Pershore Times A free monthly newspaper for and surrounding villages Issue 64 September 2021 FREE Harvest Time near Hill: Photography by Jayne Winter FRPS, www.imagesofworcestershire.co.uk Winter near : Photography by Jayne Harvest Time utumn in and around Pershore is a lovely time of the pandemic, also the NHS hit so year, although it seems later than usual. hard and trying desperately to Hughes& A catch up. There is also rebuilding Company Harvesting has been going at pace and the weather has of lives broken, and the recovery been good. Maybe we will have an Indian Summer to of our businesses. We will make up for a fairly gloomy August. Lockdown manage all these challenges in suddenly seems a long time ago. Schools have reopened our own quiet way and we will with children and parents getting back to a normal life. come through as we always do! The football season has started The pandemic is far from over Paralympics we finished second but the cricket season hasn’t but there is optimism in the air with an astonishing 124 medals finished! Never a dull moment. A free daily online and it is so good to see new of which 41 of them were gold! Closer to home we plan to have newspaper! businesses starting in the town Everyone has to be congratulated today!, our on-line daily This is in addition to the printed version and and more events taking place. and the way both the Olympic newspaper, fully operational features news items which We are receiving more news and Paralympic teams were again this month. We had to we are unable to cover in items for our paper which is very followed and welcomed home curtail this due to the pandemic, a monthly publication. good indeed. was brilliant. A big cultural and we will make it better than daily news on - line So many things have happened change over the years! ever. We have lots of interesting everyday during the last few weeks. The We still have some big hurdles to articles for you this month which www.pershoreonline.co.uk British Olympic team finished in climb and will have to have the we hope you will enjoy. Thanks fourth place in the world medal same resolve as our athletes. to all our contributors and table, an incredible achievement Payback time is fast approaching advertisers for the continuing with 21 gold medals and in the regarding the cost of the support which is much appreciated!

Business as usual normal opening hours Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday 9.00am till 4.30pm The ideal place to shop, as all stalls are under the same roof Customers can be assured of friendly, efficient and personal service 2 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times One step at a time - Wellworking opens new Local woman’s challenge to celebrate 12 years in remission from blood cancer centre in Pershore

Wellworking, the home and as more people work from office furniture supplier, is home, either some or all of the opening a new centre in Pershore time. Wellworking Managing as part of its plans to make the Director Luke Munro, said: town a focus of its nationwide “The pandemic has transformed expansion plan. the way we all work, and we The 5,000 sq ft facility in want to make it easier for people Goodwood Road within the to work well, wherever they Keytec 7 Business Park, will work. Having our team in employ four people locally and Pershore means we can deliver will serve customers all across quality, ergonomic chairs and , the , other products to more people A woman from Pershore is it represents my life in general the West Country and Wales. all over the region within 2-3 walking 78 miles across The and how I try to live everyday”, Wellworking, which has been working days of them placing an Great Glen Way during Blood she continues. “My friend, rated the best furniture company order on our website.” Cancer Awareness Month to Dionne, and I completed the in the UK for six years in a row raise money for Lymphoma West Highland Way walk back by customers on Trustpilot, is Action. Blair Ward will be in May, walking 96 miles in six responding to a big increase in For more information, please walking solo for five days from days and my mum and I walked demand for furniture in the area visit wellworking.co.uk the 7th September to support the 11 miles in one day along The only charity in the UK dedicated Granite Way back in June. The to lymphoma, a type of blood Great Glen Way will be my first cancer. It is one of three walking solo long distance walk, and I’m HMRC warns students challenges that she has set really excited!” herself this year to celebrate 12 “It feels fantastic giving back to of scams years of being in remission from charity that means so much to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and to me”, she adds. “Lymphoma University students taking part- machine until they pay a ransom. give back to the charity that Action have been there time jobs are at increased risk of Between April and May this supported her through her every step of the way and I just falling victim to scams, HM year, 18 to 24-year olds reported diagnosis and treatment. As well want to thank them for the Revenue and Customs (HMRC) more than 5,000 phone scams as raising funds, Blair’s One outstanding work they do in is warning. Higher numbers of to HMRC. Mike Fell, Head of Step at a Time challenge is also supporting people affected students going to university this Cyber Security Operations at aiming to raise awareness of by lymphoma.” year means more young people HMRC, said: “Most students lymphoma as the fifth most “We are so grateful to Blair for may choose to take on part-time won’t have paid tax before, and common cancer in the UK. her support, and for raising work. Being new to interacting so could easily be duped by Her fundraising page can be awareness about lymphoma”, with HMRC and unfamiliar with scam texts, emails or calls either found at: says Sarah Thorn, Community genuine contact from the offering a ‘refund’ or demanding www.justgiving.com/fundraising and Partnerships Manager at department could make them unpaid tax. Students, who will /Blair-Ward3 Lymphoma Action. “Every 27 vulnerable to scams. have had little or no interaction “The past 12 years have been a minutes one of us is diagnosed In the past year almost 1 million with the tax system might be journey and challenging at with lymphoma, making it the people reported scams to HMRC. tricked into clicking on links in times” says Blair, 33. “Last most common blood cancer in Nearly half of all tax scams offer such emails or texts. Our advice December, I was given my 12- the UK, but there are still many fake tax refunds, which HMRC is to be wary if you are year clearance and discharged people are not aware of it. does not offer by SMS or email. contacted out of the blue by from my lymphoma consultant. Through the support from The criminals involved are someone asking for money or For the first time since my people like Blair, we can usually trying to steal money or personal information. We see diagnosis in 2008, I can continue to provide vital personal information to sell on high numbers of fraudsters honestly say that I’m feeling the information and support to to others. HMRC is a familiar contacting people claiming to be best I’ve ever felt both people affected by lymphoma to brand, which scammers abuse to from HMRC. If in doubt, our physically and mentally.” make sure no one has to face add credibility to their scams. advice is – do not reply directly “I named my set of walking lymphoma alone.” Links or files in emails or texts to anything suspicious, but challenges ‘One Step at a Time’, For further can also download dangerous contact HMRC through as not only does it apply to the information visit: software onto a computer or GOV.UK straight away and physical challenges ahead www.lymphoma-action.org.uk/ phone. This can then gather search GOV.UK for ‘HMRC in completing them, but I think BCAM personal data or lock the recipient’s scams’.” Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 3 HMRC can help with Annual Residents’ Survey childcare costs Families are eligible to save money towards the cost of Residents are being encouraged rubbish and littering had money on their childcare and childminders, breakfast and after to share their views on a variety increased. benefit from a government top- school clubs, and approved play of different topics as part of To help address this the council up worth up to £2,000 every schemes. ’s Residents’ Survey. launched outdoor anti-litter year, or up to £4,000 a year if a Myrtle Lloyd, HMRC’s Director The annual questionnaire, which educational sessions in schools, child is disabled. In June 2021, General for Customer Services, will run from 5 September to 3 which to date, more than 500 about 26,905 families in the said: “As your children head October, will give people across children have participated in. It benefited from back to school this autumn, the district an opportunity to say also continued to promote its using Tax-Free Childcare, but don’t miss out on the what they think of their local Adopt a Street scheme, which thousands are missing out on opportunity to receive your 20% area and services. now involves more than 600 this opportunity. top-up to help pay for their This year, the survey includes individuals, businesses and Tax-Free Childcare is available childcare. It is quick and easy to questions on what makes an area community groups carrying out to eligible parents or carers who sign-up, just search ‘tax-free a good place to live and litter picks in their area on a have children aged up to 11, or childcare’ on GOV.UK.” priorities for improvement. It regular basis. 17 if their child is disabled. For Tax-Free Childcare is also also asks for views on The survey takes about 15 to 20 every £8 a parent or carer available for pre-school aged community strengths, loneliness minutes to complete but progress deposits into their account, they children attending nurseries, and isolation and our response to can be saved so it can be will receive a £2 top-up, up to childminders or other accredited the Covid-19 pandemic. completed in stages. the value of £500 every three childcare providers. Parents and Feedback will be used to months, or £1,000 if their child carers, who are returning to improve services and the To be the first to receive the is disabled. Parents and carers work after parental leave, can ongoing recovery from the survey, please sign up for email can check their eligibility and apply for a Tax-Free Childcare Covid-19 pandemic. A summary updates by visiting register for Tax-Free Childcare account for that child before of the results will be published www.wychavon.gov.uk/consultati via GOV.UK. they need to start using it. anonymously on the council ons. The survey will also be HMRC recognises that families’ Families can start depositing website. available at this link from 5 personal circumstances have money 31 days before they Last year, the survey received September until midnight on 3 changed since March 2020 as return to work, maximising the 1,280 responses. While the October. more parents and carers are potential government top-up majority of respondents were Paper copies can be sent on preparing to return to their saving. happy with their local area as a request, please call Customer workplaces. The 20% top-up is Childcare providers can also place to live, concerns about Services on 01386 565000 paid into the child’s Tax-Free sign up for a childcare provider Childcare account and is ready account via GOV.UK to receive to use almost instantly, meaning payments from parents and parents and carers can use the carers via the scheme. Shop fined £44k for not closing during lockdown Councils call for rise in The owner of a Droitwich card previously pleaded not guilty to. and book shop which breached He was ordered to pay a £35,000 Government restrictions by fine, £8,986.67 in court costs parking penalty charges refusing to close during the and a £190 victim surcharge. 91% of local authorities say that Selfish and irresponsible parking national lockdown has been Phil Merrick, Director of current penalty charges outside in busy car parks increases ordered to pay more than Economy and Environment at of are not high enough congestion and makes it £44,000. Wychavon District Council, to prevent illegal parking. increasingly difficult for Alasdair Walker-Cox, proprietor said: “We are satisfied with the 69% believe that penalty charges responsible motorists to find of Grace Cards and Books, outcome of the trial, however, outside of London should mirror somewhere to park and get on located in St Andrew’s Square it is unfortunate that we have those inside London. with their daily lives. Shopping Centre, appeared had to take this level of action 95% agreed that penalty charges Separate data from a leading car before Kidderminster Magistrates’ against Grace Cards and Books. in and Wales should be park operator, found that a Court on 17th August. The court We offered the shop help and like those currently being proposed reduction of the found Mr Walker-Cox guilty of support during the lockdowns, proposed in Scotland. parking charge level in the four breaches of The Health but they refused to take it. New research by the British private sector would lead to an Protection (Coronavirus, The law is the law and we have Parking Association (BPA) insufficient deterrent. This is Restrictions) (England) (No.4) had to treat all businesses reveals an overwhelming expected to result in an increase Regulations 2020 which he had equally.” consensus amongst UK local in rule breaches and more authorities on the need to review parking charge notices being and raise parking penalty issued in privately operated car charges to make them a more parks. Planning application effective deterrent. Councils also want greater consistency Planning Application Ref and car parking and new between the level of parking 20/02517/FUL. Land At, pedestrian access through the penalty charges in London and Almonry Close, Pershore. site. Rooftop Housing Group those outside the capital, Demolition of 1-35 Almonry including other major cities and Close, 11 & 12 Betjeman Close Planning Committee Meeting, urban areas. We have been through a period and redundant buildings on site, Thursday, 16 September 2021, Effective parking management is of zero trading for nearly erection of 54 no. one and two 2.00 p.m. Meeting venue: essential to support sustainable eighteen months, councils seem bedroom 'later living' apartments The Council Chamber, Civic growth and improve road safety so far out of touch with reality! and associated communal Centre, Queen Elizabeth Drive, for everyone. Editor facilities, amenity spaces, access Pershore, Worcs. 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earlier profession and established are always busy! his own business in 1993 in a One of the things that Simon and smaller shop on the High Street. Sally enjoy is catering for A few years later, Simon and his families from births, to engagements, wife moved to their current marriages, anniversaries and larger premises, conveniently special celebrations. situated next to the car park. Their personal service means As an independent business, that they can provide beautiful, Simon and Sally specialise in quality pieces for individual watch, clock and jewellery tastes and every occasion, while repairs as well as manufacturing getting to know these their own jewellery. In a normal families. Customers become month, on average, they complete friends! 800 repairs! They have a Having a family of two reputation for producing high daughters and a son keeps the quality, bespoke jewellery for Tolleys busy at home, particularly their discerning customers. A as they sometimes have to travel comprehensive range of other all over the country with their items offers a wide choice for son who rides in the sport of everyone. They also repair top motocross. quality name watches such as After seven months enforced Rolex. closure, Simon and Sally are Apart from this, regular repairs delighted to be able to open their Tolley’s watchmakers and in his father’s footsteps as a involve re-threading necklaces, doors again to welcome new and jewellers is one of Pershore’s clock and watch repairer. After resizing rings, stone repairs and old friends to their business. well-established businesses on leaving school, he worked with simply replacing batteries and They say they have no plans to the High Street. It is a family his father but then went to work watch straps. Personal change; they are quite happy business run by Simon Tolley in the printing industry for five recommendations from past and where they are doing what they and his wife, Sally. Simon followed years. He decided to return to his present customers ensure they enjoy. Fruit Salad ‘Fruit Salad’ has been a feature of Pershore High Street since 1988. Its owner, Ken Felton, has had an interesting career before taking ownership at that time. At thirteen years old, Ken became an errand boy for International stores in Pershore, becoming a full-time apprentice there after leaving school at fifteen. Only four years later he was promoted to be a manager at Newport Pagnell International. He then transferred to Tenbury Wells, followed by Ludlow and then to in 1972. During his time in Ludlow, Ken met and married his wife and soon they had two children. In 1984 he became manager in Pershore International which was taken over by Gateway in 1986. Two years later, the premises on Pershore High Street became available and Ken took the opportunity to fulfil an ambition to have his own shop. ‘ Fruit Salad’ was the result! be part of the business. Ken even delivered to doorsteps making be a traditional fruit and Since that time, Ken has developed had his father, at eighty years sure his customers were provided vegetable shop first and his business supplying very old, acting as an errand boy, for, while keeping them safe. foremost. Ken has no plans to fresh, locally sourced foods and delivering from his old van! Over the years Ken has kept his retire any time soon and with produce whenever possible. From pickles, preserves and customers happy and they, in Paul, equally keen to maintain He has regular suppliers where home-baked cakes to cherries, turn, have kept him happy. the business, Pershore will he knows he can guarantee good plums, asparagus and anything Now ‘Fruit Salad’ is set to continue to benefit from this quality products at reasonable in season, Ken stocks it. During relocate to new premises next well-established, customer prices. lockdowns he was able to offer door. It will be a bigger shop friendly shop where all are In 1999 he was joined by his his delivery service. Fresh fruit, with a little revamping (also welcome. son, Paul, who is equally keen to vegetables, eggs etc. were plastic free) but will continue to 8 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Volunteers needed! The Joys of Volunteering!

