May 2018 Community Calendar May 2 Wed Happy Hours Club: Blooms for tea, 2pm May 2 Wed Ridgeway Ladies:Talk, The history of the Bra VH 7.45pm May 9 Wed Garden Club: Talk on Fuchsias, VH 7.30pm May 10 Thur Watermill at VH: Burke & Hare 7.00pm for 7.30pm May 14 Mon Parish Council Meeting: VH 7.00pm May 15 Tues Mobile Library: VH car park 3.15pm – 4.00pm May 20 Sun Broad Hinton Church: Thank you Service 5pm May 23 Wed Vintage Cinema Club: High Society VH 7pm for 7.30pm Jun 9 Sat BHCBT Annual Gift Day: VH 9.00 – 12.00 Jun 23 Sat White Horse C.C. Charity Ball: Manor Farm 7pm Jun 30 Sat Safari Supper Waste & Recycling collection days for May Tues 1 Plastic & Cardboard (blue bin) and Recycling (black box) Thur 3 Garden waste (green bin) Tues 8 Household waste (black bin) Tues 15 Plastic & Cardboard (blue bin) and Recycling (black box) Thur 17 Garden waste (green bin) Tues 22 Household waste (black bin) Tues 29 Plastic & Cardboard (blue bin) and Recycling (black box) Thur 31 Garden waste (green bin) The copy date for June 2018 will be 20 th May 2018 Please email copy to Dawn May at [email protected], phone 739130 or send to 35 Winterbourne Bassett, SN4 9QB. Items submitted to the Local News are considered for publication at the editor’s discretion and are assumed to be intended for publication unless otherwise stated. Articles will only be printed anonymously if the editor is informed of the name of the author. Happy Birthday to the Broad Hinton School pupils Luca Barbato, Rosemarie Spring, Henry Tipping, Talei Waqabaca, Maxwell Lacey, Lucy Baverstock, Florence Humphries and Jack Bruce who celebrate their birthdays in May
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May 2018
Community Calendar
May 2 Wed Happy Hours Club: Blooms for tea, 2pm
May 2 Wed Ridgeway Ladies:Talk, The history of the Bra VH 7.45pm
May 9 Wed Garden Club: Talk on Fuchsias, VH 7.30pm
May 10 Thur Watermill at VH: Burke & Hare 7.00pm for 7.30pm
May 14 Mon Parish Council Meeting: VH 7.00pm
May 15 Tues Mobile Library: VH car park 3.15pm – 4.00pm
May 20 Sun Broad Hinton Church: Thank you Service 5pm
May 23 Wed Vintage Cinema Club: High Society VH 7pm for 7.30pm
Jun 9 Sat BHCBT Annual Gift Day: VH 9.00 – 12.00
Jun 23 Sat White Horse C.C. Charity Ball: Manor Farm 7pm
Please email copy to Dawn May at [email protected], phone 739130 or send to 35 Winterbourne Bassett, SN4 9QB. Items submitted to the Local News are considered for publication at the editor’s discretion and are assumed to be intended for publication unless otherwise stated. Articles will only be printed anonymously if the editor is informed of the name of the author.
Happy Birthday to the Broad Hinton School pupils Luca Barbato, Rosemarie Spring, Henry Tipping, Talei Waqabaca, Maxwell Lacey, Lucy Baverstock, Florence Humphries and Jack Bruce who celebrate their birthdays in May
institution is seeking to reduce its use of plastic, or, at least take steps to dispose of it in a more responsible way. Even Monty Don on Gardener’s World is heard to make unusually frequent references to buying durable plastic garden sundries that can be used more than once, or, for example, re-purposing items such as compost bags into potato grow bags. All the emphasis on ‘plastic’ set me thinking about how we try to cut down on unnecessary wastage of resources, at Wroughton Country Market.
We wash and reuse old plastic flower pots and seed trays, to grow and sell our plants. Yoghurt pots and milk cartons are cut up to make temporary labels while the plants are growing at home. Many of the eggs are sold in plain egg boxes that have been returned by previous customers, for reuse.
