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April 2019 Issue 462 Editorial March        WHAT’S ON AT EDITORIAL COMMITTEE We would like to wish everyone a very Happy Easter, hopefully the mad [email protected] THE WHITE HORSE March winds are behind us now and the keen gardeners amongst you         APRIL 2019 EDITOR can venture out once more after the false start in February!   Sat 6th: Grand National TV & Sweepstake Linda Lobl-Smith, Home Farm 714475 Mon 15th: Lunch Group This month we have focused on environmental issues that should Thurs 18th: Quiz Night TREASURER concern us all, there is a report on the Climate Emergency, The village Annalisa Duff Fri 19th: Good Friday Fish Supper litter pick, eco tips for those who would like to start to make some small Sat 20th: Easter Raffle Draw 2.30pm Sun 21st: Special Easter Family Lunch WEBSITE changes and some more information on how to help the hedgehogs in Alison Fovargue Tues 23rd: St George’s Day - Steak, Fish & Chips your garden. We would love to hear about the wildlife you have seen For menus and more details see: Julie Walton, June Pearce, Liz Turner facebook.com/TheWhiteHorseBiddestone/ around Biddestone, send us your photos and let us know if you have also DESIGN spotted any of those on Ian’s comprehensive list. OPENING HOURS Chris Draper, Richard Eccleston Monday – Friday The Agatha Raisin flm crew have returned to the village and will be 11.30 to 2.30pm around again this month, they will inform you if the flming will directly 5.30 to 10.00pm (11.00pm Fri) Saturday 11.30 to 11.00pm affect you. I hope you will agree that the disruption seems worthwhile Sunday 12.00 to 7.00pm when considering the fnancial beneft to the village. The Fete is only a    RESTAURANT GET INVOLVED Mon – Fri 11.30 to 2.30pm couple of months away so if you are having a spring clean now is the           Weds, Thurs, Fri 6.00 to 9.00pm Biddestone Broadsheet and the village time to sort out items for the various stalls, details of where to take them   Saturday 11.30 to 2.30pm, website seek to refect the life and       6.00 to 9.00pm interests of the villages of Biddestone and can be found in the centre pages. !  $$"""   $$$ $ $$ Sunday 12.00 to 4.00pm " $ $ $$ $ $$ $ Slaughterford. Written contributions are Please make a note in your diaries for May Day (6th) next month invited from readers on any subject that           01249 713350 will be of interest. Photos, drawings and when we will be having a quiz evening in aid of the Broadsheet. to make a restaurant reservation $ #$ $ $  $  $ $ $ $ $  $ art work would also be welcome. Apologies to Mick Canty who was named Mick McCarthy in last Email accounts are often set up to compress images so they can be sent month’s Skittles item! Linda more quickly, but we need photos to be high resolution. So, when sending photos by email, please attach a fle, preferably a .jpg, and send it ‘Actual size’ or ‘Large ‘if possible. Announcements Any opinions expressed or implied within this publication are not necessarily Have your say magpies? Were blackbirds really baked those of the Editor or Committee and Thank you to everyone who has in a pie? Find out about some of the no responsibility can be accepted for any contributed to this issue of the Broadsheet. myths and legends from nature in the errors of fact printed on these pages. If you have a story for May, please send it seventeenth century in a Easter trail with We will, of course, endeavour to be as to the Editor by 5pm April 19. a chance to collect a chocolate egg. accurate as possible. ● Last copy date is the third Friday in Chocolate Challenge Lacock Abbey Saturday 24 the month, copy should be sent to the You can join in the Cadbury Easter Egg March – Friday 6 April Editor at the email address above. Hunt at two local National Trust treasures: We all know about Easter eggs, but that crafty bunny has hidden eight eggs Dyrham Park 6th - 22nd April of a different nature around the abbey VILLAGE WEBSITE What does it mean if you spot six grounds. Follow the clues and work out which animal laid www.biddestonevillage.org.uk the egg. Don’t forget to hop back to the A full colour version of the Broadsheet courtyard to claim is available on the website. If you do not your prize when wish to have your contact details published you’re fnished. 20th and 21st July 2019 online then please make the editor aware of your preference. Any other notices or Pub pops the Open 2pm until 6pm contributions to be posted specifcally on question the website should be sent to the email April’s Slaughterford Entrance £5 address at the top of the page. Pop-Up Pub at St Nicholas Church will Children free ● To post an item on the feature a quiz night Biddestone Village Website on April 26th. For or Facebook page please more details see the contact the Editor Linda Slaughterford village Lobl-Smith Facebook page. Cover photo: Julia Ortiz photo: Cover

