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November 2017 No

Village Bonfire Night

3rd of November Gates open at 6:00pm

Editorial Committee [email protected] Editor Linda Lobl-Smith Home Farm 714475 Treasurer Annalisa Duff Willow Lodge 712247 Julie Walton The Old Rectory 701784 Chris Draper Home Farm Cottage 248557

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Classes available in Biddestone Village Hall

Monday 9.45 – 11.45 am Painting Group Sue Tennant – 01249 720615 Monday 6.15 – 7.15 Physio led Pilates (Pre-booking only) Bridget Bazell – 07841027603 or [email protected] Monday 8.00 – 10.00 pm Hips & Haws Clog Jan Field – 01380 827140 or [email protected] Tuesday 9.00 – 10.00 am Real Life Yoga Emma Goodwin – 07771662567 or [email protected] Tuesday 7.00 – 9.00 pm Iyengar Yoga Class Edgar Stringer - [email protected] Wednesday 10.00 – 11.30 am Iyengar Yoga Class Lydia Holmes – [email protected] Wednesday 10.00 – 12.00 am Writing Group Tim Smith – 01249 714455 or [email protected] Wednesday 12.00 – 4.00 pm Quilting and

Patchwork Class Anne Chapman - 01249 782842 (not 3rd Wednesday in the month) Wednesday 2.00 – 4.00 pm Womens Institute (3rd Wednesday in month)

Wednesday 6.00 – 7.00 Circuit Training

Simon Bennett – 07815619138 or [email protected]

Thursday 9.00 – 10.00 am Real Life Yoga Emma Goodwin – 07771662567 or [email protected] Thursday 10.30 – 11.30 am Pilates for begin-ners/intermediate The Stonehouse Clinic -01249 700417 or stonehouseclinic.co.uk Thursday 7.30 – 10.00 pm Modern Sequence Dancing Phil Fletcher – 01793 936091 or [email protected] Friday 6.30 – 8.00 pm Yoga for healthy backs, knees and shoulders Lydia Holmes [email protected]

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Front Cover; just a reminder Village Bonfire Night is on Friday, 3rd of November. Ticket prices: Adults £5 Children (under 16) £2 Under 5’s Free Gates open 6pm. Bonfire 6.30pm. Fireworks 7.00pm (Please do not bring any of your own fireworks or sparklers) Welcome to Shane, Rachel and Sam Greenslade who have moved into 2 Butts Close, we hope you will be very happy here in Biddestone. Thank you the Broadsheet has received donations from M.Rouse £20 , R Sexton £35 and £140 from the Manor Gardens. Carolyn Madley has reluctantly decided to step down from the Broadsheet Committee due to work com-mitments. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for all your hard work and contributions over the years. Mary Mullens has also recently retired from her role as Broadsheet Treasurer, the committee would like to thank her for her many years of service and sage advice, all much appreciated. We regret to report that Jo Hancock of Hartham died on 1st October. She was for many years President of the W.I. and, among other regular contributions to village life, baked dozens of scones for the Fete and other functions. She will be sadly missed by many, and we send our deepest sympathy to Herb, Samantha and Phillip. We are also very sorry to report that David Hartley died on Sunday, 22 October. For many years David made an enormous contribution to the life of Biddestone and was generous in his support of its activities. He was also a regu-lar member of the congregation at St. Nicholas, including serving as Churchwarden. He will be greatly missed, and we send our deepest sympathy to all his family.

Nov 2017

Bridge Club The Bridge Club will meet at The White Horse Pub at 7.30pm on the first Monday of each month The club will meet for a social evening of Bridge, no tuition is available, so players must have some level of experience. Anyone interested should contact; Ian Smith 01249 714475 Jane Iggulden 01249 713311

Dog Fouling

We have received a number of complaints regarding dog poo in the Harts Lane area and also around The Green. Would the offending owners please remember to clean up after their dogs.

