FEBRUARY 2020 - ISSUE 102 www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL THE MESSENGER
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A huge thank you to those that took the time to reach out and provide EDITOR: feedback on the new look Marnhull Messenger. Chris Ryu - [email protected] 01258 808577 (option 1) - 3 Corner Close, Marnhull, DT10 1PB You've all been remarkably positive about the change and I really WEBMASTER: appreciate it! Chris Ryu - as above It was so great to see such a good turnout for the Marnhull Panto, what ADVERTISING: a supportive bunch you all are! I understand that due to outstanding Rosie Gall - [email protected] generosity, the Village Hall Stage has now been saved too! Thank you so TREASURER: much whoever you are... Bill Shannon - [email protected] RECYCLE YOUR MESSENGER 01258 820890 CIRCULATION: I had a few enquiries over whether the Messenger can still be recycled The Eveleighs - [email protected] and I'm pleased to confirm that yes it still can be. Place it in your kerbside 01258 821049 - Weavers House, Burton Street, Marnhull, DT10 1PS collection box like normal. The Gloss feel is from the "coating" on the CHAIRMAN: paper, much like the Silk Coating it had previously. Ian Gall - [email protected] 01258 820484 NEW LOOK MESSENGER WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR: Fiona Nelson - [email protected] It's been 5 years since I built the current one, so it's certainly due a 01258 821036 refresh! MARNHULL MESSENGER WEBSITE Work has now started on the new site, which will be a bit cleaner and more visual. Village Clubs/Groups and even advertisers will be able to WHO DO I CONTACT? update their own information with ease. Any amendments or proposals for new pages in the messenger web site The focus of the new website will be "Real Time" allow for clubs to share should be made to: news immediately and they'll feature in the printed Messenger like Chris Ryu Email: [email protected] normal. Rosalind Eveleigh Email: [email protected]
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It takes about 40 people, all of whom are volunteers, to collate and deliver The Marnhull Messenger to every home and business in the village. We are extremely grateful to this dedicated team, without whom the magazine simply would not flourish. Whilst we always aim to deliver the magazine by the 1st of the month, from time to time illness, family commitments and a myriad of other personal issues can sometimes get in the way, resulting in the occasional late delivery. Recently, there have been a few complaints from villagers, because they felt their copy of The Marnhull Messenger was delivered late. It might be worth pointing out that if it is essential to you to receive the Marnhull Messenger by a particular date and it hasn’t arrived, then the Church, the two pubs and all the businesses in the village have spare copies available. Ian Gall – Chairman, The Marnhull Messenger Steering Group.
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www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 3 ANNUAL FOR VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS PLEASE CALL 07376 911 878 DIARY 2020 All events are held at the Village Hall unless otherwise stated. FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL
2nd - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 1st - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 1st - Marnhull Lunch Club @ 12:00 3rd - Pilates classes @ 09:30 Methodist Hall 1st - Fit Steps @ 11:00 4th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 3rd - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 1st - Marnhull Music Society - BSO concert in 4th - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 4th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 Poole @ 18:00 5th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 4th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 4th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 1st - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 6th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 5th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 2nd - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 6th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 5th - Marnhull Craft Club @ 10:00 2nd - Marnhull Craft Club @ 10:00 6th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary Methodist Hall Methodist Hall 7th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 6th - Marnhull Lunch Club @ 12:00 3rd - Marnhull Lunch Club @ 12:00 7th - Jumble Sale @ 10:15 British Legion Club 7th - Marnhull Craft Club @ 10:00 Methodist Hall 7th - Just Bertie @ 20:00 British Legion Club 6th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 8th - Blackmore Vale Art @ 10:00 9th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 6th - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 9th - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 11th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 9th - Women's Institute - Vietnam- Mike 7th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 Spencer @ 19:30 11th - Women's Institute - Resolutions and 8th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 Beetle Drive @ 19:30 10th - Pilates classes @ 09:30 Methodist Hall 8th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 10th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 12th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 10th - Garden Club - Ascension Island - A Drop 8th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 13th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 in the Ocean - Martin Young @ 19:30 9th - Blackmore Vale Art @ 10:00 13th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 11th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 13th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 11th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 10th - Blackmore Vale Art @ 10:00 11th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 13th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 14th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 12th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 15th - Marnhull POPPin Cafe @ 10:00 14th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 12th - Bridge Afternoon @ 13:00 16th - Help the Heroes Coffee Morning @ 10:00 13th - Blackmore Vale Art @ 10:00 15th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 Church Cottage 14th - Elvis 56 @ 20:00 British Legion Club 15th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 18th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 16th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 15th - Women's Institute - Annual Meeting 18th - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 16th - Marnhull Music Society presentation by Social with Cheese and Wine @ 19:30 Mike Wilkins @ 19:15 18th - Marnhull Music Society presentation by 15th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary Pam Sheraton @ 19:15 17th - Pilates classes @ 09:30 Methodist Hall 17th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 17th - Marnhull POPPin Cafe @ 10:00 19th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 18th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 19th - Marnhull 12k and Children's Fun Races 20th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 18th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 @ 10:30 St Gregory's primary school 20th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 18th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 20th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 20th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 19th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 20th - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 21st - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 20th - Marnhull POPPin Cafe @ 10:00 21st - 2 Foot Moose @ 20:00 20th - Marnhull Music Society "Gentlemens' 22nd - Figure Drawing @ 10:30 British Legion Club Choice" @ 19:15 25th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 23rd - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 21st - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 26th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 23rd - Bingo At the Legion @ 19:00 21st - For a Greener Marnhull - trees, hedges, 27th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 24th - Pilates classes @ 09:30 Methodist Hall meadows & more @ 19:30 24th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 27th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 22nd - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 24th - Moviola The Good Liar @ 19:30 27th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 25th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 22nd - Fit Steps @ 11:00 30th - Quiz Night @ 19:00 British Legion Club 25th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 22nd - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 25th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary 23rd - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 26th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30 SUBMIT YOUR 27th - Figure Drawing @ 10:30 24th - Figure Drawing @ 10:30 EVENTS INTO A 28th - Childrens free tennis coaching @ 09:00 27th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 Recreation Ground LIVE CALENDAR 28th - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 28th - Karma Alarm @ 20:00 On the messenger website and British Legion Club 29th - Pilates Evolution @ 09:30 they’ll be added to this diary in the 30th - Pilates with Shirley @ 11:30 29th - Fit Steps @ 11:00 next issue! 30th - Renewable Energy at Home @ 19:30 31st - Pilates classes @ 09:30 Methodist Hall 29th - Zumba @ 19:30 St Gregory's Primary www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk 31st - Art for Everyone @ 10:00 30th - Baby and Toddler group @ 09:30
