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Deadline for items for the next Bridge is 15th October 2019 Giles Collins, Editor at Westview House, 109 High Street, Worton
Telephone: 01380 728664 email address: [email protected]
Regular Meetings
In the Village Hall
• Gardening Club 3rd Monday 8.00pm (not Aug/Dec)
• Pilates classes Thursdays 7pm-8pm & 8pm-9pm
• Ladies Group Last Wednesday (not Aug/Dec)
• Women's Institute 2nd Tuesday 7.45pm
• Worton Toddler Group Wednesday 10.00 am - Noon
• 1st Worton & Marston Brownies Alternate Tuesdays (term time only)
• Worton Parish Council Meeting 1st Monday (not Aug) or as shown on
notice boards
In the Chapel at Marston
• Marston Parish Council Meeting Last Tuesday (every odd month)
In the Rose & Crown
• Neighbourhood Plan Meeting Second Sunday 7pm (not Aug)
Various Venues Announced Monthly
• Book Swap 2nd Saturday 10.00 - Noon
Mobile Library Location: The School, 1.10 - 1.50pm Next Date
• Monday 14th October
Call Wiltshire Library Services on 01225 713727 for information
VILLAGE DIARY
Devizes Farmers’ Market
Next: Saturday 5th October
Kerbside Collections
Black box and Plastic bottle and card recycling:
Wednesdays 9th & 23rd
Household waste: Wednesdays 2nd & 16th & 30th
Garden waste: Fridays 4th & 18th
Worton and
Marston Link
If you need help with transport for hospital appointments visiting the doctor and dentist or other important journeys.
Call W&M Link on 07413 912828
Forthcoming Events
12th Bookswap 21st Gardening Club 29th Ladies Group
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01380 699115
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The Bridge is printed on sustainably sourced paper by DMC Office Supplies - 01380 739137
If you wish to promote your business in the area, you could do much worse than advertise in The Bridge.
For just £90 a year for a whole page, £60 for 1/2 a page or £30 for 1/4 page (i.e. as little as £2.50 per edition) your advert will appear in 12 editions
which will be delivered to approximately 320 homes in and around the villages.
Please email: [email protected]
If you know anyone who might be interested, please can you encourage them to get in contact.
Extracts from The Bridge (October 1989),
kindly provided by Tony Walker)
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All types of upholstery and soft furnishing work undertaken at
‘very competitive rates’
• Chairs/sofas re-sprung, recovered & repaired • Curtains made to measure • Furniture re-caning
For a free quotation please contact
Hazel Rennie on 01380 722845
TONY PARSONS Domestic Appliance Engineer
Cookers Driers Washing Machines
SERVICE & REPAIRS
Tel: 01380 723279 Mobile: 07970 117023
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THE BRIDGE
Editor: Giles Collins [email protected]
LOOKING FOR A BABYSITTER?
I am a qualified first aid baby sitter situated in the Worton/Marston area.
For more information please contact me: Leila Salaman
via: email: [email protected] Mobile - 07414 203066 Telephone - 01380 720120
Worton Parish Council have received a Community Fund
application from Worton and Marston Village Hall Trustees for the sum of £1,200.00 towards the cost of new chairs for the village hall.
The application can be viewed on the Parish Council website: http://worton.org.uk/community-fund/
If you have an opinion on the application please contact the Clerk ([email protected])
Free to a good home…..
Full set of golf clubs, golf bag and trolley, plus a bag of golf balls.
All in very good condition and ideal for the beginner. Contact: 01380 726788 or 07810522543
Five Lanes Primary School, Worton, are asking if anyone is able to offer help weave / design the willow circle that is in the school garden. If you are able to offer any assistance with this gardening task, please contact the school 01380 723565. Thanks in anticipation.
Many thanks to John Butler, Malcolm Powell, Dave Loveys and Sandra Newman for forming a working party to clear the footpath at the Church end of Back Lane. Alun Newman
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SERVICE CALENDAR
Visit the church website: www.christchurchworton.org.uk
October
Sun 13th TRINITY 17
9.30am CHRIST CHURCH Holy Communion
6.00pm Marston chapel
Family of Churches Heal-ing Service
Sun 6th TRINITY 16
8.00am CHRIST CHURCH Holy Communion
9.30am CHRIST CHURCH All Age Worship
6.00pm Marston Chapel Rev Wendy Tucker
Sun 3rd ALL SAINTS
8.00am CHRIST CHURCH Holy Communion
9.30am CHRIST CHURCH All Age Worship
2.00pm CHRIST CHURCH All Souls Service 6.00pm Marston Chapel
Rev Gary Gotham
November
Sun 20th TRINITY 18
9.30am CHRIST CHURCH Matins 6.00pm Marston Chapel
Rev Tracey Lewis
A Service of Thanksgiving for Norah Mary Brierley took place at Christ Church in August.
