Chaddleworth NewsFebruary 2018www.chaddleworth.net

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Inside this issue...

The Sloely CupHeld at The Ibex on Sunday 28th JanuaryReport and pictures on page 2

Meet the Rev...The West Downland Benefice is getting a new Reverend. Read about Miri Keen on page 3

Valentines at The IbexDetails of events at your Local on page 2

Bus TimetableCut out and keep - full details of West Berks bus services to and from Chaddleworthpage 7

Village CalendarIn its regular place on the back page...

Don't forget...

Easter Egg HuntYes, a bit early I know, but see the back page for details of this year's event

Chaddleworth News is onlineYou can find this issue and previous issues on the village website, www.chaddleworth.net

If you would like to receive copy by email (usually 5 days before the printed edition is delivered) please email chaddnews@gmail.com

Contributions welcome...If you have something you would like to share with the whole village, such as a social event, charity fundraiser, or just an observation, please send details to chaddnews@gmail.com and see it in next month's edition

The Sloely Cup

for the opportunity to add their name to the coveted Sloely Cup, and display it on their mantlepiece for the coming year.

unday 28th January was a memorable night at The Ibex Inn, as 13 local Sloe Gin makers gatheredS

Village Hallfire appliance check was carried out in December which cost £248.62 (includingA

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replacement extinguisher). Last week a roofer came to look at the condition of the roof. At present the roof is in a reasonable condition and should not cause any immediate problems. We will be receiving a written report which will be used to confirm with the insurers that the roof is intact. The Committee will be discussing at their next meeting the outcome of the report to prepare for future problems and fund raising.

The Hall is available to hire for children's parties, family events and other functions by phoning Chris Jordan on 01488 638149.

Heather Murphy - 01488 638628

The Ibex Inn

There are several events coming up at The Ibex this month:

Valentines Day Wednesday 14th FebruarySpecial menu - couples and groups welcomeCall 01488 638311 to book a table

Saturday 24th February - 8:30pmLive music - a mixture of punk, rock, and blues

Burger and pint/wine night - only £10Every Wednesday in February

Fish and chips takeawayTuesday to Friday every week. 12 - 2pm and 6 - 8pm

Cricket Club Quiz NightSunday 25th February£2 per person - plus raffle and light supper available

Finally...If anyone is interested in joining an Aunt Sally team just pop in and put your name down!

Shane dismounted his bar stool and crept home...

The unmistakable boyish good looks of Jim Wilson, handing out samples to the hopeful entrants...

...and the winner is... David Jennings!

Defending Champion, Shane McAlistair maintained a confident poise, perched on a bar stool for the entire evening. Little did he know at the time that he would not even make the top 5 this year!

Jim Wilson did a splendid job of distributing each anonymous sample for each entrant to score based on clarity, smoothness, warming, and overall taste.After all the samples had been tasted, scored and tallied up, the victorious winner was David Jennings - congratulations David!

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From the ChurchThe Rev'd Miriam (Miri) Keen will be inducted as Rector of the West Downland Benefice on Monday 12th February at 7:30pm in Brightwalton Church. All are welcome to attend.

Here, she takes the opportunity to introduce herself to Chaddleworth

Mary Harwood

Rev'd Miri Keen writes …

Benefice. For the last three and a half years I’ve been based in St George’s Church, Preshute, on the western side of Marlborough. I’ve loved working with church members to develop a week day service for young children and their parents and carers, collaborating with the local primary school to provide a Community Lunch, and supporting older neighbours through illness and bereavement as well as leading Sunday services across the Marlborough Anglican Team churches. I’ve been both a primary and secondary school governor and have been part of a team providing foundation level Safeguarding Training for churches in the Marlborough Deanery. But today all of that has stopped. I have taken my final service at St George’s, enjoyed a farewell wellie walk with parishioners, and said my good-byes during a wonderful afternoon tea in the church. The next fixed point in my diary is Moving Day! In the meantime there will be all the unsettling busyness of a house move: deciding what to keep, what to recycle and what to dump; moving things from one place to another in the hope that they’ll be easier to find later; negotiating with grown up children about their stuff, and arranging for utilities, and all the

n less than a month I shall become the new Rector of West DownlandI other things that make a home

comfortable, to be working in good time. I’m very much looking forward to getting to know each of the communities of West Downland and Dave, my husband, and I feel blessed, but sometimes I am nervous because there’s so much uncertainty at the moment.

perspective of one of my favourite Bible verses

Managing change is a demanding business and stress levels are running high so I’m thanking God for painting. Not the artistic sort but rather the emulsion and rollers and ‘no brush strokes in the gloss’ kind that frees my mind to reflect on where God fits into all this. Working on the Rectory kitchen will enable me to look back to my last Christmas in Preshute and to look forward to my first Easter with you from the

‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever’.

