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1 THE PARISHES OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, MARSTON MAGNA and RIMPTON www.marstonmagnachurch.org.uk RECTOR. Revd. Barbara Stanton [email protected] Tel: 850745 The Rectory, Camel Street, Marston Magna, BA22 8DD (To whom all enquiries should be made) EDITOR: Samuel David Crabb [email protected] Tel: 850274 Wickham Farm, Marston Magna RIMPTON CONTACT Nicola Benbow, Ash House, Rimpton [email protected] Tel: 850434 MARSTON MAGNA CONTACT S D Crabb, Wickham Farm, Marston Magna [email protected] Tel: 850274

RIMPTON SERVICES: These will vary month by month during the current pandemic. Please refer to page 4 for full details.

MARSTON MAGNA SERVICES: These will vary month by month during the current pandemic. Please refer to page 4 for full details.

CHURCH OFFICERS

RIMPTON MARSTON MAGNA

CHURCH WARDENS Mrs H. J. Stephens, Home Farm Cottage 851860 Mr K N Field, 2 Homefield Court Tel: 850705 Mr J Tricker, Lessenden 850922 Mrs R Pengelly, 7 Townsend Tel: 851385

TREASURERS Mrs Pam Hopkins, Ash Cottage, Marston Magna 850949 Mr Hugh Privett, The Manor Tel: 850294

P.C.C. SECRETARIES Mrs. M Green, Lark Rise, Woodhouse Lane 01963 220943 Mrs B Field, 2 Homefield Court Tel: 850705

ORGANISTS Mr Hugh Privett, The Manor Tel: 850294

CAPTAIN of BELL-RINGERS Mrs Caroline Baillie, Ginaville Tel: 850128

CHURCH ROTAS MARSTON MAGNA Flower/Church Cleaning Sidesmen/Readers Vacant Mr. Richard Venning Park Farm Tel: 851104

RIMPTON Flower Rota/Brass Cleaning Church Cleaning Mrs M Le Hardy Tel: 850212 Mrs Green Tel: 01963 220943

THIS MAGAZINE IS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE TO EVERY HOUSE IN THE TWO PARISHES AND IS PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST DAY OF EACH MONTH. MATERIAL SHOULD BE SENT TO THE RIMPTON AND MARSTON MAGNA CONTACTS NOT LATER THAN THE 20TH OF EACH MONTH. IT IS PRINTED ON THE 26th MONTHLY. VOLUNTARY DONATIONS TOWARDS PRODUCTION COSTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

THE MAGAZINE IS ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE AT marstonmagnaparish.co.uk AND AT rimpton.net

David Floyd took the aerial photos of our churches using his drone. David lives in Marston Magna and his mobile is 07951780180, his email is [email protected] , He has completed the CAA course and has the necessary permissions to fly in airspace not above 400 ft, needed because of Yeovilton. If you are looking for some Aerial Photography to be done of anywhere or of anything in our two villages, just ask him.

2 THE RECTORY December 2020

Dear All

Well, we have all heard the grim news. We are in Tier 2. However it does enable us to return to worship in our churches. We can only safely have one service a Sunday. We will have two Carol Services, but they will be different, with no congregational singing, but with music. Reading the words of hymns when we had been allowed back, brought a new dimension to actually understanding what was being sung about and this will be the same for carols. We can also only cope with thirty people to be socially distanced. Masks must also be worn. There will be two Carol Services, one in Marston Magna and one in Rimpton.

Please will you phone me if you would like to come to the Carol Service in Marston Magna, or Christmas Communion in Marston Magna and Hilary Stephens for the Carol Service in Rimpton and Christmas Day, on a first come first serve basis? There is a limit of 30 people at all services. Sadly, we cannot hold Crib Services because of the cleaning involved between two services on the same day.

In spite of all the necessary restrictions to make an end to the suffering Covid-19 has brought, it is still Christmas, the time we remember the Son of God being born as a human baby. The Word made flesh for our salvation, as the last lesson of our carol services proclaims each and every year corona virus or not.

I wish you all a very happy and healthy Christmas of 2020 and we look forward to the New Year with the advent of a vaccine to make life safer again for everyone.

Revd. Barbara 01935 850745 [email protected].

STUDY GROUPS Marston/Rimpton Home Group

The Study Groups have been meeting fortnightly on Wednesdays since the rule of 6 was introduced. Meeting in a garden, and we can now meet in a church with up to 30 people. If you would like to join us, please ring Revd. Barbara Stanton on 01935 850745.

Revd. Barbara

Morning Prayer, Compline and Christmas

Rimpton are decorating windows for Christmas and that would be lovely too in Marston Magna. Christmas lights have already seen in front gardens. I enjoyed seeing all the scarecrows too. We are allowed to sing carols outside socially distanced.

The Christmas tree is now on the Village Green in Marston Magna outside the Church. We will meet there socially distanced, to sing carols at 6 pm on Friday 18th December. If there are more people than the Green can accommodate safely, overflow will be in the Churchyard. As we are not having a Christingle service, donations will be collected for the Children's Society.

Morning Prayer at 8 am will be in Rimpton Church Wednesday 9th, 16th and 30th December

Compline by Candlelight (bring a torch) 6 pm at Marston Magna Church Wednesday 9th and 16th December

Rev'd Barbara

3 CALENDAR OF SERVICES December 2020 SUNDAY 6th December VIOLET ADVENT II MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Holy Communion Reader: Mr R Knott Sidesman: Mr R Knott RIMPTON 10.45 a.m. Morning Worship Reader: TBA

SUNDAY 13th December VIOLET ADVENT III MARSTON MAGNA 9.30 am Morning Worship Reader: Mrs P Hopkins Sidesman: Mrs P Hopkins RIMPTON 10.45 am Morning Worship Reader: TBA

SUNDAY 20th December VIOLET ADVENT IV MARSTON MAGNA 6.30 p.m. Carol Service Reader: Mr E Jackson Sidesman: Mr E Jackson RIMPTON 5.00 p.m. Carol Service, please contact Reader TBA Hilary Stephens 851860 to book a seat. Thursday 24th December WHITE CHRISTMAS EVE MARSTON MAGNA 11.30 p.m. Christmas Communion Reader: Dr T Smith Sidesman: Dr T Smith Friday 25th December WHITE CHRISTMAS DAY RIMPTON 10.45 a.m. Christmas Communion Readers: TBA