Sun 27th TRINITY 19
9.30am CHRIST CHURCH Holy Communion
6.00pm Marston Chapel Rev Gary Gotham
October
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Extracts from The Bridge (October 1989),
kindly provided by Tony Walker)
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Your friendly, female decoratress!
All decorating or painting projects considered, including children’s murals
I am tidy, reliable and competitively priced
Call Carolynn on 07881 200218 or email [email protected]
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CHURCH ROTAS
Altar Flowers Church Flowers
October 6th Margaret Charlton Mrs S Horn October 13th Sally Swannell Mrs J Mason October 20th Francine Smith Mrs L Phillips October 27th Dot Francis Mrs P Wright Church Cleaning
October 6th Mr and Mrs Walker October 20th Mr and Mrs Cross Brass Cleaning
October 13th Mrs Wright
Christ Church Team
Rector: Rev’d Ali Bridewell
01380 739064 07847 952868 [email protected]
Churchwardens: Jean Lane 01380 722069
Heather Walker 01380 725785
Sidesmen – October 2019
Sun 6th 8.00am Robin Shercliff Holy Communion
9.30am Ali Cross, Mark Lewis All Age Worship Sun 13th 9.30am June Mason, Peter Witcher Holy Communion Sun 20th 9.30am Tony Brewer, Tony Walker Matins Sun 27th 9.30am Ali Cross, Tom Harwood Holy Communion Sidesmen – November 2019
Sun 3rd 8.00am Robin Shercliff Holy Communion
9.30am Ali Pratt, Mark Lewis All Age Worship
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The Blossom Tree
Flowers, Home and Gift 42 Rochelle Court, Market Lavington,
SN10 4AT (01380) 816268
Bouquets, Arrangements, Plants & Fresh Flowers
for all occasions Stylish range of home
and gift ware.
Trevor Hale
NPTC Certified (arb)
Tree Surgery
Covering All aspects Including Stump grinding Chipping & Hedging
07737934777 www.wiltshiretreesurgery.co.uk
Fully insured, Seend
“Don’t Shiver, We Deliver”
Seasoned hard wood logs, Loads available
Call James on 01380 850312 or 07970781828
‘Keeping Wiltshire Warm’
We get an average saving of 4.5 pence per litre off heating oil
for our buying group members every time.
Are you benefitting from such savings?
IF THE ANSWER IS NO THEN JOIN OUR GROUP AND
START SAVING MONEY! All communities welcome.
No One is excluded!
www.findmyheatingoil.co.uk Chris Cole 01380 818724
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Local professional scaffolding service
Please call 01380 726999
www.iscaffwilts.co.uk
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Pastoral Letter
Through all the changing scenes of life,
in trouble and in joy, the praises of my God shall still
my heart and tongue employ.
This hymn is a paraphrase of Psalm 34 – “I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall con-tinually be in my mouth”.
Change is all around us; some-times it is for better and some-times for worse. The important thing is how we cope with it. As I write the seasons are changing. It is getting cooler and autumn is beginning to take hold, summer is over. I’m afraid I don’t cope with that very well – the heating goes on and the sweatshirts appear and I feel quite sad that we won’t see a long hot summer day until next year. There are changes in our home life as well with the oldest daughter preparing to move out (again!) and younger daughter preparing to move back in. Our daughter-in-law returns to work at the end of October and is very ap-prehensive about leaving 9-month-old Millie despite having two doting Nanas to look after her!
Some of you may have just started working in a new job environment and are feeling uneasy about it because there are some unfamiliar
tasks ahead for you. Perhaps you have just been transferred over to a new department and there are great expectations for you to per-form well, expectations you are not very confident you can meet. Perhaps there is someone reading this who has just got a place at university and you are wondering if you will be able to cope with the heavy workload of lectures, tutorials and assignments. Some-one may be moving to a new house or flat. Another may be get-ting married soon or have just got married, and yet another may be having their very first child. And there may be some who are facing debt, sickness and even death. Our life is filled with one change after another (and that is without the great upheavals and political and social crises we face in the world today).
