Memorial Hall Wichenford Ladies’ Fellowship: 2.30pm 2nd Tuesday in the month (usually) Martley Toddler Group: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays (term time) 10.30am Martley Memorial Hall Wednesdays Volume 20 No. 14 July 2011 Teme Valley Shufflers Line Dancing: 7pm Martley Memorial Hall Enq. Jeff & Advertise in The Villager: Aileen Thelma 01886 821772 Parker. 01886 888456 Martley Folk Club: 1st Wednesday in Editor: Gail Dawson (01886 889180) the month at The Talbot, Knightwick and Editorial Team: Martley Alan Boon (01886 3rd Wednesday at The Admiral Rodney 888527), Kate King (01886 888439) Martley WI: 2nd Wednesday in the Wichenford Janet Andrews (01886 888303), month 7.30pm Heaton House Sheila Richards (01886 888378) Distribution: Martley George & June Lawrence Thursdays (01886 821064) Wichenford Karen Furber Wichenford Wine Club: 3rd Thursday in (01886 888449) the month Contact The Villager: Leave articles at Martley Post Office, call Janet or Sheila Martley & District Horticultural (Wichenford) or email the Editor at Society: last Thursday in the month [email protected] 7.30pm Martley Memorial Hall Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of The Villager. The Villager See Church Words p. 27 for details of services cannot be held responsible for any goods or services advertised in the magazine. See articles for details of special events AND changes of time/date/venue of regular events Regular events in Martley and See the Diary page on www.martley.org.uk for Wichenford: a complete listing of all forthcoming events (that the Diary page editor knows about) Sundays See page 28 for contact details of organisations 2nd Sunday in the month: Teme Valley Farmers Market for local Articles to go in The Villager must be produce 11am The Talbot, Knightwick submitted by the 1st of the Martley Ramblers meet Church car park previous month 3rd Sunday in the month: Path-or-Nones meet 9.30am Martley Memorial Hall car park to help maintain the local footpaths Mondays Rhythm Time: 9.30-11.30am Martley Memorial Hall Enq. Rachel 01886 812565 Martley Parish Council: 1st Monday in Records of the Parish Council meetings in the two parishes are not intended to be full the month 8pm Memorial Hall and complete minutes. Minutes of meetings Tuesdays can be seen by contacting the respective Short Mat Bowling: 2.00pm Martley Clerks to the Councils. July 2011 * The Villager 9 OUT AND ABOUT IN MARTLEY Visit our website—www.martley.org.uk installing it in the next few weeks. Martley Web Mesh News Please check out the Martley website Martley Web Mesh is a small, local or contact me, [email protected] organisation run entirely by for more information. If you have any volunteers, which supplies Internet experience of aerial rigging or on the broadband at a competitive rate using software side of internet provision and wireless technology. We have set up feel you would like to give something our first solar/wind powered repeater back to your local community, please station and it has two connections. do get in touch, the more ―manpower‖ This has not been without mishaps and we have, the more we can expand our it is fair to say we have learnt a lot service. both in construction and capacities required. We have applied for planning permission to put another repeater station on top of Penny Hill We are so sorry that we had to and are awaiting its outcome. If postpone our musical Sourpuss and we successful, we have a number of hope that it did not cause too much existing subscribers to switch to it, and inconvenience. The good news is that in doing so increasing their speed and the dates have been re-arranged and reducing mesh box usage, and we will the show will now take place on be able to add new subscribers. In the Saturday 16 July with a matinee and wider world also our work has evening performance. We hope you attracted interest. We have been asked will try to come as everyone has to give presentations at Pershore Civic worked very hard. We are aiming to Centre and at County Hall. This has run Mad Kidz, our summer school for resulted in a number of useful contacts performing arts, again in the summer both civilian, for mentoring, and holidays. It will run for one week from council personnel, for access to grants Monday 22 August to Friday 26 etc. We have been asked to quote for August culminating with a production broadband installation in a local for families and friends on the Friday holiday complex and hopefully will be evening. The school will run from 10 The Villager * July 2011 9am to 5pm and is open to