SUNDAY 27th December WHITE ST John, the Apostle and MUDFORD 11.00 a.m. Christmas Communion Evangelist. (No morning service at Marston Magna or Rimpton) MARSTON MAGNA Church Cleaning Church Flowers Locking Up DECEMBER 2020 High Altar CHURCH WILL BE LOCKED OPEN ONLY FOR SERVICES NO ROTAS IN PLACE RIMPTON Church Cleaning Church Flowers Locking Up DECEMBER 2020 CHURCH WILL BE LOCKED High Altar OPEN ONLY FOR SERVICES NO ROTAS IN PLACE

Rimpton Village Hall 100Club

Prize-winners in the second draw of this year (25/11/20) were:

1st Simon and Penny Holt

2nd Lee and Ali Bryant

3rd Fiona Hines

4th Jim and Sheila Fewkes

5th Alan and Gillian Pritchard

Letter from the Right Reverend Ruth Worsley, and how we have changed or expanded services Bishop of Taunton to support you better during this pandemic. We are For Parish Newsletters – December 2020 also planning for the winter months when more people need health and care services, and we will Bringing comfort and joy need to care for more people with Covid-19 while running our planned services. One of our oldest (16th century) English carols tells us that the story of Jesus’ birth as a baby into our As announced by the Prime Minister on 31 world, is good news, bringing “tidings of comfort October 2020, there is a new national lockdown and joy”. And do not we just need comfort and joy commencing from Thursday 05 November in at this moment! response to a rise in cases of Covid-19.

We know that Christmas will not be the same this For now, please continue to attend appointments year. The usual gatherings of family and friends as advised. You do not need to call us to check will not have the same shape this year. Traditional that a booked appointment is going ahead. We will carol services and Midnight Mass may not be be in touch if anything changes with your care. possible either but that does not mean that Christmas is cancelled! We fully understand the anxieties, stress, and This year more than ever we need to carol the worry that have been caused by the ongoing words, ‘comfort and joy’. We need to find new and pandemic and appreciate the toll that this can take novel ways of telling the Christmas story. The on the wellbeing of all of us – patients, carers, staff, Church of England and our own diocesan team family and friends. We know that this continued have provided plenty of ideas by which we can stress and worry can sometimes mean that people bring Christmas to our communities. I am going to are less than kind to each other. We can never fully be both a tax collector and a donkey in some of understand what another person is going through our diocesan video re-telling of the story! but what we can all do is to do our best to treat everyone as we would wish to be treated Perhaps even more important is how we can ourselves – with respect, courtesy and kindness. personally be messengers of comfort and joy. Who do you know who might need you to bring Health and care services in Somerset are open them so comfort this Christmas? Maybe someone and here to help you. If you or someone you love who is alone, especially anxious, grieving a loved or care for has health concerns, please do not put one? How could you offer comfort and support? off seeking help or attending an appointment.

And as for joy…? Perhaps we ourselves need to The pandemic and the need for social distancing rediscover the joy of the Christmas story. What have changed our services and how we run them, could be more wonderful than knowing that God but we are here to help, support and care for you. loves us so much that even though it was costly, As a result of vital social distancing measures we He chose to come and join us in a world, dark with have less space available to us and fewer hospital fear and suffering, and bring the light of His beds and therefore we are conducting more presence! telephone and digital appointments where it is safe to do so and have also expanded the services that With my warmest greetings, we provide in the community and in patients’ own + Bishop Ruth homes. We are very aware of the effect that the pandemic is having on people’s mental health and Open letter to everyone in Somerset we have therefore also expanded the mental health support that is available in Somerset. Thank you for the support you have shown the NHS and social care during this pandemic. You We have put in place new and important measures clapped for key workers through the spring and to keep everyone as safe as possible when you summer, fundraised for us and supported those in access care. What these measures are will need. And thank you for everything you have done depend on which service you are accessing. For and continue to do to protect yourselves, your GP appointments this may include having a loved ones, and our communities from Covid-19. telephone or online appointment where appropriate or being asked to attend a different We deeply appreciate your support and write on location from your usual GP surgery for a face-to- behalf of colleagues within our organisations to face appointment. If you are asked to come to an thank you and set out what we are doing to ensure appointment at a different location, it will be as our services are here for you when you need them

close to your home as possible because we know • Expanded mental health support teams into travel is difficult when you are unwell. schools. • For other services it may also include having a • Launched Open Mental Health, an alliance of local telephone or online appointment, having your voluntary organisations and the NHS in Somerset temperature checked before entering a building or to support people to live a full life by enabling being asked to isolate for a short period before an access to specialist mental health support, debt operation. Clear information about the new and employment advice, volunteering measures will be provided before any opportunities, community activities and exercise. appointment. Please be assured that whatever the service – whether it is provided in a GP surgery, As we go into our first winter of the pandemic, we your local hospital, a minor injury unit or in your need your help to keep everyone as well and safe own home – your safety, and that of our as possible. There are many simple things that you colleagues, is our top priority. If you have any can do such as following social distancing questions about the measures we are taking guidelines, regularly washing your hands, and please speak to the service and do not delay your wearing face coverings wherever this is appointment unless absolutely necessary. If you recommended. In addition, to following the latest can’t attend your appointment, please let the Government regulations. service know so that they can offer it to someone else who needs it. In addition, the annual flu vaccination programme is vitally important to help protect vulnerable If you have a loved one, friend or neighbour in people this winter. Many people who are hospital, we ask for your continued patience and vulnerable to flu – including older people and understanding. During the lockdown, our hospitals people with learning difficulties – are also more have arrangements in place to ensure essential vulnerable to Covid-19. If you are offered a free flu visiting can continue but restrictions for other visits vaccination, please take up the offer and protect may be in place to protect you, patients, and our yourself. staff. You can find details of current visiting policies on our hospital You can also continue to support us by seeking websites https://www.somersetft.nhs.uk/ and h help when you need it from the most appropriate ttps://yeovilhospital.co.uk/. service. We will refer you if we think you need another service. Many services were temporarily suspended at the start of the pandemic but many of these are now If you, or someone you know, is struggling with up and running and working very hard to see as their mental wellbeing, our 24/7 Mindline is open many patients as possible. These include: to people of all ages. Just ring 01823 276 892. Somerset Mindline is currently receiving over 600 • Outpatient appointments at our hospitals. In calls per week and has received nearly 20,000 September 2020, 28,488 outpatient appointments calls since April 2020. Please do not suffer in took place in Somerset of which 25.7% were silence – reach out if you need support. Our 111 online. service is available 24/7 to provide advice, • Elective operations. treatment, and care. Just ring 111 or • Cervical and breast screening services visit https://111.nhs.uk/ and the service will • Immunisations and vaccinations for children provide advice and refer you to another service if • Partners attending specific maternity scans and you need it. being present at birth. Many minor ailments can be treated by your local We have taken the opportunity to rapidly improve community pharmacist. Our GP practices have some services particularly in maternity and mental been working hard to keep you well and safe and health. We have: are now operating telephone and online triage services. Please rest assured, however, that if you • Set up small teams of midwives in community need to be seen face to face you will be. In hubs to care for pregnant women more locally and September 2020, our GPs conducted just under give them continuity of carer 94,000 face-to-face GP appointments across Somerset. • Established 11 step up / step down mental health beds (four in Wells and seven in Yeovil) to give service users more independence while still Later this year we will be launching a new way of receiving a high level of mental health care. accessing urgent healthcare services which will encourage everyone to contact 111 before

