Last week’s shout out for players went very well – so much so that there will be an hour’s play every Thursday at 6.30pm 🙂
No need to book, just show up at the MUGA next to Broadwindsor school.
Any queries, please contact David on: 01308 868275 or 07867 608652
Valid for the week Monday 31st May – Friday 4th June. There is only the one bus at 10.09am from the White Lion leaving Broadwindsor, getting you to Yeovil for 10.55am.
No 6 – Bridport to Yeovil:
You’ll have only two hours before you have to catch the only bus back at 12.55pm. The return journey will get you back to Broadwindsor village at 1.40pm.
Tomorrow evening at 6.30pm, anyone over the age of 16 years old is invited down to Broadwindsor’s MUGA (Multi Use Games Area) for a game of five-a-side football. Free of charge. The MUGA is located by Broadwindsor school.
David Leader is trying to formulate some teams who would like to play five-a-side football regularly. All ages above 16 years old are welcome. Get fit! Keep fit! Have some fun! Please wear trainers and do not wear or bring football boots.
You can contact David on:
or just show up at 6.30pm Thursday 27th May 🙂
The Multi-Use Games Area pened in 2019 with funding from several sources including a Lottery Community Fund award. Free to use, it offers a wide range of sporting options including tennis, basketball, hockey, netball, football, bowls and badminton.
Having been located at Broadwindsor Craft Centre, now Redlands Yard in recent years, Beccas Fabric Larder is now a mobile shop and will be revisiting Broadwindsor’s Comrades Hall on Monday, 7th June. With her lorry (van) called Florry, Becca Balazs will be running a six week patchwork course. Limited to ten places at each session.
Becca aims to introduce you to techniques & patterns you may not encounter on your own at home (or on YouTube!). If you have a particular project you need help with please do bring it along & hopefully Becca will be able to help.
As well as learning some traditional patchwork & quilting techniques, you are encouraged to create your own patchwork, whether it is a quilt, wall hanging or smaller projects you would like to make. Brush up on rotary cutting, piecing, templates, applique & machining as well as building confidence choosing colours and fabrics & maybe getting out of your comfort zone.
Patterns and advice sheets are all included.
Cost is £70 for the course. You can secure your place with a £20 deposit HERE (the remainder payable minimum one week before course starts)
Contact Becca directly by text/WhatsApp or call: 07486 062 343.
Follow Becca‘s daily updates on Instagram HERE.
Becca and Florry are at Bridport market every Wednesday and Saturday.
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Just in time for a BBQ this Bank Holiday weekend!
First come – First served.
No more fresh beef until beginning of July.
Lots also available next door at The Wagon House including butter, cheese and chutney plus much more! The Wagon House Milk vending machine on B3164 near Marshwood.
Contact: 01297 678362 or email: marshwood.countrybeef@outlook.com
#Broadwindsor,#Burstock,#Blackdown,#Drimpton,#Hursey,#Kittwhistle,#Seaborough,#WestDorset,#Dorset,#Marshwood,#MarshwoodCountryBeef,#DIYBurgers,#SpecialOffers,#OrderNow,#BBQ,#BankHoliday,#TheWagonHouse,#SocialDistancing,#DorsetHills,#BeSafe,#StaySafeSunday, 23rd May marks the Christian holiday of Pentecost. It is the Spring Bank Holiday Monday the day after. The Monday was a bank holiday in the United Kingdom until 1967. It was formally replaced by the fixed Spring Bank Holiday on the last Monday in May in 1971.
Countries that celebrate the Pentecost include: Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Austria, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, The British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, France, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Iceland, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montserrat, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Switzerland, Togo and Ukraine.
Another moveable feast, Pentecost is celebrated on the 50th day from Easter Sunday. Also called Whitsunday, which was White Sunday. White Sunday made reference to the special white garments worn by the newly baptized. Baptism was administered both at the beginning (Easter) and end (the day of Pentecost) of the Paschal season. Eventually, Pentecost became a more popular time for baptism than Easter in northern Europe.
In The First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549), the feast was officially called Whitsunday, and this name has continued in Anglican churches since.
As recorded in the Bible, it commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and other disciples following the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ (Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2), and this marks the beginning of the Christian church’s mission to the world. The Pentecostal Fire is the ancient fire that indicated the Presence of God or the Holy Spirit appearing to bless or to judge humans.
Priests often wear red vestments during Pentecost to symbolize the “tongues of fire” that descended on the disciples from the Holy Spirit; members of the congregation also wear red in some traditions, and the altar is commonly dressed in a red frontal cloth. Red banners are often hung from walls or ceilings to symbolize the blowing of the “mighty wind” and the free movement of the Spirit.
