1 2 FEBUARY Diary Contents Allotments p8 Can You Help? p8 Tues 2nd 12.30am Lunch Club Village Hall, Church Services p4 Back Room Family Service p6 Feckenham Flower Show p7 Wed 3rd 7.30pm Stock & Bradley Bradley FeckenOdeon p12 Gardening Club Village Hall Food Bank p9 Gardening Club p18 Sat 6th 7.30pm “End to End” Village Hall Lent Course p9 Local Matters p6 Tues 9th 7.30pm Feckenham Forest Feckenham Mission Morogoro p15 History Society Village Hall Newshound p5 Parish Council p7 Wed 10th 2 - 4 pm Defibrillator Train- Back Room Small Ads p5 ing Village Hall Square Management C. p13 Super Sessions p18 Thurs 11th 7.30pm Feckenham WI Back Room Thought for the month p8 Village Hall Village Hall p12 Village Shop p7 Fri 12th 8pm FeckenOdeon-2 Back Room W.I. p18 Village Hall W.W.1 p14
Tues 16th 7.30pm - Lent Course Catholic Church, 9pm High St. Production Team Ian Bellion – What’s On 892130 [email protected] Sun 21st 10.30 am Allotment Open Moors Lane Chris Fletcher – Newshound - 3.30pm Day 894568 [email protected] Antonia Pulsford – Reviews Tues 23rd 7.30pm - Lent Course Catholic Church, 892268 9pm High St. Jo Warrilow – Advertising, Mags by post 892059 Jane White – Editor 893281 Thurs 25th 7.30pm Flower Show Village Hall [email protected] AGM
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3 Church Services PARISH CHURCH FEBRUARY of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Priest-in-Charge: Rev Wyn Beynon Churchwarden: Ann Matthews 01527 892180 Church website: www.feckenhamchurch.org.uk • • Email: [email protected] Parish Office: Telephone: 01905 778181 Email: [email protected] Open Tues., Wed. & Thurs. 10am-1pm & 2-5pm: Mon. & Fri. Closed at - The Bowbrook Group, The Parish Centre, St Andrew’s Street, DROITWICH, WR9 8DY
Readers & Intercessors Sunday 7th 11.00am Sung Eucharist Sunday next before Lent Exodus 34:29-end David Street 2 Corinthians 3: 12- 4:2 Angela Fletcher Intercessions Erica Dilger
Wednesday 10th ASH WEDNESDAY Holy Communion with imposition of ashes 10.30am Wychbold 8.00pm Oddingley
Sunday14th 8.00am Holy Communion 1st Sunday of Lent 2 Corinthians 6: 1-10 Antonia Pulsford
11.00am Family Service Open the Book; Presentation of Jesus in the Temple Sunday 21st 6.30pm Evensong 2nd Sunday of Lent Genesis15 :1-12, 17-18 Richard Hillman Philippians 3: 17 – 4:1 Carol Onions Intercessions Lin Preece
Sunday 28th 11.00am Family Eucharist 3rd Sunday of Lent 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13 Fiona Carter Intercessions Tony Mortimer
“Mixed Bag” Will be held in Church on Sunday 7th February - a group for young people and activities for younger children. All children will be warmly welcomed.
