Contents December 2016 Issue 173 Dogworthy's Christmas Cracker
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Contents Family Christmas Party page 3 Christmas Tree Festival page 5 News from the Castle page 6 The White Hart pages 7-9 Sourton Round Up pages 10-11 Dog Show page 11 Movie Watch pages 12-13 Bridestowe PC report page 14 Bridestowe Churches Partnership page 15 Adrian Brookes page 16 Bridestowe Village Hall page 17 Riverside Stores page 18 Garden Club report page 26 Hedgehog Corner page 30 Sue Townsend page 30 -31 Forthcoming events page 40 December 2016 Issue 173 Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year Jacolly Puppet Theatre presents Dogworthy’s Christmas Cracker A Show full of Chrismassy fun “The ideal Christmas treat” for ages 3-9 Thursday 22nd December, 2:30pm Tavistock Town Hall, Bedford Square Tickets: £5 Family rate £4.50 for 4 or more by phone & online from Cornish Riviera Box Office 01726 879500 crbo.co.uk/jacolly or in person from Bookstop , Tavistock Dogworthy, the dog magician, loves to entertain with his magic tricks, accompanied by his human friend, Holly. Thank you to the residents of Bridestowe village who welcomed all the mini witches, wizards and other scary characters back on As I won’t be sending Halloween.The children had Christmas cards this a wonderful time trick and treating year, I would like to although thinks there was a lot more wish everyone a treating going on, thank goodness. Merry Christmas & Cerys, Callum and Friends Happy New Year. Dog fouling in Tanyard Court Wilf Spry Residents are reporting a recent spate of dog fouling in Tanyard Court. It appears to occur overnight which makes them wonder if someone is letting their dog out last thing and not supervising their pet. Please be a responsible dog owner when December Events at Okehampton Library exercising your pet. Friends of Okehampton Library Christmas Draw . Chance to win the contents of our festive hamper 50p per ticket. Draw to take place 17th December Friends of Okehampton Library Christmas Quiz . Puzzle over our fun festive questions for a chance to win a £10 book token. £1 per quiz sheet, closing date 7th January 2017 Saturday 3rd December 10:00-12:00. Book & DVD Sale and Coffee Morning Pick up a bargain and enjoy free refreshments served by the Friends of Okehampton Library 1st-24th December during library opening hours Find all the Elves hidden in the library - receive a Christmas treat. For children of all ages, 10p a go, no booking necessary Wednesday 7th December 11:00-12:00. Christmas Story & Craft For children under 5 and their carers. Free, no booking necessary 19-24th December during library opening hours. Christmas Activity Table For children and their carers. Free, no booking necessary Friends of Bridestowe School The Book Club will be Annual General Meeting & Social Evening meeting on Thursday Friday 9th December 7:30pm onwards 8th December at The White Hart, Bridestowe 7.30pm at Millaton Everyone welcome to join the Cottage for our meeting Christmas knees- up. We are bringing and stay for a drink food and drink and, as is the afterwards tradition, a book bought from a Agenda available from School charity shop for our ‘Secret Santa’. ‘Do give books – religious or otherwise – for We may even get round to discussing Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom the book we’ve been reading, John sinful, and permanently personal.’ Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning . – Lenore Hershey, former editor of McCalls BaSE Page 2 Christmas Whist Drive on Saturday 17th December at Meldon Village Hall 7.30pm start £3 to include a drink Whist prizes to include Turkeys - Chicken Pork - Beef - Cuts from ½ lamb All proceeds to Devon Air Ambulance Trust Sourton Parish Council The first meeting of 2017 will be on Monday January 9th at Sourton Hall and as always parishioners are welcome to attend. A full list of meeting dates, as well as agenda and minutes are on the Sourton website - www.sourtonpc.co.uk We are also happy to advertise any forthcoming Sourton events on the website, publish local news, or local pictures and listen to any other ideas for its use. For this, or if you would like to receive minutes and agenda via email, please contact the clerk- email: [email protected] or tel: 01837 861230 . BaSE Page 3 Lewdown Victory Hall GRAND CHRISTMAS WHIST DRIVE Friday 9th December 8.00pm Fortnightly whist drives start again on Saturday 14th January 2017 ********************************** A date for your diary... Lewdown Victory Hall SUNDAY LUNCH February 12th at 12.30 for1.00pm Tickets £12.00 Sarah Nash 01566 783274 Registered Charity No 230270 A big ‘thank you’ to all those deliverers of BaSE for another year of delivering. Your help is really appreciated. We drop off bundles and rarely get the chance to thank you all personally. However we can do it through BaSE and it is just as sincere! Ali and Martin Young BaSE Page 4 Please don't forget that delicious BACON BAPS will be served again next year on Saturday 28th January from 10 -12noon at Bridestowe Village Hall John Hockridge, one of your West Devon Borough Councillors Contact details: Week Farm, Sourton, Okehampton, Devon, EX20 4HZ Tel: 01837 861221 Email: [email protected] Caroline Mott, your other West Devon Borough Councillor Contact details: Great Close Farm, Bridestowe, Devon, EX20 4NT Tel: 01837 861212 Email:[email protected] BaSE Page 5 News from the Castle Hello everyone I hope that you have all been able to enjoy some glorious autumn sunshine. The colours at Castle Drogo have been amazing this year. The gorge is looking particularly gorgeous, especially when the sun catches the reds and golds. Despite the current pause in building work, the project is still moving in the right direction. We have had the scaffold team on site for the past month. They have been busy constructing the final (yes – final) stage of scaffolding over the North end of the building. Although we don’t intend to start the actual work until early spring, having the scaffolding in place will enable us to hit the ground running once we appoint the new contractors. Other exciting activities over the past month include working with the wonderful young people from Med Theatre as they recorded a radio play inspired by the stories of wolves on Dartmoor. They did most of the recording on-site at Drogo and it is lovely to hear the acoustics, creaky floors and pianos in the background. If you fancy listening to the full play, please visit www.medtheatre.co.uk/wolf-whispers. I was lucky enough to attend the launch of the radio play and it is fantastic. The group worked very hard creating the play and we just loved being able to support them in a small way. The next couple of months will be super busy for us as we get ready to re-present the interior of the castle ready for the new season. Once again, rooms will be shifting and new stories will be told. We know that we still have 2 years of building work ahead of us so the rooms cannot go back to ‘normal’ just yet. We are very excited about our plans though and can’t wait to share them with you. I will tell you all about it in the next edition! All that is left for me to say now is that the Castle Drogo team wish you all a very happy and healthy Christmas and New Year and we hope to see you all soon. Paula Community Engagement Officer, Castle Drogo 01647 434130, [email protected] This year’s Ram Roast will be Thank you held earlier than usual, I would like to thank everyone who 22nd July 2017 donated books, DVDs and CDs for my We will write more about it stall at the Christmas Fayre, raising in next month’s BaSE but funds for St. Bridget’s Church. I was please make a note of the inundated! Anything unsold went to date.... the British Heart Foundation or 10th January - 8pm - The White Hart Oxfam. We will meet for a discussion about what we would Mary Warren like to do this year over a drink. Please do join us! BaSE Page 6 Nr Okehampton, Devon Tel: 01837 861318 www.whitehartbridestowe.co.uk QUIZ NIGHT Wednesday 14th Families and dogs December in aid of the Cricket Club welcome Christmas Draw 50p a square. First prize £100 + other various prizes Last squares sold up until 9pm on Christmas Eve with the draw taking place at 9.30pm Opening hours: Monday - Friday 12 - 3pm 5pm -close Saturday and Sunday and bank holidays open all day Home-cooked food served between 12 - 2pm and 6pm - 9pm ----------------------------------- We are still taking bookings for our Christmas menu. We will be open on Christmas Day, 12 - 2pm, for drinks --------------------------------------------------- Come and spend New Year’s Eve with us. With a free buffet and karaoke The White Hart by Howard Barkell The White Hart is one of the most common names for licenced premises in this country, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that there is one in Bridestowe. The whys and whens for that particular name are now apparently lost in the mists of time. The White Hart was the personal badge of the boy king, Richard II, the son of the Black Prince, who reigned from 1377 to 1399. During that time the White Hart gained some religious and mystic connotations. It is unlikely that the local name is quite that old, but some papers which Michael and Sarah kindly lent me recently do suggest at least a tenuous religious connection.