Allington News AN is online … allingtononline.co.uk … many thanks to John Slatero John No. 230 February/March 2021

GLENYS DELIVERS NEWSPAPERS FOR THE AIR AMBULANCE

When the village shop closed earlier this year, a resident of Allington Gardens, Glenys Wheadon, volunteered to deliver her neighbours’ daily papers. However, instead of taking the payment for herself, she decided to save it and donate the money to the Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance. Her efforts so far have raised £650. Glenys presented the cheque on a very blustery day to Karen Carter, Fund Raising Manager at the Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance. She was due to meet some of the air ambulance crew but unfortunately, due to the Covid 19 restrictions, this was not possible. She was also presented with a bunch of flowers from AGRA to show their gratitude. Those that she has delivered to are very grateful and have said that it is a fantastic service. Glenys has already raised money for the ambucoptor by running 5 half marathons. She also regularly volunteers at St. Barnabas Hospice by selling refreshments, but this has stopped for the moment because of the virus. Well Done Glenys COVID-19 Vaccine Ros Etienne from Allington was one of the first to MEDICAL CENTRE receive her jab at the leisure centre in . She Farewell 2020 and a very big welcome to 2021 from all at Long Bennington Medical Centre was delighted and is now awaiting her second. I don’t think any of us will be sad to see the back of 2020 – what a truly challenging, hard year it was for everyone. We all wish patients a much happier and safer year to come. We all hope that the Covid vaccination programme makes a big difference. Following the – Rotary Shoeboxes Prime Minister’s recent announcement, we will continue to keep you updated with regard to any impact on our services. We ask In the last edition we told you about the patients not to come to the surgery unless absolutely necessary and then only if you are not experiencing any coronavirus symptoms. Rotary Shoebox appeal 2020 and how Our team can deal with the majority of your queries via askmyGP or over the telephone if you have no access to internet services. We encourage patients to register for online ordering of their medication and our dispensary team will advise you via text message when it Allingtonhad contributed.We now report how the is ready to collect. Please don’t call in without being advised to do so as we don’t want you to make unnecessary trips.We are also villagers in Sedgebrook responded to the appeal by trying to reduce the use of cash handling and ask patients to use contactless wherever possible. If you require sick notes, or have collecting 19 shoeboxes. The Rotary Shoebox appeal requested any private work to be done, we can email the information to you or send it through the post. Information and updates about distributes the boxes collected among the coronavirus can be found on the government website https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus. disadvantaged in Central and Eastern Europe, We continue to provide as many of our normal services as possible and would like to reassure you that we are still very much open spreading a little much needed happiness. despite being in lockdown again. If you are concerned about your health contact us either via askmyGP or by telephoning the practice if Sedgebrook’s response was co-ordinated by Sue you don’t have internet access. We are here to help. Kinder, the President Elect of the Grantham Kesteven COVID Vaccinations – there is much in the media about GP practices being able to offer vaccinations to patients, but we currently Rotary Club, which meets at the Urban Leisure Hotel in have not been listed as a designated site. Vaccinations are being undertaken via our Primary Care Network in Grantham and if this Grantham. The photograph shows Sue Kinder with the changes we will update you. The programme is being done under strict guidance from NHS and in specific group order, so 19 shoeboxes collected. By now they should have please don’t contact the practice with vaccination queries. Either we or the vaccination centre will contact you to offer a vaccination brought a lot of pleasure to those who received them. when we are advised to do so. Well done Sedgebrook and thank you. Welcome to our new GP! Anyone interested in becoming a member of the On a lighter note, we would like to welcome Dr Christine Phillips to the practice. Christine joins us as a Salaried GP working part-time Grantham Kesteven Rotary Club, please get in touch at all day on Mondays and Tuesdays, and Thursday afternoons. http://www.granthamkestevenrotary.org/. You can find Meetings/Training out more about what we do on Twitter, We will continue to hold our monthly staff training sessions which means that our dispensary will be closed and we will offer a reduced https://twitter.com/grankestrotary and Facebook clinical service between 2pm and 4pm on the following dates: https://www.facebook.com/Rotary-Club-of-Grantham- Tuesdays - 11th January, 9th February, 9th March, 13th April, 11th May, 8th June, 13th July, 10th August, 14th September, 12th Kesteven-151407844934318 October, 9th November and 14th December 2021. The dispensary will also be closed each alternate Wednesday between 12.30pm and 1.30pm beginning on 6th January 2021. ALLINGTON COVID-19 HELP LINE Here we go again back into lock down, and it seems facing an increased threat from the new strain of the virus, although we do have the promise of some relief with the vaccination rollout gathering momentum. With the new measures introduced by the government everyone in England, including those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, is required to follow the new national lockdown guidance, which has been set out by the government and applies to the whole population, limiting any activity outside our homes. Due to the change in circumstances, I thought it wise to reaffirm the availability of the Allington Help Line. Though it has been relatively quiet over the last few months, help has always been there if needed. Our volunteers are still out there and ready to help with any day-to-day problems that may arise. Contact the help line: Call the help line co-ordinator Cllr Mike Mould on 07779746135 / 01400281977 I will put you in touch with a volunteer who will help you. Note to volunteers If you have put your name forward as a volunteer but your circumstances have changed and you can no longer offer your help, please let me know on the numbers above.