4 December 2020 | Issue 101 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL All events are held at the Village Hall unless otherwise stated. MESSENGER THE MARNHULL HUB • peanut, pretzel & popcorn packaging • biscuit, cracker & cake bar wrappers REPAIR CAFÉ CONTINUES TO GROW • bread bags (stretchy plastic only) Has your old clock lost its tick? We’re happy to say that our Repair • toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes & plastic packaging Café team at the Marnhull Village Hub has been joined by Simon, a • baby food pouches & baby snack packaging clock repair specialist. Why not bring your ailing timepiece along for • pet food pouches (CLEAN AND DRY, PLEASE) and dry pet food & treat a consultation…? The Repair Café is open every Saturday and every packaging Monday, 10 - 12, and on Thursdays from 3 - 5. Even if your item can’t be • dishwasher tablet & salt packaging, and dishwasher cleaner & assessed straight away, one of the team will be able to advise. freshener outer packaging • cleaning wipe packaging (but not baby wipes - sorry) THE NEW HUB QUIZ - AND A VILLAGE PHOTO COMPETITION • laundry tablet packaging & tinted fabric conditioner bottles Spring into Spring with the latest Hub Quiz! It costs £2 to enter and • plastic air freshener containers & cartridge caps there’s an exciting £20 prize. The closing date is 10 April. Pick up your • writing instruments copy at the Hub, the SPAR shop or Robin Hill Post Office. • Tassimo and L’OR coffee packaging; and And we’re planning a photo competition! Look out for details at the Hub • some personal care and beauty packaging and in next month’s Messenger. Please email [email protected] for a detailed list of what THE NEW REFILL STATION - AND PLASTIC-FREE SHELVES we can take. We’ve set up an Ecover refill station, supplying environmentally VOLUNTEERS PLEASE!! friendly washing-up liquid and non-bio laundry liquid. Re-use your own The Hub is run by volunteers - and there simply aren’t enough of us. We containers: it’s a win-win! particularly need people to help with the café, even if only occasionally. And check out Coconut and Cotton’s plastic-free shelves in the Hub, And as our Recycling Hub continues to grow in popularity, we would where there’s a variety of green items for sale, including bio-degradable welcome any help you can give with checking that our boxes don’t dog poo bags and ‘loofah slices’ - an alternative to plastic washing-up overflow and/or taking the contents to collection points in Stalbridge or sponges. Take home a loofah slice and some Ecover liquid, and feel that Shaftesbury. Every little helps! If you’d like to find out more, please drop little bit better about life… And please let us know if you would like us in and talk to us. to stock other items from Coconut and Cotton’s range: see https:// AND REMEMBER - coconutandcotton.co.uk. • For more information keep an eye on our website, social media, the WHAT’S ON AT THE HUB IN MARCH? Hub window and information board, and the village noticeboards. • Drop-in sessions, for refreshments, chat, recycling, refills, books, gifts • The Hub is a great venue for all kinds of smallish gatherings - meetings, and the Repair Café - every Saturday and every Monday, 10 - 12, and networking, pop-up shops & events, children’s activity parties, clubs, every Thursday 3 - 5. groups, and so on. Hire costs from just £10 for a three-hour session. We’re in Burton Street, Marnhull DT10 1PH. • French conversation - Tuesday afternoons from 2 pm • The Hub is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers. • Meet Mandy Robertson, our police community support officer If you’d like to help, or to make a booking or ask a question, - Thursday 5 March, 11.30 - 12 email [email protected], contact us via the website, www. [email protected], or just drop in when we’re open and talk to one of • Postcards of Kindness - sending friendly postcards to residents of care the team. Come and join the Hubbub! homes - Monday 9 March, 10 - 12 (and every second Monday): bring along some cards if you can • The Hub Book Group - Tuesday 17 March, from 7 pm • The Hub Jumble Sale - Saturday 21 March, 10 - 12 (and every third Saturday) • Alison Palmer, Off to Sew @ the Hub - Wednesday 25 March 3 - 5 (and every fourth Wednesday) RE-USE, REPAIR, RECYCLE As well as the Hub book & puzzle exchange and the monthly Jumble Sales, our popular Repair Café is open three times a week. Our team of skilled craftspeople will tackle almost anything, so, if you think it might be repaired, don’t throw it away. Let the experts have a look... Our Recycling Hub is open whenever the Hub is open. We can take things that the Council can’t: • crisp packets, including multipack wrappers • Pringles tubes (but only this brand, please) • confectionery wrappers (sweets, chocolate, etc) • snack packets
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6 February 2020 | Issue 102 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER FROM THE SURGERIES To book, pop into the Marnhull Surgery of the Stur Medical Centre or telephone 01258 474500. A factsheet to explain the service is available from the Surgery. A similar Carers’ Clinic is now running at Abbey View.
STRUGGLING TO COPE? Feel yourself heading towards a mental health crisis? Then the Shaftesbury Community Front Room is here to help. The Community Front Room is a welcoming, safe place where you can speak to a mental health worker or peer specialist, someone who has their own experience of coping with a crisis. They will listen and won’t judge, helping you to find the right solution that supports your recovery. No referral or appointment is needed, just come along. If you feel anxious about coming alone, bring a friend to support you. HEALTH CHAMPIONS Open: Thursday – Sunday 3:15pm – 10:45pm Over 18 year-olds only. There is a special meeting in the Sturminster Newton Medical Centre If you need urgent mental health support, please call Connection 0300 on March 18th from 18.00-20.00 where you can find out all about the 123 5440 scheme, meet Health Champions from the Practice and decide if it’s Shaftesbury Community Front Room something you would like to be involved in. Unit 4-6 Plot 25c Longmead Industrial Estate Health Champions, through their lived experiences of illness, long- Shaftesbury term-conditions, happenstance, pain and even suicide, create groups SP7 8PL of the like-minded, fellow travellers and listeners, to help, coax, guide, shepherd and support each other. NEWS FROM THE NICK
It's really simple. For instance; we already have a fortnightly Fibromyalgia/ Chronic Pain/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome support group in Sturminster. COMBATING CRIME IN YOUR At the heart of all groups, is the understanding that anyone who says 'I NEIGHBOURHOOD know how you feel', doesn't... unless they've been there. And if they've Phil Sugrue PC 2146 been there, they'll know what's next and how to deal with it. No doctor required. There is only one crime to report since the last edition which was For the past few months, about 30 patients in Shaftesbury have been theft of bronze garden ornament. developing their skills to become Health Champions and they provide a huge benefit to those who would traditionally use a lot of clinical THEFT FROM VEHICLES AT BEAUTY SPOTS resources. They are taking exercise, getting out of their homes, attending Whether you are out and about visiting local beauty spots either to walk groups and tackling social isolation. There are enthusiast for weight-loss, the dog or just enjoying the local countryside think about whether you lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and so on. This is really impressive need to take valuables with you. Reduce the risk of your vehicle being work and we are very keen to replicate this in our area. targeted by ruthless thieves by ensuring that you remove any items of value - handbags, sat navs, computers, cameras, mobile phones and If you’d like to become involved and volunteer to become a Health other items of value which are very attractive to the thief. Whether you Champion in this community, then come to the Stur Medical Centre park your car in a beauty spot, a car park or at the side of the road - be on March 18th at 18.00, or contact Debbie Martin - Carer’s and Health vigilant. Warning signage is regularly checked and replaced in beauty Champion Lead, on 01747 856700 or via email on Debbie.martin@ spot car parks. Remove it, Lock it leaflets are available from your NPT. dorsetgp.nhs.uk See what your local NPT have been up to by following our Facebook CARERS’ CLINICS - WHO CARES FOR YOU? page https://www.facebook.com/NorthDorsetRPT If you: • Help someone with their medication? PLEASE BE VIGILANT AND REPORT ANY SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY • Have to ring someone up several times a day to check they’re okay? Report suspicious activity either to 101 or via the police website https:// • Need to help someone choose the right clothes to wear? www.dorset.police.uk/do-it-online#report • Help someone with their day to day finances The local NPT surgeries are held on the 1st Thursday of the month at The Then the Sturminster Newton Medical Centre would like to offer you the Hub Burton Street between 11.30 and 12 noon. However there will be opportunity of a 30 minute one to one health check in our Adult Carers’ occasions when no one is available to attend due to operational reasons. Surgery. One of the Dorset Carers Case Workers will be on hand to If you need to contact your local NPT the email address is below this provide support and advice around the carer’s caring roles, including however is NOT for reporting crimes as it is not monitored 24/7. If you financial advice. need to report a crime, the web address is above, or you can phone 101. If a crime is occurring or a life is in danger phone 999. Appointments are up to 60 minutes long and the Clinics are held on the PCSO 5352 last Tuesday of the month, the next being Tuesday March 24th, then Mandy Robinson Tuesday April 28th and so on. Sturminster Newton Town and Rural Policing Team CONTINUED PAGE RIGHT >> [email protected] www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 7 MARNHULL MESSENGER
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8 February 2020 | Issue 102 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
