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Inside this issue: Support for the re - opening of Merriott First School

Garden Wildlife 2 With a nationwide short- Hand Sanitiser as a spin off was a clear win for Thank you from 3 age of Personal Protec- the company’s part in countering the illness. Merriott Pre-School tion Equipment (PPE) to As it happens, the ‘spoil’ left at the bottom of address the threat of the copper still following distillation of gin South circular 8 4/ 5 COVID-19 infection, the mile walk proved to be a perfect fit for the sanitiser and school team has worked with a little imagination it was bottled and News from All 6 hard to gather together provided free to schools in the area. After a Saints sufficient items to max- request, the Salcombe Distillery agreed to send ARK at Egwood 7 imise the safety of both a box of 24 bottles of the Hand Sanitiser to the staff and children. School vacancy 8 staff at Merriott (and the Federated CofE One of the scarcer items has been good quality School over in Haselbury Plucknett) where it Our Pets: House- 9 hand sanitiser and the science supporting the was issued to the staff for their use. (It was hold hazards and response to the virus made early identification determined that it was not a product for use by sizzling summers that a fluid with an 80% alcohol content was the children). The staff are extremely grateful Update on Culvert 10/11 immediately fatal for the bugs. to Salcombe Distillery for their generous Proposal Reacting to a significant reduction in demand provision of a product which would otherwise have been very difficult to obtain in time for Sponsors 12 for the drinkable product, the normal produc- tion operations at the Salcombe Distillery the [partial] reopening of the school at the start of June. The information and shifted into a low gear and the creation of views in the Merriott Steve Bateman Messenger are those ...... provided by the named rd individual contributors Free food available in Crewkerne from July 23 and are not necessarily A new community group is giving people the would find this food useful and enjoy making supported by the chance to pick up a bag of free food on use of food that would otherwise get thrown Editorial Team. Whilst Thursday mornings from July 23rd. away. every effort is made to Crewkerne Community Kitchen (CCK) is get- Once we’ve got going we are hoping to start ensure the information ting donations from local supermarkets of doing some cooking and providing good value given is accurate, the food that they can no longer sell and making meals too. Merriott Messenger it available to anyone who would like to use cannot accept It would be great to have some volunteers to it, from 10.30am to midday on Thursday help distribute the food. If you’re interested, responsibility for any mornings. errors or omissions. you can get in touch with us through our Face- Copy date for the Bar5 on Market St, Crewkerne is kindly open- book page Crewkerne Community Kitchen.” September issue is 12th ing its doors to host the distribution and For more information contact Michael Fox on August. COVID precautions will be in place. 07515 483994 or michaelbernardfox@ It has all been made possible by the national yahoo.com food charity FareShare, which arranges for supermarkets to pass on food they can no Your editorial team: longer sell (but which is still edible) to local John Bowman 74077 organisations to distribute. Marion Biggs 74170 CCK has been set up Peter Bryans 78182 by local residents Jane Jackson 74162 Kate and Michael Janet Lailey 271008 Fox. “This is a bit of Eric Vose 351857 an experiment for Paula Bateman 271175 us,” says Michael. Em a il : “We will have to see Spotted in Merriott recently, have you seen this bird of prey and do you know merriottmessenger@ what’s donated, but what it is? Answer page 9 gmail.com we think there are lots of people who ...... P A G E 2 [email protected] ...... Garden Wildlife We are all advised to diversify our lock- brought my camera and it sensed my mouth parts deeply embedded in the down experiences by taking advantage of intrusive attention and sidled away bee, which was thoroughly dead and the increased time we have on our hands slightly to shelter under a downturned looked to me as if it had an expression of by observing the wildlife on our own petal. horrified surprise, like any victim of patch, which I duly do. I began to wonder how it made its living: sudden death. About a week ago, when looking around no web and no attempt at camouflage. Somehow, after that, I felt a bit squeam- for some flowers for the house, I saw a But then I realised that the petal on ish about watching it any more. Next completely white spider. It was chalk which it was posing had white markings time I looked for it, it had gone. Its meal white – body, legs and ‘face’ – and on its blue surface, so that the spider was must anyway been enough to last for a fairly large, a bit like a common garden in fact disguised as part of its chosen week! Google tells me it was the ‘fairly spider, sitting quite still in full view, on a flower. It must be waiting for some rare’ White Crab Flower Spider, which blue iris. Other people may know this hapless insect to alight within grabbing- lies in wait for its prey just as I had seen. species well, but it was new to me. range, so that it could pounce. To me, however, it will always be the Intrigued, I went to look for it again next This turned out to be only too true! The Ghoul of the Garden. Nature can be red day, and it was still sitting still as before, last time I visited it, it had caught a bee, in tooth and claw, even when disguised its front legs spread wide, apparently as big or bigger than itself. Still clinging to as chalk white. basking in the sun. The day after, I the swaying iris, the spider had its Janet Lailey