2 3 Recipe Farming notes sparrows and goldfnches have noticea- bly increased. by Julie Walton by Ian Smith Roe deer have reached levels where culling is necessary; I have not seen a grass snake for some years. The hare Apricot and Walnut Hot Cross Buns I was asked to write about the wild- population is down, not helped by illegal A quick and easy adaptation of an Easter favourite life seen in and around the village, so hare coursing. The rabbit population below is a list of just some of the fauna seems, thank goodness, to be at an histor- Ingredients regularly seen and some not so often on ical low level, whether this is to do with 400g plain white four Home Farm: disease or the ever-present watchfulness 50g porridge oats Blackbird, song and mistle thrush, of half a dozen buzzards I don’t know. 1 level tsp baking powder sparrowhawk, kestrel, jay, red leg We try to do our best for the wildlife 75g chopped walnuts partridge, woodcock, lapwing, chaf- on the farm – a particular pleasure is 75g chopped ready-to-eat apricots fnch, yellowhammer, linnet, redwing, the successful breeding of the owls and 250ml natural yoghurt feldfares, bullfnch, spotted fycatcher, kestrels in the boxes one of my sons 175ml milk treecreeper, nuthatch, skylark, barn puts up. The Hawk Conservancy Trust Small amount of pastry (optional) tawny, brown and little owl, blue tit, will come and tag the chicks when they long tailed tit, great tit, coal tit, green hatch; it helps them with their monitor- 1. In a large bowl mix together the dry ingredients. woodpecker, lesser spotted woodpecker, ing. None of this will, of course, change robin, tree sparrow, wren, black cap, the universal belief that farmers are be- 2. In another bowl mix the yoghurt and milk until smooth and wood warbler, swallow, house martin, My late father remembered nightin- hind the decline in countryside wildlife. then pour into the dry ingredients and mix lightly to make a swift, stone chat, pied wagtail, yellow gales and nightjars in Bushy Barrows, We can only sigh and carry on, while soft dough. wagtail and collared dove. but I have never seen or heard either ignoring Countryfle, Chris Packham Animals include: roe deer, muntjac, here. The lapwing, English partridge and Brian May. 3. Turn out on to a foured board and knead once or twice. 6. Bake at 200 degrees C for 25 mins, or until the buns sound fox, badger, rabbit, hare, stoat, weasel, and cuckoo from being regular nest- ● For information about our wildlife Don’t over-handle the dough, or it will toughen. Roll into a hollow when tapped on the bottom. grey squirrel, grass snake and hedge- ers, are now rare here. The song bird see Mammals@wordpress. thick sausage about 30cm long and divide into 8 equal pieces. hog. A survey of bats on the farm some population has recovered wonderfully com and Moon Gazers, a website 7. Wrap the baked buns in a cool tea towel to cool. This helps years ago recorded myotis, brown, since we made a point of controlling dedicated to the care of orphaned 4. Gently roll each piece into a ball and place on an oiled and to keep the crust soft. long-eared, pipistrelle, Natterer’s and the magpie population. Buzzards now leverets and juvenile hares, see foured baking sheet. Brush each bun with milk or beaten egg. Daubenton’s bats. breed here and for some reason hedge http://hare-leveret.info Alternatively the bread can be baked as a round loaf for 30-35 5. Roll thin sausages of the pastry and place as a cross on each bun. minutes. How does your garden grow? Top shops by Julie Walton by Carolyn Madley Why not have a go at growing some of your own vegetables? Now the soil is warmer, there is a huge range of vegetable seeds that can be planted straight Recently I was spending the evening in the shop with a in to the ground. When planting the seeds, it is a with friends in the village and we got on splendid children’s good idea to sow them at two-weekly intervals, oth- to the subject of local shops and if we section. Also the erwise you will have a glut of the same vegetable, had any particular favourites – and not best selection of and you might not want to sow all of the seeds in everyone knew about some of the best. greetings cards, one season. Seeds can be stored in a cool, dark place As a result the Editor of the Broadsheet wrapping paper and kept for next year. Do not keep in the shed or asked if I would share some of the ‘Top and classical CDs. greenhouse. Check the expiry date on the packet. Shops’ mentioned that evening. So here (In fact, there is Before sowing your seeds. The soil should be free goes… always calming of weeds and raked to break up any large clumps. Food shopping was near the top of music playing in It is also a good idea to add some organic matter the agenda and the frst shop which got the background!) such as compost or chicken manure and dig that into a mention was Toby Haynes Family The friendly staff the soil, to feed your plants through the growing Butcher in Corsham High Street. This are hugely helpful and can order any candlesticks to beautiful Welsh blankets, season. Follow the planting instructions on the seed is a family-run butcher with produce book, which usually seems to be with foor rugs, mirrors and more. Alexandra packets, and mark and label what you have planted. coming from Toby’s father-in-law, them the next day. also carries a selection of outdoor Remember to water if it hasn’t rained. cousin and uncle, and his mother and Some of you may have heard of furniture, pots and containers for the sister making the most delicious pies Gabriella Knight (or Alexandra, garden. Well worth a visit, and a great Seeds that can be sown directly into the soil: and pasties. All the meat is locally which is the name she uses). She used place if you need a gift for someone and Carrot, beetroot, kale, lettuce, peas, mange tout, sourced and can be prepared to your own to design and sell pretty camisoles and want something a bit different. parsnip, salad onions, rocket, spinach, Swiss chard. requirements. Always friendly, helpful cardigans amongst other clothing items. Two new supermarkets have opened service, and the meat and other produce Now she has a fantastic converted barn in : Aldi, which now has a Other jobs for April: are frst class. (just off the A420 in Upper Wraxall, branch in the Hatherway Retail Park and Just along the High Street is The about 10 minutes from Biddestone) Lidl in Hungerdown Lane. • Dig up perennial weeds as soon as they appear Corsham Bookshop. I have no doubt which is full of interesting antique and You may already be familiar with all • Feed roses that you all know about this, but just in vintage furniture, a fne selection of the above, but if not, do give them a • Tie in clematis case you don’t, it is a wonderful shop. paintings, both contemporary and older, visit. It’s always good to support local • Pot up self-sown seedlings such as foxgloves. Janet has a great stock of varied books together with lots of smaller items from businesses! 4 5 Film review Poetry V THE by Adam Walton Thank you to Hilary Noyes for this month’s choice O LOOK Cultured Roma are lovely touches (From ‘Stormy Day’, by W.R. Rodgers) Director/writer/cinematographer: of human warmth, VULTURE Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2018, 135min particularly in the O look how the loops and balloons of bloom relationship between the Bobbing on long strings from the fnger-ends The opening shot sets the tone for the maid and the family she And knuckles of the lurching cherry-tree You may long for the days when vintage whole flm: a static, black and white cares for, and also of wry Heap and hug, elbow and part, this wild day, referred to cars and wine of a certain frame of water sloshing over a smooth humour: the frequent foor Like a careless carillon cavorting; age and quality or you may be prepared surface, lingering on the movement of the washing, we discover, is And the beaded whips of the beeches splay to get up at the crack of dawn to ferret water, and the refection from a skylight, due to the toilet habits of And dip like anchored weed round a drowned rock, around some musty old cast-offs at a until, after some time, an airliner slowly the much-loved family And hovering effortlessly the rooks car boot sale. Either way, vintage as a style is here to stay. crosses the rectangle of refected sky. dog. Moments of pain and Hang on the wind’s effrontery as if According to the auctioneer Mallams, vintage refers to any- Eventually the camera pans back tragedy strike the lives of On hooks, then loose their hold and slide away thing over 20 years old, while antiques must be 100 or over. and we see Cleo, the central character, Cleo and her employer Sofa, Like sleet sidewards down the warm swimming sweep So there you have it, an 80-year window of opportunity. washing the tiled foor. The flm continues the mother of the family, Of wind. O it is a lovely time when And while quite a bit of vintage comes worn and faded, just at this slow pace, observing in intimate drawing them closer together Out of the sunk and rigid sumps of thought remember - Orange is the new Grey. You’re going to have to detail Cleo’s life as a maid in a busy and with bonds of empathy and Our hearts rise and race with new sounds and sights do without those elegant neutrals and jump wholeheartedly rather dysfunctional family home in the mutual dependency. What And signs, tingling delightedly at the sting into loud, proud colours offset with a little Danish teak if centre of Mexico City in the early 1970s. endures in the memory is And crunch of springless carts on gritty roads, you’re up for some serious vintage i.e. Mid Century Modern. The period detail is astonishing, and the calm stoicism of Cleo as The caught kite dangling in the skinny wires, If you have so far resisted the urge to pepper your home together with naturalism of the acting and she faces life’s challenges; The swipe of a swallow across the eyes, with items that remind you vaguely of your childhood or the gentle, slowly unfolding storyline, a trait symbolised in the Striped awnings stretched on lawns. New things surprise your parents’ childhood (depending on your vintage), then creates an utterly convincing sense rather surreal sequence And stop us everywhere. In the parks here are a few places to pick over. that one is observing real life in all its where a circus strongman The fountains scoop and fower like rockets Happy Scavenging! complexity and unpredictability. Every performs the yoga tree pose blindfold, foot, eyes closed, perfectly balanced. Over the oval ponds whose even skin shot is beautifully composed, creating that in front of ranks of martial arts fanatics. This utterly memorable flm certainly Is pocked and goosefeshed by their niggling rain sense of watching a moving work of art: They scoff, but are unable to match this deserves the three Oscars awarded for That frocks a naked core of statuary. Bath Vintage Market Frome Flea Market what the great Soviet director Tarkovsky feat, while quietly, unnoticed in the best director, best cinematographer and And at jetty’s jut, roped and ripe for hire, Last Sunday every month: First Sunday of the month: described as ‘sculpting with time.’ There background, Cleo stands on one best foreign language flm. The yellow boats lie yielding and lolling, Bath VA Green Park Station, thefromeindependent.org.uk Jilted and jolted like jellies… vintageandantiques.co.uk The Vintage Bazaar This poem appealed to me within the frst few lines because of Bath Saturday Antique Frome the poet’s wild enthusiasm and delight in all the simple sights and Flea Market, Saturday 27th April 2019 he sees around him. It’s keenly observed and wonderfully Walcot Street thevintagebazaar.blogspot. Moviola Watch a flm Alfresco descriptive. Very soon now we also shall be able to watch them facebook.com/ com and feel our hearts ‘rise and race’. Hilary Noyes BathAntiqueFlea Widows (15) Cinema Under the Stars Vintage Nostalgia The Alfresco Film Company has outdoor screenings at Circuit Festival Widows is the story of four women with nothing in common Wiltshire College Lackham throughout the summer. Car Boot Sale 31st May - 2nd June 2019 except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal Tickets sell fast, so book now on www.alfrescoflm.co.uk Castle Combe In the Wylye Valley between activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of Sunday 14th April 2019 Warminster and Salisbury. turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Viola Davis), Alice 31st May Pretty Woman (15) castlecombecircuit.co.uk vintagenostalgiafestival.co.uk (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle 1st June Bohemian Rhapsody (12A) SOLD OUT Book Club (Cynthia Erivo) take fate into their own hands and conspire 2nd June Bohemian Rhapsody (12A) Extra show, tickets selling fast! to forge a future on their own terms. Also starring Liam 2nd August Grease – Sing Along (PG) by Diane Ross-Smith Neeson and Robert Duvall. 3rd August Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone (PG)