Volunteer Passenger Volunteer Minibus Assistant Drivers We may have a new project We may have a new project beginning in September to beginning in September to provide daily minibus transport provide daily minibus transport for individuals to attend for individuals to attend college college. We want to assemble a team of We want to assemble a team of volunteer drivers so that we can passenger assistants so that we provide this essential service on can provide this essential a regular basis service on a regular basis. If you: If you: ∑ Have the skills and empathy to ∑ Have the skills and empathy to support vulnerable adults The RAF Museum at is jointly run by support vulnerable adults ∑ Can spare 2 or 3 hours a week The Defford Airfield Heritage Group and The National Trust. ∑ Can spare 2 hours a week on a on a regular basis and be This historic site played a significant role in the development of regular basis and be flexible to flexible to help cover in-flight Radar both in WW2 and into the Cold War period of the 1950’s. help cover holidays holidays The Museum is run and staffed by Volunteers, people from We will: We will: all walks of life, who love to talk about the history of t ∑ Ask you to complete a ∑ Ask you to complete a his important site. If you have an interest in history, registration and agreement form registration and agreement form plus have a flair for story-telling, are retired or have spare ∑ Provide full training, including ∑ Provide full training, including time on your hands do consider the rewarding role of a Museum Emergency First Aid Emergency First Aid Volunteer. Besides our common interest, the Museum Volunteers ∑ Pay out-of-pocket expenses ∑ Pay out-of-pocket expenses have a lively social scene, with regular walks and events. To find out more, please To find out more, please If you would like to learn more about this friendly and contact Angi or Donna contact Angi or Donna dedicated group of volunteers By telephone: 01386 554299 By telephone: 01386 554299 Please, email either Rob Amatt or Ann Sterry on By email: volunteering@ By email: volunteering@ either of the following emails. pershorevolunteers.org.uk pershorevolunteers.org.uk [email protected] or [email protected] Visit our website Visit our website www.pershorevolunteers.org.uk www.pershorevolunteers.org.uk They will organise a visit and explain just why the Defford story is so interesting.

Friends of Join the friends of Pershore Abey CIO Application for Membership Standing Order Form (charitable incorporated organisation) To The Hon Secretary, and support our ambitious programme of Please pay to: Lloyds Bank plc, Friends of Pershore Abbey CIO, 21 Broad St, Pershore WR10 1BD ongoing works to preserve, repair, PO Box 46, Pershore WR10 1YN Sort Code: 30-96-26 maintain, restore and improve the Abbey. I/we wish to become a Friend of Gift Aid information Pershore Abbey CIO Account No: 69021368 I confirm I have paid or will pay an Please tick appropriate box For the credit of: amount of Income Tax and/or Capital q Annual £15.00 (min)q Annual Joint £20.00 (min) The Friends of Pershore Abbey CIO Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to q Life £150.00 (min) q Life Joint £200.00 (min) 5 April) that is at least equal to the amount £...... on the day ...... of (month & Year) The sum of £ of tax that all the charities that I donate to for which sum I enclose a standing will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. order/cheque...... Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Full Name (in capitals) I understand that other taxes such as VAT on ...... and Council Tax do not qualify. I ...... understand Friends of Pershore Abbey Address...... (date of first payment) and will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I ...... Postcode ...... thereafter annually on the same day each give. Tel ...... year until further notice. Please notify the charity if you: Email ...... This instruction cancels any existing standing q • Want to cancel this declaration I am happy to be contacted by FOPA order in my name in favour of The Friends of • Change your name or home address (Please tick) Pershore Abbey CIO • No longer pay sufficient tax on your Signature ...... Date ...... income and/or capital gains Gift Aid Declaration To: (your bank) The Manager To The Friends of Pershore Abbey CIO If you pay Income Tax at the higher or ...... Bank plc Charity No. 1193273 additional rate and want to receive the Name of your Account to be debited Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Full Name (in capitals) additional tax relief due to you, you must (in capitals) include all your Gift Aid donations on your ...... Self Assessment tax return or ask HM Address...... Revenue and Customs to adjust your tax ...... Postcode ...... Account No ...... code. Tel ...... Please treat as Gift Aid donations all qualifying Sort Code ...... For further information, gifts of money q made today, q in the past 4 years please visit our website: Signature ...... q and in the future. www.fopa.org.uk Please tick all boxes you wish to apply Date ...... Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 9 New art & craft Award for charity group Chairlady Would you like to have a go at We have a limit on numbers so some simple, yet effective art we will offer places on a first and craft activities over a cuppa come first served basis. and a chat? Have you been If we are over-subscribed, we stuck-in during repeated will consider offering a second lockdowns and would now like group at an alternative time/day. to join a friendly group of like- We shall be running a free drop minded people? If so, this is the in/taster session on Wednesday group for you. 22nd September at 1.30 to 2.30pm- We are really excited to be so do come along and meet us, starting a new art and craft for let us know your ideas and see if wellbeing group in Pershore in this is the group for you. September. We shall be trying If you are interested in joining a our hand at art activities such as 'bring your own painting, colouring, drawing and craft/crochet/knitting' group, printing, as well as craft as an alternative to the group activities such as working with mentioned here, please do also clay, making home-made cards, get in touch. If we have enough marbling paper and much, much interest we can arrange to set up more. You do not need to have a group such as this as soon as had any experience and all possible. resources will be provided. We really look forward to We aim to be accessible and meeting you over a cup of At recent meeting of Pershore been a well known and loved welcoming to all, to encourage tea/coffee and cake on Relief in Sickness Charity’s District Nurse in Pershore and it an increase in confidence 22nd September. trustees and Committee was only natural she became an through a sense of achievement, members it was with great excellent Chairwoman for many as well as positivity and calm Art and Craft for pleasure and appreciation that years. The Charity are looking through enjoying artistic and Wellbeing in Pershore Sarah Wilson was presented forward to the future as the need creative activities together. Free drop in taster session with an engraved clock to thank is still there to help the people of Having a chat over a cuppa, and (with a cuppa and cake!) her for all her service as a Pershore in their own homes, of course enjoying the odd Wednesday 22nd September Trustee and former Chairwoman and is working closely with the biscuit or slice of cake, will also 1.30-2.30pm of the charity and for her local medical teams. Pershore be important! The sessions will Upstairs at St Andrew's Parish continued connection with the Relief in Sickness Charity is last for an hour and a half and Hall (next to Pershore Abbey) Charity as an honorary lifelong delighted to welcome yet another will take place on most Weekly classes to commence Committee Member. Wilson to the Committee as Wednesday afternoons between Wed 29th Sep The Charity was started along Sarah’s daughter, Jo is our the end of September and Register your interest/get in with other ladies of Pershore by newest member. Christmas. There will be a small contact by emailing: Sarah’s Mother-in-law; Elwyn Referrals to the Charity are via; charge of £4 a session. [email protected] Wilson in 1967 when the the District Nurses, GPs, Health If you are interested in joining, or text/ring Rachel on Pershore District Nursing Fund Visitors, Midwives or any other please do contact us to register 07891 866179 and the Allen Fund amalgamated health professional and an your interest or to book places. Sessions will run on most and in 1987 incorporated the application form will be sent We would also love you to tell Wednesday afternoons from the District Nurses’ Special Appeal out. Approval of a request is at us what art activities you would end of September to Fund. One of the original the discretion of the Trustees like to have a go at and will try Christmas and beyond. Trustees was Sarah’s sister-in- and Committee. to tailor sessions accordingly. £4 a session. law Janet Wilson. Sarah had Jane Knox, Chairwoman Number 8 calls for Volunteers different roles so whatever of a local residents and ensure your background or experience that it continues to be what is, I’m confident there will be widely recognised as one of the something that’s right for you. premier arts centres in the area We’re a very friendly bunch and for many years to come. volunteering is a great way to Despite this fervent support, meet new people and try your Number 8 always needs more Number 8 in Pershore is calling stewards, projectionists and hand at something different.” volunteers to carry out a whole for volunteers to join their team. admin assistants. Volunteers are The reasons that people range of duties from box office The community arts centre essential to the Number 8’s volunteer at Number 8 are as to stewarding, from assisting in which reopened in May success and as the centre gears varied as the experience they the coffee bar to helping with following temporary closure as up to having a full programme bring - some are still working, admin or the delivery of part of the lockdown is staffed again they are looking for new many are retired and the ages brochures. by over 150 volunteers alongside volunteers to join their team. range from school students to fit just a few members of paid staff. Paul Osborn Volunteer Co- and agile Octogenarians. There is something for everyone, Volunteers lead the management ordinator at Number 8 said, “If What they all share is the desire so if you would like to find out team and work in a variety of you have time to spare we can to contribute to what has become more about how you can help different roles across the certainly help you put it to good a local institution, and to support contact Paul on 01386 555028 organisation including in the use. There are opportunities to the arts organisation that came to or email coffee bar and box office and as get involved in a variety of fruition thanks to the determination [email protected] 10 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times

