MAGAZINE

for the villages of

Lugwardine, Bartestree, and

JULY 2020

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Editorial

Once again I’m afraid this magazine is having to be online with no hard copies available for those unable to view it electronically. I do apologise for this and just hope it will be possible to go back to the printed version in the near future. It seems so sad having to cut out the ‘Diary of Events’ when at this time of year there are usually so many community fundraising events happening. However, I’m sure once this pandemic has been brought under control there will be renewed enthusiasm to support all the various community activities. It will be a very hard time for everyone trying to get back to normality, but if there is one thing this virus has shown us it is that our community matters and support for our local enterprises and charities will be vital. I had thought there would be little to go in this edition of the magazine but was particularly delighted to get Vic Breeze’s wonderful Gardening Club account of his favourite plants he has been nurturing during lockdown. His Eschscholzia California reminds me of my childhood as the spelling of Eschscholzia was a regular pocket money question of my father’s. Luckily I used to get my pocket money whether I got it right or not, and I still can’t spell it! I am always so delighted to receive unexpected varied copy for the magazine so do please keep them rolling in. If there is anybody who would like to contribute a regular article of their choice, preferably with local connection but not necessarily so, do please let me know. I am open to suggestions. Those of you who have seen the magnificent ‘Candle of Defiance against Covid19’ made by Robin Peers (see Page 5) will have been awestruck by the fantastic workmanship of his creation which he has spent hours making during lockdown and which he has gifted to the 5 churches in our benefice. It is wonderfully uplifting to see so much creativity coming from this awful pandemic. Simon’s letter is so good at pointing out the good things that have resulted from this difficult time and, though there are many, many people who will have suffered severe hardship, hopefully we can harness these good aspects and come out of this a more considerate and less greedy society. I’m afraid I am unable to say at this stage whether the August magazine will be back to being the printed version or whether it will still only be available to see online.

Maggie Henderson

Copy for the Parish Magazine should reach the Editor at ‘The Old School’, Rhystone Lane, Lugwardine, HR1 4AW or e-mailed to:- [email protected] by the 15th of the preceding month.

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BARTESTREE CROSS GROUP OF Www.achurchnearyou.com : Reverend Simon Tarlton The Vicarage, Lugwardine, , HR1 4AE Tel: 01432 507986 Email: [email protected]

I am writing this letter on 15th June. Today I removed a sign I put up on the doors of each of our churches on 24th March which read, “As part of the response to the range of new measures announced by the Government, this church is now closed until further notice.” I can still remember the heaviness and despair with which I pinned up that first sign, the dismay, confusion, incredible sadness, anger and despair. A huge breadth of emotions that, combined, defied processes of logical thought or even the faintest hope that this was nothing more than a bad dream. Barely 6 months after becoming your Rector I was being forced to close your beloved churches.

83 days later I was finally able to put up a new sign. This one reads, “Our church building is open for private prayer”. In each of our churches (see next page for details) the opportunity now exists to go in and sit quietly, to seek refuge from the world about us and perhaps find a little peace and connection. It has been a long time coming. I acknowledge that, for some, it may have come too soon and that we should have been more cautious. Others will take the opposite view and feel that the response by the national Church to close all churches was too heavy handed and failed to recognise differences between urban and rural settings. Wherever you are on that spectrum, with these first signs of things returning to some sort of normal, I think we can all unite and rejoice in the prospect of a renewal of public worship and the opportunity for our churches once again to play their full role in the lives of our communities.

Although for many lockdown has represented a time of considerable burden and significant sacrifice, there has also been plenty to celebrate. There have certainly been considerable challenges, but this time has not been without its opportunities, blessings and moments of unexpected joy. One of those joys has been the opportunity to participate in and be more aware of the glorious natural world around us. Since the start of lockdown leaves have appeared, the air has warmed, and the shoots of new life have emerged from the soil. With the reduction in pollution there has been a trembling joy in spring growth, in clean air, in birdsong. At the Vicarage pea and bean seedlings have moved from kitchen windowsill to a new vegetable plot and I expect for many of us our gardens have never looked as good as they do now.