For everyone who has been starved of their fortnightly dose of bingo the good news is that it starts again on Monday March 9th at 7pm. Lyn Bartlett always gets great prizes and since she took over the running of it has raised more than £21,000 for the Poppy Appeal. A tremendous effort. The next jumble sale will be on Saturday March 7th so please drop any MARNHULL PARISH COUNCIL donations it in the porch down the Club or give me a ring if you need it collecting. We take almost anything so don't be afraid to ask. Doors Allotments. open at 10.15am so we can accept donations right up to then. Invoices will be sent out in March covering the year from April 2020 – We now have a card machine in the Club to make it easier for people to 31st March 2021. We do have some allotments available for information pay for their refreshments. With the lack of banks locally now it is getting contact the Clerk details above. harder to get cash and the youngsters are brought up with these things We also have one who has not paid for 2019 it will be added to the 2020 although it is a bit alien to us more mature folks. Invoice. Elvis will be in the building on March 14th with a round up of all his old Burton Street Telephone Box songs, it's always a good night with a trip down memory lane to a time when the world was shaken by this brash young man bursting onto the The Men’s Shed are beginning the renovation of Burton Street telephone scene. Then the following week local band 2 Foot Moose will bring us kiosk, first part of the renovations is the rotting door frame bang up to date with covers of some of the latest hits. So it cannot be Vehicle Speeding said that we do not cater for all. Non-members pay a modest £2. At the last Council meeting, the issue of vehicles possibly travelling Between writing this and you receiving it we will have had our first of along Salisbury Street was raised. A suggestion was made that a Speed three quiz nights. The next one is booked in for May 30th so we will see Indicator Device (SID) would help reduce any such incidents. The council how this one goes and maybe tweak it a bit or maybe not. Either way I has not been sitting idly by; it has been in discussions with Dorset will let you know next month, there is no entry fee and no prizes and it County Highways department. What needs to be appreciated is that is open to all. Of course the fish 'n' chip quiz will be on in November as the placement of a SID is not simply about funds. Strict criteria must be usual, this will be the14th one we have held. met involving a detailed speed survey at the site to ensure the device is Also in early march we will be holding our poppy party to say thank you required. The council will continue to work on this matter, together with to our collectors who do such a great job. Just a glass of wine or two pushing for speed and a few nibbles and of course the presentation of the awards for best Marnhull Neighbourhood Plan fundraiser. More on this next month. The council has now registered a designated Neighbourhood Plan Area As I write this the wind is battering on the windows I hope everyone in with Dorset Council Planning department. This specifies the area that the Marnhull has stayed safe. plan will cover when it is created. This area equates to the whole Parish ********************************************************* which means the plan will be able to address not only housing matters, For Branch business contact Jack Whitehead on 01258 820800 but also business, environmental and recreational considerations. or [email protected] A small working group has been formed, within which the council For Hall business contact Tony Junge on 01258 820397 is represented, to start the ball rolling. The next milestone will be the application - and hopefully receipt - of a government grant which will allow the group to commence work in earnest. Stay tuned! Dog Mess MARNHULL LUNCH CLUB We again seem to be suffering from not clearing up after they have messed so, Toxocara causes blindness. This disease is caught from WE NEED YOUR HELP contact with dog and cat poo. However, many animal owners are lazy when it comes to picking it up. IS ANYONE ABLE AND WILLING TO GIVE ONE HOUR OF THEIR TIME Although it is illegal to allow pets to soil the pathways in public spaces it ( IN TWO 30 mins sessions) is a sad fact that many pet owners shamelessly ignore this responsibility. A walk in a suburban park will soon convince one of the truths of this. TO HELP PUT UP THE TABLES AND CHAIRS BEFORE THE It is time to send a message to irresponsible dog and cat owners that MEAL AND TO TAKE THEM DOWN AT THE END they need to be more vigilant about picking up dog mess.
IF SIX PEOPLE VOLUNTERED IT WOULD MEAN YOU Bag it Bin it …………. most people do WOULD ONLY BE NEEDED TWICE A YEAR!!! Why not come to the next meeting in the Village Hall on 3rd February at 7pm and or visit our web site: PLEASE CONTACT NORVAL FARO IF YOUR FEEL ABLE TO ANSWER THE CALL. ON 01258 820058 https://marnhull-pc.org.uk
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10 February 2020 | Issue 102 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER
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12 February 2020 | Issue 102 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER MARNHULL VILLAGE HALL VILLAGE HALL HIRE CHARGES FOR WEDDINGS & PARTIES Local individuals or local non-profit making organisations 0 - 2 hours Each extra hour Daytime (09.00-18.00) £15.00 £5.00 Evening (18.00-23.30) £20.00 £5.00 Charges include use of kitchen for tea/coffee making. Full use of kitchen facilities for food preparation - £10 extra. Wedding hire... £250 per day Booking Officer: 07376 911878 VILLAGE HALL EGM UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR THE HALL EXTENSION TO BE BUILT AND THE STAGE TO BE KEPT On Saturday 8th Feb 2020 156 villagers unanimously voted for this option to carried out. DEFIBRILLATOR To a packed hall and stage, villagers heard from Graham Renwick, Chair of the Village Hall Trustees that due to an very generous donation AWARENESS SESSION of £25,000 from an anonymous resident and a VAT related grant of Come and look, listen, learn and ask questions on THURSDAY £21,000 the extension could now go ahead. 26TH MARCH at THE BLACKMORE VALE at 18.00. There is still a short fall of £5500 for the extras once the hall is completed Marnhull now has two defibrillators in the village available to but it is hoped that with grants and donations being received this should everyone at any time of the day or night. One is located outside be covered. the Village Hall and the other outside The Crown. Fund raising will continue, to ensure that the whole Hall can be improved This awareness session is free of charge and will be presented by and maintained to a high standard - If you would like to help in any way our Community Responder Officer from the Dorset Ambulance please contact Graham Renwick or John Dowsett service. The Trustees on behalf of the residents of Marnhull say a huge thank you to the donor.
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14 February 2020 | Issue 102 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER POPPIN CAFÉ
The snowdrops are out and so are many of the braver daffodils! Our March POPPin on Friday 20th March between 10 and 12 midday at the Village Hall will be in support of the Marnhull Girl’s Brigade group who will be providing some lovely Easter themed decorations for the tables. We are thrilled to hear that Village Hall renovation and extension plans will start very soon and will give the hall a considerably larger capacity which will make the POPPin much less of a squash and a squeeze! We suspect that there will be some inconveniences along the way but nothing that we can’t accommodate, I am sure. If you haven’t been along to the POPPin please give us a try we are sure you won’t be disappointed! £1.50 for a lovely mug of coffee or tea plus a slice of cake , a cheery smile MARNHULL PLAYERS and lots of people to meet up and chat with! Hope to see you soon. Linda, Sue, Anne, Rosie, Audrey, Lynda and Jill. What an amazing and successful pantomime Dick Whittington was this MARNHULL WOMEN'S INSTITUTE year. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did performing it, it was so much fun full of fun, laughs, singing and dancing. It was a great challenge REPORT FEBRUARY 2020 Hilary Green is a wiry little for even our experienced players let alone our newbies! lady who has recently retired after working for 38 years Thank you to everyone who came and watched, for all the wonderful as a veterinary surgeon. She has a measured manner of comments we have received and are still getting, it's been an amazing speech and some unconventional opinions. In her talk, year. entitled “Births, Marriages and Deaths” she referred first to her own life experiences and then contrasted them to similar rites of passage in the We would also like to Thank our amazing helpers that we couldn't do animal kingdom. without. She and her husband, also a vet, worked indifferent areas of animal care, Also our amazing cast that gave up so much of their time and did an he with large farm animals and she in a mixed practice which included outstanding job. domestic pets. Her anecdotes were typically entertaining if sometimes We would also like to thank our amazing director Rosie for leading us gruesome often involving messy encounters with farrowing sows or through this challenging panto. calving cows. Thank you again everyone and we look forward to seeing you next year! Over the years Hilary has gradually adopted a pragmatic attitude to suffering and death and plainly sympathises with the vet’s duty to If you would like to join us, any age, any ability any job big or small then end suffering that becomes intolerable and is incurable. Though this please get in contact with us at [email protected] philosophy may be objectionable to many minds, Hilary’s it obviously Marnhull players committee encompasses the human condition. PHISHING SCAM She had a few maxims for life generated by tricky or dangerous situations encountered in her practice: “Never panic until you absolutely have to”, Front page breaking news...... which may be old hat to you:-) “Never give up” (good for many occasions) and lastly “It will be all right in the end; if it’s not all right, it can’t be the end.” We received a letter trying to het us to sign up to Nextdoor Marnhull. Encouraged to share what we would with the neighbours , assured us Our speaker in March is Mike Spencer and the title of his talk is “Vietnam.” all was private and confidential, and then gave a signup code - only valid POSTAL SCAM for seven days - classic! 'Tis apparently an American company funded by venture capital - out ***NORTH DORSET*** for their profit and benefit, not ours. Obviously they just want as much Have you received a letter saying that you are sole beneficiary of a will information they can harvest as they can. The letter said 800 people had with over $47 million US dollars, a deposit from a long lost relative, who signed up - amazingly impressive for a villahe the size of Marnhull and doesn't exist, who died some years ago after working somewhere in presumab;y quite untrue. Asia? All you need to do is contact Mr Wang from a Bank in Beijing to Their idea of privacy is to publish your personal details automatically - get your 45%. Does this sound to good to be true? That's because it is! bad news for the woman who had managed to break with an abusive This scam has been going since 2010. chap and keep her new address private - 'till she innocently signed up DO NOT ENGAGE! FILE THIS LETTER IN THE PAPER SHREDDER WHERE to Nextdoor:-( IT BELONGS!! Presumably worth publishing once you have checked this out online. Mandy Robinson (Dorset Police, PCSO 5352, Stour Valley) Can you also inform the police scam department too, please?
