, so spring is on its way.

We were sorry to hear that Madge Newman is in Hospital (The Willows) and we all wish her a speedy recovery and that she will soon be home again.

At long last we have a new signpost in the village, although we miss the old ones which seemed to be more countrified.

Don’t forget that all Batcombe church services now start at 10.15am.

CHETNOLE.....

Local representative: Liz Tebbatt 873140 tebbatt.towers@virgin.net

My name is Liz Tebbatt and I am your new Wriggle Valley Magazine representative for the Chetnole area following in the footsteps of our very own Gordon Ratcliffe.

Having lived in the village for eighteen years, a few of you may already know me, but for those who don’t, I can be found at Jasmine Cottage near the Stockwood turning. I live with Philip, Mollie, Tabitha and Rose (plus three rather badly-behaved dogs who may have made you jump when passing our window – they insist on saying

COFFEE MORNING 10 am, Wednesday 2nd March At Flowers Farm There will be a maintenance day at St Mary’s Church on Saturday 12th March starting at 10.30am The next monthly coffee morning will be on Wednesday 2nd March at Flowers Farm.

Alan Bastone

hello to EVERYONE! I work for Sherborne Citizens Advice and also for Philip, my solicitor husband.

Gordon has kindly given me lots of help in preparation for taking over his slot but I would be really grateful for your help too by keeping me supplied with any interesting pieces of material regarding Chetnole, Stockwood and Melbury Bubb and its inhabitants. It can be in the form of an email, a handwritten note, via a phone-call or even if you’re just passing me in the street!

All topics are welcome plus any accompanying photographs – send them as a jpeg with your email or pop in an envelope with your note; all originals will be returned of course. (cont’d overleaf) 5

Let us have your events, Chetnole Playing Field Sub Committee celebrations, club reports and any stories and views Car Wash fund raising event.

On the morning of the 15 of January we relevant to our village – we woke up to rain and gale force winds but, as are always on the look out per the forecast, the rain eased off by 10.00am for interesting local news. in time for the arrival of the first cars to be It would be a great help washed.

The Sub-Committee Members, if I could receive your input geared up with hoses, buckets and brushes, by about 11th of the month, were joined by some very welcome volunteers to be sure I meet the and we would like to thank Julie and Robert Editor's deadline of 14th..

Hardy, Will and Callum Henry and Aly My first piece of news is Kozowyk for their tireless efforts and support. to welcome the Pritchard A steady stream of cars continued to arrive family to Braemar, Hamlet. right up until the closure of the event at Dee and Phil moved here in 2.00pm and our thanks goes out to everyone January from Sherborne. who brought their cars to be washed, They have three little ones; supporting this event, and their generous Taylor (5) who is at St donations.

Whilst cars were washed, the drivers were Andrew’s Primary School, offered coffee, tea and biscuits and cakes in Yetminster; Mason (3) who the Village Hall and the Sub Committee also attends the preschool there wishes to thank Ruth Sandford for helping and not forgetting little here.

Marnie who is 14 months In all, a grand total of £211.50p profit was old. We wish them much made on the day and the car washers left the happiness in their new Village Hall Car Park tired but happy in the home and look forward to knowledge that they had achieved a very seeing them out and about. satisfactory result!

I also received this from Jill Bray Mrs Samways of Chetnole: Secretary to the Chetnole Playing Field “Our neighbour Mrs Celia Sub Committee Spearing fell on the ice on December 22 , breaking her shoulder and suffering a lot of pain. The following day she left Meadow View to stay with her family. We welcomed Celia and her dog Lady back to Stockwood Road, Chetnole on January 29 and we all wish her a successful and full recovery.”

Liz Tebbatt

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Gary and Aly hard at it

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Home cooked lunches and tea available, small friendly family atmosphere run by fully qualified staff, exciting activities, including Forest School.

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Jolin Gallery Gallery of Local Art and Crafts Opportunities for local, gifted artists and crafts people to exhibit their work in our new light and airy Gallery.

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Come and enjoy some refreshments or a home made light lunch in our relaxed and comfortable Café setting.

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Chetnole Parish Council

OONAt the last meeting, held on 13 January 2011, the routine business was carried though, with little to report. There were no objections to the proposals at ‘Four Martins’ for a new tiled roof to the existing bay window; no other planning applications had been received. Having completed the Parish Plan, the Steering Group have partially disbanded as some members have moved to a neighbouring village.

Nonetheless, it is intended to gather feedback and support at events in the village, with the intention of implementing some of the objectives highlighted in the Parish Plan.

Village name plates for Stockwood were requested and the need for refurbishment of the local finger posts was again raised.

At the next meeting of the Parish Council, they will be considering the provision of salt/grit bins within Chetnole. If the Parish Council agree to purchase some bins, they will then have to decide where these should be placed within the village where they would most efficiently assist the public to disperse the grit on the public highways/footways where is it is most needed. The Parish Council will provide the bins and the Dorset County Council will then replenish the stock of grit and salt, free of charge, as needed. Any suggestions on sites for these proposed bins will be gratefully received, please e-mail the clerk on chetnole-pc@btconnect.com or phone 01935-872089. Or speak to a member of Chetnole Parish Council.

The present council members are listed on the notice board, along with their contact details.

The term of office for the present council expires in May 2011 and elections for a new Council will be held on Thursday 5 May 2011.

Whether Chetnole and Stockwood have elected Council members ,or whether they are simply co-opted, depends on the local response. An elected council has to be the preferred option, so if you are interested in becoming a Parish Councillor please keep a watchful eye on the notice board in the village, where all details will be posted, including the election timetable.

The notice of election will be posted on Monday 28 March 2011 and close of nominations is at noon on Tuesday 5 April. If you are interested, then nomination forms can be obtained either from the Parish Clerk or from the West Dorset District Council offices in Dorchester or Sherborne.

Sue Woodford, Clerk, Parish Council

Charity

Bridge AFTERNOON Thursday 17th March

This is the sixteenth year of this event in aid of

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Chetnole Couple Celebrate Diamond Wedding This is a very special month for a very special couple in Chetnole. On 24 March Sylvia and Doug Frampton of The Nook, Chetnole, celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary following sixty wonderful years of marriage.

and Grace. Sylvia has played the church organ at St Peter’s for over forty years, was church warden for twelve and served on the parochial church council for twenty four years. She also was on the parish council for eight years and filled a number of other committee-roles in the village over the years. She continues to be a dynamic member of the Tuesday Club. The couple are well known and loved by the people of Chetnole.

We would like to wish Sylvia and Doug many congratulations on their diamond wedding anniversary and the couple assure us that the occasion will certainly not go unmarked.

Liz Tebbatt

Chetnole Village Hall 100 Club January 2011 The couple, who met as employees of Southern National Buses in Yeovil, became engaged on Sylvia’s 21st birthday and were married by the Rev. EHJ Evans (the father of Michael Evans of Hope Cottage, Neals Lane, Chetnole) at St Peter’s Church, Chetnole on a breezy Easter Saturday, 1952. The church was decorated with vases of spring flowers in readiness for the Easter service the very next day. Sylvia’s bridesmaids were Doreen Gisborne, Joan Bennett and Judy Peach.

Best Man was Doug’s younger brother, Norman. They honeymooned in Berkshire and then lodged for a while with Sylvia’s parents at Foys Lodge – her father was Head Gardener at Foys.

Having secured the purchase of The Nook they undertook an extensive renovation project and moved in during October 1952. Their son David (who also lives in Chetnole and is married to Beverley) was born in 1955 and Sylvia and Doug now have two teenaged grandchildren, Joseph

1st Prize £50: no.173 MrJ James no. 49 Mr & Mrs Smibert 2nd Prize £30: no.108 Mr & Mrs G Mitchell no.125 Mr & Mrs J Morgan 3rd Prize £20 no.59 Mr & Mrs Grant-Peterkin no.104 Mr & Mrs Henry

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In aid Chetnole Village Hall Chetnole’s Royal Wedding Celebrations In just a few weeks time, on Friday 29th April, Prince William, who will one day be our King and his gorgeous bride Kate Middleton will marry at Westminster Abbey. An historic moment for us all.

No doubt many of us will be glued to our televisions. The service at the Abbey starts at 11am, and with processions afterwards, the coverage could still engage us until, say, 2pm. A number of "Chetnolians" think this is a perfect time for a traditional bit of English merrymaking.

Something for everyone, grown ups and children alike.

We had a meeting, open to all, in the local pub and the general enthusiasm was for a typical British "street party", probably starting around 4pm. We'll need to make back up plans in case it rains on the day, but in general everybody thought having the event outside "felt right".

In order to carry the idea forward, a small "steering group" was formed, chaired by Tony Jones, email: a.jones735@btinternet.com At the time of writing (early February) there are lots of details to iron out. By the time you are reading this, I hope, we shall have firmed up on most things. For the latest news on Chetnole's Royal Wedding celebrations, keep an eye out for Sue Morgan's weekly e-diary, notices in the village hall and in our new brilliant shop. To get an idea of numbers, nearer the time, we shall be putting up a list in Wriggles, for you to sign up your intention to come along. And as this is a party for everyone, if you'd like to make suggestions or help, do please get in touch with any of the steering group.

Now let's hope for a wonderful sunny day on the 29 April.

Tony Jones

Mexican Night & Mothers’ Day The Mexican Night at The Chetnole Inn certainly warmed up a distinctively damp February evening - the tequila was flowing, the fajitas were flying and the Gypsy Kings sang their hearts out (I thought they were Spanish?!) A great night was had by all - only thing missing was Mike's sombrero!

Watch out for details of the next 'evening with a difference' at the pub.

Believe it or not but Mothers’ Day is not that far off - Sunday 3rd April...so.....get organised and book your table for lunch at the pub (it's always the busiest Sunday lunch of the year so book early) and don't forget that Wriggles have the most fantastic hampers of all shapes, sizes and tastes - along with heaps of delicious chocolates and treats perfect gifts for Mums (do we need to give any more hints......)!!

