The Parish of and , including , Deanland and Minchington

Delivered by Sixpenny Handley Homewatch April 2021

As last year St Mary’s Church are encouraging people to decorate Easter Eggs to hang on the cherry tree in Handley Churchyard during Holy Week running up to Easter Sunday. egg photos from 2020

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Parish Councillors Sixpenny Handley Police Chairman Cllr C Taylor 553148 Verwood Police Stn 01202 222222 Cllr D Adams 552284 Police non-emergency number 101 Cllr R Adams 553032 Cllr D Chick 552557 Dementia Friend Champion Hazel Kileen 552980 Cllr S Meaden 552715 Sixpenny Handley Allotment Holders Association Cllr S McLean 552910 Chairman John Curtis 552397 Cllr Mrs M New 552539 Secretary Steve Barrett 552121 Vice-Chair Cllr J Reed 516390 Schools Cllr A Turner 552735 First School Handley First School 552356 Pentridge Cllr Gino Salvia 553076 Middle School Cranborne Middle School 517348 Clerk Ciona Nicholson 552211 Upper School Queen Elizabeth’s School Parish Office 552211 Wimborne 01202 885233 Council Cllr Piers Brown 07511 146811 Little Pennies Pre-School 552997 Email: [email protected] Matt Reeks (Chairperson) 07825 054376 Member Parliament Simon Hoare 01258 452 585 Becky Wallworth (Business Manager) 552997 Rights of Way Liaison Officers Happy Nappy Club Sixpenny Handley J Reed 516390 Lucy Barr 07508 691323 Pentridge Mrs M Jones 552358 Milly Bones 07525 248890 The Downsman Team 1st Scout Group Editor Naomi Booth [email protected] Group Scout Leader John Curtis 552397 Treasurer , Distribution Explorers Anthony Brown 552814 & Advertising Tony Gibb 552704 Scout Leader Rob Easton 552038 [email protected] Cub Leader Andy Young 01258 830861 Churches Beaver Leader Annette Toop 07973 677815 Church of St. Mary’s, Sixpenny Handley Scout Hut Bookings Pete Wilkinson St. Rumbold’s, Pentridge [email protected] St. Andrews, Gussage St.Andrew 6D4all Youthclub Vicar Revd Canon Richard Hancock, The Vicarage Liz 01425 654467 Vicky 01725 552549 Graham 01725 516973 60 High Street, Sixpenny Handley 552182 Sixpenny Handley W.I. (Formed in 1922) Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes & President Mrs Bobbie Carter 552042 St. Cecilia, Secretary Mrs Margaret Jones 552358 Priest Monsignor Francis Jamieson 01258 452051 Sixpenny Handley Mothers’ Union Doctors Drs. Morgan, Taubman & Hawdon Contact: Sue Curtis 552397 Dean Lane Surgery 552500 Chase Community Friends Sixpenny Handley Village Hall Chairman Vic Hatton 01258 841321 Chairman Carole Wyatt 552572 Secretary Rosie New 01725 516982 Vice Chairman Paul Styles 552544 Sixpenny Handley CLT Treasurer Tracey Lownds 552414 Chairman Simon Parker Bookings Janice Bicker 07951 056069 Secretary Jenny Netherton 07830 188 589 Pentridge Village Hall Sixpenny Handley Sports Association Chairman Tarka King [email protected] Sports Pavilion Bookings 552211 Vice Chairman Richard Pollen [email protected] Sixpenny Handley Bowls Club Treasurer Colin Taylor 553148 President Ron Jermyn 552424 Bookings Graham Elford 07882 264160 Secretary Colin Chambers 552796 Email: [email protected] Treasurer Ann Adams 552284 Sixpenny Handley Homewatch Handley Sports Club Overall Co-ordinator & Police Focal Point Chairman & Treasurer Mark Young 552741 John Curtis 552397 Secretary & Team Div 3 Manager - Adam Day 01258 452481 Co-ordinators Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club Area 1 - Dean Lane Adam Ralph 552265 Chairman Alex Thomas 01725 516320 2 - Lower Handley David Chick 552557 Membership/Treasurer Stephanie Chick 552557 3 - Upper Handley John Clarke 552674 Sixpenny Handley Cricket Club 4 - Deanland & N.E. Pete Wilkinson 553150 Evening Captain David Cross 552640 5 - West & South Simon Meaden 552715 Citizens’ Advice Bureau Other Areas (These are separate Homewatch Schemes) Wimborne Branch 03442 4 1291 Pentridge Roy Elford 552911 Footpath Liaison Jessica/James Winby 01725 552259 Woodyates Sugery 552500 NHS non-emergency number 111 2 The Downsman - April 2021 Editorial

Next edition Looking bright... The next edition will be published from 1st June 2021 The house is all quiet here again, so I’m looking forward to having the children home for Easter very soon! And talking of Easter as you can see from the cover, St Mary’s is looking Copy deadline for the forward to celebrating Easter with services at home next edition over the whole weekend, prayer walks, opportunities to decorate eggs and Easter gardens to help decorate the 15th May church and churchyard. Take a look in the Seeker in the centre of the Downsman. Please make every effort to meet the I have to say I have been waiting for spring, those warm days at the end of February were deadline so that we have time for printing, very enticing and made the cold, wet days that followed seemed very dreary - but skylarks production and distribution. are now singing, all the daffodils and primroses have broken through and spring is now really here. Looking forward to other things opening up, Frogmore Barn is very excited If possible please email your articles to to re-open as is the library at the Parish Office, do take a look at the notice board, page [email protected]. 5. You will also notice on your browse through the magazine that larger events are in the planning, the village hall hopes to reopen and are looking for an Artsreach co-ordinator, Advertising page 5, and if coming out of lockdown goes as hoped there is a Bigish Session planned too Our advertising offers great value. The for 26th June -page 20! Downsman is currently delivered to over 700 households within the parish. During lockdown I, as many others, have taken more to walking our local footpaths and Email: [email protected] for bridleways and making use of my OS map more than ever before. This term, on Zoom, more details. Cubs have taken the opportunity to explore our local area mostly looking at the history which makes our landscape what it is today. We looked at many resources, online photos, Advertising deadline maps past and present and we rediscovered the book ‘Sixpenny Handley - The Story of our 10th May Parish’. I discovered Ros has plenty of copies left to sell, so thought it time to re-advertise Payment must be made before the to you in the hope you too can enjoy the stories within, page 9. The next stage with Cubs advertising deadline to be included. is to plan our walk to visit some of the local history sites we have seen on maps and Advertisement Costs photographs. Woodcutts Iron age and Romano-British settlement, which is part of the Time Travellers of AR (augmented reality) app and was excavated by Pitt- Size Single Yearly Rivers in 1884–1885 and exploring the 1892 great fire of Handley by comparing old photos edition rate with what is here now, we hope to walk part of Shirerack the county boundary too. So all Small Text Ad £2.50 - we need to hope for now is that restrictions are able to be lifted as planned and that the Small Square £5 £25 sun shines so we don’t get too wet! Rectangle £10 £50 Large Square £25 £125 I hope you enjoy spring, whatever it brings to you... Half Page £35 £175 Whole Page £50 £250 Naomi Booth Advertisement Sizes [email protected] Size Image area* Small Text Ad 30 words c/o The Parish Office, Unit 6, Town Farm Workshops, Sixpenny Handley, SP5 5PA Small Square 59mm Rectangle V 59mm x 122mm H 122mm x 59mm Directory 2 Health & Beauty 32 Large Square 122mm Noticeboard 5 Law & more 39 Half Page 186mm x 122mm Gone Sailing 35 Gardening 40 Whole Page 186mm x 248mm WI Report 17 Rob’s Column 43 *without frame which will be added by Seeker 21 us. If you need us to set your advert please add a one-off £5 fee. Sorry - we are unable to include flyers More about the parish can be found at www.sixpennyhandley.info

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To the Editor

A Farewell Note from Caroline Catchpole a combined District and Practice Nurse, You patients are the very very tops, as are and then the last 7 years as just a Practice the Doctors and all the staff at Sixpenny Having just completed 51 years with the Nurse. Handley Surgery. Thank you all so much for NHS – 25 of which have been with Sixpenny letting me be a tiny bit of your lives. Handley Surgery, I felt I just must write to I have enjoyed every single minute of it and say Thank You! cannot begin to tell you how much I love Caroline Catchpole nursing. I shall miss you all so much, But I Thank you to all you wonderful, wonderful had to stop before I get into The Guinness Thank you for everything you have done patients who come to the surgery. You Book of Records for being the oldest Caroline, we hope you have the most are all so brave and stoical. I cannot tell serving nurse in the land! wonderful and restful time with you family! you what a privilege it has been for me to have been a nurse at the surgery all these No doubt I will enjoy time with Michael, years – firstly as a District Nurse, then as my children and my (8)! Grandchildren.

