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Full colour issue online VILLAGE NEWS www.biddestone.org.uk February 2019 Issue 460
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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Editorial February
biddestonebroadsheet@gmail.com
Welcome to the new issue of the Broadsheet for 2019, we trust
you all had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year. We have a
EDITOR
Linda Lobl-Smith, Home Farm 714475 couple of new monthly columns this time on Gardening and Arts
and Events in the area, plus a roundup of 2018 on page 8. For a
TREASURER
Annalisa Duff, Willow Lodge 712247 small village we have certainly got a lot going on!
We would like to appeal to all the keen photographers among
WEBSITE
Alison Fovargue, Manor Cottage 322450 you, we are always in need of photos of village events or just
attractive shots of village locations, we are trying to compile a
Julie Walton, The Old Rectory 701784
June Pearce,The School 701030 library of these to be included throughout the year, yours may be
DESIGN
the next front cover! Linda
Richard Eccleston, Liz Turner
GET INVOLVED Announcements
Biddestone Broadsheet and the village
website seek to reflect the life and inter- May Day Quiz Village Hall - Monday mornings at
ests of the village. Written contributions Join your quizmaster Ian Smith for 11am - all abilities welcome!
are invited from readers on any subject a fun-filled evening of brain-teasing Book your block of classes
that will be of interest. Photos, drawings questions at the Village Hall, 6th May at through The StoneHouse Clinic and use
and art work would also be welcome. 7.30pm. Teams of four at £5 per head. up your sessions on a drop-in basis: £40
Any opinions expressed or implied Tel: 01249 714475 to reserve a table. for 5 or £70 for 10 (classes can be taken
within this publication are not necessarily Please bring your own picnic to enjoy at any time/drop-in rather than consecu-
those of the Editor or Committee and in the interval; drinks will be available tive weeks but need to be prepaid.)
no responsibility can be accepted for any from the bar. Please book ahead by calling 01249
errors of fact printed on these pages. 700417, or email us enquiries@stone-
We will of course endeavour to be as Biddestone Manor houseclinic.co.uk. For more details, see
accurate as possible. Garden Openings 2019 stonehouseclinic.co.uk/pilates
● Last copy date is the 3rd Friday in There will be no National Garden
the month, copy should be sent to the Scheme open day this year but we will Cuttle Lane closure
Editor at the email address above. be opening for private appointments Wiltshire Council will be closing Cuttle
during April, May and June instead. Lane from The Green to Yatton Road
Groups of four or more people can be between 9am and 3.30pm on 21-22
MONEY RECEIVED arranged on a week day or evening. The February (depending on the weather) to
cost is £10 per person and will include enable Ringway to carry out a drainage
Money received Dec/Jan totalled £47.05. refreshments according to the time of CCTV survey and associated works. The
Thank you to everyone who has day. All monies raised will go to the closure and diversion route will be clear-
supported us. Donations can be given to NGS charities. ly indicated by traffic signs. Access will
the treasurer, Annalisa, as above. Please ring Rosie on 01249 713211 to be maintained for residents and busi-
make a booking. nesses where possible, although delays
are likely due to the nature of the works.
VILLAGE WEBSITE New Pilates Class The road is closed under Section 14(1)
Join Leanne Copley from Sona Pilates in of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
www.biddestonevillage.org.uk a new Pilates mat class to release, Ref: TTRO 5749 The Order will have a
lengthen, align and strengthen at the maximum duration of 18 months.
A full colour version of the Broadsheet For further informa-
is available on the website. If you do not tion please contact
Front cover image: Rock Nativity by Emily and Gertie Draper
wish to have your contact details published Vicky Smith (Atkins)
online then please make the editor aware on 01225 730360.
of your preference. Any other notices or Sustainable Transport
contributions to be posted specifically on Group, County Hall,
the website should be sent to the email Bythesea Road, Trow-
address at the top of the page. bridge BA14 8JN.
● To post an item on the
Biddestone Village Website Biddestone
or Facebook page please Manor
contact the Editor Linda garden tours
Lobl-Smith offered April
to June 2019
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Recipe
by Julie Walton
Salted Caramel Chocolate Tart
An indulgent treat to share on Valentine’s Day
Ingredients
1 packet of ready-rolled dessert
pastry, shortcrust pastry can be used
if you don’t want a sweet pastry
200g light brown sugar
100g coconut cream
100g roughly chopped hazelnuts
100g roughly chopped pecans
100g dark chocolate
1 tsp sea salt
1tsp vanilla extract pastry for 30 mins or until golden brown. pastry case, allow to cool and then place
in the fridge to harden off for a couple
Equipment 3. Put the coconut cream in a saucepan of hours.