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A Tribute to Thomas (Lofty) Broadway 1983 - 2011 What a wonderful turnout there was on Tuesday 15 February for the funeral of Thomas “Lofty” Broadway. Over 300 people and their cars invaded Melbury Bubb; the church was crammed and many more huddled together outside in the temporary shelters escaping the weather. Tom died on 7 February, aged 27, after a brief but mighty struggle with cancer. He was engaged to marry Lucy Hiscock, proposing to her on her 21st birthday in May of last year.

He went to school in Yetminister and then on to the Gryphon but could not wait until he could return to work fulltime on the family farm. He continued to acquire farming skills at Kingston Mauwood College and had a natural ability with wood being particularly proud of his wonderful collection of tools that had been passed down to him through the family.

Tom was a keen member of the Hermitage and Hillfield young farmers, being a past chairman, county rally secretary and sports captain. He had a great love of all countryside pursuits, especially shooting, and he helped to set up the local shoot. This gave him a hobby that he enjoyed up to a week or so before he died. He had a love of sport in general and like his father and grandfathers played golf and skittles.

As well as his work on Bubb Down Farm, Tom did a lot of contracting. All who met him were touched by enterprise, generosity and sense of humour. He will leave such a large gap in the lives of all who knew him. Our prayers and deep sympathy go to Pam and Stephen, Lucy and all the members of his extended family.

Nick Kirby, Melbury Bubb

HERMITAGE....

The photograph on the left shows work underway in the main room, where the Local representative: Ray Dickerson ceiling is being raised by approximately 2 (01963) 210292 feet and the damp on the walls is being Village Hall repairs are underway addressed.

As you may have noticed, the work has We are grateful to the Big Lottery Fund begun on the repairs to the Hall. for their generous funding and now also to As previously advised, it will be Dorset Community Action who have made a completed by the middle of March. substantial award towards the cost.

An Italian Themed Evening – 16 April This will be the first opportunity to show off our ‘new’ hall, following the repair and redecorations and the changes to the kitchen equipment. We do hope that you will support this event and come along to see the improvements that will have been made to the hall, and to enjoy what promises to be a fun evening.

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Admission, for a three course Italian meal (with a vegetarian option for the main dish) plus the first glass of wine, is £12.

Italian music and decoration will add to the occasion. To reserve your place and to enable us to know how many to cater for, please call 01963 210292. p.s. In case you are wondering, there is no requirement for you to dress as an Italian!

Hermitage Village Quiz – 14 May

Kensa agent was helpful about the internal plumbing to the 2 radiators; my garden is only big enough to accommodate the buried ground pipe to match a small GSHP – a trench 40 metres (130 feet) long; and Kensa heat pumps are manufactured by a British firm (Truro). A bigger GSHP would need a bigger garden.

I would be pleased to give details to any interested WVM. reader.

Alan Ward

The next Quiz will be on Saturday 14 New Year’s Party May, starting at 7:30 pm in the Village Hall.

The final event in the Village Hall, The cost is £3 per head, and the team before the repair and re-decoration work sizes are a maximum of four people. began, was a resounding success.

The repairs to the Hall won’t create more space in the main room, so places will be limited. Please call me on 210292 to reserve a table.

Family Fun Event – 25 June With fingers-crossed for a dry summer’s day, the committee is in the early stages of organising another Family Event to be held on the Village Green.

The details are still being worked on, but what is known is that it will start at noon There was a good mixture of “old” and and run until approx. 3:30 pm. There will be a BBQ and Cream Teas and lots of different “new faces” at the tables, and the noise level was high all evening. activities (some sporting) on the Green.

As usual the food was delicious, and Please mark this date in your diaries and plentiful, and for that thanks go to the watch this space for more details. committee members and their helpers.

The answer lies in the soil The hall looked fantastic (the I am pleased with the small Ground photograph really doesn’t do it justice) Source Heat Pump which was installed here thanks to the efforts of Nicole Stanford and last summer. It has kept Coasters Cottage her team. pleasantly warm through the recent cold A presentation was made to Jeremy weather, and I estimate it gives out 3.2 units Cozens, who retired last year after many of heat-energy for every 1 unit of electricity, years in various roles on the Village Hall that is 2.2 units come free from the ground. committee including the last nine as I chose the smallest unit, Kensa 4, for Chairman. several reasons; it is unusual to fit a GSHP to Thank you Jeremy for all that you have an old badly-insulated cottage like this; the done.

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LEIGH.....

Local representative: Anne & David Reason (01935) 873726 dareaon@btinternet.com

Well I guess we have survived the rigours of winter’s grip – and ‘by gum’ did it grip!

Yet the snowdrops in all their wondrousness have appeared in abundance – and there is no central heating or thermal vests for them; it’s a miracle! Do not forget the annual ‘Big Prize’ for the first person to see the Leigh Tulip in the wild!?

We welcome to our number Patrick and Shelagh Quinn into The Courtyard, albeit temporarily, but could it be for longer?

However long, enjoy your time here. Very sadly we had had to say a final farewell to Pat Harrison after a long illness. A very Christian lady who contributed a lot in her own quiet way to village life. Our love and condolences go out to Bob and the family.

David Reason Children in Need Bob and Maureen would like to give special thanks to all those who braved the snow and ice to come and see their Christmas lights this year, which raised £65.15 for Children in Need.

Leigh Village Hall Leigh Village Hall has many Wriggle Valley clubs and societies booked throughout 2011 but illness and a change of plans have caused two weekly groups to have to cancel their sessions. Call Paul Orchard on 01963 210619 for available dates and times if you would like to start a new club or society.

Leigh Short Mat Bowls Leigh Short Mat Bowls Club members play on Mondays from 2pm and Thursdays from 7pm at Leigh Village Hall. All residents in the Benefice are welcome to come and play a free game to see if it would be fun to join this lively group. Just come along or call Morag Orchard on 01963 210619 for details

Leigh Village Hall Lottery Results January 2011 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

£70 Mr. Le Hardy £30 Mrs. W Hannam £20 Mrs. Vickery £10 Mrs. H Clark £10 Mrs. P Birdsell £10 Mr. K Chelada

Pizza and Politics Debate EXCELLENT SUPPER PROVIDED, BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE. FRIDAY 1ST APRIL AT 7PM, ST ANDREW’S HALL Make up a table of 8 or else just come and join a table.

Tickets £8 a head, Tickets can be obtained from John Strover 01935 872437

at St Andrew’s Hall, Church Street, Yetminster, Sherborne, DT9 6QE. With Cross Party Guest Speakers including Graham Watson, MEP on Saturday, 19th March at 7.30 pm. £6.00 per person to include Pizza Please pay at the door.

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AUTOTECH GARAGE SERVICES STATION YARD, YETMINSTER, DT9 6 LH (opposite Express Motor Parts) We are pleased to be able to offer all local residents and businesses a specialised servicing, maintenance and repair facility for cars, vans and 4x4 vehicles.

We also carry out plant, equipment and machinery repairs.

For professional services at reasonable rates please contact MARTIN NEWMAN

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St Andrew’s Church Dates for your diaries – Please join us in Leigh Village Hall from 12-2pm for the annual Lent lunch on Tuesday April 5th in aid of the charity Water Aid.

We propose an initial meeting to discuss this project at 3pm Thursday 10 March at Di Morris’s house, Tanglewood, Leigh. Please RSVP to Di beforehand so she can gauge numbers on 01935 873051.

The May Fair (our big annual fundraiser) is ALL WELCOME – men and women! on Saturday May 21st from 2 - 4.30pm in Leigh Village Hall. If you would like to help, please do contact Anne Reason on 873726.

WRIGGLE VALLEY

Date for your Diary Leigh Village Hall Hog Roast on Saturday July 30th. 50s, 60s, 70s live music with The Dog Ruff Group. More details in next month’s magazine. Always a great evening.!

We need you Are you interest in becoming involved in designing/making a community embroidery to hang in Leigh Village Hall?

LUNCH CLUB Leigh Village Hall 12.30 Tuesday

15 March

(bookings by 10 March)

NB £2 Annual sub. due MENU Roast chicken legs, Stuffing, Pommes Anna, Broccoli & Cauliflower Banbury Apple Tart & Ice Cream For Reservations or more details: Ring Connie 01935 872946

News from the Old Vicarage Another month and another award! This time it is not for the Care team, but for our Head gardener, Dan Turner. Dan won the “Glanville’s Horticultural” prize for the best soft landscaping apprentice at Kingston Maurward college, Dorchester. Many congratulations to him.

January was a quieter month after all the Christmas festivities. We enjoyed a well illustrated talk by Alison Charls on butterflies of Europe and Denzil gave a very informed and interesting insight into the world of Freemasonry.

Tony returned for a sing song of all the old favourites and we are looking forward to a visit from Linda with her goodies from the Jolin gallery and also the Stephanie Miller Fashion Company.

Trips out start again in March with a pub lunch, and we will be celebrating

both St. David and St. Patrick’s Day in style!

We are also looking forward to a visit from Folk South West, Vaughan Davies (singer and entertainer), and a talk on the Royal school of needlework by Di Morris.

We have relaunched our computer club recently and hope to be able to spend time exploring the internet and also keeping in touch with families via Skype and e-mail.

If anyone would like to give a talk or would like to help in any way, please let me know.

Jan Millward

Head Gardener, Dan Turner

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RYME INTRINSECA.....

