BIGBURY NEWS Dec 2018 & Jan 2019 BUMPER ISSUE 442 New Website
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BIGBURY NEWS Dec 2018 & Jan 2019 BUMPER ISSUE 442 New website: https://bigburydrums.wixsite.com/bigburydrums BIGBURY DRUMS Subscribe p3 BigburyDrums 50:100 CLUB 2019 Spaces on Sale December only please us. p14 KORNILOFF CHRISTMAS FAIR Memorial Hall 5th Dec 10.30 p5 CHRISTMAS LUNCH Golf Club 6th Dec 12.30 WINE TASTING p4 Memorial Hall 7th Dec 7 pm LIVE MUSIC OYSTER SHACK 8th & 21st Dec BIGBURY KIDS XMAS PARTY 12th Dec 4 - 6 pm KIDS CAROL SINGING Tues 18th Dec p6 CHRISTINGLE St Lawrence 23rd Dec 11 am CAROLS on the GREEN BIGBURY GREEN 24th Dec 6.30 pm p4 QUIZ NIGHT p4 Memorial Hall 11th Jan 7pm £21,857 RAISED for CHARITIES p14 SIGN UP for BIGBURY DRUMS weekly e-News for EVENTS and ALERTS [email protected] ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• TOP SECRET MENU ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mussel Madness 1lb 4oz mussels, unlimited fries & bread £10.00 Add a pint of Devon Rock for £2.90 Shack Classic Fish Pie with unlimited roast veg £14.00 Add a glass of the Shack Sauvignon for £2.90 Shack Trio of Fish & Chips Beer battered prawns, breaded plaice & grilled catch of the day. Served with unlimited chunky chips & minted mushy peas £12.50 Add a pint of Salcombe Pale Ale for £2.90 Finish it all off with.... Chef’s Sponge of the Day £3.00 Add a glass of Dessert Wine for £2.50 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• The Oyster Shack Milburn Orchard Farm, Stakes Hill, Bigbury, Devon, TQ7 4BE Open Wednesday to Sunday 12.00 to 3.00pm Friday & Saturday 6.00pm to 9.00pm MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY NEW YEAR ***** LOCALS OFFER ***** Use the secret code "BigOnes" over Christmas and into the New Year when you arrive at The Shack to get our special offers menu Open Wednesday to Sunday Book online at www.oystershack.co.uk 12.00 to 3.00pm Or telephone 01548 810876 Friday & Saturday Milburn Orchard Farm, Stakes Hill, Bigbury, TQ7 4BE 6.00pm to 9.00pm 2 LETTER FROM Bigbury News is a free publication which CONTENTS keeps rolling off the press because of support THE EDITOR from Advertisers, Donors and Volunteers. Letter from Editor 3 Dear Readers, Over the holidays please consider donating MEMORIAL HALL EVENTS 4 & 5 Welcome to this BUMPER EDITION of or upgrading your advert to a colour version. Korniloff, Bigbury Bookworms 5 Bigbury News for December and January. Thank you. Bigbury Ladies, Waves Youth Club 7 Bigbury Watch 11 Have you signed up for the new weekly digest Please attend the events organised by our Bigbury Bio-Blog (Resolutions) 11 of events, alerts and promotions - Bigbury Memorial Hall Committee and other people Bigbury Cares 12 & 14 Drums? Almost 300 people have subscribed who are trying to raise funds for charities or St Lawrence Church 15 to this free service and can now view posters simply get people together. Second home Our Volunteers 16 about local events sent to their inbox each owners are encouraged to plan their visits to week. Send your email contacts to - coincide with these events - to meet neigh- CALENDAR & EVENTS 20 & 21 [email protected] bours and make new friends. You are part of Our new Bigbury Drums website also has our Community! Please join in. Keeping Bigbury Busy 24 the upcoming events, places to eat & drink, Beach Banter 26 & 27 places to stay, local business directory, clubs & Together Bigbury raised more than £22,000 Culture Club (John Simes) 28 & 29 societies and alerts. Check it out! for local charities in 2018. If you want Pub Cat Speaks 29 Bigbury Bio Blog (Water Quality) 30 & 31 https://bigburydrums.wixsite.com/bigburydrums to organise an event in the Memorial Hall Hedgerow News 31 you should contact the Chairman, Charles Bigbury Bakers & 19th Hole 33 Organisers who want to promote local events Harrington. and businesses who want to advertise in Big- BPC Minutes (Nov) 34, 36 37 bury Drums, please contact our Advertising Thank you to our new volunteers and con- Affordable Housing Scheme 38 Manager, Marina Leadbetter; tributors for Bigbury News, who have added Rusty’s Christmas Message back page [email protected] a lot of excellent new content and also taken some of the workload from my shoulders. Please encourage people to sign up for Big- I have thoroughly enjoyed my first year as bury Drums. The more subscribers we have, Bigbury News Editor. With a growing team the more interest we have from advertisers. of helpers, the quality of Bigbury News will continue to improve. Finally, a great Bigbury Thank You to the ad- FREE COPIES vertisers, sponsors and those who have made Bigbury News - to 450 homes in Bigbury donations, to keep Bigbury News pumping THANKS to volunteer DISTRIBUTION TEAM off the press every month. A special thank you to one anonymous donor who regularly DONATIONS pays us a monthly amount. welcome all year round cheques ‘Bigbury News’ post to - The Editor, Big- At this time of year, we should spare a bury