OCTOBER 2017 ISSUE 236

ON THE EDGE Footpaths, Bridleways and Tracks There are over 9,500 public rights of way (PROWs) in . Government cuts have resulted in a significant reduction in the capacity of the rights of way team to fulfil their obligations but the Gloucestershire County Council public rights of way team are responsible for:

• providing information about the routes of public paths, • recording PROWs on the Definitive Map, • processing 'public path orders' and 'modification orders', • maintaining the surface of PROWs, • maintaining most bridges over natural watercourses, • roadside signposting and way-marking, • making sure that public paths are reasonably convenient for the public to use.

Your rights of way include: • public footpaths, • public bridleways, • restricted byways, • Byways open to all traffic.

Public footpaths can be used on foot only (with a pram, pushchair or wheelchair where it is practicable to do so *), with a dog under close control. Public bridleways also allow horse riders and cyclists (cyclists must give way to walkers and horse riders). Restricted byways can be used by any transport without a motor. * and mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs. Note: users may take an alternative route around an obstruction or remove enough of the obstruction to get past.

Ordnance Survey maps show most public rights of way but may not be up to date. In the parish of North Nibley, as in most of , public footpaths are way-marked with yellow arrows and bridleways with blue arrows. What may seem to be a single path may be made up of sections with different designations. The is made up of footpaths and some sections with differing designations. For many reasons signage is often incomplete. If in doubt refer to the Definitive Map at County Hall. Many paths and tracks in the woods are not public rights of way.

Responsibilities of the public We hear much about 'rights' these days but very little about 'responsibilities'. Please follow the Countryside Code:

• know where you can go, when you can go there and what you can do, • take your litter home or put it in a rubbish bin, • be aware of your own safety and be considerate to other people, • leave gates and property as you find them, • keep your dog under close control.

2 Parish Council News Vacancy for Parish Councillor There is a councillor vacancy following a resignation. Details, including the appointment process, are on Parish noticeboards and the Parish Council website. If, by the 28th September, a request for an election is made in writing to the District Authority Returning Officer by 10 parish electors, an election will be held to fill the vacancy. Otherwise the vacancy will be filled by a process of co-option.

Cemetery improvements Contractors have continued to work in the cemetery, extending the memorial garden to approximately twice its current size and improving paths. They have been asked to work flexibly around events in the cemetery such as funerals and interments.

Speed Awareness: Six volunteers Parish council grants closing date alert: The 2018 are now trained to do speed checks. applications closing date has been brought forward to Wednesday 31st January 2018.

Broadband update At the time of writing Barden Networks should have closed Warend Hill (11th Sept to 22nd Sept) on behalf of Openreach, presumably to fix problems with the ducts taking the telephone cables. It is possible that they may also be installing the fibre to cabinet 1 at the same time. The fibre has to be blown through ducting from the exchange to cabinet 1 at the bottom of Warend Hill. When BT/Openreach has installed and commissioned the fibre to cabinet 1 it will then be

possible for households to take out fast broadband contracts with providers such as BT, invited All Hallat7.30 Village 2ndOctober Monday Meeting: Next Talktalk, Plusnet, The Post Office etc. It should then also be possible for Fastershire to bring fast broadband to the remainder of the households of the parish although there is no definite timescale available at present. The Fastershire website will be available

for anyone to check the status using their postcode [www.fastershire.com]. Matt Lloyd of BT may be at the next PC meeting to explain progress. (Editor’s note: A Nibley resident has contacted OTE to suggest that Truespeed, which is said to

offer ultra fast broadband without using the current infrastructure and which is used a lot in rural areas, might be worth investigating.)