As we go through all these chang-ing scenes of life, and as we move on to new places, to unfamiliar and unchartered waters, feelings of uncertainty and anxiety are bound to arise. And these unset-tled feelings, if not properly dealt with, can easily lead one into the depths of despair and depression. This is why we all desperately need to know and believe what
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Conservation Contractors Providing a comprehensive locally based
tree maintenance service
Free advice
Surveys
Surgery
Planting
William Warden 01380 726739
Mobile – 07889 461358
www.conservation-contractors.co.uk because common sense is no longer common!
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God has told us in the Bible about how we may include him in all the changing scenes of life.
In whatever circumstance or sit-uation in life you are, you can find tremendous comfort and encouragement that you are not alone. For God has promised never to leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5) and he will be with you wherever you go. You can experience God's pres-ence, whereever you are and as the writer of the book of He-brews goes on to say in verse 6, “so we can say with confidence,
“The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?”
As you go now through all the changing scenes of life, God will be with you in everything you do and in every experience in life - in good or bad circumstances, in sickness or in health, in life or in death. All you have to do is ask him: Change and decay in all around I
see O Thou who changest not, abide
with me
Liz Starling Licensed Lay Minister Wellsprings Benefice
White Horse Opera perform
Bizet's Carmen at Lavington School
Wed 30th October and Fri 1st & Sat 2nd November at 7.30pm
The secret of Carmen's success is its excitingly exotic setting in and around magical Seville, its devastatingly passionate story charting the downfall of two people pole-axed by love, and the ravishing mu-sic whose impact is both immediate and lasting. Paula Boyagis plays the fiery, seductive gypsy Carmen and Barbara Gompels plays Micaela, Don José's childhood sweetheart. Don José is being played by Phillip Borge who is flying in specially from Gibraltar!
Tickets on sale now from Devizes Books and online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/whitehorseopera
Book early to avoid disappointment
‘Only intuition can protect you from the most dangerous individual of all, the articulate incompetent’.
Robert L. Bernstein
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Rose and Crown Worton
01380 724202
Lunch time opening Evening opening Monday Closed 6pm -11pm Tuesday Closed 6pm -11pm Wednesday Closed 6pm -11pm Thursday Closed 6pm -11pm Friday Coffee Morning 10.30 - 2.30 6pm -11.30pm Saturday 12.00 - 2.30 6pm -11.30pm Sunday 12.00 - 2.30 7pm -10.00pm 7pm -11.00pm (on Quiz Sundays)
Rolls and sandwiches available. Also look out for ‘Bill and Gerry’s’ Pop Up kitchen signs
when they come here and cook.
We have a pool table, darts and skittles. We have a quiz on the last Sunday of every month.
Please pop in to the pub to find out what’s happening each month
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For All Your Property Maintenance Requirements
Painting and Decorating (interior and exterior)
Tiling and Flooring
Paving, Decking and Patios
Guttering and Fascias
Light Building Works
Repair and Renovation Work
Garden Maintenance
If you want a quote from an honest and reliable worker who takes
pride in their work (references available) then contact …
Robin Adams of ‘Adams Renovations’ (Devizes)
07725 638 165 or 01380 720323 or email [email protected]
* Free Quote * Competitive Prices * No Job is Too Small * All Areas within Wiltshire Covered * Fully Insured
A1 Gutter Services and Roof Repair
Call Darren
01380 698095
www.a1gutterservices.com
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OCTOBER 2019
BOOK SWAP
Saturday 12th October 2019 10.00am - 12noon
at 36 Mill Road, Worton (hosted by Jill Duckworth)
Advance notice:
Saturday 9th November 2019 at Oakley House, 80 High Street, Worton
(hosted by Alison Parker)
Extracts from ‘The Week’ magazine
The hottest years were all this century
The UK’s ten hottest years on record have all occurred since 2002, ac-cording to a Met Office report published two days after the UK recorded its highest ever temperature. ‘With global emissions of greenhouse gases on the rise, the UK will continue to get warmer and wetter as global warming accelerates’.