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Method (How you can help us) • Day to day bookkeeping • VAT Returns • Contact us if you, or anyone in your family, have any links to printing Þrms who • Construction Industry Scheme • Payroll could help get us a good deal. • Could you or your company help with sponsorship? • Send us 1-2 tasty recipes you are happy to be included. We would love these to have a name and say who they are made by, so if ‘Nanna Joan’s Dorset Apple cake’ (from Sarah in Grasshoppers) is a family favourite, we would love to hear about it! Swarms of Bees • Encourage your child to enter our drawing competition to compete for the honour of the front cover. All entries cost £1 and should be food/Sixpenny Handley School Collected related. Children can enter as many times as they like. In addition to having their drawing on the front cover, the winning entry will also receive a free copy of our from the Downsman Area book. (not from chimneys) *This is currently in the planning stage and will only be possible with your support. CALL 01725 516 257 or 01725 553032

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Our fantastic foodie fundraiser for 1st Artsreach is a Dorset based charity bringing high quality performances to the Woodcutts. “Pizza at the Hut” heart of rural communities. The Trustees of Sixpenny Handley Village Hall have Every other Saturday from 1st May a long working relationship with Artsreach and are eager to support a new More details page 13 promotor with a passion to deliver performing arts to our community. We hope to be able to deliver entertainment as soon as it is safe to do so and wish to be in a strong position to hit the ground running! Previous events have been well supported and provide a valuable opportunity to meet as a community.

If you are interested in this position, then please contact Paul on 01725 552544/ We are open at Last from [email protected] or contact Artsreach direct. The team, Kerry & the 2nd April !! Yvonne, are extremely approachable and can answer any questions you might Lots of reduced items for the have. home including some fabric remnants to clear excess Kerry Bartlett or Yvonne Gallimore: 01305 269512. ARTSREACH, The Little Keep, stock. Please call Jacquie for Barrack Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1SQ. Artsreach is a Registered Charity, opening times. no. 1058198 and is Registered in England and Wales as a Company Limited by Hope to see you all after Guarantee, no. 3247940. such a long time ! 01725 552910 For info: www.artsreach.co.uk www.twitter.com/Artsreach www.facebook.com/ www.frogmoredesign.com Artsreachdorset www.youtube.com/user/artsreachdorset

Our COVID Support Library If you are self isolating We hope to have some good news If everything goes according to plan, and need help and we all stick to the rules, we getting shopping or should be able to open the library prescriptions or need a again on Thursday 15th April from 3--4.15 pm phone buddy... After this date: Thursday 6th May page 20 Thursday 20th May See page 26 Hope to see you there!! Bea Boyland

5 Parish News The Downsman - April 2021 Unit 6, Town Farm Workshops, Sixpenny Handley. SP5 5PA Clerk’s Corner Email: [email protected] Sixpenny Handley with Pentridge Parish Council Clerk to the Council (Ciona Nicholson) 01725 552211 www.sixpennyhandleyparishcouncil.btck.co.uk 07907 445951

Sports Recreation Ground Opening Hours: 10.00am – 12 noon Tue Sports Clubs & Recreation 7.00pm – 7.30pm Thu

Sixpenny Handley is fortunate to have amongst the best sports and community facilities 8.30am – 10.00am Fr in the County with a vibrant Village Hall, an active Bowls Club, a successful Football Club For Parish Council who play in the local league and a Tennis Club with a strong membership, home to a newly information visit: refurbished Sports Pavilion which includes the “Penny Tap” bar dispensing locally brewed www.sixpennyhandleyparishcouncil.btck. Beers and Cider. co.uk

In recent months the Parish Council have invested many hours trying to improve this area even more! Councillors and local volunteers have cleared away the encroaching shrubbery The Parish Office and undergrowth from around the Pavilion and the Parish Council has just instructed a Unit 6 Town Farm local grounds maintenance contractor to carry out work to improve the cricket outfield by Workshops clearing moss and weeds and feeding the grass surface. is available to HIRE Come and take a look when we are open on Tuesday mornings We are hopeful that when the current Lockdown Restrictions are lifted many of our sports or Thursday evenings or arrange a visit clubs will see a surge in memberships – with families making the most of the facilities that with Ciona. are on our own doorstep. £10 per session Book in with Ciona on Are you a budding cricketer? 01725 552211 or 01725 553040

In particular, are you a budding cricketer? Have you always played the game but not for a while? Do you work for a company or are associated with an organisation that could ‘pull a team together’? Do you think our community could organise a Sixpenny X1 to take them on? Maybe a Father & Sons X1 or a Mother & Daughters X1? Fancy a cream tea and an opportunity to raise funds for a charity or simply just to have fun with friends… The Lady Gardener Ange Neville Whether it’s brushing up on your own batting & bowling skills or if you would like to Sixpenny Handley introduce your own children to the sport at an early age? Whatever your interest – get in [email protected] touch with the Parish Council and we will endeavour to support any new initiatives! 01725 552789 07758925233 Please contact [email protected] or by telephone to 01725 552211 alternatively Ciona 07907 445951. The Gentlemen Gardener /exterior maintenance Penny Llama And Alpaca Lee Neville Rescue Sixpenny Handley [email protected] Organic Poop for sale. No need 01725 552789 to rot down, can be used straight 07565870510 away, low in phosphorus. 20 bags plus free local delivery. Complimentary no £1.20 per bag. obligation visit, to discuss your requirements Tel: (01725) 552061

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The Hartfulness Guru Wellbeing With Holly Gatrell For Tips On Positivity, Creativity And Mindfulness

Who is Holly Gatrell? Born in Bristol, UK and brought up near Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset, I now live in Sixpenny Handley. My own artistic practice envelops mindfulness principles of yoga and ‘oneness’, meditation, stream of consciousness, energy and a connection with nature. Throughout my career I have worked as a community artist, artist in residence, a freelance designer and artist working to commission, also teaching in schools, Universities, and adult education and masterclasses.

With a young family, I found I needed to balance life and career, and rediscover art with a greater spiritual emphasis: meditation and yoga helped my equilibrium. I undertook to train in mindfulness to support my own and others learning and wellness. How can Mindfulness help our wellbeing? the present moment can stop worry and Mindful moments; you can bring anxiety in its tracks. Your mind can only My first course ‘Artfulness: Art & mindfulness into your day in an everyday think of one thing at a time so think of NOW Mindfulness’ was aimed at seniors to way. Such as brushing your teeth, only promote greater connection to others and think of that activity at that time, the Only do one thing at a time e.g. coffee develop both artistic skills and mindfulness strokes, and the actions. Washing a teacup, time – not listening to radio, eating - just principles, this was a sell-out course on its its colour, shape, form, texture contrasting concentrate on the food, or flavours and first launch. with the bubbles. Don’t think about the textures, not watching TV, walking - not past or the future, your list of things to do listening to music, actually appreciate the I feel passionate about the importance of etc. sounds of the environment. connecting to others and using creativity to bolster mental health and problem solving The stress bucket – we all have one, if you Sleep is our time to offload when we have skills and to reconfigure the perception of focus on the stress, it will build and build, our subconscious creating our dreams and who we are in relation to each other and but if you can find something to reduce the solving the day’s problems. If you struggle our world. stress, the stress bucket won’t overflow, it to get to sleep, try meditation or sound This is a monthly column to share tips and will slowly empty. So have some mindful healing relaxation tracks before bedtime. skills that can help improve your life and moments daily because thinking of only Look me up on https://www.facebook.com/ wellbeing. groups/hartfulness to join in with other daily tips and shares. What is Mindfulness? 1. the quality or state of being conscious Visit https://www.hollygatrell.com to or aware of something. download the free journal to improve 2. a mental state achieved by focusing creativity, positivity, connection to self and one’s awareness on the present others. moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one’s feelings, thoughts, Or scan the QR code for a free flip ebook and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique. Sending love Holly x

