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Hillesley Happenings is produced by Carol Dawson, 2 Farmcote (Tel/Fax : 842014; e-mail: [email protected]), printed at
Hillesley CEVA Primary School and kindly delivered to every house locally by Lilian Mountford, Margaret Plummer, Val Skinner,
Chris Taylor and Kate Woodrow.
HILLESLEY TODDLERS WELCOMES YOU! Come along to our relaxed and friendly parent and toddler/baby/bump group. Fridays throughout the year (even in school holidays) from 10.00 - 11.30 at Hopkins Hall. Enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and some cake whilst the children enjoy our toy collection, craft session, snack, music, books and much more. We are also running a toy library for our regular attendees. Find us on facebook: Hillesley Baby and Toddler Group or contact Fiona Symes on 07837684446 for further information. We hope to see you there!
WANTED K’nex construction toys Please contact Joy on
01453 842234
AVAILABLE NOW
DIY LIVERY for 1 or 2 ponies (under 14 hands) Excellent grazing (option
joint grazing) Stables Indoor/Outdoor lighting Hard standing yard Secure lock up Storage
Please contact Joy: 01453 842234.
ST GILES CHURCH
[Rev'd David Russell 01454 294267 [email protected]; Rev’d Peter Fewings 07795 206590 [email protected]] Church Services and other events in August. Over the summer we will have a single benefice service available, we encourage you to attend the different venues.
31st July 10.30 Benefice service at St James Churchend, Charfield
2.30 Baptism of Lily Rose Williams at St Giles, Hillesley
1st-4th August 10am-12noon Sports Academy Holiday Club at Kingswood Village Hall for primary school aged children. Drama, storytelling, craft and games. Application forms will be available at the back of church.
August 6th 12 noon Marriage of Harry Round to Lydia Fenton at St Giles
August 7th 10.30 Benefice Service at Wickwar Holy Trinity
August 14th 8.00am BCP Said Communion at St Giles, Hillesley
The printing of the newsletter is paid for from advertising revenue ISSUE NO. 287 August 2016
HILLESLEY HAPPENINGS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY……
AUGUST Thursdays 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th 6.15 pm Fleece Bike Ride - starts in front of The Fleece Wednesday 10th 10.30 am Community Coffee Morning – The Fleece Inn Sunday 14th 7.30 pm Acoustic Night – The Fleece Inn Sunday 21st 7.30 pm Vinyl Party Night – The Fleece Inn Wednesday 24th DEADLINE FOR SEPTEMBER ISSUE
SEPTEMBER Sunday 4th 8 pm Quiz Night Sunday 11th Great Hillesley Bike Ride
10.30 Benefice Service at Kingswood St Marys. August 21st Benefice Service at Charfield St
Johns
August 28th Benefice Service at Rangeworthy Holy Trinity Holidays
August is the time when those with
children have a
chance to get away all together, but of course it also means additional childcare responsibilities if both parents are working. It may of course just mean a change from your normal routine. Holidays are a derivation of Holy-days such as Easter and Christmas when a feast or fiesta would be part of the village community involving everyone in the village. They represented a chance for a break from work and to give thanks and celebrate. In our multi-cultural society there are differing holy days and holy periods, often coming at different times, like Eid at the end of Ramadan, Good Friday just before Easter. The Jews have Yom Kippur and the Sikhs have Diwali. There are also pagan festivals such as the Summer Solstice. Every week Friday is a holy day for Islam and Sunday for Christians. One idea to fit into a corner of our holiday is to reflect on what is holy in our lives This could mean what is set
apart in my life for me, the family or for an other? What is it that represents the essence of what I believe and makes sense to tie the different parts of my life together? What is most important to me, or what do I have to do? These sort of questions often get lost in the hurly burly of life in its normal routine, but help us to see if we are really doing what we want to do and integrates us to give us peace. The Bible talks about a peace that passes understanding – something that is intuitive and right for the unique way we are made. The greeting ‘shalom’ is a Hebrew word often just interpreted as peace, but meaning far more. It has a sense of being at harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquillity with ourselves and at peace with others so that we experience a unity of mind spirit and body. I hope that whenever and wherever you take your holiday this year you will find time to find your holy place. Shalom. Peter