The Knoll Trust would like to VILLAGE In August we met Gina Merrett-Smith and Kew’s Victorian Gem, thank the following volunteers Marianne North, intrepid floral artist. Gina entertained us with for clearing the ragwort from Marianne’s lovely paintings and travels to parts of the world when it was unusual for a woman to travel alone. The house dedicated Nibley Knoll: EYE to Marianne at Kew would be well worth seeing. Dan Roberts, Alan Page, In September Peter Berry’s talk on the Rockies – And the wife came too!! was a Julie & Steve Collins, very humorous account of 3 weeks in the Rockies, focussing on Steam Trains!! Sue & Alan Shrimpton, 30 trainspotters plus 6 wives went on two old trains through wonderful autumn Jean & David Palmer, scenery and gave another view of the Mid west, Colorado and New Mexico. Jo Patteson, Monday October 9th Brian Bailey - The Isles of Scilly and also Ken Brown for collection & disposal. 2.30pm in the Village Hall -Visitors welcome.

3 Dear Readers

I write this month’s On The Edge article sitting on a bench whilst on playground duty. We’ve been back one week.

OFSTED might refer to this as monitoring pupils’ behaviour. ‘To what extent does the school facilitate good social development?’ (a) Health & Safety might wonder when the Trim Trail and other equipment was last tested for compliance. (b) The Polli:Nation officials might wonder how well our new insect-friendly garden has survived the summer break. (c) FONNS will be interested in the extent to which the new landscaping is supporting children at play. (d) Our contracted gardeners might be wondering whether today is a good day to cut the grass. (e) The staff are wondering when I will ask a child to ring the bell, to signal the end of their break. (f) The crows are wondering when the children will leave, so that they can see if any tasty morsel from snack time has been abandoned on the ground (g) The children are thinking it’s a brilliant time to be out with their friends, enjoying the sunshine. And me? Answers below! (h)

(a) Very well – it’s one of our greatest strengths! (b) In July. It has to be done annually, internally (gym equipment) and outside too. (c) Very well – a big thank you to Mrs Meyer who watered it well. (d) The children love it! (e) Yes, it is! (f) Soon. They are so keen to get back to the classrooms! (g) Scant pickings, I’m afraid. The children want to keep our lovely grounds clean and tidy, so the bins are well used. (h) It’s a beautiful day. How fortunate I am to be here, and this is a lovely cup of tea!

Paul Batchelor, Head Teacher, North Nibley C of E Primary School www.northnibley.gloucs.sch.uk

October: Following our outing to Redwood Education Centre at Slimbridge, we will be looking at bugs, insects and creepy crawlies. What they are, where they live etc.

If you are interested in your child joining our pre-school there are some places available for this year. We accept the Nursery Education Grant for those children who are eligible for the 15 hours per week (universal entitlement) and have spaces for the 30 hours (extended entitlement) free childcare hours. We are happy to give information on the 30 hours if required. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. We operate in North Nibley Village Hall, Monday 9.00am to 1.00pm and Tuesday-Friday 9.00am-3.30pm (term time only). Please leave a message on 07842280220 and we will call you back with more details or drop in anytime and meet our lovely staff and children.

Our Bumps, Babies and Toddlers Group is also in full swing on Monday from 9.30-11.00am in the Meeting Room of the Village Hall. Each session is themed with an activity and a healthy snack. Please come along to meet local mums and have a coffee.

4 Start of Season Report 2017-18 If you would like to get involved with North Nibley AFC this season, please feel free to come along to training on Wednesday Summer drawing to a close may put a nights 8-9pm at KLB. frown on your face, but for the football fans out there it means the start of a new season! NNFC have instagram – Go follow them northnibleyfc Fresh from their nail-biting County Cup win, NNFC were invited to participate in a friendly Community shield final which was setup by the Gloucestershire FA in the hope of increasing interest in the game at grass roots level. The South Gloucestershire County Cup champions Real Thornbury Reserves ‘The Rats’ would play their Northern equivalent, North Nibley AFC ‘The Cobras’, on Friday Night in Thornbury under the lights. After a scoreless first half, new big money signing Jamie Evans weaved his way through a tight defence and neatly found the corner of the goal to give Nibley their first piece of silverware this season. Nibley have played some wonderful football this year, but a mixed bag of results from the opening league fixtures have left manager George Harper scratching his head at times. Needless to say the squad are confident of turning it around and mounting a serious title challenge this season.

