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BODHAM On
WEDNESDAY, 11TH OCTOBER at 7.30 pm there will be a Film Show in Bodham
Village Hall. The film will be
"Young Victoria". The
next TABLE TOP BODHAM
PARISH COUNCIL. Terry
Comber, Vice-Chair to the Council, will be holding a "Surgery" at
the Table-Top Sale in the Village Hall at Bodham on the morning of the 17th
October. If you have any questions, do pop in for a chat. WEYBOURNE COMMUNITY
FUND FUN DAY, AUGUST 30TH 2009 On
a near perfect weather day, and along with 30 other Car Booters,
our club raised an incredible £120 from our Book Stall. We
are certain that the fantastic sum raised at the 14th Fun Day was largely due
to the work and dedication of the Community Fund Committee for the weeks
before and on the day. It
was wonderful to see over 1000 people (a guess as I was too busy to count!)
enjoying both the glorious weather and the multitude of games stalls, bouncy
slides, pony and trap rides, as well as the facilities in the excellent
refreshment areas. We
say a BIG thank you to all the locals who supported our stall, and the
holidaymakers, many of whom come to the area especially to enjoy the Fun Day,
we were told. But especially we would
wish to say WELL DONE!!! to everyone on the
Community Fund Committee and their many volunteers for a splendid job. The
benefits to the village which the funding raised provides,
are many and varied, to organisations like ours in the village, and I am
looking forward to being on the receiving end of the Pensioners After
Christmas Luncheon in JANUARY 2010. Valerie
Ball, Chairman WEYBOURNE
VILLAGE HALL Future
Bingo Sessions will be presented by the Harry Dawson Playing-field committee
to raise funds for the up-keep and maintenance of the field and apparatus for
local children and visitors in Weybourne.
Dates of the sessions (all Fridays) - October 30th - November 13th -
January 29th 2010 - doors open 7 pm - cash and prize bingo starts 7.30
pm. Children must be accompanied by a
responsible adult. PLEASE
NOTE - Our Christmas Special Bingo Party is on Friday, 4th December. Due to the Village Hall's insurance
requirements this session will be by admission of pre-purchased ticket only -
no ticket sales on the night. Tickets
are £1 for each adult and £1 for each accompanied child - tickets will be on
sale at our September, October and November Bingo sessions. There are only 90 tickets available - to
avoid disappointment come along to these sessions and buy your
Christmas Party Tickets. Phone Jon
Rowling 588660 regarding ticket sales.
Thank you. QUIZ
EVENING By
request Jon and Thea Rowling will be presenting
another of their Special Quiz Evenings at Weybourne Village Hall on Saturday
17th October. Usual details for the
evening - Tickets (pre-purchased) £2.50 each - teams of four maximum - doors
open 7 pm. Quiz starts 7.30 pm - sorry, no children - no bar so please bring
your own drink and glasses - tea and coffee available - prizes, raffle,
surprises, etc. Donations of raffle
prizes appreciated. All profits from
this event donated to BREAK - THE FRIENDS OF DAYBREAK CHARITY. PLEASE
NOTE - All tickets for this event are already booked and no tickets will be
available on the night. Please phone
JON on 588660 NOW to reserve any returned tickets. Thanks to everyone for your continued
support of our fund raising ventures and we look forward to seeing you all
again. Jon
& Thea Rowling PARISH
COUNCIL REPORT The
Parish Council's recovery work in the Churchyard is now complete - what a
difference removing the 40-foot holly and elder has made. In the Cemetery, new gates are installed
and Highways have tidied up the fly-tipped tarmac on the west front for both
safety and appearance reasons. The new
PC notice-board is in place. To
improve safety on WEYBOURNE
W.I. The
Tale of a Blackbird's Tail Feathers. Twenty-one
members and two guests attended the September meeting of Weybourne WI when we
were enthralled by a glorious slide show and most interesting talk entitled,
"The Natural History of the Glaven
Valley" by Mr. Paul Laurie, owner and manager of Natural Surroundings on
the Blakeney Road, and Bird Ventures, the
specialist wild bird feed supply shop in Chapel Yard, Holt. He showed us
slides of work in progress at Natural Surroundings and told us of his plans
to extend the site to become one of the largest wildflower meadows in Sparrow
hawks are a feature at the centre and we were told how they use their
superior vision to target their prey, but not always according to plan! Did
you know that a Blackbird can jettison its tail feathers and cause enough
confusion to be able to escape, leaving behind a neat pile of plumes? The
