Broad Town News-August 2012

August 2012 BROAD TOWN NEWS Published by Christ Church

Sponsored this month by The Big Gig

Date/Day	Time	Church	Service	Readers	Sidesman	Chalice	Cleaner	Flowers
Wednesday Aug 1	2pm	Hilmarton	Communion
Sunday Aug 5	8am	Clyffe Pypard	Communion
Lammas	9.15am	Tockenham	Family Communion*
	11am	Broad Town	Sung Communion	Mrs Drury / C Green	J Wallis	C Green	Mrs McLaren	Mrs Thompson
Sunday Aug 12	10.30am	Hilmarton	Benefice Communion & Patronal Festival
St Laurence's Day
Sunday Aug 19	9.15am	Broad Town	Family Communion*	Mrs Marshall / Mrs Richardson	D Marshall	D Marshall	Mrs McLaren	Mrs Crocker
Trinity 11	11am	Tockenham	Communion
	6pm	Hilmarton	Evensong
Sunday Aug 26	9.15am	Hilmarton	Holy Communion
Trinity 12	11am	Clyffe Pypard	Family Service + Baptism*
	6pm	Broad Town	Evensong	C Green / Mrs Green	C Green		Mrs Cameron-Street	M Manley

* Denotes a service that is particularly suitable for all ages.

REVEREND ALISON WAY

Marking Lammas time is a much more ancient tradition than celebrating the end of the Harvest through a harvest festival, The latter was popularised by the Victorians and most notably by the Reverend Robert Hawker. In contrast from Old Testament times, the people of God presented to the Lord an offering of their first-fruits as a sign of their dependence upon God for their daily bread, which is the idea behind Lammas. This is described in Leviticus where it says When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest (Lev 23:10).

In this country in medieval times through to the times of Henry VIII, it was common for farmers to bring a newly baked loaf, made from first flour of the new wheat harvest as our offering in thanksgiving to God for his faithfulness at the beginning of August. This coincided with the start of the harvest. This loaf was then used as the Communion bread and Lammas is actually a contraction of the words Loaf and Mass!

We will mark Lammas in our worship in the benefice in the services on August 5^th and all would be most welcome. In particular, if you offer some flour from the new wheat harvest do get in touch with me! Do also put the dates for our Harvest Festivals in your diary and watch out for details of the harvest suppers/teas to go with them. Here’s the harvest festival dates

Harvest festival Family Communion 9:15am in St Giles Tockenham on 7^th October

Harvest festival Family Communion 9:15am in St Peter’s Clyffe Pypard on 14^th October

Harvest festival Family Service 11am in St Laurence’s Hilmarton on 14^th October

Harvest festival Songs of Praise 6pm in Christchurch Broad Town on 14^th October

With love in Christ, Alison Way, Rector, Benefice of Woodhill.

The Rectory, Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wilts, SN4 7PY, rectorwoodhill@gmail.com, 01793 73904

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

3^rd Aug Social Club, usual night

8^th Aug Hilmarton, market stall

10^th Aug Social Club, dance the night away

17^th Aug Social Club, community pub naming

27^th Aug Big Gig, tent erecting party

31^st Aug & 2^nd Sept Social Club closed

1^st Sept Big Gig

3^rd & 4^th Sept Closure days at school

5^th Sept TT day

6^th Sept Back to school

8^th Sept Coffee morning

8^th Sept Ride and Stride

21^st Sept Social Club, cider making

13^th Oct Quiz night

14^th Oct Harvest

FLOWER FESTIVAL

We would like to say a big “THANK YOU” to all the villagers for their support and help with all aspects of the flower festival. It was a great success and so far we have banked over £1,000 with some expenses to pay.

SCARECROW COMPETITION

Thank you to all who made scarecrows. They were of a high standard this year. The winners were

1) War Horse made by Jim Veary and family

2) Mary Poppins made by Joyce Brownless and family

3) Noddy and Big-ears made by Emma Rant

BROAD TOWN SCHOOL

This term the School said “Good Bye” to Mrs Mitchell who has been the teacher of Class 1 for the last seven years. We wish her well at her new appointment.

