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Church Christmas Services in Broadwindsor

Broadwindsor, St John the Baptist Church

Sunday 20th December – 3.30pm Bernards’ Place
A short service of carols and the Christmas story outside. Please dress warmly and keep socially distanced.
Thursday 24th December Christmas Eve:
Midnight Communion 11.30pm in church
Friday 25th December Christmas Day:
Family Communion 10.30am in church

Seats for both services inside church must be pre booked by contacting Philip Coltart on 01308 867646
 or via email philipcoltart@btinternet.com.

The photograph is from mid May 2020 when our church was lit up in blue.

Click HERE to view all the Christmas services across the Beaminster Area Team.

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Were you Witness To A Hate Crime Incident In Beaminster?

Dorset Police have issued a Witness appeal following a hate crime incident in Beaminster.
Officers are appealing for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward following a hate crime incident in Beaminster.
At around 3.50pm on Wednesday 2 December 2020 the male victim was walking his dog along Hogshill Street when he saw a vehicle parked on the pavement, causing him to have to walk in the road to get around it.
The victim asked the driver of the vehicle to move it off the pavement. It is reported that the driver shouted racially aggravated abuse at the victim.
Police Constable Dan White, of Bridport police, said: “There is no place for hate crime in the community and I am carrying out an investigation to identify the man responsible.”
“I am appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time and witnessed what happened to please get in touch.
I would also ask residents or motorists to check their home CCTV systems or dashcams for any relevant footage to assist my enquiries.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Dorset Police:

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Sophia’s Choice are Retail Winners

Sophia’s Choice in Redlands Yard have won  ‘Best Independent Natural Health & Beauty Retailer 2020‘ in the Southern Enterprise Awards.
 SME is a Small or Medium-sized Enterprise. Typically, they are defined as having fewer than 250 employees.
SME News was first launched in 2017 making it one of AI Global Media’s newer publications.  SME News is a quarterly magazine circulated to just over 100,000 recipients. The publication seeks to inform, entertain, influence and endorse the start-up and SME business culture in the UK.  Their flagship awards programme UK Enterprise Awards launched in 2017 and has rapidly become a programme that SMEs across the UK are keen to be a part of.
Charlie at Sophia’s Choice commented: “After a rather mixed year with a lot of upheaval, it is wonderful to have been recognised in this way.  For many awards you tend to pay to enter, however this one you don’t. It’s done on merit and anyone can nominate you. The shortlist is then sent to an independent judging panel who make their decision.
As a small retailer I don’t always fit into other award categories as I don’t make the products I sell and many awards focus on this. So, to have been nominated and selected for an award based on merit makes this one even more special. It’s a great way to end 2020. Thank you SME News!“

Congratulations to Charlie & her team!

For the full list of this year’s winners, please Click HERE.

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Specials At The White Lion This Weekend

On the first weekend of the Tier 2 restrictions, there are a few places left for you to enjoy your substantial meal at The White Lion, Broadwindsor!

Vikki’s Special additions to their usual offerings this weekend are:

  • Faggots with Mash, Mushy Peas and Onion gravy. 
  • Homemade Fish Pie topped with Cheese Mash, Peas and Carrots. 
  • Homemade Lamb Rogan Josh with Rice. 
  • Homemade Chicken & Mushroom Pie with Mash, Peas and Carrots.

All at £8.50

Also available for a Takeaway pudding at £4.50, you could add:

  • BlackBerry & Apple Pie with Custard

For this weekend’s Sunday Lunch, you have a choice of Beef, Pork or Turkey.

Call 01308 867070 to book

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A Christmas Star On The Solstice

To end our chaotic year of 2020, from now until 25th December, it may look like a very bright star in the sky but in fact, it will be the conjunction of the planets Saturn and Jupiter.

Photo Credit: Neil deGrasse Tyson

Since the summer, the two planets have been approaching one another more closely than in many generations.  From Dec. 16th – 25th, the two will be separated by less than the diameter of a Full Moon.  The last time this happened, Galileo was alive.
Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Rice University, Houston, Texas, Patrick Hartigan said in a press release: “You’d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky.”

In reality, the planets risk no collision and it is the perspective from here on Earth that they appear so close together.

They now appear low in the Western sky for about an hour after sunset each evening.  The further North you are, the less time you will have to catch them before they fall below the horizon.

It is estimated that the planets will not be this close again until March 15, 2080, and after that, the next time will be in the year 2400.

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Drimpton Outdoor Christmas Market – Saturday 5th December

This is a jolly post-Lockdown event to be held in Drimpton Village Hall’s car park on Saturday, 5th December starting at 4pm.

COVID guidelines:

  • Make space!
  • No hugging friends.
  • Gel your hands.
  • Car Parking spaces will be available.
  • Toilets will be open.
  • Please bring plenty of £1 and 50p coins to avoid money handling.