attending an Accident or Emergency Department. middle of the month with just 4.5 mms (1/4 inch) Calling 111 First will help to make sure that you or but the beginning and the end were both very wet. your family member are supported to access the most appropriate healthcare service for your The Met Office tell us that October 3rd was the needs and potentially avoid an unnecessary trip to wettest day across the UK since their records hospital. This means that we can help keep you began in 1891. The average rainfall across the UK safe and make sure you get the care you need on that day was 31.7 mms (1¼ inches). I recorded while maintaining social distancing and reducing 28 mms, but you should bear in mind that my the risk of the spread of Covid-19 in healthcare readings are taken at 6 pm, so it is not an direct settings. comparison as I presume the Met Office would take theirs at midnight. The NHS has established a dedicated website for people recovering from Covid-19 which you can The first 4 days of October were exceptionally wet, access here and I recorded 74 mms (3 inches), but following a very dry September much of this was soaked up and there was no dramatic rise in the stream or https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/ any flooding,

It also provides information and advice for family Ricky Gibbs. members, carers and friends to help them support you in your recovery. Rimpton neighbourhood network

If you are self-isolating or require additional You may remember the wonderful community support, contact Somerset Coronavirus helpline support which people offered in the first lockdown on 0300 790 6275 to be put in touch with local – between us we produced a leaflet of no less than groups who can help with fetching shopping, 30 names of people in Rimpton who were happy medication and other essentials supplies, as well to do all manner of things including shop, fetch as other mutual aid. The helpline is open 7 days a things, walk dogs or just be on the end of the week between 8am and 6pm. phone.

We want to support everyone in Somerset to live We had wondered whether to revise that list for healthy independent lives, supported by Lockdown 2, but felt it was not necessary as there communities and timely and easy access to high is such good neighbourly support. We hope that quality and efficient public services when you need is the case, and that people are OK. them. We are committed to providing you and your family with the highest quality health and care But even though this formal lockdown is coming to services and working together to support sensible an end, many of us may not feel happy with Covid-19 precautions in our everyday lives. ‘normal’ interaction for some time yet, until the vaccine is well underway. There may be need for Please help us keep Somerset safe and well this help and support for some time to come. So we winter and thank you for everything that you have wanted to say that the original leaflet is still almost- done to support us. accurate - maybe you have the original copy, or if not we can pop round with another, or we’ve put several at the book-swap at the Village Hall. Pat Flaherty, Chief Executive, Somerset County Please help yourself. We are sure most people on Council the list are still happy to be contacted if there’s Jonathan Higman, Chief Executive, Yeovil District need. And if there’s ever a situation when people Hospital NHS Foundation Trust don’t know where to turn, Penny and I are two of Peter Lewis, Chief Executive, Somerset NHS many people who are happy to be on the end of a Foundation Trust phone as ‘first stop’ contacts, and can pass on any James Rimmer, Chief Executive, Somerset requests wherever. Clinical Commissioning Group And a message from Penny – “Don't forget to THE RAIN REPORT decorate a window from December 5th, and please let me know if you would like to include your October was the wettest month of the year to date. house on a list for an evening walk, to enjoy the Rainfall totalled 150 mms (6 inches) with 21 wet lights!". days, well above the October average of 96 mms (3¾ inches). There was a period of 10 days in the Sam Woodhouse 850915, Penny Gatrill-Smith 851641

SORTED - Get it done 24/7 - no fuss or bother If you end up with a big load of cardboard, or any festive waste, remember our 16 recycling sites.

With new services rolling out across Somerset, Except for three days - Christmas, Boxing and there is a fuss-free way to manage many essential New Year - all are open on their usual hours. recycling or waste tasks: use the “My Waste Services” pull-down menu at Queen Camel Bowls Club somersetwaste.gov.uk. Queen Camel bowls club. We are now open for bowling, if anyone interested in playing do please Rather than time spent on emails or phone calls, contact Norman Holt on 01935 850646. you can swiftly check all your collection dates, order free recycling boxes, food waste bins and Times are a-changing … kitchen caddies, arrange paid-for bulky waste collections, buy garden waste sacks and request garden sack collections, and report missed collections after 7pm on the due day. Check it out now.

Who do you know who needs My Waste Services? Suggest they sign up by scrolling to the end of the page at somersetwaste.gov.uk and add an email address. Photo: Trish Menist

Shopping for Santa? Think outside the box The way leaves change colour, or disappear, is one way to track the advancing winter season - but With the latest lockdown closing all but essential to the eagle-eyed, birds give other clues that times shops, Somerset Waste Partnership is are changing. encouraging festive shoppers to think laterally this year. To start with, the cast of birds is in flux … gone are the summer troupe, arriving are the new actors – More online shopping means tonnes more the autumn migrants. November 4th was when I cardboard packaging. It can be recycled but first saw my first fieldfare of the season, along producing it and collecting it have a financial and Back Lane in Rimpton, newly arrived from carbon cost - not to mention putting a major strain Scandinavia or western Russia, escaping the on our collection crews. When going online for northern ice. Now at the end of the month it is gifts, why not consider gifts that do not come in normal to hear their chack-chack-chack calls, and cardboard boxes with masses of unrecyclable to see flocks of them and their cousins the plastic? redwings taking flight as you approach. Vouchers for visitor attractions, shops, or experiences These are two visitors we might see near to home, Digital subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, but at RSPB Ham Wall on the Somerset Levels or streaming services earlier in November we saw some of the earliest Memberships for trusts or clubs that give you free species to arrive - wigeon, teal, and gadwall. days out Apparently next week many others may arrive as As well as stemming tide of cardboard, these will freezing conditions spread across central Russia. give loved ones something to look forward to in But actually, keep an eye on your garden birds, as 2021. you might notice numbers of many of our resident species might suddenly increase, blackbirds, Whether it is a meal out, a day out, or a pampering starlings, chaffinches, robins, and many others treatment, you can also "shop local" for many of migrate here from central Europe for a warmer these things, helping support our hard-pressed winter. businesses in these tough times. Talking of starlings, where are they? An astute Be sure to think about shopping locally when observer in Rimpton told me there used to be ordering anything online. It is not just the big loads in the daytime in the lime trees on Back Lane national or international retailers who can deliver at this time of year. But hardly any so far. We know to your door and you may find local companies they are in decline – but this fast? I wonder if keep the cardboard to a minimum. anyone else has noticed this.