A 24cm diameter, loose bottomed on a medium heat, stir until liquid. Add
quiche tin, greased and lined. the sugar and salt and stir for 5-8 mins 6. Remove from the fridge 30 mins
until the mixture is thicker and darker in before cutting into slices and serving.
Steps colour.
1. Roll out the pastry and line the tin, *Dairy-free pastry can be used if you
trim the top and place in the freezer for 4. Off the heat, add the chopped nuts, want to make a dairy-free pudding
10 mins. This prevents the sides of the vanilla extract and chocolate. Stir until
pastry collapsing. the chocolate has melted.
2. Heat the oven to 180 C and bake the 5. Pour the chocolate mixture into the
Biddestone & Hartham Women’s Institute
Minutes of meeting 16 January 2019
Val Ringham, President, The minutes of the previ- how these were divided
welcomed eleven members ous meeting were read, and between National, Federa-
and four visitors, and intro- signed as a correct record. tion and ourselves. We also
duced our speaker, Mrs. Beryl had to pay for insurance and
Pendlay, who entertained us Correspondence: Document copies of Wiltshire News.
with a talk on Royal Barge- entitled Office 365 about Challenge: There were four
masters. She explained that new email arrangements for entries to write a review of a
she first became interested in Presidents, Treasurers and non-fiction book.
this topic when working at the Secretaries to have imme-
Royal College of Arms, and diate access to W.I. House. ● Next meeting: AGM on
decided to write a book about Notice about a change in the 20 February, when officers
them. This took three years way donations will be made for the next year would be
to complete, and it will be published by the History Press in to ACWW (though we can elected. Val R said all the
July. Mrs. Pendlay explained that in the days when most royal continue to donate ‘coins for current committee were
palaces were sited alongside the Thames and roads were dirty friendship’). willing to carry on, but new
and dangerous, the river was the easiest way to travel. The Programme for this year: members would be wel-
men who rowed royal barges were known as Royal Watermen, The two Vals had made a come. The Challenge would
selected after a long apprenticeship, with a salary in 1626 of start on this, though it was be a picture or photograph
£30 a year, and the best of these became Royal Bargemasters. challenging now that the with a water theme.
They wore elaborate red and gold uniforms, as they still do W.I.’s Book of New Speak-
today. The royal barges were used for ceremonial occasions ers was no longer available.
such as royal weddings, the state opening of Parliament and at Ronnie made one suggestion
Queen Victoria’s coronation. The most recent use was for the which would be followed up.
Queen’s Jubilee. There have been Royal Bargemasters from the Finance: Carol said there
time of King John until the present – ‘800 years on the prow of was no change in the bank
history’, as quoted on the cover of her book. balance. Members handed in
Val R gave the Vote of Thanks. Refreshments were provided by their subscriptions for this
Carol. The raffle prize was won by Beryl. year, and Carol explained
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Farming notes
by Ian Smith
The parish farms are lying dormant cold, you will wish they always eat
now, you will not see much activity in you had waited, the more than you
the fields, a bit of muck-spreading or only guarantee being expect.
ploughing but not much else. The swing that whichever decision Nevertheless, this
towards autumn-sown crops over the you make it will be the time of year brings my
years means that most arable land is wrong one. favourite day, that day about
already carrying a crop, and the spring- The real activity on the farms now two weeks after Christmas
sown crops are yet to go in, although, is in the yards. All the cattle, apart when feeding the cattle, you
following the spell of dry weather, I from some younger ones being kept suddenly realise that the light
will bet some farmers on lighter land out while the ground is dry, are in. All is stronger and then a blackbird
will be kicking their ploughed fields eating their way through feedstocks that bursts into song by the hay barn and,
and thinking ‘Hmmm this might take a are probably not adequate. It is an old despite all experience telling you that
drill’. It is the age-old farming decision: farming truism that you need to have the worst of winter is surely yet to come
do you go when you can or wait for two thirds of your winter feed still in you can make yourself believe that
better things? If drilled now, and the the barn at Christmas and half of it on spring is on the way and feel that fickle
weather stays dry you will be glad you February 1st because the bigger cattle mistress that keeps farmers and perhaps
did, if it turns into weeks of wet and get the more they eat – and anyway most of humankind going – hope.