Local representative: Gilly Wilson 872982

Bi-annual Village Meeting Please make a note in your dairies reference the spring meeting which will be held on Tues Mar 22 at 7.00 p.m. in the church. All are welcome to come and discuss any issues involving the village possibly the lack of gritting at Christmas.

worth it - wonderful trees, shrubs, borders, climbers, bulbs and vegetables. Also take time to visit Sue Templeman’s country chic barn - selling small items of painted French country style furniture, also old garden/farm tools and other attractive and useful items. Metal work obelisks for climbing plants can be made to your own Frankham Farm Garden Opening design. A real “country living” Aladdin’s The first opening for 2011 will be Sun Cave. Further openings will be on May 8, 27 Mar from 2.00 - 5.00 p.m This will be Jun 12, Jul 17 and Oct 16. the day the clocks change, a true omen of spring. Many of you will already be aware Best Wishes for a speedy recovery to , but those of you that haven’t yet paid this Albertine Nelson after her recent fall. lovely three acre garden a visit - it is well Gilly Wilson

YETMINSTER.....

Local representative: Graham Plaice (01935) 872044 gplaice@gmail.com

Wriggle Valley Variety Show Rehearsals have been going well for this new venture, which takes place next Saturday, 5th March, in St. Andrew's Hall.

There will be an afternoon performance at 3pm, and an evening performance at 7pm.

Tickets are available from Oak House Stores and Yetminster Post Office, and are reasonably priced at £5, with under 16s free.

The programme includes a range of lighthearted songs, readings and instrumental pieces which will appeal to a wide audience.

All proceeds from the concerts will be divided equally between St. Margaret's Hospice and Mercy Ships. We look forward to seeing you there, and can promise an unforgettable experience!

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Jolin Gallery Opening times

Mon - Sat 10.00am - 5.30pm Diary of Events: ART EXHIBITION

EXIBITION

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Hill View Farm Yetminster DT9 6NN

Tel: 01935 Mob: 07752

850103 298956

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100 Lenthay Road, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6AG (at all times) Sherborne 812647

Specialising in pre/post tenancy, House moves, one off cleans.

For a quote call Rachel Largent 07805 258165 01935 873527 Rachel@yetminstercleaning.co.uk

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Weeding, pruning & general tidying of flowerbeds

Yetminster Fair Association Village Supper Tickets are now on sale in Oak House Stores and Yetminster Post Office for this popular event, which is in St. Andrew's Hall on Saturday 26th March at 7.30pm. The theme this year will be British food, and in addition to a selection of traditional favourites for the main course, there will be homemade sweets and a half-bottle of wine included in the ticket price of £11. We are strictly limited to 80 tickets, so get yours soon! All proceeds will be donated to local charities.

The Coffee Beans We had a souper(!) Soup Lunch in January. So many of you joined us that we ran out, after everyone had enjoyed the different flavours on offer.

Warmth and kindness prevailed so that thanks to your generosity we were able to give The Lord’s Larder a further donation of £200. This will help ensure that they never run out in their work of assisting those in need. Thank you so much.

YETMINSTER

FILM NIGHTS Thursday 17th March

“Red” 12A – Action Thriller – Starring Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich as four “retired, extremely dangerous” (hence title) CIA agents who get together for one last bout of explosions.

A sort of CIA version of TV’s “New Tricks” with Dame Helen behind a machine gun leading the old boys!

Tickets will be £5 to include a choc ice and will be on sale at Oak House Stores two weeks before each showing. Although tickets will be available on the door, it is most appreciated if they can be bought in advance so that seating can be sorted out reasonably accurately and enough wine and choc ices be brought to the Hall. Doors will open at 7pm (not before as Moviola need the time to set up) and films begin at 7.30pm.

Dog Fouling It has come to my notice that one or two unsociable residents are not clearing up after their dogs. This is anti social and quite unnecessary. Please make sure you clean up after your dog.

D G Gould Chairman Yetminster and Ryme Intrinseca Parish Council

Yetminster Fair Association 50 Club February 2011 Draw 1st Prize £50 No. 50 Mrs A. James 2nd Prize £30 No. 57 Mr G. Hentley 3rd Prize £20 No. 53 Mr V. Jones

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Summary of COUNCIL MEETING 19 January 2011 The meeting was attended by nine councillors, six members of the public, DCllr Lawrence, and the Clerk Land west of Thornford Road The Chairman briefed on discussions with Hastoe and Dr Letwin MP on the possibility of moving the Affordable Housing site further down the field so as to create a buffer with the houses in Coles Lane. Hastoe were unwilling to consider this and the majority of the Parish Council did not support the proposal. Therefore we await the Planning Application before commenting further.

As this is a contentious issue the application will be considered by the whole council rather than a sub committee as is usual.

Ryme Intrinseca Phone Box This has now been purchased by the Council for use as a book exchange.

Planning RWM have been asked to amend their application considerably; it will then be considered again by the District Council.

Oakleigh Farm Shop’s application to build a new shop/kitchen has been approved Speed Cameras We now have six volunteers - two more would ease the strain! - and training will start shortly Railway Crossing It is highly unlikely that the crossing will be reopened to pedestrians; however the County Council has agreed - subject to funding - to drain the underpass, clean out the pipes, install a pump and lighting and improve access from the village side.

Sadly funding is unlikely in the near future!

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Grit Bins Three further grit bins will be purchased; one for Stonyacres and two for Ryme. All grit bins will be marked ‘NOT FOR PRIVATE USE’ Traffic Problems Recently an articulated lorry attempted to get up Church Street; failed and had to back down damaging the walkway by Hill House in the process. If you see any lorries or other traffic behaving ‘stupidly’ please note the time, their number and what they were doing and report this to a Parish Councillor who will take it up with the authorities.

DG Gould

In aid of the Methodist Church and Lesotho Charity

John Wentworth Newton John Newton of Higher Farm, Yetminster, died in January at the age of 90 and we shall no longer see his familiar friendly figure round the village, latterly, rather laboriously but determinedly getting to and from the shop. His funeral was held in St Andrew's, Yetminster on the 7 February, attended by many members of his family and friends. The service was taken by the Rev’d Simon Brignall, John's eldest son Geoffrey gave a moving tribute, and his daughter Angela and another son, Peter read the well known passage from Ecclesiastes and Psalm 23.

John was a Londoner, born at Merton Park and educated at King's College School, Wimbledon. He attended Wye Agricultural College but was called up for war service before he could graduate. In the Navy he served as a radar operator both afloat and ashore – such was the secrecy of those days that it was not for 20 years that he discovered that his brother Arthur had been in the same branch. After various jobs his parents moved to Dorset and John took a job at Westland Aircraft. More importantly he met Daphne, a member of the wellknown farming family of Harris at Silton, and they were married at Silton in 1955.

Apart from bringing up their four children John and Daphne shared many enthusiasms – painting, pottery, vegetable gardening, walking. They had the most amazing vegetable garden and they both often entered many classes in the annual Summer Show. We still use a

piece of Daphne’s hand-thrown pottery daily. They repaired and adapted Higher Farm house and John was often to be seen on a summer evening up a ladder fixing some piece of rain water goods or painting a window frame. They participated in village life and were always friendly and welcoming. It was a great blow when Daphne died a few years ago and now John lies in the same grave in our ancient churchyard.

We lived opposite them from 1972 until 1994 and they were the best kind of neighbours, always friendly and ready to help (and indeed to accept help in looking after the bantams when they were away) but without being in the slightest intrusive.

Yetminster has lost one of its characters; and much sympathy goes to the family.

Patrick and Frances Moule

Cross Party Debate Join us in a cross party debate is in St Andrew's Hall, Yetminster, at 7.30pm on Saturday 19th March, to discuss the Referendum on Electoral Reform on 5th May. There will be speakers from across the West Country representing all political spectra, culminating in MEP Graham Watson, all of whom are prepared to take questions on the status quo and what the proposed changes would entail, both in terms of the way the electorate could cast their votes and in terms of MPs having to obtain at least 50% of the votes cast in order to win and keep a seat.

If you, your family or friends have any questions about the proposed Reforms, this is your chance to come and research the facts before casting your vote on 5th May. 27

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March & April Diary MARCH Tue Fri

1 4

Sat Sat Sat

5 5 5

Winter Work Programme 10.00-1.00pm Women's World Day of 2.30pm Prayer

WI "Big " Jumble Sale Wriggle Valley Variety Chetnole Flower Show & Fete Quiz Night Mon 7 C&L Garden Club visit Mon 7to Chetnole Art Group 12 Exhibition Tue Fri

8 11

Fri Fri Sat Sat Mon Thur

11 11 12 12 14 14

Tue

15

Thu Thu Sat Sat

Yetminster/Ryme GAC Peter MJ Lightfoot Art Exhibition PTA Quiz Chuckers AGM Bird Box Inspection St Patrick's Night Ceili Glass Art - Andy Denham Water Colours on Silk by Jilly Clarke WV Women's Group "Oakleigh Farm Shop"

Beer Mill Mead St.Peter's Church, Chetnole

2.00pm 3pm & 7pm 7.30pm

Leigh Village Hall St.Andrew's Hall,Yetminster Chetnole Village Hall

7.00pm

Castle Gardens

10.00am to 5.30pm

Jolin Gallery, Yetminster

7.00pm

Castle Gardens

2.30 to 4.30pm

Jolin Gallery, Yetminster

7.30pm 7.30pm 10.00-1.00pm 8pm 2.00 to 5.00pm 10am - 5.30pm

St. Andrew's Primary School Chetnole Village Hall Beer Mill Mead St. Andrew's Hall, Yetminster Jolin Gallery, Yetminster Jolin Gallery, Yetminster

7.30pm

Gable Court, Yetminster

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Bridge Afternoon - in aid 2.00 to 4.00pm of Cancer Research UK 17 Yetminster Film Night - 7.30pm "R e d "

Chetnole Village Hall

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St. Andrew's Hall,

"Not Just Jumble" Sale Graham Watson MEP Electoral Reform

2.00 to 4.00pm

Chetnole Village Hall

7.30pm

St Andrew's Hall, Yetminster

Junior W V Players Messy Play/Under 5s Doctor Bernardo's Mon 21 Leigh Film Night"A n o th e r Y e a r" Tue 22 Village meeting Sat 26 Village Supper

5.00 to 7.00pm

Yetminster Scout Hut

9.30 - 11.00am

Leigh Village Hall

7.30pm

Leigh Village Hall

7.00pm 7.30pm

Ryme Intrinseca Chuch St.Andrew's Hall, Yetminster

Sun

2.00 to 5.00pm

Frankham Farm, Ryme Intr

Sun 20 Mon 21

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Garden Open Day

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Sat

26

Sun

Village Supper

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APRIL Fri

1

Sat 2 Tues 5 Sat 9

Su 10 Sat 16 Mon 18

Tue

19

Sat

30

Yetminster Tennis Club Quiz/Supper Cup Cake Extraveganza Lent Lunch "Help for Heroes" Patchwork & Quilting Exhibition Messy Church Themed Evening C & L Garden Club-"The World of the Japanese Garden" WV Women's Group WDDC talk "Recycling" Garden Party and Plant Sale

7.30pm

St.Andrew's Hall, Yetminster

2.00 to 5.00pm

Frankham Farm, Ryme Intr.

