December 2020 Chaddleworth News

In this edition  A bumper end-of-year 10 colour pages  of regular news, information and advertising  from in and around the village  including the tale of the Chadd Bear!  and a few winter views around the village

Note that the next Chadd News edition is not due until February 2010. So, as this year of keeping-calm-and- carrying-on is drawing towards a close, all involved in Chaddleworth News wish…

Chaddleworth Action Group As we progress through another uncertain time, things feel very different this time around, the days feel much shorter and the weather is far from kind. But please be reassured that we are still here to help you. Whether you are shielding, if you or a family member is vulnerable, or you have been told to self-isolate for a period of time- we are still here to help you. Chaddleworth Action Group was set up at the beginning of the first lockdown in March, the group has many valuable volunteers who live within the village and are able to help anyone finding themselves in need in these strange and Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal sometimes difficult times. Lest we forget Between us we can help with shopping deliveries, a friendly chat over the phone and personal prescription collections. Chaddleworth raised £376.30 from the generosity of everyone who donated and also from Lyn Fisher-Garrett As you may be aware, we posted cards around the village who kindly offered her items to be sold with all the proceeds at the beginning of March, but understand that they may not going towards the poppy appeal. The total for West be to hand any longer, so please call any of the following Downland was £2,853.59 raised. Thank you to everyone numbers and we will get you the help you need. who made this possible. Sue Ridgeway Nikkie Macnamara on 07533 591831 Kim Lloyd (Parish Clerk) on 07867 310121 Thank you to the Parish Council for laying a wreath at the Please don’t think you need to be on your own. Chaddleworth War Memorial on Remembrance Sunday. Community DOES matter!

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The History Bit – The Chadd Bear! parts suggests live bears were probably present and used in entertainment, including bear dancing and baiting. Some years ago Grahame collected loam for our garden from the side of the road at the top of Mount Lane going out Early medieval times (AD 410-1066): During Anglo-Saxon of Chaddleworth. After emptying the contents of several times, bear claws were found in cremation urns. And in the wheelbarrows onto our garden I started to rake through it Viking Age, large carved stones called hogbacks, used to and that’s when I came upon “the tooth”. As you can see mark graves, have been found carved with bears. People from the photo’s it is quite large and we wondered what type may have associated the bear with certain traits, such as of animal it came from. power. The discovery of tiny bear figurines at children's graves suggests they might have been put there to guard

and protect the occupants. AD1066 onwards: After the end of medieval times, the only evidence for bears was found in London - because of bear- baiting arenas on the south bank of the Thames - and in Edinburgh, where specimens were kept at a medical school, possibly for teaching students. Bears were present in the Tower of London and continued to be imported into Britain until well into the 20th century. Dancing bears were a common form of entertainment. Bears were also widely used for their body parts, with bear grease still being sold in Britain in the early 20th century as a putative treatment for hair loss. Heather Murphy

I volunteer at the West Berks Museum in Newbury and asked the then Curator, Victoria, for advice. She offered to contact the Natural History Museum in London and her contact there came back with some interesting information. From the photo sent and measurements shown they said it looks sufficiently like a carnivore canine. It is too big for any current UK terrestrial mammal. There is a very small tooth behind the canine which is not a consistent feature of carnivore dentition so will help in excluding some species. Neither of the common British seal species have this tooth so they can be excluded. The large cats, tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar do not have a small tooth behind the lower canine (they have a gap) but they do behind the upper canine. So if this is a lower then it is not from a cat. Their best guess is a large bear possibly a grizzly. Our Chadd Bear has travelled far as grizzlies come from North America but read on…

Bears in Britain: A brief history Local Service New to the Chaddleworth News Before the Ice Age: The brown bear (Ursus arctos) was once widespread across Britain, found in the wild from Devon in southern to Sutherland in northern Scotland. However, by the end of the last Ice Age, populations had dwindled and it had become rare.