Tree-planting and climate change
Reforesting vast swathes of the planet is the best available solution to climate change, say scientists in Switzerland. The team used satellite pho-tography, and data on soil and climate conditions, to identify land that was neither dedicated to farming nor built on - and worked out that across the world there are 0.9 billion hectares that are unforested, and where trees could grow. If trees were planted here, they calculated that in the next 40 to 100 years they could capture 205 billion tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of two thirds of the CO2 humans have generated since the In-dustrial Revolution. Critics of the report questioned whether it’s remotely feasible to acquire that much land, and grow that many trees, in anything like the timeframe required to prevent dangerous levels of warming.
Wiltshire Air Ambulance are recycling CRISP PACKETS and receiving payment. I am happy to be a collecting point. I have a par-cel container at my front door which can be used for collecting.
Please help to raise money for this worthy cause. Thankyou. Jill Duckworth. 36 Mill Road. Worton. 01380 721324.
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Explore your own wonderland at a new children’s sensory walk
An Alice in Wonderland themed family event is planned for the Oc-tober half term at Lackham House to raise money to support children and adults living with a disability.
A Wander in Wonderland, taking place on Monday 28 October 2019, is designed for children aged 1-11 to experience the sights, sounds, smells and sensations of their very own wonderland king-dom.
The 1.5 mile wander will be set among the trees in the walled garden at Lackham House, near Chippenham and will be fully accessible to children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Each child who takes part will be fundraising to support Designabil-ity, a small charity based in Bath who design and develop assistive technology and helpful products for people living with a disability or long-term health condition.
The charity has already transformed the lives of children like Frank who has dystonic quad cerebral palsy as a result of becoming seri-ously ill with meningitis when he was a newborn baby. It means that his whole body, including his face, is affected and now, aged 2 and a half, he is unable to sit, crawl, walk or talk.
Frank’s family were provided with a free Wizzybug powered wheel-chair from Designability which he is able to operate independently. He uses his Wizzybug almost every day and it’s given him the abil-ity to be mischievous and move away from mum and dad and play when he previously relied on them to hold him and move him around. It has provided him with freedom he never had before.
Tickets for the walk are £10 per child (aged 2+) and an adult can ac-company up to three children for free. The charity then ask that each family seek sponsorship to enable them to help more children like Frank.
A Wander in Wonderland begins at 4.00pm on Monday 28 October 2019. A calm and quiet sign-in option will be available for children who prefer it and refreshments are included in the ticket price.
To take part, please visit: http://bit.ly/WanderInWonderland or search Wander in Wonderland. Visit www.designability.org.uk to find out more about Designability.
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ROSE and CROWN
There’s lots going on in the Rose and Crown each month.
Please pop in to the pub to find out what and when!
A selection of jokes from the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe
I keep randomly shouting out “Broccoli” and “Cauliflower”. I think I might have Florets.
Someone stole my antidepressants. Whoever they are, I hope they’re happy.
A cowboy asked me if I could help him round up 18 cows. I said, “Yes, of course. That’s 20 cows.”
A thesaurus is great. There’s no other word for it.
Sleep is my favourite thing in the world. It’s the reason I get up in the morning.
I accidentally booked myself on to an escapology course; I’m re-ally struggling to get out of it.
After learning six hours of basic semaphore, I was flagging.
To be or not to be a horse rider, that is Equestrian.
I’ve got an Eton-themed advent calendar, where all the doors are opened for me by my dad’s contacts.
Phab Wiltshire Charity No 299607
CHARITY BINGO
Friday 18th October 2019 at the Wyvern Club, Church Walk, Devizes
7.30 for 8pm
Entrance £1.00 (with prize for winning ticket) Bingo tickets £1.00 per book
Further Info Tel 01380-870274 Email [email protected]
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EDINGTON ARTS
The programme for classical guitarist Craig Ogden’s concert in Edington Priory Church on Saturday 5th October shows all the versatility of the instrument. Not surprisingly for a guitarist who is one of the world’s most recorded and most recognised players, he is performing pieces in an amazing range of musical styles. The programme has something in it for all musical tastes. All this will be punctuated with anecdotes and footnotes from Craig himself. A terrific evening is in store.
Full details are at www.edingtonarts.org
Adult tickets are £20, £15 and £10, while 18 and under come FREE; reserve yours by phoning Chrissy on 01380 831256, or email [email protected]. Edington Angels get their 10% discount – but tickets bought on the door on the night, will cost an extra £2 per ticket. The concert starts at 7.30pm.