White Crab Flower Spider Photos taken by Tom Nicholson-Lailey ...... The flower photographs in the July issue have inspired other A local agent with local property Merriott residents to send in theirs. If you’d like to have photos of your garden included in the next issue, please send to knowledge! [email protected]

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Merriott Messenger [email protected] P A G E 3 ...... Thank you from Merriott Pre -s ch ool Merriott Pre-school would just like to preparing your children for the return with recycled furniture to make Pre- send out a couple of ‘THANK YOUs’ as and the wider community for allowing school feel like home. Staff put their we close for the summer holidays. me to place footprints and posters up lives on the line to ensure children could Firstly to all our children, parents and around the setting to inform all about return and critical workers could return wider community for their continued how we were changing and alterations to the NHS. Girls you are AMAZING. support throughout the pandemic. It has that had to be made. To Charlotte Hamlin and her team at been a very unsettling, challenging, Merriott Childcare for caring for the chil- stressful and unknown time which has dren when we were not able to... it was seen the pre-school close for over 12 daily phone calls and checking data, weeks (which it has NEVER had to do in national guidance but together we got over 40 years of business) closing its there in the end. Thank you! doors suddenly to all and remaining silent inside. Finally to Joyce James for the donation However, we took all necessary precau- made to our clothes bank. We have tions as set out by the Government and used the money to buy water funnels, re-opened on 1st June to 17 children, containers and tubes for our new water/ Lastly to our fantastic five members of wet area which the children have across 5 days in 2 bubbles ,where every staff who remained working throughout single child literally ‘skipped’ through the enjoyed daily! Thank you. on projects, training, implementing new gate on return and that’s how it re- planning and reorganising the building Jenny Hayne mained. And that was down to you all ...... Life in a Merriott pond My partner would like to fly his I was watering the garden this morning, as There are froglets and small newts in the model helicopter somewhere in instructed by my lovely wife, and had quite large pond. It’s a picture at present with the or around Merriott. Does any- a shock when a large light brown frog leapt water lilies in flower; as usual there is a one know of any model flying out of the undergrowth and made a hurried large amount of duck weed, unwanted but clubs nearby, or perhaps a escape into the smaller of our two ponds. It difficult to remove! I found a small tadpole farmer who would allow him to fly in a field? He flies electric is interesting to note that frogs are able to amongst the weed I had removed but defi- models and they are not noisy. alter their colouring to match nitely not from a frog as it Thanking you in advance. their current environment. was a sandy colour, could it Shirley Gibbs 07912 218 864 The small pond was here when be a newt? we bought the property and The birds continue to visit An appeal to your kindness the frogs seem to prefer this regularly, the sparrows are Refugee Support Group has one to the larger one we had very choosy and throw a lot received an appeal for small built about 3 years ago, of seeds out which is much tents, sleeping bags and blan- though they assemble in the appreciated by the wood kets to replace those destroyed larger one for reproduction. I have counted pigeons, collared doves, dunnock and rob- by the authorities leaving refugees without shelter of any as many as 20 frogs at spawning time! ins who are happy to eat off the ground, as kind. I am willing to collect The heron has not been seen recently, there does our lovely Labradoodle! Wouldn’t it be from anyone if necessary. are in excess of twenty Goldfish in the larger boring if everything was perfect! Thank you. pond, which I have seen basking in the Peter Fisk Geraldine Downey 01460 271358 shallows so we cannot have lost many fish. P A G E 4 [email protected] ...... News from All Saints Church Dear all dence. It is too early to tell you what is bit challenging! In some ways it was eas- At the time of writing I coming up next month, so please keep ier when it was clear cut. Now we have feel both excited and your eye on the Link magazine, church to use more of our own judgement to nervous about starting noticeboards, Facebook page and decide what is best for us and for others. services again. I think ‘Achurchnearyou’ website – all of which I hope that people in our communities many of us feel cau- we will try to keep up to date! continue to be kind and patient with tiously optimistic about Although we cannot sing yet, we are for- each other. And I hope we remember the future and wel- tunate to have organists who are willing the many for whom this is still a very come the chance to carry on a bit more to play, which will make a big difference difficult time; those who struggle with ‘normally’. But some of us are still wary to our services. isolation, illness, financial or relationship problems. for a whole variety of reasons. We will continue to send out resources We are glad to be able to open All Saints to people at home and do some online Our church buildings are important, but church again, albeit on a reduced basis. services. Please get in touch if you need people are far more precious to God. It is just good to be able to see each oth- help accessing any of this. We will need to offer each other a whole er and to pray and worship in the same lot of love, encouragement and support If you are like me, you may have found as the coming months unfold. place. We are taking care to do this very all of this change and decision making a safely so that you can return with confi- Revd Julia Hicks ......

