The horse’s Mouth News and Events in the Parish of Horsley February 2021 Great for value and great for Horsley OPENING HOURS Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.00pm Sat 9.00am - 4.00pm Sun 9.00am - 12 noon 01453 836662 | [email protected] DIRECTORY OF USEFUL HORSLEY CONTACTS SAINT MARTIN’S HORSLEY Caroline Bland Vicar 836536 Stephen Jarvis Associate Priest 884545 Martin Bland Churchwarden 836536 Mark Carden Treasurer 833425 THE HORSE’S MOUTH MAGAZINE Helen Knuckle: [email protected] Editor: Events/News 839441 Lynn Stride: [email protected] Publishing 833026 Mark Carden: [email protected] Advertising 833425 HORSLEY C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL Gary Price Head Teacher 833625 PARISH COUNCIL Kate Kay Chair 833458 Marianne Simpson Clerk 07909 718980 THE HOG PUBLIC HOUSE [email protected] 833843 VILLAGE HALL and 3 IN 1- Karen Butt Bookings and keys 834696 PARISH TREE WARDEN Maxine Relton 832597 HORSLEY ORCHARD PROJECT Ruth Liengaard - Co-ordinator 832895 HORSLEY PLAYGROUP Hannah Vaughan 07929 974982 HORSLEY COMMUNITY SHOP Email: [email protected] Supervisor - Sarah Huntley HORSLEY VILLAGE EMAIL [email protected] HORSLEY UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB Kevin Drew 07879 464742 GLOUCESTERSHIRE CONSTABULARY Non-emergency number 101 New Baby Welcome This announcement was received just a little too late for the December issue of The Horse’s Mouth but nevertheless our congratulations are just as warm as we welcome baby Celeste Imogen Eve Conway. Celeste was born at 9.15am on 24th November 2020 weighing 6lb 13oz. Her proud parents are Abby (nee Hunt) and Sam Conway of Faring- don in Oxfordshire. Celeste is the 5th granddaughter and 8th grandchild of, Abby’s par- ents, Sarah and Peter Hunt of Downend. < 2 > We are pleased to say that our community We have a range of different versions of the shop remains open as usual during this Marrow's veg boxes for sale. Please ask lockdown and we remain very well stocked Sarah at the shop for details. with the essentials and also treats for those Please could we remind everyone entering dull, rainy days! the shop to wear a face mask and be mind- Home deliveries are still available on a ful of social distancing. With the new vari- Tuesday and Thursday. Please ring the ant virus it is more important than ever for shop on 01453 836662 between 9am and us to be alert. It is a small shop and it can 12.00 midday to place your order and it will be so easy to get close to someone. We be delivered to you around 1-2pm. Collec- appreciate you all using the hand sanitiser tions can also be arranged on these days. as you enter. The monthly artist exhibition continues and keep safe we also have a range of pottery from local Diana Stiles potter, John Forster, on sale. We have in stock a variety of craft materi- 01453 836662 als, books, paper, pens, crayons, paint etc [email protected] and other toys to keep the children busy. Rover Coach House Most of us will have no- ticed or heard the demoli- tion of the Rover Coaches depot on the Street! Here is a drawing from the plans for the 3 houses going on the site. A com- pany called Flint Con- struction, who bought the land from the Hand fami- ly, are doing the demoli- tion and the building of the new houses. There will be one detached and two semi-detached houses and there will be parking/garage/garden areas to the rear of the properties. There will be more on the history of this site in a future issue of the Horse's Mouth. < 3 > County Councillor’s Report Hopefully this will prevent them from being blocked up with debris. Nailsworth to Stroud Cycle Track LED Lighting Two small sections of the track, one at If anyone is aware of any street lighting in Frogmarsh and the other behind the new the parish which has not been changed apartments at Rooksmoor, will be resur- over to LED, could they please let me know faced when the fencing is removed at as in some parishes, some appear to have Rooksmoor. Funds of £160,000 have been been forgotten. made available from the District CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) monies to Elections carry out major repairs (still in design) to the At the time of writing this article no decision bridge at Gydynap and to replace the deck- has been made regarding changing the ing on the bridge near Bird’s Crossing, date of elections for County, District, Parish North Woodchester. I hope to find funding and Police & Crime Commissioner, due to to resurface another small rough section in be held in May. As a resident you may be the near future. aware that the majority of these