Feckenham Roman Catholic Church St John Fisher & St. Thomas More Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 10.15am in the Church Fr. Anthony Rohan, The Presbytery, Redditch. Tel. 01527 63096 Local contact—Phyllis Mott, Feckenham. Tel. 01527 893898 4 and St Thomas More were welcomed to a joint Newshound service at Feckenham Parish church. This was at the beginning of the week of prayer for Chris- tian unity 2016. The service was led by Rev Sue Welcome to new residents Barratt and the preacher was Rev Fr David Doran. This year's liturgy was arranged by the More Stylers move into Feckenham! Dave and Christians in Latvia and their theme was "Salt of Sarah Styler, who come from longstanding the Earth". This was reflected in the choice of Redditch families have recently moved to the readings and hymns. The Catholic community High Street from Webheath. They have three would like to thank the Feckenham parishioners children, Katie, Jake, and Sam, only Sam is still for their hospitality and warm welcome. at school. They also have three dogs! Sara works part time for the NHS in Redditch and Bromsgrove but has already volunteered to Village Hall help in the shop and is currently being trained. Improvement Fund 2015/16 Dave is Engineering Manager at a Redditch January Winners company. They are looking forward to life in 35 Phyllis Mott £25 Feckenham and we hope they will be very 84 John & Sue May £15 happy here. 17 Katie Styler £10 Canal boat enthusiasts come to the High The February Draw will be held in the Village Hall Street! Liz and Howard Bellaby, and Charlie at 8.00 pm on Tuesday 2nd February 2016 the cat, have moved in to no 20 High Street, having downsized from Astwood Bank. Although their new house is fairly small the Small Ads. shrinkage is not quite so drastic when you factor in the acquisition of a sixty foot narrow ooking to buy 2 or 3 bed property with boat on the nearby Worcester and Birmingham Lparking in Feckenham or surrounding Canal! Liz is a local and works in Housing. She area. Alison 07714209463. was at the forefront of recent work to drive down anti-social behavior in Redditch. She an anyone help please? I am anxious to enjoys cooking, entertaining, Caribbean Cmove back to my grassroots so am beaches and talking! Howard works in actively looking to buy a property in procurement and supply chain management Feckenham. I am a cash buyer and would allied to the construction equipment industry. much appreciate a phone call if you are He has travelled extensively and enjoys reading thinking of selling your property. I do need a the classics anything relating to history, politics . or biography. We wish them well in their new garden. Many thanks 07812586530 life on land and water. A belated but warm welcome to Erica and Phil Guise who moved into Bramley Cottage last July having spent the previous 32 years in Fin- stall, Bromsgrove. They enjoyed their first Christmas in Feckenham and are now looking forward to getting more involved in what they describe as "a very friendly and vibrant commu- nity". Phil and Erica wish everyone a very happy 2016. On Sunday January 17th, worshippers from the Roman Catholic chapel of St John Fisher 5 are included, go to Local Matters http://www.superfastworcestershire.com/when -where and put your full landline phone number into the search box. When we will get am grateful to Jen Cary for updating us (in fibre though is a bit up in the air still but when Ithe December News) on the projected we hear more we'll update you. resurfacing of the B4090 through the village. It Although getting fibre is great news for the certainly needs doing but I would take some village, with the added choice and enhanced issue with Highways in their conceding that the performance that it brings, unfortunately it's red-brown surface was a mistake. The reason likely that not everyone will be able to benefit for the choice of this particular material was as the technology stands at the moment. If you part of an effort to reduce traffic speed - the live right at the end of line, as it were, it is colour and texture gave the visual impression unlikely that the signal will be able to reach of a 'lane', and this in combination with the you. However, Openreach is developing new deliberate omission of a central white line was technology to effectively 'boost' the signal but to create a certain caution among drivers, thus this will take time to roll out. inducing them to slow down. To some extent it As Q and I find out more, we'll be back in worked but was then ruined by the addition of touch and in the meantime, if you have any white lines down each side. This had the questions about broadband either by landline adverse effect of making the road look longer or over Airband, please do get in touch with us and straighter again, cancelling out the via Parish Cllr Cary by this email address advantage gained (long straight roads means [email protected]