Almost all of our preserves are sold in washed and sterilised recycled jars (with new lids of course!). We are restricted by food regulations regarding the packaging of baked goods, so most of it is well wrapped in cellophane. However, there is usually at least one type of cake that can be bought loose and singly for those who only want one, or prefer not to buy any plastic at all. These cakes are sold in paper bags, but of course you can always bring your own container to take home your purchase.
One of our woodworkers uses old glass bottles to make bird seed feeders. Much of the wood he uses for his bug hotels and bird boxes are offcuts from other projects. One other woodworker uses rescued or recycled wood to make intricate items, some of which are fashioned from several different types of wood. Amongst other things, our newest wood craftsman makes beautiful chopping boards and spoons from offcuts of oak.
Lastly, our ingenious paper and textile craft workers, are always using oddments of wool, fabric, haberdashery, paper and card to produce the exciting range of greeting cards and crafts on sale.
How can you help us? Please bring us your old glass jars, flower pots, carrier bags, egg boxes, oddments of wood, fabric, yarn etc. Do remember to bring your own shopping bag, to reduce the need for our single use carrier bags.
Wroughton Country Market is held each Friday in the Ellendune Community Centre, between 9 and 11 am. We will also have a stall at the Duck Race on Monday 7th May.
Plastic, plastic, plastic! Everywhere we look there is plastic. It was a very useful invention, but recently the problem of its disposal has been brought to the forefront. Now we find that pretty much every
On Wednesday 4th April Mr. John Jameson-Davis, a graphologist, came to talk to the Ridgeway Ladies on the subject of handwriting and how so much of our personality is reflected in the way we write. His presentation included examples of handwriting by Teresa May, showing strong will and self-control; Jeremy Corbyn, confident and determined and Donald Trump, excessive need for approval, insecure, poor communicator, sensitive to criticism, fears change and egotistic. People’s signatures were also interesting and if you put a dot after yours, it denotes that you want the last word. (I wonder if Vladimir Putin dots his.) The importance of handwriting lies in the complexity of the brain activity and how it ties in with motor control, coordination, balance, memory, thoughts and emotions. Early studies have shown that children who routinely use digital devices for most of their school and course work are less self-disciplined in the classroom than children who still use paper and ink. By neglecting the handwritten forms of letters and words by pressing a simple key on a device, we are bypassing important circuitry in the brain; old connections are not being refreshed and new connections not being made. Handwriting is mental aerobics, on a par with crosswords and Sudoku. If you would like your handwriting analysed please contact John on [email protected] or 01380 828457 – he also has a website. Our next meeting is Wednesday 2nd May at 7.45 pm when the speaker will be Mr. John Girvan on “The History of the Bra” All ladies welcome.
Thank You The family of the late Freda Bailey would like to thank all friends and neighbours for attending her service at the Latter Day Saints Church and for all donations made to Wroughton Prospect Hospice. Mum lived and raised us all in Broad Hinton most of her life – first at Weir Farm and then at The Croft. Your attendance was much appreciated by us all.
Thank You from St Peter ad Vincula
At 9.30 am on Saturday 7th April a willing band of helpers came to assist in giving our lovely church a good clean and tidy, both inside and out.
Our thanks go to all those who came along and did some very welcome polishing, brass cleaning, floor washing, vacuuming, strimming and tidying around the graveyard – Jo McCombe, Marjorie Sykes, Kirsty Crammond, Bridget Cooper, Jenny Clarke, Juanita and Brian Poulton, John Hutchings, Sally Cartwright, Gill Gibson-Piggott, Graham Worthington and Martin Moseling.
Sally provided some very welcome bacon butties too!
Thank you to everyone,
Jenni Moseling (Churchwarden)
presents
BURKE AND HARE
at Broad Hinton Village Hall
Thursday, 10 May
[not 13 May as stated in April’s Local News]
Doors and bar 7.00 pm. Performance 7.30 pm
Abigail Pickard Price, the Director, writes:
“Burke and Hare were rather a gruesome pair and let us not forget Mrs Hare, who, it
would seem, always had “the last blow”. This trio have an incredible tale to tell. The
story is innately theatrical and when developing this new script the writer Tom
Wentworth and I were continually drawn back to the real characters and events of this
remarkable true story.
