The Winsley Weaver February 2011
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30p The Winsley Weaver February 2011 Village Magazine 1 EDITORIAL TEAM & INFORMATION Editorial Enquiries: Janet Cunliffe-Jones Please send items for inclusion in Murhill House the next month’s edition of The Limpley Stoke Winsley Weaver to both Tanya & 01225 722162 Janet by the 14 of the month, [email protected] earlier if possible. Late copy may be included if possible, or held over to the following month. Desktop Publisher: Tanya Reid The Editor holds no responsibility 22 Poston Way for any opinions expressed. Winsley 01225 722644 Advertisements for local events run by voluntary groups etc. are [email protected] free of charge, for one month only, the size (whole or half page etc.) Treasurer: to be left to the discretion Pat Harrison of the editor but your choice 64 Tyning Road wherever possible. Winsley 01225 863649 The current cost of advertising for the year in one of the six Advertising: to a page blocks is £12.00. Please John Barnes contact John Barnes if you wish 1 Late Broads to take advantage of our low costs Winsley to advertise your product/service BA15 2NW to over 400 households monthly. 01225 723305 ‘Small Ads’ can be placed in the [email protected] body of the magazine at a cost of £1.50; 40 words maximum and Distribution: one month only – cheque/cash in Keith and Pam Bennett advance. Contact John Barnes. 37 Winsley Printed by St John’s Communications Centre, BA15 2LT Trowbridge. Telephone 01225 767468 01225 723090 Reg. Charity No. 289677 2 Editorial FEBRUARY 2011 You can read on p 3 that Great Chalfont Manor garden will be open on Feb 13th, especially for its wonderful display of snowdrops. In my garden a day or two ago, a few tufts were just showing, mere green spikes with a glimmer of white. Today, a sunny morning, one or two heads have bent over, and the flowers are starting to open. Although they are so much loved, and so widespread today, snowdrops may not be native to Britain but have been introduced as a garden flower from the continent. There is little reference to them earlier than the eighteenth century – and Shakespeare never names them, though he loved flowers, referring more than once to primroses, violets and daffodils. Yet there are wild colonies now, and they may have been known much earlier. Their pure whiteness has long been associated by the Catholic Church as a symbol of Candlemas, the feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary, which falls on February 2nd, and some of the best known colonies are on the sites of old monasteries and nunneries. This information, and much more, can be found in Richard Mabey’s wonderful Flora Britannica, where he also says “Wiltshire could well claim to be the top snowdrop county in England.” I can find surprisingly few poems about snowdrops, but in Seamus Heaney’s moving poem Mid Term Break, in which he remembers the death of his young brother who was hit by a car, he writes, Snowdrops And candles soothed the bedside . another association of the flower with youth and innocence. Please see the note on p 10, about the list of Village Organisations. 3 News from Dorothy House Drop in to Great Chalfield The 2011 Dorothy House open gardens seasons starts this month, when the magnificent displays of snowdrops at Great Chalfield Manor, near Holt, will be open to visitors. The grounds of the National Trust- owned Jacobean manor house will be open from 2-4pm on Sunday 13 February. The carpets of snowdrops are a truly wonderful sight – and a promise that spring is on its way. For further details, visit www. dorothyhouse.co.uk or call 01225 721480. If you are interested in opening your garden – large or small – for the hospice this year, please call us on the number above. We can help with publicity and provide support on the day, so do get in touch if you would like to be involved. Community spirit We’re often asked how we manage to look after so many people – about 700 patients and their families at any one time – when our building here in Winsley has just 10 in-patient beds. The answer is that Dorothy House was originally set up to serve its local community in the community, and most of our care still takes place in our patients’ own homes. Our specialist nurses and Hospice@Home carers look after patients across our 700-square-mile catchment area, with out- patient and day patient services provided at Winsley and in our two outreach centres in Chippenham and Midsomer Norton. If your club, group or school would like to find out more about the work of the hospice, we would be delighted to provide a speaker. Just get in touch with the fundraising department on 01225 721480. Best foot forward The Dorothy House Midnight Walk will be taking place in Bath on Saturday 10 September. The event is open to women aged 16 or over – check the website to find out how to sign up for this fantastic fundraising event. 