FOSSE TRINITY NEWS Serving the communities of Ditcheat, East Pennard and Pylle october 2014 HELEN BUSHROD LOOSE COVERS, CURTAINS, CUSHIONS, etc. Made to your requirements FREE ESTIMATES Tel: 01749 860546 THE ALHAMPTON INN Travellers Rest ALHAMPTON,SHEPTON MALLET Stone, East Pennard (on the A37) TEL: 01749 860747 01749 860069 Open All Day OPEN ALL DAY from 12.00 noon Excellent home cooked food Mon-Sat 12.15 - 8.30 Traditional pub food Tea / Coffee Sunday Roast 12.15-2.30pm Sunday Roast booking advisable Quiz Nights/Skittles/Pool/Darts B & B en-suite rooms Buffets quoted for on request www.travellersrest.org.uk Fish and chips takeaway available 2 Letter from the editors This Month Welcome back, we hope that you have all had an enjoyable summer and long may the gorgeous weather Advertiser Index 58 continue. Somebody pinch me as I do believe it is now Alhampton News 11 October! So where did the year go? Well with an active Almshouses 49 community like ours it isn’t really surprising that the Book Group 54 Church Services 30 months fly by, and no doubt we will all be busily passing Cookery Page 55 the autumn months too. Diary Dates 4 Ditch’t Big Screen 27 This edition is full of activites including talks, WEA (37) Ditcheat Ch. Rota 35 and U3A (14), Harvest suppers, Pylle (9) & East Pennard Ditcheat School 12 (13), a quiz in Ditcheat (35) and a tree planting day in E.P. News 13 Folk Dancing 25 Haddon Wood, Alhampton (26) to name but a few. And if Garden Section 23 you haven’t made it yet, please do visit Pylle Village hall Haddon Wood 26 Open Studio Venue 146 before it closes on the 4th Harvest Services 20 October, where you can view exhibits from some of our Letters 34 very own local talented artists (7) Mothers Union 48 Natural World 17 Neighb'rh'd watch 53 I would like to abuse my position for a moment to mention Pastoral Message 31 that some of our eldest residents/readers have celebrated Police 6 th and/or will be celebrating a very special 90 Birthday, Pylle News 7 many happy returns to Mrs Audrey Dyson, Miss Doris Rendezvous 25 Royal Brit. Legion 43 Lintern and Mrs Molly Yeoman, may there be lots of cake! Saturday Stitch 41 Village Lunch 19 Please don’t forget that you can view the magazine online Who's Who 56 long before it is put through your door, if you would like Wildlife Group 28 advanced notice of when it is available then please email [email protected] Jo Curtis Gerry Lees www.fossetrinitynews.co.uk The Fosse Trinity News is a community magazine owned by the Fosse Trinity Advisory Committee. It is financed by advertising and donations. It is delivered FREE to every household in Ditcheat, Alhampton, East Pennard and Pylle. We welcome any contribution from anyone in the community of any age! th Send copy by 15 of each month to [email protected] or to The Editors, 1 Folly Drive, Ditcheat, BA4 6QH For enquiries about advertising in the magazine, please contact Marcus 01749 860067 or email [email protected] Closing date 10th of each month 3 Dates for your Diary new entries are shaded Every Week Pilates (9.00) Diana 860224 Tai Chi for Health(10.30) Ellie 345222 Mon Ditcheat Badminton Club (8.00) James 860355 Singing for the Terrified (7.00) Gill 830110 Tue Art Group – Fortnightly (10.00) Liz & Stewart 860755 Ditcheat Badminton Club (2.00) James 860355 Wed Ditcheat Short Mat Bowls (7.00) Martin 860780 Thu Keep Fit (9.15) Diana 860224 October 2014 Wed 1st 11.15 Pastel Workshop – Pylle Village Hall Joanna 838757 Wed 1st 12.00 Pylle LWP @ the Coffee Den Joanna 838757 Thu 2nd 8.15 The Alhamptonians Louisa 860252 Sat 4th 10.30 Saturday Stitch – Cedar Ho., Ditcheat Sally 860304 Sat 4th 11.15 Pastel Workshop – Pylle Village Hall Joanna 838757 Wed 1st to 5th Somerset Open Studios – Pylle Village Hall October Sun 5th 12.30 East Pennard Harvest Lunch Susie 860266 Thu 9th MU meeting Yvonne 851480 Fri 10th 7.30 Folk Dancing – Jubilee Hall Deirdre 860594 Sat 11th 10.00 Life Study Art Group – Pylle Village Hall Gill 830110 Mon 13th 7.30 Pylle Harvest Supper – Pylle Village Hall Joanna 838757 Tue 14th 10.00 Rendezvous – Jubilee Hall Diana 860224 Tue 14th 8.00 Royal British Legion – Chairman’s Studio Jon 850241 Sat 18th 10.30 Saturday Stitch – Castle Cary Sally 860304 Ditcheat Big Screen presents – Jubilee Hall Thu 23rd 7.30 Peter 860081 “Belle” Sun 26th CLOCKS GO BACK 1 HOUR Tue 28th 12.30 Ditcheat Village Lunch – Jubilee Hall Jessica 860205 November 2014 Thu 6th 8.15 The Alhamptonians