Red flowers at the altar/preaching area, and red flowering plants such as Geraniums around the church are also typical decorations for Pentecost services. These symbolize the renewal of life, the coming of the warmth of summer, and the growth of the church at and from the first Pentecost.
In the southern hemisphere, for example, in Australia, Pentecost comes at the start of a mild autumn, often after the great heat of summer, and the red leaves of the Poinsettia are often used to decorate churches there.
For Jews, it is called Shavuot, or the Festival of Weeks. It marks their all-important wheat harvest in the Land of Israel and commemorates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the entire nation of Israel assembled under the leadership of Moses at Mount Sinai. This harvest festival is seven weeks and one day after the first fruits offerings of Passover. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement in Egypt; on Shavuot they were given the Torah and became a nation committed to serving God.
In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and great churches throughout Western Europe were fitted with a peculiar architectural feature known as a Holy Ghost hole: a small circular opening in the roof that symbolized the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the midst of the congregation. At Pentecost, these Holy Ghost holes would be decorated with flowers, and sometimes a dove figure lowered through into the church while the narrative of Pentecost was read. Holy Ghost holes can still be seen today in European churches including Canterbury Cathedral.
If that’s a bit too tricky for some – try this simpler version, particularly with young ones. 🙂
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This delightful ten second video was recorded inadvertently by 72 year old local farmer, Chris Sewell. He was trying to take a photograph of his construction to bottle feed his five hungry lambs at once. His wife Lesley had seen a similar structure on TV, feeding fawns and when she mentioned it to Chris he declared “I can make that!“. Made from pallets and bits of guttering with holes drilled in to take 5 bottles – his lambs were very happy indeed 🙂
The Full Moon on Wednesday is known as the Flower Moon. It will appear larger than usual as it is the second Supermoon* of the year (the first being April’s Pink Moon). On average, Supermoons are about 7% bigger and about 15% brighter than a typical Full Moon.
More favourable skies on and around 26th May are expected. Rain and showers are likely to clear away to the east, leaving drier and less windy conditions so one should get a good view of the biggest and brightest Supermoon of 2021.
There is a total lunar eclipse occuring but you need to be in Australia, parts of the western USA, western South America, or in South-East Asia to see it! However, there is a partial solar eclipse which will be visible from the UK on Thursday 10th June beginning at 10.04am.
Other names attributed to this Moon full of the promise of summer are:
*Any full Moon (or new Moon) coming closer than 224,865 miles (361,885 km), as measured from the centres of the Earth and Moon, counts as a Supermoon in 2020, according to NASA.
One cannot talk of the moon without paying respect to Michael Collins who died at the end of last month at 90 years old.
Michael Collins took part in the first manned mission to land on the Moon in 1969. He remained in the Apollo 11 craft while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon’s surface. R.I.P.
A total of twelve people have walked on the Moon. Four of them are still living as of April 2021. Buzz Aldrin, now 91 years old, is the only surviving member of the 1969 mission.
#Broadwindsor,#Burstock,#Blackdown,#Drimpton,#Hursey,#Kittwhistle,#Seaborough,#Dorset,#WestDorset,#FullMoon,#Supermoon,#FlowerMoon,#TotalEclipse,#PartialEclipse,#LookUp,#MichaelCollins,#1969MoonLanding,#Apollo11,#SocialDistancing,#BeSafe,#StaySafeUnder Government instruction, Dorset Council have collated all their information, advice and support for children and young people from 0 to 25 years, who have Special Educational Needs and/or Disability (SEND) and their families.
They have overhauled their website and are presenting their content as a directory under the name SEND Dorset Local Offer with the following categories:
The main thing is that the published Local Offer should be easy to understand, factual and jargon-free. It should be structured in a way that relates to young people’s and parents’ needs (for example by broad age group or type of special educational provision). It should be well signposted and well publicised.
Click HERE to find the advice and support you need.
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Not to be missed are their flying displays at 11am and 3.30pm.
You can also indulge in a cream tea or cake in between the inevitable showers we have forecast.
On Saturday 12th June 2021 there will be a Conservation Day for ‘Project Lugger’ a charity they support whose aims are exceedingly simple in their aim and extremely difficult in their execution. Project Lugger is a charity organisation created to stop/prevent the cruel killing of the lugger falcon.
Dorset Falconry Park is at Lewell Mill Lane, Lewell, Dorchester, DT2 8AN. For more information, you can visit their website HERE or email your enquiry to: enquiries@xtremefalconry.co.uk. You can also contact them by telephone: 01305 250710
Photo credits: Annie Collins.
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