next time we see such evidence in the garden we will be able to smile and
think, "that's the one that got away!" The
site is also host to the recuperation and rehabilitation of injured and
traumatised wildlife, including a tawny owl knocked unconscious by a passing
vehicle and orphaned baby hedgehogs, all sensitively housed in pens until
they can be released. All
too soon, the talk and beautiful slide show drew to a close, and after a
question and answer session a heartfelt vote of thanks was given. We wish
Paul well with his future plans; such vision is vitally necessary to the well
being of our precious countryside. Our
interest groups are back on the agenda for September with scrabble on the
10th, a ramble to Kelling on Tuesday 15th and lunch on Wednesday 16th. Our
next WI meeting will be in the Village Hall at 2.00pm on Wednesday 7th
October. We extend a warm welcome to prospective new members to come along
and join with us in friendship and the chance to become involved as a group
in a wide range of issues concerning women in our society. WEA
SHERINGHAM BRANCH. Day
School: THE
ICONOGRAPHY OF THE NATIVITY Tutor:
Margaret Forrester SATURDAY
28TH NOV 2009
10.00am-4.00pm That
traditional Christmas scene is familiar from greetings cards, but how did it
originate? What are its essentials? Has it changed over the centuries? We
compare examples from Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance
works in both painting and sculpture. Fee
£15. Tea and coffee will be available for a small charge but please make your
own arrangements for lunch. To
enrol on this course please contact: Nicky
Diggle, (Enrolment Secretary ) 30,
Sheringham
NR26 8SR Tel:
01263 825696 UPCHER
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP The
partnership covers the town of AYLSHAM The
October concert organised by the Aylsham Music
Society will be on Thursday, 15th.
Presenting music by Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi will be: Anne Hopkins (flute), Adrian Knott
(oboe), John Mason (bassoon), and Susanne Vandenberg (Harpsichord). Time:
1 pm to 2 pm. Fee: £6, children
free. Refreshments available from
12.15 pm for £4. Venue: St Michael's
Church. OUT
AND ABOUT WITH FRED The
end of July brought yet another huge influx of ladybirds to July
had been a wet month with 3.39 inches of rain. The Kelling water meadow had a lot of water,
so in August we decided to lower the level to create muddy margins to attract
migrating waders. The British weather
however is unpredictable and we soon found that rain in August was to be a
rare event. We had just 0.24 of an
inch, and the meadow began to dry out more than we wanted. It did, however, attract some waders with
10 species on one day. A wood
sandpiper spent several days there and many people came down to see it. Also three spotted redshanks and two
little-ringed plovers were among the scarcer waders. Other birds were redshank, greenshank,
green sandpiper, black-tailed godwit, snipe, dunlin and an avocet. One morning three little egrets were
together, a kingfisher circled round and 65 greylag geese dropped in for a
bathe. In my youth the red-backed
shrike was not a difficult bird to find, yet one at Kelling on the 24th
brought people from far and wide to see it. As
the elderberries in my garden ripened, blackcaps soon began to come and feast
on them, along with two very smart garden warblers. A strange name for a bird which is
certainly not a common garden bird, and not easy to find. A spotted
flycatcher was also only the second one in my garden. Moths
were much more common with another 34 species added to the year list in the
garden. This included the first
recording of an antler moth. It is
said that the caterpillars of this species sometimes strip the hills in the
north of vegetation when they swarm in some years. In my friend's garden one morning in August
we recorded 100 species of moths. I
could only find a modest 62 in my own garden, but then, mine is very much
smaller. Next month brings us to
National Moth Night, when recorders all over the country send in their
reports. However, numbers will be much
lower now that summer has passed. F.J.L. THOUGHT
FOR THE MONTH Our
lives are like patchwork quilts - bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched
together with love. DON'T
FORGET Bingo
every Thursday in Bodham Village Hall at 7.30 pm. Proceeds in aid of local clubs. Cash prizes. DEADLINE
FOR NOVEMBER ISSUE: FRIDAY, 9TH OCTOBER, please to J.Perkins,
Fairlawns, Beech Close, High Kelling, NR25
6QP. Telephone: 01263 713264 |
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