www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 15 IN OUR CHURCHES THOUGHTS FROM THE METHODIST MINISTER:…. ST. GREGORY'S CHURCH
In March we have the opportunity to celebrate ‘Mothering Sunday’ – I am sure that for most people, ‘celebrate’ is the right word to use when marking this occasion. However, the day is not a universally happy one. I am sure that for most people, the opportunity to pause and give thanks for mothers and motherhood will be a happy time, but for some the day will arouse feelings of sadness, frustration, anger and many other difficult emotions. Some people had mothers who abandoned or mistreated them; others will mourn the death of a much-loved mother; still others will be women who wanted to be mothers, but lost a child or were unable to conceive and live with the regular reminder of, ‘what might have been’. As Christians, we want to try and disentangle ‘Mothering Sunday’ and ‘Mother’s Day’ - they are not the same thing. Way back in the 3rd Cent. AD it was a Bishop from N. Africa (Cyprian of Carthage) who said, ‘He can no longer have God for his Father who has not the Church Morning Prayer is held on Wednesdays at 9.00 in the Hussey Chapel for his mother’. Cyprian pictured the Church as a spiritual ‘Mother’ who can care for us throughout life from cradle to grave. For many MARCH 2020 centuries, this model of the ‘Fatherhood of God’ and ‘Motherhood of Sunday 1st St David’s Day the Church’ was a helpful pattern for people of faith. In this country, in 08.00 – Holy Communion [said] the run-up to Easter, workers were given ‘Mothering’ Sunday off as 10.00 – Parish Eucharist a holiday to visit their Mother Church (either their home Parish or the 4pm Family Tea Service (NEW) nearest Cathedral). In contrast, ‘Mother’s Day’ began in America in 19th Century. Two Wednesday 4th women: Julia Ward Howe & Anna Jarvis (independently of each other) 11.00 Holy Communion (said) suggested a day be set aside especially for Mothers - this day is celebrated 2.45 Children’s Service led by on the second Sunday in May in the US. Today many countries have a St Gregory’s Primary School day to honour Motherhood, sending cards and gifts as a sign of love and Sunday 8th Lent 2 respect. In our country ‘Mother’s Day’ and ‘Mothering Sunday’ have 08.00 – Holy Communion [said] been ‘lumped together’ and we have lost sight of the distinction. 10.00 Parish Eucharist In an incident from the gospels, as he was dying on the cross, Jesus saw his (biological) mother and his disciple, John… ‘When Jesus saw Wednesday 11th his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he 2.45pm Children’s Service led by said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your St Gregory’s Primary School mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. (John 19. 26-27). As he dies, Jesus gives these (unrelated) people to each Sunday 15th Lent 3 other as a new and different family - mother and son. On Mothering 08.00 – Holy Communion [said] Sunday, why not come to church to give thanks for your Mother, but 10.00 – Parish Eucharist even more importantly, if the day raises difficult feelings, come anyway – you may discover a community that can offer the supportive love and Wednesday 18th care of an alternative family, established through the Love of Jesus…. 2.45pm Children’s Service led by St Gregory’s Primary School Peace, Rev Paul Arnold Sunday 22nd Lent 4 Mothering Sunday 08.00 – Holy Communion [said] MARNHULL CHURCHES SUNDAY SERVICES 10.00 – Family Service Anglican Church of St. Gregory the Great, New Street 8.00 – Holy Communion Wednesday 25th 10.00 – Parish Eucharist 2.45pm Children’s Service led by Weekday services as advertised St Gregory’s Primary School www.StGregorysMarnhull.org.uk Sunday 29th Lent 5 Catholic Church of Our Lady, Old Mill Lane Passion Sunday 9.30 - Mass 6.00 - Mass 08.00 Holy Communion (said) www.marnhullandgillinghamrc.org.uk 10.00 Service of the Word (NEW) Please note: The Rev’d Gaenor Hockey’s new telephone number is Marnhull Methodist Church, Burton Street 01258 821605 10.00 - Morning Service www.stgregorysmarnhull.org.uk
16 December 2020 | Issue 101 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk IN OUR CHURCHES OUR LADY'S CHURCH THE METHODIST CHURCH
Catholic Church of Our Lady, Marnhull & St. Benedict, Gillingham Sunday Masses - 9.30am & 6pm (Marnhull) / 11am (Gillingham) Feast Days & Days of Special Prayer in March 6 – CAFOD Lent Fast Day For the poor and hungry of the world, that they may have access to food they need to survive. 17 – Saint Patrick, Bishop, Patron of Ireland (Feast) St Patrick (385-461) was born into a Christian Romano-British family. His first encounter with Ireland was as a slave after being captured by raiders at the age of sixteen. He escaped and studied in Gaul where he was ordained a priest. Around Sunday Service. Everyone is welcome to join our service at 10:00am 432 he returned to Ireland as a missionary bishop and succeeded in every Sunday and for tea or coffee in the hall afterwards. consolidating the faith in large parts of the country. On Sunday 19th January, we held our annual Covenant Service in which 19 – St Joseph, we were joined by many of our friends from Saint Gregory’s church. It was a particular pleasure to welcome Rev. Gaenor Hockey who Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) Not a single word of his is joined with Rev. Paul Arnold in leading the service. In this service we recorded in Sacred Scripture and yet St Joseph is one of the greatest and acknowledge the gifts God has given us throughout the ages since His most popular saints, largely because of his humility and closeness to Our original Covenant, or promise, to the Jewish people that He would guide Lord. He died before the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry and, since and support them at all times if they acted according to His laws. We he probably died in the presence of Jesus and Mary, is venerated as the remind ourselves of God’s gracious gifts, past and present, to us all and patron of a good death. He is patron of the Universal Church, Canada, promise to try to live in ways which are directed by God’s laws declared carpenters and manual workers. in the Bible and demonstrated in the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. 25 – The Annunciation of the Lord (Solemnity) These are, of course, fundamental to all Christian traditions which is why it is so significant and pleasurable to join with our brothers and sisters The Annunciation is the prologue to the mysteries of Holy Week: from Saint Gregory’s. the Incarnation happened so that we could be redeemed; the child conceived on this day was born to die for our sins and conquer death. We are delighted once again to be able to host a series of Lent reflectionsto be held in our church for thirty minutes beginning at noon Women’s World Day of Prayer on the six Fridays in Lent (28th February – 3rd April). These will be led by Churches Together in Marnhull joins Churches Together in the three Marnhull churches in turn and everyone is warmly invited to Gillingham for the Women’s World Day of Prayer service to be held at join us. Details are given in the Churches Together column in this edition Gillingham Methodist Church at 2.30 on Friday 6 March. of The Messenger. Parish Events On the four of those Fridays that there isn’t a Village lunch in the Village hall, there will be a simple Lent lunch in the Methodist Church hall On Parish Film Night at Our Lady’s on the 20th of February we saw beginning at 12:30 again prepared by the three churches in turn. These ‘There be Dragons,’ the story of two men, childhood friends, who lunches have proved an excellent opportunity to meet and chat and find themselves on opposite sides when the Spanish Civil War erupts. make new friends and everyone is very welcome whether or not you One, Josemaria Escriva, becomes a priest who goes on to found the attend the Lent reflections in the church. Again full details are given in Opus Dei movement. the Churches Together column. Parish Film Night at Our Lady’s on the 19th of March will feature ‘Ida’ Youth Work (BAFTA and Oscar winner (foreign film)) about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, about to take her vows, discovers a family secret Girls’ Brigade meets in the Church Hall on Wednesday evenings from from the years of Nazi occupation. 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm. New members (4years old and upwards) are always welcome. For more information, contact the Captain, Rachael All Film Nights at Our Lady’s (6.15pm for a 6.30pm start) are free. Findlay on 07771 897262. Refreshments are provided; small donation requested. ------Parish People Hire the Hall. Francis George and Lisa were married in Kerala, India on 3 February. Our church hall is a good place to hire for family parties and social or other Ad multos annos! events for individuals, clubs, societies, and classes. Rates are reasonable Jonathan Liedl, a Seminarian from the North American College in Rome and bookings can be made by contacting Mrs. Marlene Plowman on (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas), visited Marnhull 8-12 01258 820869. February to see his great aunt and for Mass and prayer at Our Lady’s. Monica Goode will be 100 on 3 March. Congratulations! www.marnhullandgillinghamrc.org.uk
