VILLAGE & COMMUNITY MAGAZINE March Edition- 2019 Keeping Connected the Villages of ALSTONEFIELD ~ BUTTERTON ~ ELKSTONES ILAM ~ WARSLOW ~ WETTON “WHAT’S ON” March 2019 2nd 7.30 for 8pm Live Concert Featuring Dempsey & Broughton Alstonefield Village Hall 4th 5.00pm Free Nordic Walking Taster Session The Barn, Green Fm,Thorpe 5th A.M. X Country Running Group and every Tuesday From Ilam 6th 7.30pm Ilam Book Club Fountain Cottage, Ilam 6/7/8th 6pm ‘til 8pm 80/20 Sale ‘Booking in Evenings’ Warslow Village Hall 7th 3.30pm Pilates and every Thursday Beechenhill Farm, Ilam 8th 9.30-12.30pm ‘The Mires’ Clean Up Wetton Village 9th 11.00am Butterton Church Lottery Draw Butterton Church 9th 12 noon 80/20 Sale Warslow Village Hall 12th 12 - 2pm Lent Lunch Warslow Hall 12th 7.30pm Butterton W.I. Meeting Butterton Village Hall 12th 8.00pm Ilam Parish Council Meeting Ilam School 13th 7.00pm Elkstones Flower Festival Planning Meeting At Myrtles 18th 7.30pm Butterton Reading Group Various Venues 18th 7.30pm Warslow Parish Council Meeting Warslow Village Hall 20th 12 - 2pm Lent Lunch Townhead Frm, Elkstones 20th 7.30pm Bingo Warslow Village hall 22nd Wetton Lottery Draw Wetton Tea Rooms 22nd 7.00pm ‘Blue Sky’ Fashion Show/Sale Warslow School 23rd 9.30am Alstonefield Parish Spring Clean + Churchyard Alstonefield Village 23rd 7.30 for 8pm Live Concert featuring Pete Atkin (Sold Out) Alstonefield Village Hall 24th B.S.T. Commences (HOORAH) 27th 10.00am Free Nordic Walking Taster Session National Trust, Ilam 28th 1.15pm Free Nordic Walking Low Impact Taster Session Old Dog, Thorpe “WHAT’S” ON EARLY APRIL 2019 nd 2 7.00pm Butterton Parish Council Meeting Butterton Village Hall rd 3 7.00pm Alstonefield Parish Council Meeting Alstonefield Village Hall th 5 7.30pm Easter Chocolate Bingo Butterton Village Hall th 10 7.00pm Quiz Night Alstonefield Village Hall th 10 7.30pm Butterton Village Hall A.G.M Butterton Village Hall Deadline Date for April 2019 All are invited to submit material for the next newsletter but ask that all items submitted in long hand include all names written in BLOCK CAPITALS. Please note that I do not take dictation over the telephone. Costs applicable to some items, i.e. business/private or charities not within our cluster villages, (please telephone if you are not sure & require further information). All hard copy for the Newsletter to be delivered to: The Newsletter, Trees Cottage, Butterton, Leek, Staffs. ST13 7SP. Tel: 01538 304560 and ALL DOCUMENTS TO BE IN WORD ONLY. NO PDF’s or SCANNED ITEMS & ANY GRAPHICS TO BE IN BLACK AND WHITE. PLEASE DO NOT PUT TEXT INTO A TEXT BOX OR USE ANY BORDERS AS IT COMPLICATES THE EDITING. Cheques made payable to ‘Commumity Mag’ should be sent to The Treasurer, Melanie Hodgkinson, Middletown Barn, Butterton, Leek, Staffs. Note: Editors Decision on Placement/Location/Acceptance of Adverts is Final. Send any items Anytime & the Earlier the Better Please up until: th 6am on Monday 25 March DO NOT ASK after this time and date as refusal often offends so Please put a note in your diary or on your calendar to save your & my embarrassment at refusal Thought for the Month Wetton & Alstonefield Community First Responders Serving the community’s emergency medical needs with pride, “I must be getting taller as I grow older - the floor seems to care and excellence. get further away as I bend down to pick something up.” WACFR would like to thank the following for their recent Don’t Twitter – Titter Instead donations: Universal Laws The customers and staff of the Manifold Inn for the Law of Mechanical Repair - proceeds from their quiz nights. After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee. Law of Gravity - FOR SALE Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe. TOYOTA LAND CRUISER Law of Probability - The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the 2009 Toyota Land Cruiser stupidity of your act. 5 Door Diesel Automatic 2982cc Law of Random Numbers - Metallic Grey, 7 seats (grey leather) lf you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal; someone always answers. Electric Sunroof - SatNav Variation Law - Full service history – 50,000 miles approx lf you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will Well looked after by Hartdale Motors. always move faster than the one you are in now. £9000 o.n.o. Law of the Result - We will soon be selling our current vehicle so if you would When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work