Another change is the way some birds gather in RIMPTON VILLAGE HALL REOPENING flocks, in winter. Another Rimpton resident noticed vast numbers of crows flying to the south-east The Rimpton Village Hall Management Committee shortly before sunset. He wondered where they is pleased to announce that Rimpton Village Hall were going, and why. The question made me do has now reopened, following the temporary some work; I found out that crows, rooks and closure during the Coronavirus pandemic. The jackdaws (or ‘corvids’) gather in huge flocks or Hall is now available for use, for either regular roosts during winter, choosing sites with ample bookings, or one-off events. food, and with safety in numbers - predators are more likely to be spotted and the flock can drive The Hall is open subject to the requirements and them away. As for where they go to, I was cycling guidelines necessary to make it “COVID Secure”. back from Sherborne via the lane to Sandford We have put things in place to allow this to Orcas and noticed several enormous roosts along happen, including sanitiser at the entrance doors the way. Maybe others know different roosting and signage to remind users to maintain social sites. distancing and wear face coverings.

And then in late autumn you might spot birds which Hirers will have to follow the guidelines that apply are here all year, but suddenly become more generally to community buildings, as well as visible. Bullfinches for example, they are secretive whatever guidelines apply to their specific activity. birds, and for such a colourful species can be There are also restrictions on the numbers that surprisingly difficult to see when the trees are in can attend, depending on the type of event. full leaf. But as we walked through Rimpton fields recently, there one was, in plain sight, eating sloe More information, including details of what hirers berries, easy to see as the tree had lost its leaves. must do, is available at: Similarly both the green and the greater-spotted www.rimpton.net/village-hall/bookings/ woodpeckers are easier to see. or from the Bookings Secretary: Dale McLoughlin One species which unusually is a regular visitor to on 01935 851100 or [email protected] our bird feeder right now is the coal tit. It is a tiny little bird, smaller than a blue tit – we notice they From Cath Holloway only stay on the feeder for a second before flying December 2020 Edition off with a seed, frustrating for photographers! News from your Village Agent Team Their beaks are so small that they can only carry one seed at a time. Apparently, they’re ‘caching’ If you type in the link below you can read “Thatch” this time of year in preparation for the cold winter and download it if you wish. The blank spaces are months – they’re stocking up for winter, and so single underscore dashes, just like this _ become more visible. https://issuu.com/communitycouncilforsomerse t/docs/thatch_20bulletin_20november_2020_20 Good bird spotting! final Sam Woodhouse It’s December, and as Village & Community Agents, [email protected] we know this can be a really tough time of year, so

I’d like to share a little of what we are doing to help MARSTON MAGNA AND RIMPTON people during the winter months. Christmas is upon GARDENING CLUB us, and here at CCS (Community Council for

Somerset) we are very busy with the Somerset Food Could all cup winners please return the cups Resilience Taskforce, in partnership with Somerset to Eileen? We need to engrave on them the County Council. We are working together to increase names of winners, ready for the next show. food security for residents in Somerset.

All members who have paid their subscription for Across Somerset, CCS Village Agents and the year 2020, will have it carried forward to 2021, volunteers delivered nearly 1,000 meals to families unless they specifically request a refund. in need to help prevent holiday hunger during half

term, and have also recently delivered nearly Thank you all for your support of our club and we a tonne of donated potatoes to people in need, really look forward to meeting you again next year. distributed through 10 community groups. We are

delivering regular food boxes to clients on a weekly Best regards basis and often distribute donated goods such as David Cook books, household cleaning products, and much more

that people need!

Now we are on the hunt for anyone in their local https://www.facebook.com/groups/GiftofSmallThings community providing meals or access to food. Is this or call us on 01823 331 222 YOU? Do you want to start helping those locally in need? Talking Cafes Online

We can help! With funding, advice, We are still unable to bring Talking Cafes back to equipment & ingredients! physical venues and we miss all our clients so much! However we are still live streaming every day at Part of the CCS group, our Smart Communities team 11am on Facebook and cover a wide range of topics, could provide you with the tools to set up a food bank, from Debt to Mental Health – and all previous collection services or funds to purchase Fridges, sessions can be watched anytime, anywhere via the Freezers and other equipment to help you store Facebook page here: food safely, and help stock them for the people in https://www.facebook.com/talkingcafesomerset/ your local area. If you are not on Facebook you can now watch Raj Singh, Acting CEO of CCS said: “We have had previous Talking Cafes on YouTube here: full support from all of our community here in https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5goIPHD91Ie4 Somerset helping us feed individuals and families VDI5NMJdrQ ! throughout the pandemic. Please get in touch and join our movement, you will be warmly received." You can comment on the YouTube videos if you have any questions and someone will get in touch with an One volunteer said: “I feel for people who are answer. We hope you enjoy them, let us know what struggling right now. I’m a professional person and you think! I’ve retired now but in the early 90’s I found myself in a similar position through no fault of my own when the CCS Village Agents can now supply you with your business I worked for collapsed suddenly after a very own water bottle for free to help keep you government problem. As a single parent I found hydrated! There is even a handy guide on the side myself going to bed hungry and it’s no fun.” to help remind you to drink throughout the day! Caroline Harding, CCS Agent Manager, explains So, if you are already helping your community or how here: https://youtu.be/DELeiGPEBvk Call want to start to today and have an idea let us help it 01823 331 222 or contact your local Agent to get turn into a reality. one! Visit: www.ccslovesomerset.org.uk/food