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Sixpenny Handley Village Hall Sixpenny Handley Village Hall. Charity number: 276132. Common Road, Sixpenny Handley, SP5 5NJ, Dorset, England

As the rest of the country is preparing to re- Contact us for a chat: Paul Styles – Our newly refurbished village hall is the open for business, it appears that the hall [email protected] or Carole Wyatt perfect venue for: can set a date for re-opening too! - [email protected] After studying Gov Guidelines it would Weddings, Parties, Music Events, Theatre seem that the hall can re-open for (near) For further details on bookings or up to Productions, Band Practise, normal activities from Monday 17th May, date info, please contact the secretary: Baby Groups, Fitness Classes / Yoga, we hope to welcome back all of our regular Janice on 07951 056069 or email: Corporate Events and much more! groups and take bookings from this date. [email protected] We’ll keep you posted as things develop! • Spacious, clean main hall with a Paul Styles beautiful large stage. Annual General Meeting 2021 • New sound, projector and lighting The trustees are proposing to hold our AGM equipment installed. on Wednesday 26th May. We look forward • Fully equipped kitchen. to welcoming those interested in the • Seats 100 with bistro style tables, management of the hall to hear our annual standing capacity 250. update, treasurers report and potentially, • Tables & chairs, Crockery & glasses stand as a Trustee. If you are interested in provided. any aspects of the hall’s management or • Licenced for alcohol sales and joining the committee then please contact performances. Paul or Carole. Please call Janice on 07951 056069 or email: [email protected] if you Rob’s Auction would like to book the hall or make an We very much hope to be able to run the enquiry. auction this year! It is always a superb event, expertly hosted by our very own auctioneer Rob Jesse. It is also the hall’s largest fund-raising event of the year and generates funds for 1st Woodcutts Scout group who support on the night by running Sixpenny Handley the ‘Tech’ and the wonderful Scouts as ‘runners’ collecting up the lots and delivering them safely to their new owners. Village Hall It is a sorely missed event that we hope to hold on Saturday 2nd October. As with previous years the hall will be open on Friday 1st,all day, to drop off your much appreciated donations, Saturday afternoon for viewing then into the main event!

Village Hall Charity You can view up to date charitable status Our newly refurbished village hall is the perfect venue for: information on the village hall on the Charity commission website: https://www. Weddings, Parties, Music Events, gov.uk/find-charity-information - Charity number: 276132 Theatre Productions, Band Practise, Baby Groups, Fitness Classes / Yoga, Corporate If you would like to join the Village halls Events and much more! board of Trustees or be part of the team organising future fund-raising events / Artsreach then please do contact us! We Call Janice on 07951 056069 or can’t wait to get back to some form of normality! email: [email protected]

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Visit www.larmertree.co.uk/gardens before visiting for more information and occasional closures

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Food for Thought! Spring is coming and hopefully too is the end of lockdown. The evenings are staying lighter longer and the air is starting to feel warmer. Now is the perfect chance to practice some new recipes, even perfect some old ones. These few recipes are ones I have been making quite regularly over the past few weeks and luckily they have been received quite well!! It’s also the perfect time to practice a few spring styled recipes before Easter! Chickpea, Tenderstem Broccoli and Bulgar wheat spring salad This salad is perfect for a light and quick • Chives, Parsley, Mint (generous and add a splash of olive oil. lunch / supper. It is also delicious served handful) • Once this is all mixed pour it over with a roast chicken, especially if you are • Salt and Pepper the Bulgar wheat and chickpeas/ or looking for an alternative for a heavy roast • Lemon sweetcorn. – this is a little lighter and healthier. It’s • Pine Nuts • Place the Tenderstem onto the Bulgar very straightforward and you can really wheat, then add some thinly sliced mix everything up. There is always space tomatoes onto the top. Method available to substitute the Bulgar wheat • Crumble some feta onto the top of the • Boil the Bulgar wheat in salted water, with quinoa, add red onion, kale, pepper, salad. this takes about 15minutes. even a little bit of chilli to give it a bit of a • Warm/ fry some pine nuts and put on • Steam the Tenderstem broccoli for kick. This is perfect for 3-4 people or as a top of the salad! about 4mins and then drain in cold side salad with a big spread! • Season to taste with salt and pepper. water once they’re done. Ingredients • Mix the chickpeas into the Bulgar • 200g Bulgar wheat wheat (once its finished boiling). You • 1 packet of Tenderstem broccoli can swap chickpeas with sweetcorn- • Tin of chickpeas (400g) very good alternative. • 2/3 big garlic cloves • Separately finely cut the herbs and • Feta – ½ block squeeze the lemon juice into a bowl. • 4/5 tomatoes • Mix the herbs in with finely cut garlic

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Carrot Cake Carrot Cake is a personal favourite of mine. • Use an electric whisky and mix • Lime zest and juice. (can also use Perplexed as a child as to why you would together the sunflower oil, the sugar lemon or orange.) have vegetables in a cake, I have come and the 3 eggs. • Handful or pecans to realise that when done well they are • Once this is all mixed in use a sieve and • Dried raspberry bits if you have it a very strong choice of cake to have. It is gently mix in the flour, bicarbonate of quite hard to get them wrong but people soda, cinnamon and ginger. (I added Method – Frosting do quite like to add or take away certain slightly more ginger and cinnamon to • Soften the butter then beat it together ingredients. My friend Tash, a carrot cake give it more flavour – adding more is with the cream cheese. connoisseur has a strict no raisin rule, but I always a good thing!) • Sieve the icing sugar in and then beat think they are a very welcome addition. • Grate the carrots and crush the pecans. it all in together. Then gently fold in the grated carrots, • Add the lime juice and zest- add as Ingredients pecans and raisins and add a pinch of much or as little as you like. • 200ml sunflower oil salt. • Let it cool in the fridge – 20/30 • 200g light brown soft sugar • Once this is all mixed in together minutes. • 200g self-raising flower properly, put it in the cake tin and bake • Once the cake is cooled spread the • 200g grated carrots for 50-55 minutes. If you can check it cream cheese frosting into the middle • 100g pecans (leave some for at about 40 minutes to see how it is and on the top of the cake. decoration) doing. Use a long poker as you can • Sprinkle the top of the cake with dried • 3 eggs easily check whether its cooking on the raspberries and pecan nuts. • 1tsp bicarbonate of soda inside. • 1 tsp cinnamon • Leave to cool once it’s done and then • ½ tsp ground ginger cut it in half. • 50g raisins Ingredients – Frosting Method • 50g softened butter • Put your oven at 170c and grease a • 200g cream cheese cake tin. I used a 20cm one. • 100g icing sugar.

Flourless Chocolate Cake This recipe was a lockdown discovery, Method • Whilst the cake is cooling whisk the baked first time on day 55 of lockdown • Oven 180c and grease cake tin, roughly cream and vanilla extract. 1, and was one of the best finds! I was 20cm cake tin. • Once ready to serve place the cream always slightly sceptical of how it would • Add a splash of boiling water to the on the centre of the cake and decorate work without flour- but this is perfect and coffee granules. with fresh raspberries and you can delicious, and you would have no idea • Melt the coffee, butter and coffee over sprinkle with dried raspberries. whether it had flour or not. Perfect for a pan of boiling water, slowly stir until people who are gluten free and perfect for it is melted. dinner parties or birthday cakes! It’s very • Separate the egg whites and yolks and rich cake, and the dark chocolate combined then whisk the egg whites until they with the raspberries is delicious, it feeds make soft peaks. (If you can turn the roughly 6-10 people – depending on how bowl upside down and nothing drips successful it is. out – you’re there) • Add the sugar to egg yolks and whisk Ingredients them together- you want it to be as • 125g butter light as possible. • 200g dark chocolate • Stir the melted chocolate into the egg • 175g golden caster sugar yolks and then add the coca powder. • 1tbsp of instant coffee. • Fold in ½ of the eggs whites and do • 6 medium eggs (laying chickens very gently as you don’t want to lose too beneficial) much air. Slowly and gently add in the • 3tbsp cocoa powder. rest of the whites until all is combined. • 170ml double cream • Cook for 35 minutes. Do check on • 1tsp vanilla extract it, if it cracks slightly on the top – it • Raspberries and dried raspberries normally means it is done.