Using three actors to tell a story that results in the murder of over 16 people is no mean
feat but we will let hilarity ensue when the cast, assisted by rather a lot of hats and a few
There’s another article about this elsewhere in the magazine. Not many tickets left, so get in touch with John Hutchings John Hutchings [email protected] 01793 731050 to get yours.
Easy Fund Raising
It’s a great way to raise money for the village hall online and it doesn’t cost you a penny. There are no charges to you and the hall benefits from donations from the retailer. So far our supporters have raised over £1,200 through shopping. To sign up – go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/broadhintonvillagehall.
Hiring the hall
• For a party or wedding reception, hire the hall and meeting room, all day and evening for only £150.
• We accommodate arts, craft and fitness classes too. The main hall or the meeting room for a couple of hours during the day or evening costs £18.
• For a large meeting or conference, businesses can hire the main hall for three hours during the day for only £54. It holds at least 120 theatre style and 100 at dining tables.
• For smaller numbers, the separate meeting room is a great option. It seats 36 theatre style, 20 boardroom style. Businesses can hire for two hours during the day for £24.
March 300 Club Winners (April’s winners announced in June’s magazine) £50 236 Brian Poulton £25 130 Geoff Martin £20 26 Mark Watling £20 90 Caryl Roberts £10 47 David Tulissio
ARE YOU LEAVING SCHOOL TO START WORK OR TO GO ON TO UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE?
ARE YOU ALREADY AT UNIVERSITY OR COLLEGE?
DO YOU NEED FINANCIAL HELP?
The trustees of this Charity are able to offer grants towards the cost of starting out on a career or on a course of further education either full time or part time. Applicants must have left school, be under the age of 25 and have lived in the parish of Broad Hinton for at least 5 years. Grants may be made to assist with the costs of special clothing, books, tools, fees, equipment, travel expenses and other similar expenses. Any person who has already received a grant under the scheme can still apply for another grant. All requests will be considered by the trustees of the charity James Hussey, Dawn May, Adrian Overson and Marorie Sykes. Applications can be made in writing at any time of the year to Dawn May at 35 Winterbourne Bassett (tel. 07866 889709).
ALL APPLICATIONS WILL BE DEALT WITH IN CONFIDENCE.
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Elizabeth Benet was co-founder of the village School with Thomas Benet. In 1743 she
started this charity up ‘for binding and placing forth apprentices’
View from the Rectory
Mark Twain once commented that no one likes change - except a baby with a wet nappy!
Yet changes occur all the time around us – some so miniscule we barely, if ever, notice
them. Other changes creep up on us over time. Our cells die and are renewed, and we
only ever see the dust left on the shelf we haven’t bothered to clean. Our blood and bones
are replenished in truly astonishing ways – but I doubt we ever think a dash to the loo is
about change! Trees grow rings, snakes shed skin, birds renew feathers and our skin
reacts to sun. We don’t really become stressed up about this do we? Until one day
perhaps we look in the mirror and under the coloured hair and the face cream is an old
lady - HOW did THAT happen …?
Yet bigger changes, the ones on the world’s stage and in our lives we have little control
over, make us anxious. I don’t even have to name them, do I? For with anxiety comes
fear, with fear comes paralysis or fight and flight. In turn this generates overreactions,
cliques and sabre rattling, clandestine meetings and damaging actions.
Our world is full of such situations – our communities too, and sadly the church isn’t
without its peculiarities, partialities, power struggles and angry angst.
Anthony De Mello, in a story about a bewildered abbot, reminds us of the sacred core
identity of every living person – a home for the divinity of God who is Love. When the
abbot grumbles to the old wise woman who lives on the hill she tells him the secret – that
Jesus is one of the brothers and sisters in the monastery – real, alive but one of them. He
gathers the brothers and they begin to eye each other up wondering, ‘is Brother David
Jesus- could it be Sister Rose?’, judging ‘He couldn’t possibly be Jesus - in fact he
shouldn’t even be in the monastery’; speculating on how to find out and influence him.
Then over time the abbot notices a change – the bickering has stopped, the control freaks
have become team players, the anxiety about change has become infectious excitement
and the monks and sisters are actually going OUT of the monastery and the worship of
God lights up the whole town. The wise woman drops in for a visit with a basket of fruit.