Meadowsweet and Bedstraws by C B Plants Hedgerows, ditches, riverbanks and white flowers on thin green stems spill damp corners of fields in summer are out of the hedges. This plant is related to where you will see the frothy cream Cleavers or Goosegrass and similarly it is flowers of Meadowsweet, Filipendula an annual, setting seed to overwinter for ulmaria. The common name comes from the following year. Also of the same the Anglo Saxon 'meodu swete' meaning family, Ladies Bedstraw, (2nd photo) mead sweetener as the flowers have Galium verum is a perennial plant of been used to sweeten mead, beer and meadows, verges and other grassy areas, wine since ancient times. Other names it has clusters of tiny bright yellow flow- are Queen of the Meadow and Bridewort ers on sprawling stems that grow from a from its use as a sweet smelling strewing dense mat to scramble amongst and up herb both in homes and at marriage cer- through grasses. The flowers have a emonies. It is said to have been a favour- lovely honey scent and were once used ite strewing herb of Queen Elizabeth 1 to curdle milk for cheese making and also and has also long been used in herbal to impart a yellow colour. As the com- medicine. mon name suggests, the Bedstraws were Meadowsweet (1st photo) is a perennial once used to stuff mattresses, the dried plant that dies back to the ground in foliage has the smell of sweet hay, aiding autumn. It grows to a height of 1.25m, sleep and also helping to repel lice and the small creamy-white flowers are held fleas. The herb Sweet Woodruff, Galium in clusters at the top of stiff stems. The odoratum, a woodland plant that has deeply veined mid-green leaves are the small starry white flowers in May, was food plant of a number of moth cater- also used in the same way. pillers. Both Meadowsweet and ladies Bedstraw Another flowering plant of summer can be grown in wilder parts of the hedgerows is the Hedge Bedstraw, garden, included in wildflower areas, on Galium album. Billowing clouds of tiny banks or at the base of hedges. Catherine Bond ...... Like so many charities, our fundraising events have unfortunately been cancelled. So far, we have raised over £1,380,000 of our needed £2 million. Therefore to help the Appeal, we are asking people if they might like to look in their jewellery boxes for unwanted and/or broken pieces of jewellery that they might like to donate to the Appeal while we have this enforced rest. We had hoped to have this much needed Breast Cancer Unit at Yeovil Hospital built by the beginning of next year. but now it will be delayed, as with many other things. It would be wonderful if you felt you would like to support the Appeal with unwanted or broken jewellery. Just contact the number below and we will collect when hopefully everything is more normal. Contact: Maggie Hague, Appeal Committee Member Telephone Number: 01963 250108 [email protected] P A G E 5 ...... Try This for Sighs The Old Vicarage, Church Street We must shun every one: not much fun. Notification of intent to All alone; mustn’t moan. Got my phone. carry out Tree