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History of Sixpenny Handley

Have you ever wondered why our village Community Fund and available from Ros is called Sixpenny Handley, or why there Tel: 01725 553032. is a plaque above the old bakery saying “Handley Burnt 1892”?

Well there is a book that contains answer to these questions and more...

If you would like a copy they are £5 with all money going straight to the CCIO

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“Pizza at the Hut” Every other Saturday from 1st May Order your handmade wood-fired pizza on Friday and collect from the HQ Saturday evening.

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Pick up slots will be allocated on first come first served. If you want to be able to pick your time, we suggest calling early on Friday. This Pizza at the Hut has been organised by members of our Active Support Unit, ComeCome andand joinjoin usus atat TheThe PennyPenny Leaders and other parent volunteers. Fundraising is for the continued TapTap forfor aa pintpint oror twotwo inin thethe upkeep of our HQ. rere--modelledmodelled SportsSports PavilionPavilion Orders will be taken between 10am and 3pm on Friday @@ SixpennySixpenny HandleyHandley Call 07387 386404 Collect 5.30pm - 8.30pm on Saturday TemporaryWWe ereviseddd--44..3300 opening--77..0000 hours Payment will be by contactless only, at the time of pick up. WednesdayTThhuurrss--44..3300 -- Closed77..0000 ThursdayFFrrii--44..00 4.30-7.3000 ––88..0000 Note - careful consideration has been given to this fundraising Friday 4-8 activity and all social distancing and Covid - Secure controls are being SSaSaturdayatt--22..0000 -- 4-888..0000 implemented TakeTake outout ServiceService AAvailablevailable

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Annual membership for Adults, Juniors, Families and Non‐playing adults Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club 2021 Members are issued with a key and have access to the courts at all times, within government guidelines (except during organised club coaching sessions).

All memberships run until 1st February 2022.

Please return membership forms and pay by bacs/cheque and a key will be posted to you so you can come and play!

Membership Secretary & Treasurer: Stephanie Chick, Little Bredy, Sixpenny Handley, , SP5 5NU Tel: 01725 552557 / 07748 925810 email: [email protected]

Chairman: Alex Thomas 01725 516320 email: [email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

Name...... Email address......

Address......

Postcode...... Telephone no......

Membership category Annual Name Of Member(s) Quantity Amount enclosed subscription (plus Date of Birth for junior 2021 members) Adult £30.00

Junior (under 18) on £10.00 01/02/21 * Family £70.00 (All living at the same address) Non playing Adult £10 Member TOTAL AMOUNT PAID (BACS/cheque)

*Please note junior members will not be issued with a key, unless an Adult is a member/non playing member.

Would you like to join the Tennis WhatsApp group? YES/NO (mobile number …………………………………………………….)

Are you happy to share your email with other members so that you can be contacted to play tennis: YES / NO

Disclaimer: Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club accepts no liability whatsoever for loss, damage, illness, accident or injury to players, spectators, other persons or property on the club grounds and courts.

Signed ………………………………………………………… Date ………………….………. Date paid by bacs …………………………………..

BACS payments to: Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club, Barclays Bank Sort Code 20‐96‐96, Account number 53438384

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Anyone for Tennis?

Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club welcomes members of any ability:

ADULT, JUNIOR & FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS

Key to use the courts whenever you wish!

Contact Steph Chick 01725 552557 / 07748 925810 / [email protected]

PAY & PLAY

£7 per court per hour

Available from Sixpenny Handley NISA store and The Penny Tap, during their opening hours

COACHING & SOCIAL TENNIS

Adult & Junior Coaching: all ages & abilities, contact Roni Peck on 07747 842700 WhatsApp group for members to contact each other to play

Courts next to The Penny Tap at the Recreation Ground, Sixpenny Handley, SP5 5NJ

Further information on the Sixpenny Handley Tennis Club website: https://sites.google.com/view/sixpennyhandleytennisclub

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SPRING INTO THE GARDEN New season roses, plants galore, beautiful pots and everything you need to get your garden ready to bloom

THE CAFÉ is open for outdoor service from 14th April (including on the veranda) & indoor service available from 17th May

Opening Hours Monday - Saturday 9.30am - 5pm (Closed on Tuesdays) Sundays & Bank Holidays 10am - 5pm (Closed on Easter Sunday)

Cranborne Manor Garden open every Wednesday plus Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May www.cranbornegardencentre.co.uk 01725 517248 [email protected] Cranborne, Dorset, BH21 5PP

BEST STEAK

WE’RE OPEN !!!!

Wednesday Evening, Friday Evening, Saturday Evening, Saturday and Sunday Lunch. Hanlega’s And we are looking forward to seeing you!

01725 553005 Telephone for details and takeaways

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NATIONAL FEDERATION WI News and Information OF WOMEN’S Bowls Club INSTITUTES

Ah, to be out of lockdown, now that April is ideas for ways to make this a memorable It has been a year now since we last played here (with apologies to Robert Browning)! event next Spring. bowls on a competitive basis. In fact other than a few short weeks in late summer we We do now have a light at the end of Finally, a reminder of why we are proud have been unable to pursue our favourite the tunnel, with the gradual lifting of to be members of the WI. In the words pastime at all. At last it seems there is light restrictions in the coming months, of Lynne Stubbings, NFWI Chair, “The at the end of the tunnel. We have all had following the last, unprecedented year. Wi has always thrived through difficult our vaccinations and COVID infections are times, showing fortitude in the face of lessening so lock down should soon be I trust that most members have had their overwhelming challenges and being a ending. Preparation for the restart of bowls first Covid vaccination and will not have to constant and inspiring voice through the activity has begun. League fixtures have wait too long for the second dose. dark and uncertain periods of history – been drawn up for both the Dorset Men’s we need to maintain and preserve this League and the Mixed Triples League. We Members will have received the latest remarkable organisation for generations to will be getting advice and guidance from letter from President Bobbie, outlining the come”. a Bowls England representative via Zoom hope for meetings and Group activities on 19th March. We hope to learn about to commence from July, but only if the My wish is that by the next edition of the best practice for the safe return of bowls current easing of lockdown goes to plan. Downsman we have more definite news of in particular what restrictions will be put April is the birthday month of the Sixpenny the way back to ‘life before the pandemic’. in place in terms of the size of teams and Handley WI and this is our 99th year. We rink usage. Once we have that information Stella Olsen always mark the occasion with a special to hand we should be able to start practice Vice President cake and meal, which obviously we are roll-ups on or around the 29th March. In unable to do again this year – hopefully by the meantime get polishing your Bowls and 2022 our centenary can be celebrated in stay safe. As always we always give a warm style. We would like members to suggest welcome to new members whether they are novices or experienced players.

Dorset Trading Standards Ron Jermyn Buy with Confidence President In trading standards we hear a lot about unfair trading and sub standard service. The businesses are vetted and approved by Many of us will have seen various professionally qualified Trading Standards programmes on the television about the Officers who will have been and visited the rarer, but more extreme cases, of rogue trader to ensure their compliance with the trading. law and to help ensure they will provide • How do you choose a trader? a quality service. The business will have • How do you know if the person you to pass tailored background checks which have invited into your home to fix include each applicant being checked something is honest? against the National Trading Standards complaints database. Continual monitoring When making your choice we advise: is undertaken to ensure the integrity of the 1. Get three quotes from different traders scheme. 2. Choose a trader from a recognised scheme. Whilst we cannot promise that a Buy With Confidence member’s work will be perfect Buy With Confidence is a national every time, you can expect any problems scheme of traders approved by Trading to be dealt with fairly by the business and Standards, which was set up in response Trading Standards can offer to assist and to concerns about rogue traders, which help resolve any issues. are often highlighted in the media. The Look out for the Buy With Confidence logo, scheme provides consumers with a list of visit the website www.buywithconfidence. local businesses which have given their gov.uk or call the Citizens Advice Service commitment to operate in a legal, honest helpline on 0808 223 1133. and fair way.