The cricket season is drawing to a close and overall it’s been another good one although not quite as successful as last year’s and closing to incoming flights. One American couple we spoke unfortunately some of the later games to couldn’t get flights home but had been offered seats to the didn’t go ahead for various reasons. UK for $13000 dollars each. They declined. The late summer is always a Although there was a degree of concern it would be untrue to challenging time for team organiser, say there was any sense of fear or panic for ourselves at this Bob Hunt. Like a magician pulling endless rabbits out of hats, time but anyone who has been to the Caribbean will know that Bob always manages to produce a team and it’s a proud and the general housing there is of massively variable quality. remarkable boast that we have never had to pull out of a game Many of the houses are no more than wooden huts - often not for being unable to raise a side. Enormous thanks must go to the most solidly built and the potential impact on the Bob for the huge amount of time and effort he devotes to inhabitants of the island was indeed worrying. Storm shelters ensuring we have a side. had been established on the island for those who wanted to use them. Now, on to Hurricane Irma. A last minute booking meant The storm hit the island in the very early hours of Thursday we ended up in Antigua for a week’s holiday. morning with the winds reducing to safe levels by around Within a couple of days of our arrival news started to filter 7am. There had been a curfew at the hotel from 10pm the through that Hurricane Irma, at that stage a category 3 previous evening until the hotel manager sounded the all clear hurricane, was heading our way but was far enough away that siren. To be honest the effects of the storm on us were fairly its course could not be predicted accurately. It’s always nice to limited, there were some palm trees down, a lot of leaves and get an upgrade of some sort when on holiday but not when it’s foliage had been blown around but there was little structural a tropical storm which became a category 4 and ultimately damage at our new hotel. The story was somewhat different at category 5. The hotel staff and management were fantastic in our original hotel which took a fair battering, and is likely to their calmness and professionalism and gave us daily updates be closed for some months. of Irma’s progress and of their contingency plan should the We weren’t able to see what damage may have been done to need arise to relocate us. On the Tuesday evening it became the western side of the island. clear that the course of the hurricane was unlikely to change. It Hurricane Irma was one of the largest storms ever recorded in was expected to pass within 50 miles to the north of the island. the Atlantic and apparently extended over an area the size of We were staying on the north west coast and the management France. Things could have been much worse, but we decided that the following day they would move us to a shouldn’t forget that we were relatively insulated from the different hotel further south as it was likely the hotel would worst effects of the storm and were able to fly home. Our suffer considerable impact from the winds and likely storm thoughts are still with the local inhabitants of those and other surge. Some visitors had tried to make arrangements to return more severely affected islands. home but this was proving difficult as the airport would be Chris Artingstall

5 For Baptisms, Thanksgiving for the birth of a child, weddings and wedding blessings, funerals and celebrations of life please contact: ST MARTIN’S the Vicar Rev’d Canon Rob Axford 01453 842175 [email protected] Churchwarden Wynne Holcombe 01453 542091 CHURCH www.northnibleychapel.org.uk What’s on in October Sunday 1st: Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity With limited responsibilities, I try to be a “think-tank” about 9.30am Parish Eucharist

REGULAR what we can do better, and I’ve been thinking about prayer. Sunday 8th: Seventeenth Sunday EVENING SERVICE: Sunday 1st October at 6pm Here there seems to be a certain ladder of progress : after Trinity COMMUNITY 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am HARVEST Family Service EVENTS Rung 1. Many of us learned simple prayers at bed-time – thank 6.00pm Poems and Songs for Harvest Harvest Service you, Lord, for the day, a word for our near and dear, and a plea Sunday 15th: Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity with a collection to support farmers in crisis. for a peaceful night. 9.30am Parish Eucharist TABLE TENNIS Drop in, every Tuesday 10 - 11.30 am Sunday 22nd: Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity £1.50 includes coffee and biscuits Rung 2. Prayers to memorise – Our Father, Thank you for the 9.30am Family Communion