Surgery When will it end? Call a friend; just press’ send’. works within a Conserva- Let them come to my room, via Zoom. tion Area 20/01839/TCA Status: Awaiting decision Propose a feast, invite a guest – ten at least! Land at Pye Corner Plan a menu, choose a venue, when the end’s due. Application to vary condition2(approved plans) of To soothe and heal enjoy what’s real, a song, a meal…….. approval 19/01021/FUL Status: Awaiting decision Though we’re fractious nature will patch us, love will catch us. Land Adjoining Moorlands Road Life is testing but birds are nesting. Application to carry out works to de-culvert a 280m Children play as best they may through a long day. stretch of the Merriott Stream near Moorlands Road, Not much scope: adapt and cope, wait in hope. restore the stream to an open meandering natural Help each other, father, mother, sister, brother. channel, create backwater areas and a site compound We may sigh for days gone by, we will cry and associated works 20/01464/FUL Status: Awaiting for those who leave; we must grieve. decision But also, live! Let us thrive and survive. Land to rear of Lower Beadon Clouds do not last. This too shall pass. Formation of an agricultural access and track and the By Janet Lailey, 17th April 2020 erection of post and rail fence 20/01429/FUL Status: ...... Awaiting decision ARK at Egwood is finally open!! Thank you to everyone West Bassetts Higher Street who has helped us to achieve this; we could not have Notification of intent to carry out tree surgery works done it without the loyal support of a group of volun- to 17 trees within a Conservation Area 20/01277/TCA teers, who have helped us with planting and growing, Status: Decided carpentry, upholstery, looking after animals and the list Milton Cottage, 20 Higher Street goes on; over the last few months the site has changed dramatic- Alterations, two storey and single storey extension ally. 20/00667/HOU Status Approved During lockdown we were able to support a number of vulnerable Land off Shiremoor Hill members of our community, with access to safe outdoor space. Erection of 39 dwellings and associated works We are now fully open. on a small scale due to COVID, but hope- including access, open space, parking, landscaping fully we will be able to open up our services further as the and drainage infrastructure pandemic subsides. 20/00005//REF Status Appeal Allowed subject to We are always looking for more volunteers, so if you are interested conditions please contact Jackie at [email protected] or call 07952 Details were posted by Merriott Parish Council on 514 363. We will be arranging an Open Day as soon as we possibly th Facebook on 12 July Marion Biggs can; we’d love you all to come up and see us in the very near future. Amanda Bell S a t u r d a y 1 st August Merriott Village Sale is back From 10am until 3pm various houses will be selling items from their doorsteps. For further details contact Lola on 07885 424 588 or start at 8 The Piece, Hitchen, Merriott where you can find details of all the others participating or see posters. Lola Clarke