Wednesday April 17th Grittleton Village Hall Doors open at 7pm, programme commences at 7.30pm The March meeting was Tickets £6 from Lesley on 01249 783157 cancelled for various Email [email protected] reasons. ‘The best laid plans of mice Please let Lesley know beforehand if you’d like tickets as and men gang aft agley.’ Moviola cannot guarantee a seat will be available for a popular flm if you turn up on the night, and would hate you In April we shall be reading to be disappointed. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles. Dates for your diary All Wednesdays: In May we shall be May 29th, June 19th and July 17th discussing ‘Swing Time’ by Zadie Smith. For more information see www.moviola.org Any enquiries? Phone or www.grittleton.info/ Diane on 712105 6 7 CARING Eco Worrier Wiltshire’s climate emergency What can you do? by The Village Green by Adam Walton While we need government at all levels, FOR OUR local and national, to act on climate change, we can all do more to reduce No one can have been unmoved by the horrifc Our tips our own carbon emissions. The average ENVIRONMENT effects of plastic pollution on sea life in Blue On 26 February, voted to acknowledge carbon dioxide emissions per head in the Planet II. Yet many people I spoke to also felt ● Empty egg boxes are that we face a Climate Emergency. Readers may be UK is around 10 tonnes a year, and this helpless. They separated rubbish and flled welcome at Yatton Keynall needs to reduce to 2 tonnes by 2030 if their blue bin, trusting that it would be properly post offce to be used for interested to know why they did this, and what it means we are to have a chance of avoiding the recycled, they used bags for life and avoided farm eggs on sale for people in Wiltshire. worst effects of climate change. That is plastic straws but clearly this was just the tip of ● Donate unwanted a daunting challenge, but here are fve the iceberg. furniture to Waste Not fairly easy ways you could make a real So where to start? Searching the Internet for Want Not 303 Hungerdown Wiltshire Council is already committed difference to your own carbon footprint Transition Community information can reveal some pretty hard-core Lane, Chippenham or to tackling climate change. Its Core right now: Corsham ‘zero waste practitioners’. I don’t know about Dorothy House Hospice Strategy states climate change is ‘by you, but I’m not ready for reusable loo paper Shop or British Heart far the greatest threat to our natural TAKE FEWER FLIGHTS Transcoco aims to develop solutions to although I’m fne with reusable tissues aka Foundation both close to environment, social well being and This is the biggest single thing you can local sustainability issues, helping to handkerchiefs. the station economic future’. There is overwhelming do. One long-haul return fight emits ● address the global challenges of climate The Biddestone Broadsheet Take used plastic or evidence that man-made climate change more CO2 per passenger than driving an change, depleting fossil fuel resources is asking for tips on how to paper bags to the shop and is already impacting our planet. As a average car for a whole year. and other environmental challenges. live a more sustainable buy loose vegetables rather result of increased levels of carbon