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Group Scout Leader Age 6-8 John Curtis Tue & Wed 5 to 6pm 01725 552397 1st Woodcutts News Annette Toop sttucdooW ts1 sttucdooW www.firstwoodcutts.org.uk 07973 677815 Age 8-10½ Age 10½-14 Age 14-18 Mon & Wed Mon & Tue Thursday 7 to 9pm Andy Young (Akela) Rob Easton Anthony Brown 01258 830861 01725 552038 01725 552814

Group News Beavers historical sites – can’t wait!!! Exciting news, we have been given We have had weekly meetings for each notification from Headquarters that group that have been attended well. Aside from this we have also been treated face-to-face Scouting will resume from Again, we supplied the resources bag with to Silver Badge work done by our senior Friday the 26th of March, bubble of 15 all the necessary items for the evenings Cubs who have led tuition sessions on outside only, 12th of April bubble of 15 planned including badge work which has making animal style bookmarks, origami outside and inside, also non residential worked well. Our Explorers planning some fortune tellers, no bake cookies and visits can resume. I would like to thank of the games and activities too –a big thank phenology wheels. Our wider leadership the Leadership Team who have provided you to them. team have been getting very involved as in all sections an exemplary Zoom based well by running new games, a lively and programme for the young people, for We are planning face to face meetings very fun pancake making session and support I have tried to attend as many of from Easter as the resources have been particular mention for Paul and Amber these meetings as possible, I have been sent out. This gives us a little more time who jointly ran a brilliant Chinese New Year amazed by the standard of ingenuity as still looking for at least 1 Adult for each session which led to them completing their displayed and by the enthusiasm of the Colony before face 2 face Meetings. We leadership training and gaining their wood young people, of course Zoom meetings have started a rota with parents and are still beads. Well done!! do not appeal to all of the youngsters so it looking for more help. will be good to get back to something like I also want to make a special mention normal. This term, we have completed the for our young leaders who have made International Badge with focus on New amazing contributions to the online Both Beaver sections could do with either a Zealand with the children learning the sessions this term. We have challenged another Assistant Leader in each colony or Hakka, greetings, Maori drawings and them with running games and leading a Section Assistant in each, at the very least making kiwi’s. Valentines cards were made various breakout room activities and they they need parental help, having thanked together with celebrating this term, St have all done an amazing job. A credit the Leaders it is now time to pay tribute David’s day, Mothers Day, St Patrick’s day to themselves and Woodcutts. We are so to the young people and the support and working on the Space Badge. pleased to have them as part of the Cub shown by their parents during virtual team. Well done guys!!! Scouting which has enabled the activities Cubs to continue. Once again, we are happy to report that As always, huge thanks to the Cub Team, the team have continued to put together a the parents and everyone who contributes The weekend of the 24th-25th of April range of amazing activities for the online to the running of the Group for the amazing will see us hold our second Virtual Camp, sessions which have run every week since support we receive week on week. Sunday morning of the 25th, Canon Rick the beginning of the year. We have been the Vic will be holding a St Georges day majoring on the Local Knowledge badge Grakela & Akelatoo service for the congregation of St Mary’s this term, looking at the areas of Handley and First Woodcutts, this will also be and Woodcutts in particular but with broadcast to District Scouts, reference to some of the other villages hopefully we will have a Beaver, Cub represented by our Cubs. We have studied , Scout, Explorer and Leader lead the maps, looked at points of historical interest, Promise for each section, as the saying learnt about long barrows, roman roads goes, God willing. and settlements and the archaeological work of Pitt-Rivers. We have been treated Summer Camp has been booked for to first-hand accounts of the Handley fire Cornwall, week 24th - 31st of July, just got from a time-travelling maid working in to hope that by then Headquarters will Handley House which gave a fascinating have been able to lift the moratorium of insight into life at the time and she was sleeping under canvas. also able to show us some great photos of Skip the village. We are planning to bring all this work together with a hike in the near future which will take us around some of the

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National Trust nationaltrust.org.uk/ :16/03/2021

England In England, many of our gardens, parks and outdoor spaces have been open for local visits through the current lockdown. The safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors remains our number one priority and we continue to follow government guidelines.

Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement around the easing of restrictions, we plan to open our indoor places from 17 May, as long as government guidance allows it. Our cafés are currently open for takeaway and we are planning to offer outdoor seating from 12 April with sit in available from 17 May. Our shops are currently closed with some due to reopen from 12 April.

The booking system remains in place to ensure social distancing and we urge people to book ahead of their visit and garden has to offer. mobility scooters or buggy service at this check property web pages for updated time. information. We are sorry but we are unable to offer our

Kingston Lacy We’re looking forward to welcoming you back. The parkland, garden, takeaway café and toilets are now open.

To help keep everyone safe we recommend that you book your tickets to the garden and parkland in advance, especially at busier times such as weekends and bank holidays. If you do not book we cannot guarantee admission. Members can book for free, while non-members will need to pay when booking.

The garden is looking lovely, but it won’t be quite as you’re used to seeing it. We’ve had almost no gardeners at the property for many weeks, while everyone stayed home and stayed safe.

We have a small team in now, but nowhere near what we’re used to, so the garden isn’t perhaps as well-groomed as you might be expecting. There are some weeds and rough edges; please bear with us as we do what we can as soon as we can, and instead enjoy all the many other pleasures that our

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Big ish Session

I don’t know about you but I’m ready for a So bring a rug and settle in for an amazing Tickets available soon!!!! All profits go back BIG’ish Session!!!! afternoon of great music, great food and into the local community. great local ales and cider. If you would like to help with The BIG The Big Session team has teamed up Warm up for summer with The BIG’ish Session, offer sponsorship or volunteer with 1st Woodcutts Scouts to bring you, Session! on the day then please email us at: Sixpenny Handley’s very own family sixpennysession@gmail friendly community festival. Aiming to return on Saturday 26th June at the village cricket ground.

Gates open at 3:30pm for family fun and some of your favourite summer tunes then live music from 6pm.

Bar provided by The Penny Tap, yummy food from 1st Woodcutts BBQ, circus skills, free samba drumming workshop, loads of children’s craft activities and much more!

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handleychurch.org.uk #2 2021

