Month: January 2022

Beetle Drive Afternoon – 2pm Saturday, 29th January

Broadwindsor Fun Group are holding a Beetle Drive afternoon at the Comrades Hall at 2pm on Saturday, 29th January to raise funds for the Jubilee Fun Day in June.

Great fun for all the family – the aim of the game is to be the first player to draw a complete beetle and shout ‘Beetle!’. In teams of four…

Each part of the beetle’s body has a number that matches a number on the dice:

Once ‘Beetle!’ has been called the game will end. Each member of the group works out their score; 1 point for each part of the beetle that you have drawn. The person with the highest score on your table has won your game and now would move to the next table (in an anti–clockwise direction). If 2 people on the table have the same highest score, then the youngest person would move.  Because of the pandemic, the Group will not have people moving onto different tables so you will stay with your group throughout the afternoon.

12 games will be played.

There will be a short interval halfway through with light refreshments on sale.

Prizes will be awarded for those with the highest overall point score and for the best drawn beetle by a junior 🙂

Tickets on sale now: £2.00 in advance at Broadwindsor Community Stores or £3.00 at the door.

🙂 An affordable afternoon’s fun in a somewhat dreary January!

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#NoChildLeftBehind – Email Your MP

Incredible as it may sound, 4,165 children in West Dorset are trapped in poverty. That equates to 28%. That also doesn’t include the figures for 2021. No Child Left Behind have launched their campaign and to date, at the time of publishing, our local representative in Parliament, Conservative MP for Dorset, Chris Loder has NOT yet taken the following pledge:

As a member of Parliament, I pledge to do everything in my power so that no child is left behind in West Dorset:

  • I call for the development of a cross-Government strategy to eradicate the poverty faced by the 4.3 million children currently growing up trapped in poverty.
  • I will use my vote and voice in Parliament to try to stop an expected 730,000 more children being plunged into poverty by 2024.

We must value and invest in all our children, so they are supported to learn, succeed, and go on to have bright futures.

 What to write?  An example email is provided HERE at the No Child Left Behind website.

The No Child Left Behind campaign is fighting to break down the barriers poverty puts up around equal access to education.

Please visit nochildleftbehind.org.uk for further information.

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Join Broadwindsor’s PCC 100 Club

Different from Broadwindsor’s 100 club run by the Comrades Hall Committee which raises funds for the Comrades Hall,, the PCC 100 Club raises funds for our church, St. John the Baptist church. A note from their secretary…

Thank you for all your support over the past year. It is now time to think of this year.  So please! Subscriptions are due for the year 2022.
There are spare numbers if you wish to join.  contact details below.

  • Cost: £12 for the year. Half of the subscription goes to the Church.
  • The Draw: takes place every 2nd Saturday of each month.
  • Prizes: 1st – £15.00; 2nd – £10.00; 3rd – £7.00 & 4th – £5.00
    In June & December: 1st – £50; 2nd, 3rd & 4th – £20.00 each.

Subscriptions can be left at Broadwindsor’s village shop. Please put in an envelope with your name and address and marked for ‘Robin‘. Cash or cheque.
Cheques should be made payable to: Broadwindsor PCC 100 Club.
A further alternative is through the letterbox at 8, Redlands Lane.

It would also be helpful if you could advise me if you do not wish to continue with the Club.
Thank you.

Robin Louden – 01308 867997

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Hursey Common Now Clear

The sheep grazing at the sports field in Hursey Common have now left.  It is now safe for dog walkers to allow their dogs to run inside.  Please remember to pick up any mess your dog may deposit 🙂

Please also share this information with other dog owners you know/see as not everyone uses the internet and/or social media.

Thank you.

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Save The White Lion NEWS UPDATE #6

The White Lion Steering Group met by video call on Monday 3rd January to discuss preparations for the public meeting at Comrades Hall, Broadwindsor, on Tuesday 11th January at 7pm.

This is the meeting at which members of the public will be asked to support the fundraising campaign to raise the £30,000 needed for the village to take over the White Lion as a tenant and operate it as a community pub.

The deal negotiated with Palmers Brewery represents the best chance the village has for the pub to be refurbished and reopened in spring 2022. The Steering Group believe that community management is the only way the pub can survive. A village pub at the heart of the community benefits everyone, not just pub goers. It helps to keep the community together, provides a social hub and impacts on property prices.

The Steering Group comprises:

  • David Leader (Chair)
  • Elaine Leader
  • Susanna Newall
  • Chris Newall
  • Sandra Burrows
  • Charles Ouin
  • Luke Pickering
  • Andrew Hookings
  • Margery Hookings
  • Fraser Hughes
  • Chris Edgerley
  • Rick Dyke.