Everyone is welcome at open life and ideas on how than wrapped dioxide (CO2), methane and other DRIVE LESS meetings where the group discusses our village can ● Why not buy a greenhouse gases emitted by human Driving 10,000 miles a year creates new ideas and initiatives and progress become part of the Biddestone Village activity, the Earth has already warmed around 2 tonnes of CO2. Cutting out on existing projects on fourth Tuesday solution and make gifts cloth bag for by 1°C compared with pre-industrial shorter journeys has a disproportionate of every month, 7.30pm at Pound Biddestone an even shopping to replace levels. That may not sound much, but it effect, as these are the least fuel effcient Arts, Corsham SN13 9HX. See more better place to live in. carrier bags? (See is causing polar ice and glaciers to melt – so try walking, cycling or taking public on transcoco.org.uk or Transcoco Please send your ideas to cover photo.) £4 at an alarming rate, and increasing the transport instead, or sharing journeys. Facebook page. [email protected] each, call 01249 714475. frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, wildfres and fooding. EAT LESS MEAT Without urgent action, temperature A vegan diet produces less carbon than increases will exceed 2°C by 2050 – a meat-based diet, due to the methane risking a runaway effect which will cause Adam, Julie and a protesting polar bear emissions from cattle. While not huge disruption to human civilisation outside county hall on the day of the vote everyone may want to become vegan, Help hedgehogs in your garden and nature. The ‘emergency’ part of cutting your meat and dairy consumption Wildlife Wiltshire’s policy recognises the analysis This policy can be fscally neutral, by half could reduce your carbon foot As hedgehogs emerge from hibernation by the International Panel on Climate meaning prices of low-carbon products print by around 10%. in spring, they will be weak, hungry and Change (IPCC) that, within only 12 would reduce, and it places the burden vulnerable to predators. Hedgehogs are W A T C H years, the worldwide rise in greenhouse on those who can most afford it – MAKE YOUR HOME MORE now endangered, and they need our help, gas emissions must be put in steep rich people produce far more carbon ENERGY EFFICIENT but please don’t give them bread and decline, to have a chance of limiting emissions than those on lower incomes. Insulation is extremely cost effective, milk – they cannot digest the bread, and We are very lucky in Biddestone to get temperature rise to 1.5°C. That means The government also needs to rapidly paying back in just a few years. Installing cow’s milk will give them diarrhoea. the opportunity see amazing wildlife. drastic action now, not in 12 years’ time. accelerate renewable energy. We already an energy-effcient boiler and other More then 70% of their natural diet This month we’ve had report of an otter produce one third of our electricity from domestic appliances will make a big is made up of insects and beetles, plus cheekily stealing fsh from garden ponds. So what does this policy mean for us? renewables, and it is feasible for this difference as well. LED replacement light some worms and a few slugs and snails. We have a resident kingfsher on the It commits Wiltshire to becoming carbon to be 100%, although this will require bulbs give great light last much longer, So it’s best to offer: central pond, barn owls and tawny owls, neutral by 2030, through policies such as unprecedented investment (and will, and save lots of electricity and well stocked bird feeders attract increasing renewable energy, converting incidentally, create thousands of jobs). • Tinned puppy or cat food, chicken woodpeckers and sparrowhawks. public vehicles to non-fossil-fuels, To honour Wiltshire Council’s intent TURN HEATING DOWN favours are best So what have you seen? Let’s see if we encouraging sustainable agriculture, in declaring a Climate Emergency, How about putting on a sweater and • Any left-over cooked meat can build up a picture of what lives here reducing emissions from waste, and Wiltshire residents will need to be turning your heating down a bit? • Dry cat or kitten food (meat favours, box about 12 by 18 inches long (or big- and we’ll report back. Please send your public awareness campaigns. Clearly ready to embrace new policies coming not fshy ones) ger). Either use it with the lid on, or turn sightings to the Editor. Wiltshire cannot achieve this on its own, from central government that are aimed SWITCH TO A GREEN • Dry hedgehog food, available from the box upside down. Cut a 4-5-inch hole so it will need to lobby government to at reducing the country’s emissions, ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER pet stores and Wilko in Chippenham in one end and tape around the hole. change national legislation, for example even if those policies result in personal This could reduce your carbon footprint Hedgehogs can be messy eaters, so to enable far higher levels of insulation inconvenience and costs. by around 15%, depending on your usage. A source of clean water can be a put plenty of newspaper on the foor, and of new buildings, and to reverse Climate change is real, and might seem Switching to a green supplier means you life-saver, too, whether it’s a pond, a dish place the food at the opposite end to the ● If you fnd injured hedgehogs that current policies which effectively ban just too big a challenge. But that’s not an are increasing demand for renewables of water or a bird bath. entrance so a fox or cat cannot reach in need emergency help, you can contact onshore wind turbines, while permitting excuse for ignoring it. The more we show and reducing the need for fossil fuel and pull the food out. Put a brick or Oak & Furrows, Wildlife extraction of fossil fuels by fracking. by our actions that we care, and tell our electricity generation. How to make a Feeding Station heavy weight on top of the box Rescue Centre for sick and A key piece of national legislation politicians that we want them to act on it, To keep food dry and help to prevent to stop it being knocked over wounded animals, near which would have a massive impact is the more likely it is we can do something ● You can calculate your own carbon cats, dogs or foxes from stealing it, you or the lid pulled off. Cricklade, Swindon. a carbon tax – as recently adopted in about climate change before it is too late. footprint, and work out how changes you can buy a small feeding station or house 01793 751412. For Canada. This would mean the true cost of Huge and rapid change can happen, and could make would reduce it, using online that will allow only hedgehogs to get in See more information on: more details, see the carbon emissions is included in prices – history shows that when a new way of tools like WWF’s Footprint Calculator and out, or you can build one. A cheap britishhedgehogs.org.uk or centre’s website signifcantly increasing the price of fossil thinking takes hold, things can move fast. footprint.wwf.org.uk. and easy way is to get a plastic storage thehedgehog.co.uk www.oandf.co.uk fuel products and services, like air travel. Wiltshire Council’s Climate Emergency

8 9 Biddestone YOUR VILLAGE fete NEEDS YOU!

LOCAL PRODUCE Back by popular demand, a FETE fete Saturday 29th June 2019, 2-5pm Items needed stall celebrating local produce. The following stalls rely on your We welcome all donations from kind donations. Details of when plants, veg and chutneys, to and where to drop these off rhubarb, lavender bags and are below. Further information cra#s! Contact Fiona Coombs, in next month’s Broadsheet. email: coombsfi[email protected]

BRIC-A-BRAC, TOYS & CLOTHES BOOKS Please save suitable items and These can be dropped off from hangers too! now but please call in advance to arrange. Contact Helen Perre", 07765 863876. Help needed! Many hands make light work. CAKES If you are able to help in We need lots of delicious cakes any way, for some or all of to sell with tea on our stall. Our the time, please do get in popular fairy cake competition touch. Helen Perre", email: also returns this year. thedangerousfarmer@gmail. com / Tel: 07765 863876 ank you fo y ank you fo y Th our suppo t! Th our suppo t!

