April/May 2018 CONTENTS
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RoundRound AboutAbout the villages of Langford Budville and Runnington April/May 2018 CONTENTS 1 Welcome 2 What's On 3 BudVue Cinema 4 Jubilee Hall 6 Your Snow Photos 7 Green Fingers 8 News from the Villages 10 Welcome…. 11 The Arts Society 12 Out & About—Butterflies 14 News from the Churches 18 Village Story: Swannie 19 Langford Ladies 19 Friendship Circle 20 Young Buiddies: Easter 21 Seasonal Treats at Easter 22 Our School 34 Local Transport Services 35 Community Contacts 36 Magazine Information Welcome... ….to the April/May edition of Round About. Although it is now officially Spring, the recent snow has given us pause: Many of our youngest readers might not have experienced snow before—so the excitement was great. Some of our readers have contributed their Snow Pictures, and there are more in the collage but with a leavening of spring pictures to brighten things up! Our cover also rather inevitably features a snow scene. However, in spite of the cold and wet, signs of spring are all around: the daffodils around the villages are looking positively perky! We are anticipating proper spring weather by going Out & About with the butterfly transects on the Common. Green Fingers has some great suggestions for gardens to visit in the Spring. An early Easter is celebrated in News from Our Churches: posies for Mums, a coffee morning at Runnington and Easter Bonnets feature. You can find the times for the services in our Parish Churches there. Young Buddies are visited by the Easter bunny—and hot cross buns go to make our Easter Seasonal Treat! Go to What’s On to find what is happening in and around the villages. For instance, the new BudVue Cinema is bringing the best recent movies to our own village hall—do check it out and come along: it is great fun. After the success of their last outing, the Friends of St Peter’s are offering another Rock-themed walk on International Earth Day. Numbers are limited, so please do book for this. News from the Villages has updates from our Parish Council about the litter pick which was postponed because of snow, and a response to the Library consultation. We bid Welcome two new families to Chipley, and catch up with an unusual visitor to Runnington in our Village Story. As part of a series of short articles about societies and associations that you may be interested in joining, we feature The Arts Society. The Friendship Circle has been to Buckfast and met with birds of prey, and Langford Ladies has enjoyed a skittles evening. Included in this magazine is a separate questionnaire from the Jubilee Hall: Please take the time to fill this out and return it — it is an opportunity for you to let the Trustees know how you see the future of the village hall. Finally, an appeal from the team at Round About: we’d love to hear your ideas for articles, and feature your pictures. Please send us news from your neighbourhood — and we can always use more help, so if you think you’d enjoy working on the magazine, give me a call on 401432. Saranne Cessford, on behalf of the editorial team. 1 What’s On Mon 9 April 7.00 to Police Beat Surgeries Jubilee Hall Mon 14 May 8.00 pm Parish Council Meetings Jubilee Hall Mon 9 April 7.30 pm Friendship Circle Jubilee Hall Fri 6 April 11.00 am Talk—Diplomatic Life Runnington Church 10.30— Runnington Church Sat 7 April Coffee Morning noon Parish Litter Pick Jubilee hall Sun 15 April 10.00 am Langford Ladies To be confirmed Wed 18 April 7.30pm Friendship Circle Jubilee Hall Fri 20 April 11.00 am Coffee & Chat Earth Day Rock Walk: Jubilee hall Sun 22 April 3.00 pm Friends of St Peters Friendship Circle Meet Jubilee Hall Fri 27 April tbc Trip to Tyntesfield BudVue Cinema - Murder Jubilee Hall Sat 28 April 7.00 pm on the Orient Express Jubilee Hall AGM Jubilee Hall Thurs 10 May 7.00 pm Parish Council Meeting Jubilee Hall Mon 14 May 7.30 pm and AGM Langford Ladies Wellesly Cinema Wed 16 May tba American in Paris BudVue Cinema Matinee Jubilee hall Sat May 19 3.00 pm Paddington 2 BudVue Cinema Jubilee Hall Sat May 19 7.00 pm Greatest Showman Have you ever explored our Villages on the web? There is lots of infor- mation about the village history to be found there. Each month the full minutes from the Parish Council meetings are posted, and the current and back issues of Round About can be downloaded. www.langfordbudvillevillage.co.uk There’s also a web page for the Jubilee Hall: Its address is www.langfordbudvillevillagehall.co.uk. And there’s a facebook page for the newest venture—our own Budvue Cinema 2 Join The Friends of St Peters Church, Langford