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www.arbtreeandgarden.co.uk P A G E 6 [email protected] ...... South Circular Merriott Walk (3 miles)

1. From the Co-op head to Merriottsford, turn right at Pye Corner mini roundabout and after 100 yards on the left are 5 steps up to a kissing gate. You are now on your way.

2. Follow the path across the field, then alongside a hedge through another 2 kissing gates and you are at Tinkers Lodge Farm.

3. Turn right and you will see a large yellow arrow directing you along the path between 2 farm buildings through a broken kissing gate and leading you to the A356 passing through another kissing gate en-route.

4. Cross the A356 with care (remember your Highway Code!) and go up Boscombe Lane opposite, partially blocked by a stone trough which I think is to deter travellers - not you - and after 30 yards go through the gate and bear slightly left.

5. You are now heading towards the first of 2 lines of trees (see photo A). Keep going until you reach the beginning of a second line of trees A which is distinguished by also being home to a large tin water tank. (Photo B). Pause here and look at the view to the north over the solar farm.

6. Here you turn right and follow the path round the edge of the field, aiming to the left of the large tree on the horizon in Photo B, until you reach the stile on your right. (There is actually a gap to the right which saves you climbing the stile).

7. Keep following the path (known as Waterfield Lane) which hugs the field edge, crossing just one stile, all the way up to the back of Ashlands Road. Note: ignore an inviting gate leading onto a B beautiful meadow part way along - you may never be found again! Also don't be deterred if there is a large trailer nearly blocking the path up to Ashlands. I think it is another vehicle deterrent (or as its on the Crewkerne boundary it may be to keep out people from Merriott!)

8. Follow the track along the back of the houses for 50 yards where it bends sharply right and you are now on Longstrings Lane (see photo C) which will bring you out at Broadshard.

9. At Broadshard turn left along the main road (A356) for 150 yards and immediately after the house named Meadow View, turn right through a chain gate and just follow the path (this parallels Goulds Brook which you may have noticed flowing under Merriotsford Bridge). C 10. The path is easy to follow and you eventually pass through Gate 1 then up a slight incline through Gate 2 and then Gate 3 which is in a little dip ( see photo D) The busy main road to Crewkerne at the top of the picture seems a world away.

11. The path goes through a squeeze stile to cross the drive to Moorlands House, then along a short stretch of path through a gate and around the top of the field (its often boggy to cut across the middle) to come out opposite where you climbed up to your first kissing gate, finally turn left and stagger back to the Co-op where you started.

Peter Bryans

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Printed by Parish Magazine Printing, Northmoor, Whitstone EX22 6TD P A G E 8 [email protected] ...... Open and ready to welcome you It is with great pleasure that I can confirm Merriott Social Venue has opened its doors MIDDAY SUPERVISOR again to the community. 5 hours per week (Monday – Friday) 38 weeks per year, based at We have had to make a few Merriott First School changes to the way we operate Salary: GRADE 16 Point 2 £9.18 per hour and our opening times, due to The Federation is looking for a friendly, energetic and enthusiastic government guidelines and to individual to join their lunchtime supervisory team to start as soon as keep our staff and customers safe. possible. You will work from 12.15pm to 1.15pm 5 days a week at Our new opening times are: Merriott First School, term time only. Applicants should be: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday 7-10pm • Well organised Thursday 7.30-10.30pm • Able to demonstrate a positive and enthusiastic approach Friday 7-11pm • Enjoy working with children and young people Saturday 6-11pm • Able to organise activities to ensure children are active during Sunday 12-6pm lunch play I would like to ask you all to be courteous to our staff The ability to offer extended time when other Midday Supervisors are when you visit as they will be following the rules set unavailable and hold a Food Hygiene Certificate would be advanta- out by the Government and the executive committee, geous too. to help keep you all safe whilst visiting the venue. Enquiries and visits are welcomed. Please contact Miss Higginbotham, Take care, stay safe and we look forward to welcom- Executive Headteacher on 01460 72547 or email office@merriott. ing you. somerset.sch.uk Isaac Lisney Merriott First School places high importance on Safeguarding and Chairman Child Protection and the post requires a criminal background check via the disclosure procedure. All references will be verified. Did you know …. It took the creator of the Rubik’s Cube, Erno Rubik, one month to solve the cube after he created it; as of June 2018 the world record is 4.22 seconds. Ketchup originated in China as a boiled-down brine of pickled fish and spices called ‘ke-chiap’. Facebook has more than 2.45 billion monthly active users.