7pm

St. Andrew's Hall, Yetminster

10 to 12.00pm 12 to 2.00pm 10.00am to 3.00pm

Chetnole Village Hall Leigh Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall

3.00 to 5.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Leigh Village Hall Hermitage Village hall Chetnole Village Hall

7.30pm

Leigh Village Hall

11.00am to 2.30pm

9, Stonyacres, Yetminster

Regular Meetings‌.

Mon - Fri Every Mon

Wriggle Valley Pre-School Leigh Short Mat Bowls Ist Yetminster Guides Yetminster Table Tennis Club Yetminster Bell Ringers

8.30am - 3.00pm 2.00pm 6.45 - 8.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm-10.00pm

St Andrew's P School Leigh Village Hall Trim Rm, Church Hall Scout Hut, Yetminster St Andrew's Church

Every Tue

Topsy Turvy Toddlers Beavers (in term) Scouts (in term)

9.30 - 11.30am 5.45 - 6.45pm 7 - 8.30pm wint

St Andrew's School Scout Hut Yetminster Scout Hut Yetminster

7 - 9.00pm sum

Scout Hut Yetminster

Beginners Pilates

1.30 and 2.35pm

Chetnole Village Hall

Chetnole Art Group

10.00 - 1.00pm

Chetnole Village Hall

Every Wed

Dollywood Dance Class Outreach Post Office Services Drop in Coffee Morning Yetminster Short Mat Bowls Wednesday Club (in term) Morning Yoga Class Junior WV Players (in term) Evening Yoga Class

Every Thu

Leigh Short Mat Bowls Yetminster Short Mat Bowls Leigh Brownies (in term)

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2.00pm 9.30am -12.30pm 10.00 - 12 noon 7.00 - 10.00pm 3.15 pm-4.05pm 10.30 - 11.30am 6.30 - 7.45pm 7.15 - 9.15pm 7.00pm 2.00 - 5.00pm 5.30pm

St And's Hall, Y'minster Chetnole Village Hall Chetnole Village Hall St Andrew's Hall St Andrew's Prim. School Leigh Village Hall Scout Hut Yetminster Leigh Village Hall Leigh Village Hall St Andrew's Hall Leigh Village Hall

‌Events & Activities Every Thu

Leigh Short Mat Bowls Yetminster Short Mat Bowls Leigh Brownies (in term) Yetminster Cubs Bridge Club Advanced Pilates

7.00pm 2.00 - 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.45 - 8.15pm 7.00 - 10.00pm 10.15am

Every Fri

Table Tennis Table Tennis for all

9.30 - 12.30pm Leigh Village Hall 11.00am-12 noon Chetnole Village Hall

Every Sat

Irish Dancers

10.15am

Church Hall, Yetminster

1st Mon 1st Tue

Chetnole & Leigh Garden Club Hospice Lunch Leigh Discussion Club (wint) Wriggle Valley MU (alt months) Tuesday Club (senior citizens) Yetminster & Ryme Garden Club Senior Winter Lunch Outings WV Women's Group Wriggle Valley Lunch Club Leigh Parish Council - alt mnths Leigh WI Yetminster Senior Citizens Coffee Beans Coffee Morning Yetminster Historical Society Police Support Unit High Stoy Bible Study District Council Ward Surgery Police Community Support Sturminster Mobile Library

7.30pm 12.30pm 7.30pm 7.00pm 2.30pm 7.30pm

Chetnole Village Hall Manor Farm, Yetminster Leigh Village Hall Church Hall, Yetminster Leigh Village Hall As advertised Sue Footner 873610 Gable Court, unless noted Leigh Village Hall Leigh Village Hall Leigh Village Hall The Meadens Church Hall, Yetminster Church Hall, Yetminster The Cross, Leigh Venue contact 872342 Jolin Gallery, Yetminster

By Church, Yetminster Church Lane, Hermitage Shearstones, Yetminster Stonyacres, Yetminster Carpenters' Arms, Leigh The Church, Chetnole Chetnole Village Hall The Friary, Hilfield Leigh Village Hall Chetnole Villlage Hall White Hart Yetminster Playing Fields

2nd Tues

3rd Tues

Last Tues 1st Wed 2nd Wed 2nd/4th Wed 3rd Wed Wed/f/night

Bridport Mobile Libray

Wed - Sat Alt Thurs 2nd Th/alt mth Last Thurs 2nd/3rd Sat

Whist Drive Friary Shop Hermitage and Hilfield YFC Chetnole & Stockwood PC Yetminster Fair Association YPFPC Wastepaper Collection

7.30pm 12.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 3.00pm 10.00 - 12 noon 2.30pm 2.00 - 3.00pm 7.30pm 11.00 - 12 noon 11.15am 11.50am 2.00pm 11.40pm 12.20pm 8.00pm 2.30 - 4.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 12noon

Leigh Village Hall St Andrew's Hall Leigh Village Hall Scout Hut, Yetminster Dairy House, Ryme Chetnole Village Hall

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General News The Census is coming The ten yearly Census takes place on the 27 of March this year. A census has taken place every ten years since 1801 (except 1941); it provides important information about the population for many organisations from central government down to those who are interested in genealogy.

Many authorities formulate and finance their plans for the future from the information in the Census. Perhaps most importantly it provides information on which central government decides the allocation of money to local authorities, health authorities and similar organisations.

It is therefore vital that the Census is as accurate and complete as possible.

Prior to the day all residential households will be sent a census questionnaire; this can be completed or if you prefer you can complete it online for which you will be given a code. Please make every effort to do your bit!

Census information is confidential and protected by law; even the person (if required) helping you complete the form is bound not to release any of your census information. Thus you should not have any worries about completing the form in full.

More information on the Census can be found at www.census.gov.uk

Homewatch & Farmwatch

Beer Mill Mead Conservation Area

On Saturday 29 January, the owner of a property in Totnell, near Leigh discovered that their heating oil, about 1500 litres as it had been recently filled, had been stolen.

Oil tanks can be more secure with the use of special alarm systems and quality padlocks, to find out more, do a Google search to get a quote and give you several different suppliers. This message is for your information and awareness.

Sarah Morgan

The Winter Work Programme has been going well and the fallen tree and ditch have been cleared, there will be two short work programme mornings in March.

On March 1 and 12 we hope to complete the remaining small clearance and improvement tasks, as well as survey the occupancy of the bird boxes from 2010.

All are welcome at Beer Mill Mead, 200m on the Leigh side of Stake Ford Cross at 10:00 on each day.

For more information please contact Kevin Waterfall on 01935 812779, or

Beer Mill Mead 32

D G Gould

kevin.waterfall@btinternet.com

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A wide range of local produce A wide range of local produce

Including quality assured meats, fresh fruit & vegetables, quality assured meats, fresh fruit & vegetables, fineIncluding wines, ales & cider, freshly baked bread & cakes fine wines, ales & cider, freshly baked bread & cakes And much more And much more

Fresh oven ready geese available Michaelmas to

10 am - 6 pm Tuesday - Saturday Just off the A37 Yeovil to Dorchester Road towards Sutton Bingham Reservoir EAST COKER, YEOVIL. TEL: 01935 863735

ALL TYPES OF DOUBLE GLAZING REPAIRS

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CALL: (01935) 41 55 55

ADDISON MOTORS Bridge Garage, Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6HW Tel: 01935 872 323 MOTS * TYRES * EXHAUSTS * ALL MECHANICAL REPAIRS * SERVICING * BODYWORK * WELDING

Leigh Village Stores & Post office NOT JUST FOR STAMPS THE POST OFFICE NOW DOES: HOME, TRAVEL & CAR INSURANCE, PERSONAL LOANS, FOREIGN CURRENCY, PERSONAL BANKING & INVESTMENTS YOUR VILLAGE STORE CATERS FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS ESPECIALLY THOSE LITTLE THINGS YOU FORGOT IN TOWN

OPENING HOURS Shop & workshop: Mon-Fri 8am-6pm: Sat 9am-1pm Post Office: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat 9am-1pm. Closed Wed

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“Fourwinds” Bed & Breakfast Chetnole, Dorset DT9 6PE Telephone 01935 872736 Enjoy a relaxing and truly comfortable stay in the delightful village of Chetnole.

All rooms are ensuite, have LCD TV, tea and coffee facilities and breath taking panoramic views of the Dorset hills.

For further information please visit our website on www.fourwindschetnole.com.

Steve Jones

Home James Domestic Housekeeping Service Regular Housekeeping One-off Cleans Indoor Window Cleaning Ironing

CARPENTRY & JOINERY

Doors, windows, wardrobes, stairs, bookshelves, roofing, fitted kitchens etc.

