The Team Rector
Writes... Dear Friends, When Bishop Nicholas visited the deaneries of the Diocese during Lent 2015 to develop our conversation around the vision RENEWING HOPE – PRAY, SERVE, GROW, he challenged us with three questions: What do you pray for? Whom do we serve? How will you grow? Questions that might at a first glance seem easy to answer: I want to encourage you to take time this Advent to look at those questions and allow yourselves to be more challenged than you expect! Advent and Christmas are seasons for the renewing of hope and I wonder whether we might try sharing our stories of hope with each other, as we seek to tell the greatest story of hope? At the start of diocesan meetings we now spend time sharing our stories of hope, talking about the things that have given us hope recently. First a candle is lit as the centre of the meeting – symbol of Christ’s presence in our midst; the Bible is read and studied; then people tell one another their stories. Simple but profound and challenging too! It is easy to be busy and preoccupied by the needs and demands of the day, especially in preparation for Christmas! But how life giving and holy it is to seek out and name those moments when hope has erupted. For some Christmas is unbounded joy and excitement, for others it is painful and troubling. However, it is the moment when we reflect on the truth that God became a human being; forever to experience our joys and sorrows alongside us. That is why, however this Advent and Christmas finds you, it is a time when we can pray with Bishop Nicholas: God our Father, renew our hope. By the Holy Spirit’s power, The seasons strengthen us to pray readily, serve joyfully and grow abundantly, for renewing rejoicing in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. With prayers and best wishes during these holy days of Advent, of hope... Christmas and Epiphany.
Thomas M. B. Woodhouse Team Rector of Dorchester and The Winterbournes – 6 – The Parishes of The Winterbournes & Compton Valence
TEAM RECTOR TEAM VICAR Rev’d Canon Thomas Woodhouse (01305 267944) Rev’d Jean Saddington (01305 889992) ASSOCIATE PRIEST Jo Lacy-Smith (01305 889476) The Parish of the Winterbournes There is a single Parochial Church Council for Martinstown, Steepleton and Abbas but each parish church retains its own local church committee. Churchwardens Dick Corbett-Winder (889410), John Crawford (889377), Joy Parsons (889611) PCC Hon. Secretary Alison Crawford (889377) PCC Hon. Treasurer Bruce Robertson The Parish of Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Compton Valence Churchwarden & Treasurer – Jeremy Russell (01308 482227) Churchwarden & Secretary – Peter Steel (01308 482782) Any of the above can be approached in the first instance for Baptism, Marriage, Home Communion or just a visit and they would welcome being told when anybody has been bereaved or is ill. They have answerphones for you to leave a message. If you want us to remember anything or anyone in the public prayer of the Church, we would be glad to do this as long as permission of the person involved is assured. The true meaning of Christmas The Journey to the Stable is an interactive experience helping to explain the true meaning of Christmas. This is ideal for adults and children alike. The journey takes 20 - 30 minutes. There are seven stations focusing on a person or a part of the Christmas story with readings and reflections. At each there is a small activity or object for you to take away, so you leave with a bag of reflections and goodies. Open at the United Church, South Street, Dorchester on
Winterbourne Abbas Christmas Tree Festival December 5th marks the start of our Christmas Tree coathangers!). We do have a small number of donated Festival in St Mary’s Church at Winterbourne Abbas artificial trees available for those of you who do not and we are hoping that, with the help of local families have a tree or feel unable to make one but they will be and households the church will look the best it ever allocated on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. has done for Christmas! It is not a competition and there will be no prizes, the We are inviting you to bring a small Christmas tree most important thing is to join in and together make along to the church on the morning of 5th December, our lovely church look really wonderful for this the most decorate it (or bring your tree already decorated if you special time of the year! prefer!) and set it up in the church. Later the same day the trees will be blessed in a very informal celebration The church will be open (as it is every day) for people which will include refreshments for children and adults to come and see the trees and any donations received and some ‘messy’ craft activities for the children. will go to Winterbourne Valley School to help buy Forest School sessions for the children as part of their outdoor The trees can take whatever form you like – real or education activities. artificial, bought or homemade – the more creative the better! (There are loads of instructions online for If you would like to take part and for full details please making trees out of recycled materials including wire contact Joy Parsons on 01305 889611 .