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Four-hour performance has sunk The ambulance service saw the to its lowest ever level, we have highest ever number of levels of 12 hour waits we would ambulance callouts for life usually associate with winter, threatening conditions in July, and July saw the second highest and we saw ‘trolley waits’ in ever number of attendances hospitals go up by 30% on the across emergency care units. previous month. This means Yet there is no sign of rescue there have been delays ahead of winter. Despite our offloading ambulances and calls for action, crowding is back patients have experienced long with us and is compromising waits to be seen and moved to a patient care. Performance figures bed if they need admission. for Emergency Care for the Emergency Departments are NHS in England in July 2021 very, very busy. There has also showed that: been a steady rise in Covid NU 71 REG there were 1,431,499 presentations and even though attendances at major Emergency numbers are still low all the Departments – the second infection risk concerns remain in Car and motorhome owners Call Edwards today highest on record hospitals, further depleting looking for a reliable, trustworthy quoting EDWARDS71 capacity. Staff have had no let garage in Worcestershire can be to find out about their fantastic 67.7% of patients waited less up and are worried about what confident of getting just that offers on a new 71 plate than four hours from arrival to the winter will be like if this is when they visit Edwards Motors. Kia or Mazda – we know you admission, transfer, or discharge where we are in the summer. The Kempsey dealership prides won’t be disappointed! in Type 1 EDs – the lowest While the NHS rollout of the itself on having an excellent percentage on record vaccine has been an incredible reputation and a loyal customer To organise a test drive, success, parliament must not base, thanks in no small measure book a service or to see the the number of patients waiting take its eyes off the ball to their emphasis on providing latest fantastic offers available more than four hours after a regarding the state of the NHS. the very highest levels of service at Edwards Motors decision to admit them stood at This autumn’s spending review and making sure that they are 89,768 – this is a 30% increase – one which has not been put easy to do business with. visit the showroom at compared to June 2021 (66,619) out to consultation – is an Edwards Motors is a family run Main Road, Kempsey – and is the third highest ever opportunity for the government business based on the A38 in use WR5 3PA for your nav! - to further signal it’s ‘peace time’ Kempsey, just south of Worcester the number of patients waiting commitment to NHS funding off junction 7 of the M5, with more than 12 hours after a and help prevent the NHS from visit the Edwards web at decision to admit them stood at boiling over this winter.” over 40 year’s experience in www.edwardsmotors.co.uk or vehicle sales and servicing. call the team on any of the They hold franchises in numbers below: partnership with Mazda and Kia Letter to the Editor and are also proud agents for Auto-Trail, Rollerteam, Malibu, Edwards Kia Dear Editor greatest need. 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After a break of 18 months, due to the virus, Pershore Rotary’s members returned to The Angel in Pershore on Wednesday, 4 August under the watchful eye of the club’s new President, Lucy Thornton. Appropriately, our speaker was Darren Eden, owner of The Angel and Chief Executive of its parent company, Spirit Ventures Ltd. Darren spoke of his early days, starting work in a Care Home at age 13, volunteering with various drugs support groups in London and working with the Ambulance Service, where he qualified as a paramedic. Blessed with a strong mind, determination and drive, Darren used that experience to develop First Response Training, which is now a national training provider. He also has a portfolio new ideas. So Pershore’s of businesses in and around Rotarians are about to change Pershore and is currently their spots! With the help of redeveloping the Bank House Holy Trinity window by J E Nuttgens, 1969 Heron Supplies of Worcester, facilities into a function suite for the team will soon be sporting a The Trinity Window in Holy Each of these symbolic Spring 2022. Alan Hughes of wide range of branded shirts in Trinity Church, Eckington representations are covered with Hughes and Company the club’s new royal blue eyes: another quotation from generously donated a signed colours. In the north wall of the nave of copy of Reg Moule’s Garden Holy Trinity Church is a bright, Revelations ‘four beasts full of If you’ve got a little time to help eyes’. Many more symbols can Diary. This was raffled and £50 us support our community and colourful, imposing window in will be donated to the National memory of two former residents be found in this window by an would like to know more observer spending a few minutes Garden Scheme, a charity that volunteering with Rotary and of Eckington. enables the public to visit The main focus of the window is looking. how you can help, please call The window is a 1969 work of private gardens in England and Kit on 07747 117624 or the Trinity - Father, Son and Wales and raises money for Holy Spirit, an appropriate J E Nuttgens of High Wycombe, email him at: who has signed the window in nursing and health charities in [email protected] subject for Holy Trinity Church. the process. New times require The main figure is Jesus who the lower left corner. It is stands crowned, wearing a white dedicated to the memory of robe and a red and green edged Edgar Henry Summers, ‘a cloak lined in gold. Seated benefactor of this church and "An economist is an expert who will behind Him is God the Father parish’, and his wife Maud Mary who also wears a white gown Summers. Edgar Summers died know tomorrow why the things he and an orange-coloured cloak. on 2 July 1967, his wife on predicted yesterday didn’t happen today" Both of these figures have their 1 June 1960. To the right of the arms outstretched in welcome dedication are heraldic arms with Laurence J. Peter and both have cruciform haloes the motto ’Prodessse Quan representing the Trinity. Between Conspici’ which may be these images is the Holy Spirit in translated as ‘to be of service the form of a dove, completing rather than conspicuous’. the Trinity. Edgar Summers was an Get your business noticed! Beneath the figures is a accountant who was living at quotation from chapter four of Woollas Hall when he died, Advertise in the Revelation of St John the having also lived Divine, the final Book of the in Evesham, Walsall and Tipton Pershore Times where he was born. From New Testament, ‘Holy, holy, ONLY 1/32 Page (35 x 50mm) £15.00 holy, Lord God Almighty, which This window, which remembers was, and is, and is to come’. the lives of Edgar and Maud 1/16 Page (35 x 100mm) £25.00 Summers, is impressive in its £15 Beside Jesus are the symbols of Per Month 1/8 Page (100 x 70mm) £35.00 the writers of the first four colour range and detailed Gospels of the New Testament imagery. The Summers’ 1/4 Page (100 x 144mm) £75.00 commemorative window is far - Matthew, Mark, Luke and 1/2 Page (205 x 144mm) £150.00 John. Their symbols, an angel, from inconspicuous. a lion, an ox and an eagle, each Prices quoted are black and white and plus VAT hold an open book with a Roy Albutt quotation from their Gospel. email: [email protected] 14 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Visitout ouurr Communniittyyy--run hosstteellry TThhe Quueeeeen EEllizzaaabbeetth Inn

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Cooking for fun!Ailsa Craddock Country file If you are reading this in mealy notes of crisp polenta. September, then you are probably, This recipe is good with any like me, in the middle of a tomato under-ripe tomatoes. Just squirt glut. Why do tomatoes all a little lemon juice on each one become ripe at the same time? as you slice. All the hard work of growing, Fried green tomatoes with looking after and nurturing them garlic mayonnaise to end up with almost too many Serves two. of the little red bombs! What can 4 medium to large green tomatoes you do with them once you’ve 2 eggs, a little milk made gallons of soup and tomato 90g plain flour, 3 tablespoons sauce for the freezer, eaten them fine ground polenta (cornmeal) fresh, fried and baked and given 2 sprigs thyme, oil for frying away pounds (very useful for Slice the tomatoes thickly, about bartering though for things you three or four from each fruit. might not have grown)? Break the eggs into a small, My husband makes a very spicy, shallow bowl and beat them special salsa with tomatoes and lightly. Stir in a tablespoon or a secret ingredient but as he keeps two of milk. Mix the flour and the exact recipe very close to his ground polenta, season with salt heart, I’m afraid I can’t give you and black pepper and the leaves that recipe but I hope you will pulled from the thyme branches. try these recipes for something a Tip onto a large shallow plate. little different – and one for all Press a slice of tomato into the those toms who simply refuse to flour and polenta mixture then turn colour! Tomato and plum into the beaten egg then back might sound like a questionable into the polenta again. Shake off Woodlands in September salad combination to some, but any excess. Don't worry if bits At this time of the year, many chicken in the woods. This is a just give this recipe a try and I of tomato show through here wild flowers have disappeared flattish fan-shaped toadstool think you'll be convinced. and there, you want a light, crisp but there are always other which grows in layers on the Tomato and Plum Salad coat, not armour-plating. Repeat interesting things to see. trunks of trees. Many of us will 800g tomatoes, cut into wedges with the remaining tomatoes. The trees have not yet taken on recognise the oyster mushroom 4 red plums cut into wedges Warm the oil, in a frying pan. their Autumn colours but there but less well-known is the Finely grated zest of Lower some of the tomatoes into are flashes of colour below like enokitake-a very small toadstool 1/2 a lemon the pan, one at a time – otherwise the red-berried cuckoo-pint plant with long stalks and small 2 tsp red wine vinegar they will stick together- then let and the pretty blue cornflower- caps like buttons. Many have 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil them colour lightly on both like flowers of the Devil’s-bits lovely names like the shaggy 1/2 tsp sumac (a citrusy Middle sides. I turn mine after a minute scabious ( interesting name for a parasol, the clustered bonnet Eastern Spice), 1/2 bunch or two. Cornmeal burns quickly, very delicate flower!). (long stalks with ‘hats’), the tarragon, leaves picked, torn so I keep a watchful eye on the The teasels have lost their purple shaggy inkcap (looks like a bad tomatoes as they cook. They Combine tomatoes, plums, flowers but their spiky heads on hair day!), the common puffball should be ready in four or five lemon zest and 1/4 tsp salt tall stalks create a distinctive and fly agaric (red and white minutes. Remove from the pan flakes in a bowl and set aside for profile against the sky and they spotted ones often depicted in and drain on kitchen paper. 5 minutes to marinate. Once are excellent for dried flower children’s books!). There are Serve with garlic mayonnaise. marinaded, add vinegar, oil, arrangements. many more, some edible, sumac and three-quarters Garlic mayonnaise At ground level there is also an some not! For those who fancy tarragon. With clean hands, toss 2 teaspoons lemon juice interesting array of fungi appearing. foraging for food, best to check until well combined. Spread 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard With a whole variety of shapes them out first. salad across a serving platter, 2 egg yolks, a clove of garlic and colours they are all For safe eating, there are always scatter with remaining tarragon 100mls sunflower oil attractive in their own way. plenty of brambles bearing juicy and serve immediately. 4 tablespoons olive oil They vary from the plain brown blackberries and also pears, This last recipe is for the Put the lemon juice, the mustard speckled ones to the more damsons, apples and plums if ubiquitous green tomatoes – but and the egg yolks in a mixing colourful and exotic such as the you know where to look! are so good that if I were you I bowl and stir to mix with a small wouldn’t wait for the end of the whisk. Peel and crush the garlic, season but just use them when stir into the egg yolks then you have them, even if early on! season lightly with salt and little There is something quite perfect fine black pepper. Slowly add about the green-apple tang of an the sunflower oil, beating unripe tomato with the warm, continuously, beat in the olive oil. 16 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Garden Watch Villages of Culture celebrate their unsung heroes

