BROADWINDSOR PCC 100 CLUB

We thank everyone who have renewed their subscription for 2010 and thank the new folk who have entered the lottery. Anyone who is interested in being present at the draw each month are welcome to come to the Church Centre in the Square, enjoy a coffee and be there for the draw at 11 am on the second Saturday of each month. Thank you David Bishop.

Prize Winners for January Draw.

1st prize £15 Mrs. C. Loudon No 2
2nd prize £10 Mr/Mrs Waters No 25
3rd prize £7 Mr/Mrs Hookings No 10
4th Prize £5 Mrs. D. Sampson No 14

The next draw will take place in the Church Centre on Saturday 13.2.10 at 11 am

HURSEY STALL

The new season's Marmalade is now on sale in the porch at Oldcotes Hursey (small increase in price to £1.60 a lb. because of the increase in the oranges and sugar.)
All money taken is for charity and we thank you for your support in the past and hope you continue to enjoy it!
If anyone has jam jars to spare they would be gratefully received.
Aileen and David

Lent Study Course in Broadwindsor

These will be held at Redwoods in Broadwindsor on Tuesdays 23rd February and
2nd,9th,16th,and 23rd of March starting at 2.30pm and led by Revd. Sue Symons. If you would like to come along and join the group please contact Anita on 01308 868473.

Lent Lunches in Comrades Hall Broadwindsor 12.30 - 2pm

These will begin on Thursday 18th February and continue for six weeks.
18th February Pat and friends
25th February Anita and friends
4th March Irene and friends
11th March Fran and friends
18th March Aileen and Hursey friends
25th March Pearl and friends

We all look forward to your support - Homemade Soup and roll, followed by cheese and biscuits and coffee - served hot with plenty of chat !
Aileen

Val Johnson would like to take this opportunity to thank her friends and neighbours for their many messages of sympathy and offers of support following the death of her precious husband, Peter, just before Christmas.
He is finally free from pain and for that she must be grateful.

Toads crossing the B3162 at Sandpit

The annual migration to the lakes at Sandpit will start in mid February. Can I make a plea to all motorists to take care when driving through the hamlet, especially from dusk when movement commences, usually on damp warm evenings. The toads often look like stones and freeze in car's headlights so can be difficult to spot. The Road Signs will be erected in order to give drivers plenty of warning to slow down, as they approach the breeding grounds.

These amphibians are fast becoming an endangered species due to disease and road deaths. They are good friends to the gardener as their main diets are slugs, snails and caterpillars.

Thank you for your consideration.

Rodney Butler
Woodlands House
Sandpit.

Can anyone help?

A Broadwindsor village pensioner is looking for a piece of ground 20ft by 12 ft for eight hens (no cockerel). Possibly an old orchard, back garden or corner of a field. In exchange will be - Produce, small payment or cut grass and clean up. Will fence in hens and henhouse within the area. Tel Mr. Davies, 17 Fullers BW DT8 3PY on 0798 5546655 if you are able to help.


Seaborough Notes

In spite of all the icy weather the Seaborough annual Christmas carol service took place on Christmas Eve. The Revd, Sue Symons kindly conducted the service in a full and chilly church. Thank you to all who helped the arrangements, the readers, singer, for crib, decorations and congregation.
Congratulations from Seaborough to Emma and Stuart Bacon on the arrival of their daughter Alice Rose a sister for Jack on the 2nd December. When this magazine arrives of course she will already be two months old.
As all the invisible and hazardous ice gradually reduces in all four exits out of the village, we look forward to spring and a happy new year.

Esther Nicholson

It may interest parishioners to know that our daily Rainfall recordings for Seaborough revealed that the Parish received in excess of a fifth (21%) more rain during 2009 compared with the average annual amount that fell over the last eight years.

Peter Benson

DRIMPTON NEWS

February brings Lent and Lent Lunches held in the Village Hall. The hostesses each choose a charity and how to support it.
We continue to pray for sick and housebound people in our village.
Margaret Prentice

St Mary's Church, Drimpton

100 Club Draw January 2010
Number Name Prize
1st Prize 52 Mrs V Watts £15
2nd Prize 30 Mr R Gillham £10
3rd Prize 23 Mrs C Pilz £5
4th Prize 13 Mr R Shepherd £2.50

Marshwood Primary School


Monday 15th to Friday 19th February inclusive - Half Term
Wednesday 31st March - Easter Service 10.00 am
Thursday 1st April - Term Ends
Monday 19th April - Inset Day - school closed
Tuesday 20th April - Term Begins