After the Ice Age: From the Ice Age onwards, there is evidence found of bears (alive or dead) at 85 places in England and Scotland, from the Stone Age to post-Medieval times. Bears were scarce in Scotland, Wales and the East Midlands, but more frequently found in Yorkshire, the east, Brownies, blondies, cupcakes and celebration cakes. Christmas boxes the south and London. There is little data from Wales, including Christmas Tree Brownies, Wreath Cupcakes and Reindeer possibly because specimens have not yet been analysed. Cakes. Numbers started to decline further during the Stone Age, Local delivery to Chaddleworth, Welford and Boxford free of charge. Or collection falling to very low numbers in the Iron Age. from Glenn Milla Close RG20 8HF. Brownies and Blondies can be posted Bears in Roman Britain (AD 43-410): There appear to have anywhere in the UK. Great for gifts! been more bears in Roman Britain - suggesting live animals Please contact Chloe on 07858599917 for prices and availability. were imported from continental Europe. The fact that Instagram and Facebook via @COCOBAKES.BERKS museum specimens from Roman times contain lots of body St Andrew’s Church, Chaddleworth or maybe you could make your own, so that we can all part of the West Downland Benefice enjoy setting out the figures together? Usually by this point in the year I look at my diary and realise Please mail Miri for the Zoom link and some suggestions that my feet won’t touch ground for the next 6 weeks for making your own nativity set. because I’ll be racing around doing lovely things! Nativity To receive the latest updates for services throughout the plays and mince pie coffee mornings, get togethers with year join our circulation list by emailing Miri giving your family and friends and of course midnight services and permission for us to send you regular updates about our carols! But this year my diary is a mess of empty spaces, services and church news. ‘maybes’ and question marks. The usual pattern of [email protected] traditional ‘Christmass-y-ness’ isn’t in place to cheer me through the short drizzly days of early December. So I’ve been wondering how the story of the first Christmas can Shefford Young Farmers inspire me during this Advent full of uncertainty. Of course there’s uncertainty at the heart of the story: when Unfortunately we have not will Mary’s baby be born? It was a ninety mile walk from been able to hold any Nazareth to Bethlehem so Mary and Joseph must have meetings in the hall since packed for the journey with the very real fear that the baby March, but Shefford would be born by the side of the road. I wonder whether Young Farmers have been their desperate search for a room in the city was on the one busy embracing hand exactly what they had feared, and on the other not the technology and holding very worst that could have happened. So how did this events virtually. ‘family-to-be’ find the strength to persevere and the grace to As our County Show was cancelled we held a virtual rally accept what was happening to them? I think kindness and during the summer with members doing their show classes faith are the keys. Joseph’s kindness in accepting Mary’s at home and sending in photographs of their entries. Our situation and caring for her, trudging next to the donkey for members rose to the challenge with some great entries and mile after mile; and the kindness of the innkeeper in offering we won the cup for the club with the most points. them basic shelter and a safe place for the baby to be born. Young Farmers Week in September resulted in members Mary’s faith that God was with them and that the baby she joining together on line to do pumpkin carving, cocktail was carrying would bring healing and joy into the world; and making and a quiz. It was a good chance for members from Joseph’s faith that however unlikely the situation God’s around the county to get together again via their computers. faithfulness was unshakable. We have had both our Club and County AGMs on Zoom Surely kindness and faith can help us to persevere despite and with the wonders of technology we managed to our own uncertainties this Advent and Christmas? And who complete all the necessary business. knows, perhaps the kindness we’re witnessing at the heart Our first virtual Club meeting was a Bingo evening and quiz. of our community, and the faith that God loved the world so Over 15 people joined in, and everyone enjoyed the chance much that he sent his Son to heal the sick, and restore the to meet up again and have fun. The next meeting is being broken hearted,will give us the grace we need to find the joy held on Wednesday November 25th and is a Christmas craft that the Christmas angels promised to all people. Revd evening and then before Xmas we Miri Keen are going to hold a virtual Christmas December and January Services party. Time to get your Christmas Most of our plans for Advent and Christmas Services will jumpers on. remain flexible until we have further Government and We are all looking forward to a time Diocesan advice. However, there are some events that will when we can return to normal definitely go ahead on Zoom. We don’t advertise the Zoom meetings so that we can hold all the links to avoid unwelcome or upsetting ‘Zoom bombing’ but great meetings that didn’t happen everyone from the villages is welcome to join in. this year. Sunday Zoom Church We hope everyone keeps safe and has a very Happy Every Sunday (except 27th December) at 10:45am. Christmas. Please contact Miri or Sue Ridgeway for the Zoom link. If anyone is interested in joining the club please contact Christingle Service Shefford YFC on [email protected] with Chaddleworth St Andrew & Shefford Federated Primary Schools & Under-Fives Sunday 6th December at 3pm Please email [email protected] with The Ibex ‘Christingle’ in the subject box before 1pm on 6th John Castle’s latest obligatory update: “Unfortunately no December and we will reply with the Zoom link. news. It is a shame that I can’t tell you something better. We Crib Services were again about to sign up new tenants and then another Christmas Eve 3pm lockdown. Keep your fingers crossed and hope we are open This will be a short family-friendly service with songs and soon”. A few Saturdays ago I did see the lights on and readings to retell the story of the first Christmas as we set several vehicles in the car park and allowed myself to be up our crib scene. Perhaps you have a nativity set already, hopeful. I will continue to enquire. Grahame Murphy Chaddleworth St Andrew's and Shefford C.E. Federated Primary Schools First of all, I would like to say how privileged I feel to have been offered (and accepted) the substantive headship at Chaddleworth St Andrew’s and Shefford C.E. Primary Schools. Over the last few months we have worked incredibly hard as a team to provide our school community with both learning and emotional support and it is incredibly exciting to be able to continue to lead this journey. Christmas is only a few weeks away and we have been planning for some time our approach to Christmas with a difference. Father Christmas will still be paying a visit, from a distance, the pantomime is via Zoom and the school nativity is going ahead but is likely to be pre-recorded. Our We are now learning the Christmas story and why we hard working PTFA also have plans to create a sense of celebrate Christmas time; we hope to perform a traditional Christmas awe and wonder for the children. I shall say no Nativity which may have to be recorded and shared with more! Whatever happens, we are determined to make it a families if the restrictions continue. We are also learning a memorable experience for our families for all the right song for the Christingle Zoom service; it will be wonderful to reasons! see families joining in from home with their Christingle Before we get that far, we will be commemorating St orange. Andrew’s Day. Every year we create a St Andrew’s cross in the school hall using silver coins that we then donate to Great Ormond Street Hospital. This follows a long held tradition for Chaddleworth St Andrew’s Primary School and is one that I am sure we continue to follow for many years to come. We are continually finding new ways to bring the learning alive – Susannah O’Brien, a history teacher, joined us via Zoom to teach the children about Black History, Simone Biles the gymnast sent us a personal message of support and Geraldine McCaughrean read poetry to the children on National Poetry Day. We also use curiosity boxes to encourage the children to think and ask questions.