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JOKE OF THE MONTH selected by Badgers class Q. Why did the scientist install a knocker on his door A. He wanted to win the no-bell prize. A TALE OF 2 TOILETS – “IT WAS THE SPRING OF HOPE” During 2019 our young worship leaders raised money through several fairtrade cafés held at the school. The profits from these endeavours have been used to sponsor a toilet in a country with less sanitation than HEDGEHOG BLOG our own. This toilet twinning is a recognised charity that helps build a FETCH THE ENGINES, FETCH THE proper working toilet for the village. Our thanks go to the parents and ENGINES, FIRE FIRE, FIRE FIRE! members of governors/church community who visited the cafe. We were sent a certificate with a picture of the toilet that we are twinned with Carrying on from last month Hedgehog’s in a village in Nicaragua. The charity link is https://www.toilettwinning. were very fortunate to have a visit from org/ the Sturminster Newton Fire crew, the children giddy with excitement got to “I DON’T RUN TO ADD DAYS TO MY LIFE, I RUN TO ADD LIFE TO MY board the engine and even fired water, DAYS”. many thanks to the fire crew. Continuing the theme, we have been Storm Ciara did not stop St Greg’s baking buns at our own bakers and created our own Pudding Lane and hosting what we hope will be the first even burnt it down. Comparing London in 1666 to London now has also of many cross-country events in future been our focus. years. Amidst bracing conditions children representing St Greg’s, St Mary’s and Stour Provost Primary schools took part in a fun event that brought equal parts smiles and grimaces during the event but afterwards the warm glow of achievement and fun shone through for all concerned. We would like to thank St Mary’s and Stour Provost for supporting the event and look forward to greeting them in the future. Well done all! “ONE CANNOT THINK WELL, LOVE WELL, SLEEP WELL, IF ONE HAS NOT DINED WELL” So said Virginia Woolf. Our children have been learning that good manners at the table are to be admired. Specifically, each fortnight a select few children who have displayed impeccable behaviour during lunch time get the privilege of Mrs Field serving them luncheon at the top table. This fine dining is enhanced with a candelabra and treats. WHERE DID YOU COME FROM WHERE DID YOU GO? Mere was the destination for 17 of our children ranging from year’s 1-6, the reason, to dance Cowboy style! Dressed up in sparkly hats they strutted their stuff to Cotton Eyed Joe by the Rednex and had a yee- haw! of a time. Accompanied by our head Mrs Field a further 4 schools also attended the jamboree where the high school critiqued each performance.
18 December 2020 | Issue 101 | www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk MARNHULL MESSENGER MARNHULL BABY & TODDLER GROUP MARNHULL FLOWER SHOW
This month we have had a very interesting time as to celebrate the 11TH JULY 2020 Chinese New Year which was Rat we made lanterns that were made to look like rats. They looked amazing and the children really enjoyed We hope to see lots of entries for the Children's Classes this making them. year which have been reorganised as follows: On 13th February we made heart mosaic photo frames, the children had Division J - Under 5's to choose which colour heart then stick square foam on to it to make it a Cookery mosaic. It was wonderful to watch them concentrate and put the squares 100 Four home-made sweets on. 101 Three Krispy Cakes We also had Diana with her flamingo cards come on this day. We always Gardening love having Diana visit. 102 Something I have grown from seed(s) Dates for the diary: 103 Posy of flowers in an egg cup or small jar 5th March is world book day and we will be dressing up and having Gill Arts and Skills with her Usborne books join us. 104 Something I have made 105 Colour the picture (centre page) 2nd April is our Easter party we will be having games, Easter craft, Easter egg hunt and party. Division K - 5-8 Emma and Michelle Cookery 106 Four home-made sweets 107 Cake in a Mug 108 Three cup cakes Gardening 109 A small arrangement of flowers displayed in a decorated recycled container 110 Vegetable creature 111 Plant from seed(s) Arts and Skills 112 Colour, decorate the picture (centre page) 113 Freelance Lego model 114 Handwriting (to be copied from the Schedule) Division L 9-12 Cookery 115 A sponge cake 116 Three home-made biscuits 117 Three Cheese Straws Gardening 118 Four different weeds and identify them 119 A plant I have looked after 120 Creature made from my five-a-day Arts and Skills 121 Colour, decorate the picture (centre page) 122 Freelance Lego model 123 Digital photograph - any subject Division M 12-16 Cookery 124 Three chocolate brownies 125 Decorated sponge cake Gardening 126 Vegetable, fruit or plant I have grown 127 Five different tree leaves and identify them Arts and Skills 128 Digital photograph - any subject 129 Climate change poster
www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 101 | December 2020 19 MARNHULL MESSENGER MARNHULL 12K MARNHULL MUSIC SOCIETY
Marnhull 12k The new season began with an imaginative presentation by John Borthwick. With an eye on the current political situation John took his 10:30 Sunday 19th April 2020. audience on a tour around Europe with the idea of discovering whether Race HQ: St Gregory’s School, New Street, national characteristics showed up in the music of the various countries. Marnhull, DT10 1PY The first stop was in France. Here John picked two very different sides to the French character: a sprightly little folksong from the Auvergne region, Dear Residents, charming but sung in incomprehensible Occitane, and then a switch to Please accept this letter as prior notice of the Marnhull 12k running race the naughty petticoat-flouncing can-can of the 1890’s with Offenbach’s route which is taking place on Sunday 19th April at 10:30am. “La Vie Parisienne.” We are expecting 400 runners for this event which is being organised Travelling southward, the musical warm air of Tarrega’s “Recuerdos de as a fundraiser for St Gregory’s School. We will be closing New St la Alambra” fashioned a dreamy atmosphere in a recording by Julian briefly to ensure the runners stay safe. We kindly ask for your patience Bream, almost conjuring the scent of orange trees. whilst this happens. The Hungarian composer Bartok was a great collector of folk tunes and The race starts on New Street at the junction with Sackmore Lane we heard one of his compositions called “An evening in the village” and Chippel Lane at 10.30am, it then proceeds along New Street, across which was unsophisticated and lively. Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No Mr Crocker’s drive before crossing Church Hill. It will then follow Philips 2 was a different order of experience. In a bravura performance by Road, Ashley Road then Sodom Lane. Runners will then follow Nash Lane Vladimir Horowitz this dashing piece ranged from bell-like tinkling to and Great Down Lane until they reach the B3092. They will then run from raging frenzy and back again. There was a whole story in the music if one White Post to Fifehead Hill and back to Marnhull via Mill Lane, Musbury could only interpret it. Lane and Hains Lane. Runners will then return along Nash Lane and pick Smetena, hero of the Czech Republic, was also a collector of folk music up the outward route via Philips Road back to the school for the finish and his polka entitled “To our girls” was distinctly in the operetta style of line. (dare I say?) Sullivan or Lehar. John also selected a piece by a composer We are expecting runners to be running/walking the route between called Gideon Klein in memory of the atrocities suffered by Jewish Czechs 10.30-12.30. Please do feel free to show your support and cheer them in the Second World War. It was a very intricate and modern-sounding along. piece called “Music from Terazin” which alluded to the concentration camp in that place. Residents of New Street Poland is popularly associated with vigorous dance music We will need to keep a small section of New Street, from the playground and Jakielaszek’s Mazurka, with its strange almost Arabic pipe to Mr Crocker’s driveway free from parked cars to ensure the runners accompaniment had a very rustic feel. Chopin, at the other end of the have easy access to finish line. Please do respect any cones and signs scale, produced a Mazurka of extreme complexity and sophistication which are put in place in regards to this request. which was played in a stunning recording by Vladimir Askenazy. St Gregory’s Church will be selling teas and cakes and hot food will For Austria John chose an aria from Don Giovanni beautifully sung also be available at the school for anyone regardless of whether they’re by Suzanne Mutter and William Shimell, and then a splendidly running or not, we’d love to see the village supporting the event. melodic recording of “Swansong No. 4” by Schubert, usually a solo piano piece but in this case arranged for violin and piano. Thank you in advance for your understanding and patience. On to Italy, and John chose a Vivaldi mandolin concerto with the St Gregory’s PTFA characteristic double sound and sharp, bright sound of this instrument. Of course no visit to this country would be complete without some opera, and we heard the fabulous Pavarotti singing “La Donna e Mobile” from Rigoletto. The English section of our tour began with the supremely self-confident, almost arrogant, “Music for the Royal Fireworks” by Handel. Extravagant, brash, showy, jingoistic – this describes the royal personage as well as the fireworks but does it describe an element of the English character? Of course one has to remember that both the king and the composer were German! On a gentler note we heard the sylvan and wistful “Fantasia on Greensleeves” by Vaughan Williams The European Grand Tour ended in Germany with Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. John put forward a theory that the excellence of German engineering nowadays owes something to the perfection with which the Germans built their organs in past times. Certainly this well- known piece rumbled through the chest in a most satisfactory manner. The concert ended with Beethoven and a short excerpt from “Ode to Joy”. This is often considered to be Beethoven’s master work and it ended our interesting and thoughtful evening in rousing fashion. 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MARNHULL ENTERTAINS in association with DORSET MOVIOLA presents KNIVES OUT Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.
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www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 23 MARNHULL MESSENGER DORSET WILDLIFE TRUST: NORTH DORSET GROUP MEN'S SHED
NORTH DORSET DWT PROGRAMME 2020 WHAT ARE MEN’S SHEDS? The North Dorset Group of the Dorset Wildlife Trust They're community spaces for people to connect, converse and create. organise a series of talks each autumn and winter at the The activities are often similar to those of garden sheds, but for groups Village Hall in Fontmell Magna (SP7 0PF). The talks take of people to enjoy together. They help reduce loneliness and isolation, place on the third Wednesday of the month, start at 7.30pm and usually but most importantly, they’re fun. The idea began in Australia, where a last 45 minutes. Our talks are open to everyone, admission is £2.50 national association was established in 2007, and has since spread around (including refreshments & Honeybuns cakes) and children under 16 may the world, with over 500 active Sheds in the UK and many more being attend for free. The proceeds from these talks go to provide tools and added every month. What about women? The Marnhull Men’s Shed is equipment for the DWT ranger in North Dorset and in the past few years open to all people over the age of 18 and women members are positively the group has raised (and spent) almost £4,000. encouraged. TALKS PROGRAMME 2020 WHAT HAPPENS IN THE SHED? Wednesday 18th March: Reptiles of Dorset – an illustrated talk by Steve The primary focus is on making and mending things in a communal Davis, Head of DWT HR & Volunteering. environment. Absolutely no skills are required to get started because there are plenty of members willing to help newcomers learn. There is Wednesday 15th April: Bees and Wildlife Gardening – an illustrated a vast array of skills on offer, which have been brought to the Shed by talk by Brigit Strawbridge, DWT’s Make Wildlife Welcome Hero and bee members from their working lives and interests: woodwork, metalwork, friendly gardener (as seen on TV). This talk will be preceded by a rapid electronics, electrical engineering and computers, to mention just a few. AGM (max. 10 mins.). MARNHULL COMMUNITY ALLOTMENT The Marnhull Shed has been very active in community based projects since its inception in 2018. The evidence for this can be seen around Marnhull in the form of renovated finger posts and a new hexagonal bench at the By the time you read this, we will have held our first meeting to make recreation ground. A new project to renovate the phone box in Burton plans for a Community Allotment. The Marnhull allotments are situated on St has just begun. However the Shed is not just about group projects, Sodom Lane next to Corner close but there are a number of unused plots. members are free to use the Shed facilities to pursue their own individual After posting on Marnhull Village Facebook page we found out that there interests. Nothing is obligatory! are a number of people in Marnhull who would like to grow their own, but don’t want to take on the full responsibility of a plot, and working with Of course there are always other people to chat with over a cup of tea and others can be the answer. The support we have had for this initiative means plenty of opportunities to make new friends. that Marnhull Green TEAMS is willing to take the Community Allotment as WHAT ARE THE SHED FACILITIES? one of its projects. Thanks to the generosity of many organisations, the Shed has a well There are a number of ways a Community Allotment can work, depending equipped workshop that offers a wood turning lathe, table saw, chop saw, on the preferences of the members. Shaftesbury has a Community Farm band saw and pillar drill, plus loads of hand tools. There is also a sitting where there are set times when members go to work on the plot, for other area with kitchen facilities, dartboard and computer. schemes, people work on it at times that suits them. The meeting on 15th February will be deciding on the ways of working that suits us the best. Regular Shed sessions are held on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. If you want to find out more and get involved, contact Ros Eveleigh on Potential new members are very welcome to come along for a cup of tea 01258 821049. and a chat. HOW DO I GET MORE DETAILS? Telephone Alan Loukes on 821629 or visit the website at: www.marnhullmensshed.org.uk The 2020 AGM will be held on Wednesday 11th March at 7 pm in the Hardy Room at The Crown. Newcomers are welcome to come along and meet existing members.
