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DORCHESTER NEWS July/August 2015 FREE TO EVERY HOME IN THE PARISH Talking Point In this issue Abbey Bellringers 13 I was lucky enough to attend a perfor- Yet these missing links in our com- Abbey Calendar 28 mance of the opera La Traviata just munication - however they might Abbey Lighting 3 yesterday evening – it was a very spe- arise – can cause major misunder- Abbey spring clean 3 cial treat! It got me thinking about standings. Alice’s Birthday Party 10 Autumn Flower Show 8 communication. If you don’t know the Berinsfield Fete 23 plot here’s a quick sketch! In Act One Like Alfredo and Violetta, when we Berinsfield Library 23 the heroine (Violetta) is taken aback are new in a relationship or want Busking in the Abbey 3 by the protestations of love by a young something badly, we tend to work Chiropodist 9 admirer, Alfredo, who challenges her harder at our communication. Com- Concerts in the Abbey 3 to leave her life as a courtesan. Alt- munication becomes poorer when Deadline for September 28 hough she is initially reluctant, she we get so used to places, people Donald Pearce 13 finds herself convinced that a better and situations that we take them for Earth Trust 9 Fishmonger 25 life is possible and they move and set granted, and even poorer when we Focus on Abbey Tea Room 15 up home in a quiet suburb of Paris don’t tell the whole story – whether Footsteps Foundation 21 away from her previous life. our intention in that is good or bad! Hempcroft Allotment News 7 Funnily enough communication can Home library service 5 In Act Two, however, Alfredo’s father also become poorer when we see Hurst Water Meadow Trust 7 visits Violetta in secret and puts pres- more or less of one another than Little Baldon Air Disaster 17 sure on her to leave because his we are used – so holidays and re- Lorraine Lindsay-Gale 19 daughter has been rejected in mar- unions are times to have special Mobile library 9 Nettlebed Arts and Crafts 19 riage on account of the relationship attention paid to them! Parish chairman’s address green p1 her brother has with a prostitute. Vio- Parish councillor vacancy 7 letta makes up her mind to break the Centuries ago St Augustine wrote Parish notices green p1 relationship and leaves without telling that every person has a God- Parish Registers 28 Alfredo the reason, though assuring shaped gap in their lives – the only Refuse collections 27 him of her love. Alfredo’s father com- way to fill that gap is to communi- Regular events 27 forts him, but also fails to communi- cate with God. That doesn’t sound Ride + Stride 11 cate the real reason behind Violetta’s very easy but it couldn’t be easier – St Birinus School News 21 Speed monitoring 5 flight and Alfredo draws the conclusion make space to listen. Listening is at Talking Point 1 that she has returned to her former the heart of ALL good communica- Team Service 3 lover and protector. Anger, retribution, tion. In fact if Violetta and Alfredo Urgent Village Notices 21 muddle and sadness ensue in Act had listened carefully I suspect we Village bus services 27 Three and the couple are reunited wouldn’t feel like shouting ‘Why Wallingford Art Club 27 mere moments before Violetta’s death don’t you TELL him / her” W’ford Corn Exchange 25 at the end of Act Four. Wallingford Flower Club 27 This holiday why not take some Wallingford Museum 25 Wallingford U3A 21 All good dramatic stuff and beautifully time off to listen to yourself, to one Welcome 3 sung and staged but there was still a another and to God! Happy Listen- WI 5 bit of me that wanted to shout “But ing! York Mystery Play 17 why don’t you TELL him!” I might say Revd Canon Sue Booys Your Parish Council 7 that this is just make believe and yet that cry ‘But why don’t you TELL…….” isn’t an unusual one in so-called ‘real life’. There are so many times when we don’t say something important. Autumn Flower Show This may be in order to protect some- 5 September one or to stop ourselves feeling bad; maybe we misjudge the importance of Village Hall something or sometimes we simply See page 8 forget to mention it and then the mo- ment passes. 