Biddestone Fete AGM

The Fete AGM will be held on 13th November in the Village Hall at 7.00pm, all welcome.

Film Review Their Finest Director: Lone Sherfigu, USA, 2016, 117min Seventy-two years after the end of World War Two, with a rash of wartime films coming out this year, one could be forgiven for asking whether we need yet another film about the war. The answer in this case is emphatically yes! This delightful, bitter-sweet film focuses on the role of the film industry in pro-ducing (by order of the Ministry of Information) upbeat, morale-boosting (and arguably propaganda) fea-tures for the 30 million or so people on the Home Front going to the pictures every weekend. Challenged to find a positive but genuine story about Dunkirk, the producers seize on a newspaper account of twin sisters who set out in a small boat to rescue stranded soldiers. The central character, Catrin, played by Gemma Arterton, finds her-self almost by accident working as a scriptwriter, and uses her own personal experience of love and wartime tragedy to bring a feminine (and indeed feminist) touch to an industry dominated by male chau-vinists. There is great wit and warmth in the way she uses her naïve insights and common sense to confront and overcome their prejudic-es and win their respect for her contributions to the script. Bill Nighy is wonderfully typecast as the self-important aging film star Ambrose Hilliard, bringing his inimitable style and charm to every scene. Counterpointing the humour though, and ensuring the film avoids sentimentality, are the ever-present dangers and random trag-edies of life in wartime London. The film within a film structure brings an interesting dimension, as ‘real’ events shape the film-makers ideas as their narrative evolves, giving the overall piece a pleasing structure and symmetry. All in all, a hugely involving and satisfying film, which will stay with you long after you leave the cinema. Adam Walton

Moviola

@ Grittleton Village Hall

on Wednesday November 22nd

Miss Sloane [15]

The story follows the actions of aggressive, high priced lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), who

has mastered all the methods of how to lose friends and alienate people. Nevertheless, she is singularly effective and when the NRA seeks to hire her to represent them, she shocks everyone by resigning her cur-rent position and going to work for a group working for a bill designed to close gun sales loopholes. She is recruited by millionaire philanthropist Rodolfo Schmidt (Mark Strong), who admires her results (although

he soon learns to despise her tactics). She soon finds herself tangling with her former colleagues and is eventually placed in front of a congressional subcommittee looking into the activities she engages in.

Tickets £6 adults from Lesley on 01249 783157 or email [email protected] [underscore between l and p]

Doors open 7pm, programme starts at 7.30pm

Future date for your diary 6th December Beauty and the Beast [Doors open 5.30pm for 6pm start]

Advent Supper Friends of St Nicholas Biddestone

Join us to celebrate Advent with a candlelit supper. Friday 15th December 2017 at 7 pm.

£20.00 per person, all ticket money to the Friends of St Nicholas. Space in the church is limited and only 40 places are available.

Please book before 10th December so that tickets issued and seating arrangements finalised. To book or discuss special dietary require-

ments please email [email protected]

NOVEMBER RECIPE A warming casserole for a cold November evening BEEF, MUSHROOM AND RED WINE CASSEROLE Serves 4 400g diced beefmarinaded in 500mls of red wine for 12 hours or over night 2 onions sliced 2 crushed cloves of garlic 300g mushrooms halved 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce 2 tbsp red wine vinegar 3tbsp plain flour 2 bay leaves 450mls beef stock .

Remove the diced beef from the wine with a slotted spoon and reserve the wine. Fry the onions until soft Coat the beef in flour and add to the onions in batches if necessary until the beef has gone brown, about 3-4 mins Add stock, wine and the rest of the ingredients, apart from the mushrooms. Gently bring to a simmer to thicken the sauce and then cover and place in the oven at 160C for 1 ½ hrs. Add the mushrooms and return to the oven for a further 30 mins, Serve with mashed potato and vegetables of your choice. Julie Walton By Julie Walton

