Colerne ParishDECEMBER 2020 Magazine FREE ❆ ❄ ❅ ❅ ❆ ❄ ❅ BUMPER FESTIVE Quiz page see p.22 MEET THE COLERNE CRAFTSPEOPLE GetMAKING ITCrafty A CREATIVE CHRISTMAS HISTORICAL MYSTERY ● DAMES ON FURLOUGH ● SCHOOL’S FARM VISIT The Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Colerne A member of the Lidbrook Group of Churches Priest-in-Charge Revd Dr Janet Anderson-MacKenzie The Vicarage, Church Lane, Box, Wilts SN13 8NR Tel. 01225 744458 Email: [email protected] Ministry Team Revd Clair Southgate Mrs Margaret Edmonds Churchwardens Rob Featherstone, 47 Round Barrow Close, SN14 8EF Tel: 01225 743044 Email: [email protected] Karen Brzezicki, The Stables, 11 Trimnells, Colerne, SN14 8EP Tel: 744499 Email: [email protected] For enquiries to hire the Parish Church for a community event, contact the Churchwardens To arrange a Baptism, please contact the Vicar or the Churchwardens To arrange a Marriage, contact Celia Batterham, [email protected] or 01225 744809 To arrange a Funeral or make an application for a churchyard memorial, contact Ray Barker, [email protected] or 01225 743402 or 07768 500684 Website: www.colerneparishchurch.org.uk Magazine Committee Editorial Team Phil Chamberlain (07793 018283) Email: [email protected] Kathryn Houldcroft (744006) Email: [email protected] Lavinia Wilson (742417) Email: [email protected] Design and prodution Liz House (740098) Email: [email protected] Advertising Celia Batterham (744809) Email: [email protected] Distribution: Rosemary Sadler (742531) Facebook page: @ColerneParishMagazine CHURCH FLOODLIGHTING Anyone wishing to arrange for the Church Floodlighting to be turned on should contact Derek or Julie Burgess on 743999 or 07470 031062 or at [email protected] Front cover: By Jody Gaisford, Colerne Photographic Company, of Rachel Lowe from The Fresh Flower Company, Colerne. See p.19 for more on Rachel and other local craftspeople. 2 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 3 SERVICES FOR DECEMBER Home & Business Karen Sayers Limited During December we have planned a simple service of Chartered Accountants Computing holy communion at St John the Baptist Parish Church at: Support, help and advice 9.30am each Sunday and 9.45am each Thursday Specialising in small businesses call for a local and friendly service: and the self employed We also have a number of ZOOM services in the Lidbrook Group of Churches, please contact Rob Featherstone, see p.3 for contact details. l Purchasing + set up advice Self assessment tax returns l Broadband, Internet + email Limited Company statutory accounts l Cloud computing Sole trader accounts l Share Files, photos etc CHRISTMAS SERVICES VAT returns l Payroll and bookkeeping Defence against the dark arts A Village Christmas - 4.00pm Sunday 20th l Backup valuable information Our on-line Christmas Service, to be streamed via Zoom at 4pm on 20th December Tel: 01225 744355 l PC, Mac and phones and available to watch afterwards on youtube. Email: [email protected] Please see Community or Church Facebook pages and Church website nearer the 29 Silver Street, Colerne Call Ian on 07711 513722 to time, for details of how to join. All welcome and completely Covid safe. talk about what you want and how http://colerneparishchurch.org.uk I can help, or see our web site Christingle service 3.00pm Thursday 24th for more information: This will be an outside service in the Primary School grounds. www.butterworthconsulting.eu Please see Facebook pages or Church website for details of how to request your make-at-home Christingle kit. Family Communion service 10.00am Friday 25th Please see our website and gate notice nearer the day for information; Our lawyers specialise in all this service is planned to be in church but there may be limited attendance. ★ ★ ★ aspects of family law including When attending a service in the church please bring and wear a face covering unless you are officially exempt. Access to the church and services are subject to guidance from the Government and National Church. Please keep an eye on the notice boards near the church for • Wills further and more up to date information on services and openings for private prayer. • Probate • Powers of Attorney • Divorces, including KEEPING COLERNE SAFE FROM COVID-19 International aspects Although rising, Covid-19 infection levels in Wiltshire remain relatively low - let’s • Financial settlements keep it that way. Colerne Covid-19 Community volunteers are here to help you keep • Children Act matters safe, and to protect our village from Covid-19 • Pre/Post nuptial agreements 01249 783607 If you are shielding, have been asked to self-isolate or your usual family/neighbour • Cohabitation agreements [email protected] support is unavailable, give us a call. We can help with shopping, prescription collection, posting letters, and dog walking. www.taylorlawfirm.co.uk