– 7 – CHURCH CALENDAR December 2015 SUNDAY 6 DECEMBER – 2nd OF ADVENT 10.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Abbas 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER – 3rd OF ADVENT 08.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Martinstown 09.30 Holy Communion Compton Valence 11.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Steepleton
SUNDAY 20 DECEMBER – 4th OF ADVENT 10.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Abbas 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
CHRISTMAS DAY 09.30 Holy Communion Compton Valence 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
SUNDAY 27 DECEMBER – 1st OF CHRISTMAS 11.00 Songs of Praise Martinstown
CHURCH CALENDAR January 2016
SUNDAY 3 JANUARY – EPIPHANY 10.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Abbas 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
SUNDAY 10 JANUARY – BAPTISM OF CHRIST 08.00 Holy Communion (BCP) Martinstown 09.30 Holy Communion Compton Valence 11.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Steepleton
SUNDAY 17 JANUARY – 2nd OF EPIPHANY 10.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Abbas 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
SUNDAY 24 JANUARY – 3rd OF EPIPHANY 11.00 Holy Communion Martinstown
SUNDAY 31 JANUARY – 4th OF EPIPHANY 11.00 Holy Communion Winterbourne Steepleton for Valley and Valence
– 8 – ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS (Extra Services) The Churches of the Winterbournes and Compton Valence wish you a very happy & blessed Christmas
ADVENT 9.00 Friday 4th Winterbourne Abbas (WV School) CHRISTINGLE 3.00 Sunday 13th Martinstown CAROL SERVICES 4.00 Sunday 6th Brewers’ Arms 6.00 Thursday 10th Martinstown (WV School) 6.00 Tuesday 15th Steepleton Manor 6.00 Sunday 20th Martinstown 6.30 Monday 21st Compton Valence 6.00 Tuesday 22nd Winterbourne Steepleton CRIB SERVICES 3.00 Christmas Eve Winterbourne Abbas 4.00 Christmas Martinstown HOLY COMMUNION 11.00pm Christmas Eve Winterbourne Abbas 9.30 Christmas Day Compton Valence 11.00am Christmas Day Martinstown
All are welcome! Food Bank Christmas is coming and as you think about what you will eat and what presents you will give, please remember those whose choice will be very tightly limited by what they can afford – should it be heating or eating or presents? The Food Bank particularly asks for a few seasonal items of food as well as the usual staple foods to make Christmas a festival for everyone, including those living on the margins. Please leave items in any of the churches. Many thanks, John Crawford
– 9 – Paris Climate Change Conference is taking place between 30th November and the 11th December. The planet is warming up, deserts are expanding, resulting in migration to distant countries with cooler climates. Wars as a result of harvest failure and lack of water are being fought. Syria had four years of harvest failure which resulted in is people moving into the cities - one of the underlying causes of the Syrian Civil War Preventing further increase in our earth’s temperature is fundamental to living and sharing this planet fairly. The survival of this planet depends on an agreement between 196 countries on Carbon Emissions at the Paris Climate change conference so that the earth’s temperature does not increase by more than 2%. To support a successful outcome to the conference we are holding silent vigils through the valley during this period. Everyone is welcome - no religious language will be used, just turn up and sit quietly. The vigils will start at 6pm and will last up to 30 minutes (but please come and go as you wish) on the following dates: Monday 30th Nov; Saturday 5th Dec; Monday 7th Dec at Martinstown Church Tuesday 1st Dec; Friday 4th Dec; Tuesday 8th Dec; Friday 11th Dec at Winterbourne Steepleton Church Wednesday 2nd Dec; Thursday 3rd Dec; Wednesday 9th Dec; Thursday 10th Dec at Winterbourne Abbas Church Rev. Jo Lacy-Smith 889476 Winterbourne Steepleton Church Manor Grove Communal Room Martinstown Tuesday 22nd December at 6pm Sunday 6 December 10am - 2pm Tea/Coffee & Cake - £1.00 £5 to hire a table - contact: 01305 889964 Everyone welcome... for more information or to book