t's official, we're definitely getting fibre! IIt's been an interesting 2-year struggle but WCC has now formally confirmed that Feckenham is getting fibre. Cabinet 6 on the Square is now definitely in the plans. Feckenham 6 Parish Council Village Shop Jeff Matthews YOU COULD SAVE A LIFE! At the back of the Village Hall you’ll find a t’s gone cold now – logs, hot chocolate, defibrillator - a device for resuscitating people Icake… who have suffered a cardiac arrest. It’s a highly You will find all creature comforts at the shop, sophisticated piece of equipment that has the we look forward to seeing you. potential to save lives. BUT it’s not much use unless people know how to use it. Hay Fever? The Parish Council, which installed the machine, As the years have gone by, my hay fever has got has arranged two training sessions which will worse. Actually, it’s not hay, it’s tree pollen. show you when the machine can be used and Bad news in it starts in January with Alder and how it should be used. It won’t take long, it’s not goes through to end of July. complicated but it will be of enormous value if Comparing notes with fellow sufferers we there is a team of trained people in the village. commiserate with one another, and get fed up On Wednesday, 10 February 2:00-4:00pm taking the anti-histamine. One idea, that I had Matthew Dormer of H&W Fire & Rescue Service heard before, but never tried, is taking a will be the trainer and on Tuesday, 15 March spoonful of local honey. I know a few folk who 7:00-9:00pm Mr Lewis of West Midlands swear by this daily, natural remedy, so I’m Ambulance Service will be in charge. Both trying it. sessions will be in the Back Room of the Village Saltway honey is stocked by the shop and Hall. comes from a producer who has hives dotted You don’t need to have any previous training - around Feckenham and down towards you just need to be willing to help in an Hanbury. There are two of us sufferers trying it emergency. The more people who know how to – my pal since mid November and so far so operate the defibrillator, the more useful it will good, it appears to be working. be - and that might mean the difference between life and death for someone. Please contact the Parish Council’s Clerk, Sean Arble to book a place. Call 01789 490501 or Wine, Women & e-mail [email protected] Wisdom Feckenham Flower Show Thursday 11th feb 7.30pm & Over 60’s Party Fund at:The Eagle and Sun, Margaret Eost Hanbury Rd, Droitwich WR9 7DX
The AGM will be held on Thursday 25th Order food and wine as you wish - February at 7.30pm in the Village Hall.• This will Discuss current news, controversies be followed by a short committee meeting to focus on the Spring Flower Show, which is on & topics of interest in the company Saturday 9th April. of friends
We are looking for new people to join our For more information merry band so that these popular village events Rosie 01527 836307 can continue.• If you are interested please do or Melissa 07891 779871 come along. 7 experience. My self worth comes from the fact Thought for the that I’m made in God’s image. That’s it. Everything follows from that. month Rev. Wyn Beynon So I’m spraying you with water too. Not radiator water, but the water of life, the life Dear Friends, that is our gift. The life that is God disguised, because, it turns out we’re his reflection! And I Health warning: I don’t usually preach in the got all that from just page 1 of the Bible! magazine letter, but today… well… I have spent most of the past 35 year quietly getting on with Best wishes, my ministry. I’ve moved from one parish to Wyn another and plodded away at what, for me, is the best job in world. Though for me, course, it’s not a job, it’s a way of life. A farmer would Can You Help? say the same, and, having grown up on farms, Rectory life and farmhouse life are surprisingly similar. STAMPS for the Alexandra Hospital But I wasn’t always a dutiful chap who just kept League of Friends. his head down and got on with it. Once, when I was four I was in church, at If like us the only time you get many stamps is Sunday school. And bored brainless. So I at Christmas, we hope you have been saving wandered over to the radiator and spotted the them and will take them to• the Village Shop bleed tap. And turned it. It was my first baptism. very soon. The League of Friends usually make A squirt of water shot up and sprayed the around £2000pa from stamps, a total not to be other children. I was told off. But I couldn’t see sneezed at. This is used to buy equipment and the problem and was a bit niffed with the comforts for the wards and help a little teacher. towards saving our hospital. Carol and Pat Onions Now I’m on General Sunday I feel like I have to return to my infancy. Once again I’m upsetting Re. Request for news of the Brazier family in the other children, because once again they Feckenham from France. need to be baptised, or at least put in mind of We have received a reply from Wales and their baptism. Baptism is the sign that God’s passed this on to the French gentleman. We love for us has no bounds, no limits, no if, but have no further details to tell you but will let or maybes. But the Church, being made up of you know if we do hear. human beings, doesn’t quite believe that so it Carol and Pat Onions. invents rules and regulations, insisting that God can’t love you if…. And the “if” has varied over the centuries. “If you’re a women and don’t do as you’re told by men, if you’re the wrong race, ALLOTMENT OPEN DAY if you’re disabled, if you’re gay, if you’re a Moors Lane Allotments are holding an communist, if you’re different, if you’re not like Open Day on Sunday 21st February me”. from 10.30am until 3.30pm. If you think So, sometimes, people tell me, “I haven’t been you might like to take on a plot but are such a bad chap”. I think,”So? It doesn’t bother not sure, come and have a chat over a cup me even if you have been bad, and you’d be of tea. You can have a look at what’s pretty unique anyway. I’ve been a bad