all 7 to 14 August. The most popular at the year olds. For registration or further moment is for a visit to see the information please email Staffordshire Hoard Exhibition in [email protected] Lichfield Cathedral. Lichfield is a fascinating city so we are hoping that Martley Ramblers this can be arranged. If we hire a This months walk coach, non-members are always will take place on welcome to join us. Date will be Sunday 10 July. confirmed in a later edition of The Please meet at the Villager. This month our speaker is Church car park at Catherine Clarke, the Hat Lady. This 2pm. There is a change to the is a welcome return visit following her programme for this month as Dot and very popular previous talk and Chris Fletcher will be leading around display. It could be an opportunity to the Brockhampton area. The Hawford try on some of her gorgeous hats and canal walk will now take place in fascinators. The competition this August. Sincere apologies that the month is for a favourite hat. Those of wrong date was published for the May us with big heads may have to bring a walk. Those of us who turned up on favourite beret!, so do come and join the correct day 8 May, and joined Gill us for the evening and see what we do. Gough at Chaddesley Corbett, enjoyed You might even want to become a a lovely walk. Sorry for those who member! missed it. Perhaps we can ask Gill to Kate King repeat it. Kate King Pudford Lane Twitters Life has been quite noisy again with lambs calling for their mums who do not look right now like they have been shorn. Luckily, they soon connect up again with the correct milk-bars ! The SSSI is a mass Martley WI of yellow buttercups and although the 13 July at 7.30pm, Heaton House orchids are very visible above the We are now back indoors after our yellow rattle, they cannot compete lovely garden meeting last month, with the huge flower-heads of the hog many thanks to all those who weed. The swallows did return and contributed to the evening. The funds have nested in last year‘s nests, and raised are always so useful and helps two babies already appear to have with the funds to pay for interesting fledged. The majority of birds seem to speakers. Ideas are still needed for a have hatched plenty of babies and venue for the summer outing in July 2011 * The Villager 11 families of eight or nine tits and pairs correctly at the proper time. of woodpeckers are feeding well. The Alan Boon continuous calls of ‗kedgeree, kedgeree‘ from the breakfast thrushes Roll up Roll up can get rather boring at times, so we have suggested they call ‗ratatouille‘ Come And Join The Circus for a change, but no luck so far !! The Summer Reading Kate King Challenge at Martley Library and Stourport Martley’s Past Mobile Library is Mr Michael was a very successful Circus Showtime!!!! headmaster of the boys‘ school for 30 It keeps children of all years, January 1863 to 1893. Here are ages reading right the a few entries from his log-book for his way through the summer, this in itself first month in post. 13 January 1863, improves life skills vital for their the Rector brought log-book at futures. Each child must read six 9.50am. Commenced morning duty at books over the summer, this is done in 9am, dismissed at 12.15pm. Suspected 3 parts, practice, rehearsal and two boys playing truant so sent a Showtime. Enrol and you get a free scholar to inform parents of their three dimensional stage, each time you absence. Afternoon duty 1.30pm to read two books you get a wrist band or 4.10pm. 14 January, punished five a chatterbox, to name but a few. In the boys who drew upon their slates finale children will receive a laughable figures during repetition of certificate and a presentation whereby tables. 16 January, very dark morning the children are invited to the library only eight boys present at 9am. to receive their medals. For the first Examined first and second class time ever, the libraries will run an together in simple addition, by Adult version in which the same rules dictation. Result 55 percent on apply. Adults need to read six books fourteen boys, time 32 minutes. and will then be entered into a local Afternoon examined same boys, same prize draw, and if successful could way in addition and subtraction. win a signed copy of a popular book. Result 64.3 percent, time 50 minutes. Children who complete will also get 20 January, A boy returned to school entered into a County Council draw that had played truant for some days; and the whole family could win a punished him in presence of whole ticket to the West Midland Safari school.