A full photo diary of our Pre-School learning can be seen on our website, do have a look: www.greatsheffordunderfives.co.uk

Baby & Toddler Group – Monday 9:30 to 11:30am

Our Monday sessions are still taking place as the government rules allow groups of up to 15 adults to attend an educational setting. Places must now be booked via our Facebook page or website. The families have met at the park or at the village hall from where the families have walked across the fields, made nature crowns and gathered This was one we used in the lead up to Remembrance Day, leaves. At the park, the children have played and explored with the poppy wreath made by Robins class. the wooded area, enjoying their own snack under a Finally, we would like to wish everyone well over the tarpaulin. This socially distanced support for young families Christmas period itself. Thank you for your continued is so important; new parents value getting to meet other support. Alison Stephenson, Headteacher/DSL, 01488 families and young children enjoy the opportunity to 648657, www.csfschools.org socialise and learn. Great Shefford Under Fives We have made Covid safe plans to open the group inside the village hall, in the New Year, on days when the weather Pre-School, Tue, Wed, Thu 9:15 to 2:45pm is too outrageous for walks. Do check our Facebook page This half term is always so packed with for weekly details which are published each Friday. learning opportunities; we have touched We would like to wish all our friends in Chaddleworth a upon Bonfire Night, caring for others through BBC Children very Happy Christmas and Best Wishes for 2021. Best in Need and having an age appropriate understanding of regards, Denise Herrington Remembrance. The children observed the 2 minute’s If you have a pre-school child and would like to see the silence at the hall by standing in a circle around the poppy opportunities and care we offer, please look at our website wreath, in which was a lit candle. In the afternoon, we or email [email protected] placed our wreath at the War Memorial in the churchyard. Village Hall 100 Club Both phases of repair to the car park are now complete. The The latest winners of the 100 Club draw for November are bat licence has now been received, two pipistrelle bats have Ryan Brady with his lucky number 49 and Dawn Baker (nee been rehomed, the scaffold is back up and the roofers have Agg, who now lives in Lyme Regis). She used to live in started work and should finish on Saturday 28th November. Peacock Cottage and then Glenn Miller Close, with her Let’s hope they get it completed before we have any more lucky number 51. They both win £40.50. We are now up to heavy rain. The ceiling man 'Thames Ceilings' is quoting for 81 Members so thank you one and all. the internal ceiling + lighting - we hope to get LEDs to lower This Club supports the Village Hall in ongoing costs that are running costs. Before he can start, we need to inform the ever increasing (Insurance, Maintenance etcetera). The ecologist as there is a suspicion that the bats have entered 100 Club is a vital source of income for the Village Hall. It is the roof void. She will need to inspect before we are able to really worthwhile being a Member and I implore every continue under the terms of the licence. villager to join. Please keep in mind the availability of the Hall (when it is Please contact Grahame Murphy on 01488 638628 or back up and running) for your children's parties, family email [email protected] events and any other functions by contacting Chris Jordan How do I join the 100 Club? on 01488 638149. For any other issues about the Hall please contact Heather Murphy on 01488 638628, or Here is what you do if you “internet bank”, set up a standing [email protected] order for £2 per month (one number) or £24 a year. Payable to: Chaddleworth Playground Recipient: Chaddleworth 100 Club Sort Code: 62-28-74