Free QuoteNo Obligation

For Free Estimates ring: Home: (01935) 872950 Workshop: (01935) 83565

Sherborne Drainage

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Nicola Smith, Brambles, Brister End, Yetminster, Sherborne, Dorset. DT9 6NH 01935 872199

High Pressure Drain Clearance CCTV Drain Surveys Installations and Repair Septic Tank & Soakaway Specialists Full Groundworks Service

All drainage problems solved fast Syd Hosie Tel: 01935 817097 Mobile: 07940 488426 www.sherbornedrainage.co.uk sdsdrainage@hotmail.co.uk 34

Halstock & District What is Messy Church?

Branch of the Royal Messy Church is church for families British Legion.

This year, which who want to get to know God, belong to marks the foundation of their local church and bring up their the Royal British Legion, children as Christians. If you can’t cope we are trying to raise the with traditional Sunday morning church number of members in services this is for you!

Who is it for? the Branch, currently 36.

Everyone is welcome to come to With this in mind, I thought it may be possible to encourage members from the Messy Church – just be aware that things East of the A37, namely Yetminster, might get messy!

What happens at Messy Church?

Chetnole, Leigh and the various hamlets We will have lots of fun and laughter. included in the Wriggle Valley. As you may We also already be aware, since the standing down · Play games of the Yetminster Branch, we parade for a · Join in worship short service of Remembrance at the triangle in Yetminster on Armistice Day. · Run craft sessions and activities We hold our monthly meetings at The · And share a meal together Rest & Welcome Inn, Melbury Osmond, on For further information please phone the second Tuesday of every month at Anne Reason 873726 or give your name 7.30pm, apart from July and August when into the Benefice Office 872600. Book there are no meetings. We are a friendly early to avoid disappointment! Our 1st and welcoming group, we generally discuss session is on Sunday April 10 from 3-5pm the running of the Branch and ways of at Leigh Village Hall. raising funds for the Poppy Appeal. All existing members or intending members are welcome to join us.

Our fund raising events for 2011 are as follows: 30th April Social Evening and Quiz celebrating the Royal Wedding 9th July Hog Roast - 90th Birthday celebrations of the Royal British Legion (aim to raise £900) 28th Aug Garden Party 4th Nov Coffee Morning For further information please telephone Alan Jakeman (Chairman) on 01935 891021 or Peter Brinck on 01935 891822

Annual

QU?Z Night

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Chetnole Home Watch On February 1, Blair Sibun and I attended an informal meeting in Sherborne, of 19 town and village Home Watch co-ordinators.

The meeting was arranged by the Sherborne Safer Neighbourhood Team [SNT], PC Pete Moore [SNT Rural] and PC Mark Andrew [SNT Town] and chaired by Elaine Ryan, a Community Engagement person working with Dorset Police Authority [DPA].

We were assured that Home Watch is considered to be of great value by The Powers That Be, all the way up the food chain to The Home Office, and we were urged to continue doing what we do now, to help keep our respective communities safe and pleasant places.

Although the initiative for Dorset Home Watch came originally from DPA, it now seems to be the responsibility of individual groups [Watches] to make it work in whatever form is deemed appropriate, liasing only with a Safer Neighbourhood Team. For Chetnole, this means PC229 Pete Moore, who is already known to many in the village.

The formation of an association of Sherborne Home Watches, to be affiliated to the Association of Dorset Watches, was discussed. Since no clear benefit could be defined, no conclusion was reached.

Surprisingly, one or two participants could see no real benefit in networking with other Home Watches in neighbouring villages, preferring the “go it alone” approach.

PC Andrew undertook to identify the co-ordinators of all the various Home Watch groups in Sherborne urban area, with the aim of appointing a Town Home Watch representative.

It was agreed that this person and Sherborne village co-ordinators should then meet to revisit the issue of being 36

independent of, or affiliating with ADW. Ms Ryan was asked to invite the chairman of ADW to address that meeting in Sherborne, to advise.

PC Moore emphasised that in Sherborne rural areas, his main priority is to help residents to reduce the risk of thefts from sheds and outbuildings, and theft of heating oil from outdoor tanks.

Please contact me for any information about Chetnole Home watch.

Gordon Ratcliffe Village Co-ordinator tel.872996

WRIGGLE VALLEY VARIETY SHOW Saturday 5 March 2011 th

3.00pm & 7.00pm From OAK HOUSE STORES All proceeds to St Margaret’s Hospice and Mercy Ships

Please come and take part in the UK Big Brew at the coffee morning in Chetnole Village Hall

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Gas Safe qualified Boiler servicing & repairs, leaking taps, problem radiators, toilets, water leaks, blocked drains, burst pipes, washing machine and dish washer installations Call Alan on 07768 755 914 or

01935 872689

Suppliers of Roof Coverings for the Wriggle Valley and beyond!

Slates & Tiles (new and old), Ridges, Felt & Batten, Lead, Chimney Pots, Insulation, Cedar Shingles and Stable/Shed Roof Sheets, or just feel free to call for Roofing Advice.

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A Painful Lesson Unfortunately our email address was recently ‘hacked’ by a person, unknown to us, who kindly, I don’t think, sent emails to people in our address book about our ‘Predicament’!

Fortunately no-one who received one of these emails replied as the hacker had made some fundamental errors: They said we were stranded in North Wales after our money etc had been stolen and that despite going to ‘the embassy’ we were unable to get home as we could not settle our hotel bill. Luckily our passports had not been stolen! It was also signed with the wrong names.

So what have we learnt?

1. There is no regulatory body in the UK for emails 2. If you use an American based company which offers a free service – you are on your own to sort it out. No-one is interested.

3. Report it to the Police but you will be told that no crime has been committed unless theft has taken place; stealing your address book and asking for money is not a crime.

4. The Data Protection office and Information Commissioners are not interested – nothing they can do.

5. Certain free email services are more vulnerable than others.

6. Change your email password every 3 months. Choose a password which is a mix of letters and numbers – we hadn’t so it was easier than some passwords to guess.

7. Don’t use personal information in your email address or password.

8. If your email has been hacked/stolen, pursue the provider to reset your password.

To do this you will NEED to know: the original address from where you registered for the service, your security question(s) and answer(s), the alternative address which you gave the provider when you registered and the IP address of the computer as well as the names and contents of as many of your personal folders as possible.

Try to make a note somewhere of the information.

9. Don’t save emails which are important in your account, download them to your computer and then delete them from your email account including your ‘trash’ can.

10. Store your address book in at least a couple of places so that if you do have it hacked/stolen you can let people know.

Remember you are on your own; the providers won’t sort it out. There is usually no direct contact – you have to do it all by email, However, whoever is using it knows you are trying to sort it out and your provider usually notifies them that the password has been reset; the alternative email address is vital in sorting the problem out.

Above ALL do NOT respond to any suspicious email; you might give them access to your email and address book. Report the email to your provider as abuse.

Many thanks to all those who rang quite concerned for us and enquiring where to leave the money and ‘just who is Sandra, Jim?’ Jim & Michele Aldhouse, Chetnole

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For Junior supervised Club sessions Junior and Adult Squads Junior and Adult coaching Easter and summer holiday camps Contact Matt Long on 07974 964470 Stu Wilson on 07825 660781 For Adult and Junior Membership info contact Meg Crothers on 0845 456 3591 Or log on to www.sherbornetennis.com

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St Andrew’s C E Primary School Morning has broken…

“Morning has broken, like the first morning Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the word” We are already half way through our Spring term with a myriad of exciting activities occurring within each classroom. Whilst it is grey and gloomy outside we create an environment in which our children are happy to learn.

One of our whole school activities this term has been the creation of the display on our huge hall board.

Titled Morning has Broken, a hymn that we have been looking at in RE and SEAL (Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning), each class chose a theme from the words mentioned in the hymn. You can see from the

results that we have produced a really super piece of artwork. You may wonder how gargoyles fit into the mood of the hymn.

Last term our year four spent a whole week studying our local environs which included the church trail around our church St Andrew’s. The children were really taken by this, especially the gargoyles (with water spouts) and hunky punks (without water spouts) around the outside of the church. Because there is a reference to

praise and singing, they chose to make 3D creations.

What wonderfully fertile and lateral thinking minds children have.

Another fun activity has been Books at Bedtime where all the children

returned in their pyjamas with their “cuddlies” and listened to a choice of bedtime stories such as the Dancing Giraffe, Peter Pan, the Mousehole Cat and my personal favourite, the Mole who knew it was none of His Business (in pop-up too!). The evening culminated in hot chocolate and biccies. A good time was had by all.

Join us for the PTA Quiz (which is open to everyone) on Friday 11 March at 7.30pm. Check up on this and other stories by looking at our website www.standrewsyetminster.

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News from our Churches Angels to the rescue!

This year’s snow and ice made us all realise how vulnerable we all are to the accidents and injuries that can so easily happen when paths and roads are treacherous!

The elderly are particularly at risk, not just from injury but from isolation as they face days without being able to get out and about. The cold weather only highlighted a problem that I became aware of very early. When you live alone, a fall that results in a dislocated and fractured joint can be disastrous. That’s what happened to Marjorie, who faced three months on crutches, unable to bear her weight on her foot. With her family spread far and wide she faced a difficult time, but while in Dorset County Hospital an occupational therapist suggested that she contact the Community Angels a neighbourhood scheme run by her local parish church.

‘I had carers coming in every day for three months, but I also needed someone to just cut the lawn’ Marjorie, a keen gardener, explained.

‘A couple came to do the grass and someone took me out on a Sunday afternoon, which was really nice. The Angels were marvellous. They were such lovely people – so nice and really genuine.’

‘A sudden accident really makes you think – it took just a split second when I slipped on the garden path and the pattern of life changed completely’.

Marjorie is now back on her feet again and planning to bring some good out of her mishap – she is planning to become an 42

Angel herself.