be interested in purchasing/viewing it or have previously lT WILL !!! Ilamite said you are then please contact Nicky or Sally on the numbers below. Don’t Forget to Change your Clocks – but Why? If we have a number of people interested then we will ask During British Summer Time (BST) clocks are advanced one for your best offer by the end of March. The vehicle hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) so that should be available in April providing our new one has evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. It was arrived. It’s a great vehicle for a rural location, with low first established in 1916 when it began on 21 May and ended mileage and the flexibility of up to 7 seats if needed, so on 1 October. Nowadays it begins at 01:00 GMT on the last don’t miss out! Sunday of March and ends at 01:00 GMT (02:00 BST) on the last Sunday of October. Since 1995, the starting and finishing Interested in becoming a First Responder? times across the European Union have been aligned but the If you would like to become a voluntary responder then do EU is proposing to abandon summer time altogether from contact us so we can let you know when it is next possible to 2021 though the UK will not be bound by this if it is no longer apply on the NHS jobs website. There should be a number of a member, training courses in 2019. During the Second World War, British Double Summer Time More information about what it involves and how the course is was invented as an energy-saving device, effectively putting run can be found on the application page but please call us if the country on the same footing as mainland Europe: GMT+1 you would like to know more before this. in the winter, and GMT+2 in the summer but in 1947 Britain reverted to normal. A British Standard Time experiment, with For more information contact Nicky on 01335 310296 or Sally on 01538 304116 Britain remaining on GMT+1 throughout the year, took place between March 1968 and October 1971. Around 2,500 fewer www.wacfr.org Charity no: 1121223 people were killed and seriously injured on the roads during the first two winters of the experiment but it was not clear if this was partly, or mostly, due to the introduction of the Gardeners’ Tips of the Month breathalyser at the same time. st National Nest Box Week was February 14-21 but as we all Various campaigners, including the Royal Society for the live ‘Up Here’ there is still time to oblige our feathered friends Prevention of Accidents, have recommended that we go back by going to nestboxweek.com to GMT+1 in the winter, and GMT+2 in the summer. They suggested that this would reduce the number of accidents as a result of the lighter evenings and that the change could Recipe of the Month save almost 500,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions Marmalade Ice-Cream Recipe each year, equivalent to taking 185,000 cars off the road. These proposals are opposed by some farmers and other Ingredients: outdoor workers and by many residents of Scotland and 375 g (12 oz) marmalade (shredless or not – as you please) Northern Ireland, as it would mean that in northern Britain and 300 ml (10 fl oz) double cream Northern Ireland the winter sunrise would not occur until 10 Tip the marmalade into a large bowl and beat. a.m. or even later and the darker mornings, especially in Whip the cream until stiff and then fold into the marmalade. Scotland, could affect children going to school and people Freeze. travelling to work. However, the National Farmers' Union indicated that it was not against the idea, with many farmers This is one of those miracle ice-creams that doesn’t need expressing a preference for the change. beating as it freezes, and can be served straight from the freezer - a marvellous thing, that double cream. R.W. Ilam. 2 What’s in your Garden or House!! Your Community Magazine The Editor has decided that you need cheering up and Items are free of charge relating to: asked for signs of Spring…. Any of Our Cluster of Villages’ Community or Fundraising Snowdrops, Daffodils, and the First Cuckoo Events. These would, for example, be Village Halls (some), History Groups, W.I.’s, Book Clubs, Church (some), First The 14th April is St. Tiburtius Day and is traditionally when Responders, School, Play Groups in fact anything that keeps you will hear the first cuckoo – you are also supposed to write our Communities going as a whole. to the Times ! 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