Record of meeting of Biddestone & Hartham W.I. on 18th October 2017 Val Ringham, Vice President, asked for a minute's silence in memory of Jo Hancock, President, who had sadly died on the 1st October. Some members had attended her funeral yesterday. Jo had been a long-standing member of the W.I., and President for many years, and she will be very much missed. She had also contributed so much to village life in general. The speaker, Dawn Toms, was unable to be present at the meeting, due to a family illness, but had provided mate-rials for her bead workshop, and Val Ringham demonstrated how to make some simple decorations from either beads or folded paper. It provided a bit of fun and craft-minded members helped the others if they were strug-gling, so everyone went home with a Christmas decoration. Refreshments were provided by Val Ringham and the raffle was won by Beryl. Business The Record of the previous meeting was taken as read. Val welcomed back Carol after her accident in Canada. Calendars and diaries will be given out next month. .Correspondence A card of sympathy had been received from Lesley Holdway, W.I. Adviser, on the death of Jo Hancock. As discussed at the last meeting, correspondence was displayed on a side table so that members could look at it at their leisure. There is to be an afternoon of entertainment at Westbury on 30th January, £15 which includes a High Tea. 1.20pm - 4.35pm There will be New Speakers' Days in 2018, the nearest would be at Broughton Gifford on the 30th April. The two Vals had each made a fabric flower for the monthly challenge. Val S-J asked for contributions of biscuits or little cakes for Bonfire Night. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, 15th November, when there will be a performance of "Songs from the Shows" at 2.15pm. Visitors are welcome.

BIDDESTONE GIFTS

Apron £8 Canvas Bag £4

Mugs £4.50/per or 2 for £8 or 4 for £15

T-Towels £3.50/per or 2 for £6

Pack of Cards £2

All available at Home Farm, Harts Lane,

Biddestone.

please call 01249 714475

COMPUTER PROBLEMS?

For technical assistance with Computers, Laptops or Mobile phones. Call/Email: Tom Lobl

01249 714475 / [email protected] Reasonable Rates, no job too small!

COFFEE MORNING IN AID OF REFUGEE CHARITY 10-1PM, 2ND DECEMBER

THE OLD RECTORY, CHURCH ROAD, BIDDESTONE SN14 7DP Our daughter Lucy is volunteering with a refugee charity in Greece, and is currently helping to set up a centre in Thessaloniki to support local and refugee women. The charity, InterVolve, needs to raise 7000 Euros to open the centre. To help raise funds, we’re holding a coffee morn-ing. Lucy talks about her experience and the aims of the new centre below. ‘In February, I left for Greece for what I imagined to be two months of “volunteering with refu-gees”. Ashamed by the UK’s failure to help refugees fleeing Syria while choosing the bomb the country, I booked my flights a week before leaving with no idea what I would be doing, but was willing to do whatever was helpful. Eight months later and I’m still here. When I arrived in Thessaloniki, I was placed with an organ-isation called InterVolve, who were working in one of the camps outside the city, Softex. I was told it was tough work, and that Softex was one of the worst camps in the region. The authorities were failing to provide adequate shelter or basic facilities, and NGOs and volunteer groups were underfunded or not granted permission to do the work that wasn’t being done by the authorities. Conditions were bad and morale was low for the several hundred people forced to live in this a dilapidated former toilet paper factory. Our aim as an organisation was to fill in some of the gaps – we distributed fresh vegetables and other ingredients so that people could cook their own food; we ran a free shop providing every-one in the camp with clothes, importantly which they were able to choose and try on themselves; we distributed hygiene products and other necessary items like mosquito nets. We offered social support and helped residents to access legal and asylum services. We ran many activities includ-ing English, computer and life skills classes, sports and films and put on fun events like a Softex Olympics, a Mothers’ Day celebration and a huge party for Eid. I used skills that I never thought would be useful in a camp – I ran a sewing workshop three times a week, a hobby I’ve had since I was a child, where the beautiful, colourful and sometimes outrageous garments created allowed everyone to forget about the bleak, grey camp for a few hours. I organised three exhibitions in Thessaloniki of artwork made by the Softex community. Softex finally closed in August, the majority of residents either granted asylum in another coun-try or moved into apartments in the urban area. For many refugees, Greece will be their long-term home and this brings new challenges. They are struggling to access the services they need and receive insufficient support for to care for themselves and their families. Having been stuck in isolated camps for two years, the refugees and local communities are struggling to integrate. Social isolation and boredom are huge problems especially for women - many rarely leave their apartments because they feel unsafe or simply have nowhere to go. To address these changing needs, InterVolve is opening a multicultural women’s centre in Thes-saloniki, for refugee and local women. We will offer creative and educational workshops and training to help women to gain skills that will enable them to support themselves, as well as providing a space for women from different communities to relax and socialise together, while their children are being looked after. I will be running sewing and crafts workshops in the centre. I’m really excited to be volunteering with an organisation that I know has the skills and experi-ence to create a centre that will benefit the community.’ Crowdfunding link to raise funds for new centre: www.youcaring.com/intervolve-977401 Julie and Adam Walton

FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS Safari Supper and Auction

We will be holding a Safari Supper and an Auction of Gifts, Time and Promises on Saturday 25th November. All funds raised will go to the Friends of St Nicholas. The evening will start at 7pm at the Oak House with drinks where people can view and bid for the auction lots and collect the location for their main course and pudding! The main course will be served at 8pm and at 9pm, people move on to their pudding location. All then gather back at the Oak House at 10.00 for coffee and port where the auction will be held to draw the final bids on each lot. Anyone with mobility problems can stay at the Oak House for their meal. We will be displaying the bid sheets in St Nicholas during the week before the supper and people will be able to see what is available and place written bids. We have already received some very generous pledges, including:

• Quintessentially English, two places on a one day soap making course in Lacock

• A Lawnmower service

• A cake or dessert a month for 6 months

• A Lift for two people to and from Heathrow airport

• Supper for four

• Breakfast for four

• A Cake a month for a year

• A Christmas cake

• A painting by a local artist

• Six gluten free cakes over the next year

• A lift to and from Bristol Airport for up to 4 people

• A load of farm yard manure

• Six bottles of Home Farm apple juice

• Six jars of home made pickles

• Six jars of home made pickles and jams

• Manicure

• Pedestal flower arrangement or large bouquet

• Hand turned wooden bowls If you would like to pledge time, a promise or a gift to be auctioned, please let us know what you would like to offer. Pledges could be for anything really but for instance babysitting, baking, gardening, shopping, hospitality, music or computer lessons. Gifts could be art or craft items, whatever you like! For more information please contact [email protected]

Thank you to all who supported the Macmillan ‘World’s biggest Coffee Morning’ held at the Oak House on 29th September. A delightful morning was spent sharing company and conver-sation over cups of coffee or tea accompanied by a variety of cakes. In total the event raised £335 for Macmillan. Charlotte Bruce

The Send-Off BY WILFRED OWEN Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As men's are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss them from the upland camp. Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp Winked to the guard. So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went. They were not ours: We never heard to which front these were sent. Nor there if they yet mock what women meant Who gave them flowers. Shall they return to beatings of great bells In wild trainloads? A few, a few, too few for drums and yells, May creep back, silent, to still village wells Up half-known roads.

The Turkish Trench Dog Night held me as I crawled and scrambled near The Turkish lines. Above, the mocking stars Silvered the curving parapet, and clear Cloud-latticed beams o'erflecked the land with bars; I, crouching, lay between Tense-listening armies peering through the night, Twin giants bound by tentacles unseen Here in dim-shadowed light I saw him, as a sudden movement turned His eyes towards me, glowing eyes that burned A moment ere his snuffling muzzle found My trail; and then as serpents mesmerise He chained me with those unrelenting eyes, That muscle-sliding rhythm, knit and bound In spare-limbed symmetry, those perfect jaws And soft-approaching pitter-patter paws. Nearer and nearer like a wolf he crept — That moment had my swift revolver leapt — But terror seized me, terror born of shame Brought flooding revelation. For he came As one who offers comradeship deserved, An open ally of the human race, And sniffling at my prostrate form unnerved He licked my face!