Lockdown has also shown us the evidence of extraordinary kindness. Reaching out in kindness has become a feature of these long weeks as we see neighbours speaking who have never spoken, offers of help between strangers, hundreds of thousands volunteering their time, rainbows in windows, clapping, and the many, many phone calls and attempts to teach the mysteries of ‘Zoom’ to those, like me, who can barely operate a TV remote control. When the history of lockdown is written it will be incomplete without a chapter on kindness and alongside it should come another chapter on generosity. Whilst we may have had to think more carefully about how and where we spend our money, there has also been a rethinking about how to be generous with the skills and time that we have, recognising perhaps how much more we receive when we give freely.

And then there is love. The experience of living through a global pandemic has offered us, in our comparative wealth and comfort, just a mere taste of the fragile, uncertain and dangerous lives that many displaced and oppressed people of our own country and across the world cope with long term, with no ending in sight and requires us to ask ourselves a number of questions. How will we turn the challenges and disruption we have experienced to join our voices to an empathetic, fervent call for justice. How will it impact the way we live, relate, move, give, and love? How can we now think and move differently? What issues, that we might have thought crucial in the past, now seem completely unimportant? How will we now love more richly? Simon 3

Slight Easing of Lockdown measures

We are once again to be allowed access to our churches for private prayer and reflection. Our response to this relaxation has to be made in the context of the resources we have available to keep our churches clean and our people safe. With these factors in mind the churches in the Group will, from Monday 15th June, be open for private prayer as follows;

Withington—open every day 12-4pm Westhide—open every day Lugwardine—open every Monday 12-4pm Dormington—open every Friday 10-4pm Weston Beggard—closed as usual but can be opened for private prayer. Please contact Simon or Wendy if you would like access.

In each church there will be clear guidelines as to where to sit and the parts of the church that have to remain out of bounds. Please do follow the instructions which are there for everyone’s safety.

From Bishop Richard Jackson, Bishop of Hereford

I’ve lost count of the number of times politicians have told bishops to keep their noses out of politics. We are meant to be concerned about spiritual matters, but we should leave the business of government and politics to trained professionals. I’m not sure what they would have said to Jesus. He often spoke about matters to do with money and justice that would appear to be firmly in the political realm. In fact, all of the Bible writers, particularly the prophets, saw our spiritual lives as integral to our political and economic ones.

In Isaiah’s day there was a spiritual revival with very intense worship and fasting going on in the Temple. Unfortunately, it seemed to have had no effect on the way people behaved, leading him to make the pronouncement, “Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free.”

Someone once said worship without justice is self-indulgence. If worship doesn’t make us more concerned about the unjust structures of society or determined to exercise better stewardship of the earth, its probably not the sort of worship the bible envisages.

To truly worship is to tune our hearts to God’s heart. If our hearts are tuned to his, they will beat to the same rhythm. God doesn’t measure people’s worth by the colour of their skin, the size of their bank balance, their educational attainment or their social status. The basis for justice is that we are all created in the image of God, and that creative diversity of colour and culture is a crucial part of the way God reveals himself to us. The basis for humility is that we have all fallen short and all alike need God’s forgiving love.

Our problem is we get so used to being beneficiaries in the dynamics of power that we can’t even see there’s a problem. Its hardly surprising that our BAME brothers and sisters call our commitment to representative leadership into question when frankly, most of our senior church leaders look like me. There is a long way to go in achieving genuine justice in our society, and we need to be part of both the conversation and by our actions the solution as well.

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The Candle of Defiance- A Pilgrimage for Pentecost

During these long weeks of lockdown many of the traditional patterns of life followed by our rural communities have been disrupted. Not least of these has been the cessation of church services which for many offer not only a spiritual connection but also much needed human contact. The lockdown has also meant that churches and other local charities, deprived of their traditional, seasonal fundraising opportunities, are feeling a great strain on their reserves.