News, Long Easton, Easton, TQ7 4AN. thought for those who are no longer with BIGBURY PARISH or ask Editor for BACS details us and for those who will miss them most. DEFIBRILLATOR SCHEME SUBSCRIPTIONS Let’s be sure that in 2019 - we try to build 2nd class post to UK mainland bridges if needed, seek and give forgiveness, Bigbury Parish is part of the Commu- £30 per year (10 issues - colour version) try harder and be even more generous with nity Public Access Defibrillator (cPAD) payments as detailed above. our time and charity. In a war-torn world, scheme, administered by the South-West- [email protected] it’s worth the effort to prove that Community 01548 810991 ern Ambulance Service. The cPAD Spirit is a powerful force for good if we make scheme provides annual training, a 24hr HOLYWELL STORES the effort to keep the candle burning. support service to trained staff including free copies a counselling service and full support for Happy Christmas and a Bountiful New Year devices including replacement electrodes FREE DOWNLOADS Louise Wainwright and batteries. https://bigburydrums.wixsite.com/bigburydrums Bigbury News Editor These defibrillators can be used by the Feature Contributors: Stuart Watts and Fiona NEW COPY DATE general public with or without little train- Barker (Bigbury Bio Blog), Norman Botton & Trish 15th of the ing, nevertheless we are going to invest Bagley (Take a Walk on the Wildside), Richard preceding month in South-Western Ambulance Service Matthews (Parish Minutes), Valerie Scott (Neigh- training sessions. The next CPR & Defib bourhood Plan), Marlene Johnson (Nineteenth session will take place at the: Hole), Alice Taylor (Hedgerow News), Matilda Memorial Hall St Ann’s Chapel on Pitt (Waves Youth Club), Rusty (ODA Agent) DISCLAIMER Wed 6th February 2019 at 6.30 pm. and Monty (The Pub Cat). Bigbury News and Editor cannot be held responsible for any loss or inconvenience caused by any inaccurate information Event Reporters: Sally Watts and Charles Har- We encourage the community to attend. rington, Michael Tagent, Hazel Osborne, Jean Wright contained within this magazine. Please contact the relevant No need to book. Light refreshments and Yvonne Klidjian. party directly to confirm the details of any information or event. Inclusion of a business advertisement does not imply a provided. Further information contact: Photo credits: recommendation by Bigbury News or the Editor. Please take Louise Wainwright, Mike Wynne-Powell, Alice Taylor Yvonne Klidjian 810971, Jeremy Gil- up references of previous clients or customers before enlisting bert 810235 or David Gay 810146 Marlene Johnson and Oyster Shack. the services or products advertised herein. Editor Louise Wainwright [email protected] 07908 525663 (01548) 810991 Long Easton, Easton , Bigbury TQ7 4AN Advertising: Marina Leadbetter Treasurer: Lucinda Ellis Bigbury Communications Team: Stuart Watts, Lucinda & Aidan Ellis, Rose Owen, Valerie Scott and John Davies. Distribution Team: Simone Stevens, Jim Bennett, Don Dyke, Peter & Gill Cook, Trish Bagley, Jill Gubbins, Suzy Owelett, Danny Grace, Burgh Island Causeway, NISA shop, Park Dean, Noel & Ursula Thornton, Sally Watts, Margaret Singleton, John Simes, Elise Wilson, Jenny Very, Jane Tucker, Ann Lamble, Burgh Island, Pickwick, Hexdown, Oyster Shack, Venus Cafe, Holywell Stores and Jas & Jaswinder Kooner. Thanks to the Kooners for delivering the bundles of Bigbury News to the Distribution Team and allowing Holywell Stores to be a pick up point. 3 WINE TASTING Eight wines presented by Barrel & Still of (formerly The Wine Room) Kingsbridge Great home made nibbles Bigbury Memorial Hall 7.00 pm Friday 7th December 2018 Tickets £10 from Holywell Stores or Charles Harrington 810023 BIGBURY QUIZ NIGHT 2019 We’ll supply the questions, a pasty each and one bottle of wine per table of 6 people; you provide the glasses, brain power and any extra drink required. Bigbury Memorial Hall 7.00pm Friday 11th January 2019 Tickets £6 from Holywell Stores St Lawrence’s Church, St Lawrence’s Church, Bigbury Bigbury Tickets £2.50 from Holywell Stores Come to our Sunday 23rd December at 11 a.m. 4 BIGBURY LIFE BIGBURY MEMORIAL HALL KORNILOFF Bringing the Community Together COFFEE MORNING In October, we kicked off our Winter programme with the Paddleboat Theatre perform- ing “Rustle”, their wonderful mix of story-telling, music and theatre. The twenty or so On Wednesday 7th November we children and parents who came thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly the children. Despite raised £167 for the Kingsbridge being scheduled for half term the attendance was, frankly, disappointing, so much so that Triangle Centre. It is staffed by ex- we shall have to reconsider putting on similar shows in the future. perienced cancer nurses, therapists and trained volunteers who help At the time of writing, we are looking forward to hosting the Churchfitters and their cancer patients and their families unique brand of folk music on Sunday 18th November.