NNeewwss aanndd NNootteess Issue 383 for Bodenham, Britford, Charlton All Saints, Nunton and Odstock March 2008 In this issue: Lent, Easter and Mothering Sunday (from the Editor) Page 2 During Lent, apart from the various study groups, full details of which can be • WI Report found in Chalke Talk (at the N&N website or in churches) , there are two events of st • Odstock Primary special note. One is a Lent Lunch on 1 March , proceeds of which will go to School the Lent Project. Full details can be found on page 3. I know Debby Underhill • Dog walking will be delighted to see any who can make it. The other is the Bible Reading th th • Book Reading Marathon from 10 to 15 March in the Chapel at Broad Chalke. If you’d like to participate please call Janet Roe on 01722 781112 – otherwise just turn up • The Acorn Social Club at the Orchard during one or more of those days and listen. • Inter-Village Quiz In addition to all the Easter Services listed below, there will be the Good Friday Page 3 Experience at Bishopstone . Teddy and Mary Penn of Charlton went last year and have sent me this note: “May we just urge anyone reading of the Good • Neighbourhood Policing Friday plans for Bishopstone that to make that extra little effort will bring a rich reward. We spent an unforgettable hour there last year - all was very quiet and • Storage wanted the tableaux depicting the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter • House wanted were so realistically portrayed that we were both deeply moved - please do try to • Britford Primary School get there for a short time.” It’s open from 10am to 9pm with Devotional Services • Radnor Hall at 2-3pm and 8-9pm. Development Update The first Sunday of the month is Mothering Sunday and here is an extract of a • Lent Lunch letter I have received from Angela Moules: “Mothering Sunday is the 4 th Sunday Page 4 of Lent, when servant girls were given a day off to visit their mother, often picking • Charlton All Saints a little bunch of primroses and dog violets in the hedgerows to take with them. If Garden Society she had a kind mistress she might be given a Simnel cake to take too.” I’m sure • Stainer’s Crucifixion flowers will be in evidence at our morning services that day. Why not come to • Local Ads one ? All will be very welcome at the Easter services too! Page 5 Church of England Services • Local Ads Page 6 9.30am Parish Communion Britford AW nd • Britford School Sunday, 2 March 11.00am Family Service Nunton ACFT Governor Mothering Sunday 11.00am Mothering Sunday Service Coombe Bissett AW 6.00pm Evensong BCP Homington DH • Regular Events • Diary Dates th 9.30am Family Communion Odstock AW Sunday, 9 March • Local Ads 11.00am Matins BCP Charlton All Saints DB Lent 5 11.00am Parish Communion Coombe Bissett AW News & Notes th 8.00am Holy Communion BCP Britford AW Sunday, 16 March Editor 9.30am Parish Communion Nunton AW Palm Sunday Adrian Taylor 9.30am Family Communion Homington CH 01722 325862 (email below) Friday, 21 st March 12 noon Devotional Service Britford CH Treasurer Good Friday (see above) 2.00pm Devotional Service Nunton CH Neil Guttridge 01725 511468 8.00 Holy Communion BCP Homington AW rd 9.30 Parish Communion Charlton All Saints AW Court-Hay, Charlton All Saints Sunday, 23 March Salisbury SP5 4HQ 9.30am Family Communion Odstock CH Easter Day Deadline 11.00am Parish Communion Britford CH 18 th of each month 11.00am Family Communion Coombe Bissett AW Sunday, 30 th March See N&N website and 10.00am Parish Communion Coombe Bissett AW churches for Easter 2 Chalke Talk (The newsletter of the AW = Revd Alison Williams, DH = Revd Canon David Henley, CH = Revd Charles Hatton Chalke Valley Team) DB = Denis Blake, ACFT = Adrian Taylor BCP = Book of Common Prayer Issue 383 website: www.newsandnotes.co.uk - 1 - email: [email protected] March 2008 WI Report Odstock Primary School (cont.) Julia Joynt Please pop any Sainsbury’s vouchers through Sue Bourne, the President, greeted an almost our letterbox. Last year we were able to collect overwhelming crowd to the meeting held in the enough to order a set of hockey sticks and balls Radnor Hall on 11 th February. She introduced for use on the astro turf during the winter three visitors and welcomed new members, months. So many thanks to those of you that including Ashleigh Smith our youngest member, donated your vouchers to our school. who had received quite a lot of publicity in WI Dog Walking magazines and the Salisbury Journal. Hatty I live in Britford and have a very delightful, Hillier, with her crutches and a broken leg was gregarious and