‘There are a lot of people who need help’ she said ‘and I would like to give some of my time to somebody else’.

If you would like to be a Community Angel and are able to offer time to befriend, run shopping errands, transport or help with gardening, dog walking or correspondence then please contact me on the telephone / email below. Training is provided and all volunteers are Criminal Records bureau checked before becoming Angels. Neither volunteers nor the people they help need to be connected to the church in any way.

Here’s what one volunteer, Kate a retired teacher had to say about Community Angels.

‘I had taken early retirement and though I would like to do something completely different with my time.’ She signed up to the service and after training and CRB check became a fully fledged Angel.

‘It’s just so interesting meeting different people and hearing about their lives and becoming involved. It’s certainly different from teaching young children’.

The Angels are able to provide help when the statutory services cannot, sometimes for very short periods. As Kate says, she benefits too, ‘You really feel as if you are helping someone. You spend time with someone and they enjoy it, but so do I. There’s certainly a feel good factor in being an angel.’

Community Angels is a service run by St. Francis, Littlemoor, St. Andrew’s, Preston, St. Osmund’s, Osmington. Extracts from the Team magazine with permission.

Rev. Simon Brignall 01935 872237 brignall97as@btinternet.com

If you love music and singing (if only in the shower!) and are aged between 10 and 18 we hope you’ll join us for:

Loud and Clear! a youth singing day We’ll be trying out our voices, learning some harmonies and taking a look at Gospel music Led by Yvette Staelens an inspirational vocal leader No auditions or tryouts needed!

Saturday 19 March 10am to 4pm at Leigh Village Hall Cost: £5.00 per person to include lunch Contact Philippa Toulson on 01935 873889, email philippa@folksw.org.uk or Maggie Henry on 01935 872883, email maggiehenry3@btinternet.com

From the Registers Baptism: Tegan and Kalie Gostick Yetminster Funeral/Thanksgiving: John Newton Yetminster Pat Harrison Leigh Ethel Curtis Hilfield Thomas Broadway Melbury Bubb

Yetminster Methodist Church This month, as we know, we will be passing through the time of Lent, perhaps trying hard to keep ‘Lent Giving up’.

Probably many of us will be fasting Chocolate. But, to be honest, I don’t know how it became a tradition for this season.

Interestingly, some years ago, Tearfund challenged us with the campaign: ‘Eat Chocolate, Fast Carbon’. It was a challenge to exercise reducing carbon emission during Lent. It was a very meaningful programme, which reminded us of the issue of the Climate Change.

Christian Aid challenges us again this year with a daily giving programme ‘Count your blessings’ during Lent, which awakens us to the serious situations of poverty and injustice over the world.

I am fascinated by these challenges, because they can make actual changes in our faith journey.

Lent is a time of challenge, to follow Jesus’ example as his disciples, through fasting, praying,

and almsgiving. And, it is a time to look forward to and prepare for the new life in Easter.

Some of you may remember the film ‘Chocolat’, in which a lady, who is a stranger to a little town, challenges the church and the community with opening a chocolate shop during Lent. It is a challenge to the church, where the gospel is reduced to morals and traditions, and a challenge to the town, where nothing has changed over a hundred years. Her challenge, filled with hospitality, kindness, and love, liberates the people in the town and leads them to enjoy their new lives as they celebrate Easter.

This film challenges us to think again of our Lent tradition, and speaks to us what matters is not what we don’t do, but what we embrace and whom we include.

Now then, what are you going to do during this Lent?

Keeping chocolate fasting, or taking a new challenge?

Every blessing, Rev. S.Choi.

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Hilfield Friary ‘We Never Closed’ Some while ago there was a rumour going about that the Friary was closing, or had indeed already closed. The fact is that we are still here!

It’s true that in 2004/2005, we undertook a review and, after much heart-searching, decided to shut Giles House, the night shelter for the homeless which had been part of the Friary since its beginnings in 1921. Patterns of homelessness had changed and we no longer had the resources to continue the work. However, that closing has led to a re-visioning so that now the Friary is very much alive with a community of seven Franciscan brothers who are joined by young people living with us for a year, by

lay men and women sharing for our buildings, and on in the life and work, and by developing craft work. two families - our youngest member is just a couple of weeks old!

A new focus for us over the past few years has been the care of the land, our 19 acres of meadow and woodland nestling under Batcombe’s Great Head; we are trying to bring our Franciscan joy in creation to Brother Sam bear on nurturing it’s rich biodiversity, on producing We are grateful to our food for the table and fuel good neighbours around us who give help and encouragement. We are open to guests who come for retreat and refreshment, to people who urgently need a break, to groups who come to meet and to pray, to students who come to study, and to those who want to buy in our shop - in fact to anyone who wants to visit this beautiful place – so not closed but flourishing.

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Brother Sam, Mid morning tea break at the Friary the Guardian 45

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The Friary, Hilfield

Priest in Charge: Rev’d Simon Brignall The Rectory, Church St, Yetminster tel: 07718 627674 or 01935 872 237 email: brignall97as@btinternet.com

Sundays: 8.30am Sung Eucharist 5.15pm Sung Evening Prayer (Mondays Closed – Brother’s Free Day)

Office: St Andrew’s Hall, Weekdays: Church Street, Yetminster Midday Prayer followed by Tel: 01935 872600 (24 hr message service) 12 noon Eucharist Email: wrigglevb.office@gmail.com 5.15pm Evening Prayer Note: Simon’s usual day off is Friday These are sung on Saint’s Days Sarum Readers: Chloe Sadler 01935 872794 John Strover 01935 872437

Roman Catholic Services Roman Catholic Church The Sacred Heart & St. Aldhelm, Westbury, Sherborne DT9 3EL tel: (01935) 812021 Parish Priest: Monsignor Canon Robert Draper V.G. e-mail: sherbornerc@tiscali.co.uk website: sherbornecatholicchurch.org.uk Mass times: Sunday 10.30am Saturday 6pm Holy Days 10am and 6.30pm Wednesday 10am Friday 10am For other services and information, please see the noticeboard, newsletter or website.

Yetminster Methodist Church Chapel Lane, Yetminster DT9 6LJ Minister: Rev'd Sooncheol Choi 73 Granville Way, Sherborne, DT9 4AT Telephone: 01935 815666 Email: choi_sc@hotmail.com Worship Co-ordinator: Mrs Marilyn Harris (01935 864232) Treasurer: Mr Cliff Harris, Broad View, Forge Lane, East Chinnock, Yeovil, BA22 9EG. Secretary: Mrs Barbara Driver (01935 873690)

Local Preachers (who serve throughout the Sherborne & Yeovil District): Mr Cliff Harris, Mrs Jo Jones, Mr Dennis Tackley

Services commence at 10.30am and are followed by refreshments.

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9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.15am Holy Communion

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Mothers’ and Toddlers’ Service Holy Communion Healing Service Holy Communion Holy Communion Compline

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10.15 am 2.30 pm 6.00 pm 10.15 am 7.30 pm 6.00 pm

10.15am Holy Communion 9.00am Holy Communion (BCP) 10.15am Family Holy Communion

6.30pm Evensong (BCP)

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Leigh Weather Watch January 2011 “The blackest month of all the year Is the month of Janiveer.”

Old country saying Pessimists naturally found little to enjoy in January’s weather but optimists consoled themselves with the fact the coldest winter on record didn’t continue getting worse.

Temperatures The post-Christmas thaw was welcome but, after a relatively mild beginning, January turned much colder.

Average temperatures were 29% below normal: instead of 4.9C (41F) we achieved only 3.5C (38F). As January 2010 had averaged a sub-zero -1C (30F) this was better than we had feared. The warmest day was 11.6C (53F) but the coldest night was -9.1C (16F).

Rainfall December’s snow took a long time to thaw but January spared us further downfalls and disruption. There was one more rainy day than usual but total rainfall was 16% below average, at only 83mm (3.3”).

Sunshine Last December was the dullest of the last 19 years and January was hardly any better, being the second dullest. There were only 37 hours of sunshine, 31% below average.

Leigh enjoys between 1100 and 1300 hours of sunshine a year and a growing number of solar electricity generating panels are being installed locally. Their owners may find the sunshine hour figures more interesting from now on!

Under the Feed In Tariff Scheme our solar panels earn £1.40 for every hour of sunshine in high summer but, at this time of year, it falls to about £0.50.

Winds January was much windier than December, with peak wind speeds close to normal at 43mph. The low temperatures for the month meant that the wind chill factor was unpleasantly high, just as our heating bills are going to be.

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HIGHER FARM, BATCOMBE LANE. Convert outbuilding for use as additional residential rooms.

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(Full) Progress: APPROVED CHETNOLE CRICKET PAVILION, CHURCH CLOSE. Extension (Full) CHETNOLE MILL, BACK LANE. Insert rooflight. (Listed Building Consent)

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CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, CHURCH ROAD. Install 2 rooflights. (Full) Progress: APPROVED. CHURCH FARM COTTAGE, CHURCH ROAD. Convert attic space to bedroom & install 2 rooflights & new escape door. (Listed Building Consent) Progress: APPROVED. THE GOOD HOPE. Extend time limit for implementation of 1/D/08/0266 to erect first floor rear extension over existing single storey extension flat roof.(Full) WILLOW TREE FARM, CHETNOLE ROAD. Barn. (Full) LOWER BAILEY RIDGE FARM, BAILEY BRIDGE LANE. Change of use of agricultural building to 3 holiday cottages.

Convert outbuilding to annexe. (Full)

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R W M LIMITED, CHETNOLE ROAD: Extensions to existing premises and remodelling yard. Extensions to car park including new vehicular access. Form new vehicular access to existing Chetnole House building & infill existing. (Full) PRIORS CLEVE, HIGH STREET. Carry out alterations & replace roof of outbuilding. (Full) Progress: APPROVED.