HOLD THE DATE! The annual
GREAT HILLESLEY BIKE RIDE will take place on Sunday 11th September. The start place will be at the War Memorial. There will be a main route, of about 30 miles, and one or two shorter routes. There will be some pubs en route for some necessary refreshment! Details are still being planned, but hopefully the weather will be great and you can book this date. Please let me know if you are interested in coming along, so I can provide a map – the cost would be £2 per map, covering printing and building up a charity fund. Malcolm Woodrow
David and Jane would like to thank their friends and neighbours for their kindness, thoughts, flowers, cards, emails and donations to the Winnicott Foundation since hearing about the premature birth, and death 10 days later, of their granddaughter, Matilda. Without doubt this is the worst thing which has happened in our lives and as parents being unable to take away the pain of grief from our son, Tom, and his partner Katherine. David and Jane Kendall
HILLESLEY CE VA PRIMARY SCHOOL [Tel: 01453 843551 Email: [email protected]] TOGETHER IN LEARNING FOR LIFE I love to go to Hillesley School, it suits me to a “T” So THOUGHT I’d use that letter to TELL of THINGS I see, Or hear about or read about when I go around, TALKING to people in the classroom, office or playground. Interesting TOPICS, THEMES, sometimes TREATS and TRIPS, Links with TYNDALE Cluster Schools building up friendships. Everyone has TARGETS and occasionally a TEST – They always keep on TRYING to do their very best.
TIA and TOMMY TRAVELLED in on their TUNEFUL TOUR, TIM Peake – Spaceman – TOUCHED down with unique allure. The go-cart TRIUMPHED on the Greenpower racing TRACK; From sports events, TROPHIES and certificates came back. TASTER days took place for new pupils to prepare And TRANSITION visits for Year Sixes made them more aware. Two pupils went to “THE PULSE” – new build at Dursley Pool – To seal away their winning poems in a TIME capsule. Radio Gloucestershire’s “School of the Week” TRANSMISSION Coincided with a TOP TRIUMPH decision To name our Head the “TEACHER of the Year” Which prompted our Member of Parliament to reappear. At end of TERM, the leavers all will say farewell With happy recollections, of which they will TELL. From TODDLER to TEENAGER Hillesley School will guide, Continually TEACHING how to live a life with pride. Support the THRIVING TEAM – no need to wonder whether; Just remember THAT. “We’re all in THIS TOGETHER!” Margaret Plummer (Governor) End of Term 6 July 2016
FRIENDS OF HILLESLEY SCHOOL
Sponsored walk and Treasure Hunt on Sunday 18th September To celebrate 10 years of Hillesley school’s ownership of the Old Chapel Hall there will be a sponsored walk and treasure hunt. The circular 10km walk will start at 1.30pm from the OCH where we shall be serving cream teas throughout the afternoon. There will be an optional pick up point at Hawkesbury Upton for a shorter 3.5km walk. During the afternoon there will be the chance for people to come along to the OCH and see a display of village history and an exhibition of pupils artwork, poetry and other achievements. We shall be ending the afternoon with a Barbecue and drinks from 4pm. Entrance to the walk will be £5, but children can collect sponsorship. Forms are available from school or from our website. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for more information. So please sign up, come along and enjoy a fun afternoon for all the family. Dogs and Pokemon go enthusiasts are of course welcome. All funds raised will contribute towards the improvement of outside areas at Hillesley school. Thank you to everyone that has already volunteered to help. Please contact Arlene or Rachel if you are would like to get involved.