Account No: 00000000 (eight zeros) The Parish Council and Reference: 2856684010 keen village volunteers Email Grahame Murphy to let him know you have joined and have replaced the get your allocated lucky number. That’s it you’re done! peelings/ bark chippings across the two areas of Saunders Wynn and Coventry Educational Play Equipment. Foundation With the help of the village volunteers, the The Trustees would like to thank Lady Eliza for serving as costs have been kept a Trustee and then as Chairman of the Trust for many years low and met from our and who has now decided to resign the post. We welcome village precept. Miriam Keen as the new Chair of the Trust and also welcome Sue Ridgeway as a new Trustee. The three named benefactors set up the Trust to offer financial help to

further the educational needs of the children and students (up to the age of 25) of the Parish of Chaddleworth. If you The infant swings have wish to apply for funds please contact the Foundation’s been replaced with new Clerk, Heather Murphy, Tower Hi ll Cottage, Botmoor Way, ones. Chaddleworth RG20 7EU or email The playground is back in [email protected] for an application form. The full operation – we hope Trustees will meet again as soon as the Covid 19 virus is you enjoy it. overcome and things can return to normal. In the meantime, if any applications are received, they will be considered by

the Trustees using the postal system and will be treated with extreme confidentiality.

Parish Council Minutes The next Parish council meeting will be held on 1st

December. For a full transcript of the minutes from all past meetings of Chaddleworth Parish Council, please visit www.chaddleworth.net If you have any matters for the Council, please contact the clerk via email [email protected] Thank you to the four volunteers that have already come forward to help with jobs around the village, all these jobs that can be done by volunteers reduces everyone’s council tax, so it is very much needed and appreciated. If anyone would like to help with jobs around the village and join the ‘Chaddleworth Volunteer Working Party’ then please contact the clerk. [email protected] Yours, The Parish Council Clerk The Sloely Cup As regular competitors are undoubtedly aware, we were unable to hold this year’s Sloely Cup. Firstly, the pub was closed and then, what with one thing and another, Covid-19 intervened still further. Hopefully we will all be back to having our pub open in time for the traditional last Sunday in January 2021 (the 31st) although obviously this is still rather aspirational at the moment. In any case, anyone hoping to get their name engraved on The Sloely Cup, (maybe for a second or third time) should craft and reserve the usual minimum of 500ml of their finest and with any luck we will hold this Chaddleworth tradition as soon as is possible in 2021! Jim Wilson