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is open Tuesdays to Fridays
12 noon to 3pm
Fresh seasonal vegetables from 50p Vegetable boxes £3 Eggs £1 for six Plants
Wooden planters, Insect houses Garden furniture to order, Refurbished bicycles
Local honey and preserves, Greetings cards
At HMP Erlestoke between Little Cheverell and Erlestoke
The Erlestoke House Farm Shop sells fresh seasonal vegetables, eggs and local honey and preserves - plus plants, wooden planters, garden furniture, insect and bird boxes and feeders, and cards, all at very reasonable prices, including vegetables from 50p, and veg-etable boxes for £3. We also now have a stock of refurbished bicy-cles, all safety tested, at very reasonable prices.
Our produce is grown, cards and wooden goods made, and bikes refurbished by the prisoners at Erlestoke, and the shop is staffed by volunteers. The Erlestoke House Farm Shop project is run by the Erlestoke House Community Interest Company (EHCIC) for the men in HMP Erlestoke, helping them to gain skills together with fully accredited NVQ qualifications, while providing a unique outlet for the results of their work. The profits from the Farm Shop are reinvested and used to buy further supplies (such as seeds and wood), which ensures that the project is self funding. We also fund family days at the prison, when prisoners can spend time with their children.
Current vegetables in stock include: carrots, cabbages, french beans, yard long beans, cucumbers, courgettes, marrows, squash, tomatoes, beetroot, spring onions, lettuces, and herbs including basil, coriander and parsley.
We are easy to find on the road between Little Cheverell and Erlestoke.
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VILLAGE HALL NEWS
'Article 51' Gig We spent a very enjoyable time on Saturday, September 7th at our end of summer gig being entertained by 'Article 51' in the Village Hall. Paul and Ian were on top form playing old favourites and some new numbers and before long all who attended were dancing the night away. Trustees had to stop the music and the dancing at midnight as that is when the licence ran out!! Thanks so much to Paul and Ian for all their hard work in preparing and delivering such a fun evening, and for giving their time for free to support fundraising for new chairs for the Hall. The evening raised £350.
200 Club The winner of the £50 prize for September from the 200 Club was Christine Marshall. Congratulations Christine!!
Storeroom Work on this has now been completed and we think it looks really good. Take a look next time you are in the Village Hall. Thanks to Jeff Stocks, Mark Fisher, Dave Loveys and Douglas Crisp who worked really hard on this project and brought it in on time (i.e. by the Village Show).
Management Meeting Our next six-monthly whole management meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 20th at 7pm at the Village Hall. All are welcome to attend. In particular we would like a representative from each of the regular user groups.
Christmas Bazaar I know, I haven't had my summer holiday yet either! This is just a 'keep this date' item...the Christmas Bazaar will be on Saturday, December 7th from 2pm to 4pm where we hope to make it the best ever with lots of stalls selling seasonal goods, food and gifts and others giving opportunities to win prizes...and of course there will be the raffle and as it is Christmas we hope to have some great priz-es to raffle. We may even be visited by a certain gentleman in a red coat and white beard but we haven't heard if he is available yet!
Veronica Franklin (Chair of Trustees)
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Dementia has become an illness that we seem to be talking about on a daily ba-sis. If it isn’t a loved one suffering from it is someone we know and it isn’t just the elderly; this dreadful disease affects the younger generation too. Positive results have been achieved by allowing those with dementia to remain in their own homes as they are familiar with their surroundings and this will give them much more stability.
At Mulberry Live In Care we provide highly experienced carers to give 24-hour care to our dementia clients, and the main focus is continuity! So the carer can arrive and get straight on with looking after the client. Even though the client may not recognize the carer, things are easier because the carer knows what they are doing and knows the clients’ likes and dislikes. This gives them added secu-rity, and that is key!
We provide care (short or long term) in many other areas like: • Companionship • Help for those who have suffered a Stroke • Palliative/End of life Care • Rehabilitation/Convalescence • Respite
and much, much more.
The care is based on YOUR requirements, not us telling you!
If you have ever considered Live In Care for yourself or someone you know and you would like some advise or just to chat to someone,
please call or email: 01380 870270/07921299286
Email: [email protected] Website: www.mulberryliveincare.co.uk
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ADVANCE NOTICE – We will be holding our always popular evening of Christmas Wreath Making, mulled wine and mince pies – December 9th Cost £5, further details to follow but we will need numbers and payment by the AGM.