Jesus’ heart of love doesn’t change and so we can rely on him to stand by us whatever our circumstances, and to transform our situations so that we can find hope. Sometimes we don’t notice that this is happening till we look back and remember that we prayed and God graciously answered. So a few days with paint and brushes will give me space to thank God that he has answered my prayers in the past, is watching over my family and me now in all the chaos of moving house, and will continue to do so in the future as we find our place in the communities of West Downland. I hope that in the coming months I shall be able to get to know many of you well. But for now I can only guess that I am not the only one who is trying to manage major changes in their life, or who is feeling uncertain, or nervous or stressed about the future. Even when life is going well we need to feel that we are on stable foundations and that the busyness of twenty-first century life isn’t running away with us. If you’re feeling any of these things perhaps some decorating, or time thinking over this Bible verse, could be a blessing to you too?

Rev'd Miri Keen

Services for February - St Andrews ChurchSunday 4th - 8:00am Holy CommunionSunday 18th - 10:00am Holy Communion

Services for March - St Andrews ChurchSunday 4th - 8:00am Holy CommunionSunday 18th - 10:00am Holy CommunionFriday 30th - 2:00pm Good Friday Service

Wednesday 14th Feb - Great Shefford Church3:00pm - Ash Wednesday Service

Handy Bus Service

for shopping trips and other club events, with regular trips each week that are delivered by popular demand.

The service runs fortnightly on Friday afternoons, picking up in Chaddleworth at approximately 2:00pm. It travels to Wantage where you have around 1 hour to shop, and then returns to the village

For more information please contact Dave Morris on 01635 578149, or email: handybusrotas@gmail.com

Cost is only £3 per return fare.

Help on and off the bus is available.

he Downland Volunteer Group runs a 12-seater mini-bus service supporting the Downland villages. It offers a door to door serviceT

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Pilates

Experienced localDog Walker

Please call 07378 361062

Katie Byres

£10 per hour

"In ten sessions you'll feel the difference, in twenty you'll see the difference and in thirty you will have a new body". Joseph Pilates

The Pilates method works your deep core muscles, giving stability, flexibility, tone, strength and better awareness back to your body.

Beginners and intermediate mat work classes (daytime and evening) currently running in Boxford, Chaddleworth, Highclere and Peasemore.

One-to-one or small group sessions are also available.

For more information please ring Alessandra Wilcox, Body Control Pilates ® instructor on M: 07980 448119E: alessandrawilcoxpilates@gmail.com

Eggs for sale

6 for £1.20

3 Norris Field. 01488 638097 / 07795 255051Paul James

National Animal Welfare Trust (Trindledown)

purpose built areas for rabbits and guinea pigs so that we can rescue and rehomemany more. Guinea Pig Village will have a beach theme and one of our volunteers has already built a promenade, beach hut houses, a bandstand and a pub amongst other things, while Rabbit World will have an educational area where we can do talks to groups and school children. In February we are also hoping to see the opening of our new converted barn where we will be selling donated items from the public, there will also be the ability to get refreshments which will help raise more money for our animals.

here are lots of plans going ahead for the National Animal Welfare Trust’s Berkshire centre this year. We are creatingT

Our regular monthly sales will still be going ahead but we have changed the name of our Barn Sales to New to You Sales. The name is more relevant to what we are selling and hope that this will attract more people resulting in raising more money for our animals. So please keep an eye out for the adverts and other events taking place at the centre on our website www.nawt.org.uk and Facebook page www.facebook.com/nawt.berkshireBeth KentEvents and Volunteer Co-ordinatorDirect Line: 01488 567971

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Parish Council (PC)

that direct water into the fields) will no longer be cleared by West Berks Council (WBC) and drain maintenance is being reduced.

We were all shocked by the decision to allow a Knackers Yard to be sited at the Great Shefford Saw Mill site. We fought this vehemently and it was twice rejected by WBC. We will undoubtedly be affected by the smells during the summer months due to the prevailing wind.

WBC have also rejected our request to have Main Street (outside The Ibex) resurfaced.

We have been coerced into looking after the salt bins and providing the salt. As you will see we have replaced the bin at the bottom of Norris Field and introduced a new bin in Nodmore.

With the bus service being cut, the library no longer visiting we all wonder what we get for our Council Tax?

he Parish Council have recently been told that the grips (channels at the side of our roads T

Parish Council Minutes

• Acknowledgement of the planning approval at the Wessex Saw Mill site.• Reports of a tree down on the footpath opposite Nodmore, and an overhanging hedge in Main Street.• Replacement of two salt bins in the village.• Correspondence from dismayed relatives regarding the snow damage in the graveyard.

Next meeting is Tuesday 6th February 2018 at 7.30pm at the Village Hall. All are welcome.

A full copy of the Minutes is available to view on the village website: www.chaddleworth.net

he Parish Council met on 9th January. Matters discussed at the meeting included:T

Afternoon Club

a Christmas cake all prepared and baked by our members. The children from the Primary School came to sing to us and also to play a violin and trumpet for us. This was very enjoyable and I hope the children enjoyed the experience as much as we did.