produced world disharmony. The 1916 Olympic Games planned for Berlin were cancelled and the Olympic logo did not reappear until the flag was unfurled at the Antwerp Games of 1920. Keeping in tune with the Olympic theme the Villages of Culture created their own distinct logo for their village banners, their legacy It seems to have been a sombre attempts to keep them trimmed. September sees the return of publications and various pieces few weeks with the sun only The weeds are also sprouting students to schools and further of merchandise. Our designer putting in occasional appearances. everywhere. The cooler steps are made to normality, so was Mike Tomlinson of The hot weeks in July feel like a temperatures and occasional perhaps now, after 18 months of who was long time ago. At least the showers are obviously ideal Covid-19 it is the time to show inspired by Josef Maria Trias garden has not suffered from a conditions for growth. appreciation to the volunteers of and his artwork for the lack of water and still looks very We have the company of moles the villages who in moments of Barcelona Olympic Games of green and healthy. again making their presence felt. need were willing to work to 1992. The 4 coloured strokes Even more flowers have passed Each day there are new molehills support their local communities. represent the 4 villages, the 4 their best but there are still and the lawn has a distinctly On Tuesday, 7th April, the seasons and the historic flashes of colour. The alstroemerias squidgy feel where there are government announced that medieval ridge and furrow field continue to provide beautiful tunnels below the surface. Bearing 750,000 volunteers went into patterns of the area. He is also flowers. The clematis and the in mind that there are action across the country but in responsible for reintroducing a climbing rose are no longer in approximately 31 million moles the villages volunteers were in calendar of traditional festivals bloom and our main flower bed in mainland Britain, I suppose tune with the needs of their to the villages in order to restore is looking rather sad and we should be grateful that we communities and had been in a rhythm to rural life. neglected. The geraniums in the only have one or two! action since 16th March, offering Glynis Dray of Malvern has pots continue to be splendid as The birds are still visiting our to shop, to collect prescriptions, created a unique series of long as we keep dead-heading feeders and it is interesting to to be phone buddies and to do watercolour paintings which them. Our pretty patio rose see the youngsters who have not other tasks to protect our have been used in such legacy which went into a decline has acquired their adult plumage yet. vulnerable villagers. Sadly publications as a walks' booklet, also burst forth with a display of The blue tits seem to have taken during this period of time the a 2022 Calendar and a series of beautiful coral pink flowers with over where the robins once villages have lost a number of greetings cards. The artist has more buds to come. ruled, purely by numbers! individuals so to remember them produced many publications The mint is covered with pale The flashes of black and white a “Songs of Praise” service is during her career but came to the purple flowers- like mini lilacs- are still seen as the magpies planned for this autumn to attention of the Villages of which the bees are loving!! They swoop across the garden. celebrate their lives but we await Culture through her illustrated have been positively swarming There is the feel of Autumn in permission to sing in church walks in the Worcestershire Now with insects this past week. Just the air but the leaves are still services. magazine. Glynis has had health as well as the lavender has gone green so far. We are hoping for Throughout the last six weeks difficulties over the past 2 years, over so they are looking for an Indian Summer as the sunbed we have been awoken by the a situation made worse with the another source of nectar. has had few outings. Already the dawn chorus of the sound of our outbreak Covid-19 but the We have had a few wasps days are shorter and there is a national anthem and sporting painting project has given her a blundering their way into the chill in the evenings. We may be results from the Tokyo 2020 purpose to return to her love of house through the patio doors. losing the flowers but there is Olympic and Paralympic Games. art and assisted her to lead a Having managed to finally the prospect of beautiful Autumn Baron Pierre de Coubertin more normal way of life. This persuade one to leave recently, colours to look forward to – and founded the Modern Olympic belief was reinforced by her I am sure it was the same one a fine crop of pears!! Games based on the Ancient appearance at the recent White that then came back in through Olympic Games of Greece and Ladies Aston Village Fete, her the back door! Silly creatures! the Wenlock Olympian Games of first journey out in 2 years where It seems that neither the hedgehog the late 19th century. His design she could see displayed the or Sophie have learned their of the famous interlocking rings range of her compositions that lesson. A recent encounter late at logo to represent world unity she had produced for the night resulted in a very distressed was first used at the opening of villages. Communities across the hedgehog and an even more the Olympic International country all have their unsung distressed Sophie! The resulting Congress in Paris on 15th heroes who have risen to the vet’s bill for a scratched cornea June 1914. Unfortunately, just challenges of the Coronavirus was not welcome and she is still days later on the 28th June 1914, crisis and to all of them we say, looking for the hedgehog at Archduke Franz Ferdinand was “Thank You”. every opportunity! assassinated, the event began the Future events: See the Facebook The shrubs continue to grow at a chain of events which caused the page for more details tremendous rate and thwart our outbreak of the Great War and bit.ly/villages-together Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 17 The Battle of the Atlantic - Part 1 Tim Hickson

Living where we do, it is seven metres. As the large difficult to think of an area in aerials could only be fitted on Britain that is further from the very big ships, a shorter sea. However, in World War 2, wavelength version was needed RAF Defford, with its scientists for the convoy escort vessels. at Malvern, had a major effect It was the Royal Navy that had on the conflict in the North commissioned Atlantic. University to do the work that In both World Wars, Great produced the resonant cavity Britain had needed ships to bring magnetrons that produced such a essential supplies from the big improvement in radar. Americas. These included oil By January 1941, the aircraft of (to be turned into fuel for our Coastal Command hunting U- vehicles, ships and aircraft), war boats had 1.5 metre radar. This, materials and food. Without of course, worked even in them, the UK could not continue darkness but it was not accurate to fight.In the first World War, enough to allow an attack at German submarines, which they night. Also, the aircrew needed Vickers Wellington called U-boats, had been a to see the target to be sure growing threat until the system the echo was actually from a U- of convoys was introduced. boat. That, together with the fact Before the advent of radar and replaced. Also the German Here, the transport ships sailed that there were not many aircraft Leigh Lights, the U-boats were scientists produced a simple in a large group protected by flying meant the U-boats were safe on the surface at night. device called Metox that enabled warships. still pretty free to operate. In the Submerged, they were much U-boats to detect the radar of slower and had a limited range approaching aircraft so they before the batteries were could dive before the attacker exhausted. Now the convoys reached them. Thus, in early started losing many fewer ships. 1943 the convoy losses started to Unfortunately, this did not last as rise ominously again. the Germans were building So what happened next? Uboats faster than the sunk merchant ships and their The Battle of the Atlantic 2 in precious cargoes could be next months Pershore Times

A convoy, from the air and a U-boat

When WW2 began, within a few first seven months of 1942, 681 hours of its announcement by merchant ships were torpedoed. Britain and France, a U-boat Wing Commander Leigh, an torpedoed and sunk a liner RAF officer heard, of this sailing from Scotland to Canada problem and realised that the A Leigh Light under the wing of a Catalinia with over 1 000 passengers on solution was a powerful board. Fortunately most were searchlight mounted on the saved but 118 men, women and aircraft. Knowing nothing about children were drowned. searchlights, he set about finding The convoy system would have what he needed to know and to be used again.Worse, after the then designed a light that would collapse of French resistance in do the job. Yet again, just like 1940, the Germans were able to Frank Whittle with his jet operate from ports on the Atlantic engine, when he submitted his coast in the Bay of Biscay. As ideas to the relevant authorities, U-boats were propelled by diesel he met with opposition. He, too, engines, which breathe air, they persevered and managed to get could spend most of their time the device made and fitted to a on the surface, only submerging spare aircraft. Then, when again and using battery-driven electric told by a senior officer that his motors when attacked or about idea would not work, he could to fire their torpedoes. To locate take him to see the finished them before they dived meant product. that Royal Navy warships needed Thus by June 1942, the Leigh to be fitted with radar. The early Light was adopted and was very A German U-boat under air attack during the battle of the Atlantic RN radar had a wavelength of effective. 18 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Women’s Hour! Susan Catford There’s no place like home! can seem very unfair if the week needed satnav. for the last part of excellent food meant both my you have chosen to go away is the journey so I pulled into a suitcase and I returned heavier. cold, wet and miserable and then service area to set this up. Alas, My homeward journey did not the following week, on your it wasn’t talking to me and since start well with a major diversion return, the sun appears and there it was on my phone this was taking me through narrow lanes is a heatwave! These staycations difficult. Somehow, to my great before I finally located the M6. have been good news for the relief, I found my way there. More music and the temperature eateries, holiday homes, camp On arrival it was raining and it creeping up as I went southwards sites, pleasure parks etc. but at was chilly! My summer outfits cheered me up. some expense for families. At were inappropriate – no raincoat At last, home sweet home! least a package holiday abroad but I did have an umbrella. Warmer and drier, the dog and allows children to enjoy the pool It rained the next day and the husband were pleased to see me or the beach for free. It will be next!! In fact it rained for my and gave me a lovely welcome. interesting to see how many will entire stay- ‘ it always rains in It is good to be back. That will opt for staycations in the future. Manchester,’ I was told on my do me for now- but I will be At the beginning of the Summer, Back home, the sunbeds have return. We did have a nice time keeping my fingers crossed for I wrote (optimistically!) about a had few outings but there have though. Retail therapy and next April. possible trip abroad. Needless to been many dog walks as always. say it didn’t happen. The traffic A really good bit of news has lights were not with us; amber been the re-opening of our did not turn green but other village pub. Not that we are circumstances also made it heavy drinkers around here, but impossible. Like many we have we have been waiting in hope to now cancelled several holidays see if this would happen. and in a few days we should have The locals have been keen to been heading to Crete. We do support this venture and as a still have a holiday booked for result, the opening was a great next April so fingers crossed! success. Many thirsts were Meanwhile we have just had to quenched and lots of catching up make the most of being home on local gossip! Being within and it really hasn’t been so bad! walking distance and dog With the lifting of restrictions we friendly, this is an excellent have visited several hostelries excuse to stretch our legs! and resumed socialising with Having been confined to quarters friends. The weather has been for some time, my sister very very variable (not to say kindly invited me to stay for a disappointing!) with the more few days. Living ‘up north’ fortunate enjoying their staycations i.e. Manchester area- it was during the short hot spell while something of an adventure to others experienced a typical head up the M6 by myself. ‘Thought Plants’ Thought Plants British Summer. Listening to my favourite CDs, is a new collection of writing and poems exploring ideas, events and everyday life. At times serious and thoughtful, at others Thought Plants The trouble with this country is it it was all going quite well. I only enjoying the whimsical, lighter side of things. It has grown surprisingly well from early seeds and a fertile imagination