Chaddleworth Hardship Fund The charity was enacted in 1813 to provide fuel and ‘necessaries’ for the people of Chaddleworth Parish. This charity has now been updated to become the Chaddleworth Hardship Fund. Recipe for Parsnip and Apple Soup: 2 medium onions, The Trustees of this fund (the Parish Council) would like to chopped, 25g butter, 1 tbsp veg oil, 2 garlic cloves, crushed, help the village during this unprecedented pandemic. If you 1/4 tspn nutmeg, 600grms peeled and chopped parsnips, find yourself in financial difficulties, please apply to the 600grms peeled and chopped cooking apples, 1 litre Parish Clerk by email to [email protected] vegetable stock, 5floz milk, salt and pepper. and the Trustees will look at your application (in strictest Method: Melt the butter and oil in a large saucepan, gently confidence) and may award financial help. The Trustees fry the onion and parsnips for 15mins, add garlic, nutmeg Downland Gardening Club and apples, cook for 2 mins stirring regularly. Add the stock, bring to the boil and then simmer for about 20mins until The end of a very different year and one where those of us parsnip is soft. Take off heat and blitz until smooth, adding with gardens have to feel blessed, even if at times in the last salt and pepper to taste. Stir in the milk. Reheat if month we have wished for a magic wand to sweep up the necessary. Add a swirl of crème fraiche to serve if you like. falling leaves and those with apple trees are looking for This soup freezes well. something new/different to do with the apples. My favourites Open Apple Tart: Line a tart tin with shortcrust pastry. Peel at the moment are Parsnip and Apple soup and Open Apple and slice cooking apples fairly thinly and neatly cover pastry Tart, both very simple to make particularly if you cheat and with overlapping slices in a circular pattern. Making sure you use ready-made short crust pastry for the tart! have left no gaps. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Melt some Walking up the drive at Oak Ash I noticed that the apricot jam with a little water and brush the apple slices with snowdrops are showing and the iris reticulata I planted in a this to give a glaze. Bake until pastry is cooked and the terracotta bowl have also poked their heads above the apples slices have softened. Serve hot or cold with cream. parapet, signs of things to come. Meanwhile tits, nuthatches and other small birds are very active on my bird feeder, giving me much pleasure. Please do remember to feed the birds if you can. I hope that following last month’s news you have found a houseplant to enjoy, I love the little cyclamen and have three white ones planted up in a wicker basket. We would usually have celebrated the end of our Club year in November with mincepies and Marsala, instead unfortunately we are still unable to meet, and are all keeping our fingers crossed that we will be able to see some of our families at Christmas. Lea and I, together with the committee send you our best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. Judy Kelley Letters and Announcements West Warmer Streets Take Advantage of the Government’s New Grant to Reduce your Fuel Bill Ken Compton Tribute: Gill and family would like to thank everyone who sent us kind messages and donations for the Have you heard about the Green Homes Grant that the Duchess of Kent Hospice in Ken's name. In Chaddleworth Government launched in September 2020 to help alone we collected £245. Thank you, Gill and family homeowners and landlords finance energy efficiency

improvements in the home? Available until March 2021, you

can apply for a voucher worth up to £5,000 (£10,000 for low Our children are loving their singing lessons at income households or for those on certain benefits) to Chaddleworth School - we are one of the few schools who spend on measures that ultimately reduce heating bills in can continue with 1:1 singing lessons because of the space the home. at Chaddleworth and Mr Holder (our Computing Lead teacher) is continuing to set up an IT hub so that the children West Berks Climate Action Network (WBCAN), a local can learn computing skills at Chaddleworth too when the volunteer group, saw an opportunity to help restrictions ease a little more. Best wishes, Alison residents stretch this grant money even further. It has so far Stephenson, Headteacher teamed up with InstaGroup, one of just two Government

registered home insulation installers in the area, to deliver

Penny Post are excited to announce that we have its “Warmer Streets” scheme, providing homeowners with a published (just in time for Christmas) our first ever print title, 10-15% discount on cavity and loft insulation. A further £50 Unaccustomed as I Am (and other stories), a volume of off the final cost will be applied when you refer a friend to stories and parodies by Brian Quinn from Penny Post. the scheme. The locations range from the Valley to Las WBCAN and InstaGroup have hosted a couple Information Vegas, the cast include the Earl of Berkshire, Mr Chivers Evening over the course of October and November to share from Planning, a sentient racehorse and an inner yak. information and answer questions on the Green Homes Grant and Warmer Streets. You can watch one of these Review: “What a truly delightful collection Unaccustomed information evenings here: As I Am is. There is such pleasure in being in Brian Quinn’s company as he ranges thoughtfully, insightfully and often www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0uSC353cg comically over subjects major and minor, from vivid “Warmer Streets” has received the support of MP Laura childhood and student memories and pitch-perfect parodies Farris who tweeted “’The West Berkshire Climate Action of Hemingway and Shakespeare to short stories of real heroes are spot on with their focus on domestic insulation” power and punch.” Stephen Fry on Clean Air Day (8 Oct), while a number of local Full details here: https://pennypost.org.uk/2020/11/26- councillors, including the WBC council leader, have shared tales-of-confusion-misunderstanding-tragedy-parody- the details on their Facebook pages. and-farce-from-penny-post/ Copies are available from As part of the “Warmer Streets” scheme, WBCAN would like local bookshops including The Bookshop – see to insulate a community building for free. If you know of a this webpage for how to order. school, a village hall, a church or any other community

building in West Berkshire that would benefit from an

Chaddleworth Parish Council wanted to show their insulation makeover, email [email protected] gratitude for all the Downland Practice has done during this with your suggestion. awful Covid period. This was suggested by a very grateful To find out more about the Green Homes Grant, visit resident from the village and so we have doubled our www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes- payment to the Handybus. grant-scheme www.volunteerwestberks.org.uk/our-services/handybus/ And if you’ve heard enough and just want to press on with a free survey, contact Ed or Colin at InstaGroup referencing “Warmer Streets” for your additional discount. You can reach them at: [email protected], 0800 526 023 or via www.instagroup.co.uk/contact-us

