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LONG SUTTON and LONG LOAD NEWSLETTER – to Bath Will Be Given out and Members Can Start Signing up SEPTEMBER 2014 with Payment Beginning in October LONG SUTTON AND LONG LOAD NEWSLETTER – to Bath will be given out and members can start signing up SEPTEMBER 2014 with payment beginning in October. We will also be collecting Visit the official Website: www.longsutton.org.uk plants and bulbs for Moorland village gardens and any non- Email: [email protected] member wishing to contribute can come along or pass on their contribution through a member. Not to forget a final Thank Date Long Sutton & Long Load Calendar You from me to all the competitors and visitors to the Flower 6th 10.30am Coffee Morning in the Church Show in August and of course to those lovely, cuddly members 7th 9.15am Holy Communion without whose efforts it would not happen. 10th 7.45pm LS Gardening Club - LSVH Flower of the Month Competition 14th 8.00am BCP Holy Communion Liquid syncopation strategists: Mrs D Cox, Mrs P Bolton, Mrs J 11.00am Second Sunday Service in Long Sutton Trood. Interstructural Renewal Facilitators: Mrs S Appleby, Mr School T Huggard, Mr A Streeting. 18th 7.30pm WI - LSVH 20th 1.00pm Somerset beekeepers - LSVH A special message from all the members of Long Sutton 7.30pm School fundraiser - LSVH Gardening Club for Ilona. 21st 10.30am Benefice Service at Drayton Thank you for all the time you have given to make the village 28th 9.15am Holy Communion show such a success year after year. It has been a credit to you and your team. We will maintain your very high standards. The pattern of services is still in flux after the re-organisation and holidays; apologies if 'your' favourite service or time is not Long Sutton School included - it will settle down next month (but then we have Come and join us at the pedal powered wacky races at Long Harvest, Remembrance Sunday & Chrsitmas which disturb the Sutton Village hall on Saturday 20th September. Entry and a pattern!). ploughmans is £7.00 per person. This is a fundraiser on behalf of Long Sutton Church of England primary school. Doors open Date Flowers & Brasses Rota at 7.30pm come and join the fun, adults only. Sept 6th Wedding th Sept 13 Mrs Jo Wheeler Mrs Pam Arkell Long Sutton School and Church Fete. Sept 28th Mrs Jackie Roberts This year the sun shone, the crowds browsed a host of stalls Oct 5th Harvest Mrs Gill Sargent and were well entertained by dancing, gymnastics and a stray Oct 13th Mrs Rosie Cox Spitfire. The Fete raised a grand total of £1804 – many thanks to all who supported the event, and a special thank you to Coffee Mornings in the Church those who helped on the day. The August coffee morning was busy in the church and the produce stall was bountiful with garden produce. The event Long Sutton Parish Council raised £387 for Headway Somerset, the charity which supports WW1 Commemoration brain injured adults. rd On Sunday August 3 , many of us gathered to pay our Future events: th respects to the people of Long Sutton who went off to war, and On Saturday, 6 September our charity will to the families who awaited their return, sometimes in vain. be Practical Action. This international Mike Caulfied kindly asked his old regiment if they would development charity uses sustainable provide us with a tent, and they did. The volunteers who technology to challenge poverty in many of arrived to erect it on the Saturday afternoon were extremely the world’s poorest countries. th grateful to Mike and to Warrant Officer Lean from Yeovilton On Saturday, 4 October we will be raising who took charge of the proceedings. funds for our own pre-school – Toy Box. Sunday afternoon was quite breezy and at times not overly Toy Box is an excellent facility for our young warm, but the rain kept off and the sun did shine. children and their work ensures a smooth The tent held a very moving collection of memorabilia from transition into Long Sutton primary school. various local people who kindly trusted us with their precious objects for the afternoon, and also photos and stories of both Mothers Union those whose names appear on the War Memorial and of those No monthly meeting who did return. Villagers and visitors in the village came to Long Sutton W.I. have a look around the exhibition and some of the visitors th even bought the book “Long Sutton Remembered 1914-1918”. SEPTEMBER 18 Sales of this paperback went well, but at time of writing, there Craft Taster Evening – Try Something New are still a few left, so please call in at Long Sutton Stores if you Tea: Jackie Godfrey and Jackie Sherlock would like one. The exhibition of photographs, stories and articles belonging to those whose relatives