How does your garden grow?
by Lazy Daisy
Wildlife
February is the time the sowing, you can
WAT C H
of year for a general have sweet peas right
tidy up. The through the year until Hibernating house guests
shed, cleaning the first frost, just
the greenhouse, remember to keep I had no idea butterflies hibernated
washing all the picking them, not before we moved to Biddestone.
pots you have allowing them to This year, as the weather got colder,
saved for future make seed pods. several small tortoiseshells decided
seedlings. All Early potatoes: to hibernate in our cottage. But when
those horrible jobs you can start chitting the lights and heating came on, they
you keep putting (sprouting), stand in thought it was spring, and began
off. But it’s also time a bright, frost-free area. fluttering about, using up precious
to be making plans for your Broad beans: start them in a energy they’ll need to survive the
garden, and time to read all those cold frame but watch out for mice. next few months. The Butterfly
lovely seed catalogues. Check which group your clematis Conservation website suggested
If you have a heated greenhouse or is in, this will tell you when you putting them somewhere cool, where
space indoors you can start begonias, should prune and how hard it should they could escape in spring. So each
geranium, dianthus and snapdragons be cut back. To enable your roses time the cat suddenly got interested
in a propagator – they need a long to thrive, they need to be pruned in in something and alerted me to
growing period. You can start your first January/February and given a mulch in another butterfly in the room,
batch of sweet peas and, if you stagger February. It’s recommended that repeat I caught it in
flowering shrub roses my cupped
should be cut back by hands, the
half. Hybrid teas and way my sister
floribundas: cut back and I did as
to about 12 inches. children, and
Climbing Roses: cut released it into
back the previous the attic. I now
year’s flowering have at least
side shoot to about four, sitting
6 inches, tie in new still, wings
shoots and cut out any folded waiting
older woody stems. for spring,
Ramblers can be left when I’ll open
to their own devices, the window and
but take care they don’t usher them out.
take over. Liz Turner
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Film review
by Adam Walton V
The Favourite (and stylish) filming technique puts
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, one in mind of early Peter Greenaway
UK, 2018, 119min or even Derek Jarman, with picaresque
minor characters popping up here and
As the eighteen century dawns, an there in comically absurd situations,
ailing and lonely Queen Anne takes and a frenetic classical soundtrack
refuge in the Royal Apartments, giving the film a manic energy. Olivia
mourning her seventeen children, Coleman inhabits the role of Queen
none of whom reached their teens. Anne with lugubrious physicality and
Intrigue and rivalry swirl around her melancholy, while Rachel Weisz and
as courtiers and politicians jockey for Emma Stone as the two rivals spark
power and influence. Two women, off each other with poise and barely
in particular, vie for the Queen’s concealed menace. It’s refreshing to
affections and the status that confers. see a film with three such strong female
That is the historical context, but this lead characters, with the men relegated
is anything but a conventional bio- to subordinate positions, manipulated
pic. You wouldn’t expect a standard and pushed around (sometimes literally)
approach from the director of The by the women in a welcome reversal of
Lobster, a brilliantly surreal comedy, traditional norms. At times coarse and
and he doesn’t disappoint. Court occasionally grotesque, but always full
life is portrayed in vibrant colours, of wit and brio, this highly entertaining
extravagant costumes and bizarre, film certainly deserves the accolades it
punk-baroque behaviour. The stylised is receiving.
Moviola
Cultured
THE
King of Thieves (15)
King of Thieves is the incredible true
story of the spectacular Hatton Garden
diamond heist, the biggest and most daring
VULTURE
in British history, carried out by a group
of OAP career criminals. The stellar cast
includes Sir Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent,
Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon, Tom
Courtenay and Charlie Cox. If January was a month of giving something up,
how about taking something up in February?
Wednesday February 27th What do John Lennon, Elvis Presley, George
Tickets £6 adults from Lesley on 01249 Formby and the Pound Arts Centre have in
783157 or email l_palmer@btinternet.com common? The Ukulele. In fact, George Formby
Please let Lesley know beforehand if you’d had very little success on stage until he bought a
like tickets as seats for a popular film can ukulele in 1923 and his wife, Beryl, a champion-
fill up quickly. ship-winning clogdancer, encouraged him to
use it in his act. So why not have a go?
Next films: The National Ukulele Orchestra
March 27: A Star is Born of Corsham meets at 4pm on Tuesdays
April 17: Widows during term time. Everyone is welcome,
whatever their age or ability, and the course
For more information see leaders have a real knack of getting beginners up
www.moviola.org and strumming in no time. You’ll be surprised how by Alison
or www.grittleton.info/ quickly you’ll be playing recognisable tunes and Fovargue
even playing in public concerts.
● The Pound Arts Centre has plenty of other
courses and groups including singing, embroidery,
yoga, life drawing and ceramics; for details see
poundarts.org.uk.