– 10 – This month’s musings by Frances Taylor Martinstown in November
How quickly this time of year comes bungalow had taken a direct hit and I never around! saw that blonde-haired girl again. I felt so guilty! Once again, on Remembrance Day, I stood with others under the emptying trees to It was a time both frightening and yet remember those who had died or had exciting that will stay with me for ever.” been seriously injured both physically and In addition to this memoir. I had been lent mentally in the service of their country. a copy of “Wartime Memories” by the During the ensuing service this prayer, was Autobiographical Writing Group of the read by an anonymous resident. He asked South Dorset Adult Education Centre in us to pray especially for a world divided by Weymouth. The following is an extract strife and fraction, by war and want, by our taken from a piece entitled “A Child’s War”. restless inhumanity to one another. “It wasn’t long before we were in the thick Bring peace to all those troubled parts of bombing. School went on as usual but of your world. We were asked to pray arrangements were made for air raid especially for Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, The precautions. One day those children who Sudan, Ukraine, Palestine and wherever lived near enough to the school had to run else men of violence seek to impose their home, touch the front door and run back. will on others. I think we had to do it in either one or two minutes and it must have been the fastest As I walked home after the service I run of my life for I managed to accomplish considered what it would have been like to it. I imagine that desperation gave wings have been a child in a war-torn world and to my feet! This proved almost a literal decided to do a bit of research. fact when the raids began in earnest for Firstly, I spoke to another anonymous as soon as the siren went my mother and resident who delved into the depths of aunt would rush up the street and meet memory and came up with the following me in my headlong flight. With hands and contribution: arms outstretched, they would snatch me up like a baton in relay race.” Attributed to “I was born and brought up in Plymouth Patricia Hockey. and attended Oreston Primary School. When war broke out Plymouth became a Later I questioned what memories some target for German bombers who set about children of the twenty-first century would the destruction of this naval city. At school retain. Sadly, many lives have been when the sirens sounded we were taken brutally disrupted. Particularly those living to the safety of a blacked out shelter. As in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Umpteem we had to sit in total darkness we had to escaping from horror have had to embark wear luminous badges so that an accurate on perilous journeys into Europe. My head count could be made. I had to sit next thoughts are with them and all those who to a girl with long blonde hair. A ‘girl’ and have lost loved ones in conflict. a smelly one at that. One day she was off school when the sirens came. Later, on my Editor’s note - this was written by Fran before the way home from school, I noticed that her atrocities that took place in Paris on Friday 13th November
– 11 – The Notice Board
MONDAY Table Tennis 2.30pm - 3.30pm Contact: Margaret Hearing - Tel: 01305 889346 Beavers, Cubs & Scouts 5.30pm - 7.30pm Contact: Sue Gower - Tel: 01305 889388 Valley Club 7.30pm - 10.00pm Contact: Pat Willets - Tel: 01305 889597 (3rd Monday in month)
TUESDAY Botanical Art Group 9.30am - 12.30pm Contact: Geoff Roberts - Tel: 01305 815735 (term times only) Dance Group 2.30pm - 4.30pm Contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248 Badminton 7.30pm - 9.30pm Contact: Trevor Elliot - Tel: 01305 267897