The following is a summary of the meeting on 3rd January, excluding commercially sensitive or personal information:

  • A flyer will be delivered to Broadwindsor households, with supporting information on the websites: SaveTheWhiteLion.org, Broadwindsor.org and Broadwindsor Group Parish Council at broadwindsorgroup.gov.uk
  • The steering group will deliver meeting invitations to households by the end of this weekend (8th-9th January). This will be followed up by personal visits to households to those not at the meeting on 11th January.
  • Supporting information will comprise a summary of the project and its history, the steering group vision and the benefits to the community, securing the White Lion’s future and Business Plan forecast, a membership form, legal structure and explanation of funding sources – which could include Crowdfunding if match funding is available.
  • It is hoped a video link can be set up and publicised for those who can’t get to the meeting in person or if Covid regulations prevent large numbers attending.
  • It was agreed that membership of Broadwindsor Community Pub, which gives members a right to the attend the AGM and vote and to ask questions of the management team, will be £5. This is the same as Broadwindsor Community Stores. However, the community needs to raise a minimum of £30,000 through donations to enable the steering group to sign the tenancy with Palmers.
  • The fundraising campaign will take place over a four-week period from Jan 11th – Feb 8th 2022. The Steering group will sign the tenancy with Palmers Brewery on 17th February only if the necessary target has been reached. Then refurbishment can take place and a manager appointed. Discussions about potential manager are ongoing.
  • Local businesses are being approached to support the community pub project. The Comrades Arms has already raised £3,000 for the project. A banner will be put up on the hedge at Bernards’ Place to highlight the fundraising campaign, alongside a Yard of Ale ‘thermometer’ so everyone can see how much we still need to raise.
  • Hard copies of the Business Plan will be available at The Comrades Arms / shop / post office and be available online. A limited number will be available for inspection at the public meeting on 11th January.

SaveTheWhiteLion.Org

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Epiphany – Thursday, 6th January

Wednesday 5th is the day to take down and remove your Christmas decorations – the Twelfth Night.  According to the first tradition, those who fail to remember to remove their Christmas decorations on Epiphany Eve must leave them untouched until Candlemas (2nd February), the second opportunity to remove them; failure to observe this custom is considered inauspicious. Other Christian countries historically remove them on Candlemas, the conclusion of Epiphanytide.

Other popular Epiphany customs include:

  • Chalking the Door: either on Twelfth Night (5th January), the twelfth day of Christmastide and eve of the feast of the Epiphany, or on Epiphany Day (6th January) itself, many Christians (including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, among others) write on their doors with chalk in a pattern such as 20 ✝ C ✝ M ✝ B ✝ 22, with the numbers referring “to the calendar year (20 and 22, for instance, for this year, 2022); the crosses stand for Christ; and the letters have a two-fold significance: C, M and B are the initials for the traditional names of the Magi (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar), but they are also an abbreviation of the Latin blessing Christus mansionem benedicat, which means, May Christ bless this house.“
  • Having one’s house blessed – contact Rev. Jo 🙂
  • Epiphany singing: Star singers also known as Epiphany singers, or Star boys’ singing procession (England), are children and young people walking from house to house with a star on a rod and often wearing crowns and dressed in clothes to resemble the Three Magi.  Nowadays, it is not only boys who sing and they no longer go from house to house.
  • Consuming Three Kings Cake: now replaced with Christmas cake, it was frequently baked witho a bean hidden in one side and a pea hidden in the other; the man/lord finding the bean became King for the night, while the woman/lady finding the pea became the Queen – also known as the Lord or Lady of Misrule. Earlier, in the time of Shakespeare, there was only a Lord of Misrule, chosen by the hidden bean, reflected in Shakespeare’s play ‘Twelfth Night‘.
  • Winter swimming: Typically outdoors or in an unheated pool.
  • Attending Church services – please visit HERE for more information.

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Temporary Speed Limit on Beaminster Road – January 8th

BT’s Openreach will be performing underground works from outside Wantsley Farm on the B3163 to Horn Park Farm on Saturday, January 8th.

A 40 mph temporary speed limit will be imposed in both directions. This will be from 8am on Saturday through to 4pm on Sunday 9th January when they expect their works to be completed.  Openreach will have boards and signage in place.

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Last Few Days To Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Weldmar Hospicecare’s Christmas Treecycle is almost over. You can book a collection for your real Christmas tree, in return for a suggested minimum donation of £10 per tree.

  • 🌲 Booking closes on Wednesday, 5th January
  • 🌲 Collection on Saturday, 8th January

Don’t sit and look at it – enrol in the Weldmar Hospicecare Tree recycle project and it will be collected from you on Saturday 8th. Its quick and easy….You can complete the form online HERE or you can telephone 01305 261800.
Most importantly, ALL MONEY RAISED WILL GO DIRECTLY TO WELDMAR – so please support your local hospice.  THANK YOU.