But one parishioner was determined not to take the restrictions lying down. For weeks Robin Peers of Westhide spent long hours in his workshop hard at work. Robin, a retired Mechanical Engineer, has spent his life designing and making all manner of different things. He wanted to make something during lockdown to express the defiance of ordinary people to Covid 19, and to give thanks for the wonderful community spirit that lives on and for all who are committed to fighting the virus.

For inspiration Robin seized upon the Feast of Pentecost that we celebrated on Sunday 31st May. The celebration of Pentecost is often accompanied by images of flame and fire and, with these in mind, Robin has made a beautifully elegant candle holder to be used by all of the churches in the group in this and future years. Made of English oak it has taken nearly 200 hours to create.

In a gesture of defiance and fortitude, on Saturday 30th May Robin, accompanied (at social distance) by a willing and socially distanced band of pilgrims, paraded the new candle holder across the Herefordshire countryside from the church of St Bartholomew, Westhide to St. Peter, Dormington.

We took in beautiful countryside as well as the challenging climb over Shucknall Hill, passing St. John the Baptist, Weston Beggard along the way for very welcome refreshments. The whole effort has raised over £1,500 to be shared equally between St. Michael’s Hospice, Bartestree, local NHS charities and the churches of our Group of churches. We are hugely grateful to Robin for his inspiration, skill and commitment. 5

Lugwardine Primary Academy

Lugwardine Primary Academy has welcomed the return of children from Reception Class and Year 1 to school. They have adapted well to the new routines. The school also has key worker children in attendance. The children not returning to school continue to have work uploaded on the school website each week to be completed at home and use a programme called “Seesaw” to support them in their remote learning. School is disappointed that it has not been possible to readmit Year 6 as of the 1st June but are working hard to try and find a way to welcome them back, even for a day, before the end of term.

The children in school have been put into “bubbles” - that are mainly split into year groups - each with a teacher and support assistant. The classrooms are set up so that social distancing is observed and each child has a desk and chair that is theirs alone. There are no more than 15 children in each “bubble”. They have their lessons and lunch within their bubble and have allocated playtimes. Within the school regular cleaning and wiping down of surfaces takes place at lunch time and after school, together with hand washing routines. Every opportunity to teach the children outside is taken if it is safe to do so.

Before returning to school, there was a poster colouring competition for all children. The posters encourage children to wash hands regularly, not touch their faces and maintain social distancing. The winning posters have been put around the school as a reminder. With school re-opening, on a phased basis, the “Star of the Week” awards have been re- introduced. These will alternate each week between those in school and those being home- schooled. The first “Star of the Week” winners covered all year groups and were awarded to those in school for excellent behaviour, positive attitude, fantastic expression in reading, determination to persevere with difficult math challenges and working independently.

The key worker children “bubble” of Years 2 & 3 children have been very busy working on a Volcanic topic. They have been researching lots of facts about various types of volcanoes and have made some volcano models. The children learnt a lava song and used some musical instruments as well. Squirrel, the school dog, has been out for a walk every morning with the children in the key worker “bubble” and teaching staff, which has been enjoyed by all. In maths they have been studying angles and directions. They found different angles in their names.

Mrs Cole will be leaving the school at the end of the summer term and is thanked for her contribution to the learning experience of the children she has taught. She is currently supporting Year 5 and Year 6. Mrs Cole is wished well for the future. We welcome Miss Rhianna Longstaff who has been appointed to join the teaching staff in September.

The summer term will end on Wednesday 15th July and at this present time it is not known in what format the school will re-open in September. Along with all other schools across the country we await further guidance from the government.

Have a lovely summer everybody.

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Bartestree with Lugwardine

Planning Matters: Applications considered by the Parish Council: 201477 October House, Bartestree HR1 4DA. Variation of condition 2 of 200072, (Proposed erection of dwelling; conversion of steel workshop in to dwelling; altered access and roadway; new landscaping) to alter 1st floor layout and remove gable window on 1st floor facing the neighbours. Application supported.