Or call 01823 331 222 if you are interested, or email [email protected]

The Christmas Gift of Small Things - this winter, our Village Agents are putting together CHRISTMAS GIFT BOXES for people in need, mainly through our West Somerset Village Agent areas, but with some locations in Sedgemoor, Taunton and Mendip too! Please spread the kindness and donate small useful gifts to one of our many Christmas Boxes in a shop near you! Once you have donated let us know on Cath Holloway social media using the Mobile: 07968 521746 #LoveSomersetRandomActofKindness! Email: [email protected] www.somersetrcc.org.uk We are looking for small inexpensive items such as, notepads or pens, hand sanitiser, face masks, socks I support unpaid carers in South East Somerset to or hand warmers, small LED flashlight, a packet of connect them with community resources, support seeds, handbag size paper tissues, small Christmas groups and personal support around benefits and chocolate or nice mints, small magnifying glass, small allowances. We also have a new team of blanket, candle, soap, and lip balm. Community Agents and Village Agents in South Somerset to contact. For more information please To donate, please drop off in one of the many visit www.somersetrcc.org.uk and locations in Somerset please visit the webpage www.somersetcarers.org or call me to see who is https://somersetagents.org/christmas-gift-of-small- things/ your local village agent. or the Facebook Group

Box Collection for The Children’s Society dedicated team when producing the book and that effort has rewarded us all with lasting memories. Thank you to all those people who held boxes during the year to help raise funds for The Children’s Copies of the book are still available but when the Society. Your help is much appreciated. The total remaining stock has been sold, there will be no raised in the Parish this year was £278.22 which has further reprints. If you want to snap one up as a been forwarded to the society. Christmas gift or if you are a newcomer to the village and are interested to learn about its recent If anyone would like to become a box holder to history, then contact me and I will be happy to support this organisation, please contact me for deliver a copy. further details. Pam Goodwin, Greystones, Camel Street, Marston These are the answers to the final 3 questions. Magna. Tel 01935 850571. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 28-30 Becoming a box holder just involves keeping a small SERVICES box in your home and contributing any small change Who started a bus company in 1930? Reg Wake during the year. The box is collected from you once a at just 18 years of age. year and contents forwarded to help The Children’s Society with their work with vulnerable and THE SCHOOL disadvantaged children throughout the country. Why were the small diamond paned windows in the schoolrooms replaced? In 1904 an HMI Pam Goodwin recommended replacing the diamond paned (Parish Coordinator for The Children's Society) windows with large clear panes to allow more light.

MILK BOTTLETOPS INTRODUCTION Name the two innovations that transformed Can you all please remember to remove the foil pull Marston Magna in the 20th Century. The motor caps from the tops, because the metal detector on vehicle and the mechanisation in the farming Perry’s conveyor belt stop the machines. Also industry. remember it is only plastic tops with a 2 or 4 in the recycling symbol that I can accept, all the rest go in We fondly hope that these 30 questions spread my wheelie bin. over the course of 2020 have encouraged you to dip into your copy of “Marston Magna Our Village There is a company called Massmould, who in the 20th Century”. There are many more produce tops made from the same plastic as milk fascinating stories and pieces of information for bottle tops e.g. Robinson’s squash, and Evian you to enjoy. water, so from now on, I can accept any tops made by Massmoulds. Jenny Dench The Old Exchange, Camel Street Please do continue to save the bottle tops and as [email protected] soon as the Café re-opens, which hopefully will be 01935 850592 soon, we can start to gather them together. MOBILE HAIRDRESSING Thank you everyone. And keep safe Grace Isbell from Mudford Sock operates a mobile Marion Dean, hairdressing business in normal times. 13 West End, 01935 850032 Do contact Grace on her mobile 07738 636489 or A VILLAGE QUIZ NO. 10 by email [email protected] or her home number is 01935 410800. These are the final questions in the Village Quiz based on the content of the book compiled by WI Grace would also be very happy to visit you in your members entitled “Marston Magna Our Village in home in the future. Or you can visit her salon in her the 20th Century”. We hope you have enjoyed home. Clients must wear face masks (which can be provided) and Grace will be wearing full PPE. dipping into the rich stories of a typical Somerset village. My grateful thanks are due to Pam Keep safe everybody. Goodwin for sharing the task of compiling monthly Grace questions. We were part of a very happy and

POP UP SHOP AT THE FARM, EVERY orders for Christmas cakes. If you would like to SATURDAY 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. order, I will be happy to hear from you. Christmas is now only 4 weeks away. From now on we will have a POP-UP shop at the I have a few 5” and 4” Christmas cakes, with farm, where you can come and buy our Tamworth marzipan and iced on tops only, also Christmas Pork, cake cupcakes and Christmas cake slices all for sale. Pop in and have a look or give me a Jams, Chutneys, and a little bit more. (Homemade ring!! Just out of interest I will have marzipan- iced cakes, depending on how much time I have left and decorated over 100 Christmas cakes this after the butchery!). Enjoy our beautiful view and year! see our pigs, ducks, cats, and our dog! Christmas Cake open days. Saturday 5th and Christmas is Coming Sunday 6th December 10.30 – 3.30pm. Please pop in and view my display of Christmas cakes, At the butchery end of the farm we are preparing Christmas cake cupcakes and Christmas cake for the arrival of Christmas. One thing we can be slices. No obligation to buy but could make an sure of this year is that it will be Christmas we will ideal Christmas gift. Social distancing observed. all remember. We are stocking up with gammons and other Christmas favourites at the moment. as I look forward to hearing from you. usual. If you would like a Tamworth dry cured gammon for Christmas, please order as early as Val Tilley, Marella, Middle Street, Rimpton. possible as we only ever use our own pigs so we Tel. 07771 888012. don’t want to disappoint!!

We will also be offering all our usual porky Rimpton Ladies Walking Group products, so do not forget, sausages, joints, dry All our future walks are cancelled. cured bacon and of course pigs in blankets. You You are very much encouraged to do your can now order ahead on the website for delivery own private walks, but do keep a good social closer to Christmas, so do not delay, order today, distance from others at all times or when you come and visit our POP-UP Shop!! For full details contact Sheila Fewkes Tel 850227 With Kind Regards James and Charlotte

FIR VILLA COMMUNION

QUEEN CAMEL Still not yet possible. For further information TENNIS CLUB contact Revd. Barbara Stanton, 01935 850745.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED A small friendly Club with 2 floodlit hard courts for all players on either a ‘Pay & Play’ basis or Your Parish Magazine needs you in Marston Magna. Could you deliver Magazines once a as a club member. A wide variety of coaching month or collate the 230 magazines once every 6 is available including Saturday a.m. coaching months? Please contact David Crabb, editor, to for Juniors plus Camps in the holidays. volunteer. CLOSED AT THE MOMENT UFN We welcome new members for the season Marston Magna Bowls is cancelled until that will start in July? further notice.