Ed: yes, I appreciate the incongruity between these two pictures!  Trindledown Farm – National Animal Welfare Trust The Downland Practice Updates The shoebox appeal over continues through December Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: The current COVID where people can build a shoebox for any of our animals, situation is still very unpredictable, the surgery is constantly pigs, ponies, cats and dogs! We haven’t had as much monitoring this issue and will adjust the service according response as we had hoped in November – so please to the severity of the COVID-19 spread of infection. The remember and support our local animals this Christmas. current situation is being managed as best as we can, all patients must wear a face mask when attending the surgery (unless they are exempt). GP Appointments: Please ring the surgery before 12.30 if you require a telephone consultation with a GP on the day. Calls received from patients in the afternoon may have a GP telephone call booked for the next working day. The way that appointments are requested is changing, we now ask that patients go to our website and submit requests via the ask the GP a question. These requests are then processed by the reception team and actioned as required. As this system develops then there will be less reception staff answering the telephones as some reception staff will be dealing with the patients who have submitted their request online. Patients registered at the Downland Practice are offered face to face appointments when this is appropriate for their care. COVID-19 Downland Pharmacy/Dispensary Opening times: The Downland Pharmacy will be open to patients for collection of medications during normal weekdays from 09.30 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 18:00. Updates on the Downland Practice can be found at the practice website news section www.downlandpractice.nhs.uk

West Berkshire Mobile Library The service calls at Leckhampstead Village Hall (unless sudden restrictions forbid). Although the van is not open for browsing, a bag of pre-ordered books can be picked up outside the van. Strict care has been taken with handling Our kittens are going to be rehomed very soon! The books to ensure Covid safety. Books are lent out for 3 gorgeous kittens and their mum Cala were found on a ‘Cala weeks. Homes’ building site in , born in a shower tray. Future dates are: Tuesdays 15th December, 5th January, Cala has since been rehomed to a lovely family and now 26th January, 16th February, 9th March and 30th March. The the kittens are old enough to be neutered and vaccinated, van will be outside the hall between 11:40 and 12.20. Call they will be going to their homes in the next week or so. The 01635 519 827 or 01635 519 900 to reserve from a very kittens were aptly named Harpic, Triton, Loo Loo, Loofah, helpful librarian. Up to 5 books can be ordered. There is also Armitage & Shanks. We have been running a JustGiving an “At Home Service” for anyone who is housebound/ appeal to raise some funds towards the vet bill for the disabled/safeguarding, where books can be delivered to kittens, it is estimated to be over £2,000 in total for all 6 your home. For further information contact: kittens and their mum. You can find out the full story on the [email protected] or kittens here: www.justgiving.com/campaign/CalaKittens www.wwstbweks.gov.uk/libraries As we draw close to what has been an extraordinary year, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of our supporters. This year has been hard for us all in so many ways, we all have had to learnt to adapt quickly to the new ‘norm’ and find new ways of working and rising money whilst remaining close to the public. Your unwavering support throughout has got us through and kept us strong, we are planning and looking forward to that time we can see you all again in person. In the meantime, we are here at the end of the telephone if you need a chat for whatever reason. Thank you all for everything you do for us and I wish you all a happy Christmas and a happy new year. Stay safe and Kind Regards, Tracy Waldron 01488 638584, www.facebook.com/nawt.berkshire Small Ads The Naughty Step Unfortunately, further antisocial behaviour has been reported at the village hall and bus shelter resulting in action For sale: EX-GYM EXERCISE BIKE (Horizon fitness by the Police Community Support Officer (PCSO). RSC200). Came from Therapy gym when they moved location. Not quite peloton but has a lot of programs A significant and repeated amount of alcohol related litter to choose from. You will need to put this in a spare room or has also been reported in local verges. Especially worrying garage, it is very heavy and is suitable for all shapes and as these seem to have been thrown from a moving vehicle. sizes. £80 or vno BARGIN Call LYN 639839 If you are drink-driving, you face a hefty fine, driving ban

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