The Fulbrook News Our Quarterly Newsletter March 2018 Number 72 In this issue: The latest news on our clubs and activities Report from the FaB WI Fulbrook News and Views with your views, comments & articles from within Fulbrook An update from our local MP, Robert Courts, who has also become a postal subscriber to our Newsletter. News from the Rotary Club of Burford & Kingham An invitation to Volunteer with the Wychwood Project News of the Local Elections taking Planting the new tree near the War Memorial by Sally place on Thursday May 3rd and Peter Wyatt, their granddaughter Madeleine, and Bob Tivey. What’s going on at the FMP & the Diary The tree is a Japanese Flowering Cherry to replace News and forthcoming events from the Golden Locust which died last year. Before that Fulbrook Church there had been another Japanese Cherry on the same spot for many years and hopefully this one will grow A new recipe from our new Chef and provide shade and blossom in the spring like its Do read on . predecessor. WANTED for publication! Please send us your articles, comments, ideas, letters, poems, whatever. This is your Newsletter – please send contributions to our email address: [email protected] Next Issue: June 2018, Copy Date – Thursday 10th May 2018 The Fulbrook Newsletter is distributed free to every household in the village. Subscription copies are available by post at £5.00 per annum from the distribution office at Dolphin House, Westhall Hill, OX18 4BJ 1 Dear Readers, The snowdrops and aconites have been looking beautiful, as have the lovely cyclamen in the Churchyard, and now the daffodil buds are showing, ready for spring which I hope will burst upon us soon. Also I’ve noticed moles are being very busy pushing up their hills in the fields, but I am praying that they won’t decide to move into the garden to join the rabbits and the muntjac and completely destroy the lawn. It has been a cold winter with power cuts, snow, wind, rain and a lot of illness in the village in varying degrees of severity. Our thoughts particularly go out to Jan Park, Corinne Titcomb, Peggy Hayward and Sebastian Lyle, not forgetting Kathy Hedigan whose mother, Doreen Newsham, passed away recently. Congratulations to Sally Radcliffe who has a new granddaughter, Aura. Christmas seems a long time ago but those of us who went to the marvellous Septura Concert in Burford Church a few days before will not forget that, nor Brian Kay telling the story of The Nutcracker. The Knights must be so very proud of Matthew, their son, the trombonist, and founder of this innovative group of Brass players. We are lucky to catch them between performances around the world. The good news is that some potholes have been repaired in Beech Grove and on the A361, however there are many more to be done. Should you find new potholes you can now report them on www.fixmystreet.com which goes straight to the Council who will inform you when they are fixed. Once reported should any car be damaged by those potholes it is the responsibility of the Council to pay the owner compensation. While we are on the subject of roads you may not know that, in an attempt to slow down the traffic through Fulbrook, local volunteers have donned yellow jackets and will zap anyone going over 30 mph, so beware, speedsters, you will be zapped and reported to the police. Three zaps and you’ll be prosecuted. As you see from the front page photograph we now have a cherry tree by the memorial. The previous tree died and this one has been very kindly donated to us and planted by the Wyatts and Bob Tivey, for which we thank them greatly. It will be a lovely sight. On Saturday April 21st at 10 am there will be the Spring Village Clear Up. Do come along to help, if you have a strong pair of gloves and some secateurs all the better, but it is worthwhile and ends up at the FMP for a well earned cup of delicious tea and cakes afterwards. Don’t forget the Annual Plant Sale on May 12th and don’t be late as things are snapped up extremely quickly - every year I’m late and what I’m looking for has invariably gone! This year we have another Open Gardens Day, on June 10th. Let us hope the weather will be kind as the gardens are always wonderful and the gardeners work hard to make them so. It really is worth visiting as many as you can. We are very sad to lose our curate, Rob Wainwright who has been appointed Chaplain and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. We congratulate him and wish him well. A tea party to show our appreciation and thanks for