Just desserts Susan Catford Susan Catford I’ve eaten all my dinner Like bread and butter pudding And now there is the pud. Or tangerines in booze. 120 pages A5 full colour illustrated by Susan Catford There’s lots of things to choose Banoffee pie looks lovely from, So sticky and so sweet ‘Thought Plants’ is Susan’s first book and You know you really should. is a new collection of writing and But think of all that sugar poems exploring ideas, events and everyday life. An apple pie with custard And the calories you’ll eat! At times serious and thoughtful, at others enjoying And then home-made ice-creams But looking at the cheese board the whimsical, lighter side of things. With chocolate chip or butterscotch With Camembert and Brie, It has grown surprisingly well from The flavours of your dreams. Caerphilly and Red Leicester early seeds and a fertile imagination. Some treacle tart or cheesecake That may be good for me. Available for £9.95 Would really be quite nice. from: Hughes & Company The list is so extensive, 8 Church Street Pershore Perhaps a bit of each one, So have you made your choice? Tel: 01386 803803 But only a small slice. I think I have no room left [email protected] [email protected] Profiteroles and trifle. (A tremor in my voice). Published by Hughes & Company There’s even more to choose I think I’ll just have coffee! Delivered by courier or post Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 19 Listen very carefully! Karen Harris splints……..ever had them? - which is a masterpiece of levers REALLY painful, I had them and pulleys - is totally involved. back in the day when I was Muscles move bones, don’t training to be an instructor and it forget! feels like the muscles on the Your calf muscles go past the front of the lower leg are tearing. knee and attach to your femur And basically, that is what is (thigh bone) and your hamstrings happening! A combination of go past your knee and attach to improper foot strike, excess the tibia and fibula at the bottom pronation or supination or and the pelvis at the top. lateral torque cause the sheathing The femur sits in the hip at of the muscles of the shin to the side of the pelvis and the suffer minute tears; the lower leg pelvis is attached to your is twisting, gyrating and spine…….can you see where I vibrating instead of smoothly am going here…….right back to extending and flexing and that 3 paragraphs ago! muscle sheathing is subjected to Using shin splints as a bit of a ferocious abuse. Nothing to do ruse to say the site of the pain is with shoes - for a change! rarely the cause. So if you can no If you think that your calf longer ‘leg it,’ listen to the muscles might also be involved, warnings your body is probably We don’t often comprehend what a spasm and then you WILL as they assist with leg flexion giving you elsewhere. our muscles are doing until they have to listen. and extension, you would be let you know in painful ways I am used to seeing people who right. In fact, as in the rest of the usually after strong or new have carried injuries, and joint / body, the whole leg musculature exercise, after inactivity or after spine problems for years, doing something in the wrong sometimes decades; there is way. When they do cry out we generally an ‘oh and by the way’ generally ignore the discomfort comment such as…….. until it gets to pain-killer stage. my achilles aches, or I get But still, generally, we ignore it tingling in my hands, or in a ‘it will go away soon’ kind ‘I thought I would try a bit of of way, until it doesn’t, and other jogging but I got shin splints so ‘things’ start to join in and stopped’. All these are small but ‘things’ get more uncomfortable. telling signs from your lower You just want to get on with your extremities that higher up the life, right? chain things aren’t quite right. It Ignore these warning signs at could be because of a shoulder your peril, as that’s what they issue, or a forward head position are. Your body is talking to you altering tensions in the body, and if you don’t listen it will which will, very cleverly, find a shout at you, and if you still way out somewhere! don’t listen it will stop you with As I’ve mentioned shin

Country Dancing Looking for something new to conjures up pictures of galloping try this Autumn? up and down at a Village Hall How about Country Dancing? fund raising barn dance- not so. The Worcestershire Cecil Sharp English Country Dancing is a Country Dance Club, which is gentle form of dance set to affiliated to the English Folk beautiful music. There are Dance and Song Society, has hundreds of dances starting from moved to Stoulton Village Hall, numerous different formations- Church Street, Stoulton WR7 4RE, room sized circles, small circles, making it easily accessible to squares, oblongs, long lines, residents of Pershore and even triangles, etc. The sets can surrounding villages. involve anything from four The new term starts on people up to a whole room full, Tuesday, 14th September- so you don’t often have to sit 2.00 to 4.00 p.m. out. Most importantly, you do Cecil Sharp was a gentleman not need to attend with a partner. remember dances from one week The first session for newcomers who, in the early 20th century, The sequence of every dance is to the next so, no matter how is free of charge (£2.50 weekly travelled the country collecting walked through at least twice many sessions are missed, the thereafter) so come along and old dances and music, most of and when the music starts the next time you come along you enjoy this sociable activity- which had never been written caller continues to cue will still be able to dance every you’ve nothing to lose! down before. throughout. This means that you dance. You soon become The term Country Dancing can don’t have to memorise long familiar with the terminology For more information- be confusing as it usually sequences of moves or used. ring Sue Jeavons 01386 750695 20 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Book Review Reg Moule’s Reg Moule has produced an excellent handbook for those just starting their gardening journey which is also an extremely useful reminder for more experienced gardeners. He writes with enthusiasm and a wealth of Garden Diary experience. This compact (pocket sized) book provides advice month by month on the jobs gardeners need to do. These tasks include: seed sowing, looking after lawns, roses, growing fruit, vegetables, bedding plants, shrubs and also hanging baskets. Advice on choosing compost, feeding plants and where to plant the right shrub in the right situation is excellent. There is also advice on pond care, how to attract wild–life and care for house plants. For such a small publication it is amazingly comprehensive. Reg’s pocket sized book comes along with me to the garden centre where I am often phased by the choice of plants and horticultural Reg Moule’s supplements (fertilizers, pesticides, composts, etc.) on offer. His handbook concisely informs Garden Diary overwhelmed amateur gardeners, like myself, Handbook 1 in clear terms without being over technical. It has certainly helped me make informed decisions and I am sure it will help me avoid making purchasing mistakes in the future. 120mm x 175mm - 184 pages I found the information in this mini handbook inspirational, reassuring and certainly useful in Designed to be a £10 helping me plan this year’s garden and allotment activity. I look forward to Handbook 2, practical handbook for available in Autumn 2021. Richard Catford

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Beginning again Gregory Sidaway (17) screen, wearing a mask, handing The North was probably empty – Reading. Although a summer job out orders. And it’s noisy out a soundscape of cricket noises might mean early starts and a there, people talk and go on their and tumble weed bouncing few bumpy rides now and again, phones. Also, the kitchen whirs through deserted streets. When it the freedom it allows once you and clatters behind me. So I’m got really crowded, I could’ve have a heavy wallet in your shouting “Guest, number so-and- done with a shield just to deliver pocket is a great bonus. so, please” at the top of my an order. To cool down, I’d visit Having the time to read a few voice, loud enough to be heard the freezer room – evocative of a books, say “You know what? but still in a friendly, happy-to- Cold War era panic bunker – I’ll spend this morning chilling help tone. I’m doing this for which lowered my temperature out”, or watch one of those films hours, giving out orders that are from Death Valley to Antarctica that have been on the ‘to see’ list small (sometimes just a coffee) in seconds. For me, this summer for months and months … Eleven. If you’re a numerologist, and others so large that a forklift provided a chance to do other That’s what this summer’s given you might know the number would’ve been handy. My throat things beyond school. Hey, now me, I think. Last year seemed to eleven is regarded as the ‘master gets a bit croaky after a while, I can fry hash browns and plod up and down, lockdowns number’. If numerology isn’t but still I carry on, shouting: assemble a Happy Meal box stopping and starting, but here your jam, and you’re into “Number ninety-five, please!” (fold the tops, press in the sides, we are now, already in September. astrology, you might know A woman emerges from the ease down and BAM!). I also On the whole, I’d say autumn has eleven is considered a magical crowd, squinting (not sure why) visited more places than I’d be to be my favourite – you’ve got number that brings about and asks: “Did you just whisper able to during school time. With red-gold leaves, conkers, spiritual and emotional balance. ninety-five?” money I earned from my Halloween, Bonfire Night. Good to know. But for me, 11:00 I bow my head. My shift had summer job, I took a day trip to Most people would probably see AM is when lunchtime at begun. The biggest thing to get Reading; the train station there Spring as the new-start season, McDonald’s begins. That means my head around was just how has so many platforms and open but I also think its quadruplet customers, lots of customers. many customers there were. spaces it reminded me of a Bond counterpart, Autumn, acts as a Think of the largest group of Being on the M5, we witnessed a villain lair – the escalators had fresh beginning after long sultry people you can imagine, then mass exodus of people from up their own escalators! days. So, with that view in mind, double it – about that many. North, all making their way We also stopped off at Waterstones, I think I’m ready to begin again. I’m standing behind a plastic down to Cornwall. so I guess we were reading in I hope you will join me. Riverside Youth Centre Youth Centre provides its Centre hosted fifteen days of fun Summer Programme for exciting activities. With special another year! thanks to Worcestershire Holiday Last Year, The NYA Guidance and Food funding (HAF) who permitted the Riverside Youth funded the programme. Centre to host its annual summer The philosophy of the programme activities Programme as part of is to offer a range of activities its Covid-19 relief response for and workshops to young people, young people, parents, and with hope that they learn new guests: Kidderminster Harriers This was chosen by the young carers – but this was limited to skills, hobbies or even engage in FC, SSD4KIDZ self-defence, people and youth workers, who only outdoors and fifteen spaces a new club. This year we were Clik-Clik Collective, dice- wanted to create a response for for young people. delighted to host - Water sports, Sixtyseven graffiti workshops, the mural from the last 18 As a service supporting inclusion Graffiti workshops, tie-dye Severn Arts, Chroma Chameleons, months of difficult times and the and equal opportunities, you can workshops, cooking lessons, Meadow arts, Racheal from the centres’ purpose within the heart imagine how difficult this was sports activities, music workshops, Deli, Pershore and Bonkers of Pershore. for the team to limit numbers for arts and crafts, self-defence Activities. We would love to hear your the first ever time. However, this sessions and not forgetting our We also managed to design our voice on what community means year felt somewhat more normal! fantastic Youth Workers’ new Mural in the Sports Hall to you. You can do this on our With an average of 35 young captivating workshops. Instagram post showing the people per day (ages 8-13), the With special thanks to our ‘Community’ mural (@pershoreyouthy)

Pershore Riverside Youth and Community Centre, King Georges Way, Pershore WR10 1QU Tel: 01386 554713 www.pershoreriversidecentre.org.uk 22 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Letter to the Editor What’s On?