Rosemary and Sally Rosemary Rosenfeld [email protected] Sally Brooks [email protected]
“Weeds are flowers too once you get to know them! “ A.A. Milne
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Worton and Marston Gardening Club
As chairman of our Worton and Marston Garden Club I am very aware of the importance of the annual Village Show. This year, the schedule was distributed in the 'Bridge Magazine'. Thankfully, this seems to have been very successful judging by the number of entries we received. On the day, as more and more people arrived at the vil-lage hall bearing boxes of vegetables, vases of flowers, plants and containers of all kinds of delicious home cooked produce, I realised that the show was going to be an excellent event. The introduction of a craft section was well supported and the photos section produced some real gems. I particularly loved the photo of the hedgehog in the garden grass. Someone is lucky to have a hedgehog in their garden. We haven't seen one here for years. I digress. The hall was soon filled and the judges arrived. About two hours later decisions were made, certificates were written out and set in place. At two thirty the doors were opened and the village people came along to see the results and enjoy teas, coffee, cake and cream and jam scones kindly supplied be garden club members and others and served out by Jane, Cheryl and Rosemary. At three thirty certificates and cups and shields were awarded to deserving entrants, the raffle was called. Yet another Vil-lage Show had finished. I wish to thank everyone who entered. Thank you everyone. I hope you enjoyed the day. Thank you also to my show committee, without their hard work it would not have hap-pened. Joy Stokes, for writing all the certificates, Jeff Stocks for working out the results, Ian Hailstone, Bill Francis, Sally Collins, Sal-ly Brooks, for being there to help with everything. Thank you to all who donated raffle prizes and to Nick for selling raffle tickets. Thank you to our sponsors: John and Jackie, Rose and Crown; Paul and Hil-ary Hams, Hams Transport, Devizes; Abbie and Lee, SW Forklifts, Devizes; Jim and Rachel, the Old Forge Garage, Worton; Andy from Bygone Window Cleaning Services, Devizes; Andrew and Tracy from Thorn Heating, Devizes. Finally a big thankyou to our Judges.
Dave
Upcoming Events:
October 21st Don Everitt talk entitled ‘Autumn, the forgotten season’
November 18th – AGM – any agenda items to Sally B please [email protected]
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ABC AIRPORT SERVICES
Taxi Transfers to all Airports Ferry Ports
Long Distance Meetings
Please call for quotes 01380 816648 07738 195805 [email protected]
07917818145 07876433655 01380 725652 07876433655
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Five Lanes
Women’s Institute
Our September meeting saw us in the Village Hall for a Pimms and food sharing evening. Each of us cooked a dish that is one of our favourites and then brought it to share with the others along with copies of the recipe. If people liked the dish they bought the recipe for 50p, with all money being donated to Open Door , the Devizes based charity that provides meals for the homeless. Everyone agreed it was a very enjoyable meeting.
Our October meeting is a film night with pop and popcorn!! The film will be Mamma Mia Here We Go Again. It will be held at the School and will start at 7pm to allow time for an interval. We are guaranteed comfier chairs than those currently in the Village Hall and another fun evening.
Sarah and Rosemary continue to arrange craft sessions that are open to anyone who wants to come along and join in. The next one of these will be weaving. Look out for information on this sepa-rately in the Bridge.
Veronica Franklin
‘I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to tech-nologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and
ordinary, and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new
and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a ca-reer in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things’.
Douglas Adams
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some re-sponsibility on their shoulders’.
Abigail van Buren
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Worton and Marston Village Hall Run for the community by volunteers
Available to hire for: parties, meetings, weddings, talks and more
Capacity of 80 seated, 120 standing - fully fitted kitchen included in hire costs
All proceeds go towards sustaining the Village Hall for the benefit of the community
Visit our website or call Pauline on 01380 720248 or e-mail [email protected]
www.wortonmarstonvillagehall.btck.co.uk/
Marston Annual Footpath Walk
After a few indifferent days the evening of Friday 6th Septem-ber was perfect for our footpath walk, with late sunshine and very little breeze. Our plan had been to walk across Graham Phillips’ land towards Pudnell, and then on to Lower Road and back via a couple of paths in Erlestoke Parish. Graham’s fields and stiles were fine but on a check of the route a couple of nights earlier we were thwarted by a very large bull in one field and a very tall field of maize in another in the Erlestoke patch. Not to be put off we went to plan B and fifteen of us, including two children plus four dogs, set off from Marston bus shelter to Close Lane, across to the Horse Road and along the brook towards Worton Mill. Then over the quirky little bridge and across the Howard’s fields, meeting Gary the Goat on the way! The walk took about an hour, by which time the light was just beginning to fade but allowing plenty of time for a glass of ci-der and bread and cheese prepared by Steve, who also had a very welcome log fire blazing away in the garden. It was good to see some new faces on the walk (especially the children); hopefully next year we can attract a few more. We are lucky to have so many Public Footpaths in our parishes, and it is so important to walk them from time to time. They can so easily fall into disuse and could be lost forever. Many thanks to everyone who joined us on the walk and to Steve for welcoming us into his garden.