St Andrew's Church Burstock February Report

Thanks to all those who decorated the Church at Christmas. We are still waiting for some Gift Day envelopes to be returned, at present the total is over £300.
We now look forward to 2010 and our first event of the year is a Pancake Coffee Morning on Shrove Tuesday 16th February at the Comrades Hall Broadwindsor from 10.30am to 12 noon. Please see advert for details. Our flower lady for February is Mrs. Maureen Hansford.
JOHN HANSFORD

Moviola : 'Glorious 39'
Stephen Poliakoff is both writer and director of this British old-school spy conspiracy drama. In the long hot summer of 1939, an adopted daughter of a rich MP with a country estate in Norfolk stumbles across an establishment plot involving the SIS and the aristocracy. They'll stop at nothing , including blackmail and assassination, to keep Britain from going to war, and when war breaks out, to making peace with Nazi Germany. The cast includes David Tennant, Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter and Christopher Lee and the film will be shown at the Comrades Hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday 17th February.
For reservations, contact Nigel Budden 01308 868 582 or Denny Hughes 01308 868 946
NHB

down this upper valley of the Axe

Blackdown News


Please join us for a Eucharist Pancake Service on Sunday 14 February at 6pm.

A printout of all Blackdown services for 2010 is now available from the church wardens

Unfortunately the Snowman Beetle Drive Night clashed with other Christmas events, but thank you to everyone who came and/or donated prizes and raised £209 for funds.

Only about 2" of snow fell on the 6 January compared to 6"+ last February, but still enough to leave some of the lanes almost impassable unless your driving a tractor or four wheel drive, thankfully the skating rink along Speckett's Lane seems to have been fixed by our local farmers who also do a sterling job in keeping some lanes clear for their milk tanker collections.

Whist Drives at Blackdown Village Hall are on the 4th and 18th February, starting at 7.30pm, whilst Peter Hardwill will be talking to Blackdown WI about "How I got started" on 11th February.

Helen Doble

ST ANDREW'S CHURCH BURSTOCK

ANNUAL PANCAKE AND COFFEE MORNING
SHROVE TUESDAY 16TH FEBRUARY 2010
10.30am-12 noon
COMRADES HALL BROADWINDSOR
RAFFLE, CAKE STALL AND TOMBOLA
£1.50 for coffee and first pancake - extra pancake 50p each.

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Broadwindsor Comrades Hall
Dorset Moviola
presents
'Glorious 39'
Murky dealings of the English aristocracy
with Nazism

Starring
David Tennant, Romola Garai,
Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jenny Agutter

Wednesday 17th February
7.30pm
Tickets £5
Reservations: Nigel Budden 01308 868 582 or Denny Hughes 01308 868 946

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St. Mary's Church Drimpton
& Netherhay Methodist Church
Lent Lunches
Wednesdays
February 24th
March 10th, 17th, 24th
Drimpton Village Hall
12.30 to 1.30
£3-50
In Aid of Churches & Charities
Everyone Welcome

forestforge
theatre company
Presents
Free Folk
Forest Forge brings you the world premiere of a new play by the award-winning playwright Gary Owen. 'Free Folk' is a comedy about living in a free country and never being able to do what you really want to!
A joyful and witty exploration of what it is to live in the rural Britain of today.
DRIMPTON VILLAGE HALL
In conjunction with Artsreach
Supported by Arts Council SW, Dorset County, West Dorset District Councils
TUESDAY MARCH 2nd 7.30pm
Adult £7.50, Under 18 £5, Family £22

Tickets: Jane 867031, Christabel 868523, Viv 868005

SPECIAL DIARY DATES FOR FEBRUARY
4 Thursday
7.30 Whist drive Bl. VH
7 Sunday
8.15 Quiz Royal Oak Drimpton
8 Monday
7.30 Parish council CH
9 Tuesday
2pm Country dancing CH
10 Wednesday
12.30 Light lunch DVH
7.30 Short mat bowls CH
11 Thursday
7'30 Skittles Lewesdon Room
13 Saturday
8.30 Men's Breakfast Netherhay
10.30 Potato Day DVH
16 Tuesday
10.30-12.30 Pancakes and Coffee CH
17 Wednesday
7.30 Moviola "Glorious 39" CH
18 Thursday
12.30-2 Lent lunch CH
7.30 Whist drive Bl. VH
20 Saturday
10.00 Craft Day DVH
22 Monday
Councillors in White lion
23 Tuesday
2pm Country dancing
2.30 Lent course Redwoods
24 Wednesday
7.30 Short mat bowls CH
12.30 Lent lunch DVH
25 Thursday
12.30-2pm Lent Lunch CH

FUTURE DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
MARCH
2 Forest Forge DVH
17 Moviola "An Education" CH