We send Congratulations and Best Wishes to Miss Hyner who is getting married during the holiday.

There will be a lot of work going on at the school over the holiday and they have been granted two extra days closure to unpack everything and sort the school out and tidy up.

These days are the 3^rd and 4^th of Sept. So the TT day has moved to the 5^th of Sept and School recommences on the 6^th Sept.

PARISH CLERKS CLIPPINGS

1. Road Safety Work is now completed. All we have to do now is to obey the speed limit.

2. Minutes. If you wish to know what is going on, read the Parish Council meeting minutes. They are on the notice boards, and the Broad Town website, where the past few years are available. No computer? the Parish Clerk can let you have a copy. Bear in mind that the minutes are a record of decisions made, not a novelette of everything that is said at the meeting. If you want to know that, come to the meetings.

BROAD TOWN WI

Last month we sampled the taste of summer, despite the weather, with a rosé wine tasting evening. Our speaker was Richard Brazier, the husband of one of the members and very knowledgeable on all types of wine. He gave us a short history of wine drinking in the UK over the decades. Wine didn’t become available to the average person until the 60’s and 70’s when it was only bought for special occasions. Pub drinks around this time were more likely to be Cinzano, Dubonnet and lemonade or rum and blackcurrant.

The first wines widely available were mainly French wines and were expensive and not very good. German wine producers introduced us to more drinkable and affordable wines such as Liebfraumilch. Richard had four rosé wines to taste and compare. It was amazing how different they were, in colour, perfume and flavour and we voted on our favourites.

Thanks to Richard we had a lovely evening, which ended with savoury nibbles and the remains of the wine.

This month we will be walking around Malmesbury; finishing in the town with a pub meal.

BROAD TOWN SOCIAL CLUB

As well as welcoming new faces to Bingo every Sunday evening from 7pm, we're pleased to announce:

Friday 3^rd August

Pints of Becks, cider and proper ales for £2.40 or less, darts, pool, tall stories and good cheer – your regular night, in fact!

Friday 10th August – DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY!

Kevin Howard's BIG THREE-OH birthday bash! Fresh from his triumphant placing in Scania's 2012 Young European Truck Driver competition, HGV maestro Kev is keen to get both old and brand-new friends alike boogie-ing to the sounds of Starlight Express Digital Disco: all welcome!

Friday 17^th August – COMMUNITY PUB NAMING

Did you choose the winning name? Bring your green ticket – it may get you another free drink! Regional media are tipped to attend: there's one playgroup/school fete group photo from the early 1970s that we'd love to recreate now the subjects are a little longer in the tooth! Come and celebrate with friends and neighbours, reflecting on good times past, and great times yet to come! Announcement takes place at 2100 – don't be late!

Friday 31^st August & Sunday 2^nd September – CLOSED

Neither the Community Pub nor Bingo will be taking place on the above dates. All are welcome to help Keith and the Big Gig team put up tents on Monday 27^th August though: see elsewhere in this newsletter...

Friday 21^st September – Cider-making

Thanks to the rain ruining everyone's crop of fruits, we're expanding our original plan for a cider-making evening to include wine as well. Participants will need 3lb+ of home-grown fruit (fresh or defrosted – probably a good year for blackberries!) to make their own gallon of wine, or 6-7lb of apples for cider. Any donors of unwanted fruit or loans/gifts of home-brew kit – especially fermenting bins airlocks and demi-johns – would be greatly appreciated: drop by any Friday evening for a natter about home-brew or call Matthew on 07890 097915. More details next month's newsletter.

BROAD TOWN COMMUNITY SPEED WATCH

In response to several enquiries: Broad Town CSW team will be able to comment about any change in numbers of speeders following safety measures such as installation of the gates at the edges of speed-limit areas and the new 30mph roundels painted on the roads in September or October's newsletter – as soon as Wiltshire Police and County Council interpret the figures.