MORE ISSUES WITH SEWSTERN LANE... but encouraging breaking news Reports of the state of Sewstern Lane () from the crossroads towards the A52 have appeared in these pages before but we were astounded to receive the following information recently. People unknown have caused damage to a gate towards Cox’s Walk Farm, about 500 yards from the level crossing. It has been pulled open with a chain connected to a vehicle. When the damage was discovered bikes Desperately Seeking Allington News and shouting could be heard from the Allington direction and it sounded like someone was stuck in the Layout Designer mud. A bike then came across the field to the gate and continued onto Sewstern Lane. Five more bikes and a 4x4 then came down the lane and followed the first one towards the crossing. Churning up AN needs someone who would be interested in the lane is bad enough but causing criminal damage and riding onto the farmer’s field is unacceptable. producing the layout for the AN using a desktop publishing application. Richard currently uses Some breaking and very positive news on Sewstern Lane was received by the AN from Publisher but others have been used previously. County Council, just as we were going to press. The council statement read…. The volunteer role would suit someone who is ‘Sewstern Lane is an un-surfaced public road and it also forms part of the Viking Way long distance keen to be involved in their community and utilise walking route. The County Council is aware that the lane is heavily used by scramble bikes and 4X4s their publishing skills — student, retiree or and this has led to a notable deterioration in the surface condition in recent years. The County Council someone with time to give bimonthly. is now hoping to implement a programme of refurbishment works along the lane and has requested a CONTACT Gill 01400 281867 quotation for the required works which will then be used to bid for funds.' This is a very encouraging development. [email protected] THEOPTIMISTS An article she found in an old copy of ‘The Squire’ magazine, dated January 1980, prompted Marion to get in touch with Allington News. The article was about the first pantomime staged by the Optimists drama groupin December 1979, titled ‘Dick Whittington – an OPTIMISTIC production.’ She wrote: Dave and I joined the Optimists around 1977 on moving to the village. At that time rehearsals were in a very cold room at the Rectory in Woolsthorpe, home then to the Rev John Ashley, Rector of Woolsthorpe, Sedgebrook and Allington, and his wife Margaret. The Optimists had started as a church group with members from all three villages. Rehearsals transferred to the warmer surroundings of members’ houses, the drawing room at Allington Manor home of Grace and Bert Palin, and Craig’sHandyman Services the village hall as the cast sizes increased. By 1979 The Optimists hadn’t tackled a pantomime so choosing a script based on CraigHaynes the rehearsal of a pantomime was a Handyman clever ploy to cover our inexperience! The pantomimes became an annual 07783422110 event, moving to February half term and including children from Allington’s youth drama group, the Blue Jeans run [email protected] by Jean Potter, later Act 1 run by Theresa Tanner. Changing the scenes involved rolling up sheets of painted lining paper over the flats. The sets and special effects became more ambitious with the help and artistic flair of Bob McGrath, and a team of villagers produced wonderful costumes. We had a three piece band, with musicians including Bob McGrath, Geoff Horsfall and Les North. Dave Anderton wrote the words to many of the songs, which he set to the music of Gilbert and Sullivan and shows like the Sound of Music. Over the years directors included Jean Potter, Theresa Tanner, Geoff Horsfall, Chris Turner, Lynne Coverley and me. Pantomime dames included John Swallow, Keith Fidler, Chris Turner and Dave Strange, wearing a variety of outrageous costumes. Jan Fox often took the role of principal boy and I played principal girl and principal boy in different productions - it was a long time ago! But the most fun was definitely being the ‘baddie.’ For each production we had to build the stage. It was wonderful to behold. Originally put together by Bert Palin - a real craftsman - the base was supported by trestles and had a proper proscenium arch and curtains. Putting it up for each production and dismantling it at the end was a real labour of love for the team. Fitting perfectly at one end it took up roughly one third of the hall. The band played in the alcove where the old fireplace used to be. All the cast had to use the room thatis now the Post Office as a changing room – quite a squeeze! The productions were highlights of village life and brought together a variety of villagers to work and have fun together. The Optimists was more than a group of amateur actors, it was a happy band of good friends and those of us who still live in the village have fond memories of the productions and the good times that we had together. Marion Strange