201337 Magpie Cottage, Park View, Bartestree HR1 4BX. Proposed additional bedroom. Application supported.

201545 Land off Black Hole Lane Bartestree HR1 4BE Proposed new agricultural building for secure storage of farm produce and machinery. For Prior Approval – no comment required. Noted

To consider whether street lighting is required on the development off Cotts Lane, Lugwardine. It was resolved that no street lighting should be installed on this development in line with current parish policy.

Walking in the Countryside. Extracted from: Herefordshire Council: Public Rights of Way Rights and Responsibilities and The Countryside Code. Landowners: As a landowner you are responsible for ensuring that path users are able to use any public right of way, which crosses your land at any time without obstruction or any form of intimidation. Walkers: Should follow paths and close gates unless a notice indicates otherwise. When you take your dog into the outdoors, always ensure it does not disturb wildlife, farm animals, horses or other people by keeping it under effective control. This means that you keep your dog on a lead, or keep it in sight at all times, be aware of what it is doing and be confident it will return to you promptly on command. Ensure it does not stray off the path or area where you have a right of access. Everyone knows how unpleasant dog mess is and it can cause infections, so always clean up after your dog and get rid of the mess responsibly –‘ bag it and bin it’. Make sure your dog is wormed regularly to protect it, other animals and people. If all parties follow the rules, then they can exist in harmony. Thank you.

Parish Council Meeting: Next scheduled meeting: Tuesday 14th July at 19.30 in Bartestree Village Hall or by Zoom. All parishioners are invited to attend.

Parish Clerk: [email protected]: 01885 490414 Parish Website: http://bartestreewithlugwardinegroup-pc.gov.uk

Ward Councillor: Paul Andrews 07792 882143 [email protected]

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Bartestree & Lugwardine Gardening Club

All Meetings have been cancelled due to the This is Michelia yunnanensis, and although present problems, but nevertheless gardeners we've only had it since January, I love it. have been busy! The weather has been good, and this time of year is an exciting one in the garden, with everything starting to grow, and many flowering. Here's a selection of my 'lockdown beauties' - plants that have recently flowered, or new ones in our garden.

My first is Clematis alpina cv. White Moth. We've had it for several years, and it produces these delicate flowers. Usually I'm not keen on white flowers, but this is very pretty.

The flowers are so simple, and are produced from brown, furry buds. But the leaves are oval and so attractive; in fact, that's why I bought it. Actually everything about this plant is lovely. Here are the leaves:

And here's Eschscholzia california.

I repotted this and the new leaves came out yellow! So I applied some sequestered iron and manganese, and as you can see, this fixed the problem. Just like humans, plants can easily get iron deficiency, and it's seen in new leaves, unlike most other elements, as iron cannot be moved out of older leaves. I make no apologies for liking a plant for its leaves. The code-breaker Alan Turing spent It's an annual poppy; I grew these intending some effort in trying to fathom out leaf them for the plant auction! But I'm glad to shapes, but didn't reach any conclusion. have them. They are very variable in their Actually it's leaf area that matters, as this is native habitat, and have been the subject of related to growth. numerous ecology studies.

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These orchids (spotted, I think) emerged several years ago in our wild plant meadow. It's good to have something beautiful pop up in the garden, without any effort on our part! Where it came from, and how it got there, I've no idea, but 20-odd years ago, when we moved here, this area was bare, hard clay which grew nothing at all. We guard it carefully from rabbits and accidents!

Lastly, here's Abutilon 'Canary Bird'. So beautiful, it produces lots of these yellow flowers. We shelter it over winter, just in case.

So that's some of our favourites which have delighted us during the past few months. There are many more I could mention, but these are my choice; perhaps not the most showy, but certainly interesting, and the At last some welcome reason why I love plants and gardening. rain for our gardens

We hope to reconvene soon, and I'm sure we'll all have gardening stories to tell!