On Good Friday we are inviting people to join in a socially distanced prayer walk around Handley at 2 pm and over at Pentridge that will be an hours meditation in St Rumbold’s from 2–3 pm. We are also encouraging young people or EASTER... those young at heart to make Easter The church magazine Gardens on a tray and bring them to for St Mary the Virgin, church to be placed on the windowsills. There will be a PRIZE for the best one so Sixpenny Handley remember to put your name and contact with Gussage St Andrew details on it. and St Rumbold’s, ...at Home As last year we are encouraging Pentridge If last April you had told me that I would people to decorate Easter Eggs to hand be planning for a second Easter Sunday on the cherry tree in Handley Churchyard under lockdown restrictions I think I during Holy Week running up to Easter would have laughed, but here we are. Sunday. However, things are looking better. The On Easter Eve I hope our Vicar roll out of the vaccine is progressing well communities will join in with the Service case numbers are coming down and of Light at 8 pm. The idea is that this can school have just gone back. Last April our be done at home with the family or with a churches were locked, and I celebrated neighbour over the garden fence. You’ll Easter Eve in the church porch find a copy of the short service and Easter Sunday in the here in the seeker as well as Vicarage Garden. some instructions on how to This year churches are make your own Easter open, but music is still not Candle. This will be allowed and COVID coordinated with a small Churchwardens restrictions means Easter service up at Handley St Mary’s with services as we have church where the church’s Gussage St Andrew known in the past will Easter Candle will be lit. Sue Curtis 552 397 not be possible. As the This will also be live streamed on Facebook. We St Rumbold’s, Pentridge saying goes when you get lemons make lemonade! hope people will find a Mary Ferguson 552 222 This is what I have been special place to put their Jane King 552 231 doing with my other hat on as Easter light hopefully in a Rural Field Oƒicer for Dorset window so people in the street can Wednesday working with colleagues from the Rural see it. You don’t have to use a real candle evenings Hope Team to rethink or reboot Easter. but can use one of the LED candles 7 — 8:30pm Last week I led a webinar on how to do readily available from online retailers or garden centres. We hope you’ll keep 24th March this so I want to share some ideas that we can use in our communities to celebrate these candles lit in the evening for the to 31st April Easter together in a fun way but being next 50 days until Whitsun or Pentecost mindful of the restrictions we have. Sunday on the 23rd May. This will Lent online! Easter celebrations begin on Palm symbolise not only the Resurrection or Join us over ZOOM Sunday when we mark Jesus’ entry into Jesus but also moving from the darkness We will be exploring a range of Jerusalem riding on a donkey. We won’t of the past year with the COVID pandemic topics looking at our pilgrim be able to have our Palm Sunday looking forward to new hope. I hope you journey and how the Christian procession, but it will be possible to can join in all the fun and celebrations of faith can help us on our way. collect palm cross for the church. Easter – Blessings Canon Richard Hancock 21 The Seeker – Page 2

Keep the EASTER FLAME alive in your HOME By Michelle DiFranco

I love candles. They symbolize life, love DIY Paschal Candle: and celebration. And I love burning • 1 large, white pillar candle them in my home, but I’ve had to resort • Permanent markers to enjoying them only when the boys are • Letter and number stencils out of the house. Between my husband • Ruler and scissors being afraid of the house burning down, • Tissue and wax paper and my son playing with the wax like it is • 5 metal brads (or real cloves) Silly Putty, the candles just don’t stay lit. • Hair dryer and oven mitt So, their illumination is very short-lived in my house. Place a piece of paper Thankfully, I get plenty of candle in underneath your design to church. Christians know that, like prevent marker ink from Christmas, Easter is not just a day, but bleeding onto the surface of an entire season that lasts 50 days until your table. Using a ruler, draw a cross in wax paper directly over the tissue paper Pentecost. To visually mark this, a very the middle of the tissue paper. design and hold it tightly in back. Make large paschal candle (or Easter candle) Using the letter and number stencils, sure the wax paper is large enough to ožen sits near the altar for the season of create the Alpha and Omega above and cover the candle. The heat from the hair Easter. below the cross, leaving some space for dryer can get hot, so you may want to So what is a paschal candle? the brads. For ‘Omega’, you can use part use an oven mitt while holding the In short, the paschal candle is lighted for of the letter “O” stencil and add two candle. Using a hair dryer, heat the the first time on the evening of the dashes to the bottom (as shown). Add design until it appears to have Easter Vigil, when people coming into the numbers (for 2021) within the four transferred (it will look a bit darker). This the Church are baptized. The vigil begins corners of the cross (as shown). takes about 30-60 seconds. Carefully in darkness; a fire, which has been You can also print your own letters remove the wax paper. Using the tip of a blessed outside the church, is used to and numbers and simply trace them. nail, make a small slit/hole on each end light the paschal candle. The candle, Trim the excess paper. of the cross and in the middle to mark symbolizing the resurrection and light of Place the tissue paper design in the where the brads will go. Carefully Christ, is carried in procession into the middle of the pillar candle. Wrap the push brads into the candle. church, dispelling the darkness. The candle is then blessed. The five grains of incense on the candle represent the five Church Services for April and May wounds of Jesus, and the alpha and the We are regularly reviewing what is possible and omega indicate Christ is the beginning safe with regard to public worship. It is hoped Please join us and end. The numbers within each that with the eect of the lock down and the LIVE DAILY 10 am corner of the cross are for the current role out of the COVID vaccine that it will be BROADCASTS year. possible to resume public worship in the The candle is lit at each service coming months. However things can change on Facebook or throughout the paschal season until unexpectedly and if it is not safe to hold public watch later on YouTube Ascension Thursday (before Pentecost worship services we will continue online at with this link: Sunday). Ažer the Easter season ends, it 10am on Sundays. However both St Mary’s www.facebook.com/ is moved from the sanctuary to the Handley and St Rumbold’s Pentridge remain St-Marys-Church- baptismal font, and is only lit at open for private prayer and reflection. Sixpenny-Handley- baptisms and funerals. 558498850977107 The meaning and symbolism are April and Holy Week quite beautiful and have inspired me to Friday 2nd — Good Friday 2–3 pm Prayer Walk make a smaller version for my home. rd The question is, will it stay lit? Well, I Saturday 3 — Service of Light May nd don’t think my “Smokey the Bear” 7 pm online and outside St Mary’s Sunday 2 husband would be as eager to Sunday 4th — Easter Sunday 10 am Holy Communion, St Rumbold’s extinguish a paschal candle since that 9 am Said HC St Andrew’s, Gussage [TBC] Sunday 9th would feel, well, sacrilegious to him. So I 10 am Said HC St Mary’s and online 10 am ZOOM Breakfast Church went ahead and bought the supplies 11 am Said HC St Rumbold’s Sunday 16th and created a candle representative of Sunday 11th 10 am Matins, St Rumbold’s what we would see in a church. I 10 am ZOOM Breakfast Church rd encourage you to make one, too. Sunday 23 — Pentecost Sunday th Whether you light it before prayer or at Sunday 18 10 am Said Holy Communion, St Mary’s dinnertime, it’s a simple and beautiful 10 am Said HC BCP, St Rumbold’s Sunday 30th way to enhance the celebration of the Sunday 25th — St George’s Day Service 10 am Benefice Service TBC (possibly Easter season in your own home. 10 am Online/ZOOM with Scout virtual camp an outdoor service)

22 The Seeker – Page 3 Service of Light 7 pm Saturday 3rd April At Church or Home on Easter Eve at dusk

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, on this most holy night, when An individual or leader may say the following or it can be divided our Lord Jesus Christ passed from death to life, the Church invites up for dierent people to say her children throughout the world to come together in vigil and 1st Person prayer. This is the Passover of the Lord. We remember his death The Lord be with you and resurrection by hearing his word and celebrating his And also with you mysteries, confident that we shall share his victory over death and live with him forever in God. Li„ up your hearts We li them to the Lord If you have access to a garden a new fire may be kindled in the garden in a brazier. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God It is right to give him thanks and praise Eternal God, who made this most holy night to shine with the brightness of your one true light: It is indeed right set us aflame with the fire of your love, and bring us to the that with full hearts and minds and voices radiance of your heavenly glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. All we should praise you, the unseen God, Amen. the Father Almighty, and your only Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, The Easter Candle may be marked here. A child or young person who has ransomed us by his death, can be asked to place the markings ( ) X and paid for us the price of Adam’s sin. Christ yesterday and today X 2nd Person the beginning and the end X For this is the Passover of that true Lamb of God, Alpha and Omega X by whose blood the homes of all the faithful all time belongs to him, and all ages, X are hallowed and protected. to him be glory and power, through every age and forever. X This is the night when of old you saved All Amen. our fathers, delivering the people of Israel from their slavery, and leading them dry-shod through the sea. By his holy and glorious wounds may Christ our Lord guard and keep us. 3rd Person This is the night when Jesus Christ All . Amen vanquished hell The leader or young person lights the Easter Candle, saying and rose triumphant from the grave. This is the night when all who believe in him are May the light of Christ, rising in glory, freed from sin banish all darkness from our hearts and minds. and restored to grace and holiness. If in the garden the candle is taken into the house saying. Or place Most blessed of all nights, the candle in the prayer corner in your home. Then individuals when wickedness is put to flight light their own candles or use the light on your mobile phone and sin is washed away, The light of Christ. lost innocence regained, and mourning turned to joy. All Thanks be to God. Night truly blessed, when heaven is wedded to earth and all creation reconciled to God! The EXSULTET 4th Person People say together Therefore, heavenly Father, in the joy of Sing choirs of heaven! Let saints and angels sing! this night, accept our sacrifice of praise, Around God’s throne exult in harmony! your Church’s solemn o‘ering; Now Jesus Christ is risen from the grave! and grant that this Easter candle Salute your king in glorious symphony! may make our darkness light; for Christ the Morning Star has risen, Sing choirs of earth! Behold, your light has come! never again to set, The glory of the Lord shines radiantly! and is alive and reigns for ever and ever. Li up your hearts, for Christ has conquered death! Amen. The night is past; the day of life is here! Sing church of God! Exult with joy outpoured! The gospel trumpets tell of victory won! Practical instructions specific to the Liturgy of light can be downloaded from our Your Saviour lives: he’s with you evermore! website by visiting; www.handleychurch.org.uk/services.html Let all God’s people shout the long Amen!