Allington with Sedgebrook A Very Satisfying Pound Stretcher C. E. Primary School Ten years ago, Dorothy and I began to support a family in Malawi, an impoverished for children aged 4 to11 years 01400281685 country towards the bottom of eastern Africa. In the world list of poorest countries, it vies with two others, for second, or third from the bottom. The averagegross income of a man equates to £40 per month — accordingly our modest, regular gifts make a significant difference to the family, which includes several children orphaned by the aids epidemic of a few years ago and taken in by Daniel and Elube. Girls are rarely afforded school in Malawi and many are married off as young as twelve for the dowry they bring. But two of Daniel and Elube’s girls are currently at university, one of these in South Africa. Daniel is a smallholder, growing maize for his extended family. During the years of our support the country has suffered two serious droughts which destroyed, or considerably Would youor anelderly relative like somehelp reduced the staple crop. This drove the price of flour up beyond the reach of many, who starved as a in the homefrom anawardwinning company? result, but ‘our’ family survived. Daniel is an amateur vet and helps his neighbours, without charge if necessary. Most keep chickens, goats and a pig or two but none can run to cattle. Farrow Friends helping elderly people to stay independent, prevent loneliness and maintain At the beginning of last year our grandson, Charlie, visited Malawi on the business of his employer, the social interaction. Scottish Government and I asked him to visit the N’Khata family in Mzuzu and report to us. The Our services include: shopping, meal preparation, photograph depicts Daniel and a few family members with Charlie. On his return, Charlie was able to sit ins, cleaning, laundry, pet care and more. answer all of my questions and I felt completely satisfied that our financial assistance is not wasted, or ill-used in any way. Indeed, our grandson suggested that he should continue our gifting beyond my Further details expiry date and I have put in place a fund which will assist him until he feels that he can manage it unaided. Unlike other care Why am I telling this story? Dorothy and I were not alone in supporting Daniel and his extended family. Friends of ours, who were missionaries in Africa companies… 01476 385 395 YOU’LL ALWAYS or 07960 454 632 during their working lives, were supporters of Daniel and Elube’s family too, but they have now grown old and the gentleman has suffered Parkinson’s SEE THE SAME www.farrowfriends.co.uk disease for some time, and as a result they have ceased funding the N’Khatas after many years. MEMBER OF [email protected] STAFF The mechanics of providing money to Daniel are simple and very cheap to avail. I use Western Union and each gift I send takes less than five minutes to arrange and costs £2.90 for up to £100. If you, dear reader, would like to join me in supporting this family, I will happily introduce you to the N’Khatas and provide any further information you may require. For those of us with limited ‘giving power’ direct donation ensures that the whole of each modest donation is applied to the cause, with an additional overhead of a mere £2.90. Mike Sewell [email protected] 01400 281897 Allington News 200 Club Messagefrom Allington Parish Council As many of you know the money raised from the 200 Club, Firstly, we wish you all a better 2021 than 2020. together with the charges for advertising in the paper, are Unfortunately lockdown bites again and could remain in place for some time. the only source of finance for the continued production of This means that it is almost impossible to plan any fund-raising activities for the the Allington News. village due to the time required to arrange most events. Last December the Due to Covid restrictions in 2020 we were unable to continue collecting parish council decided to try to fill to gap in the funds we have available for some money door-to-door and at random times when renewal fell due. We of the more minor jobs that could benefit us all. We registered with a fund-raising therefore endeavoured to arrange for all subscriptions