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A Piper Welcomes In 2022

Villagers who were out to welcome the New Year were treated to a piper playing Auld Lang Syne as it turned midnight into 2022 🙂

The piper, who was with a private function being held in the Comrades Hall, played outside the hall and then led the party and those from the Comrades Arms down to the square to meet with other villagers who had kept the tradition of singing Auld Lang Syne and making a circle in the square.

When the piper had stopped, we were then led to Bennett Jones, aged only 10 years, who played his rendition of Auld Lang Syne on his trumpet.  The piper played another tune and a few fireworks were let off from Bernards’ Place.

The following 2 and a half minute video is not professional but hopefully captures the spirit and gives memories to those who were there:

Happy New Year!

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The Bishops’ Kitchen – January ’22

Recipes for two winter warmers:

STEAMED VENISON PUDDING:

  • 675g boneless venison from shoulder or neck
  • 25g plain flour
  • 2 sliced onions
  • 175g chestnut mushrooms cut in half
  • 50g butter
  • 1 and a half tsp ground cinnamon
  • half tsp ground cloves
  • 2tsp crushed juniper berries
  • 1tbsp course cut marmalade
  • 225ml Guinness
  • 2tsp soy sauce
  • 225g belly pork
  • salt & black pepper

Method:

Slice venison into 2.5cm pieces put in large bowl and coat with the flour. Melt 40g butter into a large casserole fry onions until dark brown add mushrooms and cook for 3 mins.

Remove onions & mushrooms from casserole. Add rest of butter to casserole then add venison and fry until brown all over, stir in spices, juniper berries, onions, mushrooms and  marmalade finally Guinness and soy sauce and season well bring to boiling point cover.

Place in oven @ 240c/mark 9 for ten mins. Turn down heat 150c/mark 2 cook for I hour.

Cut skin off belly pork then slice pork only into small pieces and add to casserole and cook for 30 mins check seasoning leave to cool.

Pudding crust:

  • 175g self-raising flour
  • 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
  • 2 heaped tsp mustard seeds
  • 175g suet 1 egg

To make the crust, mix together flour, breadcrumbs, mustard seeds and suet, season with salt and black pepper.
Beat the egg and 175ml water and gradually stir the liquid into the flour mixture to form a soft elastic dough. Gather up the dough and cut a quarter off to form the lid.

Generously butter a 1.2 litre pudding basin and line with the pastry pressing against the sides leaving a little over the edge. Fill with venison mixture then roll out the remaining pastry into a circle to form a lid. Moisten the edges, place lid on top and press to form a seal.
Cover the basin with buttered grease proof paper then a piece of foil and secure with string under the rim. Put the basin in a large pan add boiling water halfway cover pan and boil for 2 hours remove from pan and serve.

STEAMED CHICKEN & CHILLI PUDDING WITH A SPICED CRUST

  • 900g boneless, skinless chicken
  • 25g butter 2tbsp olive oil
  • 1-2 fresh red chillies
  • 5cm piece fresh ginger
  • 2 large cloves garlic
  • 3 medium chicory
  • 1 small red pepper
  • coarsely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
  • salt & black pepper

Cut the chicken into large chunks & mix with flour, salt & pepper. Heat oil in large pan & fry chicken until just brown on all sides remove and leave to cool.

Pudding crust:

  • 175g self raising flour
  • 3 tsp paprika
  • 2 tsp ground mace
  • 5 pinches cayenne
  • 100g white breadcrumbs
  • 175g butter grated from frozen
  • 1 egg

Put the flour, paprika, mace, cayenne, large pinch of salt & breadcrumbs into a large bowl & mix.
Grate frozen butter into four mixing it in very lightly with your finger tips. Whisk the egg with 175 cold water & gradually add to flour & gently make a ball cut a quarter off to form the lid. Roll out the large piece fairly thin to line a buttered 1.7 litre pudding basin.

Cut the chilli in half lengthways & discard the seeds & chop finely. Peel ginger & garlic & chop finely cut the chicory across into thick slices. Cut pepper in half remove seeds & slice thinly, in a saucepan mix the chillies, ginger, garlic, chicory, red pepper lemon juice & rind with the browned chicken. Cover with water & bring to boil. Check seasoning cook for 15 mins leave to cool & spoon the mixture into pudding basin & finish as for previous recipe.
Cook the pudding in a covered pan of boiling water  for 3 hours & serve.

All recipes are from Hursey resident, Richard Childs.

Missed a recipe? Click HERE to view Richard’s earlier recipes and other seasonal ideas.

Christmas Garland

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