The Friends would also like to say a fond farewell to our year 6 leavers, we shall miss you. Best wishes for the future and thank you to the families for all of their years of support of the FOHS MEMORIES OF HILLESLEY.. My mother Brenda Minett (sister to John, Charles, Gwen and Harriet) was born at Greenfields Farm and later the family lived at Church View, Vicarage Lane. She left KLB to train as a nurse in Bristol, meeting my father Malcolm, a doctor, on a hospital ship during the war. They married at St Giles on May 5th 1945. After a short time in Bristol they moved to Sheffield, where my father took up a post with the newly formed National Health Service. My brother and I were born in Sheffield, and christened at St Giles. Every Easter we would stay with with Granny and Grampy - after Grampy died in 1951 it was just Granny Elizabeth - at Church View, together with Martin and his parents and Uncle Charlie (a butcher in Stroud) and Auntie Gwen and Uncle Fitz visiting from Yate. Auntie Joan loved wild flowers and I remember going out with her to pick primroses which we arranged in jam jars around the cottage. I loved to walk down Day House Lane to the farm searching for snails in the hedgerows. A special highlight was to
climb to the top of Hawkesbury Monument. No TV in those days, but there was an enormous radio marked with mysterious foreign stations and we always listened to the Boat Race. We made our own entertainment in the evenings, the aunts nattering round the fire and the men playing card games at the big table. I remember being sent to bed feeling miffed that Martin was allowed to stay up later (well he was four years older). I don't recall when electricity came but I do remember oil lamps, taking a candle to bed, an icy cold bathroom; Granny cooking bacon for breakfast on a Calor gas stove, and a walk-in pantry with its rows of Kilner jars of bottled fruit. My brother and I spent our pennies, threepenny bits (and possibly sixpences) at Hopkins' shop (now Moore's) on gobstoppers, four-a-penny chews, flying saucers, sherbet fountains and liquorice laces. A favourite was Eiffel Tower lemonade powder, and rainbow crystals in a little paper bag that you could dip your fingers into...we had colourful hands but amazingly kept our teeth! After Granny died in 1964 we all got on with our lives, but I visit your special village when I can, as my family now rest in the churchyard. Anthea Johnson (nee Ferguson)
For Bookings Phone: 01453 520003. See our website for what’s on www.thefleeceinnhillesley.com
As I write this the 4th Anniversary Celebrations have just concluded, and a lot of people involved in its organisation could do with a few days off! The weather was kind, the food and drink were great, the music was varied and excellent, and the turnout – all three days – was magnificent. Thanks to you for your support, to the staff for their tireless efforts, and most of all to Dan for his fantastic organisational skills, attention to detail, and enthusiasm. Notice: if anyone took home a grey folding canvas ‘director’s chair’ by mistake on Saturday please can you return it to The Fleece for collection – it’s mine! We took it there for the weekend but only the canvas bag was there on Sunday… Attending on Saturday 23rd were Rod and Karen, our new tenants. On 5th September we embark upon a new chapter in the story of The Fleece when they take charge and the Board can step back. It’s an exciting prospect; they have a great deal of pub experience, know how to keep a good pint, and have lots of ideas on how to build on HCPL’s successes to
date. I hope that everyone will support them in making The Fleece a thriving pub – they will make the decisions in future, but it will still be the community’s pub after all.
Upcoming events in the pub are dominated by the regular activities (though Quiz Night is taking a summer break). So coming up we have:
Community Coffee Morning Wednesday 10th August, 10:30 am –12 noon. Come along and enjoy a coffee break with your friends and neighbours. Only £3.00 per head for a cup of tea/ coffee and cake. Good company and charity raffle.
Acoustic Evening Sunday 14th August 8-9.30pm FREE Held on the second Sunday of each month, why not come along to sing, play or recite – or just enjoy the entertainment? Electric keyboard now available.
Vinyl Night Sun 21st August - 7.30pm, FREE. Yes, some of us still have them, and others still buy them!! This musical ‘tear and share’ is growing in popularity. Grasp an opportunity to dust off those cherished singles and LP’S and re-live the moment while relaxing with a drink, and enjoying the banter with fellow music lovers. If you don’t have vinyl, come anyway....and discover what we were listening to
back in the day. The theme this month is ‘Heaven & Hell’.