Visit www.qctc.co.uk or call the Club If you would like more information, contact Tony Secretary on 01935 850300 for more Green on 01963 220943. information. Marlene Green

Marston Magna & Rimpton

WI Report for December 2020 Christmas Cakes

All our plans for future WI meetings, lunches, Cue to Covid 19, there was no craft/tabletop sale outings, scrabble, and book clubs, have been this November, therefore I am still taking pre-

cancelled until further notice, due to the Covid 19 the revision of the pews in the Transepts to face pandemic. We will keep you posted. across the Church in Chapel fashion, with most of the pews themselves in the Transepts being Submitted by Jill Eagland. added by bringing them from Corton Denham Church which was being pulled down; the reordering of the Chancel, and the removal of the Musicians’ Gallery at the west end.

Later the Chancel windows were re-glazed with coloured-pattern glass. One of the panes bears his name. Altogether he made a remarkable contribution to the village.

Some of this information is taken from Annette Sandison’s booklet, ‘Rimpton, A Thousand Years of Village History’. The family photograph was supplied by the Rev Andrew Cooper, his great, great grandson, when making a visit to the Church from Scotland. His grandmother s in the front row.

John Spencer MONTAGUE HAWTREY PS If you would like a JPEG copy of the photo, Montague Gregg Hawtrey was the rector of please send an email request to S D Crabb editor. Rimpton for over forty years between 1841 and

1887. He was the eldest of twelve children and had CLOSURE OF PLAY EQUIPMENT a large family of twelve children himself, as is clear from the photograph of him and his family. The play equipment at our Village Halls are now out of bounds, as the Government Statement He was educated at various schools, including, says, but the route through is still open for people finally, Sherborne School, and at Trinity College, walking to and from the West End and the Cambridge. His cousin was the Headmaster and Village. Signs are going up on all the equipment Provost of Eton and his nephew was the distinguished but somewhat dissolute actor, Sir LH Charles Hawtrey. He was no relation of the ‘Carry On’ actor, Charles Hawtrey, whose birth name was MARSTON MAGNA PARISH COUNCIL Hartree. He served curacies in Everton and Chelsea (before the days of the football clubs) until Full Minutes including all Appendices can be he came to Rimpton. He took as boarders paying viewed and/or downloaded from the Village students and had a staff of two housemaids, a Website, by going to: - footman, a cook, and a nurse for the children. https://marstonmagnaparish.co.uk/agendas- Between 1848 – 1851, he also held the living of minutes/ . Anybody unable to use the website who Chilton Cantelo. needs to see a hard copy of the full Minutes please During his time at Rimpton the Church School was contact any of the Councillors. built in 1844 at the end of the Rectory drive, with a DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING is Wednesday 2nd second room added in 1877, after National December 2020. It will be on Zoom, do watch the Education was introduced in 1870. He also started Parish Council website. A reminder that the public the allotments still known as such, though no may speak at the start of a Parish Council meeting longer available, on the Glebe land east of the in the Public Session, even if the meeting is held Church. online with Zoom. Contact me for details.

Along with the churchwardens, he sponsored Lucy Gibbons – Clerk to Marston Magna Parish major repairs and alterations to the Church in the Council. Rose Cottage, Pendomer, Yeovil, early 1870s. The details are set out in the Faculty Somerset, BA22 9PH. T: 01935 863106 - Email: authorisation still retained in the Church. They [email protected] included the creation of the North Transept to match the medieval South Transept, an addition praised later by a leading architect, W. D. Caroe,

RIMPTON PARISH COUNCIL Avian influenza (bird flu) in Poultry and other captive birds The full Minutes of all meetings, including all Appendices, can be viewed and/or downloaded An Avian Influenza Prevention Zone (AIPZ) has from the Village Website by going to been declared across the whole of England effective from 5pm on 11 November 2020. The minutes can be seen on the Rimpton website (http://rimpton.net/parish-council/parish-council- All poultry keepers in England (whether they have meetings/draft-parish-council-minutes/) and (in commercial flocks or just a few birds in a backyard part) on the village noticeboard, and you can also flock) are required by law to take a range of see them by getting in touch with the Parish Clerk. biosecurity precautions. If you do not have an internet device, you should find the minutes on the noticeboard by the bus If you keep poultry (including gamebirds or pet shelter, or you could ask the Clerk for a copy. birds) or other captive birds, you must act now to reduce the risk of disease in your flock by following Patrick Pender-Cudlip, Clerk & RFO - Rimpton the relevant biosecurity measures required within Parish Council. The Cobblers, High Street, Queen the AIPZ. Your stock needs to be feed and watered Camel, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 7NE; Tel. 01935 under cover to prevent contamination from wild 850692; [email protected] birds.

Donate your Winter Fuel Payment so Good biosecurity improves the overall health and Somerset’s elderly do not have to productivity of your flock by helping keep out poultry choose between heating and eating diseases such as avian influenza and limiting the spread of disease in an outbreak. All bird gatherings within the AIPZ are prohibited therefore the general licence that had permitted bird gatherings has been revoked.