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Poetry
Thank you to Hilary Noyes for this month’s choice
Happiness into town, and inquires at every door
until he finds you asleep midafternoon
There’s just no accounting for happiness, as you so often are during the unmerciful
or the way it turns up like a prodigal hours of your despair.
who comes back to the dust at your feet
having squandered a fortune far away. It comes to the monk in his cell.
It comes to the woman sweeping the street
And how can you not forgive? with a birch broom, to the child
You make a feast in honor of what whose mother has passed out from drink.
was lost, and take from its place the finest It comes to the lover, to the dog chewing
garment, which you saved for an occasion a sock, to the pusher, to the basketmaker,
you could not imagine, and you weep night and day and to the clerk stacking cans of carrots
to know that you were not abandoned, in the night.
that happiness saved its most extreme form It even comes to the boulder
for you alone. in the perpetual shade of pine barrens,
to rain falling on the open sea,
No, happiness is the uncle you never to the wineglass, weary of holding wine.
knew about, who flies a single-engine plane
onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes Jane Kenyon
Book Club
by Diane Ross-Smith
Thank you to Rosemary for hosting a
delightful Christmas meeting to talk
about ‘The Music Shop’ by Rachel
Joyce accompanied by delicious
Christmas nibbles.
Thank you to Debbie for hosting
January which was a lively, well-
attended meeting with much discussion
including the significance of the title
of Jessie Burton’s ‘The Muse’, The
characters and historic setting as well as
the acceptance of women as artists and
the effectiveness of the ending were all
matters for debate.
Any enquiries? Phone Diane on 712105
Upcoming book choices
On Monday 18th February 2019 at 7.15
pm we shall be meeting at Gill’s home
to talk about ‘A House for Mr Biswas’
by V.S. Naipaul.
The choice for March 18th is ‘For
Whom the Bell Tolls’ by Ernest
Hemingway.
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2018 in
pictures
Clockwise: March
snow; cake made from
Harry and Megan’s
wedding cake recipe;
Biddestone Fete;
Best-Kept Village
award; Remembrance
Sunday; Biddestone
becomes Carsely for
‘Agatha Raisin’ filming
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Remembering
Doreen Gingell Vi l l a g e
Doreen Gingell passed
away peacefully at home
on 3rd January aged 91. LINK
Doreen has been resident
in Biddestone since
1952 when she moved to
Weavern Lane with her
husband Ernest (Ernie)
who is 97. Ernie Gingell
served from 1943 to 1946
on the Royal Navy’s HMS “Volunteers transporting
Grenville. the community”
Doreen and Ernie moved Link schemes connect volunteer
to Biddestone with their son drivers (using their own cars)
Bernard, and Doreen had a with passengers who have limited
daughter, Cynthia, in 1954. access to transport. A donation
Doreen and Ernie have always loved is requested from passengers to
their life in Biddestone and have seen so support the cost of running the
many people come and go over the years. service.
Doreen helped so many of the elderly
residents when she herself was not that Do you know anyone who might
young. She would help anyone in the benefit from our services? Or
village, and will be sadly missed by us all. could you consider joining our
volunteers?
● Please call one of our co-
Photo taken just before Christmas after a ordinators on 07590 720836
visit to Whitehall to see Father Christmas, Val Spencer-Jones
Doreen eating a McFlurry ice cream given
to her by her great granddaughter Sophie, 9
Information
appeal
June, David and Margaret are
compiling a history of The
School. Several Biddestone
residents have already given
them photographs (like this one
showing the younger brothers
and sisters of the Biddestone
men who served in WW1) and
information on how The School
buildings were laid out. If anyone
has any photographs, information
or memories of The School,
please pass them on to David
Pearce at dap47@btinternet.com
or 01249 701030.
● Do you have any old photos
of the village? We’d love to
print them in the Broadsheet.