elections have already been postponed for one year. Gullies on the A46 During February residents should receive On the A46, just south of Barton End details from Stroud District Council encour- House, there has been an ongoing problem aging them to apply for postal votes. with the road flooding during heavy rain. I have recently paid for two large gullies to be Steve Robinson, County Councillor kerbed, out of my Local Highways Budget. [email protected] 01453 834270 In the Nosebag: A Culinary Contribution This roast sweet potato hummus from Nina Parker is both easy, delicious and a step above shop bought hummus. This is great with nachos or crudité. Makes 400g Ingredients 1 tsp turmeric 160g sweet potato 1 tsp paprika 8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 clove garlic, diced 200g tinned chickpeas 1 small shallot, diced sea salt and black pepper Method Preheat your oven to 180 degrees and roast the sweet potato with some olive oil, salt and pepper until soft (about 30 minutes). Keeping ½ the chickpeas to one side, place everything into a blender and blend to a nice rough consistency. Then add in the last few chickpeas and pulse blend to just break them up. Taste for seasoning. If you do not have a blender, or mini food processor, you can use a potato mash- er, but the consistency will not be as good. < 4 > Obituaries Colin Jackson Colin Jackson was born in 1946, in Washpool, and apart from travelling the world during 12 years in the RAF including Libya and Cyprus, among other places, he lived in Horsley all his life. After leaving the RAF Colin worked for the MOD at Kemble. Colin and his father and brother Brian were stalwarts of the mysterious "Royal Antediluvian Order of the Buffaloes" (R.A.O.B.), based in the Bell & Castle for many years. He moved into Priory Fields when the houses there were built in1962, where his wife Shirley joined him from Scunthorpe when they married at the turn of the 21st century. Colin became stepfather to her 5 children, and then step-grandad to her 11 grandchildren too! They were married for 20 happy years, including lots of holidays abroad, and notably, running the Bric-a-brac stall at Horsley Fete together for many years. Colin's brother Brian died of an embolism in 2020, and sadly Colin followed him on December 8th, with Shirley beside him. Andrew Knight Andrew Knight sadly passed away on the 19th December. He had been battling with cancer which finally got the better of him. He had lived with his family in Rockness for the past 21 years. Andrew was a keen cyclist and was often spotted cycling around the many hills and valleys in the area - not just for pleasure but also to commute to work at Delphi in Stonehouse where he was Chief Design Engineer. Andrew will be sadly missed by many, especially his wife Stella and his two children Alex and Emily. Ian Cleaveley Sadly Ian passed away on 23rd January 2021 at Cheltenham General Hospital after a short illness. He was 79 years old. Ian was well known by many in Horsley where he had lived in Rockness for over half a century. Being a brilliant vegetable gardener he often won prizes at the Horsley Shows. His onion growing was legendary and he supplied many of his neighbours. He was a 'countryman' who had walked all the local footpaths and was in tune with the seasons, crops and weather. Before retiring he was a carpenter and joiner with local firms, chiefly TDS Bevan. He has worked on many properties and homes in the local area. He was fond of wildlife and could often be seen hand feeding robins and pheasants in his garden as well as spotting the deer when they visited. However he wasn’t so keen on badgers who stole his carrots! One of his other interests was trains and he undertook many trips on the railways. He was a generous and kind friend and neighbour who will be very sadly missed. < 5 > Vicar ’s Letter On the last Sunday in January, the church celebrates Candlemas, the time when Mary and Joseph took baby Jesus to be presented in the temple, as was the Jewish custom when a baby was 40 days old. Candlemas marks the end of the the whole of the Pandemic, whether in seasons of Christmas and Epiphany with church, at the graveside or at the the birth of Jesus and then the visit of wise crematorium chapel. These are men, the church season then returns to a extraordinary times and we long to get period known as Ordinary time. Ordinary back to some kind of ordinary time. time seems a strange word in the world we From the Ordinary time in the church are living in today, in times that are far calendar, we move to Lent, which begins th from any kind of ordinary.