Don’t be shy - have a go! world so sweet, etc. Sunday 15th October 10.30am Sunday 29th: BIBLE SUNDAY Café Church 8.00am Holy Communion 9.30am Matins Rung 3. Formal prayers read in church or school – the prayer TAI CHI Every Tuesday 2.00-3.00pm book collects. Every Wednesday 5.00pm Evening Prayer With Mark an experienced fully qualified Saturday 18th November instructor. Pay as you go £7.50 on a Rung 4. Prayers for help when in difficulty or in trouble , ie drop in basis or £25 for 4 sessions. …..Just turn up! All welcome! 10.30 am—12.30pm prayers for ME. “I’m a Christian, get me out of here”.

Rung 5. Prayers for other people, the ones we love, and the ones COMMUNITY CHOIR - we don’t.And prayers for specific people and projects – sick Tuesday evenings 7.30pm people, mission partners, a church or community programme. Wednesday 4th October 2.15pm Led by Rowan Armes (Term time only) When did we last pray about church and chapel working Jan Ryder of All welcome to join—any queries contact together? Nibley Community Longfield Hospice [email protected] Rung 6. Vague world-wide prayers – for peace, for the Queen, for refugees, for Saturday 7th 10am Choir Concert the hungry. Sometimes God says “What are YOU doing about it ?” Coffee Morning with sale of puzzles (many CUPPA, CAKE & CHAT new) and games and cakes Join us any Wednesday 10.00 am -12.30pm Rung 7. Prayers aloud in a group. Anglicans are a bit shy about this. Wednesday 18th 7.45pm All ages always welcome Saturday 14th October Our favourite paintings with Peter Downs Rung 8. One-to-one prayer for another person, either in a healing service, or a Meetings at St Mary’s Parish Room, Wotton at 6.30pm chance encounter. We all ought to be ready to do it, but are we ? Visitors always welcome Branch Leader - Sue Plant Tel: 01453 845157 ART CLUB Every Wednesday 10.00am - 12.30pm Nibley Community Choir and other musicians will be performing at Rung 9. Prayer in tongues as in Acts 2, often a response to an experience of the A very peaceful way to spend a morning. Holy Spirit. (Not always encouraged in our public worship – perhaps it should Not sure if its for you? Pop your head the Chapel. In the first half of the concert there will be a variety of be). FLOWER ROTA round the door and come in for coffee music from the choir who will sing uplifting songs from around the and chat . No regular commitment. October Altar Nave Everyone welcome. world, gospel and pop. Rung 10. Silent prayer for up to an hour (or even more), simply listening to God 1st Frances Brown Margaret Timbrell Following this a collective of local musicians known as 'Cat Among instead of bombarding him with words and telling him what to do. 8th HARVEST DANCEFIT the Pigeons' will entertain you with covers of acoustic, folk, and Our Vicar Rob has encouraged this on a Wednesday afternoon. The Medieval 15th & 22nd Wynne Holcombe Pam Lewis Every Thursday 10.00 - 11. 00 am mystics were better at this than we are. Jesus did it and we claim to follow him : 29th & 5th Nov Rossi Howe Sue Devine £5 a session p-a-y-g-. Come and join us. blues songs. if he needed it, how much more do we? Bishop Rachel , too, has been advising CLEANING ROTA There will be light refreshments. us to take more time off from rushing around, prayerless. 1st VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! So the final question, and it applies to me as much as anyone – how far up the 8th Pam Lewis & Sue Devine YOUTH GROUP ladder are we, and could we do a little better ? 15th Dawn Shepherd & Sarah Aston Thursdays 7.00 - 9.00 pm term time only Entry is by donations to the Chapel . 22nd Carole Smith & Claire Brown These will be used to supplement any grant we receive from the 29th Audrey Sewell & Joy Jellings North Nibley music Festival to repaint the front of the Chapel and Blessings, Iain Marchant. DRAMA mend the cracked windows on the Tyndale close side and towards a