WEDNESDAY Pilates 9.30am - 10.30pm Contact: Sammie McFarland - Tel: 07807 090013 Chair-based Excercise 11.15am - 12.30pm Contact: Suzanne Fellows-Joyce - Tel: 01308 426390 W.I. 6.45pm - 9.00pm Contact: Jan Griffiths - Tel: 01305 889783 (2nd Wednesday in month) Beginners Dance 8.00pm - 10.00pm Contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248
THURSDAY Art Group 10.30pm - 12.30pm Contact: Betty Hoddinott - Tel: 01305 262217 Dance Group 8.00pm - 10.00pm Contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248
FRIDAY Keep Fit Class 10.15am - 11.30am Contact: Suzanne Fellows-Joyce - Tel: 01308 426390 Bingo 7.00pm - 9.30pm Contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248 (Every other Friday)
Chairperson: Jane Jones – Tel: 01305 889202 Bookings: Ann Matthews – Tel: 889248 or email: ronann.matthews @btinternet.com
– 12 – To book the hall, contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248 The NoticeN Board cont. Email: ronann.matthews @btinternet.com
FRIDAY LUNCH CLUB 2015 DATES Enjoy a two-course meal, gentle background£6.00 Please music arrive and by a 12.30pm convivial atmosphere – all for just 4th Dec. Last date for this year: We are very keen to recruit more cooks or teams of cooks. Please contact Jan 889738. If you wish to come along, please contact: at least 4 days before the event. Cedric Moorcroft on 889438 Everyone in the valley is welcome! This will help prevent any disappointment.
Martinstown Scout Group Indoor and outdoor activities for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. Meeting Mondays 5.30pm - 6.30pm (Beavers), 6.15pm - 7.30pm (Cubs & Scouts) • Martinstown Village Hall For more information call SUE GOWER - Cub Leader on 01305 889388 or 07800 537722 • Adult helpers sought (no previous experience necessary).
Dear Martinstown Village Hall users,
Many thanks to those of you who use our Village Hall regularly, and respectfully leave it as you found it. Unfortunately I recently found the left-hand entrance door unlocked, as well as the storeroom door unbolted (and therefore open) twice this week!!
If wheelchair access necessitates the opening of both entrance doors, PLEASE ensure that they are both securely bolted and locked afterwards. It goes without saying what the implications are of an unlocked Village Hall.
Equally, if equipment is used from the storeroom and both doors are unbolted, PLEASE ensure that the right-hand door is bolted again. before locking up.
Thank you (in anticipation)
Jane Jones
– 13 – To book the hall, contact: Ann Matthews - Tel: 01305 889248 The Notice Board cont. Email: ronann.matthews @btinternet.com
THE VALLEY CLUB
On Monday, 19 October: the Valley Club of the “Hound of the Baskervilles”. The spent a very interesting evening listening to performance being in aid of the Alzheimer’s Mark Ching describing and showing slides of Charity; if you missed out on supporting “Wicked Winters”. this event but would like to make a donation please pass it on to Ann Matthews. The winter of 1564 was the coldest on record, the River Thames becoming completely frozen to a depth of 12 inches. The Valley Club Christmas Social meeting Narrow arched bridges slowed the current will be held on Monday, 18 January 2016 – it which due to the extreme cold meant that will comprise of a fish and chip supper with the water froze over – this saw the beginning wine or cider; entertainment to be provided of the London Frost Fairs; as bridge arches by the “Dorset Wrecks” a sea shanty singing became wider the current flowed more group. Tickets are priced at £5 for members quickly and less ice would form. and £8 for non-members and are available We heard of the brutal frost of 1739 – 1740, from Eileen Fisher. It should be a good fun of smog, smoke mixed with fog and even evening and very popular so do not delay in of an avalanche in Lewes, Sussex! Mark getting your tickets! finished with some amusing winter facts including that of new trains that were unable to operate due to the wrong sort of Everyone on the Valley Club Committee snow. It was an informative and extremely would like to take this opportunity to wish entertaining evening. you all a Christmas filled with comfort and a joy and a very happy and healthy New Year.