all his work in Fulbrook is going to be held for him in our Church on March 18th to which all are welcome. Our new curate, Oliver Strange, is coming in June with his wife Lucy and we hope they will be happy in our Benefice. Last, but not least, we have a new Semi-Naked Chef: Professor Peter Burns who has kindly agreed to take over. He was a professional chef before his academic life, so we have some interesting recipes to look forward to. Many thanks, of course, to the previous anonymous Semi-Naked Chef who has given us such a quantity of varied and delicious meals over a number of years. What about publishing a Collection of Newsletter Recipes? We are very lucky to have such culinary talent in the village prepared to share their recipes, it could be a winner! Diana Brown Editorial Team: Hon. Secretary & Distributor: Jenny Jones, Meadow House, Meadow Lane, 823492 Hon. Treasurer & Compiler: Laurence Balbes, Meadow Way Cottage, Meadow Lane, 823990 Advertising: Lesley Beveridge, Meadow View, Arkel Close, 824352 Local Correspondent & Distributor: Diana Brown, Dolphin House, Westhall Hill, 8221472 ( Editorial this issue) Lyn Bibbings Burns, Garden House, Dolphin Lane, 823640 FULBROOK, OXFORDSHIRE Tricia Picking, Bob Warner, Lynn Weir, Peter Burns, Walford Ingleby or current PARISH COUNCIL Chairman: Parish Clerk Jo Glyde. Wally Ingleby 822192 Please let the Parish Council know what Councillors: you think about any of the above or other Peter Burns 823640 (VC) issues. Meetings of FPC are held at the Tricia Picking 822287 Meeting Place at the back of the church Bob Warner 822761 Lyn Newland 07810 088374 and the following date has been set for the next meeting:- Parish Clerk: 5th March 2018 @ 7.30pm Jo Glyde All are welcome at these meetings. ([email protected]) Don’t forget the website: Pipkin, Beech Grove, Fulbrook, OX18 4DF www.fulbrookvillage.net Telephone 823023 www.fulbrookvillage.net Walford Ingleby Chairman FULBROOK PARISH COUNCIL From the Parish Clerk: There has been one Parish Council meeting held since the last Newsletter, the date of which was 15th Community Speedwatch January 2018. The Parish Council has invested in a radar gun and Points to Note are:- arranged training for 22 willing volunteers who are Amenities Committee. The committee helping to slow the traffic through the village on the organized a very successful Carol singing A361. Since the beginning of January we have held throughout the village which was attended at least 3 sessions per week which has resulted in at by a large group of village residents who least 63 drivers being sent letters by the Police. The were in splendid voice. highest speed we have monitored is 46mph. Speeding through the village is a constant source of concern for all. We have now I think we all realise that this is just the tip of the completed the initial training of our 20 plus iceberg, but we know that every time we are by the volunteers and sessions are regularly roadside, car drivers are more aware of their speed catching 10 to 15 culprits who are being and do slow down. This is partly the effect of the Hi reported to Thames Valley Police. viz jackets, but also, I hope, that the drivers see the January saw the planting of the new tree Speedwatch volunteers as a hazard. at the war memorial, kindly donated by It is amazingly difficult to monitor the speed and the Wyatt family and the Tivey family. then record all the necessary details required by the The Parish Council would like to express police for checking the vehicles, but we are all their sincere thanks and appreciation to getting better. As I walk in the morning I now test all who not only made the donation but myself on the make and model of the vehicles in the also undertook the hard work of removing traffic! The petrol heads among us are really good at the old dead tree and planting the new recognising models and makes. It needs a huge one. Many thanks for this tremendous amount of concentration to get all the necessary effort which will ready us for the information, so please forgive us if we cannot chat. ceremonies to mark the 100th anniversary Hopefully our efforts will encourage drivers to slow of World War 1. down, not only in Fulbrook but in the other We will have a vacancy for a Parish Clerk surrounding villages also. in May 2018. As you know this is a part Richard Newport has very kindly offered to take time paid post. The search is on for a over the administration of Community Speedwatch candidate who will have an interest in from the Parish Clerk.