Some people have been spending a lot of time at the Allotments this summer! Sent in by Beryl Bellamy. [email protected] P A G E 9 ...... Our Pets: Household hazards and a sizzling summer I am sure our use of hand sanitisers has hour helpline called the Animal Poison your dog in a car even for just a few increased exponentially during the pan- Line (01202 509000), which can be useful minutes, as cars heat up very quickly. On demic. There have been reports that if you suspect your pet may have come hot days, it is a good idea to walk your these can be toxic to pets. They do have into contact with some sort of poison. dog early in the morning or late in the a high alcohol content and so are They give excellent triage advice and will evening. This is especially the case with potentially harmful if a whole bottle is let you know whether or not your pet short nosed breeds such as pugs. Pave- inadvertently eaten. However, during needs to be seen by a vet. This is a ments can get surprisingly hot and can normal use, it rapidly evaporates from chargeable service. About 80% of calls to harm your dog’s feet – feel the pavement the skin and so is not harmful if our pets them result in the pet being able to with your hands- it can hurt! If you think lick our hands afterwards. stay at home and that way your pet only your dog is getting a bit too hot but are receives treatment when absolutely well in themselves, then cool them down As well as washing our hands regularly necessary. Alternatively, you may wish with cool (not icy) water and put them in we have also been advised to clean surfaces. It is important to take extra to speak to your vet directly. front of a fan. If, however, you think they have overheated to the extent they care when we have cats or dogs in the When you might be suffering from heatstroke and house as most disinfectants are irritant read this, I are getting poorly with symptoms such as and can cause damage to their skin or hope we are mouths, especially if they have licked enjoying excessive panting, excessive drooling, agitation, lethargy or staggering, then treated surfaces or if cats groom them- beautiful telephone your vet immediately. It is a selves afterwards. Tea tree oil is used weather by some people as a skin antiseptic to after such an good idea to pour cool water on them via treat wounds or other skin conditions. amazing start a hose or bucket as a first aid measure before transporting them to the veteri- Pure tea tree oil should never be used to summer. nary surgery as this has been shown to on pets – even a few drops can cause Our pets are hopefully getting more ac- severe side effects and fatalities have customed to the heat but, as ever, please improve chances of survival but check with your vet first. been reported. There is a national 24 do take care on hot days. Do not leave Danusia Nosek BVetMed MRCVS ...... Gardening quote Copper Beech Seedlings Free to Good Homes I have a large, green beech tree in my garden of the month and my neighbour has a copper beech with Sent in by Mo Frampton both trees propagating plenty of seedlings "To create a garden is to search for a better world. each year. I have a small number of copper In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided beech seedlings to give away this autumn. by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a First come, first served. Please call at my horticultural masterpiece or only a modest house (3 Boozer Pit) or ring 07810 128 vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of 137/01460 76544. Mitchell Philp a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.“ Answer: Red Kite Marina Schinz

As required by Govern- ment, the Hall has been closed since March 23rd. Recently the Government has announced that some limited activities may resume in village halls. The MVH committee has been in touch with regular users to enquire when they may wish to Heating engineers, boiler servicing resume activities. Most previous users have indi- cated that they will not want to restart inside and changes, Lpg / Oil / Gas-Safe until September at the earliest and some not before next year. The Hall committee is carrying Laurel Cottage, Shiremoor Hill, out a thorough risk assessment of the procedures Merriott which will be needed to re-open and will be requiring future users to carry out their own risk 07970 279778 / 07738 632746 assessment. If anyone is considering the use of the Hall please Ansaphone: 01460 76000 enquire via the Hall website: www.merriottvillagehall.org.uk [email protected] John Bowman P A G E 1 0 [email protected] ......

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