As a special treat Tracy the donkey came all the way from the River Island Donkey Sanctuary to see the children and enjoyed their pats and kisses. Tracy then walked back to the School with the children and had a good look round inside The Ibex before going home in her horse box. We finished the afternoon with more tea, a grand raffle, secret Santa and a good chat.This was a great way to spend a gloomy December afternoon and to start Christmas.

The Afternoon Club will now be taking a break with no further meetings planned until we find someone or a small group who can take over the running of the Club and organising the meetings. Thank you very much to everyone who has supported us and come to the meetings over the last 10 years. If anyone is interested in taking the Club forward please do contact myself or Christine for more information.

ur Christmas meeting in December was a great success. We enjoyed a light lunch and tea includingO

Pat Tranter 01488 638066 / Christine Patterson 01488 638349

Saunders Wynn and Coventry Educational Foundation

needs of the children/students of the Parish of Chaddleworth.

If you wish to apply for funds please send your request to the Trust's Clerk, Heather Murphy, Tower Hill Cottage, Botmoor Way, Chaddleworth RG20 7EU or email botmoorway@btinternet.com.

The next meeting of the Trustees will be on 26th February 2018.

Heather Murphy

he three named benefactors set up the Trust to offer financial help to further the educationalT

100 Clubhe latest winners of the 100 Club draw are Peter Hambro with his lucky number 57 and JoT

Graham-Campbell with her lucky number 52 (Dec), Iain Lochhead with his lucky number 25 and Anne Egerton with her lucky number 18 (Jan), they all win £31.

I am always trying to get more Members so we can support YOUR Village Hall with the fund to replace people who have left the village. The 100 Club has recently paid for a fire check, including a new fire extinguisher that came to £248.62 so as can be seen the Village hall needs constant upkeep!

I would like many more people to join so that OUR Village Hall continues. If you do nothing else in the Village please support this. It costs £24 per year and as you can see by the above you stand a 62/1 chance of winning £31 which is way beyond the 'paltry' £25 Premium Bond win for which you have to deposit at least £100.

Grahame Murphy

Please contact Grahame Murphy on 01488 638628 or email botmoorway@btinternet.com.

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Shefford Young Farmers Club

marvellous turnout of both singers and audience, and a lovely time was had by all, with food and refreshments available after we’d sung our hearts out! We were very lucky to be treated to lovely piano playing by Val Goodman, thank you Val!

ur last meeting, just before Christmas, was mostly taken up with carol singing! We had aO

Shefford Young Farmers singing their hearts out accompanied by Val Goodman on piano.

This was all done in the name of the Air Ambulance charity, for which we raised a whopping £410 - well done everyone!

Our meeting in January was a games night - report to follow in next month's newsletter.

If anyone is interested in joining our Club please email sheffordyfc@hotmail.co.uk for more details.

Ben Prout

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Next month's Chaddleworth News...he deadline for submissions for March's Chaddleworth News is Sunday 25th FebruaryT

Please send your contributions to chaddnews@gmail.com

Fr 2:00pm - Good Friday Service - St Andrew's Church

Su 8:00am - Holy Communion - St. Andrew's Church

Su 10:00am - Holy Communion - St. Andrew's Church

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March

6 Tu Parish Council Meeting - 7:30pm - Village Hall

4 Su 8:00am - Holy Communion - St. Andrew's Church

18 Su 10:00am - Holy Communion - St. Andrew's Church

16 Fr Downland Gardening Club - Chaddleworth Village Hall

14 We 3:00pm - Ash Wednesday Service - Great Shefford Church

12 Mo Induction Service for Rev'd Miri Keen7:30pm - Brightwalton Church

26 Mo Saunders, Wynn & Coventry Educational Foundation - Trustees meeting

February

Village Calendar

THE HONEY POTChaddleworth

HoneyFor Sale

8oz £3.0012oz £4.50

Runny or Set available

Visit Purley Farm Stables, School Hill,

Can deliver locally free of charge

or call Nikki Hills on 07917 131330

As part of my Duke of Edinburgh Award I would like to do some volunteering in the village.

I have time available during the afternoons and evenings to babysit or do odd jobs around the house.

For more information please contact Meghan:

meghansophie2004@gmail.com

01488 637002

A message from Lady Eliza...

Christmas.

You may have noticed that the tree surgeons have been in and made safe the hedge. In time it will be totally removed and replaced with a beech hedge that will allow in more light and look much tidier.

Eliza Mays-SmithChurchwarden

am sorry for the mess the Leylandii hedge made in the churchyard when it came down overI

EASTER EGG HUNTA date for your diary:

Sunday 1st April - 11:30am

Chaddleworth's annual Easter Egg hunt

All welcome

Free refreshments

See next month's Chaddleworth News for more details...