HELEN BUSHROD LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS, CUSHIONS, etc. Made to your requirements FREE ESTIMATES Tel: 01749 860546 Travellers Rest Stone, East Pennard (on the A37) 01749 860069 Higher Farm, Sutton, Nr Ditcheat, Shepton Mallet, Somerset OPEN ALL DAY BA4 6QF from 12.00 noon Opening hours Mon-Sat: 7.30am to 6.30pm Traditional pub food Tea / Coffee For Sunday Roast Tool Hire Quiz Nights/Skittles/Pool/Darts & B & B en-suite rooms Repairs. Tel 01749 860199: Mobile www.travellersrest.org.uk 07771632221 How To Find Us Turn off the A371 Castle Cary to Shepton Mallet road, between Moff Motors and The Brook House Inn, and then take the first turning left to Sutton. Follow this road until you see our signs on the right, and then turn right. Hope to see you soon! 2 Letter from the editors This Month Confusing etymology this month. November - from the Advertiser Index 58 Latin novem (nine), made perfect sense when the year Alhampton News 5 had only 10 months but the Romans slotted in an extra Audrey Kemp 41 couple, in memory of Julius and Augustus Caesar Badminton 8 Big Screen 12 (July/August), and ruined it. Book Group 53 Church Services 30 Continuing the theme of memorials in this centenary Church Ways 11 D/P Singers 23 year, there will Datesbe a Remembrance for your Diary service at Ditcheat Diary Dates 4 on 11th, one at East Pennard on the 13th and one for Directory 56 Ditcheat Ch. Rota 54 serviceman Walter Higgins, on the 19th (p49). In less Ditcheat PC 24 sombre mood, take a look through the ‘Dates for your Ditcheat School 6 Diary’ to fill your calendar. If you want an event to E.P. BR Legion 48 Is there an event that should be listed here? Please let EP Church Room 50 appear in this section then let Tim have the details EP Rotas 55 [email protected] know otherwise it’s unlikely to ([email protected]) and we’ll do our best to Folk Dancing 14 appear here. Fossway Garden Club 8 include everything. Gardening 35 Harvest Supper 46 Mothers' Union 7 Thanks to Daphne for our current cover. October’s Natural World 36 photo, to answer queries received, was of the Folly on Pylle Lunch 47 Pylle News 45 Ditcheat Hill, taken in the wee small hours using a time Pylle Pageaant DVD 45 lapse technique which provided the ‘shooting stars’ - as Rector's Note 31 Refugee Crisis 27 close as the intrepid photographer got to a glimpse of Rondezvous 20 the promised Perseid shower. If anyone has a seasonal Spectra Music 23 Theatre Trips 38 scene for the next issue, we’d love to hear from you. U3A 41 Village Lunch 38 Wishing you all very well for the coming month Wildlife Group 17 Margy Cockburn Tim Sanders www.fossetrinitynews.co.uk The Fosse Trinity News is a community magazine. It is financed by advertising and donations. It is delivered FREE to every household in Ditcheat, Alhampton, East Pennard and Pylle. We welcome any contribution from anyone in the community of any age! The editors reserve the right to edit. Copyright of all photographs published remains with the originator unless specified otherwise. th Send copy by 15 of each month to [email protected] Please note, the next issue is a joint December/January one. For enquiries about advertising in the magazine, please contact John 01749 860457 or email [email protected] Closing date 10th of each month Cover picture: Mill Lane, Alhampton © Daphne Osmond 3 Dates for your Diary Every Week Pilates (9.00) Diana 860224 Tai Chi for Health (10.30) Richard 880308 Mon Clubbercise Fitness (6.30) Kylie 07707 778948 Ditcheat Badminton Club (8.30) James 860355 Ditcheat and Pylle Singers (7.00) Di 07831 289945 Tue Art Group – Fortnightly (10.00) Liz & Stewart 860755 Ditcheat Badminton Club (2.00) Gaye 860081 Wed Ditcheat Short Mat Bowls (7.00) Martin 860780 Ditcheat and Pylle Singers (7.00) Di 07831 289945 Thu Keep Fit (9.15) Diana 860224 Fri Pilates (9.15) Mo 07815 748518 October Camelot U3A: Great Wall of China, Page 25, Fri 28th 2.30pm Mike A. Spencer October issue Sun 30th 2.00am CLOCKS FALL BACK ONE HOUR November The Alhamptonians, Louisa 860252 Thur 3rd 8.15pm The Alhampton Inn Gardening Club, Pylle Village Hall: Barbara 860438 Tue 8th 7.30pm Planning, Planting and Pruning a Cider Orchard Fri 11th 7.30pm Country Dancing – Jubilee Hall Ama 762911 Remembrance Services: Sun 13th 11.50am East Pennard & Ditcheat Wed 16th 12.30pm Ditcheat School Community Meal School 860329 Ditcheat Big Screen Thur 17th 7.30pm Peter 860081 "The Man Who Knew Infinity (PG) " Remembrance Service for Walter Higgins Sat 19th 11.45am Page 49 Ditcheat Church Camelot