And our regular bike rides are continuing. Every Thursday 6:15pm, FREE. Leaving together from the Fleece at around 6:15, and heading out for about an hour or so, covering 10-15 miles, and then returning to the Fleece.
Happy Hour - Monday to Friday 3pm - 7pm. Enjoy a glass of Ale, Fosters or Thatcher’s Gold or a small glass of house wine for only £2.80. A warm welcome awaits from everyone at The Fleece. * Thank you for supporting
your Community Pub * Lance Doughty
THE FLEECE CHARITY
RAFFLE A big thank you to all those who donated prizes and bought raffle tickets at The Fleece Festival and Coffee Mornings. A whopping £337 was raised on Saturday! So we have an amazing grand total of £430, which includes £13 from a quiz night, to give to Longfield (previously Cotswold Care), who provide hospice care at home. I am sure they will be very appreciative. The prizes were won by: 1st prize: Jill & Alun Evans 2nd prize: Bob Hitchcock 3rd prize: Sally (from Tresham) 4th prize: Karen & Rod Undy
(our new tenants)
Angela Doughty
HAWKESBURY GARDENING CLUB www.hawkesbury-gardening-club.org.uk Terry Truebody [01454 238364]
Meetings are held at 8pm on the 4th Monday of the month in the Methodist Hall in Back Street. I can hardly believe the way that everything is growing. Our roses are usually over quite quickly but this year they seem to go on and on. And the fuchsias are so full of flowers that they are bending the stems - that blast of fire up the mites backsides from my blow torch last year really worked. I’ve never seen the Hebe’s so full of blossom and the honeysuckle scent is so sweet that it’s giving me a headache. We’ve had a good crop of broad beans and the runner beans are (at time of writing) getting there. Our meetings this year have included talks on winter container plants, making gypsy flowers, the way that flowers range from being flamboyant to demure, making a winter garden, living on the Scilly Isles, caring for houseplants, enjoying herbaceous perennials and ‘Brussel’s sprouts - an EU conspiracy’. We have also had several trips out – to Hampton Court near Leominster, to Hookhouse Pottery and to Dewstowe. The debate over compost rumbles on - sell-by dates, is there a difference between multi-purpose and
all-purpose, is it better to use home made compost or ‘green waste’ from local councils, is peat-free compost any good? As ‘old blues eye’s’ said ‘It was a very good year’. We do not meet in August but I will give you details of future meetings in the September magazine. And don’t forget to put loads of stuff in the Hawkesbury Show on Saturday 27th August! If you are not a member and would like to hear a speaker that takes your fancy, then come along as a guest – entry £3. For further information, contact Terry Truebody on 01454 238364. HAWKESBURY STORES UPDATE We’re now more than a month into community ownership of Hawkesbury Stores, and hopefully you’ve been pleased with the service so far! Everyone at the Stores has been delighted with the level of custom and volunteer support, and we’ll keep striving for more of both to make this a successful and sustainable village asset. Here are the highlights from our first few weeks:
Staff and volunteers Kath and Kate (our paid staff) increased their hours in the first few weeks to get us off to a flying start, and to train our plucky volunteers. Volunteering in-store has proved to be a sociable way to spend a few
hours each week, so give it a try! Contact Moira Fozard to find out more about volunteering. Email [email protected] or call 238281.
Lower prices We’re keeping a close eye on prices and we estimate that up to one third of items now cost less in Hawkesbury Stores. We lowered the price of 2L of milk by 16 pence, to £1.89.
Appearance of the Stores Thanks to a small army of hard-working and skilled volunteers we have our new colours and signage on the shopfront and some interior shelving, as well as hanging baskets adding a beautiful flourish! The work doesn’t stop there. We’re applying for grant funding to help us transform the Stores’ interior and will gradually be making more improvements in the meantime.