Please send to the editor at
biddestonebroadsheet@gmail.com
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Village Hall classes
From painting to yoga – there’s something for everyone
Main hall CIRCUIT TRAINING YOGA TUESDAY
6.00-7.00pm For healthy backs, knees and HEALTH IN MOTION
MONDAY Simon Bennett 07815619138 shoulders 10.30-11.30am
PAINTING GROUP info@simonsaysfitness.co.uk 6.30-8.00pm Mandy Roberts 01225 811667
9.45-11.45am Lydia Homes or 07980 696919
Sue Tennant 01249 72061 THURSDAY office@yogatree.co.uk
PRECISION PILATES WEDNESDAY
HIPS & HAWS CLOG 10.00-11.00am and 11.00-Noon SUNDAY WRITING GROUP
8.00-10.00pm Amber Edenbrow 07725 316923 PRECISION PILATES 10.00am-Noon
Jan Field 01380 827140 amber@precision-pilates.co.uk 6.00-8.00pm Tim Smith 01249 714455
hipsandhaws@live.co.uk Amber Edenbrow timsmith2@btinternet.com
SEQUENCE DANCING 07725 316923
TUESDAY 7.30-10.00pm amber@precision-pilates.co.uk IYENGAR YOGA CLASS
REAL LIFE YOGA Phil Fletcher 01793 936091 7.00-8.30pm
9.00-10.00 & 10.30-11.30am philfletcher37@gmail.com New Club Room Edgar Stringer
Emma Goodwin 07771 662567 office@yogatree.co.uk
emmacawthra@gmail.com FRIDAY MONDAY
(See advertisement on page 2) YOGA FOR BEGINNERS PILATES QUILTING AND
9.00-10.00am 11.00-Noon PATCHWORK CLASS
IYENGAR YOGA CLASS Starts 1st March Stonehouse Clinic Noon-4.00pm
6.00-9.00pm Dena Bray 01249 700417 ann.barnes@ Anne Chapman 01249 782842
Edgar Stringer denabray@aol.com stonehouseclinic.co.uk
office@yogatree.co.uk
PILATES PRECISION PILATES ● To book the Village Hall,
WEDNESDAY 10.30-11.30am 6.30-7.30pm & 7.30-8.30pm please contact the booking
IYENGAR YOGA CLASS Physio led Amber Edenbrow 07725 316923 secretary: 07391 511495 or
10.00-11.30am Beth Borthwick amber@precision-pilates.co.uk bvhrtbookings@gmail.com
Lydia Holmes borthwickbeth@gmail.com
office@yogatree.co.uk
Fancy
playing
cricket?
Biddestone Cricket Club is
seeking new players – both male
and female players are welcome at
all levels. The club has four senior
teams, open to men and women,
playing cricket on Saturday
afternoons in the summer. The
team also has indoor nets starting
on Wednesday 6th February at
Hardenhuish School Gym in
Chippenham from 7 until 9pm, if
you are interested in joining in –
once again, all levels.
The recent Village Survey tournaments to enter during get more ladies involved from the Pippa Brown,
indicated that there was interest the season. The game involves village. The only requirement is who also plays
in lady’s cricket. So, to encourage playing cricket with a tennis ball to be over 16 and under 95 years for the Wiltshire
more women to play, the BCC has or ‘softball’– a bat is the only of age! Ladies team,
formed a Ladies Softball Section, equipment required, and the club bowls against
which is ideal for beginners. will provide these. If you are interested in joining the the Bath Rugby
Teams of eight players compete The team has already received senior teams or softball, contact Cricket team
in softball tournaments, and plenty of interest in the idea of a Andy Short 07795 326518 or
the team can choose how many softball team, and would love to andrew.short@manuli.co.uk
10Clubs and Community Activities
Come and join in the many activities in and around Biddestone
Allotments located at the Biddestone Tennis Club Biddestone,Thursdays 10.30am-
village hall. For more information, Club night, Tuesday evening & Noon. Everyone welcome
contact David Daniel 701311 Saturday morning. For
membership details, see Cotswold Wardens Walks
Bridge Club The club meets biddestonetennis.org.uk or email Monthly schedule on village
for a social evening of bridge; biddestonetc@gmail.com website – contact Barry Cox
no tuition is available, so players
must have some level of Biddestone Cricket Club Edward Bear Pre-school
experience. Contact Ian Smith See website for more details group. See back page for details
01249 714475 or Jane Iggulden biddestone.play-cricket.com,
01249 713311 for details or Biddestone Cricket Club Skittles Village Hall Wednesdays
Facebook page 7pm and 9pm. Bar open, like to join the volunteers.
Book Club Monthly meetings. spectators welcome. Contact Contact 07590 720836, or for
Contact Diane Ross-Smith for Brownies Yatton Keynell Mike Chrystal 712833 more details see the website
details 712105. See page 7 for this Village Hall Weds 6.15-7.45pm village-link.org.uk
month’s meeting report and books yattonkeynellbrownies@gmail. Moviola Community
for February and March com cinema, showing in Grittleton Women’s Institute Meets on
village hall. See feature page 6 for third Wednesdays in the village
Biddestone Singers Meet at Can Craft! Yatton Keynell, St. more details hall 2-4pm, and arranges outings.