Cinema Corner! September/October

Cinema Listings Fri 1 & Sat 2 Oct - 7.30pm Directed by Sean Durkin, Riders of Justice (15) 1hr 47 mins Thu 9 Sep - 7.30pm Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, 1hr 56 mins Love Sarah (12A) Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Mon 4 Oct - 11.00am; Tue 5 Oct - 7.30pm The Courier (12A) Directed by Eliza Schroeder, Fri 10 Sep - 7.30pm; 1hr 38 mins Mon 13 Sep - 11.00am; Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00), Matinee Tue 14 Sep - 7.30pm £7.00 (£6.50) Front Row: C Drew, R Walford, E Taylor, S Wilson, S Kitchener Directed by Dominic Cook, Middle Row: G Fowles, J Kitchen, R Slater 12hr 52 mins The Champion of Auschwitz Back Row: (Players only) F Rimmell, Len Walford, B Frances Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00), (15) Matinee £7.00 (£6.50) Thu 7 Oct - 7.30pm A photo of Croome United FC the steps of the Coventry Arms Directed by Maciej Barczewski, 1919 .A lot of players were pub which was situated in the The Last Bus (12A) 1hr 31 mins, employed by the Croome Estate. village of High Green Fri 17 Sep - 7.30pm; Polish & German with subtitles The Photograph was taken on Photo sent by Malcolm Walford Mon 20 Sep - 11.00am; Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Tue 21 Sep - 7.30pm Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, The Many Saints of Newark 1hr 26 mins (15) Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00), Matinee Sat 9 Oct - 7.30pm Scared of Flying? £7.00 (£6.50) Directed by Alan Taylor, 2hrs Stillwater (15) Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) aircraft, and in this book Sat 18 Sep - 7.30pm there are explanations about how Directed by Tom McCarthy, The Father (12A) aeroplanes fly and also an 2hrs 19 mins Mon 11 Oct - 11.00am; understanding of the noises Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Tue 12 Oct - 7.30pm and vibrations that happen. Directed by Florian Zeller, There are chapters on how your Martin Eden (15) 1hr 36 mins fears have developed and Thu 23 Sep - 7.30pm Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00), dealing with how to come to Directed by Pietro Marcello, Matinee £7.00 (£6.50) terms with your anxieties and 2hrs 9 mins, Italian with subtitles Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Respect (12A) how to cope. Pre-pandemic it is Fri 15 Oct - 7.30pm; interesting to note statistically Pig (15) Mon 18 Oct - 11.00am; that there were an annual Fri 24 Sep - 7.30pm Tue 19 Oct - 7.30pm amount of passengers that safely Directed by Michael Sarnoski, Directed by Liesl Tommy, took flights of 1.5 billion 1hr 31 mins 2hrs 25 mins (1.5000,000,000) Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00), My intention in writing this Nomadland (12A) Matinee £7.00 (£6.50) book is to help you to get a Mon 27 Sep - 11.00am Wildland (15) Statistically there are one in five better understanding of your Directed by Chloe Zhao, of us that have some flight anxiety and give you a more Thu 21 Oct - 7.30pm 1hr 47 mins Directed by Jeanette Nordahl, phobia, from mild concern to comfortable, fear free flight. Tickets: £7.00 (£6.50) total avoidance and panic attacks. 1hr 28 mins, This book was written by me, Minamata (15) Danish with subtitles Captain Chris expressly to help Thu 30 Sep - 7.30pm Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) those with a degree of anxiety of Directed by Andrew Levitas, flying. In it you will find the 1hrs 55mins inside knowledge about your Tickets: £8.50 (£8.00) flight, your fear and how to help The Nest (15) you overcome it. This is a simple step by step guide for Number 8 both the nervous passenger and High Street Pershore Worcestershire WR10 1BG also the veteran flyer that wants Box Office: 01386 555488 www.number8.org to know more about the workings Email: [email protected] of aviation. There are sections Box Office Opening Hours - Telephone Bookings: on air traffic control, your Mon & Tue 10am - 4pm, Wed to Fri 10am - 6pm, aircrew, engineers, weather and This book is available for Sat 10am - 4pm + 6pm - 7pm on performance evenings staying healthy during your £11.99 plus p&p from In Person Bookings: Wed & Fri 3pm - 6pm flight. Hughes & Company / No door sales - Booking closes 30 mins before start time. Covid-19 safety measures There are many misunderstandings Pershore Times on in place. Socially distanced seating. A maximum of six individuals or two households about the safety of modern 01386 803803 can be seated together. Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 23 Jazz News Peter Farrall Reflexology Angela Johns ‘And breathe!’ How often do we say that to ourselves? How seriously do we take it? I recently read a beautiful poem about just this: using our breath to take a step back from whatever the battle is. With my clients I remind them that their time with me is all about them. They do not have to think about anything, they do not have to make any decisions. All they have to do is lie there and breathe. Breathing deeply and calmly, Washington Whirligig just feeling the rise and fall of creating our past? Last Bank Holiday Monday, northern jazz clubs, but their the chest and abdomen helps the I can only look back on a life Number 8 presented a special reputation soon filtered out into body to soften and relax. The fulfilled if I do something screening of “Jazz on a Summers the mainstream jazz scene, and it nervous system can switch from fulfilling as I go along. Day” the rereleased film from was not long before bookings stress mode to chill mode, with I know from experience that it is the 1958 Newport (Rhode came in from clubs and festivals the right chemicals being impossible to forget what broke Island) Jazz Festival. The further afield including Pershore. released into the blood stream my heart and that it is hard work historic classic has been Their first performance here that helps calm us right down. to mend it and move forward. skilfully remastered whilst still captivated our audience with the Energetically speaking we can But it is something that is worth managing to retain the obvious love and enthusiasm for use our breath to ground the effort. I also know that I do characteristic appearance of the music they play, and ourselves, to open our hearts have to lay some plans for a films of the time. subsequent regular engagements and minds to the wonderful great future. But it is something I Within a very short time the at Pershore club and festival possibilities that are ours to have. have to accept that so much is audience found themselves have firmly established them in In our hearts we nurse the hurts out of my control. Between the immersed in the ambiance of the the Pershore favourites listing. from our past and in our heads past and my future is the breath festival as the greatest names in Their style and repertoire we buzz umpteen thoughts about of my reality. With practice I jazz appeared in quick ranging from New Orleans to our possible future. Think about will breathe it deeply and with as succession before rapturous fans. Mainstream, Swing and Blues is how draining that is, how it much compassion as I can. Thelonious Monk, Gerry much inspired by the late Alex depletes us of the energy that we Angela is a qualified Mulligan, George Shearing, Welsh band but each of these could be using to create the best Reflexologist, Aromareflex Chico Hamilton and so many accomplished musicians adds out of the here and now. We let Practitioner and Reiki more, all looking very young; their individual flavour to the our hearts and our heads wrestle Teacher/Practitioner. She is but it was sixty-four years ago! overall ensemble. Incidentally, between themselves about what passionate about her therapies Most of course now passed over, Washington Whirligig is a tune was and what might be, when we and spends quality time with her but their music still lives on in by Andy Gibson, popular with could be breathing life into this clients to facilitate their clubs and festivals worldwide the swing bands of the 30s moment instead. We say that we wellbeing. played by equally young-looking and 40s. are creating our future but as You can find her at musicians. each moment passes are we not www.angelajohns.co.uk A very worthwhile finale to the Washington Whirligig Jazz Band. weekend celebrations. Wednesday, September 29 th This month sees a return to our Pershore Football Club To receive the regular venue at Pershore Town Doors open at 7pm, music at 8 Pershore Times Football Club with a very warm Admission £10 to include a welcome to the Washington raffle ticket. by e-mail visit Whirligig Jazz Band. The band pershorejazz.org.uk began ten years ago in a tel: 07487 606964 / 01527 66692 www.pershoretimes.co.uk relatively small way playing the find us on Facebook enter your name and email address