In the event of really bad weather they may need to change the date – keep an eye on the Drimpton village website, Facebook and the village notice boards to be kept up to date.

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Drimpton’s Advent Windows Map

Next door in Drimpton, they also will have 24 different windows around their village themed around Christmas.  Participants are asked to have their windows lit between 4pm until 9pm.

Above is Drimpton’s map with Broadwindsor’s map below in case you plan to take both villages in and view them all 🙂

Advent Windows in Broadwindsor

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A Reminder About Helping Hedgehogs

Now the hedgehog has been listed as vulnerable to extinction in the UK, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society are calling on the Government to move hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 to allow them greater protection. At the time of publishing, they have just over 60,000 signatures of their 100,000 target. (At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament).

You can add your name to the petition HERE.

Signs That A Hedgehog Needs Help:

Hedgehogs Need HelpHedgehog First Aid

 

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Broadwindsor Advent Windows Go Live on Tuesday 1st December

We have 24 different windows around the village themed around Christmas carols. Each day at 4pm the carol linked to that day’s window will be played in the Square and then the window will be lit.
Across the month the windows will create an Advent Calendar until all are lit by Christmas Eve. We hope to keep the windows lit until 1st January 2021.

Starting at 22 Yarn Barton on the 1st and ending at our Church on 24th, the full map will be displayed on village noticeboards and at the Community Stores.

“Thank you so much to all the people who have joined in with this initiative and been so creative. We wish you all a very happy Advent journey through December.”
– Rev. Jo Neary, Pioneer Priest, Beaminster Area Team, 01308 867816

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There’s Lots On At Little Groves Nursery In Tunnel Road

Did you know Little Groves make over 100 wreaths for customer orders a year? The wreaths journeys start in May when the seeds are sown for the flowers that are later dried to decorate them. They’re now ready for your Christmas door!

Little Groves NurseryIn this last week of this second Lockdown, what Autumn garden activities are there to do?
You could:

🍂  Fill up your bird feeders.
🍂  Deadhead or plant your winter patio pots.
🍂  Plant up some winter herb pots.
🍂  Mulch your garden borders with horse compost.
🍂  Plant soft fruit bushes.
🍂  Pile up fallen leaves for wildlife in your garden.
🍂  Prune your roses.
🍂  Buy your Christmas Tree!
All the plants and tools you need for these activities can be found at Little Groves Nursery on Tunnel Road, Beaminster (next to Girling & Bowditch vets) as are their Christmas trees!
Little Groves - Noelle & Nina
Noelle & Nina Warren, Little Groves Nursery

It is Nina Battershell ‘s 12th year of selling Christmas trees at Little Groves Nursery, she is currently training a new recruit Sarah. Sarah joins the happy team led by Becky, another Nina, Sarah, Samantha, Natalie, Noelle & Hannah.
This year they have in stock four different types of potted Christmas trees (from £14.99) that you can keep & grow on each year as well as the traditional cut trees:

🌲 Cut traditional Norway Spruce (from £22 for 4-5ft).
🌲 Cut Nordmann Fir (low drop) (from £30 for 4-5ft).
🌲Potted Spruce
🌲Potted Nordmann
🌲Potted Fraser Fir
🌲Potted Blue Spruce
🌲 Non contact sales available if you telephone them on 01308 862030 they can organise delivery for you.
🌲 Free Delivery to Beaminster and surrounding villages if you order before 2pm.
🌲 Before 2pm, they’ll even choose a tree for you & deliver it to you if you’re isolating or shielding.

Bee Kind PotAs well as their plants and Christmas trees, one of their many gift ideas is a ‘Bee Kind’ pot which comes in three sizes at £8.99, £16.99 and £26.99.  Winter heathers are a brilliant nectar rich plant for any passing bees in the Winter & early Spring.

And if you’re looking for a bit of winter family magic they’ve been creating a Special Enchanted Winter Garden Trail to explore, with some special visitors this year when you visit in December!

They are also running a Christmas Tree Giveaway promotion through Facebook: You have to Like and comment on their Facebook post (from 22nd November) on who you’d like to nominate & why.  Choose any tree to suit your needs up to a 7ft Nordmann Fir. They will deliver the tree in the 1st week of December to the lucky winner in Beaminster or one of it’s surrounding villages.

Christmas Wreath by Little GrovesOwner Becky commented “And of course we’re jam packed with lots of fantastic gardening gift ideas for all you lovely new & experienced gardeners!”

Little Groves Nursery is open 7 days a week
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm.
Sunday, 10am – 4pm.

You can contact them on 01308 862030 or by email: littlegroves@grovesnurseries.co.uk.

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