10 11 Village litter pick BIDDESTONE MANOR MAY DAY By Adam Walton GARDEN OPENINGS 2019

QUIZ There will be no National Garden Scheme A valiant band of Biddestone’s own open day this year but we will be opening for Join your quizmaster Ian Smith Gilets Jaunes donned hi-vis jackets private appointments during April, May and for a fun-flled evening of brain- and gathered in vast numbers (apart June instead. teasing questions at the Village from a mix-up over start times which Any groups of four or more people can be Hall, 6th May at 7.30pm. Teams was entirely my fault) on the village arranged on a week day or evening. The cost of four at £5 per head. Call green for our semi-annual litter pick. is £10 per person and will include refresh- 01249 714475 to reserve But unlike our compatriots across the ments according to the time of day. All your table. Channel, the objective was not to smash monies raised will go to the NGS charities. the restaurants and boutiques of the elite, ● Please ring Rosie on 01249 713211 to Bring your own picnic to enjoy but rather to pick up their (and everyone make a booking. in the interval; drinks are else’s) litter. available from the bar. After much rummaging around in the hedgerows, an impressive haul of waste ALL FUNDS was bagged for collection by Wiltshire Council. Of particular note this time, WILL GO TO THE was the king-size mattress found in BROADSHEET! Chippenham Lane. It had obviously Grittleton Plant and Spring Fair slipped unnoticed from the pocket of a passer-by strolling down the lane. Set in the stunning house and grounds Grittleton House, SN14 6AP Thanks to everyone who did turn up of the Grittleton House Estate, The Monday 27th May 11.00am – 3.00pm and look forward to our Autumn event – Grittleton Plant and Spring Fair is Admission - £4 per adult. Children look out for details in the Broadsheet. back again in May 2019. It is perfect under 12 free. Free Parking Village Link appeal for plant lovers, foodies and those just No dogs please except assistance dogs looking for a perfect gift. With over 50 If someone lives in Biddestone or ‘The king-size mattress found in stalls ranging from specialist nurseries ● All proceeds and donations support another nearby village, and does not Chippenham Lane had obviously selling plants and stunning accessories Action Medical Research, see drive a car, how do they get to a doctor for your room outside to top quality www.action.org.uk/grittleton or hospital appointment? slipped unnoticed from the pocket of stalls selling delicatessen items, bath Well, of course, they can call Village a passer-by strolling down the lane.’ products, distinctive presents, handmade Link. Village Link is not a magical jewellery and much more. There is chain, but a group of people willing to certainly something for everyone – plus help and who also have a car. Sadly refreshments and cream teas. Biddestone now has only one Village This is the perfect opportunity to Link driver, and more are needed. Do valley, which is very steep on either side We therefore had to cross the Castle wander through the stunning interior you think you could be another one? Village walk and is a beautiful haven for butterfies Combe road and took a footpath from of this spectacular venue and enjoy the If you can spare a little time and feel and other fora and fauna. We had a Kent’s Bottom to Westwell Cottage, then beautiful Italianate gardens of Grittleton you would like to help, or to know By Kate Jones stop here for photographs and drinks, right handed to Folly Farm, which is on House. more, please ring Val Spencer-Jones admiring the sheer beauty of this site of the Yatton Keynell to Grittleton Road. There will also be a special guest on 01249 714830, or the Village Link special interest. The valley is wooded in We then had to walk back through appearance from Action’s special Co-ordinator on 07590 720836. On Sunday 24th February, 20 walkers parts and also has a wonderful variety Yatton Keynell village, turning right mascot PADDINGTON™. Thank you. and an assortment of dogs assembled of geological features. The path runs opposite the Bell Inn, in front of the on The Green in unseasonally gorgeous for about one and a half miles, exiting church. We were able to regain our weather, and set out for a relaxed ramble onto the Castle Combe Road at Kent’s original route just past the Yatton in the local countryside. Bottom. At this point I realised that I had Keynell Village Hall, climbing over a We left the village via Ham Lane and gone slightly wrong and we had to make stile on our left and then following the turned right onto the footpath (BIDD10). a hasty diversion, adding an extra loop to footpath through very tall Miscanthus This crosses Slaughterford Road and the planned walk. I had meant to take the grass and then across level felds until we carries on past the back of Skimpot group right handed after Hammerdown once again met the A420. This footpath Cottage, then turns left across (BIDD Wood, past the disused quarry and then runs parallel to Biddestone Lane, then 12) to the A420 at Giddeahall (Pewshill follow the footpath past the Manor comes out to the east of the Red Houses. Farm). Taking great care we crossed the House and ending at the Church in Again taking great care crossing busy A420 and cut up the footpath to Yatton Keynell. the main road, we re-joined the come out opposite Ivy Farm in footpath, continuing straight back West Yatton. We then turned into Biddestone, (BIDD 15) running left onto the lane and followed parallel to Yatton Road and ending in it for about one mile down into Harts Lane by Home Farm. the hamlet of Long Dean. The walk was six and a half miles On reaching the brook at and it had taken us two and three the bottom of the hill, we quarter hours, so rather more than we turned right along the lane and had planned. Although rather footsore crossed into Hammerdown Want to join and weary, everyone had enjoyed the Valley at West Yatton Down. the Biddestone picturesque countryside and many This is a bridleway/footpath Walkers? stayed to enjoy refreshments outside that trails along the base of the See Page 17 the White Horse. 12 13 Remembering Chris Miller By Andrew & Gill Stafford