Every Friday 6.00 - 7.00 pm in term time new PA system. For kids in years 5,6 &7. £2.50 a session. Poems and Songs

Next churches together meeting will be on Monday 9th October at 5pm for Harvest

Anyone who did anything on “Ride and Stride Day”, please contact Sue Convery Revd Peter Marsh and Rosie Casken as soon as possible. Several cyclists and walkers and car drivers called into will lead an informal celebration the Chapel and St Martin’s Church. Sue and Mike took Marlene on a 'church crawl' ! It was really interesting. Two of the churches are 6pm at St Martin’s Church undergoing restoration by the Church Conservation Trust, Churchend, Charfield and Ozleworth Church. We visited six altogether.

6 7 Bridge is……

At its most basic, Bridge is a development of the card game “Whist”, so if you can play Whist Parish served from Thornbury you can learn to play Bridge – but VIGIL MASS 5.30pm SATURDAY not being an experienced Whist NO Mass on Sundays Masses at Thornbury: Sunday 8.30&11am player shouldn’t be a barrier to learning Bridge. Weekday Masses: usually twice weekly With little more than a series of basic conventions, you 9.15am - check weekly bulletin & website for and your partner ”bid” to what you think is the best details result you can achieve with the cards in your hand; www.ctk-thornbury.org.uk whoever makes the highest bid gets the chance to make that “contract”. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Before or after Masses as required Ian Cooke has been teaching Bridge locally for some Emergency Contact: Father George years (he advertises in OTE) – he can guide absolute Malecki on 07539 289248 or Thornbury novices up to a standard where they can confidently play Parish Office on 01454 412223 for non at a Bridge Club. Not only does Ian teach, but he organises sessions to give his graduates the chance to practice what they have learnt (and also forgotten) and develop confidence. If that wasn’t enough, Ian also is TYNDALE PHOTOGRAPHY the driving force behind the Wotton Bridge Club, one of CLUB the friendliest around, and “Bridge at Blanchworth” for Our 2017/2018 season starts on: those at a loose end on a Sunday evening. th Thursday 28 September at 7:30pm Bridge attracts players of all ages; many learn it at in North Nibley Village Hall school and develop it at University, whilst others pick it up later; some see it as something to keep their brains If you are interested in photography why active and get them out of the house. Despite having the not join us – you will be made very welcome. possibility to be competitive, it can also be a very sociable activity and for some, it forms the basis of a The meetings are holiday or weekend. From my experience, it is more of a informal with light “Singles” game than a “Couples” one, couples tend not to refreshments served play with each other – their Bridge partners are often part way through the evening, not their Domestic partners.

Alan Kennett For more information: www.tyndalephoto.org (Ian Cooke can be contacted on 01666 890261)

8 NEWS FROM NORTH NIBLEY VILLAGE HALL

Online bookings - http://www.northnibleyhall.org.uk/fees-booking

[email protected] (booking enquiries only please)

[email protected] (all other enquiries & join our contact list)

telephone bookings - 0845 467 4118 (calls charged at local rate)

4TH DECEMBER CHRISTMAS LUNCH with all the trimmings 12.30 for 1pm

Saturday 18th November 2017

A Seasonal Theatre & Supper evening ! (Suitable for adults and children over 8)

SAVE THIS DATE More details A Christmas Carol” in your diary now!! “ next month by Charles Dickens

Adapted & Presented by The Rabbit Theatre Company

“David Mynne’s performance is exquisite, a masterclass in the telling of tales. He had the audience laughing and spellbound in equal measure.”