Vic Breeze

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OLD ANGUS’ COLUMN

Another dreary locked-down week! By now almost all the small jobs around the house are done, and the garden is in pretty good order. A few jobs remain which require some piece of kit which needs purchasing, and which will require time spent browsing in a DIY shop. We try to observe the main governmental advice and instructions, and the days slip by with washing hands, distancing ourselves from other humans, and even ironing the daily paper after it comes through the door. What will success look like – will it be when we feel we have managed to avoid catching the Covid virus at all, or is it when someone tests our antibodies and shows that we have had a mild or unnoticed infection? And does ironing the daily paper do any good? Angus has offered to take part in the Oxford vaccine testing, so if selected has at best a 50% chance of being treated with any active product. He fully accepts that an untreated arm is necessary for any convincing study, which is fine except perhaps for those who get the control or placebo product. And grumpy elderly people from far away (Cardiff and Birmingham are centres for the studies) may not be thought suitable for a study.

A recent walk led Angus to a rabbit (quite rare around here) and also to a mole on the ground surface. Recent dry weeks have left the ground so hard and solid that the mole had no chance of putting its head down and burrowing. Perhaps it was a young one looking for a new territory. Shortly afterwards, while bemoaning the recent seasons of floods and pestilence followed by drought, a neighbour suggested that we should prepare for plagues of frogs and locusts!

There have been a few benefits. Angus has spent more time just sitting out of doors, and encouraging the flowers to bloom during his rounds each morning. Dead-heading has been carried out more thoroughly. He has watched the cherries progress from flowers to tasty fruit, the first tomatoes now almost ready to pick, the peonies flowering, and the antirrhinums which survived a mild winter blooming energetically. He has watched a single magpie work out a means of getting at the fat balls hanging from a bird table while its partner just watches, and has seen one crow or rook copy the same system, while the sky seems to be a brighter blue and to be more or less free from plane vapour trails. Henry VIII continues to visit the garden haughtily several times each day, with a varying number of pheasant wives. Why they are not sitting on eggs in hidden nests remains a mystery - perhaps he is not very good at fathering chicks? And our pond has almost dried up in the recent heat.

As this difficulty stretches on, Angus looks at his garden and works out that it would seriously fail to feed two people, or even one. The hungry gap is almost over, but a diet of strawberries would be totally insufficient to keep us going. And a sensible smallholding would take a very long time to plan and to work in order to yield enough food throughout the year. So we are thoroughly dependent on the modern world of trade to provide food in exchange for manufactured goods produced here. And does the government's wild printing of cash matter, or will it cause all our money to lose value very soon?

The papers' holiday sections are quite sad. The tempting contents are for holidays next year rather than this, and most of the usual purchasers of advertising must wonder whether their businesses will survive.

So for now - bring on the frogs and locusts! And good luck!

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Ingredients: 1 x 375gms pack of ready rolled puff pastry 1 x 400gms pack pork and apple sausages 3 tblsps of caramelised onion chutney 1 egg, beaten

Method: 1/ Preheat the oven to 200C and line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper. Unroll the pastry and turn it so the long side is facing you, before cutting it widthways into three equal sections 2/ Smear a tablespoon of chutney evenly down the centre of each piece of pastry. Now using a sharp knife or scissors, slit the skin on one of the sausages, discarding the skin and laying the sausage on the pastry. Repeat with another sausage, gently squidging the two together where they meet. 3/ Using your fingers or a pastry brush, smooth the beaten egg down the right-hand side of the pastry, then roll the sausage up j the pastry, ending up with the seam underneath. 4/ Cut the roll into six even pieces, then slash each piece a couple of times across the top before brushing again with the beaten egg. Repeat the process with the other pastry pieces and sausages, then arrange on the baking trays. 5/ Bake for 25-35 minutes until they are puffed and golden brown, and the meat is cooked through. These can be eaten cold, but I guarantee you will eat at least two when they are warm from the oven! NB: They can also be made ahead of time and frozen; just add an extra 10 minutes to the cooking time if you are baking them straight from the freezer.