New products and services The shelves are filling up! We’ve brought in delicious new breads, eco-friendly products, a wider choice of wines and should have sausages from France Lane Farm by the time you read this. We’ve had some super local produce donated – from cucumbers to herbs – and ‘John’s Fresh Grimsby Fish’ comes each Wednesday morning (10.50-11.20am) to sell outside the Stores.
Keeping up to date Over 150 people are following our updates via our Facebook page (search ‘Hawkesbury Stores’ on Facebook) and our website www.hawkesbury-stores.co.uk is live and looking wonderful thanks to Jon Wallace and Karen Le Marquand (two more amazing volunteers). We’ll be sending out a regular e-newsletter – you can subscribe through the website - as well as updating you on important news with posters in-store and through this essential read! WOTTON ELECTRIC PICTURE HOUSE Below are details of some of the films showing in August. For more information phone 0870 774 1936, or visit the website wottoneph.co.uk. The BFG (PG) Mon 1st Aug 2:00 PM 8.15 PM Tue 2nd Aug 2:00 PM Tue 2nd Aug (3D) 7:30 PM Wed 3rd Aug 2:00 PM 8.30 PM Thu 4th Aug 2:00 PM 7.30 PM
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (15) Fri 5th Aug 7:30 PM Sun 7th Aug 7:30 PM Wed 10th Aug 8:30 PM
Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (encore) Tue 9th Aug 7:00 PM
The Globe: Richard II (Recorded) Thu 25th Aug 7:15 PM
Finding Dory (U) Fri 26th Aug 2:00 PM Sat 27th Aug 3:00 PM Sun 28th Aug 3:00 PM Mon 29th Aug 2:00 PM Tue 30th Aug 2:00 PM Wed 31st Aug 2:00 PM Thu 1st Sept 2:00 PM
For more details, visit www.forestry.gov.uk/westonbirt-events
Two events for families - part of the Plant Hunters Academy event series.
Storm in a Teacup - family event Monday-Friday 1-5th August 11 am – 4 pm Crafts and activities based around plant hunter Robert Fortune. Make your own plant
hunter sketch book Create a print of the
Varnish Tree The Plant Painter - family event Monday-Friday 8-12th August 11am – 4 pm Enjoy crafts and activities inspired by the plant hunter Marianne North. Botanical painting with
cotton buds Make a wingnut seed
catkin
27 - 29 AUGUST
Going out with a bang! After 22 amazing and creative years, 2016 will be the final ever Treefest. Its last year will be a celebration of the event and all of the people who have made it so enjoyable over some many years. Over 100 exhibitors, an array of delicious food and tantalising new music, fabulous woodcarving in the heart of the Old Arboretum, fantastic activities for families and the spectacular TIMBERSPORTS® show from STIHL.
22 July -
31 August
THE MACMILLAN COTSWOLD WAY MIGHTY HIKE Chris and Jenny are both humbled and grateful for all the donations to Macmillan. The walk didn't go quite as planned, with Chris bailing out, exhausted, at 17 miles. But Jenny soldiered on, and completed the 26 (27? 28? who knows?) miles looking fit for a few more. The organisation was amazing and, yes, we would do it again! We're proud to have raised well over £1,000 for Macmillan, and we would still welcome donations through www.justgiving.com/hillesleychris or www.justgiving.com/hillesleyjenny. Chris & Jenny
WELL DONE, CHRIS & JENNY!
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Monday – Friday - Lane swimming 6.30-8 pm
Friday – Adult general swimming 9-10 am Adult + baby session 10:15-11.15 am Ladies water therapy 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Sunday - Family session 10am-12 noon
No price increase since 2009! Adults: £2.50 Juniors: £1.50 Family ticket: £6 Pool Party: £50
Venue for Corporate Hire
Offering a stunning building and location, the Great Oak Hall at Westonbirt, The National Arboretum is available for weekday conferences, meetings, seminars, training workshops and staff away-days. Hire includes a complimentary visit for up to 80 people to the arboretum and tree-top walkway on the day of hire. Proceeds to the charity support the future of this national tree collection.