By the time this has gone to press, many of us will have enjoyed an evening with “The Sally Webb – Tel: 889097 Martinstown Players” performing their spoof
– 14 – Martinstown Mileaters ON TOUR By Lesley Pemberton Mileaters at Melbury Park - walk leaders Richard and Karin Coode
On an overcast but still and pleasant autumn with its barrel roof, oil lamps and heated by day 11 Mileaters , plus 3 dogs, enjoyed a 6 one large wood -burning stove. The church, mile circular walk from the Rest and Comfort particularly the unique font – said to be part Inn on A37 near Melbury Osmund. After of an 11th century Saxon Cross - was being crossing the fields to the lower part of the lovingly cleaned by a couple ahead of their village, we followed the length of the drive grand daughter’s christening. Walking now through Melbury Park, the home of Mrs. along the wood Charlie-girl wanted to go her Caroline Townshend and the administrative own way and explore the wood, we thought centre of the Ilchester Estates, with its lovely she might just be going to fetch a large stick vistas and plantings with so many varieties to carry home as she had picked up a few on of trees. A fairly unique and special position today’s walk and it seemed the bigger the where a public footpath runs through the branch the better . But after a few shouts from centre of what has been called “the most the Mileaters she came running back empty beautiful deer park in England”. mouthed, what a good dog. The last section of the walk was across level open fields, with After short coffee stop close to Evershot the brief visit to St Edwold’s Church, said to be walk turned eastwards to re-cross the busy the second smallest church in England. On A37 with short climb to the dense woods on leaving this church we headed off over the Bubb Down Hill. The path out of Stock Wood field with a few horses in grazing peacefully, has the worrying wooden sign “Murder’s until one horse took a shine to Olly the dog, it Lane”, and just prior to this one walker just wouldn’t leave him alone - we thought it found a (modern) claw hammer in the fallen was the start of a great romance! But with leaves on the path – there was some initial a little help Olly got away from his admirer reluctance to pick it up for fear potential and we were all walking again. The walk incriminating finger prints! After pausing to concluded at the Inn Rest and Welcome with recover and enjoy the lovely view over North honest pub fayre and hospitality, together with Dorset, most of the group made short descent customary Mileaters good company. to Melbury Bubb to visit its interesting church
– 15 – Martinstown Women’s Institute December ‘15 /January ‘16
Martinstown Women’s Institute At our meeting on 11 November we were joined by a number of visitors to hear about the work of the Portland Coast Watch. This service is staffed entirely by volunteers working in 4 hour shifts, 364 days of the year, during daylight hours. They maintain close contact with the Coastguard and the Weymouth Life Boat as they keep constant watch over the very dangerous waters around Portland Bill and Lyme Bay and we were shown footage of some dramatic rescues in high seas off the Bill.
At our next meeting on 9 December we will be “Exploring Spices with Sunita”. We would like you all to bring a spicy recipe – savoury or sweet. I would also be glad to receive more recipes for the Cookery Book we are planning to produce.
We will be making our usual Christmas collection for the Women’s Refuge – toiletries for the ladies, who often leave home at short notice taking nothing with them and toys for the children. Please bring these to the December meeting.
The January meeting will be another Open Meeting - “Dorset – My Dorset” with Bonnie Sartin of the Yetties”. We do hope that many visitors will join us on 13 January at 7.30 pm for a very entertaining evening.
Best wishes to you all for a very Happy Christmas and New Year from Martinstown W.I..