Dave Hansford
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£40
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WORTON & MARSTON LADIES GROUP
Not very much to report this month due to our summer break in Au-gust.
Our next meeting on Wednesday 25th September will be a talk by Mark Godding on books, so ladies please bring along your favour-ite book, oldest book or any book you’re reading at the moment.
Reminder that we will be heading over to Poulshot Ladies on Tuesday 29th October, and November 27th will be a Ghost Walk with John Girvan around Devizes.
Pam Woods
Fundraising for
Costa Rica 2020
Hi As it has been the summer holidays, I have been very booked up do-ing jobs for the people who responded to my advert in the Bridge and Potterne’s Parish Magazine. I have been very busy as I have been doing gardening, painting, creosoting, waitressing, cleaning, ironing and watering people’s plants whilst they have been away. I also have been doing my Saturday job on the farm working with the pigs. During the holidays I raised £521 from doing all of the various jobs. Thank you to all the people who have given me jobs to do this sum-mer! Mum and I also did a Car boot sale on 15th Sept in Lacock and made £66 Overall, I have now raised £3,011 since February. If you need any help with anything, please contact mum on 07711255600. Scarlet
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07980 630905 01380 738319 www.concept-2-creation.com
General maintenance Garden clearance
Hedging & hedge cutting Fencing & walling
Planting & planting schemes Decking & timber structures
Paving & paths Water features & ponds
Low voltage lighting systems Full design & construction
Turfing
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October 2019
Are you crafty?
What Having a go at weaving
When Friday October 11th at 2.30pm Where Oakley House, 80 High Street
Cost £2.50
Contact: Rosemary 01380 725859 or Sarah 01380 720244 To book a place!
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October 2019
A Message from Richard Gamble
Wiltshire Councillor for The Lavingtons & Erlestoke Division
I may not be alone in feeling that there have been very many road works across the county in recent times.
This is, of course, a good thing. It means roads (and perhaps other infra-structure items like sewers and water mains) are being repaired. Clearly, significant money is being invested in our area for our future benefit.
Such matters are not without difficulty, however, and any road closures, partial or total, are bound to be disruptive.
You may remember that, a few weeks ago, the A360 to Salisbury was closed for a considerable period at Shrewton. The long diversion added perhaps 30 miles and at least 30 minutes on journeys to and from Salis-bury. That was no small matter if you were attending a hospital appoint-ment or trying to catch a train.
At a different time, in the opposite direction, the A342 on the way to Chippenham has been closed for what seemed to be weeks.
As I write, even more significant road closures are about to start on the A350 at Westbury. In three phases over 26 days, sections of the road through the town will be closed. The work is scheduled to continue until 11 October so, by the time you read this, there may still be some days to go before everything is back to normal.
Westbury is about 10 miles from The Lavingtons & Erlestoke but the A350 is one of the busiest roads in the county. The closure of such a road poses significant challenges in providing diversion routes for very many vehicles, large and small. The official diversions take traffic away from this area, but not all drivers will rely on official routes, so you may already have felt the effect on the A360 and the B3098.
The problem is greatest for Heavy Goods Vehicles, some of which can be up to 44 tonnes' laden weight and 18.75 metres (61.5 ft) in length. Getting one of those behemoths around our smaller roads can be difficult. Two such HGVs travelling in opposite directions can bring a modestly narrow road to a halt.
Wiltshire Council officers have been working to minimise any disruption but their task may have been impossible. I hope any difficulty or disrup-tion you may have experienced has been minimal.
You may contact me about this or any other matter by email to [email protected] or by phone on 07762 018209