For more guidance please As we head into winter hundreds of our older visit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/avian-influenza- neighbours here in Somerset are forced to choose bird-flu If you find dead wild waterfowl (swans, between heating and eating. The coronavirus geese or ducks) or other dead wild birds, such as outbreak means that, for many older and gulls or birds of prey, you should report them to the vulnerable people, this winter will be even more Defra helpline (03459 335577). difficult and worrying. Many will need to stay at home to keep themselves safe and will find Public Health England advises that the risk to the themselves cut off from family and friends, facing public’s health is very low. Food Standards Agency higher costs to heat their homes. (FSA) has said that on the basis of the current scientific evidence, avian influenzas pose a very Somerset Community Foundation’s Surviving low food safety risk for UK consumers. Avian Winter appeal encourages people who don’t need influenza is unconnected with coronavirus (COVID- their Winter Fuel Payment to donate some or all of 19). it to help local older people who are unable to afford to heat their homes, helping them stay Voluntary registration warm, safe and well. You can choose to register fewer than 50 birds, or birds you keep as pets. The Animal and Plant Somerset Community Foundation (SCF) is taking Health Agency (APHA) encourages you to register part in The Big Give, and online donations to the even if you do not have to by law. By registering, appeal that are made during the week-long Big APHA will be able to contact you if there’s a disease Give Christmas Challenge - midday Tuesday 1 outbreak (such as bird flu) in your area you’ll help December to midday Tuesday 8 December - will prevent the spread of disease and protect the be doubled. So, not only will your donation be national poultry flock worth twice as much, but even more older and isolated people across the county will get the If you would like to obtain a useful 6 page PDF support they need this winter. leaflet outlining the restrictions go to - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/governme If you would like to donate to Surviving Winter, visit nt/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/93 www.somersetcf.org.uk/winter or call SCF on: 4684/ai-prevention-zone-201111.pdf 01749 344949. Thank you.

Nicola L J Pearce Alternatives will also be available to those who are Trading Standards Officer not able to access materials online. Call Julia Hill e-mail [email protected] on 01749 685114. Mob: 07971950919 Tel: 01392 383000 ADVERTISMENTS & NOTICES. KEITH TUCKER – Carpentry, Joinery, Building. - Marston Magna Village Hall Management Also, Handmade Kitchens, Fitted Kitchens, Committee Refurbishments, Garden Summer Houses and Furniture. Orchard Carpentry, Tel. 07799 5 Unfortunately, the Village Hall is mainly closed, but https://www.luntromanfort.org/46088 Steph’s Aerobic exercises are operating on Monday mornings. Please take care everyone. Gardening work undertaken locally, good reference's, call Graham on 07969 869774. Karen Price (Chairperson) [email protected] Telephone 01935 851336 Email – [email protected] FRESHLY CUT TREES FROM OUR PATCH! Do you want to choose a growing tree? We have a Starting the new year with prayer small selection of our own trees which are ready for the chop! You come and choose during normal For the last couple of years, Somerset’s clergy and opening hours, put your name on it and collect parishioners have had the chance to meet your tree already cut, at a later date. Open from together at Everyday Faith events (Archdeaconry 29th November every day from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. Days), to think about how they live out their faith. Best wishes all. Derryn and Ollie Vale of Camelot 2021’s gatherings will be online from 10 to 16 Growers Sparkford BA22 7JR January and all are invited. The theme is ‘Prayer – [email protected] Everyone, Everywhere!’ Tel: 07969 372979

The Archdeacon of Wells, Anne Gell, says, “As is ROSEBUD Lady gardener. RHS trained. so often the case with these events, the theme is 01963 220615 and 07708 267854, simple, but key to how we live out our faith. Prayer [email protected] is the foundation of our relationship with God and yet so many people lack confidence in praying if BROADBAND PROBLEM? Any computer problem they don’t have a written prayer in front of them. solved: computers, networks or phone We will be sharing examples of people from across lines. Broadband and networking installed for home Somerset who pray whilst singing, drawing, or office. Specialist engineer BT trained with over 30 walking, skateboarding or just listening to the years experience. Quality guaranteed, friendly service. breeze in the grass.” Tel. Richard Crabb 01935 808094 email [email protected] On Sunday, 10 January a 30-minute recorded service from Wells Cathedral will be available to PHILIP HODDER join on-line. Focused on prayer, it will include a ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. Part P Registered, Over 30 years’ experience, reflection from Ruth, Bishop of Taunton. On small jobs welcome, personal service.- Rewiring, Monday to Friday of that week, a short video will replacement fuse boards, extra sockets, lights be released each day, featuring people talking etc. fault finding. about the ways they like to pray, with each day will Telephone 01935 850027 & 07836 710130 focus on a different theme, such as ‘prayer and nature’ and ‘prayer and the digital world’. The TREE CARE Chris Lee- Qualified Tree Surgeon videos will be accompanied by a few suggestions NCH (Arb) & NPTC, Gardener, Hedge Trimming, of things for people to try in their own time. Landscaping & more. Etc. Garden & Tree Maintenance. Tel 01963 440352, New Number Mobile On Saturday, 16 January there will be an 07899 000107 opportunity to join others on Zoom to hear more LAWRENCE ELECTRICALS about prayer and discuss what people have tried Domestic/Commercial/Security (Inc. alarms/CCTV) during the week. Find out more about ‘Prayer – from extra sockets to Full Rewire. Tel: 01935 891090, Everyone, Everywhere!’ and register to receive the Mobile 07889511576. Covering Dorset & surrounding materials in January at areas. Part P Registered for Building Regulations. www.bathwells.org.uk/archdeaconry-days-2021.

Lawrence Dolan City & Guilds Accredited. Free Estimates. ANN-MARIE BAX Dip MCFHP and MAFHP

Mell’s Helping Hand – Hi, my name is Mell. I am local to the area. I QUALIFIED FOOT HEALTH PRACTITIONER would like to offer my services to you, in your Call: 07864 340341 home. I can help with: *Cleaning *Personal Care Email: [email protected] * Dog Walking and sitting. DBS Checked. Over 4 CORE FOOT CONDITIONS INCLUDING NAIL years’ experience in care. FOR MORE CUTTING, THICKENED NAILS, CORNS, INFORMATION ON MY SERVICES CALL: VERUCCAS, ATHLETE’S FOOT, FUNGAL NAILS, 07495 934766 INGROWING NAILS, HARD SKIN & CRACKED HEELS. Graham Raymond, Electrical & Plumbing Services, Installer of Quality Bathrooms & Kitchens including REMOVALS & STORAGE - Armishaws Tiling, Breakdowns, Repairs, Alterations & Upgrades. Removals will move your furniture or store your Free Estimates, Trading locally for 34 years. Please goods. Office: - Wincanton Business Park, call Landline: 01935 851700 or my mobile: 07976 Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9 RT, Tel. 01963 34065, 307449 email [email protected] web www.armishaws.com using code BW 222