went to War was The Long Sutton branch of the WEA (Worker’s very moving as several people remarked upon. Educational Association) As 3pm came, our Chairman Robert introduced the Our autumn course is SOMERSET'S INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE Remembrance Gathering, which included 3 poems and a and it is for anyone with an interest in local history and the prayer spoken by David, Connor, Bunty and Pam before a remains of the more recent past. Topics include stone quarries minute of silence was observed which was followed by the and limekilns, wind and water mills, textiles, roads, canals and “Last Post” played by Jim. railways. The Stoke sub Hamdon Brass Band stepped in at the last Tutor: Dr Peter Stanier minute because of a cancellation and entertained us for the Venue: Long Sutton Primary School, Martock Road, Long afternoon, whilst refreshments were served by Nick and Lynn Sutton, TA10 9NT Gould. These included a “tot” similar to those the soldiers in Date: Tuesdays 7.30pm for 1.5hours, 6 meetings from the trenches were given and trench cakes made to the original 7/10/2014. No session 28/10/2014. End date 18/11/2014 Government recipe from 1914. They tasted better than their Fee: £30 name suggested thank goodness! For further details and/or pre-enrolment contact Doreen On the day, Long Sutton Parish Council raised over £565 for Harvey 01458 241711 or e-mail The Royal Star and Garter Homes, with more to come from the [email protected] sale of the remaining books. It was altogether, an emotional and worthwhile Commemoration event. Long Sutton Gardening Club We thank all those who helped, including all of the volunteers, The talk at our meeting on 10th September is The Story of the everyone who lent us their precious possessions, Pamela Apple and will be given by Mr and Mrs Small from Charlton Storey and Roy Swales who carried out the original research, Orchards. A busy meeting as details for the Xmas Market trip Holy Trinity Church for allowing us to use that research as part of our exhibition and the school for allowing us to use their exhibition boards. We thank the band for filling in at the last minute and we even thank the Army for providing the tent and the manpower The Somerset County Honey Show which enabled us to erect it! Saturday 20th September As part of the WW1 commemoration, the Parish Council have also The Somerton Division of Beekeepers this year are hosting the restored the Roll of Honour in the Church and had a copy made which Somerset County Honey Show alongside their own, hugely successful is framed and will go on display in the Village Hall. annual event. This combined show will be taking place on Saturday A larger bound version of the “Long Sutton Remembered 1914-1918” 20th September, at Long Sutton Village Hall, between 1 and 5 pm. will also soon be available, in order that the stories of those people Over recent years the Somerton directly involved in the First World War will be accessible long after we show has expanded to become one of the biggest and best Honey are all gone. Shows in the South West, and now with the whole of Somerset’s finest Beekeepers taking part it truly will be “the best of the best in the west”. Barn Storming with FOLSC All the usual honey, wax and beekeeping classes will be on display, as Saturday, 19th July, the date set for the FOLSC summer party, well as the very popular Allcomers' classes for preserves and crafts. dawned hot and sultry but with a worrying prediction of possible storms These are open to the general public, so if you think your jam or later in the day. These had fortunately scudded by prior to the 7.00 pm chutney is the best in the west, why not try your luck! start and the long line of early arrival guests, many bringing a touch of The afternoon includes an outside craft and farmers market, with a the ‘Wild West’ to Long Sutton, were not to be disappointed in their number of local producers selling their goods, including plants, flowers, expectations! The venue, a barn at Upton Bridge Farm (loaned by kind jams, cider, cheese, cards, gifts, bags, pottery, cakes, ice-creams and permission of Tim & Janet Walford) looked entirely in period with our much more. You’ll also be able to visit the “Bee” tent where you will be theme and was bedecked with bunting, twinkling lights and straw bales able to find out more about your local beekeepers, sample some of with a stage made from an old farm cart . Our master of ceremonies their award winning honey, view some of the equipment used for and caller Steve Cunio ,with the superb Ceilidhs band Rapscallion in beekeeping and see the bees hard at work in an observation hive.
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