Angela Barrett - Secretary
CABARET STARRING - Liza Minelli & Michael York Thurs 28th January 2016 Brewer’s Arms, Martinstown Starts 7.30pm
FREE to all our customers but space is limited. BREWER’S ARMS Why not enjoy a Brewers meal before the film? FILM NIGHT
– 16 – Winterbourne Valley CE VA First School PTFA December ‘15 /January ‘16
The next PTFA meeting will be in January for each of the children. (date to be confirmed) when we will be The PTFA Christmas Meal is going to making plans for spring term fundraising, be at The Brewers Arms on Friday 18th including the very popular chocolate bingo. December. This is always a lovely evening Look out for the date in a future edition of and the food is delicious. All are welcome. Valley and Valence. If you haven’t already booked your place Thank you to everyone who took part in and would like to come, please get in the Christmas Card Project. There were touch with Kay Dawson ASAP. lots of brilliant works of art and I’m sure On behalf of the PTFA, I would like to wish the children were very proud to see their you all a very Happy Christmas. picture made into a Christmas Card. This month the children will be looking Beverley Smith - Chairperson forward to a delicious Christmas dinner Contact via: served by the PTFA and then a visit from offi[email protected] Santa on the last day of term, with a present
HELP WANTED... We are a shift-working couple and need care for our 2 boys (aged 10 and 8) from 6.45- 8am, on average 1-2 days per week (NOT weekends) – actual days will depend on our leave and whether our shifts fall during the week or on weekends. It will be different each week, but with plenty of notice. The boys need supervising whilst getting ready for school, eating breakfast and catching dedicated school transport (pick-up point directly outside the house). Essential Criteria: Aged 17+ / Committed and reliable / OK with dogs Payment is £15 each morning. To discuss further, please ring Marianne on 01305 266560
COMPTON VALENCE SNOW DROPS - VILLAGE HALL LUNCHES and TEAS Monday 1st - Friday 12th February 2016 COME and WALK/DRIVE through our beautiful village and see the stunning white drifts of snowdrops. (The village hall is below the church by the red phone box) OPEN (WEATHER PERMITTING): 10.30am -3.30 pm Daily If possible please ring Pippa James 01305 889338 or Tessa Russell 01308 482 227 to book so we can cater accordingly. Pre booked guests will take priority as the hall is small. In bad/icy weather we may not be open. Please be considerate of our village/verges etc when parking or ring us to discuss your needs so we can advise you where to go. We look forward to seeing you. – 17 – The Duchess of Wurttemberg -or, goings-on on Maiden Castle… by Terry Hearing
On Michaelmas Day September 29th 1798 the best of 3 heats. crowds began to gather on a dewy Maiden No 4 - A pound of tobacco to be grinned for. Castle. They came from Martinstown and the other Winterborne villages, and further, No 5 - A barrel of beer to be rolled down the hill – at the invitation (or perhaps command) of Prize to whoever stops it. their landlord William Morton Pitt, who lived No 6 - A Michaelmas goose to be dived for. at Kingston Maurward. He also invited the No 7 - A good hat to be cudgelled for. King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, who was taking his annual family holiday in No 8 - Half a guinea for the best ass in three heats. Weymouth. No 9 - A handsome hat for the boy most expert in The occasion was extraordinary: it was called catching a roll dipped in treacle and suspended by a string. to celebrate the birthday of the Duchess of Wurttemberg, who lived in Germany, and No 10 - A leg of mutton and a gallon of porter to the who did not come back to England for thirty winner of a race 0f 100 yards in sacks. years after her marriage in 1797 to a German No 11 - A good Hat to be wrestled for. prince, Frederick. No 12 - Half a guinea to the rider of the ass who wins Why celebrate? The Duchess was the King’s the best of 3 heats by coming in last. eldest daughter, Princess Charlotte, and No 13 - A pig. Prize to whoever catches him by the George III was very family-minded (he had tail. fifteen children), and no doubt Pitt thought that a gigantic party with lots of country An umpire to be chosen in each of the pursuits would stand him above cases to settle all well with the King. George III circumstances relative to the was known to hanker after same & declare the winners, a country life, and one of his and if he gives satisfaction nick-names was ‘Farmer he will receive half a crown. George’. [twelve and a half pence] It may be that the Queen, the What an entertainment! I hope other princesses, and the the King enjoyed himself, aristocratic courtiers who and that he reported to the perforce had to come too, Duchess in his next letter to might have felt differently Wurttemberg that his loyal as they clambered up the subjects in the Winterborne ramparts splashing their way Valley had duly and vigorously through the inevitable and unavoidable mud. wished her a Happy Birthday. She needed consolation – her marriage to Duke Frederick We have the programme for the day: it was produced only one stillborn child, in April of later published in the Annual Register. It is a the same year. In the twists and turns of the pity that there is no list of prize-winners. Napoleonic Wars her husband Frederick was for No 1 - To be played for at cricket a round of beef. a period allied to the French emperor, and was Each man of the winning set to have a riband. elevated to the title of King by him, so Charlotte No 2 - A cheese to be rolled down the hill – Prize became a Queen. George III was not amused, to whoever stops it. since this made his son-in-law his enemy – but in the eventual Peace in 1815 the title was No 3 - A silver cup to be run for by ponies – the confirmed. Charlotte died in 1828.