Reliable Honest Friendly Service for all your Motoring Needs. Garden Machine Repair & Service. All types of Car or Van Maintenance, Services and Repairs, Diagnostics, Fully Mobile, MOT Pre-Check and Call out Service. Call Simon: 07969 123425 or Carer with 20 years’ experience Friendly & 01935 850403 discreet DBS insurance References on South [email protected] – Somerset micro Provider directory: offering but Rimpton, Yeovil. not limited to Personal care - Meal preparation - Housekeeping trips – Companionship – Respite - Sitting service - Return from hospital J C Roofing care. Rainbowsmile care 07944 879437 Kara & Building ROGER DODD - A CLEAN SWEEP LTD 01935 813989 - Power Sweeping, Brush & Vacuum, A Clean, Efficient & Professional Maintenance Service, NACS Member and HETAS General roof repairs of pitched and Approved, Fully Insured. Certificates Provided. flat roofs [email protected] Chimney repointing and lead REIKI & CRYSTAL HEALING flashings Holistic Healing for Mind, Body and Spirit Timber and plaster repairs

Fenella Raymont Gutter, fascia and soffit

Reiki Practitioner replacement Contact your local tradesman on & Crystal Healer Land 01935 840277 01935 851271 or 07790 937030 Mobile 07483 832654 [email protected] 16

NEW YOGA CLASSES Rimpton Village Hall Regular weekly TUESDAY class 9.30 – 10.30am

Caroline Holbrook Tuition - Does your child Online classes need extra support to achieve their true Monday 6.30 – 7.30pm potential? Are they lacking in confidence? If Wednesday 9.30 – 10.30am you are wondering how you can best support Thursday 6.30 – 7.30pm your child with Maths or English, I can offer Saturday 9.30 – 10.30am weekly sessions, giving tailored support to meet their needs. Kate Whittell As a very experienced primary school teacher, 07881628780 or [email protected] I would love to help your child gain greater confidence and knowledge to help them magna-yoga.co progress. Please contact me to arrange a first session: 07751156180. All abilities very welcome [email protected] Classes involve standing and floor work Please bring a yoga/Pilates mat

Garden Machinery Sales & Service DO YOU NEED YOUR GARDEN Unfortunately, due to retirement we are no MAINTAINED? longer able to service garden Machinery. Apologies for any inconvenience. DON’T DELAY CAL MARK Draper hand power tools plus TODAY! Gardening tools, Corded and Coreless Power VERY COMPETITIVE PRICES Tools, Drill Bits, Spanner sets, Socket sets, GUARANTEED Screw Drivers, Hammers, Chisels, Punches Over 15 years experience and many others. Water fittings, Electric Grass Cutting fencing, Auto electrical consumables, Antifreeze, Batteries, Oils, Maintenance Fence painting sprays, Gloves, Gate Hardware Hedge trimming/Cutting Pet food, A selection of pet food and Rose pruning treats are in stock, Turfing/grass seeding, Pruning , Location. Come and see for yourself Borders edges & tidied at Rimpton Road Marston Magna Plus More, Contact Mark TEL 01935 850426 Tel: 01935 424212 and Opening times Mob: 07591 907214 Mon – Fri 8 am – 5.00pm 10 years experience at Scotts Nurseries Sat 8 am – 12.00 noon Merriott

Looking after you and your home

• We can offer help with cleaning, washing and ironing and other task to keep your house tidy • Helping you to get up, wash,

shower or bathe, get dressed and

have breakfast.

• We can drive you to appointments or shopping and once there, will help you every step of the way. • Meal preparation at Lunchtime and teatime 7 days a week, we offer a hot fish and chips from the local chippy and delivery to your doorstep • We are qualified and experienced

small team of community workers

and looking forward to hearing from you. Pilates

Tel: 01935 507792 or 07895718611 Pilates Foundation

Email: [email protected] Friday at Marston Magna Village Hall Xtra Help In 5.00pm – 6.00pm (Beginners) Sarah Barry Self Employed Support Worker 6.15pm – 7.15pm (Intermediate) • Regular and one-off support available Contact Mo for details on: • Personalised approach (what is important to you?) • Dementia Friend

• DBS checked 07815748518 – currently suspended • Compassionate and practical • Understands the role of a carer [email protected] Tel: 01935 812908 / 07970 402457 Email: [email protected] Private Sessions 1 to 1 also available

We welcome new visitors of all ages and abilities

RIMPTON VILLAGE HALL DIARY – What’s on? – Regular items and contacts Tuesdays 9.30 – 10.30 am Yoga Classes Kate Whittell 07881 628780 - Active Wednesdays 7.30p.m. – 10.00 p.m. Badminton Mrs Anne Ing 850315 – SUSPENDED For the Diary 3rd December - Yoga classes every Tuesday, see above. For hall bookings – please contact Dale McLoughlin – 851100

MARSTON MAGNA VILLAGE HALL DIARY - What's on? - Regular items and contacts. Mondays 09.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. Aerobics Classes. Steph Edwards 07444 979297 - Active Winter 12.30 – summer 19.30 p.m. - 2nd Monday monthly W.I – Jill Eagling SUSPENDED Thursdays 2.30 – 4.30 p.m. Short Mat Bowls Tony Green 01963 220943 - SUSPENDED Fridays 10 a.m. – 12 noon Marston Village Café Beryl Field 01935 850705 –SUSPENDED 5.00 p.m.- 7.15 p.m. Pilates Contact Mo 07815 748518 - SUSPENDED Various classes – do look at notice board in Village Hall

For the Diary. Monday Mornings - Aerobic classes are operating.

For Village Hall bookings – please contact Mrs C. Griffiths Tel. 850647.

The Mobile Library WILL BE IN Rimpton on the 23rd December. It will be in Home Farm Lane, BA22 8AS between 11.50 am and 12.40 pm. The Mobile Library really must be used, or we will lose it.

Re-cycling- Every THURSDAY in Marston Magna and Rimpton from 7 a.m. but not on 31st December and at the start of January 2021 Re-cycling will be collected on 2nd and 8th January. Garden Wheelie Bin Collections are also from 7 a.m., normally on Thursdays and will be on the 3rd and 17th December 2020 and Refuse bins will be collected on 10th and 24th December and 8th January. This does depend upon available staff. Recycling Centres are now open.

The Story Pig Free range Tamworth pork, from our farm in Sandford Orcas. Ask us to supply you with our amazing bacon, sausages, joints, gammons and lots more. Buy Local, delivered to your door! We deliver our own meat, local veg, milk, cheese, and eggs. Plus, ready meals cooked by Charlotte.

Our Tamworth Hog Roast Moist and succulent and beautifully tender. Nothing like our Tamworth taste and crackling!

James & Charlotte Tel. 07724885353, 07802443905 www.thestorypig.co.uk [email protected]