Neighbourhood News Issue 473

Dates for the Diary 4 - 7th July – Barbary Horse Trials 11th July – RWB Moviola 12 - 14th July – Marlborough Music Festival 14th July – Guild of Wilts Artists 23rd July – Bushton Bookworms 27th July – Hilmarton Moviola 4th Aug – Motorbike Meet 24th Aug – WI Coffee Morning 7th Sept – Produce Show

The Goddard Arms, Clyffe Pypard The Goddard Arms has been closed for several years. It was a very popular destination for people from Clyffe Pypard and its surrounding villages. I know that many of us have hoped that it would re-open. In May the current owner informed Council that she wished to sell the pub. A community group now has until November to raise the funds and negotiate to buy it. If a community group fails to buy the pub by November, then the owner can put the pub on the open market. A group of over thirty people interested in saving the pub met in the village hall in June. A steering committee of local volunteers has been set up to find out what kind of pub the people want and how we can achieve it. The committee are starting the process of raising funds to hopefully purchase, refurbish and re-open the pub for the community. They will need your help. Part of this process is issuing a questionnaire to the local people to find out what they want, and to build the support we need to make this happen. This questionnaire will be delivered to you the week beginning July 15th, please feel free to copy the questionnaire as many times as you need, and share it with anyone who you think may be interested. Completed questionnaires will be collected on Sunday 28th July if taped to your door handle or letter flap (being a Sunday no postman). Alternatively, there is a post box at the village hall that can be used if they forget to put the questionnaire out. A community meeting is planned for Tuesday 20th August at the Village Hall, where we will share the results of the questionnaire and provide more details on how we can all save the pub.

To register your interest or if you would like to be involved either as an investor, a helper or a customer then please contact Dianne at the Clyffe Pypard Parish Council [email protected]

Community Website - http://www.clyffepypard-bushton.com/

What’s on in the Community

BUSHTON and CLYFFE PYPARD WOMEN'S INSTITUTE Two guests joined WI members at our June meeting, when we were entertained and informed by an enthusiast of Pelham Puppets, for many years made in Marlborough. We learnt of their inventor, their inception, their history and were able to look closely at puppets brought by our speaker and by two of our members.

We now look forward to an enjoyable summer of July's garden supper, a visit to Chavenage House near Tetbury and our own charity coffee morning on Saturday 24th August (details elsewhere in the newsletter). Then on to the Produce Show and an equally busy autumn......

Our monthly meeting on Thursday 15th August will host Nasim Desai, who will talk to us about saris and Indian traditions. The meeting begins at 7.15pm with 'business' – courses and trips on offer, arrangements for visits and so on – and concludes with our social time over tea.

If you would like to try your local WI, do come for a free taster evening – you will be very welcome. The Women's Institute welcomes women of any age, background and interest. Of course, we also make very good cakes!

For further details, please contact Sally Fox, 01249 891442 or [email protected]

PS. We have room to spare on our trip to Chavenage House. It is on the afternoon of Tuesday 13th August, will include a guided tour of the house and a cream tea. We hope to keep the cost to £10 per person for the tour and the tea is £4.50 each, payment on the day. We will be driving ourselves, so people organise lift- sharing where convenient. If you are interested, please give me a call or email - Sally as above. Thank you.

Hilmarton Moviola Sometimes Always Never – 27th July The Keeper – 11th July

6th Form, RWB Academy Plenty of free parking. Film starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm Hilmarton Parish Church Hall Film starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm Tickets £6 What’s on in the Community.

Bushton Bookworms Well, the choice of a Carol Ann Duffy's, The World's Wife was an unusual one and promoted very interesting discussions, making us all do quite a bit of thinking and even checking of reference books! Some of the poems were easier to understand than others several depending on your knowledge of Greek Mythology but they really were very clever and interesting.

Here are the next books: • July 23rd Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunsmore • August 28th The Lost Man by Jane Harper

If you would like to join in with any of the discussions then please do contact me, the venues tend to differ depending on who chooses the book. Barbara Davis: [email protected] or 01793 739017

Bushton and Clyffe Pypard WI The Guild of Wiltshire Artists are invites you to a holding their Summer Exhibition COFFEE MORNING in aid of the MS and Neuro-therapy Sunday, 14th July to Saturday, 20th July 2019 Centre St. Peter's Church, High Street, Marlborough SN8 Saturday 24th August, 10am-12pm 1HQ at Finches, Clyffe Pypard (opposite The Goddard Arms) Public Opening times: Sunday, 14th July - 12.30 coffee, tea & cake, bring and buy stall, raffle, cake to 3pm stall Monday to Saturday, 15th to 20th July - 10am to plus, a volunteer to tell us about the Centre 4.30pm donations will be welcomed Admission is Free.