– 18 – TheValley Royal & Valence British Parish Legion Magazine News December ‘15 /January May 2014 ‘16 Abbotsbury and Portesham Branch The Branch A.G.M. was held on 12 November, during which Branch Certificates of Appreciation were presented by the President to Peter Burge, Pauline Burge, David Dunford, Angela Goodwin Joyce Pugh, Ray Roper and John Studley, in recognition of their services to the Branch.
As a result of a successful 8-day tour of Italy, Des Baker was able to present a cheque for £538.50 to P.A.O. Mrs.Pat Crockett for the Poppy Appeal. The total raised for the Poppy Appeal, from all sources, for the previous year amounted to £3854.85.
By the time this goes to print we shall have enjoyed a two-day visit to London to see one of the last performances of “Miss Saigon” and enjoyed a guided visit to the Houses of Parliament. Seats are still available for our shopping trip to Exeter on 19 December. Pick-ups are Winterborne Abbas 10.15 a.m., Old Post Office Portesham 10.20 a.m., other stops as required. Fare £20. A Happy Christmas to everyone.
Des Baker "8]V^gbVc!HdX^Va;jcY%&(%*'+,+&, or email aveswood @sky.com.
Ashton Farm Barn, Martinstown, DT2 9HA January 2nd, 2016 at 3.00pm Waltzes and Polkas by Johann Strauss and the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings by Mozart Principal players from Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the BBC Symphony Orchestra Tickets £15 (including refreshments) can best be reserved by email: [email protected] or Telephone 01305889877
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– 20 – CUT OUT AND KEEP EXTRACTS OF THE X51 TIMETABLE - FROM 27TH SEPTEMBER 2015 (a) 08.27 added on weekdays and Saturday, (b) note added for weekday 07.51. X51 – AXMINSTER to DORCHESTER MON. to FRI. Schooldays only W’bourne Abbas 06.25 07.25 07.44 08.20 Martinstown PO 06.32 07.32 07.51 08.27 Poundbury QM Sq 06.40 07.40 07.59 08.35 D. C. H. 06.43 07.43 08.02 08.38 Dorch. Sth. Station 06.53 07.53 See note below. 08.48
Note: The 07.51 bus continues to Weymouth as a Service 10 operating via Bridport Rd, Williams Ave, Damers Rd, Great Western Rd, Weymouth Ave. Customers can disembark at Brewery Square.
SATURDAY W’bourne Abbas 07.25 08.20 Santa - Martinstown PO 07.32 08.27 looking for Poundbury QM Sq 07.40 08.35 a bus... D. C. H. 07.43 08.38 Dorch. Sth. Station 07.53 08.48
X51 – DORCHESTER to AXMINSTER MON. to FRI. Non-School School Times Times Dorch. Sth. Station 15.45 15.45 17.15 18.11 Dorch. Trinity St. 15.49 15.49 17.19 18.15 D. C. H. 15.53 15.53 17.23 18.19 T. Hardye School --- 16.01 ------Poundbury QM Sq 15.57 16.05 17.27 18.23 Martinstown PO 16.04 16.12 17.34 18.30 W’bourne Abbas 16.13 16.21 17.43 18.39
SATURDAY Dorch. Sth. Station 15.45 17.15 18.11 Dorch. Trinity St. 15.49 17.19 18.15 D. C. H. 15.53 17.23 18.19 Poundbury QM Sq 15.57 17.27 18.23 Martinstown PO 16.04 17.34 18.30 W’bourne Abbas 16.13 17.43 18.39
These bus times are subject to change at a moment’s notice (it seems). If you have access to the internet, you can contact FIRST bus company at: www.firstgroup.com/wessex-dorset-south-somerset for timetables and travel updates.
