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. 13 June 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. The Villager June 2011 9 OUT AND ABOUT IN MARTLEY Visit our website—www.martley.org.uk Martley Ramblers This month we have two walks for the price Midsummer Family Madness of one! Pauline and Come along to Martley C of E Richard Mills will be Primary School‘s annual summer leading our usual Sunday walk on community bash which is to be held Sunday 12 June. This walk will take on Friday 24 June between 6pm and us around the Stanford Bridge area 8pm. There will be lots of family and they always lead an interesting activities and games, BBQ and bar, walk, so meet at the church car park bouncy castle, other children‘s for 2pm for a quick get-away! activities and stalls, musical Our second walk in June will take performances from our very own place on Thursday 23 June, we call pupils, as well as the ever popular this our midsummer evening ramble! tombola and raffle. Please support Please meet at Hillend Cottage, your local school. It‘s sure to be a Pudford Lane at 6.30pm for a short, good night! Everyone is welcome. circular walk around the area, Martley Parents, Teachers and friends finishing afterwards for rest, Association is exactly that, a friendly bunch that helps raises much needed recuperation and refreshments! Please funds for school and students. If you keep your fingers crossed for good would like to get involved and help or weather! just have a chat about how you could Kate King help, please contact me on Martley WI [email protected]. have a look Wednesday 8 June at 7pm at our school website too, it‘s packed Reg Snow has kindly invited us to with lots of information! www.martley-pri.worcs.sch.uk. hold our garden meeting at Mary Burton Stoneybridge House. Hopefully the 10 The Villager * June 2011 weather will be warm and dry so that other and to jump and skip around is we can wander around and admire his lovely to watch too. Oh what it is to be lovely garden. After supper, there will young and fit! Sadly, the swallows be the fun auction in aid of funds, which nested in our barn last year, when auctioneers will persuade us to have not returned, rather to Jacob spend our money, wisely or unwisely! Donkey‘s regret. The flies can be The competition this month is for the troublesome to him at times and best rose. Please bring family and would make good meals for swallow friends to share this evening with us. families. Former residents, John and Members are kindly asked to submit Jacqui Owen are planning to return their favourite family recipe for our from Canada during July and August 90th Birthday Cook Book and we shall and send their regards to everyone, be entering a team for the County especially the ladies at the library. At Quiz at Alfrick on 4 July. There is so the time of writing, the Lane is drier much going on in the WI world at the than it has been for years, but there is moment, there is not space here to still some water running down, mention everything, but coming up is probably from meadow springs of a County WI Day at Croome Court which the blackbirds and thrushes are which will include a House of Fraser glad of it for drinking. The pond of fashion show, demonstrations and one Pudford Lane family is regularly displays by different groups within the visited by passing ducks. Geese fly WI, plays and mime, photographic over regularly, luckily they do not stop competitions, guided tours of the as they are probably en route to the house and grounds, and of course Teme. Tales are afoot in the village plenty of refreshments on hand. A about a large turtle or terrapin residing coffee morning is planned and a tea in in the Millennium Meadow pools. We the garden of Brook Court during the hope it doesn‘t hear about the wetness summer. Please come along to our of Pudford Lane and decide to change meetings and find out how much fun its home-ground! members get out of their WI. Kate King Kate King Desperate 2 play Pudford Lane in Martley Life has been fairly quiet in the Lane, The Martley or at least quieter, now the lambs are Recreation getting bigger and used to outdoor life, Association and the leaving their mums side to chase each Parish Council are thrilled to let you The Villager June 2011 11 know we have now been officially July 2011 at 7.30pm in awarded a grant of £10,000 from Martley Village Hall. Awards For All, Big Lottery Fund, for Admission is only £5 improvements to the children‘s Play which will include wine area. This is a great deal of money but and light refreshments!. To having done lots of research we found purchase your tickets please telephone that the equipment is extremely 01886 888246, 01886 821127or 01905 expensive. Therefore we are asking 333225 for help, advice, suggestions, and The Chantry School donations to improve the facilities or The Chantry Library Learning Centre just come along to a meeting to be has now been open for 18 months, and involved. Regularly updated information will be placed in the we have a wonderful conference room village shops. As we would like to which has recently been used to hold incorporate Natural play, we would talks for the pupils and we would like like a huge log or huge stones to climb to extend the invitation to the local on, also some good contacts are community also. Read International, a needed for a few tall trees to plant and book charity who send unused/ for large amounts of soil which will unwanted text and story books to form a couple mounds. We are also requesting local parents and their Tanzania and Uganda schools came in children to get involved and really get recently to talk to the children about that community spirit well and truly how the books are distributed to going ! Please contact Pat Owen on schools in those countries. So far, this 01886 888406 or email directly at year we have sent out approximately [email protected] 30 boxes of books to deprived schools Pat Owen across these two countries. The MAD children enjoyed the talk and realised Just a little reminder that we are performing a children‘s musical how fortunate they were to have the ―Sourpuss‖ which should appeal to all resources needed to study and the ages from 2 to 102! Please come along opportunities they have in life. The to the Village Hall on June 2 or 3 and RSPCA also came to do a presentation support our young cast, they have put about responsible pet ownership, a lot of effort into learning their songs, welfare of animals, fundraising and lines and dancing routines. th the purchase of their new centre in 25 Anniversary Concert Worcester. They also brought a dog Please put this date in your diary, an which added to the excitement. Pupils evening not to be missed! The Ferndale Singers will be holding their who attended were very moved by the Anniversary Concert on Saturday 2 DVD shown of neglect and were keen 12 The Villager * June 2011 to help and asked questions about how arithmetic lessons to Standards IV and they could make a difference.