Produce Show – Saturday 7th September

The fruit in the garden is ripening quickly in the sunshine, just right for all the jam makers. There are the usual classes in the Show for 3 different jams, a jelly, marmalade and a chutney and this year we have included one for an onion marmalade. The cookery classes always have a lot of wonderful entries, this year we hope there is something for everyone. You could make bread rolls, using a bread-maker if you like, a tea bread, a Victoria sponge, 5 macaroons, a plate of flapjack and a tarte Tatin. And men, knowing how well you have done in previous years, we are challenging you to fill a plate with chocolate brownies! We have included a class for lemonade but we are also hoping that our judge will have plenty to sample of your homemade wine, sloe gin and other liqueurs Schedules have been delivered, if you haven’t received yours yet or would like one please get in touch with Jan ([email protected] /01249 890726)

VILLAGE HALL NEWSs

Mid - Summer evening Wild Flower Meadows Walk and Pot – Luck Supper This proved to be an excellent evening, the sun shone and it was a privilege to see such lovely natural meadows – just as they would have been decades ago. Some of the plants needed identifying so reference books were hastily consulted but the 21 of us who walked plus the 6 dogs just had such an enjoyable time!

Thanks to Peter the transport to and from the Village Hall was unique!

Afterwards 28 of us sat down to the pot luck supper – and with no planning, this worked out perfectly – lots of variety and many of us probably ate a bit more than we would normally.! It was washed down with a celebratory glass of Prosecco for Jill’s birthday plus whatever else people brought with them to drink.

The donations mounted to £50 which will be sent to Wiltshire Wildlife.

Thank you so much to all those who came, brought food and helped with the clearing up! Barbara Davis

Other News… No other news from the Village Hall. To date no progress on decorating the committee room – need some keen volunteers who don’t mind using a paint brush or roller!!

PARISH COUNCIL NEWS

BEST KEPT VILLAGE COMPETITION 2019, DISTRICT ROUND, NORTH WILTS – SMALL VILLAGES

FINAL SCORES 79 – Upper & Lower Seagry 78.6 – Marston Meysey 77 – Hankerton 73.9 – Clyffe Pypard

CLYFFE PYPARD & BUSHTON Hedges, trees, walls, fences, banks, roadside verges were generally good. Residential gardens and outbuildings, including the farms, were excellent, so, despite the problems the village is encountering, there still seems to be a sense of pride among the villagers. The wildflower meadow was a welcome blaze of yellow. With footpaths we found some were excellent (for example the one from the church) but some had had no attention at all. The village hall appears to be an excellent facility and we are glad that there are plans to improve the interior. Hopefully the improvements will attract even more users. There is a good parking area but we felt that grass cuttings left on the hard surface didn’t look too attractive. The churchyard was excellent with everything well-maintained and tidy. The demise of public houses is a regrettable but difficult-to-prevent feature of modern life. For a small community to take over a pub is a huge (and worthwhile) undertaking and we wish you all the best if the community decides to go ahead with it. The phone box, despite being not in use, appeared reasonably well-maintained and the notice boards were neat and clean with up-to-date information. There was no fly-posting and no litter that we saw. The map was good and clear with the boundary well-delineated. From your application report, the informative website and the newsletter it is apparent that there is a great deal of community spirit in the village and we were particularly impressed with the connections with events and activities in other local villages. A neighbourhood plan is a worthwhile project and the benefits it could provide to the village and its inhabitants would be good indeed. We wish you well with it. The wildlife meadows were a splash of colour in the landscape and the hangings a dramatic backdrop to the village environment. Areas to improve: 1. Footpaths 2. Perhaps a bit of tidying up after the grass cutting at the Hall. 3. Though not used, could more be made of the telephone kiosk. Some villages place planters next to theirs and of course many are used as book exchanges.

Wiltshire Online Reporting

The ‘My Wiltshire’ web site: www.wiltshire.gov.uk/mywiltshire-online-reporting can be used to report incidents of fly tipping , pot holes etc.

It is very easy for residents to register and then report incidents of fly tipping, pot holes etc.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Motorbikes Meeting on 4th August, spectators are always welcome.

Bushton Plant Fair 2020

View from the Vicarage.

2019 July On Mind and Body I’ve always felt ambivalent about the phrase ‘A healthy mind in a healthy body’ probably because I wasn’t a very sporty child. In addition, I’ve been aware of many people who live with a less than healthy body or mind because of illness or disability which isn’t in their control. Yet over this year I’ve made an effort to get fitter, joining a couch to 5 km group with the Bassett Hounds - I still haven’t got to 5 km yet – and spending an unexpected PPI windfall on some 1to 1 training in a gym with Libby Matthews – I recommend both very highly. I’ve no idea if my mind is in better shape (!) but I certainly feel more resilient and that’s been helpful when my mother in law died in May and I noticed that feeling a bit stronger and a bit fitter helps me be less grumpy (this may not yet be noticeable to anyone other than myself!) so I was really interested when I looked up the source of that ‘mens sana in corpore sano’ quote to see a link with virtue.

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body. Ask for a stout heart that has no fear of death, and deems length of days the least of Nature’s gifts, that can endure any kind of toil, that knows neither wrath nor desire and thinks, the woes and hard labours of Hercules better than, the loves and banquets and downy cushions of Sardanapalus, What I commend to you, you can give to yourself; For assuredly, the only road to a life of peace is virtue.

From the Roman poet, Decimus Junius Juvenal Satire X

Dates around 55-130 AD/ CE

In the New Testament there is a phrase often translated ‘life everlasting’ that some scholars think would be better translated ‘life abundant’ or ‘life in all its fullness’. May the second half of 2019 help us all to lead lives of greater fullness and virtue. https://www.royalwoottonbassetthounds.co.uk/ https://www.libby-pt.biz/

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