– 21 – Recycling & Rubbish Collection Dates December ‘15 /January ‘16
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GARDEN WASTE Collection Dates December ‘15 /January ‘16
December 2015 January 2016 4th (Friday) - garden waste 15th (Friday) - garden waste 18th (Friday) - garden waste 29th (Friday) - garden waste
MOBILE 14th Dec 2015 - 11th 15th Jan 2016 LIBRARY Winterbourne Winterbourne Martinstown VISITS Abbas Steepleton 15.15-15.55 Alternate 14.15-14.40 14.45-15.05 Village Hall Wednesdays The School Hamlands
Alternative transport, particulary concerning Steepleton & Martinstown 6"A>C:IVm^HZgk^XZI^bZiVWaZ[dgBVgi^chidlcIZa/%&(%*'+),), idWdd` Mondays and Fridays only From Martinstown Bus Stop to Dorchester A-LINE office - 10.15am & 13.15pm From Dorchester A-LINE office to Martinstown Bus Stop - 13.00pm & 14.45pm First come first served - will need to book - £1.50 single£3.00 return Damory 61 Bus Service Timetable - Wednesdays only TO DORCHESTER - Departs: Steepleton 10.45am Martinstown 10.50am - Arrives Dorch: 11.00am FROM DORCHESTER - Departs: 13.15pm - Arrives: Martinstown 13.23am Steepleton 13.28am Damory 211 Bus Service Timetable - Mondays to Fridays only DORCHESTER - WEYMOUTH - Departs: Martinstown (Post Office) 09.25am - (Corner) 09.26am WEYMOUTH - DORCHESTER - Departs: Martinstown (Corner) 14.47pm - (Post Office) 14.48pm
Dorset Police – Safer Neighbourhood Team
Sarah Pilcher (PCSO 5410) will be at: The Brewers Arms, Martinstown 2pm - 2.30pm (from Wed 10th Feb) Second Wednesday of every month in 2016 If you cannot make it but would like to talk then please contact me on - 101 or Dorchester-rural-snt- @dorset.pnn.police.uk Visits are subject to operational commitments. Thanks Sarah PCSO 5410 Community Support Officer
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PDF files of this and previous issues 100 CLUB DRAW can be downloaded at: Compton Valence www.martinstown.co.uk/mag Martinstown November 2015 The village news website at: October 2015 http://martinstownnews.webplus.net £25 Cerry McQueen £25 John Coulson £10 Jackie Cain submissions for this website to: £10 Jill Pascall martinstownnews @aol.com £5 Roger Hall £ 5 Timothy Chick PARISH MAG ON THE NET THE ON MAG PARISH
Answers Knit and Natter... to last Every Friday at The Brewers Arms month’s 1.30pm - 3pm Crossword Contact: Anne Bennett (01305 889613) for more details. FILM NIGHT at the BREWERS ARMS NEW SEASON’S PROGRAMME 2015/16 Third Thursday of each month (except December) 18th Feb Reach for the Sky - Kenneth More and Muriel Pavlov 17th Mar You’ve Got Mail - Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan 21st Apr Oklahoma - Gordon McCrae Shirley Jones COFFEE MORNING
MINI PUZZLE Across 1. Move periodically or seasonally 5. Request urgently or persistently 6. Intransigent 7. Clause Down 1. Eye makeup 2. Dashing ANSWERS IN NEXT 3. Antiquated MONTH’S ISSUE 4. Give the right to - no prizes... just for fun!
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