Link–Up April 2019 E-Magazine LINK-UP ANNUAL PUBLIC MEETING Monday, 29th April 7.30pm Benefice Office, Kingston St Mary This meeting is both a formal meeting to approve the accounts and the election of officers as well as an opportunity for you, the reader, to have your say. If you require further information about the meeting please contact Jean Alger-Green, Secretary to the Link-Up Board on 01823 451732 FROM THE EDITOR … Link-Up is flora and fauna themed this month particularly about bees. If you come across an unwanted swarm of honey bees see page 31 for who will come and rescue them. Annie Trolley FLY TIPPING Report any fly tipping directly to: Taunton Deane: 01823 356356 www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/grounds-maintenance/report-flytipping Sedgemoor: 03003037800 www.sedgemoor.gov.uk Message from Advertising Manager A big thank you to all our advertisers for their support, as we once again start a new advertising year. We have some long term stalwarts as well as a few newbies. Please show your appreciation for their help by using their services whenever possible. Link-Up For Ever Would you like to house a complete set of copies of Link Up going back to the first one in April 1982? We are planning to move and will not be able to house them. The early ones in particular provide a lot of interesting reading. They can come with a book case if that would help. Esmé Padgham 01823 451559 LINK-UP is the community magazine for the parishes of Broomfield, Cheddon Fitzpaine and Kingston St Mary. Any views in LINK-UP are not necessarily those of the Editor(s), the editorial staff or the LINK-UP board. The board gratefully acknowledges the support of all whose advertisements appear in our magazine. However, the inclusion in LINK-UP does not imply recommendation. The LINK-UP board reserves the right to accept any material and advertisement at its discretion. 2 CHURCH CONTACTS Rector Rev’d Mary Styles 451189 Associate Vicar Rev’d Jim Cox 333377 Benefice Office Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 9.00am-2.00pm 451257 [email protected] CHURCHWARDENS Broomfield Bez Purdy 451632 Cheddon Pauline Stone 277637 [email protected] Kingston Julia Hammett 451642 Jan Holmes (Acting) 451343 LINK UP OFFICERS & STAFF Chairman Sheila Jones 451170 [email protected] Secretary Jean Alger-Green 451732 [email protected] Treasurer Jackie Aldrich 451696 [email protected] Advertising Manager Annie Trolley (yellow pages only) 451312 [email protected] Distribution Manager Carol Platt 451605 [email protected] Duplication Manager Corrine McMylor 0773 0884413 Editor this month Annie Trolley 451312 Editor – church pages Esmé Padgham 451559 [email protected] Editor next month Jean Alger-Green 451732 [email protected] 3 DEADLINE FOR MAY MAGAZINE: FRIDAY, 12th April Hard copy contributions by: 10.00am ‘Tara’ Cheddon Fitzpaine (Bungalow next to church) 10.00am Fyne Court Farm, Broomfield 12noon Benefice Office, The Vicarage, KSM Email contributions to the editor by: 12noon Only emails clearly marked ‘Link Up’ will be opened and acknowledged. Collation: 2.00pm at KSM Village Hall, Thurs 25th April Distribution: From Friday, 26th April 4 5 6 7 8 ngst Area Pedestrian and Cycle Campaign 9 Campaigning for safer walking/cycling in the parish Family Fun Cycle Ride 10.00am, 9th Sunday June Join a fun cycle ride around the lanes of Kingston and Nailsbourne on Sunday 9th June. Suitable for groups and single riders - all abilities and ages welcome, but you must be able to use brakes correctly and have a bike in good working order. There will be a choice of routes to suit your ability and fitness. Children under 13 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Unaccompanied minors over 13 must have signed parental consent. All details on website. 9.30 am - free optional pre-ride bike check by our qualified bike mechanic. 10am start - meet in KSM primary school carpark at 10am promptly, for registration check and route instructions. The ride is self-guided, with marshals at key points en-route. Please bring water, cycle helmet and wear bright clothing. Qualified First Aider and mechanical back-up provided. REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY Full details and registration at www.kapacc.kstm.uk Event organiser can be contacted on [email protected] Summer Fayre - Kingston St Mary Playing Field Saturday 22nd June, 2.30pm Stalls, Games, Teddy Bear’s Picnic, Face Painting, Competitions, Mystery Guest! Fancy Dress Theme “Village Life” Adults’ And Children’s Prizes! Tug Of War, Vintage Tractors, Skittles, Beer & Cider Tent provided by The Swan, Refreshments, Cakes, Ice Creams, Music. Full details available soon on the ksm website. If you would like to offer help to organise or to man a stall on the day, please get in touch on [email protected] or 01823 452399 10 Musings from Millcross Here’s a plot of where and when the Ramsons (a folk name, stink