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Monday June 29th
Please Take My Children to Work Day
Today in the village
Parish Council
If you have any news or other contributions you think the village would be interested in please let me know via email or the Contact Website button at the bottom of this page.
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Thursday's Art Club will be on the theme of Winsford Buildings, which just happens to be a subject of exhibits for the Winsford Produce Show.
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- This Week's Diary -
Mon 29th
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9:00am Circuit Training, Recreation Field *Cancelled*
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7:00pm Parish Council meeting, Village Hall
Tues 30th
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2.30pm Bowls, Village Hall
Wed July 1st
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10:30am Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
Thurs 2nd
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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10:30am Art Club, Village Hall
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6:00pm Table Tennis , Village Hall
Fri 3rd
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6:00pm Exford Community Youth Club, Exford Pavilion
Sat 4th
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11:30am Bellringing
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2:00pm Cricket - Roadwater I (h)
Sun 5th
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2:30pm Pimms & Strawberry Cream Tea afternoon, The Close
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It seems our Google based Whats On calendar has been displaying times in GMT since the clocks went forward, due to a bug with our website providers. This has now been resolved and hopefully it didn't inconvenience any of you.
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Sunday Motoring Section
These are this week's proposed local road closures and other significant works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
This week:
Until Wednesday - work continues on the B3224 Brendon Hills road to Taunton affecting both sides of the junction of Beluah Chapel which may close the routes until the end of the month. The closures are for 24 hours a day. The contractors have said that School Busses will have access, and that the B3224 and B3190 will not both close at the same time.
The overnight closures on the North Devon link road from Tiverton to the M5 should finish tonight
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Until Wednesday B3224 Junction around Methodist chapel, 24hours, Openreach
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Tonight North Devon Link road between Tiverton and M5, 8pm-6am overnight, re-tensioning of road restraints
And in coming weeks
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July 6th-11th (one night) B3224 Raleghs Cross road, overnight 7pm-5am, surface dressing
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July 7th Cutcombe Hill, overnight 7:30am-6am,Wessex water replacing manhole
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August 5th-6th A396 in between the two Dulverton turns, 9:30-3:30, surface dressing
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August 10th-16th B3222 Exbridge, 9:30-3:30, resurfacing
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August 19th-29th A396, south of Wheddon Cross, Openreach
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August 29th Various roads delays, 6:30am-5pm, Exmoor Beast cycling
Dunster By Traffic Light website confirms live traffic conditions coming in and out of Minehead
Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here
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Unfortunately Winsford's cricket team continues to struggle to raise a team, and they had to concede last weekend's match against Stoke St Mary. Despite an enthusiastic core of players, getting eleven fit, non-holidaying or working players to play each week is proving to be very difficult.
If you think you would like to have a go, I'm sure secretary Andrew Blackmore would love to hear from you, his email is andrew-blackmore@hotmail.co.uk
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A message from Arwen Lewis who has coached many of Winsford's finest musicians, to anyone thinking about taking it up:
I am thinking about possibly starting a fortnightly beginner wind ensemble/ wind band (1.15-2.30pm on Wednesdays in Dulverton Parish Rooms) that might lead players on up to the existing wind band over time and can also function as a happy group in its own right.
I am thinking flutes, clarinets and saxophones, double reeds- people who can already play a few notes and produce a sound up to about grade 4. ( preparatory level-grade 4 approximate level).
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP OR KNOW ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO, AND I CAN THEN SEE IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO START IN SEPTEMBER!
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The Parish Council have published the agenda for Monday's meeting. Amongst items up for discussion are:
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Updates from Somerset Councillors
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Highway matters
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Website and email options
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Finance
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Winsford Charitable Trust (Village Green)
The full agenda can be read here
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The council have also asked to share the contents of a Red Heat Health document they have received from Somerset Council. The document includes plenty of good advice such as:
• Drink plenty of water
• Avoid the hottest part of the day (11am–3pm) and if you are out, wear a hat and sunscreen and stay in the shade where possible
• Keep indoor spaces cool where possible, by drawing curtains or blinds
• Check on older or vulnerable people
• Avoid unnecessary travel
• Take care around open water during hot weather, as swimming in open water can cause cold water shock
The full document can be downloaded here
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A reminder that today's Circuit Training has been cancelled.
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We must thank Mr Christopher Rice for alerting us to a letter written by CS Lewis to his brother in 1940 regarding Winsford.
For those that may not know, CS Lewis was a leading author (he wrote The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe books), literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. The letter refers to an extended walk he made with friends.
The rest of this not very satisfactory day made some amends. It was down-hill: no nonsense about scenery, you understand! It led us to tea at Bridgetown, and thence on through evening sunlight on that best possible kind of road which, keeping more or less level, follows the windings of a green, narrow valley, with a river on one side and a low cliff of rocks on the other.
We came at about 7 to Winsford where we found a delightful hotel within sound of the water in a village so small and quiet that you could dawdle about in the street listening to that sound. We had to sleep in the ‘Annexe’ not the hotel proper, which turned out to be rather an advantage, for the annexe had a sitting room of its own with a ‘cosy stove’ lit in it and we had it to ourselves.
Several other places are mentioned, such as Wootton Courtney, Luxborough, Dunster, Cutcombe (a rather unpleasant village) and the Rest & Be Thankful Inn
The full letter is published in Lewis, C. S. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. Vol. 2, Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931–1949. Edited by Walter Hooper. San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco, 2004.
It can also be downloaded here
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The schedule has been published for this year's Produce Show, and will appear over the coming days in the shop, Coffee Club and church
It can also be downloaded here
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Winsford Gardening Club
Many thanks to the twelve people who attended our first Gardening Club meeting on Tuesday. The level of interest has been great as many others are interested but couldn’t make the first meeting. We all enjoyed tea, coffee and cakes, and discussed ideas for our Gardening Club which included:
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Sharing which jobs need to be done each month.
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What grows well in Winsford and what doesn’t.
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How to grow fruit and veg
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Inviting expert gardening speakers to our meetings.
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Visits to each other’s gardens.
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Sharing seeds, cuttings and plants.
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What to grow without a greenhouse.
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Organising visits to gardens of interest and other places.
It was agreed that the club would get together at 11am on the second Tuesday each month from May to October with an additional meeting in January. The cost is £2 if the meetings are held in the village hall or £1 if held at someone’s home where Gardening Club refreshments will be used.
Everyone agreed to set up a WhatsApp group to keep each other informed. If you are interested in joining the Winsford Gardening Club, please let me know, and I will add you to the group.
The next meeting is at 11am on Tuesday 14th July and will be kindly hosted by Mel and Dave in their garden.
Sharon 07535 760562
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Eric Norman, Landlord at the Rest & Be Thankful Inn, Wheddon Cross, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the latest Kings Honours list for his role in supporting victims of the Cutcombe Hill bus crash.
You can view the ITV news item here
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