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News from Weston Beggard

Coffee and Chat Exercise continues, under lockdown – Weston Beggard coffee mornings have and the e-bike continues to sally forth been continuing via Zoom at 2 weekly in Weston Beggard and surrounding intervals during the current situation. villages……it is amazing how encouraging The next one will be on 24/6/20 it can be to take the pain of uphill @10.30am. Please let Penny know if cycling out of a ride! – especially for you would like to join in. 01432- the way back…. 853261 Hopefully, it will not be too long before The beautiful countryside – buttercup we can start our real coffee mornings!! fields, Hereford cattle (especially nice to see), woods and rivers and crops, as well as interesting rural activities such Church Services as turf-lifting – all make for new scenes No doubt you will have heard the very to see – now some of our lives are less welcome news that we are once again busy during lock-down. Walking and to cycling give much more chance to see be allowed access to our churches for things in our lovely county – rather than private prayer and reflection. flashing past in a car! From Monday 15th June, Weston Beggard Church can be opened for private prayer, but will otherwise Trusty steed remain closed as usual. Please contact Simon or Wendy if you would like access. There will be clear guidelines as to where to sit and the parts of the church that have to remain out of bounds. Please do follow the instructions which are there for everyone’s safety.

Our weekly outdoor services for local parishioners will continue. The next churchyard service at St John the Baptist, Weston Beggard is 11am on 28th June

Plants The surplus plants in the swap arranged by Sheila are doing well – some are now leafing and fruiting – kale, tomatoes, courgettes and peppers….and some are being eaten!!

Weston Beggard Churchyard mowing rota Month 1st half July 1st half Penny Taylor (853261) 2nd half Andy Taylor (853261) August 1st half John Kilpatrick (850517) 2nd half Mark Lily (632028) September 1st half Penny Taylor (853261) 2nd half Terry Haigh (850196) 12

Plant Swap We have been swapping our surplus baby plants in Weston Beggard and this has escalated somewhat! As more things are available we are continuing. A selection is available outside 2 Bridge Cottage HR1 4BJ and any donations are gratefully received... all proceeds going to church funds. If you’d like anything in particular please phone Sheila (851077) and we’ll put them aside. At the moment we have a few yellow tomato plants, lots of fennel babies (also freshly cut if you’d like it), sedum, antirrhinum, goldenrod, michaelmas daisies, foxglove, euphorbia, alchemilla mollis, alyssum, oregano, leeks and a lovely clematis, and a selection of pond plants. Not everything is by the gate so do telephone. Please bear in mind there won’t be dozens of anything and some are quite small, but they’ll grow! Huge thanks to all those who have contributed plants or donations, we’ve raised over £40 so far.

DORMINGTON NEWs

St Peter’s, Dormington Please look out for email/Whatsapp announcements of services in Dormington in July, depending on CofE policy.

The church will be open on Fridays – 8.30 a.m. for Morning Prayer, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. for private prayer or reflection, 4 p.m. for Contemplative Prayers. Hand gel will be available for use on arrival and exit. Only parts of the church will be accessible. Please observe social distancing. The toilet will not be open for use. The church will then be locked again until the following Friday. Please contact Nick on 850456 if you have any questions.