The Oak House or St. Nicholas Margarets church. A get together See page 4 for this month’s meeting
church on Thursday evenings to chat and craft, third Monday of Parish Council Meets on report.
at 7.30-9pm. All welcome. For the month (£1 inc. refreshments) second Tuesday of each month,
more information, please contact 7.30-9.30pm Village Hall, 7pm Youth Club Yatton Keynell
charlotterbruce@btinternet.com Village Hall Wednesdays
or 716330 Cake Sale Yatton Keynell first Parochial Church Council 8-10.30pm. Contact Alan
Saturday of month 8.30 -11.30am Monthly meetings Brinkworth 782647
Biddestone Walkers The outside the Post Office
walking group meets on the last Village Link ‘Volunteers If you would like to add details of an
Sunday of every month. Contact Coffee, Cakes and Chat transporting the community’ If activity or club, please contact the
Kate Jones for details 715180 in the church, St Nicholas you need this service or would Broadsheet.
Tennis Club Report Key dates
By Helen Benton SATURDAY 9TH
MARCH
MORE Biddestone Tennis Club is looking forward to a busy
Champions finals day for
men’s, women’s and mixed
ONLINE and exciting year ahead. We now have 161 members,
including 33 juniors, and we have a full coaching
programme running for all ages and abilities.
box leagues
FRIDAY 17TH MAY
● For the latest information Social tennis is available twice weekly on Saturday Club dinner at The White
see, the village website mornings and Tuesday evenings. Club box leagues are Hart, Ford
www.biddestonevillage. in progress, with the eventual winners competing in
the Wiltshire Club Championship. Every week over the SUNDAY 7TH JULY
org.uk or the Biddestone summer months, seven Biddestone teams have been Social day and fundraiser
Village Facebook page. competing in league competitions.
with the cricket club
We have had a series of well-attended social
events including club dinner, family day and
our Christmas event.
We welcome our new coach Dan, who will
be continuing a full coaching programme for
the club. Additionally, in 2019, based on a
● To post an item on website sound financial plan, we will be undertaking
or Facebook, please email major improvements to our playing facilities,
biddestonebroadsheet including resurfacing three courts. This is
@gmail.com likely to happen at end of August. We will
also potentially be floodlighting a third court
to enable more social tennis and coaching
through the winter.
We look forward to seeing many villagers on
court and always welcome new members.
11A REVIEW
Christmas in
Jesus’s birthday party
By Gertie Draper
One of the great things the story of the grumpy
about living in a small inn-keeper – this all makes
village, is all the different part of an amazing, fun and
events that are around with enjoyable show case, put
the lead up to christmas. up by Diane every year!
From singing carols around Not to forget Julia
the christmas tree, to the Tisdale who puts so much
beautiful carols by candle effort into decorating the
light in the church, the church with beautiful
advent supper and, of balloons, to add to the
course, Jesus’s birthday atmosphere of a really
party in the church. fulfilled event for the
This is a tradition that children and their families!
most families with children Thank you, Diane, for
attend and it is clearly all that you do to make this
enjoyed by young and old! such a fun, yet meaningful,
(And if you don’t have a event for the children at
child, then you just quite christmas time.
simply come along for the
enjoyment of all the stories
and to eat cake afterwards)!
Diane Ross-Smith’s
story of the little camel
who is on his way in
search for the little baby
Jesus; the nativity set that
is assembled by all the
children and, of course,
Children enjoy
Christingle
By Diane Ross-Smith
Diane tells the We celebrated Christingle on 20th January. It is 50
tale of the little years since Christingle started, and began to raise
camel; Emily money for the Children’s Society. For ours, the
holds cake children made the traditional Christingle from an
decorated with a orange with candle, red tape and fruit and sweets on
nativity in icing cocktail sticks. We enjoyed singing together making
the Christingle (and eating the fruit and sweets!). The
young people read the Bible story and prayers.
12Biddestone
Christmas
concert
By June Pearce
Friday 21st December
saw a sell-out crowd
for the 11th Annual
Biddestone Christmas
Concert presented by
the Biddestone Players
(Caroline Dale, Matthew
Elston, Stephanie
Chambers and Lydia Lowndes- Carol and Gaudete, beautifully.
Northcott) with special guest
Mark Greenwood. After many
But the evening was about the
superb musical performance of
Village carol
years in the Biddestone Arms, a the Biddestone Players. We are singing
larger venue was needed and the so lucky to have Caroline in our
move to the village hall was a village bringing her colleagues Very many thanks to
great success. from world class-orchestras to all who turned out
The audience joined in with play music befitting the Albert on Wednesday 19th
a vengeance, from carols to Hall rather than a village hall. December to support
Bohemian Rhapsody. The A total of £920 was raised for our annual carol singing
Biddestone Singers sang Coventry the Friends of St Nicholas. around the village.