Louisa 860252 Sat 8th 10.00 Life Study Art Group – Pylle Village Hall Gill 830110 4 Dates for your Diary cont'd. Sat 8th 10.30 Saturday Stitch – Cedar Ho, Ditcheat Sally 860304 Sat 8th 7.00 Quiz in the Hall – Jubilee Hall Sally 860326 Tue 11th 10.00 Rendezvous – Jubilee Hall Diana 860224 Fri 14th 7.30 Folk Dancing – Jubilee Hall Deirdre 860594 Sat 22nd 10.00 Haddon Wood Community Planting Hilary 860615 Sat 22th 10.30 Saturday Stitch – Castle Cary Sally 860304 Tue 25th 12.30 Ditcheat Village Lunch – Jubilee Hall Jessica 860205 December 2014 Thu 4th 8.15 The Alhamptonians Louisa 860252 Sat 6th 10.00 Life Study Art Group – Pylle Village Hall Gill 830110 Sun 7th Pylle Christmas Lunch Stephen 830538 Tue 9th 10.00 Rendezvous – Jubilee Hall Diana 860224 Fri 12th 7.30 Folk Dancing – Jubilee Hall Deirdre 860594 Sat 13th 7.00 Christmas Ball – Jubilee Hall Jo 860898 Ditcheat Christmas Village Lunch – Tue 16th 12.30 Jessica 860205 Jubilee Hall 5 New Beat Manager I wanted to introduce myself to you all as the new Beat Manager for Shepton Mallet rural and I look forward to working with you. I was brought up in Ditcheat so I am passionate about the village. My parents still live here so I still have personal contact here. The best way to contact me is via e-mail but you can also try and ring 101 and ask to be put through to PC 915 although this will only be possible if I am on duty. If I am not then the call taker takes a message and e-mails me. Since being put in post in mid-August my team of PCSO’s and I have conducted high visibility foot patrols in the village to reassure people. We had a complaint of a ‘near miss’ towards the end of August on the corner near the Farm shop. A lorry was going too fast, went on the wrong side of the road and narrowly missed two adults and two infants. As a result of this I have conducted speed checks in the village to send a message that vast speeds in the village is not acceptable. One of these checks I completed was between 7am and 7.30am as this is one of the peak times due to people going to work. Guy Dury has told me that Highways will be placing down new white lines but it may be an idea to place signs up like ‘children playing please drive slow.’ The personal touch I think makes people, especially outsiders to the village think twice about their speed. The Council should be able to advise on this type of signage and whether it is possible. You may as a Parish Council not think this appropriate. However as Ditcheat doesn’t have any formal speed limit then this may be an idea to discuss Kind Regards PC 915 Lucy BAGNOWIEC [email protected] 101 MOTHER: “Bobby, last night I put two apples in this cupboard and now there is only one. How do you explain that?” BOBBY: “I expect it was so dark I couldn’t see the other one.” 6 PYLLE NEWS Church Flowers and cleaning October Phyllis Hamblin November Carolyn Fussell December Teresa Rossiter If the church is locked please contact the church wardens Teresa 831419, Hilary 830538, Carolyn Fussell 830120, or Alan Cary 07896945936 to obtain a key. Ladies Working Party - Joanna Miln 838757 Due to unforeseen circumstances the position of Secretary for the Ladies Working Party has become vacant, if anybody would like to know more about the job or is interested in joining us please contact Joanna Miln on 838757. Mo Thorner very kindly asked The Ladies Working Party to lunch at her house in August. This is always a very happy occasion with Mo producing a delicious meal for us all, thank you so much Mo. Only a few members met at the Coffee Den in early September, sadly I was not one of them as I was away, but look forward to our next meeting at the Coffee Den at 12 noon on Wednesday 1st October. Pylle Village Hall We held the AGM in early September and elected the following officers: Chairman Stephen Tudsbery-Turner Deputy Chair Hilary Tudsbery-Turner Secretary Julia Smith Treasurer Mark Seagar Joanna Miln will remain as bookings clerk for the hall. Hall bookings and fundraising were discussed and we agreed that ‘Pylle in Pictures’ had been a huge success and much enjoyed by everybody. Also after last years success it was agreed that we would have another Christmas Lunch and this will be held on Sunday 7th December, so put the date in your diaries and we look forward to seeing you then. Mendip District Council has given us a grant towards buying a new heated cupboard and we are looking forward to its imminent arrival.