It was with much sadness that we came to regard him as true friend. learned of the death of Chris Miller Chris had a big heart and a wicked earlier this month. sense of humour, but was also Chris was known to so many people a troubled soul. He lived for his in Biddestone and the surrounding work, but found it diffcult to cope villages, both as a skilled craftsman, whenever, in his words, ‘the black dog and a larger-than-life character. His descended’. He could shock with his work with Cotswold stone and tiles vocabulary, which rarely went beyond is in evidence in so many houses and the letter F, but he could also surprise gardens. He had a real feel for the local by quoting from the Bible. Things took vernacular, but also imparted his own a turn for the worse over the last few creativity into every project. He loved years, leading him to leave the area, a challenge, and always had a solution and seek help. to every problem. He worked for us, Chris, you will be sadly missed, but on and off, for over 30 years, and we may you now rest in peace. Date for your diary - Safari Supper We will be holding a Safari Supper followed by an auction of the Oak House for 10pm to attend the auction whilst enjoying Faster Broadband for Biddestone gifts, talents and promises on Saturday 14th September. a glass of port. (The previous, extremely lively, Safari Supper The evening will start as usual at 7pm at the Oak House, auction is pictured above.) By Simon Bruce where you can view the auction lots whilst enjoying a glass of All proceeds will go to the Friends of St Nicholas. If you are fzz. At 8pm, you sit down to enjoy your main course at one of willing to host a table or provide a gift, talent or promise for the the host venues, at 9pm you move on to your next host, who auction, please contact Simon ([email protected]) Some good news. Central government will be providing pudding, and then everyone comes back to or Charlotte ([email protected]). has funded Gigaclear to provide ultrafast broadband for rural communities, and from what I have seen from their proposed coverage maps, that includes Share the fun everyone in our parish. Wiltshire have also contributed towards the cost. Are you holding, or attending an event The Gigaclear fbre network will that might interest other readers? Please be completely new; it will bring fbre send a few lines to the Broadsheet to a ‘pot’ which is a bit like a cable telling us what, where, when, who and, connection outside your door, and you if necessary, how and why. Even better, will be able to connect up or not as you take some photos and send a couple of want. Unlike the Openreach network full-sized images with your report. where the fbre goes to the cabinet by the Or, just let us know what you would cemetery, and then uses overhead copper like to read about in future issues. from there, this is fbre all the way and Please send all contributions to so the speeds that can be achieved are • G300 with an upload and download to be disruptive during the installation [email protected] very much better. speed of 300 Mb/s, £45 per month process, but I guess to an extent, that is We are in the middle of the village, • G900 with an upload and download inevitable. Corsham Churches and I have just tested my broadband speed of 900 Mb/s, £75 per month Work is due to start in the third Food Bank speed. Our results gave a download quarter in Biddestone but because all the speed of 24.95 Mb/s and an upload G30 download is a little better than networks have to be joined up, it might Thank you to everyone for your speed of 5.03 Mb/s. Looking at the we get at the moment, but the upload take a little longer before the service is donations to the food bank, especially Gigaclear website, for domestic speed is much better, but G300, for £10 available. for the coffee, tins of soup and tins of properties, they offer 3 levels of service: a month more, it is more than 10x faster steak and kidney pie. All help to add on download and 60x faster on upload! ● Visit gigaclear.com and register a variety to the meals. We are now • G30 with an upload and download The downside is that the installation your interest on: gigaclear.com/ receiving requests for steam pudding, speed of 30 Mb/s, £35 per month of a new buried fbre network is going postcode-checker What is a Lent Lunch? which can be bought in packs of two, Lent Lunch and cartons of long-life custard. A Lent Lunch is a simple meal Food in a three-day emergency box Grateful thanks to all who attended the of soup, bread, cheese and fruit could provide the following: cereal, Lent Lunch held at the Oak House on 19th to empathise in a small way with fruit juice, tea/coffee beans, steak pie March. As a result of your generosity, we those who have little to eat, and to provide for two days, peas, sweet raised £235 for the Friends of St Nicholas, to get together with friends corn, tuna/sardines, savoury rice, sponge who support the PCC in maintaining the and acquaintances you may not pudding, custard, porridge, mashed church, and £137.50 for Julia’s House know very well yet. Lent lunches potatoes, corned beef. Nothing very Children’s Hospice who support terminally are held across the benefce exciting. So you can see how your ill children in Wiltshire and Dorset. between Ash Wednesday and donations help, especially the treats Charlotte Bruce Maundy Thursday. that some of you give. 14 15 Village Hall classes Clubs and Community Activities From painting to yoga – there’s something for everyone Come and join in the many activities in and around Biddestone

Allotments located at the Sunday of every month. Contact Coffee, Cakes and Chat Skittles The skittles season has Main hall CIRCUIT TRAINING New Club Room Edgar Stringer village hall. For more information, Kate Jones for details 715180 in the church, St Nicholas now fnished until October. If you 6.00-7.00pm [email protected] contact David Daniel 701311 Biddestone,Thursdays 10.30am- would like more information for MONDAY Simon Bennett 07815619138 MONDAY Book Club Third Monday. of Noon. Everyone welcome the next season, please contact PAINTING GROUP [email protected] PILATES QUILTING AND Biddestone Cricket Club the month. Contact Diane Ross- Mike Chrystal 712833 9.45-11.45am 11.00-Noon PATCHWORK CLASS See website for more details Smith for details 712105. Cotswold Wardens Walks Village Link ‘Volunteers Sue Tennant 01249 72061 THURSDAY Stonehouse Clinic Noon-4.00pm biddestone.play-cricket.com, Monthly schedule on village transporting the community’ If PRECISION PILATES 01249 700417 ann.barnes@ Anne Chapman 01249 782842 or Biddestone Cricket Club Bridge Club First Monday website – contact Barry Cox you need this service or would HIPS & HAWS CLOG 11.00-Noon stonehouseclinic.co.uk Facebook page. If you are of the month. Club meets for like to join the volunteers. 8.00-10.00pm Amber Edenbrow 07725 316923 THURSDAY interested in joining, call Andy a social evening of bridge; no Edward Bear Pre-school Contact 07590 720836, or for Jan Field 01380 827140 [email protected] PRECISION PILATES BEGINNER PILATES Short on 07795 326518 tuition is available, so players group. See back page for details more details see the website [email protected] 7.30-8.30pm 7.30-8.30 must have some level of village-link.org.uk SEQUENCE DANCING Amber Edenbrow 07725 316923 Jill Rowland 07974 788591 Biddestone Singers Meet at experience. Contact Ian Smith Gardening Club Last Monday TUESDAY 7.30-10.00pm [email protected] [email protected] The Oak House or St. Nicholas 01249 714475 or Jane Iggulden of each month at 7pm Contact Women’s Institute Meets on REAL LIFE YOGA Phil Fletcher 01793 936091 church every Thursday 7.30- 01249 713311 for details Di Webb 715963 third Wednesdays in the village 9.00-10.00 & 10.30-11.30am [email protected] TUESDAY 9pm. All welcome. For more hall 2-4pm, and arranges outings. Emma Goodwin 07771 662567 HEALTH IN MOTION ● To book the Village Hall, information, please contact Brownies Yatton Keynell Village Moviola Community [email protected] TOT’S TENNIS 10.30-11.30am please contact the booking [email protected] Hall Every Wednesday 6.15- Cinema showing in Grittleton Youth Club Yatton Keynell 1.50-2.23pm Mandy Roberts 01225 811667 secretary: 07391 511495 or or 716330 7.45pm yattonkeynellbrownies@ village hall. See feature page 6 Village Hall Wednesdays IYENGAR YOGA CLASS For three and four year olds or 07980 696919 [email protected] gmail.com 8-10.30pm. Contact Alan 6.00-9.00pm Sam Hull sam@ Biddestone Tennis Club Parish Council Meets on Brinkworth 782647 Edgar Stringer connect12sportscoaching.co.uk WEDNESDAY See website for more details Can Craft! Yatton Keynell, St. second Tuesday of each month, [email protected] WRITING GROUP clubspark.lta.org.uk/Biddestone Margarets church. A get together Village Hall, 7pm FRIDAY 10.00am-Noon TennisClub Membership John to chat and craft, third Monday of ● If you would like to add WEDNESDAY PILATES Tim Smith 01249 714455 Marrinan biddestonetc@gmail. the month 7.30-9.30pm Parochial Church Council details of an activity or club, IYENGAR YOGA CLASS 10.30-11.30am [email protected] com 07773 569704 St Nicholas Church, Biddestone, please contact the Broadsheet. 10.00-11.30am Physio-led Cake Sale Yatton Keynell frst Monday 20 May 7pm. Everyone Lydia Holmes Beth Borthwick IYENGAR YOGA CLASS Biddestone Walkers The Saturday of month 8.30 -11.30am welcome [email protected] [email protected] 7.00-8.30pm walking group meets on the last outside the Post Offce