Two course meal Bar Doors 6.30pm

RNLI Coffee Morning/Christmas Cards & Used Books Sale—NN Village Hall Saturday 11th November 2017—10am to midday

The W-U-E Branch , as well as fund raising, promote the RNLI by providing illustrated talks to adult groups, visiting schools and youth groups to talk about the RNLI and water safety. Branch Details: www.wuernli.btck.co.uk or www.facebook.com/wuernli All proceeds to the RNLI

Sea Shanty Evening 2nd November 2017

In aid of the RNLI (who no longer collect door-to-door) Nibley House Saturday 25th November @ NN Village Hall 7.30pm 7.30pm Bar Songs from the Frampton Cottrell Shanty Men “The Great Severn Estuary Flood” Tickets £10 in advance (covers cost of fish & Chips supper) from organisers Dave & Alison Beer 01453 546251 or A talk by Rose Hewlett [email protected] Members £3 Non Members £4

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One of North Nibley’s HERE WE ARE ! greatest assets !

Not just a shop ! A social hub in our vibrant We would love to see more community villagers using it on a regular A place to meet , socialise, share basis as well as our faithful and information and catch up. much-cherished regulars.

Buy supplies, get banking and Adds value to the village, the post office services, all without community, and our homes leaving North Nibley

Please continue to support your Village Shop

Product of the month …Widfred’s Pies A great new range of pies from - you’d never guess from the names - such as The Gower Cwtch, The Saucy Cow, Lamb of my Fathers, The Clucking Valleys and The Fiery Chick.

to be landscape aspect and at least 2MB in size to reproduce 2018 Nibley Calendar … well in A4 format. Please email any images you would like to LAST CALL for your garden photos for our 2018 calendar. see included in this eagerly awaited production to We now have quite a few lovely images, but would like more [email protected] or [email protected]. Winter, Spring and Autumn images to chose from. They need

Apples and Pears … space, but the Did you realise there is intention is to a cider maker living offer 5,10 and amongst us? 20 litres of Forgotten Orchards are cider and making cider and perry perry to order, in the village, and i d e a l f o r Sheryll and Jerry were p a r t i e s , recently the lucky BBQs, etc. winners of a 20 litre and soon we box at the Hawkesbury will be able to Show. They generously offered samples to shop offer bottles customers who declared it so delicious that they too. Check out Forgotten Orchard’s Facebook page intend to offer it for sale in the shop. Watch this for more info https://www.facebook.com/ ForgottenOrchard/ and ask Sheryll to order some.

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11 The William Purnell ADVANCE WARNING Educational Charity gives NOVEMBER 11TH & 12TH small awards to students within We will be holding a photographic the parish. The next meeting of the Trustees will be on the exhibition of local photos. Very old, 19th October and students are old and new! The Chapel will be open invited to apply. on Saturday at 10am - 5pm and on Sunday 10am - 4pm. The application forms are available from Liz Bunn If anyone has any old photos of anything about at 19 Barrs Lane North Nibley in any era please contact Sue Convery, ([email protected] 547939), Bike for sale Dave Purnell ([email protected] 07775876738) or Rosie Casken Make £25 donation to OTE for a wonderful used Merida ([email protected] 07977454083) Chromoly adult mountain bike - lots of gears, low Come and show your support for mileage, needs a clean up - collect by arrangement - an outstanding village family, 01453 842243.Chris Burns Cox the Dyers, who have pulled through an extremely difficult brain tumour and The Disaster Arborist touched the hearts of many in the community with their tenacity, cour- Response Team (DART), age and acceptance of life as it presents itself. of which Graham Beer is a Come to the Celebration Lunch at the Village Hall trustee and founder member, nd has been formally requested to on Sunday 22 October at 12:30. send a team to the British Bring your own bottles. Profit to a charity of the family’s choice. Virgin Islands, to help with Tickets from Chapel, Church & Shop. Family £8, single £3. recovery by safely felling damaged trees, and preserving Many thanks to Catherine Lloyd for giving us 9 years service as as many as possible for the an editor of On the Edge. We send her all best wishes! Editors future.

Harvest Supper Friday 13th October at 7 for 7.30pm ALL WELCOME in the Village Hall And Selection of Curries or Auction of Produce Cottage Pie. Apple Pie, ice cream etc given at St Martin’s Church and N. Nibley School Tickets : From North Nibley Village Shop Bring your own bottle! Funds raised £8 Adults & secondary age children will go to : £4 Primary age children

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