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www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 25 MARNHULL MESSENGER CHURCHES TOGETHER IN MARNHULL ST.GREGORY’S CHURCHMARNHULL During Lent, the six week period leading up to Easter, Christians traditionally study and meditate on Christian faith, teaching and TUESDAYS @ TWELVE traditions and their relevance and application in our world today. This year Churches Together will again meet each Friday in Lent (28th Tuesday 10th March @ 12 noon – 12.30 February – 3rd April) in the Methodist Church from 12:00 noon until Organ Music played by Stephen Binnington 12:30 for a series of reflections led by the three churches in turn. Suggested donation in aid of Church Funds: £2 Everyone is warmly welcome to join us. The overall theme this year will be ‘Fragile Lives, Fragile World’ and each week we shall reflect Tuesday 24th March @ 12 noon – 12.30 on a message from the events of Holy Week (the week leading to Good A presentation by pupils from St.Gregory’s School Suggested donation in aid of Church Funds: £2 Friday as reported in the bible) and consider its relevance to people today and to our responsibility for our world. The first meeting will be on Friday 28th February, will be led by Rev. Paul Arnold and will reflect on ‘temptation’. GOD IN ORDINARY On 28th February, 13th, 20th and 27th March a simple lunch will The cathedral had a new Christmas nativity of photographs that looked be served in the Methodist Church Hall at 12:30. (On 6th March and like a huge painting. The people in it were from the local community. 3rd April there will be a Village lunch in the village hall as usual.) These Christmas celebrates God among us. Like the shepherds and the wise lunches have always proved very popular and a pleasant way to meet men we came to the crib to wonder and worship but when we went together and everyone is welcome to join us for soup, bread and cheese away to get on with the rest of our lives, what happens next? whether or not you attend the reflection. The lunch will be provided by members of the three churches in turn and there is no charge although One answer is that the Church’s year continues to tell the Christian there will be an opportunity to make a donation to a charity caring for stories of God in Jesus who teaches, challenges, heals and gives life to refugees and displaced people. us. Christmas gives way to Epiphany; on 2nd February we remember the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and his being recognised by World Peace Prayers the elderly Simeon and Anna; and this year at the end of the month, on Churches Together in Marnhull gather regularly to pray for world 26th February, Ash Wednesday is the start of Lent and our preparation peace. Everyone is welcome to join us for thirty minutes of quiet for Easter. contemplation focussed on world events. The gatherings usually take Other answers are also needed in trying to find what it means for God place at midday on the second Friday of each month in the three Marnhull to be among us. How do we respond in our daily lives? What difference Churches in turn. On March 13th the Lent Reflection in the Methodist does it make to the way I understand myself and how we live together? Church will replace the prayer gathering and, on 10th April (Good Friday) We have often used Lent for those reflective questions. there will be services in the churches so the next prayer meeting will be: This year, instead of Praying Together as we have done for the last three 8 May - Saint Gregory’s Church years, I hope that as a diocese we will use the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent Book by Ruth Valerio, ‘Saying Yes to Life’. “As people made in the image of God, we are entrusted to look after what he has created: to share in God’s joy and ingenuity in making a difference for good.” Using the story of the days of creation in Genesis 1 she, “relates light, water, land, the seasons, other creatures, humankind, Sabbath rest and resurrection hope to matters of environmental, ethical and social concern.” There are small, cheaper booklets for kids and adults to go alongside it, ‘A 40-Day Challenge to Live Lent and Care for God’s Creation’. Asking what it means in our ordinary lives that God is among us is a good way to keep Lent. There is no single settled answer because we keep FRAGILE LIVES, FRAGILE WORLD deepening our response to God come among us. What do we pray for? Whom do we serve? How will we grow? Living in response to those questions renews our hope. Weekly reflections for Lent +Nicholas Sarum Starting Friday 28th February 12.00-12.30pm Marnhull Methodist Church, Burton Street, Marnhull. DT10 1PS COME & SING DAY
Churches Together in Marnhull will meet each Friday in Lent (28th Feb – Saturday, 28th March 2020 from 11:00 am – 4:00 pm at Wimborne 3rd April) in the Methodist Church from 12:00 until 12:30 for a series of United Reform Church, Chapel Lane, BH21 1PP (Parking available) reflections led by the 3 churches in turn. The overall theme this year will Come and join members of Dorset Chamber Choir and John Watkins, be ‘Fragile Lives, Fragile World’. our Musical Director, to learn and sing excerpts from Durufle’s On 28th February, 13th, 20th and 27th March a simple lunch will be also Requiem Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Stainer’s Crucifixiion. served in the Methodist Church Hall at 12:30. No need to book- just turn Advance Bookings only. £15 including music hire and refreshments. up. See www.dorsetchamberchoir.com for registration form and full details or contact 01305 848053. Everyone is welcome!
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www.marnhullmessenger.org.uk | Issue 102 | February 2020 27 MARNHULL MESSENGER MARNHULL GREEN TEAMS The Friends of Blandford As you may have read in last month’s Messenger, people from Marnhull and the surrounding area have been talking about ways of protecting Community Hospital and improving our local environment, partly in response to Dorset Registered Charity: 800482 Council’s declaration of a climate and ecological emergency. Our group now has a name - Marnhull Green TEAMS - and we are particularly grateful to the children of St Mary’s School Eco Club Fashion Show for the ‘TEAMS’ part. As well as being an acronym for ‘Taking the The Exchange, Sturminster Newton Environment Around Marnhull Seriously’, it describes the way we’ve begun working - in small teams, each with an interest in a particular Friday 13th March green project. Doors open 6.30pm Show starts 7.30pm
Heading Two public events are already planned. The first will be on Renewable “New to You” clothing and accessories Energy at Home, and will comprise expert presentations and group discussions of subjects ranging from LEDs & insulation to PV panels & heat for the Spring and Summer Season. pumps, and from batteries & electric cars to a possible coordinated solar Tickets £5 in advance from the Hospital Charity Shops or direct from power installation project. The meeting is scheduled for the Village Hall The Exchange. Tickets on the door £7.50. on Monday 30 March, starting at 7-30 pm. (Please keep an eye out for All clothing will be on sale after the show and the sale any change to these details made necessary by the hall redevelopment will continue the next morning at a Place your message here. For maximum impact, use two or three work; and note the start time, which is earlier than advertised last sentences. month.) If you have an interest in any aspect of renewable energy, please come along and join in! Clothing Sale The second public event planned is titled For a Greener Marnhull - trees, hedges, meadows & more. This is scheduled for the Village Hall on Saturday 14th March Tuesday 21 April, starting at 7-30 pm, and will again include talks from In The Bow Room at The Exchange experts and group discussion. Images of Marnhull from 60 years ago (see, for example, www.francisfrith.com/marnhull) show that we have 10am-12noon lost many fine trees, particularly elms, and often from disease. There is 01258 451456 www.friendsofblandford.org.uk considerable interest in the village in making good some of this loss, for the benefit of future generations. Hedges, verges and existing or potential meadows are of great environmental interest too. If supported DYNAMO LIGHT by local people, we hope to carry out an audit of what we have now and, in consultation with landowners, produce and implement a planting Perhaps it was growing up in the power-cuts of the early seventies, but and maintenance plan for the future. What is it they say? ‘From little I tend to collect lamps and torches of all kinds - and am always ready to acorns…’? be persuaded of the need to buy another. The least satisfactory I’ve ever We are working on other projects too. We intend to produce a local guide owned, however, was the dynamo light fitted to my bicycle as a boy. The to Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling, and - as you can see elsewhere in basic problem was that this depended on you to keep pedalling – so this edition of the Messenger - we are supporting an initiative to develop along a flat road, the light would shine nicely, but grew dimmer climbing community allotments. Contact us if you’d like to know more about a hill and became a sad glow by the time you reached the top. Its crucial either (contact details below). flaw, however, became evident as soon as you had to stop at a junction. Then, at the very point when you most needed to be seen by other road We also support the Dorset Green Living Project, set up by Sustainable users, the light would desert you. Dorset with funding from the Community National Lottery Fund. This exciting sustainability and community green living project offers local For those serving the local church, it can be all too easy to think that, if people the tools and information they need to lower their carbon we just pedal a bit harder, the light will shine a bit brighter. The trouble is footprint and reduce their impact on the planet. The aim is for groups in that, when the road gets rough and steep, or a crossroads is reached, our any part of Dorset to take collective practical steps towards lower carbon energies and hope can fade, like the beam of the dynamo. living. Everybody taking part is provided with a free guidebook packed John’s Gospel reassures us that the light of life is generated by God’s work, full of proven solutions for a greener lifestyle. For more information not ours – and powered by his glory. Glory is our one inexhaustible please contact Rachel, the project coordinator, at earthjamb@outlook. energy supply: an eternal current that anyone must connect to if they com, or contact Marnhull Green TEAMS at marnhullgreen@outlook. really want to live. It shines from the relationship between Jesus and his com. heavenly father, empowered by the Holy Spirit. This divine dynamo, we And for more information on Marnhull Green TEAMS’ own projects, learn, charges most powerfully at the points where human resources please visit our Facebook page, or the webpage on the Marnhull give out - when the wine runs dry at the wedding, or the well is deep Messenger site (under the ‘In the Village’ link); or email marnhullgreen@ and you don’t have a bucket. And where this glory shines most brightly, outlook.com. Or, if you don’t have internet access, you can call Dave we find, is the cross of Christ, that fatal junction where all else turns Smith on (01258) 268714. to darkness. We look forward to hearing from you. Let’s make Marnhull even greener! None of us is especially luminous on our own: we are the light of the world only with Christ shining through us. May he renew our strength and our hope as we turn to him.