Thank you to Hilary Noyes for this months poetry selection

Farming Notes The natural rhythm of the farming year ends in the autumn, the summers crops have been harvested (with any luck) and the ploughing and planting of next years crops has begun. The traditional end is marked by the third quarter day being Michaelmas day the 29th September when the hiring fairs would be held and, not so much to the farmers liking, rents would be due. Many more farms being rented in those days before the break-up of the larger estates, Home Farm being one such, being bought by the sitting tenant my great Uncle in law, Will Hart after whom Harts Lane is named, on the breakup of Hartham Estate. Physically this year has been okay, especially for grass growing, if offered this year weather wise as a guar-antee of all time I would probably take it. We have to no-ones surprise survived the apocalyptic forecasts from the BBC although in fairness to them on emerging to feed the cattle on the morning after Storm Brian I did find that an empty plastic bucket had blown the entire length of the farmyard. However farmers these days have to battle more than the elements, two things in the news at the moment illustrate these nicely, being the badger cull and the proposed ban on glyphosate (Roundup to you gardeners) The badger cull is going on in some areas although not here, to try and control the spread of Bovine TB which has become endemic, the pathogen being carried by badgers as well as cattle. From the farmers perspective the badger is guilty as charged and no-body is denying that the population has exploded in the last thirty years since they were made a protected species. Of course many people would rather have badgers than farmers and some farmers have in fact had to remove themselves from the cull after threats to themselves and their families, nice people the green brigade until you disagree with them. A controlled cull would not just be in the interests of cattle, we used to have nesting plovers and grey partridge, hedgehogs and grass snakes on this farm. I have not seen any of these for twenty years; all of them make tasty meals for an apex predator like the badger, try to point this out to the anti-cull lobby and… well just don’t bother! Glyphosate burns off vegetation and becomes inert in soil, it harms nothing but the plant it contacts and has become a very useful tool for cleaning ground of weeds before planting a crop. It has been in use for many years without harming a single person except for those poor souls who have decided to drink it. Now an obscure offshoot of the World Health Organisation has decided that it may be carcinogenic, well so might everything be if you mainline it into your veins and on this basis a ban may be imposed, much to the delight of pseudo-scientists and tree huggers everywhere. What really annoys me about this is not the loss to English farmers who will cope without Roundup as we have decent soils and a forgiving

climate, but many people in the world are not so lucky. For instance there is a thing called the Army Worm devastating crops throughout

Eastern and Southern Africa, the Army Worm does what it says on the tin, the only control is to devise an insecticide or better still a GM

crop immune to it. Fat chance of that, when it won’t be the opinion formers of Islington and Notting Hill or the alarmists of the WHO that

are watching their crops die.

Ian Smith

Biddestone Christmas Concert The annual concert given by Caroline Dale and Friends will be at 7.30 on Friday 22nd of December at the Bid-

destone Arms, by the kind permission of the incumbent managers, Giles and Louise. The programme will consist of both classical and light music and it is hoped the Biddestone Choir will also take

part. The concert will finish in our traditional way by everyone joining in singing Christmas carols. Following this, Giles and Louise have very kindly offered to send everyone home with best wishes for Christmas and a hot toddy on

the house. Tickets at £20 - and which cannot be booked beforehand - will be on sale from Wednesday 8th November on a first come first served basis from Maureen Greenwood. Tel 01249 715969, ([email protected]). Payment can be by cash or cheque, made out to Maureen Greenwood, (Home Place, Biddestone, SN14 7DG). Please take note that the concert has become a very popular Yuletide Event. Only 100 tickets can be sold and

attendance will be by ticket only. Bouncers will be on the door !! J.O.