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BRIDGE Do you want to learn how to play this
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basics, but want to improve?
I will be giving lessons again this
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(Civic Centre). My courses are
designed for anybody who wants to
have fun, learn an enjoyable hobby and
make new friends.
Come on your own or with a friend,
you'll be assured of a warm welcome.
For details, contact Ian Cooke:
01666 890261
A J O U R N GOODWILL CHILDREN’S HOMES (www.goodwillhome.org.uk) has been supporting long term care and education of destitute children in South India for over 40 years. It funds three children’s homes and a Tribal Outreach Programme (TORP).
The children all come from very poor backgrounds and are often orphaned at a young age.
‘We have supported this charity for nearly 20 years and visited the homes in March 2016 as part of the first Friends of Goodwill Tour. It was a heartwarming, and humbling, experience to meet the children, including the girl we sponsor. As well as visiting the homes, we did some sightseeing, including a night on a converted rice boat on the backwaters of Kerala.’ Carol Dawson
Inspired by what we do? Be part of it and see for yourself! Join the next “Friends of Goodwill” tour to India 16TH FEBRUARY - 2ND MARCH 2017 The tour will be led by Elaine Clark, one of the charity’s Trustees, who has visited India and the homes many times.
For more information, contact: Theresa van der Merwe Tel 0117 3250 550
Email: [email protected]
Love live music? come and see..
Bank Holiday Sunday 28th August from 7pm In the Hawkesbury Show Marquee
Tickets: £8 in advance or £12 on the door All sold tickets will be entered into to a free prize draw on the night.
To get your tickets call or text Mel on 07788752689 or Email: [email protected]. Tickets can also be purchased at Hawkesbury Farm Shop, Hawkesbury Post office & Hawkesbury Shop
All proceeds in aid of Hawkesbury After School Club & Hawkesbury Preschool.
131ST HAWKESBURY HORTICULTURAL SHOW Saturday 27th August 2016
At the Village Hall and Rec, Hawkesbury Upton
Entertainment in the arena: Meirion Owen and his Quack Pack team, AcroGymnastics Group and Tricky Micky
Beer tent * Grand Draw * Pimms Tent * Bath Archers * Hog and Deer Roast * Fairground rides * Tractor Pull Competition * a wide variety of trade, charity &
craft stalls around the arena
Carnival Queen crowned at 1.30pm on The Plain Carnival leaves The Plain at 1.35pm to travel along High Street to the
Showground led by Nailsworth Silver Band
(High Street closed to vehicles 1.15pm – 2.00pm)
Auction of donated produce at the end of the day - Auctioneer: Mr Nick Cragg
Showground gates open at 12.30 pm Pay on the date or buy advance tickets at The Village Shop or The Post Office,
Hawkesbury Upton Adults £5, Senior Citizens £3, Children £2, Family ticket £12 (2 adults + up to 4
children) www.hawkesburyshow.org
YOGA
The benefits of yoga are endless and can help many health issues. Suitable for all abilities.
Classes held Monday to Friday in Stinchcombe. £8 per session. Please phone 07943100979 for
more details.
HILLESLEY TENNIS
Coaching/ Drill sessions Saturdays from 10.15am-12.30pm Includes Year 5-U16
Tuesdays 3.45-4.30pm Mini Tennis club reception-Year 4
Contact Elaine to enrol: 01454 315023 / 07725165181. [email protected]
Over 16’s & Adults - Private Tuition - Gift Vouchers Elaine Weightman. LTA Registered Coach.
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Chimney sweep for all types of chimneys
Please contact Steve or Ted on 01454232941 or 07974194012
Lower Kilcott Farm
Deb's Celebration Cakes
Individually designed cakes for all occasions.
Wedding, celebration and novelty cakes
Workshops and classes available
Tel: Deb Pidsley
01453 834394 or 07890 292125
www.debscelebrationcakes.com
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