‘So?’, she says – eyebrow raised. The abbot practically levitates with joy telling all he has
seen. ‘But we still don’t know which one is Jesus is … can you tell me now?’ She looks at
him and smiles and says ‘don’t you know?’ pointing first at him, then at herself and then at
the others … The penny drops – his eyes widen and all the anxiety and fear have gone.
The troubles may come but the old reactions are no more.
We get lost in the events, the reactions, the angst and the anxiety of the world and those
around us. We forget that God dwells within us and within others - including those who are
not kind. When faced with changes we cannot control it is good to draw breath and try to
see the soul and heart of the protagonist - to then treat them as you would wish to be
treated. To see, if you like, in them the face of Christ. A huge challenge indeed.
Rev’d Maria Shepherdson
May 2018
Church Notice Board
Funerals
Averina Northmore-Ball 14 April Avebury
Burial of Ashes Valerie Fullick 7 April Avebury
Freda Bailey 26 April Broad Hinton
Wedding Christina Taylor and Alex Blackmore will be getting married in May at Winterbourne Monkton and we remember them in our prayers.
Flower Rota 5 May Trish Wightman & Tina Tidey 12 & 19 May Chris Horan & Jenny Clarke 26 May Romey Baker & Gill Crabtree
Cleaning Rota
14 May Vicky Lowes & Clare Fitzpatrick 28 May Liz Palfrey .
Winterbourne Bassett Flower Rota
5 May Angela Bewsher 12 May Margot Bullock 19 May The Cole Family 26 May Barbara Dodds Cleaning Rota 5 May Deborah Young & Glynis Long 19 May Sarah Harvey
Mustard Seed will be hosting a series of Study Groups led by The Rev’d Dr Janneke Blokland. They will be based on SPCK’s series of concise, authoritative guides to intelligent Christianity. Participants are strongly recommended to read each booklet (40 pages) before the group discussion. Books available from Mustard Seed. Meetings will be in Mustard Seed 7.30-9pm.
Tuesday 15th May Why believe in Jesus’ Resurrection? by James Dunn Tuesday 19th June Why go to Church? John Pritchard
Tuesday 17th July What is Christianity? Rowan Williams
May 2018
WHO’S WHO in the Upper Kennet Churches
RECTOR - REV’D MARIA SHEPHERDSON The Rectory, 27 High Street, Avebury, SN8 1RF 01672 539643 email: [email protected] If you require a priest in an emergency and are unable to contact Rev’d Maria please telephone one of the churchwardens. LAY PASTORAL ASSISTANTS Mrs Claire Stiles 01793 731620 c.j.stiles@hotmail. co.uk Mr Graham Kitchen 01672 861349 [email protected] BENEFICE OFFICE: Ray Manley, Anne Robinson (Mon, Wed & Thurs, 10am-1pm, Tues. 2pm – 5pm) The Garden Room, 62 Lockeridge, SN8 4EL Tel: 01672 861786 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.upperkennetchurches.org.uk
Benefice Council Lay Chairman Mr Mark Wightman 01793 731452 [email protected] PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL SECRETARIES AVEBURY Mr David Davidge 01672 513819 [email protected] BROAD HINTON Mrs Marjorie Sykes 01793 731471 [email protected] EAST KENNETT, FYFIELD Mrs Lynne Williams 01672 861511 [email protected] & WEST OVERTON WINTERBOURNE BASSETT Mr Martin Knight 01793 731764 [email protected] WINTERBOURNE MONKTON Mr Bill Buxton 01672 539199 [email protected]
MAGAZINES UPPER KENNET NEWS in Avebury, Avebury Trusloe, Beckhampton, Berwick Bassett, East & West Kennett, Fyfield, West Overton & Winterbourne Monkton Editor David Throup, Longmynd, Lockeridge SN8 4ED 01672 861279 [email protected] Please send all copy including advertising and payment to David Throup. Final copy date 20th of each month
LOCAL NEWS in Broad Hinton, Uffcott & Winterbourne Bassett: Editor Dawn May, 35 Winterbourne Bassett SN4 9QB 01793 739130 Please send all copy (black & white format only) to [email protected] Final copy date 20th of each month