This crossword was first published in ‘The Honeycomb’ NOVEMBER 2013 Diane Ross-Smith

ACROSS 1. Star cut short by glowing coal for this month. (8) 6. A run in small restaurant creates a need for this con-tainer? (6) 9. Loud cry as Merc crashes…(6) 10…. Lend a car after collision – one with doors for Ad-vent? (8) 11. The speed of a horse which favours the extreme left? (4) 12. Name meteor blown to bits and measured by this in-strument? (10) 14. We hear sky, egg and rum for islands found here! (8) 16. Steak served like this is unusual. (4) 18. Part of church found in maps ecclesiastical. (4) 19. Menhir is rebuilt by them in Eire? (8) 21. One who sought gold in a rush the year before his fiftieth birthday? (5-5) 22. Either way it’s twelve! (4) 24. Alibi Scot tinkers with includes theft of Italian bis-cuit. (8) 26. Gaudy like Gordon or fireworks? (6) 27. I hear this includes place for cricket to warm up in fireplace? (6) 28. Did tee deter wobbly golfer as he swayed? (8) DOWN 2. O for pilot – a prestigious award! (5) 3. Jet eats core, destroys engine and necessitates the use of this? (7, 4) 4. Shells continuously with loud fireworks to blow up Bob’s dram! (8) 5. Epitome of clever person who makes pyrotechnics for the 5th? (6, 9) 6. A hundred permit Simon to appear inexperienced? (6) 7. I escape from ruin and dash! (3) 8. Red wood, native of Thika found burning in arbore-tum? (5,4) 13. We near heart broken potter who made this? (11) 15. Ingredient used by 5 down who is volatile! (9) 17. Song to search through for this weapon? (3, 5) 20. Grab fragment of song for short period. (6) 23. Loch really contains this colour? (5) 25. Exclamation of surprise as mythical bird turns up! (3)

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY- AUTUMN & WINTER 2017/18 Scrub clearance days at West Yatton Down SSSI will be held on the second Friday of each autumn and winter month, to conserve the environment on this beautiful site supporting nine species of orchid and more than thirty species of butterfly. Volunteers should wrap up warm; bring a picnic lunch or flask of tea if you would like to do a further hour or so in the afternoon. We have purchased some fabulous tools called Tree Poppers, they remove the roots too, and you’ll love them. Location: Park along the roadside at the Long Dean Y fork on the side of the road from West Yatton to Castle Combe SU851 759 (OS Map 173) Leaders: Maurice Avent & Alan Needham (01249-713218) Friday 13th October 2017 -11.00am Friday 10th November 2017 - 11.00am Friday 8th December 2017 - 11.00am Friday 12th January 2018 - 11.00am Friday 9th February 2018 – 11.00am Friday 9th March 2018 - 11.00am (Individuals with a Chainsaw qualification will be welcome)

BIDDESTONE BOOK CLUB

Thank you to Debbie for hosting our October meeting. We enjoyed the book and the descriptions of the lives of early settlers in Canada.

On November 13th we shall be meeting at Diane’s house at 7.15p.m. to discuss Angela Carter’s ‘Wise Children’

In December we shall be reading ‘Golden Hill’ by Francis Spufford. If you have any questions please phone Diane on 712105.

Church Services for November 2017

ST. NICHOLAS, BIDDESTONE

5 Holy Communion 11.00 a.m. BENEFICE IN MEMORY SERVICE 4.00 p.m.

12 Remembrance Service 10.50 a.m. 19 Morning Praise 9.30 a.m. 26 Holy Communion BENEFICE SERVICE 10.00 a.m.

Every Wednesday morning there is a service at 9.15 a.m. This is either Holy Communion or Morning Prayer and includes prayers for

the suffering.

ST NICHOLAS, SLAUGHTERFORD 5 Holy Communion 11.00 a.m.

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