Your CSW team depends on volunteers: if you can spare just two non-consecutive hours per month – particularly for evening sessions weekdays 4.30pm-8pm – you too can contribute to Broad Town's Community Speed Watch initiative. Everyone is welcome to drop in on our sessions held at various locations in the village 1100-1200 Sunday mornings. Come along and try it out with no pressure to commit: have a go with the speed detection equipment yourself, and share your opinions with us about how we can all work together to help make our village more pleasant and safe for householders and pedestrians alike.

Following their highly successful test-shoot in July, a BBC2 film-crew will be returning to Broad Town during August to record your village's CSW team in action for their documentary, to be broadcast in the autumn. If you would like to make your support or criticism about community-led road safety efforts heard on a national level, please contact Matt on 731499 or email oscar.littlelad@gmail.com

HILMARTON CHURCH MARKET STALL AT ROYAL WOOTTON BASSETT

We look forward to seeing you at Hilmarton Church's stall at Wootton Bassett market on Wednesday 8th August. We'll be selling a good selection of homemade cakes, pies, jams and other preserves.

BIG GIG – 1^st Sept 2012

Just a handful of weeks to go and the Big Gig 2012 is shaping up to be the best yet. Our fantastic line-up covers all tastes, from a full scale Big Band (the B.J. Big Band) playing classic swing numbers, to the gentle folk of Itchy Feet, top solo artists such as Ali Finneran, Theo Altieri and Danny McEvoy (check him out on YouTube), contemporary folk-rock from Bateleurs, electro-rock from Atari Pilot, the smooth groove of Kolakoka, the driving sounds of the refreshed line-up in Teddy White, the full on blow your socks off indie of Young Blood, an electro-pop artist by name of Queen of Hearts (who is appearing at a London Olympics event in Hyde Park) and the world’s leading tribute to Coldplay, Coldplace. And we are still finalsing other artists!

To fit all this in, gates will be opening at 15:15 this year, so get along early so you don’t miss out. We also have the fairground and Kaya Drums providing sessions in their tepee, food outlets serving BBQ, Curries, Crepes, tea, coffee and cakes and of course the well stocked bar serving real ales and other traditional alcoholic and soft drinks.

Tickets can be purchased on our website and at selected local outlets, so get in early to guarantee your attendance, or ring James on 731108 to reserve tickets.

We plan to erect the tents on the afternoon of the Bank Holiday Monday 27^th August – we need as many to lend a hand as possible so if you can spare a few hours and like free beer, let Andrew know so we can you keep you posted should arrangements change: secretary@broadtownshow.co.uk

www.broadtownbiggig.co.uk / www.facebook.com/BroadTownBigGig

CHURCH COFFEE MORNING

On September 8^th the café will again be open between 10am and 12noon. We will be selling Bacon Rolls with the refreshments. There will be a vegetarian option.

SPONSORED RIDE AND STRIDE SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2012

Yes it's that time again! Enjoy a day out cycling, walking, jogging or horse riding around the lovely Wiltshire countryside while raising funds for our own village church and Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust. Visiting churches as you travel and collecting sponsorship per church or a total sum will raise funds for both, with money raised being equally shared. For more information and/or sponsorship forms contact Carolyn on 852754.

DANCE LESSONS

Strictly Come Dancing will be on your screens soon!!!
Do YOU want to learn to dance?
For fun, fitness or that special occasion
* Ballroom and Latin American dance classes for couples starting in September
* Private Lessons, Wedding Dance tuition also available
* Tea Dances to enable students to practice
* For people without a partner Dancersize classes to include dances such as the Jive, Cha Cha, Rumba, Samba and Salsa.
To register your interest now email learntodance@mac.com or call 07882-882-030

THE GUILD OF WILTSHIRE ARTISTS

Run workshops at the Village Hall on every third Saturday of the month from 10am to 4pm. All are welcome including painters who are beginners.

Tea and Coffee provided but do bring a packed lunch.

Help will be given to those who request it.

Contact telephone numbers 731154, 731519.

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SEPTEMBER 2012 EDITION

Will organisations or anyone wishing to have news, etc. included in the September edition please note that items must be submitted to Mrs M Green, 1 Broadacres, Broad Town, cliveggreen@waitrose.com BY 6pm FRIDAY 24^th August. It is regretted that submissions after that time cannot be included.