Why not enjoy The season is the cricket with Introducing ABFaB, darling a drink from the nearly here! Village Hall bar? Are you a bit of a plonker? and plant breeding, and (Thanks to Ellie Would you like to get today there’s a wide By Andy Short for agreeing to some ideas about variety of styles from be in the photo) MORE how to make the hand-tied bunches most of fowers? to more formal The new cricket season opens ONLINE Perhaps you are arrangements. on 20th April with friendly ● For the latest information an expert in Whatever your matches for the 1st X1 away at see, the village website arranging and skill level, we’d Rockhampton CC whilst the 2nd would like to love you to come X1 are at home to Frome CC. www.biddestonevillage. pass on some of and join us for The following Saturday the 1st org.uk or the Biddestone your knowledge the frst meeting X1 are away at Stapleton CC Village Facebook page. to others? Join of the Amiable whilst the 2nd X1 are at home to us, grab a glass Biddestone Flower Trowbridge CC. Both matches and fnd out how arranging Bunch are again friendlies. The 3rd and to get creative with (ABFaB). We are 4th X1’s will have an inter-club cut fowers and plant hoping to get a bunch match at home also. All home material, without spending of friendly people together games commence at 1pm. a fortune. You’ll be in great for discussions, demonstrations, Our League season commences you can fnd the fxtures for again, the bar will be open from ● If you are ● To post an item on website company. visits and workshops. on 4th May. all teams, including the youth 6 pm and the evening is usually a interested in or Facebook, please email Flowers have been an important part Alison Fovargue For all of our home games, the sections, by going to Biddestone really good social event, when we joining the biddestonebroadsheet of human experience for millennia. club bar will be open at around Cricket Club Play Cricket Web often have. BBQ. So please come senior teams or Depictions of fowers being used in The Welcome meeting will be Tuesday 5pm and we would love to see Site. You can also follow club on up to the cricket ground and softball, contact @gmail.com arrangements have been found in 30th April 7pm in the White Horse. villagers coming to the ground for news on Biddestone Cricket Club join in. Andy Short ancient Egyptian wall paintings and There will be a short discussion about a drink and to watch the matches. Facebook. New members are as always 07795 326518 or carvings. Using fowers to decorate the the aims of the club followed by a We will be publishing fxtures As from after Easter, every welcome, so if you feel like andrew.short@ home has always been popular, and demonstration. Drinks will be in The Biddestone Broadsheet Friday evening will be our youth playing regularly or just now and manuli.co.uk has developed alongside garden design available from the bar. from May edition. However, coaching evening night, and once then, please come along. 16 17 Crossword Biddestone & Hartham Women’s Institute by Diane Ross-Smith A glittering story of Bath’s historic chandeliers

On March 20th, the WI present, was immediately afterwards one was hung 1 2 3 a 4 5 6 7 8 welcomed Martin Mortimer commissioned to provide in the Octagon in Milsom a a a 9 a a a a to give a talk on the their replacements, to be Street and another in the chandeliers of Bath. He installed within ten weeks. Pump Room. After a major 10 a 11 began by explaining how They were put up in time and restoration of the Assembly

a a a a a a a a the movement for Assembly have been there ever since. Rooms, a great ball was Solution to last months crossword Rooms, to accommodate In answer to queries about held once again, and the 12 13 a 14 balls and other extravagant weight, Martin explained chandeliers were lit, but functions, began in the early they were measured by within a few years plaster a a a a a a a a 18th century, particularly man-weight. There are started dropping from the 15 16 a 17 a in spa towns, and how they always men around to hang ceiling, and the chandeliers also had to accommodate the on a rope. These are all had to be taken down again. a a a a a a a a a 18 many people who came to ‘three men’ chandeliers! The National Trust got in a 19 20 a 21 ‘take the waters’. It is thought The candles required many touch with Martin’s company, that Bath was probably the staff to manage them; 200 asking them to carry out 22 a a a a a a a a oldest of such spas. candles for the Ball Room a far more comprehensive 23 a 24 25 Bath had had previous alone required renewal each restoration. Although the Assembly Rooms in the day. The heat generated company were not equipped a a a a a a a a lower town near the station. on dance nights must have to do the actual work, Martin 26 a 27 28 At the end of 1770 the ‘new’ been intolerable, the candles was put in charge of the Assembly Rooms, designed slumping and the grease whole project, which he a a a a a a a by John Wood the Younger, dripping onto the silks described as marvellous. 29 a 30 were built on a site near and taffetas. The row over Compared with an earlier