There were several
Advent supper mums and children, but
not so many men as
usual. We started in The
By Gertie Draper Tynings, and gradually
made our way down to
The Green, stopping
The Advent Supper is another which marks the countdown to at one or two selected
significant christmas tradition in Christmas. houses on the way.
the village. This year Charlotte Flowers on the tables, printed The children
and Simon Bruce welcomed us menus, handmade embroidered thoroughly enjoyed
into their home, and prepared a baskets (made by Charlotte) knocking on doors and
beautiful banquet, fit for a king filled with chocolates helped rattling the collection tin.
and a queen. create a wonderful ambience. It We then sang for about
As a symbolic extra, we always was evident how much everyone half-an-hour around the
receive our advent candles, enjoyed the amazing food and the christmas tree, before
company, chatting and moving on to Home
later singing carols Farm for welcome
with the talented refreshments, courtesy of
Andrew Marlow on Ian and Linda.
the piano. Thank you to all
Thank you to who sang and those
Charlotte and Simon who contributed to the
for hosting such a collection, which raised
great evening and to about £80 for Julian
all the helpers! House for the Homeless
The event raised in Bath.
£900 for the Friends Alison Flint
of St Nicholas.
13Crossword
by Diane Ross-Smith
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6. Sea formed by curry – a hundred! garden implement. (4) (6)
(6) 24. Uni chore discharged by Hercules? 7. … while ale drunk produces
9. Ornament which protects carried by Hardly! Cowardly. (8) meadow. (3)
a mule train. (6) 26. Suffer from hunger when harvest 8. In fast plane a hundred with
10. Booker prize winner on date with a fails with lack of hydrogen? (6) electrically charged particle for
judge included separately. (8) 27. Snakes and ladders lacking top. (6) vaccination. (9)
11. Number of players creating a riot? 28. Die lying, confused and 13. And Wurlitzers play without
(4) surrendering. (8) ancient city in land-locked country.
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meadow. (8) bird surrounded by both sides? (5) 17. Police ‘n seeker dogs discover
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Dates for parish steward’s visit
In their distinctive green and yellow vehicles, parish stewards carry out
minor highways work requested by the local community. Mark Hawkins-
Wyatt is the steward responsible for Biddestone and will be in the village
on the following dates: February 15th & 19th
● If you have any problems that need addressing, please call Di Webb on
01249 715963
(This is subject to the weather, if we have icy roads then the steward will
be called out to grit the roads)
14Abridged Draft Minutes of the meeting of Biddestone
& Slaughterford Parish Council 11th December 2018
Following the usual legal requirements D.Taylor Ground Maintenance, CPRE SB will undertake to register Little
the following business was undertaken: Subscription, Wiltshire Council Challows as a Common.
Highways Contribution APPROVED
To Receive Notification of Planning Clerks Salary and HMRC payments for The Pond – Willow Trees. The
Applications Approved: December & January 2019 were also pollarding of the trees to be held back
18/08901/LBC 7 The Green SN14 7DG APPROVED. to enable continuity of future filming
Proposal: Repair & insulate existing 2019/20 Precept - set at £8,330 which between March and July 2019. SB to ask
Cotswold stone tile roof, renew valley makes Band D £32.3380 for 2019/20 David Taylor to trim back the marginal
gutters and rain water goods. Repair based on 257.59 Tax Base. growth around the pond and remove
existing dormers, re-clad in lead, insert brambles from the hedge.
two Conservation roof lights in the A Public Open Meeting was arranged
main roof and one in the ground floor on 29th January 2019 at 7pm at the Snow Plan Update – SB to finalise
workshop’s roof. Village Hall for the presentation of the the plan and send to Nicola Mundie,
18/09232/TCA 7 The Green Proposal: Parish Plan survey results. These results Wiltshire Council. Two additional
4-meter height reduction and 1.5-meter will lead to the preparation of a Parish volunteer wardens have been added
lateral reduction to walnut tree. Council 3-5 year Corporate Plan and but further wardens are still being
budget. The results will also be available sought, in particular for The Green and
18/09562/TCA Pool Farm The Green on the Parish Council website. Slaughterford.
Proposal: A Elm tree reduce size by 30%
C&D leylandii – prune all trees by 10% Cuttle Lane – drystone wall is bowing Rights of Way Update on Maintenance
E Indian bean tree – prune by 10% F out and looks dangerous. Clerk and DW Schedule – SB was still awaiting
Birch tree – prune by 10% to email Martin Rose with a view to his a response from Stephen Leonard,
visiting the site. Wiltshire Council Rights of Way Officer
To Receive Notification of Planning for an update on Wiltshire Council’s
Applications Received: Little Challows – Tree Surgery: future plans and the possibility of closing
18/10504/TCA The Oak House awaiting responses to the letter circulated BID 8 footpath.