chap lots. available and meet some other plot But God will love you and me anyway.” holders. For more info ring Judy on If your self worth comes from feeling you’ve 892130. been successful, it is pretty worthless, in my 8 LENT COURSE 2016 SPECIAL FOOD BANK Feckenham - St John the Baptist and COLLECTION FOR SYRIAN S’s John Fisher & Thomas More REFUGEES IN CALAIS “Living as Disciples” Can you be kind enough to donate At: Ss John Fisher & Thomas More anything from the following list for the On: 16; 23 February; 01; 08; 15 March SPECIAL FOOD BANK From: 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm COLLECTION that is underway this month:- Our Lent Course this year, offers an opportunity to explore some key aspects of · Tinned Tomatoes discipleship. It will comprise five weekly · Beans (Lentils, Chick Peas, kidney sessions and draw upon a course recently beans and the like) not baked compiled by the Revd Canon Jonathan beans please Kimber, Director of Ministry & Discipleship · Sugar =- small packets or cubes - for Worcester Diocese. or even "hotel" sachets Within the sessions, five different aspects of · Sachets of salt discipleship are identified in the hope of · Chilli flakes shedding fresh light on what it means to live · Multi pack bars of chocolate (that as a disciple of Jesus Christ in the 21st can be split) century. · Tinned Soup · Coffee sachets and tea bags - · Disciples as Learners again anything that can be split · Disciples as Followers · Cereal Bars. · Disciples as Friends small UHT milk cartons -• smaller · Disciples as those who Serve the better. · Gathering it together in the light of · Sealable medium or large freezer the Resurrection or other storage bags (see below) Particular attention will be paid to our: Our friends at The Bridge, St George & understanding: helping to explain and St Matthias in Astwood Bank and explore some of the concepts and rationale Churches in Studley are coming together of Christian living today; to create individual food parcels in practices: how our following of Christ sealable bags in order that these parcels influences what we do, and how what we do can be handed out easily when on site. impacts on our discipleship; The bags can then be used to put phones disposition: following Christ is not solely and things in to keep them dry. about what we do, but also about the manner or the attitude with which we do it. PLEASE LEAVE ANY DONATIONS IN How does our following of Christ influence THE FOOD BANK BOX IN CHURCH our posture and perspective on the world? Many thanks Revd. Gary Crellin. Everyone Welcome – we do hope you can come (coffee/tea available from 7.00 pm)
9 PILATES at Feckenham Village Hall Every Thursday at 7.30pm
10 11 The FeckenOdeon Village Hall Cinema Society Ian Bellion If you get your magazine early we’re just in time to remind you that “The Hundred-Foot Journey” is showing at The FeckenOdeon on 30th January at 7.30pm
A BRISK STROLL FROM END TO END Join us on an expedition! We’re going to travel A WELSH FANTASY IN ENGLISH from Lands End to John O’Groats ... all on a A brand new adaptation of Dylan Thomas’ budget of £1 per day! Impossible? Not at all! It’s portrait of a fishing village “Under Milk been done - and if you don’t believe it you can Wood” is a spicy, boisterous and funny version come along and see it proved as the athletic of the much loved play for voices with Rhys Ifans thespians of The Gramophones Theatre and Charlotte Church. Dylan’s “play for voices” Company demonstrate exactly how it was is brought to vivid life in a joyful and earthy way. achieved. In April 2012 three women set off to It’s in English quite simply because the writer travel from one end of Great Britain to the didn’t speak Welsh! In FeckenOdeon 2 on other. Trusting only to their resourcefulness Friday, 12th February at 8pm. and the kindness of strangers they made the 18-day, 874-mile journey from End to End of the UK. They completed their unusual expedition on as many varieties of transport as they possibly could. In “End to End” - we meet the characters the EVERYBODY OUT! ladies met on their epic journey and share their remarkable and often hilarious experiences. If No matter which side of the political divide you’ve ever wanted to take off on a great people were on, few could deny that industrial adventure of your own this could be the night Britain in the late 1950s was a shambles. Bosses you decide to get up and go! A grand show to and workers clung to outdated attitudes and brighten up a February night. rules - petty corruption was the order of the “End to End” hikes into Feckenham Village day. In 1959 the Boulting Brothers could stand Hall on Saturday, 6th February at 7.30pm no more and lashed out with a biting satire that This show is brought to Feckenham by Shindig lambasted both sides. “I’m All Right Jack” is a - the County Council’s scheme designed to hilarious comedy with a kick - Peter Sellers has bring top quality professional shows right to rarely been better as the stubborn union man, your doorstep. Ian Carmichael is the clueless toff - and there are Coming soon from Shindig: cameos from an army of British character actors On Sunday, 13th March we’re visited by a highly of the 50s. Showing at 7.30pm on Saturday, amusing and colourful version of “Canterbury 27th February. Tales” and on Sunday, 15th May The Opera Tickets for FeckenOdeon shows are on sale at Dudes bring us their hilarious “Licensed to Trill”. The Village Shop and The Rose & Crown. You can also book by phone (through TicketSource) Tickets for all these show are on sale at The Village on 0333 666 3366 or online at Shop and The Rose & Crown, by phone on 0333 www.feckenodeon.co.uk 666 3366 (local call rates) and online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/feckenham 12 Square Management Committee A MERRY DING DONG! he annual Carols on The Square on TChristmas Eve attracted record numbers and we’re delighted to report that £570 was collected from revelers and that the entire sum will be donated to the County Air Ambulance. This year’s total is a record - the best yet. This is the 12th of these popular events and the records show that a total of over £4,000 has been raised to keep the flying rescuers aloft. The event again provided a good start to Christmas proper with people enjoying a light hearted sing with some warming punch and mince pies. Shirley Harman set the proceedings well and truly underway by switching on the Christmas lights (with a bang) - thanks Shirley! The Committee is most grateful to everyone who helped - in particular the singers who made up the impromptu choir, the good folk who unbidden turned up with boxes of mince pies, Alan and Pat Moor who gave us free electricity, Max Melson who warmed 10 large vats of punch in her kitchen, Phil Tricklebank for the rocket, Jane Bird who gave us the tree - and anyone else who helped make the evening so enjoyable. Thanks to you, the people of Feckenham, for your generosity and for joining in with the spirit of this ever popular event - and if you’re good boys and girls we’ll do it all again next year. The Square Management Committee are : Ian Ridley (Chair), Barry Hamilton (Vice-Chair), Dawn Southwell (Treasurer), Ian Bellion (Secretary), Judy Hooker (Punchmaker), Tim 25th Smith (Rocketeer and Lumberjack), Alan Smith (Music and Snow Maker), Peter Masters (Head Bucketeer), Slade Arthur (Tree Logistics). 13 World War I Kathy has been able to source original letters from serving Worcestershire Regiment soldiers Centenary to put together a narrative theme with Phil Commemoration composing a significant piece of music in a number of short movements. Clare has been Jeff Matthews pulling together musicians to be involved and at the moment has a range of voices from the 2016 Anniversaries three choirs in the village – the Church, the Community and ARTS youth group. They will 2016 marks the Centenary of one of the most be joined by children from the school, some yet incomprehensible phases of the Great War – to be cast spoken voices and up to five the Battle of the Somme. musicians. st It began on July 1 1915 and dragged on for 4 Clare says, “it will be a significant village event in whole months. During this battle, the village the four year commemoration cycle. I am lost three of its young men, Pioneer James hoping to get a guest conductor to be part of it. Crook, remembered on the Thiepval The music is still being completed, but it is of Memorial, Somme, France. He fell in the some of highest quality I have heard. It will be opening days on 10th July. Then October 1st, great piece to perform.” Private Charles Newman, remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme area, France. Two distinct performances are planned, one And then, on what is regarded as the very last geared towards the schools involvement and day of the conflict, 18 Nov, Private Edgar will be shorter and scheduled for June 18th. The Dolphin, who is buried in Regina Trench 2nd timed to coincide with Remembrance Day, Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme area, France. 11th Nov, which falls on a Friday and is planned The first anniversary of the year is on March to be in the Church. Further details available nearer the time, but hold the date. 13th, that of Gunner Harry Hopcroft, buried in Sussex (Roachville) Cemetery, Kings County, What is also clear as that the group will need New Brunswick, Canada. help. Anyone out there fancy getting involved with the performance? We are looking for th April 5 marks Private Arthur Watton, volunteers of all sorts, not least a ‘Director’ and remembered on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. a ‘Producer’. If you have experience of putting And the year ends with on Nov 5th Private on shows, building and designing sets or any Frank Owen, buried in Salonika (Lembit other part of production, we’d like to hear from Road) Military Cemetery, Greece. you. Please contact either Jeff Matthews Each story will be told on a poster, displayed (892180) or Clare Furey (894849) if you can on an exhibition board in the Church and their help in any way. memory will be marked by the placing of a Other activities are planned during the year; an poppy for each on the crown of barbwire in the upgrade to the commemorative walk, in the Church. An act of Remembrance will take place form of an audio guide and commemorative on the Sunday nearest the anniversary. markers to be displayed on village properties Music Event Update and sites that mark where the fallen lived in the village. You may recall that a portion of the grant money obtained from the Heritage Lottery Work will also begin on developing the website, Fund was assigned toward the composing of an further. original piece of music. The group We are always open and would welcome offers commissioned Shropshire based composer Phil of support from anyone who would like to join Mountford, who has been working with Clare our group. It is proving to be a very interesting Furey, Amanda Gordon and Kathy Gee to journey. Give Jeff a call if you’d like to know shape up the piece. more and get involved. 