Forthcoming grass-cutting duties in the churchyard are as follows:

Week commencing Monday 29th June - Dick & Jo Price / Ian Morley Week commencing Monday 13th July - John Wood / Bruce Tanton / Nick Brewin Week commencing Monday 27th July - Conroy Jones / Clive Huffer

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Recruitment to the Magistracy

The Staffordshire and West Mercia Advisory Committee, (Staffordshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire) is recruiting new magistrates to the Family bench with applications accepted from June 1st. Magistrates should be between the ages of 18 and 70 and need no formal qualifications as training is provided. Travel and subsistence is paid and magistrates are legally entitled to time off work to fulfil their duties. They should be able to offer 14 or more days a year and -

 be of good character  have good powers of understanding and communication  possess some social awareness  show maturity and a sound temperament  display sound judgement  be both committed and reliable

During the current public health emergency, advisory committees are continuing to encourage applications and to accept and sift them as planned, (but in order to comply with social distancing and travel restrictions, candidates will not be interviewed until it can be done safely).

There will be a recruitment drive for the Adult (Criminal) bench later this year.

For more information see GOV.UK/become-magistrate

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The composer of this poem sent this in feeling that other parents may identify with this! She is safely past this stage having written it about 16 years ago, so there’s light at the end of the tunnel for those going through it now!

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Dormington and Group Parish Council meet from 7.30 pm on the third Wednesday of each month at the Prior’s Frome Chapel (except August and December). The Parish Council is here to help keep your Parish working for you—if you have issues or concerns about any aspects relating to the Parish, please let us know, by email, phone, message or by coming along to the meetings, where you are always welcome. Details of meeting agendas, minutes and forthcoming events, planning applications, and your local contacts are all available on the Parish Website, and you also have a Facebook page where you can post comments, photographs and details of events. We look forward to hearing from you and to meeting you—and if you are interested in becoming a Parish Councillor, please get in touch! https://dormingtonmordifordgroup-pc.gov.uk/

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Village Directory Tel: Rector Rev’d Simon Tarlton 01432 507986 [email protected] mobile: 07462 893457 Church website: Www.achurchnearyou.com

Lugwardine with Bartestree, St Peter Churchwarden PCC Secretary Mr Mike Wilson, 10 St Peter’s Close, Lugwardine 850254 Treasurer Mrs Mary Hurstbourne, The Stables, New Rents Farm 853107 Organist Fiona Chryssides 07710 191608 Captain of Bell ringers Henry Webb 890744

Weston Beggard, St John the Baptist Churchwarden Mrs Wendy Haigh 850196 Treasurer Mr Andrew Taylor 853261 PCC Secretary Mrs Penny Taylor 853261 Organist Ms Sheila Thackwray 851077

Dormington, St Peter Churchwardens Mrs Heather Jones 850806 Mr N Brewin, 18 The Maltings, Dormington 850456 Treasurer Dr B Wood, Woodavens, Dormington 850543 PCC Secretary Mrs C Brewin, 18 The Maltings, Dormington 850456

Lugwardine Christian Fellowship Leader Brian Hodges 359523

Around the Villages Primary School Headmistress: Miss Lindsey Taylor 850449 Gateway Nursery Mrs Judith Larkin 851392 Brown Owl Mrs B Hughes, 2 Sufton Rise, Mordiford 850863 British Legion A.S. Taylor 853261 Playing Fields Assoc. Chairman: Malcolm Harris, Upper Court, Lugwardine 851170 Cricket Club Secretary: Nigel Shore 07968 185095

Village Hall See Below

Parish Councils Lugwardine & Bartestree http://bartestreewithlugwardinegroup-pc.gov.uk/ Chairman Wendy Soilleux 07970 032512 Clerk Mrs. Emma Thomas 01885 490414 Weston Beggard Chairman Richard Williams 851438 Clerk Emma Thomas 01885 490414 ([email protected]) http://westonbeggardpc.org Dormington https://dormingtonmordifordgroup-pc.gov.uk/ Parish Council Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dormingtonandmordifordparishcouncil/ Chairman David Lloyd ([email protected]) 01432 870515 Clerk Chris Bucknell 07777 669662 ([email protected]) District Councillor (Backbury ward for Dormington) - John Hardwick 860322 District Councillor ( ward for Lugwardine/Bartestree) - Paul Andrews ([email protected])