to become due website called ‘Easyfundraising’ and launched an appeal to ask all village on the same date – ie January 2021. If you have a ticket therefore your residents to help us by making any online purchases through this site. There is subscription is now due. Some of these have adjustments which cater no cost to you, but the retailer will make a small donation to the parish council’s BLKBOOKKEEPING for the previous renewal dates – which will apply for this year only. You account. For further information: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/, select the & PAYROLLSERVICES cause you would like to support ‘Allington Lincolnshire Amenity Fund,’ * Bookkeeping *Payroll will receive a letter from the treasurer with details of the subscription * Automaticenrolment due and we ask that you either pay by cheque or BACS transfer and register on the site, select the retailer and follow any prompts. For more pensions information there is a step by step guide on the Allington village website * Self assessmenttaxreturns those details will be on the letter. We are sorry to say these letters will * VAT be the only reminder, if you do not wish to continue with your https://allingtononline.co.uk/ The success of this initiative is in all our hands. * Monthly paymentsby Thank you in advance for your help. standing order subscription please let us know and we can offer the number to others www.blkbookkeeping.co.uk as we really do need the funds this generates. If you do not receive a 07593 447729 letter, it will mean that you do not have a ticket BUT we have a few MANY THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO spare numbers, so please contact Pam 01440 281106 or email BEST KEPT VILLAGE ALL THOSE WHO HAVE [email protected] if you would like to join and support AN. CONTRIBUTED ARTICLES AND PHOTOS FOR THIS EDITION. 200 Club Winners Our Flickr account has many more photos we didn't have room SIXPRIZESEVERYMONTH Mobile services for…Visit Flickr, search under ‘Allington News’, choosing the JUST£1 AMONTH ‘people’ option, and click on Allington Post Office village hall: will ensurethe continuation of the AN Tues 12.30-3.30pm and Fri 9am - ‘Allington News’ 12 noon support your community newspaper Milk round Dairy Crest 01476 563733 Arthur’s Fish & Chips Van Wed Support the Food Bank December January Allington Gardens 3.30 - 4.10pm 1st Prize £35 GordonWoods EsmeMoore Sedgebrook Green 6.50 -7.10pm Drop your tins, packets and 2nd Prize £20 SianLynch JohnBratt Wet fish Thurs Allington Green food into the Food Bank Bin 3rd Prize £15 BobSwinfield BarbaraCollins 12 noon 4th Prize £10 Pete Fox Sheila Moore Newspapers Quinn News on the drive 5th Prize £5 Brian Beaumont Sandra Clayton 01476 405978 at 7 Park Road Allington 6th Prize £5 TinaRussell BobReader [email protected] Before Christmas, two members of SKDC Bloomsbury Bakery were spotted installing our Gold Bin, for Grantham Food Bank Contact: PamPlummer 200 Cluborganiser 01400 281106 Bread-in-a -Box 07858124927 awarded for winning the Best Kept Village Thedraw is paidbimonthly with the publication of the AN www.bloomsburybakery.co.uk Award. It’s very smart and if we repeat it Thank you next year we might get another one! Belvoir Boarding SCHOOL REPORT For everyone the end of 2020 was different Christmas Album in many ways. But thanks to modern technology - combined with Mrs Kennels Cowley’s excellent camera skills - the children were still able to take part in a Belvoir Road, BOTTESFORD Notts NG13 OEA fabulous Christmas production. Each class bubble played an integral part of the unique story, which reflected the current Covid situation whilst INSPECTION WELCOME remembering the school’s Christian values. The finished film was emailed OPEN 365 out to our parents so that they could enjoy the performance with their DAYSA YEAR children in the comfort of their own homes! Well done to everyone at school - the show mustgo on! The School Council organised a collection for The Passage and we were 5 Star Rating DOGS thrilled by the huge amount of non-perishable goods that were kindly Melton Borough Council £14 donated. Andy Maddison, a coordinator for Grantham Poverty Concern, was bowled over by PER DAY the generosity of our school community. Tender loving care, 2 walks daily Special diets catered for CATS Bathing, grooming etc £8 Can collect and deliver PER DAY *Now providing Doggy Day Care* Christmas Tree 8am-6pm 2 walks & fed: Allington’s Christmas tree went up on 6th December. Ring: Willie on 01949 842470 or 07739 385998 Thanks to those who gave their time and effort to Email: [email protected] brighten up the Green.