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PRIORS CLEVE, HIGH STREET. Carry out alterations & replace roof of outbuilding. (Listed Building Consent) Progress: APPROVED. 1/D/10/1744: THE POPLARS, BRISTER END. Extension. (Amended roof material) (Full) Progress: APPROVED. 1/D/10/1842: LAND ADJACENT LOWER COVEY, CHAPEL LANE. Agricultural livestock & storage building.(Full) Progress:APPROVED 1/D/10/1845: 29, CLOVERMEAD. Rear extension. (Full) 1/D/10/1856: 1, THORNFORD ROAD. Single storey rear & side extensions. (Full) Progress: APPROVED. 1/D/10/1894: BRIDGE HOUSE, HIGH STREET. (1) Replace oil tank with air source heat pump.

Install Solar PV Panels to outbuilding. (Full) Progress: APPROVED. 1/D/10/1895 BRIDGE HOUSE, HIGH STREET. (2) Replace oil tank with air source heat pump.

Install Solar PV Panels to outbuilding. (Listed Building Consent) Progress: APPROVED. 1/D/11/0061: LAND TO REAR OF POPLAR COTTAGES, BRISTER END. Retain agricultural track. Form proposed turning head. (Full) The next meeting of the Development Control Committee will be held in the Council Chamber, West Dorset District Council, Stratton House, 58/60 High West Street, Dorchester on Thursday, 10th March, 2011, commencing at 2.15 pm.

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Growing your own fresh vegetables is a pastime you might enjoy.,especially if you have a 9 to 5 job in an office.

hedgerows. Preferably near the house with access via a permanent pathway. If you are new to gardening then don’t be too ambitious, make the vegetable garden small, you can always make it bigger if you want to. The raised beds need to be 1.2m wide. The idea is that the middle of the bed can be reached

If space is an issue from any side. If you are then utilise your window making a rectangle then sills and patio pots, or the beds can be as long hang up some baskets as you like. outside against the house.

Having decided on You will be surprised what the size and shape utilise you can grow in a any old timber that you restricted space and the have around to sense of empowerment it construct them. imparts especially when Alternatively you you start to harvest and can buy raised bed eat your own food. If you kits, ready to do have the room for a assemble, off the vegetable garden, shelf at most garden consider raised beds. centres and DIY You need an open site stores. The timber that gets plenty of natural horizontals can be light away from as deep as you overhanging trees and want but as a

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Break up the surface of the soil within the bed and dig it over. Top up the height of the soil within the bed with good topsoil, incorporating plenty of well rotted manure. Happy gardening!

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SPOTLIGHT on our community Voices from the Old Vicarage - Denzil Goddard Denzil was born in 1921 in Kent to Cyril and Mary Goddard. He told me his parents named him after a place which they had visited in Cornwall. Denzil’s father was a printers’ blanket manufacturer. His early schooling was in Kent and later Denzil was educated at senior level in Reading, leaving to become an indentured apprentice in the printing business in the City of London. The firm he joined had been operating since the 1790s, when London Bridge still had houses on it.

During the war Denzil saw service with theRAF in India. When he was demobbed he worked as Works Manager for a printing firm. In 1950 he met his future wife, Majorie Shaw – a Derbyshire lass at a tennis/swimming club in Surrey. Majorie was a librarian and they were married for 45 years. During the war Majorie served with the WRENS, working with an early form of radar.

Calling himself “an itinerant”, Denzil told me that he and Marjorie bought a caravan in which they lived almost

permanently, travelling the length and breadth of the United Kingdom while he was working, keeping in contact with his firm by telephone. Denzil told me that he had one of the very first mobile ‘phones which weighed 7lbs!

Paying tribute to his wife, Denzil said she was chief cook and bottlewasher and their daughter was brought up living in the caravan. They had a Standard 14 at the time and he took out the passenger seat, replacing it with a small table; Majorie dried the baby’s nappies using the car heater!

With retirement in mind Denzil and Majorie thought

they would eventually like to find a place where they could put down roots. They looked all over the United Kingdom, from Galloway to the West Country, and one day, when they had stopped in a layby overlooking the town of Sherborne they decided they would take a closer look at what seemed to be a very beautiful place so they eventually settled in the area.

Denzil keeps busy, taking an interest in, and helping the other residents of the Vicarage, and keeping in touch with friends and family over the internet.

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Club News A fascinating afternoon and many will The Hundred of Yetminster History want to read the book "An undiscovered Society At our meeting on February 8th we had a very interesting talk from David Smith on domestic properties at Kingston Lacy, where we are to meet him at Pamphill for a tour on May 11th. We were intrigued to hear of the many and full records of what had once been a very large, originally royal, estate and the people who lived there, many of whom with ancestors as far back as the 13th century and even longer.

Copyhold tenancy, passing from father to son, and not excluding widows, and other customary rights ensured continuity, even of rents (though the value of money clearly changed over the centuries, any attempt to raise rents was severely disallowed.)

In some respects Kingston Lacy has remained medieval even to this day! The name KIngston comes from the original Saxon name for the royal farm near Badbury Rings, already an important crossing for five roads in Roman times. The estate included a great hunting area and had grown in extent. The Duchy of Lancaster became responsible for the estate, which was held by members of his family until James I gave it to the Earl of Devon in 1603. It remained in private hands until the National Trust took over in 1982 and discovered many of the amazing documents, now safely in the Dorset History Centre.

We were shown slides of many of the old farms and houses, remains of old villages and of fields which retained the old names and were largely worked in strips until the enclosure acts which started in 1786 altered a few, like the great south field.

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history of Kingston Lacy" in which David Smith retells the story.

We look forward to our visit there, but meanwhile our next meeting is on March 9th with Kay Townsend as our speaker, and we shall visit Bruton on April 13th.

Shelagh Hill, Chairman

Chetnole Art Group The artists of the Chetnole Art Group are delighted to announce our exhibition, March 5th - 13th, Jolin Gallery.

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We are a self-organized private art group that meets in the Village Hall every week on a Tuesday morning and includes artists from local villages as well as Chetnole. Our tutor is Peter Light foot and the artists range from those who have just started to draw and paint to some who have been members of the group for several years. There will be a wide variety of paintings available, all reasonably priced, ranging in subject material, size and painting media…oils, water colours, acrylic and pen and wash.

We hope that many of you will pop in for a look and perhaps pause for refreshments or even buy a painting! Rosemary Burden

Wriggle Valley Players “Ahoy there ship mates. Ahoy there Toby…”

The 28th of January saw the Players’ first performance of “Pirates of Wessex- The Curse of the Turtle’s Head”, by Phil Tebbatt.

A thin house it has to be said for our first performance but what it lacked in numbers it more than made up for in its enthusiasm.

The following two weekends saw the rest of our performances to wonderful audiences who thoroughly enjoyed the antics of our local crew and its attempts to lift the Curse of the Turtle’s Head and retrieve Bluebeard’s treasure. Children and adults in pirate costume were a joy to see. (See photo below ) Some memories of the “Crossbones Factor”, the Parrot, Ex(er)cise Men, monstrous (female) sea creatures and pink Croc shoes will follow me to my grave!!!

Complicated costume and radical scene changes were handled with skill and I thank all those who had anything to do with the production; without so much co-operation

we would never have been able to mount such an ambitious project.

It is always risky mentioning any individuals in such an ensemble piece as each character had his or her own strengths so in order to avoid favouritism I will not mention anyone especially except to say that despite rehearsing in some of the worst weather since the invention of the thermometer we presented an exceptional piece of local theatre which is a credit not only to those in the Players but also to its community. I hesitate to refer to anyone in particular but I do feel it necessary to particularly commend Les Wallis who, as a true professional, gave us Poseidon, Lear and Bottom. (If you weren’t there you will have to buy the video!!)

Should you consider joining us some time keep an eye open for our announcements in this magazine or contact me, Jim Aldhouse on 872994. Another music and poetry evening is in the planning stages and we hope to mount a summer production. Do come and support us.

Jim Aldhouse, Chairman & Director

The cast of the hugely entertaining panto, Pirates of Wessex, the Curse of the Turtle’s Head and visiting pirates

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The Yeo Valley Quilters We are a small group of ladies who meet once a week for patchwork and quilting. Over cups of coffee we decided to raise some funds for the Help For Heroes charity. No one who has seen the news reports over the past few years cannot help but be inspired by these young servicemen.

We have made by hand a quilt that will be raffled on the day of the exhibition. We will also have handmade items for sale.

Coffee and cakes will be available.

Please come and support our fund raising event for HELP FOR HEROES. Shirley Madgwick

Wriggle Valley Women's Group

Tuesday Club

At our February meeting Pauline Harley The January Musical evening at Gable Court was much enjoyed by everyone. was again sadly unable to be present as she The range of music brought for is undergoing further treatment, but appreciation showed how diverse were Heather Baldock our secretary, efficiently our interests and some music reminded stepped into the breach.

Our speaker this month was John us of our past (mostly good !). It was also Burgess who was talking about his life very pleasant to spend a very cold night in “Working for the “Wireless”. He had spent the warmth of a log fire and our thanks go 30 years with BBC Bristol, mainly with their to Judy Pyke for her hospitality. The Natural History Unit. Having been brought evening was arranged by Barbara and Pat up on a farm in Somerset he fell naturally and only goes to prove that our use of into reporting from farms, factories and electrical equipment leaves much to be other outdoor venues. He also worked desired. frequently for Woman’s Hour but again on The March meeting will be on Tuesday reports from the countryside.

15th March 7.30 p.m. at Gable Court.

He knew Frank Gillard, Director of Radio, Terri of our local farm shop "Oakleigh" will also a Somerset man, very well and told us chat on the beginnings and foods some amusing tales about him and Lord available at "Oakleigh".

