Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish, St Mary Bourne & Woodcott October 2007 The Best Fete in Hampshire Grand Draw “It’s the best fete in Hampshire”: one visitor on 1st Bridget Graham 11th North why he comes from the other side 2nd Ron West 12th John Snow of Andover to Longparish fete 3rd Vi Mears 13th Sarah Baulf every year. And it was especially 4th S Vize 14th Anne Sands good this year thanks to great 5th Chris Purdue 15th Mrs Burlison organisation by Patrick Beresford, 6th Jenny Jolliffe 16th Lynch lots of help, generous 7th Sid 17th C Firebrace contributions and wonderful 8th Edwards 18th Anne Sands support from hundreds of people 9th Huxford 19th Rosemary Tennant on the day. The weather was 10th Jean good to us too and it really was an Once again I would like to say a big thank you to enjoyable and successful fund- everyone who sold tickets before and on the day raising afternoon, clearing over and congratulations to all our winners! £6,000. The village hall and the church fabric fund Jan West are the financial beneficiaries and both the hall committee and the PCC are very grateful. Longparish Cricket Club Sponsored by Barker, Son & Isherwood, Solicitors With the end of our competitive programme a touring party took to the road at the beginning of September, travelling to Devon to play two clubs in the Sidmouth area. This year the weather made up for the poor summer and we were blessed with warm, sunny conditions much enjoyed by the 16 players and 19 supporters in the group. Although we lost the match at Ottery St Mary on the Saturday, the weekend finished on a successful note on the Sunday when the Club recorded a win in their game at Seaton. The duck race - a peaceful break Senior and Colt teams from the Club will soon begin their programmes in the Winchester CCA Indoor League and at Dummer Cricket Centre. This year we have entered three teams in the Winchester Senior League and one team in the Junior, while at Dummer two Colt teams and two Senior teams will be competing, giving plenty of action during the winter months for the players. Winners of the August 100 Club draw were:- 1st £35 No 7 Steve Hogg 2nd £15 No 11 Jean Gardner 3rd £15 No 23 Richard Channon Enjoying the magic show Kate Hibberd Thank you to everyone who helped and who came on the day. Any Copy for November brilliant ideas for Please email or send copy for November to the next year - do let guest editor, Jeremy Barber, who is beginning to Patrick Beresford, realise the immense gratitude we owe to Mary Jo Peter Jones or for doing the job every month! me know while they’re fresh in your mind! Taste those hot dogs! Cathy Burnett Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish, St Mary Bourne & Woodcott October 2007 The Tour of Britain Whizzes By and music. Thank you to all who helped towards this Suddenly the teacher tells us to line up at the classroom special event that brought together so many people. door. I look at the clock but it’s not assembly time. So I thought I’ll wait and see. We are outside and I see the whole school leaning on the fence next to the road and I realised we were going to watch the Tour of Britain. I was so excited I run to meet my friend Josh. Because the cyclers weren’t there yet I told jokes to Josh. After a while they still weren’t there yet. There were loads and loads of motorbikes coming through with cars. One of the cars stopped on the side of the After the service we had a picnic in the Community Hall, road. It shouted to us (well he and children had some games on the playing field, while talked in a microphone). He said, “We have a the rest of us chatted over cups of tea. Truly, God’s competition to see which school will cheer the loudest!”. family in Longparish. Nona Harrison I screamed as loud as I could, I had lost my throat at the end. I didn’t think we would win because we were a Scramblers small school. The cyclers still weren’t coming through Scramblers services are designed for young children and yet so I just cheered the motorbikes that were closing the held in Longparish Church once a month, usually on the roads. Some cars were coming through and then second Monday of the month, at 2.15pm, finishing in suddenly a car came round the corner with spare bikes on time to collect from school. the top. I assumed the cars meant the bikes were coming All young children are welcome along with parents, so I did not grandparents, carers etc. and we are now joined by Year let anyone R from Longparish School. Do come and join us for distract me; I bible stories, songs, crafts and refreshments in a relaxed just looked at atmosphere. This term the theme is God’s World. the road. And then Mon Oct 8 “Celebrating God’s World at harvest” finally I saw Mon Nov 12 “The seasons in God’s World” what I Mon Dec 10 “Jesus came into God’s World as a baby wanted to – the 1st Christmas”. see; two bikes The Ark whizzing The Ark is our group meeting for children from The peloton trying their hardest through. And Longparish and Hurstbourne Priors. We meet twice a then 9 or 10 seconds later I saw the peloton trying their month during term time, at 9.30am on the 1st and 4th hardest to go faster. Let’s say they were going very fast. Sundays of the month, at the same time as the service in And it was finished. The teacher told us to line up and St Nicholas Church. There is a 9.30am Family Service at we went back into class. Hurstbourne Priors on the second Sunday of the month Matthieu Rident – Age 8 Longparish School and at Longparish on the third, so children are provided for on every Sunday. Celebrating Harvest in the Great Forthcoming dates are October 7th and 28th November Outdoors 4th and 25th and December 2nd. We meet in the We had a very good and well attended Open Air service Playgroup building for songs, games, teaching and craft for this year’s Harvest on Sunday September 16th. Our activities, and finish in the church for refreshments after theme was “A celebration of our countryside” – and how the church service. We are completing our series on the glorious it was to be celebrating the wonderful Lord’s Prayer and then we will be working on a special countryside which surrounded us as we sang! Christmas project. Do come and join us. Nona Harrison On the patio behind school, we set up chairs, keyboard and a sound system and a wonderful altar with lots of harvest gifts – our traditional harvest loaf, beautiful FoLS 100 Club Results flowers, Nigel Griffin’s basket of home grown vegetables August September – impressive as ever – and lots more. In such a setting, it 1st £25 18 Mr & Mrs Barber 42 Mr & Mrs R Wills wasn’t difficult to be saying “thank you” to God for “all 2nd £10 59 Mr & Mrs R Wills 87 Mrs Colquhoun the good gifts around us” and to sing our praises in 3rd £5 65 Sarah Dewbury 135 Mr Aldridge worship. We considered how God has given us our 5 senses with which to appreciate his world and everyone there received a grape to taste and a flower to smell as we feasted on the sights of harvest and listened to the prayers Hill & Valley Parish Magazine serving Hurstbourne Priors, Longparish, St Mary Bourne & Woodcott October 2007 News from Kidz Are any parents or grandparents (!) interested? Your Zone child does not have to attend the school or playgroup to be eligible. You do not have to commit to attending The next outing is on every day. We would like to find out how much potential 17 October to JJ’s at demand there is for this. Basingstoke. They have what is probably the largest climbing frame in England offering a host of physical We also need to find staff to run the Club – this would be activities. The minibus will leave from the Village Hall paid employment on normal school terms and conditions. at 6.30 p.m. and return at 9.30 p.m. The cost is £5, and Is anyone interested? Volunteers would also be welcome includes juice. There are only 14 places on the bus so if to help with this and future initiatives to offer the longer you have not already booked please contact Andrea opening hours for community benefit. Hulme on 01264 720347 to check on availability. There If you have interest in any of these, please contact the will be no Club meeting that night. school admin office on 01264 720317 or by email It’s a balancing act On 19th Sept, the Hampshire & Isle [email protected] . of Wight Youth Options team brought the Circus Skills Alex Foggo Head Teacher workshop to Longparish. Kidz attempted walking on stilts, spinning plates, juggling and much more. REUNION - Class of '67 Over to Andrea Andrea will write this column in WHITCHURCH COUNTY SECONDARY future, but before stepping down I’d like to invite the SCHOOL (now Testbourne) village to help to run the Club.