VIEW FROM THE PEW Holy Trinity, Allington Our Carol Service on 18th December and our Christmas Morning Service were online on Zoom and Facebook and in the church. These were very well received both by those in church and those online. The service at the church on Christmas Day was well attended with practically all available seats taken. As Christmas lights we now face another national lockdown we will not be able to hold services in Mick and Judy Grummitt inspired us to brighten up church but will be holding them online both on Zoom and Facebook. If you would like to join the village using our Christmas lights with their a service please contact our vicar Harriet by email on [email protected] or 07971 305 524 posters and Facebook messages. Well done you two telephone 01400 281281 and she will give you the links. – and well done to all those who participated! The The Food Bank bin has been very well supported over the Christmas period.We will still be village looked very festive. accepting donations throughout the year. The Food Bank Bin is outside the garage at Chris and Margaret's, 7 Park Road. A reminder that the aluminium can collection point is still just inside the church gates and still accepting aluminium cans and clean foil. This has been very successful, thank you to everyone who has contributed and please continue. Sedgebrook Caravan Please keep an eye on the Church Notice Board for any changes which may happen in the and General Storage future. We will restart services and private prayer as soon as we are Gold Award able. Stay safe everyone. A Family BusinessSince1990 St Lawrence, Sedgebrook Station Farm Allington Road “The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome Sedgebrook it” (John chapter 1 verse 5). We have kept the light shining through the Grantham Tel: 01949 843698 winter with the church floodlit every evening of the November lockdown for our NHS and Lincs Mobile:07410 694208 NG32 2EJ Email: sally.birch@outlook .com care workers, all key workers and for those who have particularly been feeling the pain during this second round. Services of Compline, Evening Prayer, occasional Communion, Carols on the Green and on Christmas Eve a visit by Bishop Nicholas for our service of communion and carols all took place. The Christmas Window Competition was a great success with some beautiful entries. Thank you to all those who took part. It took the judges two rounds of the village to make their decision. The winners were Billy and Ann McNeish of Church Lane. A big thank you to the Wade family and Andy Green for putting up the Christmas tree. Our socially distanced carols around the tree was the best attended ever and the takeaway mulled wine, mince pies and chocolates were a big help in keeping us warm and lifting our spirits. Thank you to Nick, Andrew and Jonny for taking down the lights and tree. Thank you also to everyone for their kind donations towards the cost. William Roberts & Sons Funeral Directors 200 Club Prize Draws were held as follows: Caring, personal, 24-hour th st nd rd service from a local family 6 December winners: 1 144 Mr James Ogilvy, 2 48 Malcolm Stuart, 3 99 Chris Hicks Devon Ford, Devon Lane, th st nd rd business, offering dignity 20 December: 1 57 Gayle Wood, 2 47 Mrs Davis, 3 107 Shirley Balfe and discretion in times of Bottesford NG13 OBZ 6th January: 174 Carolyn Bruce, 2nd 93 Barbara Farrow, 3rd 80 Christine Coulton bereavement. Tel:01949 842 401 There are 4 more draws to take place before the end of the year’s membership. Prayer If anyone would like to spend time in the church for private prayer we can arrange GoldenCharter pre-payment funeral plans available. this. Alternatively, we will be praying daily for the community, our keyworkers, those who MONUMENTAL STONEWORK feel anxious or isolated and would be pleased to hear from you if you have someone you would like included. We are happy to give anyone a call who would like someone to talk to. Oil & GasEngineer, general plumbing, Worcester Bosch Book drop The church has an amazing selection of books/CDs/DVDs – all quarantined for specialists. 72 hours. We cover just about everything from a large selection of the latest thrillers and detective stories, fiction and biographies of the fascinating and famous, poetry, gardening, wildlife, history, travel etc. Please contact Malcolm or Jenny Stuart on 01949 842231 or [email protected] if you would like a selection delivered to your door. Markham Community Museum – we are exploring installing CCTV to protect the church and Museum, ready to return to daily opening. We hope to re-open the museum in the spring, with new displays and there is a fascinating new photo of the Old Rectory courtesy of Mike and Sybil Hubbard as well as village history past and more recent. We also look forward to the village history group being able to begin once Covid is under control. 