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. support, were all ready for the off at 7.30 and what a night we had ! There will be information available on how you can help bees and those wishing to start keeping bees can sign-up to a beginners course. Those who had attended a Barn Dance before knew roughly what to Admission is free and all are welcome. We look forward to seeing you expect whilst those who had not, after some gentle coaching and there! explanations of steps from the ever patient Steve, were soon getting If you would like more information about the show please contact Joe into the swing with varying degrees of skill and enthusiasm. Some, by King, The Honey Show Secretary, on 01749 890357 or join them on the end of the evening were actually dancing to a pattern but judging Facebook www.facebook.com/SomertonBeekeepers. by the laughter the common denominator for all was FUN! In the interval our guests enjoyed a BBQ pig in a bap and on a sultry evening For further information, photos or interviews please contact: the bar did brisk business. We were delighted to welcome many of our David Rose Telephone: 01458 259442 regular supporters to this event and a number of guests we had not Email: [email protected] seen before at a FOLSC event. Many thanks to Michael, Louise and ______team at the village shop for their sterling work on tickets sales and for some innovative marketing via social media! Whilst we are currently awaiting some final invoices the profit on the night should be around the £350 mark. Many thanks to all who attended and as our cousins from over the Irish Sea would say ‘The craic was mighty!’ LONG LOAD Long Load Village Hall Health and Wellbeing group to meet Now with two events behind us FOLSC have one more ‘outing’ Wednesday Sept 17th 2pm for 2;15 start Craft workshop materials planned for 2014. This is to be a cabaret night to be held at the village supplied Please note this is not our usual Wednesday hall on Saturday 1st November. We are delighted to have booked the services of Mr Paul Salvage who describes himself as a ‘singer, Pilates/taichi songwriter and entertainer’ and he follows in the footsteps of previous class to start Wednesday 24th Sept 2.00 for 2.15 start tutor Debbie great acts who have entertained us such as Richard Digance and Tank Knight and then every Wednesday except when the Health and Sherman. Paul was winner of TV’s ‘Stars in their Eyes in 1992’ and Wellbeing Group meet which is usually the last Wednesday in the presents a multi-talented show, being able to sing in his own voice and month with the exception of Sept. when we met on the 17th. of over 40 others! Paul is also a great impressionist with a razor sharp wit, a ready repartee and is a self-contained act that needs no support. Macmillan Coffee morning Friday September 26th 10;30 to mid Watch out for further publicity in due course but please pop the date ~day at Long Load Village Hall Bring and buy Please come and 1st November in your diary as this is certainly one not to be missed! support this Charity. Help and cakes very welcome!!!!

Somerset churches' trust sponsored ride and stride Saturday 13th September Long Load Annual Village Show Saturday 6th September. The annual sponsored bike ride or walk in aid of the Somerset You already have your program so please don’t forget to enter. Hall Churches' Trust will take place on Saturday 13th September (with the opens on the day to see all the entries at 4pm. Refreshments option of any day a week before or a week after that date). Would you Raffle Auction like to help? You do not have to be young to participate. Many people take part who rarely ride a bicycle at any other time. If you prefer to LONG LOAD LAND OWNERS walk rather than ride, that is fine. You can visit as many, or as few, The Long Load Speed Watch Team have received several complaints churches as you like. Last year we raised £862, of which half went to from motorists about obscured Speed Signs. Holy Trinity church. Support the church again this year. If you would While this has been an extra good year for vegetation growth and I be prepared to help, either as participant or sponsor or by manning the realize it’s a bit like the fourth bridge syndrome but: church for a while on the day, please contact Dan Shorland Ball Please take the following message as a Polite Notice (241626). Thank you. Be aware that maintenance of vegetation overhanging the road is the responsibility of the landowner and must not obscure any village sign. Open Studios in Long Sutton & Long Load In the event that this request to clear is not met as soon as possible, SSCC will take it on board with a formal request or carry out the Visit a workshop and studios to learn how a tree is turned into bowls, maintenance then recover the cost from the landowner. plates and artworks and how a canvas comes alive with colour and shape. Pauline Sayers & Jan Mabbutt’s studio/galleries and Dave Appleby’s workshops and gallery are open from 20th September to 5th October. Although we all have a wide selection of things to buy we would love to welcome those who are just interested in seeing our work. Dave’s Items for the October newsletter to Lieve Cousins, Spring House, venue includes woodturning techniques old and new and Shute Lane, Long Sutton TA10 9LU or preferably by email to demonstrations for anyone interested, and then just up the road at [email protected] by 12th September please. For more Jan’s enjoy a tea/coffee and hopefully homemade biscuits. information call 01458 241450 The Somerset Art Weeks Open Studios Free Guides, with venue numbers, opening times and locations, will be available from Long Sutton Store, libraries and many other local outlets.