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Old Testament Reading Ezekiel 36:25-28 [See Reading Sheet]

25 I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. 26A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. 28Then you shall live in the land that I gave to your ancestors; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Gloria in Excelsis People may ring a bell or cymbals or bells on a mobile phone while they say the gloria together.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory. Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, The Gospel [All Stand] you take away the sins of the world, John 20:1-18 have mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world, 1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary receive our prayer; Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been you are seated at the right hand of the Father, removed from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and have mercy on us. the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, For you alone are the Holy One, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know you alone are the Lord, where they have laid him.” 3Then Peter and the other disciple set you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, out and went toward the tomb. 4The two were running together, with the Holy Spirit, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5He in the glory of God the Father. bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but Amen. he did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, 7and the Prayer [Invite a person to read this prayer] cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen Grant, Lord, that we who are baptized into the death wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. 8Then the other of your Son our Saviour Jesus Christ may continually disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and put to death our evil desires and be buried with him; believed; 9for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he and that through the grave and gate of death must rise from the dead.10Then the disciples returned to their we may pass to our joyful resurrection; homes. through his merits, who died and was buried and rose again 11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. over to look into the tomb; 12and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet. 13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). 17Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ” 18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.

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The money raised from the Christmas Plain, fruit or cheese scones 6 for £9 or 12 for £18 Carols was donated by St Mary’s Church to Mixed Box: 9 x Chocolate Brownies The Children’s Society & 6 x Millionaires Shortbread £20 Tea Loaf, Carrot Cake, Blackberry & Apple Thank you for supporting the children Cake or Lemon Drizzle Cake £12 who feel alone

Thank you so much for the gift of £165.00 that you and everyone at St Mary’s Church Sixpenny Handley have raised through your carol singing. The money you’ve donated means that together, we can help more children feel safe and look forward to a Email: [email protected] brighter future. etsy.com/uk/shop/SarahsSweetestTreats Last year, donations from carol singing facebook.com/rushmorecottage played a key part in helping us work directly with over 11,000 vulnerable children and bring about changes to laws that will help hundreds of thousands more. This year, thanks to your congregation’s support, we can help even more young people who urgently need someone they can turn to.

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Hedgehog News Mar 2021

We have moved house! After weeks of There are many things we can all do to being kept in the study (which was often help hedgehogs; here are just a few: Despite all the bad news about the decline a little whiffy by the morning, particularly Make sure hedgehogs can access your in numbers, there are moves afoot to when numbers went up to 11), the decision garden with a ‘Hedgehog Highway’ a 5” x include hedgepigs (their other name) on was made to create a purpose-built hog 5” (13 x 13cm) square gap in the bottom of the formal list of endangered animals so hostel despite the ice and snow. fences or walls should do it! Once created they will be protected further by law. Here you can log these on the BIG Hedgehog we seem to have an extremely healthy It has been very surprising the number Map at www.bighedgehogmap.org population, however if you find one in of small hoglets that have been brought • Create a log pile that will offer shelter distress please let me know and I will try to in, even during the winter period, having and food. help, I am fortunate in that I can call on the been found searching for food during the • Build a Hedgehog Home (see plans help of a very knowledgeable vet. day and too young to hibernate. Unlike last at www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/ winter, I am pleased to say that the survival hedgehog-homes) Hogfather rate this year has been above the national • Move piles of rubbish to a new site on 552704 average, even if some had to be encouraged the day you are burning it. to live by feeding them goat’s milk through • Check areas carefully before mowing a syringe. “Oh, I quite like this – more or strimming. please; then I’ll go onto solids!” • Ensure netting is kept at a safe height. • Check compost heaps before digging Luckily, the decent weather during the fork in. February allowed some of the more rotund • Stop using pesticides and poisons. members of our community to return to • Cover drains or deep holes. their original locations, mainly in Deanland. • Ensure there is an easy route out of This was nicely timed as it reduced the ponds & pools. numbers to be moved when the hostel was completed; now there are only five residents and two of those are almost ready to return to the wild, having put on weight to over 900gms .

The new hostel has dormitory space for at least a dozen hogs although that would be tight when it’s wet outside. Fully insulated and heated with a daily change of bedding and food what more could one wish for – Wi-Fi is extra! I am grateful to the ladies of the village who have kept me supplied with newspaper for bedding.

Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 2nd – 8th May 2021, it is organised by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) and takes place every year. It aims to highlight the problems hedgehogs face and how you can help them. This year the Charity is asking people create their very own hedgehog haven! Gardens are a stronghold for hedgehogs, and we can make their lives so much easier with very little effort!

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ANOB News

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The sparkling River Ebble, one of our precious chalk streams, is to receive a £50,000 boost thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of our Chase & Chalke Landscape Partnership Scheme.

The Crystal Clear Ebble project will be dedicated to improving the health of this unique chalk stream and the wildlife that is dependent on it. Learn how to take Sky Quality Chase & Chalke Talk Measurements, discover more about the Finding Nature’s Patterns: Our artist in The project aims to improve 22km constellations and inspire others through residence, Charlotte Moreton, looks at of the river, including 15km of bank stargazing events how our instinct for seeking and making improvements and will support the patterns helps connect us with nature conservation of 12 key chalk stream flora Contact Rachel Limb rachellimb@ and find out about how you can get and fauna, including wild brown trout and cranbornechase.org.uk to find out more, involved with some of our art projects. water crowfoot. or visit the Volunteering section of our Join Charlotte to find out how you can get website. involved with some of our creative arts A project partnership consisting of Wessex projects on April 12 at 7.30pm Rivers Trust, Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) South West and Wiltshire ChalkEscape Walking Festival Wildlife Trust will manage this new project. ChalkEscape Walking Festival in May, keep your eyes open for more details. We will be collecting biological records and undertaking conservation activities, working closely with farmers and land WOODLAND PRODUCTS EDUCATION / LEARNING managers, and providing training for  Bean poles & pea sticks  Bushcraft parties volunteers to play an active part in the WOODLAND PRODUCTS EDUCATION / LEARNING understanding and management of the  Dorset hurdles  Forest school sessions  Bean poles & pea sticks  Bushcraft parties river. But we need your help, so please click  Sussex gate hurdles  Walks & talks here to find out how you could volunteer.  Dorset hurdles  Forest school sessions  Coppice materials  Green woodworking  Sussex gate hurdles  Walks & talks https://cranbornechase.org.uk/landscape- STRUCTURES  Woven hazel fencing W OODLAND PRODUCTS E DUCATION / LEARNING  Coppice materials  Green woodworking partnership-scheme/volunteering Garden furniture  Firewood Call Anthony on WOBeanODLA polesND P R&O peaDUC sticksTS SETDUCATIONRBushcraftUCTURES / LpartiesEARNING  Woven hazel fencing  Bespoke timber  Hedge laying 01725 552814, 07920031314 Seeking Custodians for our Dark Skies  DorsetBean poles hurdles & pea sticks  GardenForestBushcraft school furniture parties sessions  Firewood Call Anthony on structures W OODLAND PRODUCTS EDUCATION / LEARNING  Dorset hurdles www.conygarcoppice.com Forest school sessions  If you attended our recent Dark Skies Sussex gate hurdles BespokeWalks & talkstimber Hedge laying 01725 552814, 07920031314  Composting toilets  Bean poles & pea sticks  Bushcraft parties Festival and are feeling like you’d like to  CoppiceSussex gate materials hurdles  structuresGreenWalks &woodworking talks  Dorset hurdles  Forest school sessions www.conygarcoppice.com learnST moreRUC aboutTUR ourES International Dark  WovenCoppice hazel materials fencing   CompostingGreen woodworking toilets Sky Reserve then we may have just the  Sussex gate hurdles  Walks & talks STRGardenUCTURE furnitureS  FirewoodWoven hazel fencing Call Anthony on thing for you.  Coppice materials  Green woodworking  BespokeGarden furniture timber  HedgeFirewood laying 01725Call Anthony 552814, 07920031314 on STRUCTURES  Woven hazel fencing We’re  seekingstructuresBespoke enthusiastic timber volunteers to  Hedge laying 01725 552814, 07920031314 help secureGarden and promote furniture our dark night  Firewood Callwww.conygarcoppice.com Anthony on  Compostingstructures toilets skies andBespoke the amazing timber benefits they bring  Hedge laying 01725 www.conygarcoppice.com 552814, 07920031314 for healthComposting and wellbeing, wildlife toilets and the structures environment. www.conygarcoppice.com  Composting toilets