incredibly energetic and also welcomed back. Anne Waight was thanked bumptious yellow Labrador who is 10 months for her charming posy of spring flowers. old - all the mania of an enthusiastic toddler and The business meeting covered forthcoming the strength of a bulldozer. (He is not at all events and invitations including a visit to Kew aggressive). Gardens, a polo day at Westonbirt and a bridge lunch. Theatre plans and some successful It would be so great to find another dog walker skittles and scrabble events were discussed, as locally, preferably with a big Labrador or were the village Fête, the summer garden party Retriever (they seem to play in the same and the WI outing fixed for 16 th July. rumbustuous way), or any breed of the same rough-and-tumble nature, to do a morning walk During the coffee break we browsed through (between 8 and 10ish?). Please call Annabel and bought books on the “Bring a Lawson on 01722 413913. book/buy a book” table. Sue Bourne won the flower of the month with a rhododendron. Book Group/Play Reading Group We were then entertained by Mrs Marion Emery, Annabel Lawson (on her second visit), whose talk was called I would very much like to join or start a book “Reflections and a 5-piece Walnut Bedroom group/play reading group locally. Am personally Suite”. This was really her life story which she keen on keeping up with modern literature as told in a warm, earthy, moving and extremely well as catching up on some of the classics I funny way, covering her early childhood, her never got round to... Anyone interested? adoptive family and their eccentricities, her love Please call 01722 413913. of music and the various jobs she had during The Acorn Social Club at The Orchard her life, punctuated with delightful and appropriate (or inappropriate!) anecdotes. She The residents of The Orchard in Nunton are and her family were accompanied always by the starting The Acorn Social Club which will be 5-piece walnut bedroom suite in various forms open to non-residents. We will shortly be until its demise a few years back. We hope we advertising activities. Your support would be will hear her again. She was warmly thanked by very much appreciated. Jill Dodd. Enquiries to Doreen Burns, 19 The Orchard, The next meeting will be the AGM on 11 th 01722 416377. March. Odstock Primary School The children enjoyed a wonderful springtime experience when the whole school helped to Friday 25 th April 2007 plant 128 lavender bushes to create a hedge around our junior playground. We look forward at to the fragrant aromas and colour this new The Radnor Hall, Bodenham hedge will bring in the summer. 7.30pm We welcome Phillippa Gibson as our new Fish and Chips Supper Parent Governor. Phillippa lives in Nunton and Bring your own drinks has Jamie in Year 3 and Peter who will be Make up a team of 4 – 6 people joining us in September. It is always good to have members of the local community £8 per person represented on the school governing body. For tickets please contact Chris Clark 01725 510891 If you would like to recycle your printer ink or Jenifer Withers 01725 510796 cartridges, please drop them in to the school office in a sealed bag. Any profits to Charlton All Saints church fund. Issue 383 website: www.newsandnotes.co.uk - 2 - email: [email protected] March 2008 Neighbourhood Policing Britford Primary School Notes Local Priorities “Buy me a cake!” by Claire Leese At our recent Neighbourhood Tasking Group On Wednesday 13 th February, Britford Primary meeting (NTG includes representatives from all School held a Cake Sale in the school hall. Lots Parishes across Downton NPT) the local of parents and staff participated by bringing priorities for the coming 3 month period were home made cakes and biscuits in for the decided as- occasion. Furthermore, the stall holders raised a 1- Anti-Social Behaviour in Moot Lane area of staggering £130 with the help of the children’s Downton. donations the next day. All this money is going 2- Speeding at designated locations across all towards improving the playground’s facilities and Parishes new ‘game’ markings. 3- High profile enforcement of HGV weight “I really liked the cake sale because of the wide restriction – Downton/ Redlynch (following variety of different cakes” says one of the pupils completion of bridgeworks) at Britford. We are very pleased with the amount of money raised and we are looking forward to The enforcement of the weight restriction is a the improvements on playground facilities. new priority and has been put in place in response to concerns from local residents.