U3A: The Kingfisher, Fri 25th 2.30pm Page 41 David Boag Tue 29th 12.30 Ditcheat Village Lunch – Jubilee Hall Jessica 860205 4 December Thur 1st 7.30pm Rendezvous, Christmas Bingo – Jubilee Hall Eleanor 860337 Ditcheat and Pylle Singers: Hamish 838757 Sat 3rd 7.30pm A Festive Choral Concert – Jubilee Hall Page 23 Gardening Club Christmas Meal, Tue 13th 7-7.30pm Barbara 860438 Cross Keys, Lydford Page 8 Ditcheat Christmas Village Lunch – Thu 15th 12.30 Jessica 860205 Jubilee Hall Alhampton News As I write this I am looking at a calendar and contemplating a busy couple of months with fireworks, carnivals, and the preparations for Christmas, coming round all too quickly. Every year I fantasise about being one of those people who are organised to the nth degree. But then, part of the fun is the last minute flurry. Looking much further ahead I am a bit organised as we have a provisional date for the Alhampton fete which returns again in 2017 with the dog show and the railway. Keep Saturday 1st July free if you can – it is sure to clash with something but whichever day we choose will do that. At least if there is nothing on in the villages themselves we will be doing well. Although there is a core of helpers we really could do with more help so that no one person has to do too much. If you think you could give us a hand in any way, whether large or small, please let me know and we will be very grateful. You could take over a stall, help someone else, run a game or whatever you feel suits you. How good to see the pub flourishing and doing food again. Very good reports and my granddaughter thinks that Macaroni Cheese on the children’s menu is an inspired choice – she can’t wait to try it. Start thinking about your Christmas meals – if the standard is the same (and why shouldn’t it be?) – they will be excellent. Of course, they now have their upstairs room so can accommodate more people. The Alhamptonians meet on 3rd November (as usual, the first Thursday) from about 8.15. Last month we combined the evening with celebrating a significant birthday with Chrys Henning – congratulations to her. If you have any news, anniversaries etc. you would like to tell me about please let me know – it will save me waffling too much! Louisa on 860252 or [email protected] 5 Ditcheat School News The year 6 children at Ditcheat School really enjoyed improving their cycle skills last month. They spent two days in the October sunshine cycling around the village. At the end of two days training all the children had grown in confidence and felt ready to brave the Somerset roads. Thank you to all those motorists who carefully navigated round the children. 6 The October meeting of St. Dunstan's and District Mothers' Union was held on Thursday 13th October, 2.30pm. at Baltonsborough Church Room. Following Opening Prayers, several members were presented with long service certificates. A short business session was held before the guest speaker, Mrs. Margaret Harris, was introduced. Margaret and her husband spend every winter in India, when the weather is usually very hot. She spoke of their many visits there, staying in South Goa, which still reflects Portuguese influence with some houses painted in blue and white. The beaches are very beautiful and fishing boats go from Goa daily to catch fish. Margaret has watched lorries collect the fish and take them away to be sold. Railways built by the British extend all over India. When there are services in the Churches, they are absolutely packed. Margaret has driven many miles in India visiting country areas, towns and cities, seeing enormous forts, which are built on hillsides, tea plantations, jungles, coastal plains and a desert and she has ridden on a camel. She went with her husband early one morning to see the sun rise over the Taj Mahal in Agra, one of India's most famous sights. Originally a tomb built in the 17th century by an Emperor in memory of his wife, it is built on a platform high above the Jamna River. We were told of many interesting customs Margaret has experienced in India including one of the main festivals, Diwali, which signals the start of the new year in the Indian calendar. Everyone lights lamps in their homes during Diwali, so it is also called the 'festival of lights'. Cows are seen as sacred in India, nobody eats beef and most people are vegetarians. They have lots of spices and each region of India produces different kinds of food. Women in India wear saris, and men wear dhotis. Both are long pieces of cloth draped around the body in a certain way.