Magazine - Editor Maggie Henderson 850767 Advertising Maggie Henderson 850767

Bartestree Village Hall Contacts Registered Charity Number 520933 Chairman Vice Chairperson Secretary Treasurer Booking Clerk Mr. Dom Robertson. Mr L Martin, Mr. Jonathan Mrs. Yvonne Robertson 10 Hollylea Close, 26 Barnaby Ave, Jackson 10 Hollylea Close Bartestree, Bartestree Hephill Bartestree 01432 851231 Bartestree 01432 851231 07971 005367 01432 851189 23

DAILY DIARY What’s on, Where and When MONDAYS Short Mat Bowls 1.45pm-4.45pm (not Bank Holidays or August) Bartestree Village Hall (contact Jean Haslock - 01432 851339, Eleanor Atkin –01432 357114) Brownies 6pm-7.30pm (contact Bernadette Hughes - 850863) Bartestree Village Hall Cool Moves Dance & Fitness 6.30pm-9.30pm (contact Matt Heenan 01989 750354) Bartestree Village Hall Gardening Club 7.30pm-9.30pm on 2nd Monday of month Bartestree Village Hall (contact Vic Breeze - 851096) Bellringing 7.30pm-9pm (tel. Henry Webb 890744) St Peter’s Church, Lugwardine Prayer Meeting 8pm Lugwardine Chapel

TUESDAYS Xplorers 2001 6pm – (Term Times) 4-11 years Lugwardine Chapel Hereford Art Circle 9.15am-1215pm (contact Jenny Price [email protected]) Bartestree Village Hall Weight Watchers 6-7pm (contact [email protected] 01684 569599 Bartestree Village Hall Pilates 7.30pm-8.30pm Bartestree Village Hall (contact Hannah Morely [email protected] 07510321131) Parish Council (Lug & Bart) 7.30pm-9.30pm -2nd Tuesday of alternate months Bartestree Village Hall Cricket Training 6pm - 8pm (contact Nigel Shore, 07968 185095) Bartestree Playing Fields

WEDNESDAYS Bridge Club 6.30pm-10pm (contact Val Lee Hfd. 275565) Bartestree Village Hall Junior Cricket Training 6.30pm - 8pm - Under 13s & Under 15s Bartestree Playing Fields U13/U15 (contact Nigel Shore, 07968 185095)

THURSDAYS Thursday Encounter 10.30am - Term Time Lugwardine Chapel Coffee Morning 10.30am (usually 3rd Thursday) Lugwardine Chapel Hath Yoga 9.30-10.30am ([email protected]) 07712 896902 Bartestree Village Hall Nicola School of Dance 4-9pm ([email protected]) 07900 167740 Bartestree Village Hall Xplorers Youth Club 7.30pm – Secondary School ages Lugwardine Chapel Hereford Photographic Society 7.30-9.30pm (1st & 3rd Thursday excl summer season) Bartestree Village Hall (contact Cliff Spooner: [email protected]) All Stars Cricket 5.15pm - 6.15pm - 5 - 8 year olds Bartestree Playing Fields 5 - 8 year olds (contact Phil Anderson 07787 004538) Junior Cricket Training 6.30pm - 8pm - All children up to Under 11s Bartestree Playing Fields U7/U9/U11 (contact Nigel Shore, 07968 185095)

FRIDAYS Bridge Club 11.30 – 2.30 p.m. Bartestree Village Hall (tel. Val Lee Hfd.275565 or Peter Harrison Hfd.271904)

SATURDAYS Football Training 10am-11.30am (5, 6 and 7 year olds) Bartestree Playing Field (anyone interested in playing football, all ages, contact Duncan Prosser, tel 850754, mob: 07854 495351)

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IF YOU NOTICE ANY ITEMS OF REFUSE WHICH HAVE BEEN DUMPED ON THE ROADSIDE OR IN THE LANES AROUND OUR VILLAGES PLEASE REPORT THE MATTER TO HEREFORDSHIRE COUNCIL ON 01432 261761 24