bombs) arrived locally. Pitminster 04/02, Broomfield Valley 12/02, Kingston Spinney 15/02, Nailsbourne 16/02, Buncombe 19/02 (Cothleston on the same day was devoid of the plant but that might have more to do with the tears streaming from my eyes as I descended into the icy headwind!). An old West Country rhyme states, “Eat leaks in Lide, and ramsins in May, And all year after physitians May play.” (Lide being a West Country name for March). Frequently you will smell the wild garlic before you see it. Abundant in the places listed above, ransoms form vivid green bunches of colour that are packed densely in clumps. The leaves precede a beautifully delicate star- like flower that sadly heralds the end of the season, but that’s a month or so away. A word of caution, there are similar looking plants that could cause an upset stomach. Basically if you crush the leaves between your fingers the smell of garlic should prevail, if it doesn’t don’t use those leaves. And so to my favourite recipe, wild garlic pesto. Collect a large bunch of ransoms, wash well, dry and chop roughly. In a food blender add a handful of hazelnuts, some grated cheddar, a splash of rape seed oil, the ransoms, salt and pepper and blitz until it reaches a consistency you desire. Either use straight away with pasta, mixing with some of the cooking water, or paste onto a pizza base before baking or paint onto tuna steaks before frying.The mixture will keep for a few days, place in a jar, cover with oil and refrigerate. Use within the next few days. Nick Help our garden birds If you haven’t yet managed to get round to cutting your garden hedges, it is now too late as the main nesting season for most garden birds is March to August. Because of the early warm weather in February, many nesting pairs have been very busy with their home-making duties. The rules covering farmers and contractors should be followed by garden owners too, to give our wildlife maximum opportunity of successfully raising their broods. Sharon Farnham 11 Taunton International Middle School ‘Summer Fayre’ 11th May The Grange, Kingston St Mary from 2.00pm-4.00pm Join us for an afternoon of music, games, art and refreshments Raising money in support of Himalayan Children (helping on the path of life) 01823 703222 [email protected] KINGSTON ROCKS!!!! You may have noticed on your whereabouts over the past few weeks that the village has had a few new residents in the form of painted pebbles. Students at The Grange (Taunton School International Middle School) have been busy decorating pebbles in an array of colours and patterns in an effort to set up a community project within the village. ‘Kingston Rocks’ is an ongoing treasure hunt which involves looking for (or stumbling across) decorated pebbles in and around the village, with the idea that you then hide it somewhere else for someone else to find. The scheme is already proving very popular with local residents and the Facebook page ‘Kingston Rocks’ has had over 200 views in just the few weeks it has been live. People have been posting photos of their finds and stories of their hunts; even the village preschool has been searching for the treasures on their regular outings! With an aim to encourage young (and old) people to be out in the fresh air, this incentive is a bit of fun for everyone. You don’t have to be on social media to enjoy the activity, just take pleasure in finding and re-hiding the rocks. Or perhaps you could even decorate your own rocks to add to the collection. Happy hunting! https://m.facebook.com/kingstonstmaryrocks/ 12 CHEDDON & WEST MONKTON FILM CLUB FRIDAY 12th APRIL Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall Doors Open – 6.30pm for refreshments Trailer &Short Film – 7.00pm Main Film – 7.20 pm approx. [email protected] 01823 412278 MAMA MIA – HERE WE GO AGAIN! Get ready to sing and dance, laugh and love all over again! Past and present intertwine as a pregnant Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) is busy re-launching her mother’s taverna while husband Sky is away in New York. Flashbacks transport us back in time to learn how the Dynamos came into being and how Donna (Lily James) met Sophie’s three putative fathers. Comedy/Musical/Romance 114 mins PG OPEN GARDEN Friday 10 11-5pm Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 May 2-5pm Monday 13 11-5pm Come and enjoy these 5 acres of delight to both artist and plantsman “like stepping into Eden” at Little Yarford Farmhouse, TA2 8AN With 300 rare & unusual tree cultivars – tree tours 2 & 3.30pm Refreshments, teas, preserves and plants (Weekend Cream teas in aid of Cothelstone Church) Entrance £5 children free In aid of the NGS - Gardens open for nursing charities including Help the Hospices – office costs sponsored so all funds to charity! 13 17th Century Nun’s Prayer -- Wise words for us all! Lord thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will someday be old.