Reith and the puritanical, strait- laced atmosphere of the BBC in those days. One Anne Flew, of our Club members recalled being taught (01935) 873660 by Frank Gillard when he was a young Science teacher at Taunton School - before he rose to high office at Broadcasting House.

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We also had the pleasure of hearing some short excerpts from Mrs. Dale’s Diary, the Billy Cotton Band Show, Take It From Here with the Glums and early Archers. We all agreed that the pictures were much better on the radio than on television.

Altogether the afternoon provided a lovely stroll down memory lane for our audience of generally more mature people.

Our next two talks are from our local celebrity Linda Carroll and Jenny Peet with a talk entitled No Knickers. As usual we enjoy a varied and enlightening programme and visitors are always welcome.

Sylvia Bryan

Chetnole Chuckers Boules Club Now that the days are becoming a little milder and evenings lighter, the Boules Club Committee are looking to the start of the new season.

Club meetings will as usual be on Wednesday evenings and Sunday

Why not bring the whole family and treat Mum or Granny to a special Mothers Day Coffee and Cup Cake?

There will also be a FUN Cup Cake Competition to show Wriggle Valley’s baking skills open to young and old.

Just bring 3 Cup Cakes on a plate for each entry between 9am - 9:30am on the day.

(Judging will happen 9:30-10am)

afternoons and, in addition, although we do not plan to participate in the Dorset League this year, we shall be arranging the occasional friendly match with nearby villages. And, of course, there will be the Club Championships.

The season starts with a Club BBQ and a few light-hearted games at the Boules terrain in the corner of Chetnole playing field on Sunday 10 April. This is an enjoyable annual event and an ideal time for those who are not sure about joining, to come along and try chucking a boule.

The emphasis is on having a good time combined with some (usually) gentle competition. Further details will follow next month. To become a member, get in touch with John Head on 873555 – and there is no increase in the modest subscription for this year!

The Chuckers’ AGM will be held at 7:30 pm in the Village Hall on Friday 11 March.

Ian Wood

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ingredients are readily available (e.g.

In a real tour de force, Wiltshire Wildlife ground egg shells, wood ash, a little Trust’s Compost Ambassador extraordinaire, occasional soil, water etc.). We learned Milly Carmichael, wowed club members at about the “magic” plant – comfrey – which the February meeting with an earthy and single-handedly supplies an amazing hilarious presentation on “Compost”. This cocktail of beneficial nutrients and minerals. normally rather banal, dare I say boring, However beware, comfrey has a darker subject was brought to vibrant life by an side; not to put too fine a point on it, when unforgettable performance from Ms. soaked in water to produce top plant food, it stinks violently (but is also loved by the Carmichael.

A dictionary definition of compost reads: larvae of pollinating insects). And wild “A mixture of decaying organic matter, as comfrey spreads rapidly so acquire the from leaves and manure, used to improve cultivar “Russian Bocking 14” which does soil structure and provide nutrients”. Well, not self seed. And, by the way, wear gloves that’s true; but it’s also dull and uninspiring. when handling comfrey! Also highly When Milly Carmichael speaks of compost, recommended is the practice of frequently her passionate enthusiasm, nay love, for the damping your compost heap with “The subject infects her audience to an Golden Liquid” – that produced by the male extraordinary degree. At the start of her of our species being said to be talk, those present were asked, “Who is comparatively better for the heap - as well passionate about compost?” A couple of as being much simpler to dispense.

Milly’s evangelistic approach of was a reluctant digits were sheepishly half-raised piece of real eye-opening entertainment. shoulder high; at the end, when the same With land fill sites verging on full – question was posed, a forest of hands composting as much as possible has stretched eagerly ceiling-wards. Such was multiple benefits.

So remember – love your the fervour engendered that, when a small compost heap!

Turn it regularly. Ensure that plastic bag containing a subject sample was circulated for examination, one newly you mix green and brown waste (fruit, converted Club member had to be potato peelings, tea bags, shredded restrained from demonstrating her new paper/cardboard). Don’t feed it meat, fish found zeal by actually tasting the contents! bones, or poo from meat eating animals, An animated slide presentation potato tubers, or plastic/cellophane. Don’t lubricated by an amusing script, much of it let it get too dry or too wet. Use additives to off-the-cuff, took the increasingly stimulate its activity …… and don’t forget interested audience through the life cycle of “The Golden Liquid”!

The next meeting is at 7.00 pm on compost. What is it? Why is it so 7 March at Castle Gardens for our annual marvellous? How do you make it? What do sortie to use the 25% reduction kindly we do with it? We were educated in the arts offered by the centre. Sorry, no guests at of loving our compost; in how to keep it this event.

Tom Withycombe happy (after all it is a living organic “thing”).

Should we ply it with additives … and if so, A date for your diary - Chetnole which ones? Commercial brands were given Flower Show and Fete, Saturday short shrift as all necessary additional

Chetnole & Leigh Garden Club

6 August. A fun day for all the family.

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Junior & Teenage Wriggle Valley Players As well as the adult section we also have two other groups:Firstly there is the Junior Wriggle Valley Players for children aged between 5 and 11 years old. The ethos of the group is to create a fun atmosphere where children can grow in confidence and learn new skills from writing scripts, directing, characterisation, mine, sing and dancing.

The JWVPs meet every Wednesday evenings 6.30 – 7.45 pm during school term time Secondly we have the Teenage group for those over 11. These meet for specific productions, our last being a very successful version of Romeo and Juliet. Our next joint production for both groups will be “Cider with Rosie” by Laurie Lee. This will be performed at Leigh Hall at the beginning of July so if you are interested please call Caroline Hart on 01935 872471, email hartc@talk21.com or Sylvie, 01935 873717

PLANTING AN IMPRESSION: Gardens and flowers were an everpresent theme for Impressionist painters such as Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Gustave Caillebotte.

Looking at their paintings, what can we learn about the Impressionist’s gardens and their favourite flowers?

Tickets will be on sale in advance from Castle Gardens and Booklore, in Hound Street.

Tickets £10 to raise funds for the Sherborne Douzelage Volunteering Project

Topsy Turvy Toddlers Getting all chocolately making rice crispy cakes

It is nearly spring and the Topsy Turvy toddler group is planning it's next term of activities. There will be cooking, painting, making and crafts, music sessions and hopefully some outdoor play. There are lots of new babies in the group, and lots of new people to meet.

We meet every Tuesday during term time, at St Andrews School, Yetminster, from 9.30-11.30. Everyone is welcome, Mum's, Dad's, babies, toddlers, Mums to be, child minders, Grandmas and Grandpas.

There is a friendly atmosphere, a cuppa and some homemade cake, and only £1/session.

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Leigh & District Discussion Club Our meeting on Tuesday 1st February 2011 commenced at 7.30pm with Chairman Charlie Osmond introducing and welcoming the guest speaker Mr. Ching.

This is the third time Mr. Ching has been invited, a most informative speaker and again this time was no exception. His talk, this time ably backed up by some wonderful slides, was all about the extreme cold, snow and ice in middle/southern England from the great winter of 1683/4 right up to December 2010: fairs held on the frozen Thames, the sea in the channel frozen 2 miles from shore, incredible blizzards and even loss of life

The Wriggle Valley Mothers’ Union Our meeting on March 1 is a discussion on our theme for 2011 “Faithful Relationships” led by Prebendary John and Peggy Parfitt. Our meetings are held in the Trim Room, Yetminster at 7pm every other 1st Tuesday of the month.

On Saturday April 2 we are holding a Cup Cake Extravaganza in Chetnole Village Hall from 10am – 12pm to celebrate Mothering Sunday weekend in aid of The Wheels Appeal.

See details elsewhere in the magazine of this event – this should be fun!

Anne Reason

in a Sussex avalanche. Charlie thanked Mr. Ching for a very enjoyable talk.

Secretary Alan Bastone then informed members of suggested venues for our forthcoming summer trips: Avon Valley Railway and River cruise, Alpacas farm, Lacock, and Seaton Collyton tramway. Alan will report back at the March meeting with dates and times.

Finally we are always looking for like-minded people to join us in our activities. If you are interested then come along to the Village Hall at 7.15pm on the 1st Tuesday of the month (winter only).

Chris Jacob

Leigh WI Our January meeting was a talk on “The Fun of Family History” by Colin Dean. He was interested if any WI members were looking into their family history and he explained how his enthusiasm for this subject started. He felt it was important to record memories from those still living as we often regret how we did not enquire more about people’s lives after they were gone and it also makes visiting elderly relatives more interesting!

He was an amusing speaker and he had brought a book on the origins of surnames with him, which members enjoyed seeing what their family names meant. He

concluded his talk with some of the witty sayings folk put on their gravestones!

Our meeting on March 29 at 7.30pm is our Birthday Meeting “WW2 Music, Memories & Myths” with Mr. David Andrews.

The WI is a great way to meet others especially if you are new to the area and you don’t need to just live in Leigh.

Please do join us and for further information contact Jill Evans 873172.

Anne Reason

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District Councillor for the Cam Vale Ward

District Councillor for the Halstock Ward

District Councillor for the Yetminster Ward

the parishes of Folke, Alweston, Holnest Holwell, Leigh, Leweston, Lillington, Longburton, and North Wootton:

Batcombe, Corscombe, East Chelborough, Evershot, Halstock, Hermitage, Hilfield, Melbury Bubb, Melbury Osmund, Melbury Sampford, and West Chelborough:

Chetnole, Ryme Intrinseca, Stockwood and Yetminster:

Cllr Stephen Friar

The Members' Room, Cllr Tony Frost, West Dorset District Homeleigh, Council, Corscombe, 58/60 High West Street, Dorchester, Dorchester, Dorset, Dorset DT1 1UZ. Email:cllrs.friar@westdors DT2 0NX. Tel: 01935 891321 et-dc.gov.uk

Cllr Margaret Lawrence, Trill Farm, Thornford Road, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 6HF Tel: 01935 872780

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