Proposal: Fell 1 Goat Willow to all householders and to the response
SUPPORTED from Adrian Hampton Wiltshire Council Clerk’s Report: Briefing Note 373 -
Highways Dept. It was reported that Service Devolution and Asset Transfer to
Finances Hill’s Waste vehicles were damaging the Town & Parishes. Circulated.
Statement of Balances for: Accounts #1 green by not reversing in as they have
£49,572.29 & #2 £5,003.40 been instructed to do. Clerk to contact Thanks to David Taylor, Hartham Estate
Accounts for Payment December 2018 Hill’s. and the Stafford Family for their support
Clerk’s Salary & HMRC Tax, for the Biddestone christmas tree.
Parish Councillors Vacancy for Parish Councillor
Chairman Simon Bruce The Biddestone and Slaughterford so that the applications can be
01249 716330 simonbruce@btinternet.com Parish Council currently has a reviewed and voted on at the
Vice Chairman Adam Walton vacancy for one councillor which Parish Council meeting due to be
01249 701784 adam@aw-consulting.co.uk they plan to fill by co-option. held on 12th February at 7pm.
If you are interested in joining
George Brown the Parish Council team, please Please contact
Mike Chrystal 712833 indicate your willingness by Simon Bruce, Biddestone and
Ashley Juniper 712707 letter or email together with a Slaughterford Parish Council.
Andy Short 714724 short profile and your reasons for The Oak House, Church Road,
Diana Webb 715963 wishing to become a councillor. Biddestone SN14 7DP
Angela Williams Please write to or email Smon simon.bruce@btinternet.com
Bruce prior to 10th February
Parish Clerk Glenys Gill 01225 742207
Meetings scheduled for 2019
March 12 August 13
April 9 September 10
May 14 (AGM) October 8
June 11 November 12
July 9 December 10 Parish council website
The Parish Council now has its own website where you can find the
The next Parish Council meeting will be in unabridged minutes and all the latest notices. See:
the Village Hall on 12th February at 7pm www.biddestoneslaughterfordpc.uk
15Church
services
St Nicholas, Biddestone
FEBRUARY
Sunday 3 11am Holy Communion
Sunday 10 4pm Evensong
Sunday 17 9.30am Morning Praise
Sunday 24 10am Team Service
Nettleton Burton
MARCH
Sunday 3 11am Holy Communion
Wednesdays 9.15am service,
either Holy Communion or
Morning Prayer, includes prayers
for the suffering.
St Nicholas, Slaughterford Church contacts
The Bybrook Team Ministry Reverend Marc Terry, Reverend Gillian Parkin,
FEBRUARY bybrook.office@gmail.com priest-in-charge (Rector Assistant Curate
Sunday 10 3pm BCP www.bybrook.org.uk Designate) Tel: 01249 782672 Tel: 01249 782704
Holy Communion Tel and fax: 01249 782704 revmarcterry@gmail.com
Church events
Tea and Toast Mondays
8.45-10am, St Margaret’s
Yatton Keynell
Morning prayer Thursdays
9am, St Margaret’s Yatton
Keynell
Edward Bear
Pre-school group
Morning prayer (with Short reflective prayer
intercessions for the sick), meeting Wednesdays noon,
Wednesdays 9.15am St Mary’s Grittleton Free get-together for pre-schoolers and their parents or carers.
St Nicholas Biddestone We would love you to join us for stories, crafts, activities and
Second Wednesday is Lunch Club every second refreshments on the following Fridays at noon:
usually holy communion Wednesday from 12.30 St
Mary the Virgin, Burton
Morning prayer Thursdays St Nicholas St Margaret’s
10am, St Michael and Yatton Keynell ‘Café Biddestone Yatton Keynell
All Angels, Kingston St Church’ Tuesday 10-12
Michael. Second Thursday noon, light lunches from 1 February 15 February
is usually holy communion noon-1pm 1 March 15 March
For more information, or to be added to the contact list,
email Julia at juliaquiggin@hotmail.com for Biddestone
or Heidi at mmhlm@live.co.uk for Yatton Keynell
CORSHAM CHURCHES FOOD BANK
Thank you for all your gener- everyone’s generosity, there
ous donations over Christmas was still food on the shelves to
and throughout 2018. help start the new year.
Christmas is always a strain One item that is always in
on the bank as boxes of food short supply is coffee. If you
are put together to help could add an extra jar to your
over the holiday break. This shopping and drop it into St.
invariably leaves the cupboards Nicholas church, it would be
bare but this year, thanks to gratefully received.
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