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The value of reporting to Trading Standards In the last full financial year local Trading Standards services together: Received around 500,000 complaints, and undertook 43,000 investigations Visited over 30,000 businesses to help them understand business law and trade fairly Friends of Guys Marsh Prevented £26 million pounds being handed over to doorstep criminals Are delighted to start their 2020 fund raising campaign with an exclusive Provided advice and support to 11,000 people affected by scams event celebrating an English spring afternoon. Found over 3,000 businesses that were supplying food that was mis- On Saturday 4th April, join us at The Tithe Barn, Manor House, Hinton St described, had undeclared allergens, contained illegal ingredients, or Mary for a look around the gardens, a delicious home-baked afternoon was involved in food fraud tea – perhaps with a glass of something sparkling! – and listen to the Marnhull Community Choir in their first concert of 2020. And who Tested 6,000 retailers and found a quarter illegally selling alcohol, knows, you may be lucky in the FOGM raffle that we’ll be holding too! tobacco and knives We are indebted to Mr and Mrs Pitt Rivers for the use of the Tithe Barn, Detained over 20 million illegal products including tobacco, toys, an original 15th century building, enhanced in the 1930’s for use as a cosmetics and electrical products, some of which could have caused life theatre. The setting within the stunning gardens of the Manor House is changing injuries delightful and we are keeping our fingers crossed for mild weather and Dorset Council Trading Standards are always keen to speak and work a fine display of spring flowers! with local business in flexible ways to offer advice and support to get Friends of Guys Marsh are committed to offering practical support to the things right. We put a lot of effort into supporting business in this inmates who are genuinely seeking to right their wrongs and provide a way from home start-ups to established national companies. Trading stable, better, crime-free future for themselves and their families. There Standards have a dedicated animal health team supporting Dorset are always a number of projects with which we are involved and this farmers who are an important part of our business economy and natural all calls on our resources. Whilst our “Friends” generously provide the environment too. basis for our work, the more funds we have the more we can support the Sometimes a business’ behaviour is so bad that we do need to take governor and staff in their efforts to promote training, resettlement and formal action to protect people and to act as a punishment and deterrent rehabilitation, for the good of us all. to others. Our prosecutions are usually reported in the local press, recent The Marnhull Community Choir was formed early in 2019 and now examples being rogue doorstep trading and animal welfare. boasts nearly 40 enthusiastic members from Marnhull and surrounding Many of you reading this will go about your daily lives buying goods and villages. The choir leaders, Katie and James Smith, both professional services from businesses without a bad experience. That’s because we musicians, have been coaxing the choir into performing an eclectic mix work often unseen in the background with the aim of keeping you of music, from Abba to Mozart, Gershwin to Schubert and all manner of protected. pieces in between. An entertaining and enjoyable concert is guaranteed! If you do however see unfair or unsafe trading that you’d like to report We are suggesting a donation of £10 per person to enjoy this event in to Trading Standards then call the Citizens Advice consumer helpline on an exclusive venue with so much on offer. Places are limited to the first 03454 04 05 06. 100 to apply, so please email [email protected] with your MARNHULL TENNIS CLUB name and pledge to secure your place.
Schedule: Arrivals from 3.00pm We are a friendly active Tennis Club Afternoon tea served from 4.00pm based at the Marnhull Recreation Ground with adjacent pavilion Marnhull Community Choir 5.00pm facilities. We welcome players of all ages and levels, including beginners. Even if you’ve never played before why not come along and Interval and raffle draw 5.30pm try one of our “taster” sessions. Marnhull Community Choir 6.00pm We offer 2 well maintained hard courts * Regular junior/adult club Departures from 6.30pm sessions * Children and teenage coaching courses * 2 mixed teams in local league * Club tournament and event days * LTA qualified coach * Ball machine Our Annual Subscriptions are as follows: Adults £40 (over 65’s SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLE £35), Juniors £12 (children receiving coaching free), Families £90, Non- In order to enrich our community with the right kind members are welcome to ‘pay & play‘ Adults £2/Juniors £1 per hr. of articles and topics, we're looking to you For further information and membership forms contact either John Seear (01258) 269743 or email [email protected] or Margaret Hunt Chris Ryu - [email protected] (01258) 821000 [email protected]
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TENNIS FOR EVERYONE IN MARNHULL Get your tennis underway this year with our range of activities. This year we are offering a range of different coaching sessions including – BADMINTON FOR BEGINNERS Monday club social night: 8–10pm (except bank holidays) Free Junior Coaching sessions (am) for children from Year 1 £25 Joining Fee through to teenagers on Sat 28th March. Adults £4.50 For adults whether you’re an experienced player, a bit rusty, or Family £7.00 (up to 2 adults & 2 children) a complete novice, come and join us at one of our club nights Juniors £3.00 – either Thursday 2nd or 9th April (including an hour of free ALL COACHING FREE (Badminton England Coach) coaching). Loads of fun for children and familes For Teenagers we offer a 6 week coaching course at £5 per BADMINTON CLUB NIGHT session. This starts at 5pm on Thursday 23rd April (including fun Tuesday club night: 7.00–10.00pm time on our ball machine). First night free to new members For Kids classes we have 6 week courses at £5 per session, ALL COACHING FREE (Badminton England Coach) starting on Wednesday afternoon 22nd April. Intermediate level players always welcome Contact John Seear (01258) 269743 [email protected] BADMINTON SENIOR NIGHT Margaret Hunt (01258) 821000 [email protected] Thursday senior league night: 8.15-10.15pm The club is interested in players who wish to play at a league level. The club participates in the salisbury district league – div2 mens and div2 mixed and div3 mixed MARNHULL FRENCH & SPANISH CRAFT CLUB CONVERSATION Meets at 10:00am on the first Thursday of every month (except August) in The Methodist Church Hall Tuesdays @ 14.00 and 15.30 at The Hub Relax, meet new and old friends for coffee and chat. Use Want to get those little grey cells working? Then come along to your skills and learn something new, in a friendly and relaxed French or atmosphere. Spanish conversation! This can complement your work with On Thursday 3rd March, we shall be making decorations for Duolingo or refresh your memories of your O level days. For more information contact spring and Easter Ros Eveleigh on 821049. More information from Mary Palmer, 01258 820232
PILATES CLASS MARNHULL BRIDGE CLUB Mondays at 9.30am for an hour in Marnhull Village Hall Marnhull Bridge Club meets in the Methodist Hall every Tuesday Email: [email protected] at 2 pm to play Chicago. Tel: 07733 085 077 New Players always welcome.
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1) American reptile similar to an alligator. (6) 4) Small short tailed game bird. (5) 6) Open area of grassy land. (3) 7) Precipitation containing sulphur and nitrogen oxides from industrial burning of fossil fuels. (4-4) 8) Italian river that flows through Florence. (4) 11) Member of an indigenous people of parts of Borneo. (5) 13) Country of the Arabian peninsular with its capital at Muscat. (4) 15) Spiny insectivorous egg laying mammal of Australia. (7) 16) Hollyoaks is set in a suburb of this city. (7) 17) Nickname for a person from Yorkshire. (4) 19) Former name for the region which is now Vietnam. (5) 21) Type of cormorant. (4) 24) American serial killer executed in 1989. (8) 25) See 10D. 26) Biological category above species. (5) 27) Invisible. (6) DOWN
1) Castrated domestic cock. (5) 2) Member of the people ruled by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. (10) 3) Children’s character invented by Enid Blyton. (5) 4) Elemental particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. (5) 5) Dutch city at the vanguard of the Allied operation Market Garden in WW11. (6) MINDFUL 6) Hot semi fluid rock erupted from a volcano. (4) 9) Character played in a series of films by Sylvester Stallone. (5) 10) Supporting local people with memory problems and 25A) Beloved of Popeye. (5-3) You can find us at the Mindful Café at The Hub, off Station Road, Stalbridge. 12) third century BC Greek mathematician, engineer, inventor and The café runs on the first Monday of each month, between 10.00 am and astronomer. (10) 12 noon. 13) Fertile spot in a desert. (5) 14) Scene of gladiatorial contests and chariot races in ancient Rome. (5) 18) Man''s long belted tunic worn in the Near East. (6) 19) South American mountain range. (5) 20) Tiny island country northeast of Australia. (5) 22) Long legged fish eating wading bird. (5) 23) Ancient European region taking in present day France, Belgium and parts of Germany Switzerland, Holland and northern Italy. (4)
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