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Hughes & Company Tel: 01386 803803 24 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Public Relations Advice Considerations as we Ruby Edwards “return to normal” Carol Draper This month we share PR and The last 18 months have been communications advice from the dominated by Covid 19. experts! A huge amount of financial Take note of the top tips below and help has been provided to see how they can support you and many people but there is no your business: such thing as a free lunch and Define your brand personality – this article aims to highlight and don’t be afraid to use it. It’s some of the issues to consider not about features and benefits, it’s as result of that help as we about who the brand is, what its “return to normal”. values are, and how it If you are in business and communicates. Even the most have received any Covid 19 professional and traditional brands related grant, be aware that all can afford to be a bit cheeky or such grants are treated as taxable comical in the right medium. income. Predominantly these People engage or buy most often grants will include local authority on a feeling, and how a brand grants issued for businesses having to makes them feel, with brands that close, Self-Employed Income Support harness this often being the most successful. Gabriella Fryer – Scheme Grants (SEISS), Job Retention Scheme (JRS) grants Marketing & Communications Manager, H&W Chamber of following staff being furloughed and Eat Out to Help Out (EOHO) Commerce. grants. SEISS grants are taxable in the tax year you received them. For example, if you are self-employed and your business has an Research, research, research! Knowing your target audience is crucial accounting year-end of 30 September 2020, your 2021 Self- when you’re communicating with your base. Make sure you’re Assessment return will be based on the profit made in the year sending them content they’re interested in, at a time of day that suits to 30 September plus any SEISS claims received during the year to them and on a channel they engage with – otherwise your hard work 31 March 2021. could go to waste! Rachel Kent – Head of Campaigns, Content and JRS and EOHO grants relate to specific periods of time and should Causes at Ecotricity. be included in accounts and tax returns that reflect those time A mix of channels increases effectiveness when combined with periods.Local Authority grants should have been included in accounts others – the more opportunities to experience your message, the and tax returns that covered the period when the claimant was better. Sarah Hunt – Corporate Communications Officer eligible to receive the grant which is not necessarily the same as the (Recruitment) . date when cash was received. The Furlough scheme ends on 30 September 2021 and despite many My advice is simply you have to stick with the PR process and never businesses still suffering downturns in trade, there is no indication it give up. It takes a lot of knocking on doors of journalists to get PR will be extended. The deadline for claiming the fifth and final SEISS and they’ll be a lot of disappointments on the way, but ultimately grant is also 30 September. The fifth SEISS claim relies on knowing only by getting to know the media can you really boost your public turnover for both the year to 5 April 2020 and 2021 as the value of profile and this takes time. I’ve found far too many expect great the grant is based on the percentage drop in turnover from one year results too quickly. Have faith in the process and learn and you’ll get to the next. there. Michael Nolan – Legal PR Expert, Nolan PR. Finally, the universal credit uplift of £20 per week ceases on Invest in digital marketing – despite the obvious challenges currently 5 October 2021, which for some could lead to a drop in income of facing all businesses, now really is the time to invest in your digital more than 20%. It is clear the “return to normal” will continue to marketing where possible. More people than ever are working from present many challenges for many people. home on laptops, making their purchases online and using social media to stay in touch with friends and family, so now is the perfect opportunity to invest in improving your PPC advertising, social media engagement and website performance. By investing in Carol Draper, FCCA OLPRO’s digital marketing, we saw a 105% increase in sales and a Clifton-Crick Sharp & Co Ltd 49% increase in website traffic during 2020. Jack Barnett – PR & Digital Marketing Manager at Olpro. Focus on engagement above all else. Regardless of whether you’re putting together a press release, posting on social media or updating marketing copy, ask yourself: is this interesting? It can be hard to be strict with yourself, but the bottom line is that only content that engages your audiences should be shared. If you struggle to pique the interest of your audiences, start with why. For instance, if you’re launching a new product, your press release should focus on WHY the product is going to help people and what it offers them. Em Branson – PR, content and social media specialist. Have the exact same username on all your CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS accounts you can use https://namechk.com/ to AND BUSINESS ADVISORS check what social channels your username is available for. Dan Creasey, European Enterprise 40 High Street, Pershore, Worcestershire WR11 1DP Marketing Manager, Panasonic TOUGHBOOK. Tel: 01386 561100 Fax: 01386 561040 Keep checking back for more monthly top tips from Email: [email protected] local pay-as-you-go PR and Marketing Agency, You Do Better PR: www.accountantsworcestershire.co.uk https://www.youdobetter.co.uk/2021/01/15/and-finally/ Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 25 Wrong fuel? Inspired Action Pam Clark Emily Papirnik What does that mean for you? For me since working with 5th Dimension Earth it means feeling inspiration and acting on it. Simple you might say, well yes it is but so often other things can get in the way. Things that stop the flow of action, of change, thinking that you will start or change or create ‘tomorrow’ or Emily Papirnik next week and then it never Intention 07973 232177 happens. There has been huge change for a playgroup leader, a support me within my practice with a lot worker, a teaching assistant, of CPD and adding to my ‘skills’ a childminder, a manager, an at Intention. With the creation of adult tutor, a massage therapist, the app and even my weighted a day centre coordinator, a mother, I recently had an incompatibility regenerates, the rate at which we blankets and lap pads that have a therapist and a healer. All of issue with the fuel in my car. age, our susceptibility to chronic just arrived in the UK. However, these jobs have made me who I am, Sadly it was the right car but the illness, as well as how we feel I would never have done any of they have given me my perspective wrong fuel; and as you might day to day. this had it not been for a pull to of life. All of them I enjoyed, expect it didn’t end well. There are many ways to make change, an inspiration and sometimes I hated them too but Minutes after I realised my error sure we’re adding the right fuel: encouragement to ‘do’ rather they have allowed me to ‘grow’. the car decided it didn’t want to Sleep: Optimising length and than ‘dream of’. Many of these career choices play anymore and I am so duration of sleep is vital. Ensure Many times Fear can take over happened through trauma and grateful to the kindness of an ambient temperature, a dark and pull us back from any change, necessity. I was always the sort strangers who helped me push room, a comfortable eye mask ‘it’s too difficult’, ‘so and so of person who lived within my car to one side as well as the and Epsom Salt bath before bed? wouldn’t like it’, ‘I can’t manage boundaries I set and did what roadside recovery and expertise Sleep is often the first thing to that’, ‘who am I to create that’. was required but recently I am at KCR garage, Pershore. improve as my clients make However, if you really want to embracing that if I try to expand This was a first for me and not changes to their diet and lifestyle do something, create a desire for my boundaries more will come. an experience I’m keen to repeat Food: Are you eating at regular it because you ‘ I really want to Law of Attraction etc. has but apparently it’s more common intervals? Avoiding unnecessary do it’ will have a momentum. enabled me to see that I can try that I realised. In fact the AA snacking and hydrating well? Sometimes just thinking about it to do things that are out of my have a specific service just for Are you eating a variety of well will cause us to go into that comfort zone and see what this very error and according to chosen protein with every meal habitual state we know so well happens. If I trust and the RAC nearly 150,000 combined with a range of colourful that FEAR that has prevented us understand that it doesn’t matter motorists fill their tank with the veg and some healthful fats (fish, even trying. I still have to pinch necessarily if it doesn’t work but wrong fuel every year. So, it nuts, seeds, avocado, olive oil)? myself regarding the app that I at least I have tried. If I don’t try seems I’m not alone after all. Joy: What activities do you have have created, but now I know I might get the opportunity It made me think about how in your day, week and month that it is really important to add coming along but I might not. we’re fuelling our own bodies that raise your spirits, make you to it, to Create more to help We are here to create, so what is and actually, taking the car feel calm and at ease? A walk in others. It is a way of helping it that you would like to create analogy one step further, how green space, time with friends, a others to see that they too can go in your life? we’re maintaining and caring for creative hobby and purposeful around, jump over and dissolve Something perhaps that is out of them. If we’re spending long movement? the obstacles in front of them - your comfort zone…..have a go, hours at work, over or under Just like our cars the changes we a feeling of being unworthy of allow the momentum and most exercising, having poor sleep make today have immediate and achievement, that feeling of of all enjoy it. Think of so many and feeling overwhelmed that long lasting effect. If you’re being unable to even ‘go there’ of the amazing people who can have a direct impact on ready to re-consider how you are and become something else. didn’t give up when they had a how we digest and absorb our fuelling your life, book a call In my just over 50 years, I have dream… Life is here to be lived, food, how our body repairs and with Pam today on 07916 688281 been a nanny, a cleaner, enjoyed and made the most of.

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1. What is the surname of the 11. What is 1 billionth of a There are times in every life composer who wrote the music second called? for the ballet 'Swan Lake'? 12. How many people were in when we feel hurt or alone . . . 2. Who was the driver of the car the band, 'The Thompson Twins'? But I believe that these times in which Princess Diana was 13. Which rock star died in a car killed? crash during a British Tour in when we feel lost 3. The portuguese man of war 1960? and all around us us seems to be falling apart jelly fish alludes to a design of 14. In which sport do all team warship devised in which country members, bar one, move are really bridges of growth. in the 16th Century? backwards? We struggle and try to recapture 4. What word is missing from 15. In George Orwells novel, the film titles, The ? Sleep, The ? what is the name of the pig who the security of what was, Easy, The ? Lebowski? becomes leader of the Animal but almost in spite of ourselves . . . 5. In the nursery rhyme, who put Farm after the rebellion? in his thumb and pulled out a 16. What is the name of the we emerge on the other side plum and said what a good boy chilled tomato soup, originally with a new understanding, am I? from Spain? 6. Which country is the worlds 17. What naturally occurring a new awareness, largest producer of wool? agent assists in the setting of a new strength. 7. Which military rank does jam? James Bond hold? 18. Vegetables cut into fine It is almost as though 8. Sir Stanley Matthews was the strips are said to be served in we must go through the pain first footballer to be given what? what style? 9. What acid is associated with 19. What is the main food stuff and the struggle the muscles in the body in a chow mein dish? in order to grow experiencing a lack of oxygen? 20. What kind of pastry is used and reach new heights 10. Montezuma II was the last to make profiteroles?

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September gardening tips Reg Moule BBC Hereford & Worcester heathers. Prepared hyacinths Grease band the trunks of fruit Sow some compact hardy should be planted and put in a trees to trap the wingless female annuals in a cold greenhouse to cool, dark place by the end of Winter moths as they climb them grow into winter flowering pot this month if you want them in to lay eggs. Strawberries should plants. Pick green tomatoes for bloom by Christmas. Watch out be planted by the end of this chutney or ripening in a brown for aphid attacks on winter month for cropping next year. paper bag in a drawer indoors. flowering pansies. The colonies Plant garlic now in a sunny free Reduce watering and ventilation live deep among the central draining spot. They like a long in the greenhouse as temperatures rosette of leaves, causing the growing season in order to make drop. Lift, divide and re-plant plants to wilt. the best cloves. Sow some early spring flowering herbaceous Mid-month autumn lettuce under cloches or perennials. Bring in any tender Sow some hardy annuals for planting in a cold greenhouse. shrubby plants taken outside for outdoors in flowering positions Plant out spring cabbage plants summer displays e.g. Brugmansia. in sheltered spots. Now is the 15cm (6in) apart in rows 30cm Cut back marginal plants and net time to get busy with planting (1ft) apart If your lawn is your pond to keep out autumn spring flowering bulbs and we infested with leatherjackets or leaves. Bring in tender floating have a comprehensive range on chafer grubs control them using pond plants, like water chestnut Early in the month. display. If you like to prioritize natural biological pest control and water hyacinth before This is a good time to move your buying, the things to go nematodes available from frost. Dry some herb foliage for established evergreen shrubs, for now are autumn flowering specialist suppliers. Sow green winter use, or chop and freeze and the traditional time to start crocus, Madonna lilies, manure crops on vacant areas of them in ice cubes. Prune summer planting new trees and shrubs of Colchicums, Fritillarias and the veg. garden for digging in fruiting raspberries by removing all kinds. Use some mychorrizal prepared hyacinths. It is a good next spring.Plant Japanese onion old, fruited canes. Take cuttings fungi when planting to aid rapid plan to plant Daffs. and Narcissi sets to get a lovely crop of from roses, preferably using establishment in the new early too. Scarify the lawn to flavoursome onions ready from shoots that have flowered. Trim situation. As the summer remove “thatch” and feed with June. Spray Michaelmas daisies them to 23cm (9in) long. bedding plants begin to Autumn lawn dressing, this is with a fungicide or plant Increase ventilation for indoor fade,replace them with cheerful important this year after the invigorator to prevent mildew. grapes to reduce fungal attack. autumn bedding varieties to drought. This is a good time to Later this month Treat sheds, fences etc. with a brighten up the dull winter days sow or turf a new lawn and Lift beetroot, carrots, turnips and good wood preserver. Bring in ahead. Make-up winter hanging repair bare patches. You could potatoes for winter use. Leave any houseplants that have been baskets using pansies, bright also over-seed all or part of the parsnips and swedes in the outside “on holiday” for the evergreens and winter flowering lawn to thicken the sward. ground to develop more flavour. summer. 30 Issue 64 - September 2021 - Pershore Times Sand & Rocks - with dragons too Brian Johnson- Thomas of several beach options – make your expenditure match we chose the long stretch of sand your income and is only a few north of the Worm’s Head – miles from the city of Swansea, so called apparently by the with all the usual big city Vikings when they came calling. diversion and entertainments on Apparently the Norse name for offer. We chose differently, ‘worm’ is the same as the name though, deciding to visit the for ‘dragon’, so they meant to National Botanic Gardens of call the distinctive rock Wales some 45 minutes’ drive up formation the Dragon’s Head, the M4. It might seem strange to which makes a lot more sense. visit a garden when it’s (But how much mead do you threatening to rain but the have to drink to confuse worms Gardens are built on a hill which and dragons, one wonders...) is crowned by a huge transparent One of the positive things to nice indoor market to poke Whatever, Rhossili bay is just to dome within which are several come out of this pandemic has around as well. the north of it behind a range of recreated Mediterranean type been the rediscovery of our own Our destination was the upmarket sand dunes and runs for several landscapes complete with native holiday haunts and, as part caravan site at Llanrhydian on miles up to an almost unique appropriate flowers, shrubs and of that process, we recently went the Gower’s north coast. Our lighthouse constructed of trees. The centrepiece is a huge back to the Gower peninsula in ‘Platinum’ caravan cost me just wrought iron in the late waterfall beneath which drowse south Wales. We were seeking £408 for occupation from nineteenth century .(If you do go the most soporific fish in beautiful surroundings, pleasant Monday to Friday at the start of to visit it be aware, though, that Creation and the dome also has people and lots to see and do – July with plenty of room for our the approach lies through a plenty of bird and insect life to and we succeeded. party of three. (Though I have to nudist beach – a factor which enliven your visit. It’s only a couple of hours drive say that it’s advertised as may, or may not, influence you.) See www.botanicgarden.wales away from us here so there’s sleeping up to six, which would The whole area is a haven for Of course one of the benefits of plenty of time to stop on the way, be a bit of a squeeze), windsurfers but, so big is the holidaying so close to home is as we did, at the impressive ruins see www.johnfowlerholidays.com beach, that it seemed almost that you can choose different of Raglan Castle, which still for details of all their parks and empty when we were there even routes home so we came back have the remains of a moat, holiday offers. though there were many families via the town of Brecon (and complete with real water lilies, The quiet, secluded, site also has picnicking and playing on the actually found a nice and immense, towering walls, its own pub, the Purple Badger, flat sand. Perhaps I should Wetherspoons pub for lunch plus a forbidding dungeon to which offers standard pub fare at confess, though, that it does which seemed better than explore. (see www.cadw.gov.wales quite reasonable prices – the occasionally rain in Wales but average for that chain as well as for details of all their historic menu was fine for the two that doesn’t have to dent your lots of interesting independent sites). carnivores amongst us, but fun. First off there’s the slightly shops.) From there it’s but a The quirky town of Abergavenny perhaps a little limited for old fashioned resort of the short drive through the lovely is more or less on the way and so vegetarians. Mumbles, which as well as the scenery of the Brecon Beacons makes another convenient stop Since the area is quite compact. usual pier has a selection of National Park and we’re home for lunch or a snack – and has a it’s only a short drive to any one boutiques that will help you again.