07970479979 01400 281614 [email protected] Services for March (dependent on Covid guidelines) All services at 4pm until we have permission to return to our 10.30am morning slot. Yoga for Everybody Sunday 7th March – Third Sunday of Lent Evening Prayer st th Simple steps that promote: Sunday 21 March – 5 Sunday of Lent Passiontide begins – 4pm Holy Communion or HEALTH WELL-BEING RELAXATION Compline th Wed 1-2.30 pm Fieldfares stripped the berries in the school Sunday 28 March – Palm Sunday – Holy Week begins Allington Village Hall Lent Course grounds. Other birds recently spotted in the village rd Caroline Arthur BWY aYsCNHC The Lent course will take place every Tuesday in church at 7.30pm from 23 February until Mob: 07900473426 were two little egrets down Gonerby Lane and a 30th March based on “The Resilient Disciple” by Justine Allain Chapman (Archdeacon of heron on Marston Lane (along the byway.) [email protected] Boston) – A Lenten Journey from Adversity to Maturity – encouraging, challenging and www.carolinearthuryoga.com imaginative. Other classesavailablePlus1to1 tuition or therapy Darts Team It has come to our notice that back in the mists of time at the Welby - possibly some three or four landlords ago - there was an Allington Allington Post Office Village Hall Village Darts Team. We understand that they were part of a league, Friday 9 -12 noon and indeed won a match. However, here the information fades, we Tuesday 12.30 –3.30 pm believe Andy Woods, Jeff Stansfield, Dave Strange were members Please use it and ensure it but we could be wrong. It would be interesting to us (and hopefully our readers) if remains open now and always anyone could pass on their memories of this nugget of history – there has to be a YOU MUST WEAR A FACE story there to be told. PhotoMick Grummitt COVERING AND MAINTAIN ALLINGTON GARDENS Allington Parish Council Meeting SEDGEBROOK PARISH COUNCIL RESIDENTS via Zoom 13th January 2021 VIRTUAL MEETING 26th NOVEMBER 2020 Planning – Application: Rookery Cottage, The Green - Meetings of the Parish Council – all scheduled ASSOCIATION REPORT erection of single storey Orangery to the rear. meetings are now going ahead virtually – please see JANUARY 2021 Replacement of existing southern boundary fence with the details on the parish council website Christmas is over for another year and we have finally a reclaimed brickwork wall. Replacement of all existing uPVC https://sedgebrook.parish.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ If you email the said goodbyeto 2020. What a strange year! The vaccine windows to hardwood timber windows. Granted: Lofty Trees, The clerk [email protected] the log-in details will be sent is on its way with some of our residents already having had Green - Acer Pseudoplatanus - crown reduction of 50% (about to you. their first dose and the evenings are beginning (slowly) to 3m); Eastleigh, The Green - replace 3 existing Georgian paned Lockdown - despite the various problems and issues that the get lighter. Here’s hoping that following this latest double glazed window units on the southern elevation of the pandemic has caused the parish council had been able to lockdown the rest of 2021 will become more normal and main building; Bramley, The Green - crown reduce two conifers deliver most of the services that it has responsibility for. Special we will have more freedom again. and shape; Corner House, The Green - timber-framed car port thanks to Stephen, the community cleaner, for his continued The Gardens have been lit up with more people having and new roof to existing log store. work. There was also full acknowledgement and appreciation decorated their houses and gardens. We had a small Precept - it was unanimously agreed that the precept for for the work that Sam Wade and her group had done - many in competition for the best decorated home which was judged 2021/22 should remain the same as the previous year due to the the village had benefitted from the communication, networking by the chairman and secretary of AGRA with four homes current climate. and provision of assistance that had been established through deemed the most festive, so winning a bottle of prosecco Fundraising - many thanks go to Will for the donations towards their work. The district and county councils were also thanked each. They were: 6 Meadow View, 39 Meadow View, 13 the village cross (£147.72) and red phone box (£213.39) which for the continued delivery of core services. Larch Ave and 27 The Crescent. AGRA decorated Peach were raised from collection pots on