1 Dorchester News July/August 2015 Dorchester News Minor Injuries Editorial Team The Minor Injuries Unit at Abingdon Hospital, Marcham Road, is Ian Brace, Sue Dixon available every day from 10.00 am to 10.30 pm: 01865 425161. Distribution Co-ordinator A&E Rosemary Day The nearest A & E units are at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Copy Deadlines for Dorchester News Oxford (01865 741166) and the Royal Berkshire in Reading September edition 14 August (01183 225111) October edition 11 September Health Centre—Berinsfield November edition 9 October Telephone number 01865 340558 Clifton Hampden Surgery Advert Deadlines for Dorchester News Telephone Number 01865 407888 One week before copy deadline Those items in electronic form may be sent via e-mail attachment to Abbey Guest House Bookings [email protected]. Anything people Anyone wishing to hire the Abbey Guest House for private would like sent to newsletter editors for other churches in the functions, meetings, exhibitions, etc, should contact Hilarie Team should be sent to [email protected] by Rogers on 01865 340007. the 9th of the preceding month. Hire of Dorchester Village Hall Magazine Advertising Costs To hire our Village Hall, please contact Brenda Edwards; Why not use this parish magazine to advertise your business, [email protected], or telephone: service, function, etc? There are ten issues per year with double 01865 343062. Please telephone at least 24 hours in advance issues in July/August and in Dec/Jan. For an eighth of a page to arrange collection of the key. the cost is £11.75, for a quarter page £23.50, for a half page £35.25 and just £47.00 for a full page. The Communal Lounge at Belcher Court The communal lounge at Belcher Court is now available for rent. All charges are put towards the cost of the paper, printing and Contact the Scheme Manager, Caroline Major, on 01865 343128. postage of copies being sent outside the village. You may supply your own advert or we can produce the advert and Street lighting - fault reporting artwork for a fee. Report any problems with a street light to 0800 317802, which is available 24 hours a day. Callers will be asked for the address Should you wish to incorporate a logo or artwork, please supply a copy, of the site and the nature of the fault. preferably via e-mail: [email protected]. One-time adverts, please send a cheque, payable to ‘Dorchester Complaints about highways and footpaths Abbey PCC’, to Nick Forman, Willoughby House, 73 High Street, Ring Oxfordshire Highways on 0845 3101111, available five Dorchester-on-Thames, OX10 7HN. days a week, with a 24-hour answering facility. Complaints can also be sent via e-mail to [email protected]. Editorial Blocked Drains? This issue is for the two months of July and August. All the staff Ring Thames Water for blocked drains on 0800 316 9800. here at the Dorchester News can now relax and take a month off Callers will be asked for the postcode of the address where the until we return for September. drains are blocked. Before then we’ll be going to Alice’s 150th Birthday Party at the Refuse collection Village Hall on 11 July (page 10), and, if we haven't disappeared Any residents whose household rubbish is not collected on the down a rabbit hole, to the Safari Supper the following week due date (see page 27) should contact the contractor direct. The (page 3). Hopefully we will benefit from some warm summer number to call is 03000 610610 and the website days for tea and cake in the tea room garden, spotlighted in the www.morerecyling.co.uk Focus feature this month, before getting the secateurs sharpened and the kitchen scales out for Autumn Flower Show Berinsfield Library at the beginning of September (page 8). If you have children Green Furlong, Berinsfield 01865 340771 who get bored over the summer holidays, take a look at what Free Internet access. DVDs can be ordered. Berinsfield Library is offering (page 23). Opening hours Mon - closed Tues, Wed, Fri 10.00 am –12.30 pm I can’t close without drawing attention to Lorraine Lindsay-Gale’s Tues 2.00–7.00 pm Weds, Thurs 2.00–5.30 pm report from the County Council on page 19. She points out the Fri 2.00–5.00 pm Sat 10.00 am – 12.30 pm review of transport subsidies that is under way. I know that I Village Bus Services have banged on about buses before, but here our county representative is warning us that our bus services have really Information about village bus services is now given on inside back page. reached the point that we must ‘use them or lose them’. This echoes other recent reports in the local press, warning of the Information about bus services, both local and national, is drastic cuts that will come to under-used bus services in the next round of budget cuts. We could find ourselves without even the available from www.traveline.info, and 0871 200 2233, which few buses through the village that we currently have.