4 SCHOOL’S SPOT January is usually thought of as a quiet time in the school year. Not for Winsley School – we have been fighting the winter blues with our dancing. We held a Dance Week in which all the children had workshops in different styles of dance: Street Dance, Hip Hop, Rock n Roll, Salsa & Latin, Freestyle and Disco. These sessions were “bought” with the Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers which the school and wider community collected last year. We’d like to say a big thank you to Weaver readers who handed any of these in to the school. The children really appreciated the experience. They tried out some of their new skills at the school disco the following week. Our Year 4, 5 & 6 Dance Club members have been busy rehearsing a dance for the West Wiltshire Schools Dance Festival. Their performance will be on 17 February at Bath Forum, a great opportunity for them to perform in front of a live audience at a professional venue. We have been lucky in having Tag Rugby coaching from Bath Rugby professionals this term. One afternoon we had a visit from two of the team members, Josh Ovens and Ross Batty, who signed autographs and spoke to the children. Badgers Class went to London for the day to visit the Imperial War Museum as part of their study of the Second World War. They have also been cooking using war-time rations and learning to knit. In case all this sounds like too much fun, it must be said that the children have also found time to do some English, maths and science! 5 “Winsley Acorns Pre-school” cordially invites you to join us at a Fundraising Concert With the “Three Little Singing Maids from School”, Katie Eels, Dajana Kovac and Kristina Takashina, accompanied on the piano by accomplished Bristol and White Horse Opera musical director, Arne Kovac. 5 February 2011, 8pm St Nicholas Church, Winsley A fun and varied programme of popular classical and musical theatre solos and ensembles, to include Puccini’s O Mio Babbino Caro, beautiful songs by Schumann and Brahms, duets from Hansel and Gretel, Offenbach duets and arias, and the virtuoso Girl in 14G, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Little Maids From School”... Something for everyone, we hope! Please come along, enjoy the music and support the village pre-school! Despite being in the grounds of Winsley School, the Pre-school is a Registered Charity and is not Council funded. Your support is essential to our survival! Tickets £7 (£5 concessions for under 18s and pensioners) Available from the pre-school in White Horse Lane, Winsley, or from Kristina on 723220 (Leave a message if necessary and she will get back to you!). Tickets will also be available on the door and prices include refreshments. All proceeds go directly to the Pre-school! All welcome - please bring friends and extended family! Diary for february 2011 22 3 february Mobile Library 4 february Whist Drive 5 february Acorns Pre-school: Fundraising Concert 10 february Winterwell W.I. 11 february Film Night 12 february Winsley Pottery Club 12 february A Choral Concert by Piccola CANCELLED 12 february Coffee Morning and sale of books, jigsaws, etc. 13 february Dorothy House open gardens seasons 14 february WEAVER DEADLINE 17 february Winsley School: Schools Dance Festival 17 february Mobile Library 18 february Whist Drive 24 february Winsley Gardening Club: Vegetable Growing 28 february Fair Trade Fortnight 2011 march 5 march Winsley’s Got Talent 8 march Going to University : vent at St Laurence school 8 march RNLI AGM 11 march Coffee Morning - Children’s Somes in Zimbabwe 20 march Winsley Village Project - Hunger Lunch Further information about these events can be found in The Weaver . 21 Winsley Village Hall with Garden Available for dances, Meetings, Children’s Parties etc. Booking enquiries to: For children aged 2–5yrs Kathryn Ludlow, 01225 868779 Fantastic new building within the grounds of Winsley Primary School with enclosed [email protected] or garden Elisabeth Sage, 01225 862 336 [email protected] ‘Rising Fives’ induction for Winsley School Chairman: James Sherwin, Open Monday - Thursday 9am - 3pm 01225 722113 & Friday 9 am - 1 pm Enquiries always welcome, Caretaker: John Wright, call Sandra Cooper on 01225 865131 01225 722017 www.winsleyacornspreschool.co.uk archery@winsley A safe and enjoyable introduction to the ancient sport of archery Individual Tuition, Family Parties, Youth Organisations Corporate Team-Building, Member of archery GB® Contact Sam Foster E: [email protected] T: 01225 867136 M: 07756 906085 BRADFORD ON AVON POLICE CONSULTATION SLIPS If you have any concerns you would like us to know about please complete this slip and post in the NPT post box outside the Co-op.