the counter in the shop, now Planning - Application - Tanglewood, 29 Allington Road - Lane with Russell Carter single handedly decorating The unfortunately closed. Easyfundraising has so far raised a total of erection of annexe to rear which will be a playroom and Green on The Gardens. The elves placed a Christmas £108.81 from 36 registered supporters. Thank you for your eventually will be turned into a room for children’s sleepovers. Tree at the bottom of Peach Lane with requests for wishes support. No objections. application. Appeal - land at Allington Road - and baubles and the well was dressed by the same elf Solar Farm - a solar farm is being planned on the fields parish council were unable to support the appeal -matters (alias Andrea). The tree which had a knitted version of Sir adjoining the A1 on the Allington side. The parish clerk has highlighted in the original determination of the application by Tom in pride of place, appeared in the national news in details if anyone would like further information. SKDC were still a concern. A response to the planning inspector The Telegraph and also won a prize on Facebook. Thank Sewstern Lane - the lane continues to be churned up by was being drafted. you all for cheering us up during this strange Christmas unsociable users. A visit is being planned by our district Highways - Allington Road Railway Bridge Flooding - period. We hope your wishes came true! councillor in the hope that some action can be taken to prevent Network Rail have now jetted out the culverts and pipe from the this type of activity. road gully at the railway bridge on Allington Road. It was found Playing Field - repairs to the playing field equipment continues that a 60 metre pipe needs repairing - this had been damaged with many thanks going to our village caretaker for all the work by direct drilling during the late 1980s early 1990s which was he has done and continues to do. There have been complaints about the time the road started flooding. regarding the breaking of Covid rules at the park. Please report Flooding Investigations - the county councillor reported that these incidents to 101, the more reports there are the more likely Lincolnshire County Council were still working through their it is that the police will make their presence known. large backlog of investigations and he would be chasing these Date of next virtual meeting: 10th March 2021 via Zoom up. It was noted the water flooding on the bend on Allington Road was still unresolved and this had been outstanding for 3 years. Belton Woods Light Trail Tree Management - an inspection of the trees in the recreation field and the tree on the Village Green will be completed. New Sign in the Recreation Field - the parish council had applied to the district councillor for funding for the refurbishment of the sign in the recreation field and also towards the inspection of the trees. Footpaths - the footpath linking School Lane to Village Street was now very slippery with the footpath being used more. The Senior Countryside Officer will be monitoring the situation in the coming months. Dates of the next virtual meetings: Thursday 25th February 2021, Thursday 8th April 2021 7pm NOTESFROM A NEW RESIDENT Finding myself in a house that was too big for me but keen to remain in Lincolnshire I looked for Photo John Plummer somewhere with good road and rail links and on my travels I happened upon the village of Allington Contact [email protected] This is an annual event, amazing lights spread over the grounds (which just squeaks into my hoped for choice of for any information re future events. of Belton House, taking at least 1.5 hours to walk and admire. county!) This year it was organised very carefully with social distancing It is a long time since I last lived in the countryside and I was being paramount. Several families from Allington went (not pleased to find that the village, surrounded as it is by open together) and all have reported it ‘amazing and well worth doing’ fields, has retained its rural feel. Standing in my garden it is and hope to repeat it next year. hard to believe that the A1 is just a few miles away. I am looking forward to exploring the bridleways and footpaths in and around the village once the weather and circumstances improve. In the short time I have been here one thing that strikes me is the abundance of clubs and associations based in the village. There is obviously a strong community spirit and I have been made to feel very welcome. In short, a pleasant location and friendly people, I am already sure that I have made a good choice. Bill Reid

Community Library at the village hall currently closed

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