Budville for an intriguing Rock Walk around the village with geologists Keith Moore & Saranne Cessford Discover what lies beneath our feet EARTH DAY: Sunday 22 April 2018 Meet 3.00 pm at the Jubilee Hall for an introductory talk, followed by a walk and finishing at the Hall with refreshments. Appropriate clothing and footwear please! Numbers limited, so booking essential: Tickets £6.00 for adults and £3.00 for children u. 14 To book call 401432 or email [email protected] 3 Jubilee Hall AGM The Village Hall Annual General Meeting will take place on Thursday 10th May at 7.00pm. Everyone is welcome to come along to hear the report and check the audited accounts for 2017. As you will know from the ‘Village Hall and the Future’ report in the February edition of Round About, this is something of a milestone AGM as the proposed new management structure for the hall with be discussed and I hope agreed. In this edition of Roundabout is your copy of the village hall survey, giving you the opportunity to influence how the management of the hall develops in the coming years; please don’t miss the chance to have your say. I hope too that some of you will want to contribute more actively to running the hall, either as helpers or Trustees – you will be very welcome. If you would like to find out more before the AGM, please give me a call on 400665 or email [email protected] More information about the AGM will be published in next month’s Round About in Brief – I look forward to welcoming you at the hall on 10th May. Keith Moore Future Events at the Hall BudVue Cinema: Saturdays at £5.00/head. Murder on the Orient Express— Saturday 28 April, 7.00 pm Paddington 2: Special children’s 1/2 price matinee—Saturday19 May, 3.00 pm The Greatest Showman: Saturday 19 May, Evening Show at 7.00 pm. Refreshments available to buy—bar, hot drinks, cakes and ice cream in the interval! 4 BudVue Cinema BudVue, our monthly village cinema, has gotten off to a cracking start! We’ve had nearly 100 locals come to our first two movies, ‘Churchill’ and ‘Victoria & Abdul’, and we look forward to welcoming more of you to this month’s film, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ on Saturday April 28th. With home baked cakes, popcorn, hot drinks and a bar, along with a big screen and Blue Ray projector, our homegrown cinema brings Hollywood to our village! We’ve set up BudVue because we love good films and we love community. For our upcoming summer season we hope to have something for everyone. We begin with Paddington 2, in May, with a bonus matinee show at 3.00pm where kids can come for half price. In the evening we’ll be showing The Greatest Showman. In June and July we have Oscar winning drama and romance with some of the year’s best movies, ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ and ‘The Shape Of Water’. Come along and enjoy the shows; there’s even ice cream in the intermission! Josh Wedderkopp The Jubilee Hall is an ideal venue for a wide variety of events including wedding receptions, parties and dances, shows and concerts, club and society meetings, fetes and community events, conferences, meetings and training days Main Hall seats up to 200+ theatre style, 150 at tables Comfortable Committee Room with seating for 30 Large, well equipped kitchen Spacious foyer and cloakroom Gravelled patio + grassed terrace Easy access and parking for 40+ cars Full bar/entertainment licence For booking availability visit www.langfordbudvillevillagehall.org.uk call Keith Moore on 01823 400665 or email [email protected] 5 Your Snow photos: Clockwise from Top left – Josh Wedderkopp—’Maia gives Hector a lift’’; Pam Langdon—’The Tone at Wellisford’; Caroline McMillan-Davey—’Laura McMillan and Friend’; Laurian Cooper—’Snow Gate ‘; Josh again—’all the gang’; Zenah Rowe—Langford Heathfield. 6 Green Fingers: Gardens to Visit This month, Green Fingers is encouraging gardeners to seek inspiration from some of the wonderful gardens open to the public in our area. We are spoilt for choice, from the splendid National Trust properties of Knightshayes and Killerton, to the modest private gardens that open under the National Garden Scheme. In between, there are many beautiful and varied gardens, some of which are listed below. On our doorstep, Cothay Manor has twelve acres of magical gardens, including a wild flower meadow, garden “rooms”, yew walk, ponds and exquisitely planted containers. Holbrook Garden at Sampford Peverell is a continually evolving, naturalistic garden representing “a balance between nature, design and maintenance”, with a spectacular lawn of snakehead fritillaries in the Spring.