14 enthusiastically received. Training was Mission Morogoro delivered by the local Mothers’ Union and the machines are now being used by Tony Mortimer villagers and in the local schools. We are working with another UK charity to send a Upcoming event and latest news further batch of 12 sewing, and probably two knitting, machines this year. Also a We would like to thank everyone who government teacher has been assigned who supported our MM 2016 Calendar, sales of will provide training for young people. which raised more than £500. This money is · Ambulance - Thanks to a most generous earmarked for patient toilets at Tunguli Health bequest from the estate of a Redditch Centre - we will report on progress in weeks businessman we have been able to purchase to come. a motorcycle ambulance for Tunguli Health Our next major event - Centre. We are currently arranging shipment and hope to have this in operation “An Evening With Don Maclean” by summer 2016. More to follow. Saturday, February 27, 2016 - As always we thank you greatly for your 7:30pm encouragement and support. Norbury Theatre, Droitwich For more details please do look at our website and facebook pages. Don, the well-known and much-loved Midlands comedian and all-round entertainer, has www.missionmorogoro.org.uk generously agreed to appear in a special show www.facebook.com/missionmorogoro locally to support Mission Morogoro. This will be a great way to brighten up a dark February evening and we hope that we will see you there. For full details see our website or contact the Norbury Theatre (01905) 770154. (Tip - No booking fee if you book by ‘phone)
We are pleased to report that several projects are progressing well. · Agriculture - Planting is under way using new seeds and better methods. A government officer has been assigned to project manage this work alongside village leaders. This is a crucial step and we are very pleased with progress. · Internet - For patient care it is vital that Tunguli can communicate with the outside world. It is also important that we can plan and monitor projects from the UK. We are currently investigating the possibility of establishing a basic, affordable Internet connection at Tunguli. · Sewing - The sewing machines shipped in the container last summer were very 15 16 17 Stock & Bradley Feckenham W.I. Gardening Club Jane White Rob Cole
Wednesday 3rd Feb 2016 at 7.30pm Do you have a wok lurking at the ur speaker is Jeff Soulsby who runs a back of a kitchen cupboard? Onursery in nearby Harvington. His talk is entitled 'Phenomenal Plants Old and New' This month’s meeting is on Thursday 10th at 7.30pm in the Back Room of the Village Hall. and will cover a range of plants which may be familiar to you, as well as some good We are going oriental for the evening, with newcomers. Boon Yeng talking and cooking “A Feast for your Senses: Spring Festival Traditions & The theme for the monthly competition is Wok Magic”. There will be samples! We 'Three flowers of a winter bulb'. To take part, hope to gain confidence with stretching our just bring along an exhibit for judging by the cooking skills. speaker. Every entry will win a point, and 1st, Visitors welcome, £3.50 including refreshments. 2nd, and 3rd will be awarded additional points. The member with the most number of points in the year will be awarded a prize of a year's subscription to the Gardening SUPER SESSIONS Club, at the AGM in November. If you walk down the High Street on the first Tuesday evening of the month a hint of The annual subscription for 2016 (due 1st a melody or a rhythm might just reach you January 2016) should be paid at this meeting, and entice you in the general direction of please, if you haven't already renewed or The Rose & Crown. Follow your instincts joined. and allow the music to draw you within... and you’ll find a very pleasing scene inside The following Club meeting - the bar: As many as 20 musicians in a large Wednesday 2nd March 2016 at circle playing as if their lives (or next pint) 7.30pm is a talk by Julie Ritchie of Hoo depends on it. There are all manner of House Nursery near Tewkesbury, when she instruments - flutes, mandolins, guitars, will give a hands on demonstration of the squeeze boxes, lutes and bodrhans to name techniques and materials used in the just a few - not an amplifier between them 'Propagation of Perennials and Alpines'. - just the power of music - and what music! Make a note in your diary now ! Joyful tunes that set your feet a-tapping, laments that tear your heart out and old Club meetings are held on the first Wednesday of favourites that that beg to be joined in with. each month at the Village Hall, Church Road, It’s all completely spontaneous, if you play Bradley Green starting at 7.30pm, and are free an instrument you’ll be welcome to join in to - and if you don’t, you don’t have to. members for an annual subscription of £10.00 The Feckenham Sessions have to be commencing on 1st January. Visitors are made the best free entertainment on a Tuesday very welcome and may attend for £3.00 per evening in Feckenham - the next one’s on meeting. If you require any further information, Tuesday, 2nd February starting at ring Dinny Pynsent (Secretary) on 01527 8pm. No charge - everybody welcome!
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