From the Writers desk Julie Sheppard In the last edition, I talked about what she always described as the certainly amount to accusations where writers find their most terrifying moment of her of xenophobia and more likely inspiration from. For me, it can life. She came upon a black downright racism. But we cannot come from anywhere, often a man. Now coming from the deny that is how she felt on that newspaper clipping or maybe Worcestershire countryside, she night. In order to overcome this, even something I have overheard had often seen travelling I explored his own story, and the on a bus or in a queue at the Romanies, with their darker fears, the isolation, that he too Post Office. Anything with a skins and strange language, but would have felt. This is also a him and not of one forever tied human story attached to it. this was a different matter minefield in story telling today. up in servitude to a white family. However, in my recently altogether. This was the first real As a writer we are not now Interestingly enough, I don’t published short story collection, black person she had ever seen. allowed to ‘culturally think it was just a problem for there is one tale that wasn’t Here was a man from the appropriate’ characters different him - I know that my Mother mine, it was that of my Mums. Caribbean with skin so dark and from ourselves. However, never really saw any other future It was a particular event that she teeth so white that she truly publishers tell us that our for herself at that particular time had regaled to me many times, believed that she had seen the fictional universes should be in her life either. It took a war to about an incident that happened devil himself. ‘diverse’. It’s a no win scenario. change all that. to her while she was in domestic Her telling of this incident never And if all I ever wrote about was Next time we will look at the service in Liverpool. lost its fascination for me, and I my white, middle class life in inspiration for a story that took As a young teenager she was knew that I had to try and write Upton, I think my readers would me to wartime Berlin – and of sent away to work as a maid for a story about it - from her own be asleep within minutes! the rise and fall of the Tarot card a wealthy Liverpool family. The eyes, from that point of terror This story, entitled Changing readers that Hitler came to rely family were important local she suffered. However, I knew Tides, was eventually published. upon. philanthropists and were heavily this would not be without its There were some discussion as Night Bus to London and other involved in the women’s rights difficulties. We live in a different to whether it was appropriate to Short Stories by Julie Sheppard movements of the time. One time now, a different world transliterate his accent, and I did is available from Amazon Kindle evening my mother was sent out completely. To admit to being have to change the ending (free trials for mobile phones to deliver leaflets regarding an afraid of someone because of the slightly in order to show some available) You can also follow upcoming march, when she had colour of their skin would promise of a future freedom for Julie on Twitter @uninanni Pershore Times - September 2021 - Issue 64 31 Anglers Corner JohnCraddock This month Tench. Here’s another ‘summer’ fish targeted by the angler at this time of year. It’s Latin species name is Tinca Tinca. Cute really, and they are. They are bottom feeders, which means they spend a lifetime in the mud. (I sometimes know that feeling). They aren’t related to any other fish species I know of, but are quite beautiful to look at. Predominantly olive green in colour, with bright red eyes. It’s years since I went tench fishing, but big parkland type lakes are where they tend to be found, not in rivers or fast flowing streams. Croome Court used to have tench in their lake, but for some reason best known to the National Trust, they drained it and took all the tench pastoral landscape, had additionally We spent about half an hour However, if you like slime, out. Anyone know why? paid for the hire of a punt. clinging to the sides of the boat (who doesn’t?) then there may Blenheim Palace was another As it turned out our interests as the waves came crashing in just be a bonus. place I went to many years ago, were ignored totally. around us, knocking our rods Tench are known to be the float fishing early morning in At 10am the silence on this and gear about, rocking the reeds Doctor fish. I’ve no idea why, deep water. The signs for beautiful lake was suddenly and water lily beds, and terrifying but it was a long- held belief by feeding tench are tiny bubbles shattered by the sound of a just about every coot, moorhen, anglers that other sick or injured on the surface as they nose powerful engine attached to the duck or swan which had been fish would rub themselves around in the mud, and usually back of a speedboat. This in turn busily minding its own business alongside the tench, and lo and at first light. The float will rock was attached to an aristocratic whilst feeding round the margins. behold would then receive a sideways as they pick up the hooligan on a rope. They then We called it a day. No apology, miraculous cure! Believe this bait, and then slide quietly away. proceeded to zoom around the no re-imbursement, no explanation, folklore tale if you will. I’ve That’s the time to strike. Tench lake doing aquatic versions of nothing whatever. I never went never bothered diving down to eat more or less anything, mostly wheelies. I was dumbfounded, back. find out whether other sick and small invertebrates in the mud, and astonished by this complete A good tench will weigh 5 -8lbs poorly fish engage in this. I just but to catch them, worms, maggots lack of consideration. I was or more. They’re tough and fight assumed they’d go to a pharmacy and other pre-prepared baits, like however delighted and chuffed hard. The rod bucks and twists or Medical Centre to get a boilies, luncheon meat, when he somersaulted in on a in your hand as they surge away prescription like the rest of us. sweetcorn are often successful. few occasions. I need hardly say in a series of thumping runs. I’m After this dismal experience at Nor do they grow to big sizes our tench fishing was ruined. not sure what the UK record is Blenheim, my experiment with like carp. These self-indulgent morons but guess around 15lb, and a tench slime did nothing On the two occasions I went to made it abundantly clear that good specimen from say a canal whatever to cure my headache, Blenheim, I gave up on the they didn’t give a toss about would be around the 5lb mark, or for that matter my temper, second visit. The Duke of anyone else on the lake other so the record fish was clearly brought on by these water- Marlborough, or his son, or than themselves. exceptional. They’re also very skiing vandals. And you know someone related to Churchill, I personally get angry enough slimy. This serves as additional what? Just recalling this incident decided it was such a pleasant when people impose their protection since they are rather has made me very angry all over Summer’s morning, he’d do musical tastes on me by playing lacking in scales. Well they do again. Now……. a bit of water skiing. The peasants their radios within earshot, have scales, but very small ones, where’s that bottle of Nurofen (like me), who’d paid to come whether in the park, or on a so this thick layer of slime gone? tench fishing, as much for the beach, but this was inconsideration makes them tricky and difficult peace and quiet as the bucolic on a grand old Duke scale. to handle. Better to use a towel. Situations Vacant Revills Farm Shop are currently looking for an enthusiastic person who has a passion for high quality food to assist in its kitchen, The Royal Oak Kinnersley the candidate will be required to carry out all kitchen duties and at times will work on their own, so needs to be Chef / Cook self-motivated. Training will be provided. 30 hours per week, wages negotiable The ideal candidate will have experience working with food and a good understanding of food hygiene. 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There was even a allowed me to practice on their physiotherapist on hand for the grass courts before travelling inevitable twists and sprains! down to London.” Pershore’s And of course, it wouldn’t be Ruth Teale and Alfie Mills were Wimbledon without rain delays. both runners up in the County Jack’s Dad said: “Jack performed Finals. Ruth was invited to well, and qualified from the compete in the main event at initial pool stages through to the Wimbledon and Alfie was Three Pershore Tennis Centre youngsters from around the UK knockout rounds of the singles invited to attend a coaching players enjoyed a brilliant entered the Road to Wimbledon completion, before losing to a clinic with Tim Henman. experience at Wimbledon in competition. Jack won the strong opponent from Cumbria.” Steve Bauer, Head Coach at August. Pershore Tennis Centre Herefordshire and Reflecting on his week at Pershore Tennis Centre, said: members Ruth Teale, Jack Worcestershire County Finals so Wimbledon, Jack said: “The Club is extremely proud of Bulbulia and Alfie Mills enjoyed joined other talented children at “It was an absolutely amazing what our local junors have achieved. a fantastic week competing Wimbledon in August, along experience to play at the home Tennis has given them so many against other 14&U players at with runners up Ruth Teale and of tennis against high quality opportunites and we have The All England Lawn Tennis Alfie Mills. opposition. I enjoyed every enjoyed watching them develop.” Club, better known as Wimbledon. Once there, Jack and the other moment and can’t wait to return! Earlier this summer, over 8000 players were given a glimpse into I’d like to thank everyone who

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