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Sustainable Handley

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38 The Downsman - April 2021 Law & more...

Humphries Kirk incorporating CATCHPOLE LAW

The Cranborne Chase office of Humphries Kirk based in Gussage St Michael, with specialist focus on:

* WILLS AND ESTATE PLANNING * INHERITANCE AND CAPITAL GAINS TAX ADVICE * POWERS OF ATTORNEY * DEATH IN SERVICE AND PENSION TRUSTS * PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION * CHARITIES * VARIATIONS OF ESTATES * COMMERCIAL & COMMERCIAL PROPERTY * TRUSTS * RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY WORK * CARE OF THE ELDERLY and more … * DIVORCE AND FAMILY LAW

For further details please call 01258 840507 to speak to Michael Catchpole, Orla Laurenson and Laura Staples

Catchpole House, 7 Manor Farm Business Centre, Gussage St Michael, Dorset, BH21 5HT Humphries Kirk is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA No: 533272)

Michael Catchpole on MERGER NEWS

I thought you should know of my plans regarding Catchpole Law.

For theA lastFULL 10 plus years,RANGE under the umbrellaOF LEGAL of Catchpole SERVICESLaw, I have been acting for for LIFEa number ofPOST readers which COVID has been a pleasure and privilege for me. However, the time has come for me to hand over the reins.

I have been looking, with a critical eye, for a suitable firm with which to merge – one that will look after my clients and team as I I wrote in the last Downsman about how well the Merger with Humphries Kirk LLP had gone, despite the strictures of lockdown would like, and that has the legal expertise so to do, with a similar ethos to Catchpole Law. and working from home. I also spoke about technology and how we are using it to get around some of the difficulties we were all I am pleased to report that I have found the very firm – Humphriesencountering. Kirk, which as well as having a strong Private Client, Trust and Property Team have expertise in Company and Commercial, Commercial Property including development sites, Commercial, MatrimonialIn the past and Catchpole Agricultural Law property was essentially and who a “Privateare well Client”known practice,and respected specialising in the inSouth. Wills, Probate, Estate Planning, LPAs and Court of Protection matters as well as residential property work. Humphries Kirk LLP offer a “full service”. That means as st Thewell two as practices Private Clientmerged Law with and effect Property from work 1 November we can now 2020. offer I amFamily a Senior Law, CommercialConsultant at Property, Humphries all forms Kirk forof Litigationthe foreseeable and future. We will continue to operate from Unit 7 (to be known as Catchpole House) following the merger date. The telephone Commercial Law advice, all from Catchpole House. number will remain the same.

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Bird Flu as told by an Animal Health Officer

After a very busy year dealing with the various challenges COIVD had thrown up running the Dorset Council Trading Standards Animal Health Team I was looking forward to a nice break over Christmas. In an attempt to be organised for once I had booked the week running up to Christmas off so I would have plenty of time for Christmas shopping. Unfortunately one phone call from the Government Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) ruined these plans. An outbreak of bird flu had been found in a small backyard flock of ducks and chicken near Gillingham. Bird flu is brought into the country by migratory job to support APHA to visit as many social distance, in the area and 3 days later birds and if it infects domestic birds it can properties as possible in that zone to see if we had finished, just in time for a hectic have a devastating effect with very high the household are keeping poultry in their Christmas Eve shopping spree. mortality rates. It was reported that 5 of the back gardens. In this outbreak the zone 6 chicken in the affected flock died within took in most of Gillingham which meant As a result of various outbreaks around the 24 hours of becoming sick. over 5000 properties. I was very lucky as country all poultry was kept in housing and most of my colleagues in Trading Standards not allowed to free range. Further details of As soon as a case of bird flu is confirmed stepped forward to help out and so on the rules can be found on the gov website. a 3km protection zone is put around the the first day of foot patrols 13 of us were https://www.gov.uk/guidance/avian- infected premise and it is Dorset Council’s knocking on doors, maintaining a Covid influenza-bird-flu

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Rob’s Column

For well-being In a garden I espied, The time we spend dreaming can chase After a shower of rain, away the blues, A sight that really made me smile. A chance to escape a while from dull Again and yet again depressing views. From a little thorny bush If we can just relax and dream of brighter Growing in sweet repose days, Was a perfect little flower Hope and faith restored, can banish the A single wild pink rose. haze.

The nights are getting lighter Music is uplifting and it is the key Although winter still has a bite, To unlock enjoyment is also good company Signs of life within the earth Music can be calming helps to erase the Show springtime is in sight, stress Creatures will be stirring It’s good for our well-being and bring much To mothers To a land all fresh and new happiness. Hope you sent your fondest love Bringing hope to all of us, lifting spirits too. To mothers everywhere. Where would we be without them And their endless care? Relax, chill out, enjoy your day Tomorrow you just might find That many of you lovely mums Will be back to the daily grind.

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Success for Blandford Forum Accountants!

CBA Services Limited were awarded Sole assist with government support schemes, time — something judge John Coldicutt, Practitioner of the Year by Xero Accounting to utilising GoCardless to ensure invoices Xero Marketing Director (UK & EMEA) was Software at the online award ceremony on are paid promptly and cash flow is impressed with. “It shows how forward Wednesday 3 March 2021. protected. Glen Foster, Xero Sales Director thinking they are,” he said. “They seem (UK & EMEA), liked the use of Xero’s Short- very restless in their quest for being on top We are absolutely delighted to have been term Cash Flow and Business Snapshot of things, which is really good to see.” honoured with this award, and cannot features, along with business performance thank our clients, contacts, friends and reports, to give clients clarity on how best Full contact details are on our website - family enough for their constant support. to navigate their way through Covid. “They www.cba-services.co.uk - but please give This really means the world to us! had everything covered,” he said. us a call on 01258 840306 if we can help in any way! Since taking the huge step to leave a large, The firm is also looking ahead and top ten accountancy firm and set up on planning for the introduction of Making her own in 2013, Catherine Chapman who Tax Digital for income tax in two years lives in Sixpenny Handley, has grown CBA Services Limited into a team of ten with a varied client base, and we are now entering our fifth year in Blandford Forum. Our ethos is ‘helping you work’, with the belief that each client should be treated as an individual.

Following the announcement of the award, Xero have said the following: “A proactive approach to supporting clients, whether in tackling the challenges of the past 12 months or preparing for future changes, has helped Dorset-based CBA Services grow their client base — and take home this award. As judge Emma Jones, founder of Enterprise Nation, explains: “In this past year small businesses have really needed their trusted advisor and I was looking for how bookkeepers and accountants have stepped up and helped their clients. CBA Services are a really good example of that.”

The firm has made the most of Xero products to aid clients during the pandemic, from using the Covid-19 Business Insights Pack and Business Loans Pack to assess individual situations and

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