Contact us for an initial Are you feeling isolated and a bit low? We can help you connect with others - you won’t be the only one. consultation with one of our 20 High Street specialist family lawyers. Colerne SN14 8DD To be put in touch with your nearest volunteer contact Dorothy Robertson on 01225 742767, email [email protected] or use the Link number 07970 617617 4 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 5 A COLERNE Award Winning, Family Run, VILLAGE CHRISTMAS Farm Shop On Sunday 20th December, as we get ready for Christmas, the Parish Established for over 30 years Church is taking the annual carol service online this year so that we can all still sing our hearts out... We’re going to be doing lots of filming in Selling Quality Local Produce Colerne, North Colerne and Thickwood over the next few weeks to prepare. Open 7 days a week As part of the service, we’d like to do a review of the village year. Obviously so many events had to be cancelled but this didn’t stop us from having smaller moments of achievement and celebrations. We’re putting out a call for any photographs/films HOME & LOCALLY REARED of birthdays, anniversaries, garden parties, graduations, promotions, successes, Colerne FRESH MEAT, POULTRY & GAME painted rocks, Remembrance Sunday, the yard sale, VE Day and anything fantastic that HOMEMADE SAUSAGES, BURGERS & FAGGOTS has happened in the village this year. Send them to us at: Home Reared Christmas Turkeys – Orders Now Being Taken [email protected] (let us know what month and what is happening in the pictures/films). It’s been a tough year, but we can still celebrate all the wonderful things which have happened, however small! Katie Marsden FOODBANK COLLECTIONS IN OUR LOCAL SHOPS Your donations to the Corsham Foodbank can now be put into collection boxes in the Colerne newspaper shop on the High Street with thanks to Julie and in the Premier Stores on Market Square with thanks to Mandeep. LOCAL CHEESES & HOME COOKED MEATS There is no longer a collection box in the Church porch. The Little Larder is still LOCALLY GROWN VEGETABLES, FRUIT & SALADS accessible 24/7 in the south porch of the Church for anyone who needs supplies of toiletries, tinned or dried food urgently. Shirley Willcox HOMEMADE CAKES & PIES LOCALLY MADE CHOCOLATE & FUDGE WHAT DOES THE WI MEAN TO ME? FINE WINE, LOCAL ALE & CIDER y husband and I moved to Colerne in Having settled in, I wondered how I PRESERVES & CHUTNEYS October 2010. We lived in a village would get to know people and found the Mnear Dover, a very different village from WI. I enjoyed the interesting meetings and GIFT HAMPERS Colerne. Even though we had lived there the friendly, welcoming atmosphere. Most for more than 20 years I only knew a small members have known each other for many Premium Christmas Trees Now Available group of people. The village hall was years but happily embraced me. Thank you rarely used and was falling into disrepair. members of Colerne WI for extending your www.allingtonfarmshop.co.uk TEL: 01249 658112 Our two daughters had suggested that friendship and enriching my life. we should move to be nearer to them, Thank you all for making my five years Allington Bar Farm, Chippenham, SN14 6LJ Ffion in Colerne and Sian in Northleach, as your president a complete joy, and an Gloucestershire. The suggestion was put added thank you to the faithful committee. Working hard to keep our staff & customers safe to us that we should move “before you get Following your recent vote we now During the busy Christmas Shopping period we will be: too old”. I am so glad that we took their welcome Caroline Moore as our new ● Creating extra space in store & outside advice. Colerne was our president. ● first choice because our The committee would like to wish you Continuing to offer contactless shopping collections ● two grandchildren lived on all a Happy Christmas. Offering extended opening hours & taking bookings for evening shopping slots the High Street. Wendy James 6 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 Colerne Parish Magazine, December 2020 7 COLERNE VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION The Village Hall is now Covid-19 secure and we are working with our regular user groups to see if any of them wish to return from 4th January 2021, providing R. J. Hill & Son Ltd government guidelines allow. Colerne Cinema will hopefully return in the spring. (Est. 1955) We are completely dependent on government guidance and when we return users Traditional Family Butchers will need to adapt to a completely new way of using the Hall. It will be set up to meet the current guidance so please help us by following all of the Covid-19 Payment Cards procedures in place when using the Village Hall. now accepted Unfortunately we are still unable to take bookings for parties/events at present.