Crosswords frst published in The Honeycomb frstCrosswords in published the Circus. They needed Collett’s chandeliers ran for contract for all the lights lighting to provide glitter, months, but eventually he costing £700, this one was and so chandeliers were removed his four smaller for £600,000. ACROSS radio. (3) 6. Titania descends using these commissioned. Two men chandeliers, and made the Martin ended by saying 1. Lycra Vatican incorporates in this 24. Charges roam around Tudor illuminations? (5, 6) were given the contracts: large one safe, and it now he had recently been to a neckwear. (6) scholar who was Elizabeth’s tutor. (5, 7. Repeated use of sauna made sickly? John Collett, an established hangs in the Octagon – concert in the Ball Room 4. Tudor home for Jane or Akela? (4, 6) (2, 7) chandelier-maker, and originally the Card Room. and, although the chandeliers 4) 26. Confusion caused by 1009 raised? 8. Tempting with lutetium item of William Parker, who was just By 1938, the rooms were looked wonderful, they did 10. April already so troops saluting (3-2) jewellery. (6) starting out. The former was in a dreadful state, although not actually provide enough Henry VIII? (5, 4) 27. Feline heroine loses nothing to 9. State wagon for Knight of the awarded the contract for fve all the chandeliers were still light to read the programme! 11. Bar Edward VI perhaps from this become Henry’s 1st and 5th. (9) Round Table. (6) chandeliers (one large and hanging. Ernest Cook, a Bath Alison Flint target. (5) 29. Duly send surprisingly out of the 13. Apt horse act collapsed – disaster! four small) in the Ball Room resident, bought the rooms, 12. Black ace boy plays for local blue. (8) (11) and the latter for three in the and Martin’s company was property. (6, 5) 30. Structure for freplace loses piece 16. Workers with description of 18 Tea Room, and the rooms commissioned to restore Catherine Draper 14. Runaround crock! (3) for author of 4 across. (6) down’s end – polished. (9) ● NEXT MEETING were opened with a great ball the chandeliers. He was We regret to report the death 15. Tribe short of run beat Asian 18. Tudor 22 found by black bird will be on 17 April, at in 1772. Shortly afterwards, pleased to say that they did on 12th March of Catherine native. (7) DOWN around mile with old measurement. (8) which Rosie Harris will the chandeliers in the Ball ‘an extraordinary job’ on an Draper, and send our deepest 17. Ruled by the sound of it and 1. Company politician allowed end of 20. Methodical record I made with talk on history of Room started shedding their extremely limited contract. sympathy to John, Tim and precipitated downfall. (6) debate to fnish. (8) computer-assisted learning. (7) Biddestone Manor and arms. Collett’s man was During the War the Chris and the rest of her 19. Little trade heard for small 2. Maurice loses me for composer of 21. Puck or computer graphic priest garden. All welcome. instructed to take them all chandeliers were taken family. She will also be sadly carnivore. (6) gold? (5) changed? (6) down, and Parker, still wisely down for safe-keeping, and missed in the W.I. 21. Plotter enthralled by Bosch 3. Tree has disease. (3) 22. Ma shot for son’s name? (6) emerald. (7) 5. Offcer commanding to be right this 25. Raise army about one... (5) 23. Cut Latimer or Bonneville on the month? (7) 28. Are bewildered for a long time? (3) Parish Councillors Parish Council Minutes Meetings scheduled for 2019 Chairman Simon Bruce Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dates for parish steward’s visit 01249 716330 simonbruce we were not able to publish minutes for the April 9 @btinternet.com March Parish Council meeting. You can May 14 (AGM) In their distinctive green and yellow vehicles, parish stewards carry Vice Chairman Adam Walton see the full results on the Parish Council June 11 out minor highways work requested by the local community. Mark 01249 701784 website (details below). July 9 Hawkins-Wyatt is the steward responsible for Biddestone and will be [email protected] August 13 in the village on 15th and 16th April. George Brown September 10 Mike Chrystal 712833 October 8 ● If you have any problems that need addressing, please call Di Webb Ashley Juniper 712707 Parish council website November 12 on 01249 715963 or email [email protected] Anthea Kelsall December 10 Andy Short 714724 The Parish Council now has its own website (This is subject to the weather.) Diana Webb 715963 where you can fnd the unabridged minutes The next Parish Council meeting Angela Williams and all the latest notices. See: will be in the Village Hall on 14th Parish Clerk Glenys Gill www.biddestoneslaughterfordpc.uk May at 7pm 18 19 Church Services St Nicholas, Biddestone

APRIL Sunday 7 11am Holy Communion Sunday 14 6pm Evensong (Palm Sunday) Friday 19 10am Good Friday Refection Service Sunday 21 11am Easter Day Holy Communion conducted by our new Archdeacon Christopher Bryan Sunday 28 10am Team Service West Kington

Every Wednesday morning there is a service at 9.15am. This is either Holy Communion or Morning Prayer, and includes prayers for the suffering. St Nicholas, Slaughterford Church contacts APRIL Sunday 14 3pm BCP Holy The Bybrook Team Ministry Reverend Marc Terry, Reverend Gillian Parkin, Communion [email protected] priest-in-charge (Rector Associate Minister Sunday 21 11am Easter Day Holy www.bybrook.org.uk Designate) Tel: 01249 782672 Te l : 0 1 2 4 9 7 8 2 7 0 4 Communion Tel and fax: 01249 782704 [email protected]

Church events Tea and Toast Mondays Short refective prayer 8.45-10am, St Margaret’s meeting Wednesdays noon, Edward Bear Yatton Keynell St Mary’s Grittleton Pre-school group Morning prayer (with Lunch Club every second intercessions for the sick), Wednesday from 12.30 St Wednesdays 9.15am Mary the Virgin, Burton Free get-together for pre-schoolers and their parents or carers. St Nicholas Biddestone We would love you to join us for stories, crafts, activities and Second Wednesday is Yatton Keynell ‘Café refreshments on the following Fridays at noon: usually holy communion Church’ Tuesday 10-12 noon, light lunches from Morning prayer Thursdays noon-1pm St Nicholas St Margaret’s 10am, St Michael and Biddestone Yatton Keynell All Angels, Kingston St Coffee in the Church Michael. Second Thursday Thursdays 10.30-noon. St No meeting April 26 April is usually holy communion Nicholas, Biddestone 3 May 17 May

Morning prayer Thursdays 9am, St Margaret’s For more information, or to be added to the contact list, email Julia at [email protected] for Biddestone or Heidi at [email protected] for Yatton Keynell

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