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The Beacon
Ashwick, Oakhill & Binegar News
AUGUST 2020
Cover art: © Dawn Reader
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View
from the Hill
Another month of disrupted
life. It’s easy to focus on the
restrictions and the worries, the
economy and local business. I see people each day who want to find the positives in all
this. I want to look forward not back, find solutions and not blame and I pray for our local
communities, local business, the school, the health centre, the pubs.
I regularly get asked about the churches and when they will open. I was talking to Bethany,
who is a lay minister at the Methodist Church in Oakhill, and they, like us in the C of E, have
restrictions on using buildings and holding services. We can have funerals, weddings and
baptisms in church if we can have social distancing and make sure the buildings are clean.
These are limited to 30 people, if social distancing permits. Regular worship is allowed with
the same precautions and we are working on this at the moment. I hope we can have an
outdoor church service soon, maybe for harvest. The reality is the same as in
other areas of life, things will not get back to how they were for a long time.
On a positive note, many people have been creative in lockdown and I have discovered jam
making! My first attempt was strawberry and I now have several jars of sauce to pour over ice
cream or rice pudding! After two attempts it did not set so I was going to give up. However,
Jamie had project boxes on the veg stall at Rocky Mountain so I bought a load of raspberries
and had another go. I added extra lemons to make sure of a set and … it did, so I made some
more the next week. Recently it has been blackcurrant
time and I grew a small crop so adjusted the quantities on
the recipe and made enough jam for half a small jar. Then
I was offered some more after picking them for a friend
who is unable to pick them this year. I gave him his 4lbs and
there was 4lbs left for me. Another success. What next?
Another project box… its dangerous when I go on my own
to the veg stall. This time I came home with a box of limes
thinking marmalade. Then I discovered this is far more
fiddly than jam so I thought “I know, I’ll make rhubarb and
ginger jam instead”. It is great even if I do say it myself.
But no, I thought I could not give up on the marmalade just
because it was a bit more work. And now I have a few jars
of that too.
It makes me feel good to have made my own. The process
also reminded me not to give up just because it doesn't
work first time. To all those who have been creative in the
last few months, well done and I hope it made you feel good
about yourself and brought you blessing.
Page 3
Do you live in Ashwick, Oakhill
or the surrounding communities?
Coronavirus is making life hard, but your village wants to help by:
Collecting your medicines
Collecting groceries
Listening to your concerns
Just being someone you can talk to
Many of your Village Neighbours are helping in any way they can. If you can access the
Oakhill Village Life, Facebook page you will find more information there.
Alongside this your local churches have set up a Helpline:
01749 841838
You can leave messages which will be collected every evening. We will call you back to let
you know who will help.
As well as helping with your daily supplies etc. the church can help confidentially with
any other issues you are currently experiencing. From financial to spiritual, physical to
emotional, whatever the problem we will walk beside you. Please call, we want to help you.
Oakhill’s Coronavirus
Support Network
During the coronavirus outbreak there may be people within the village or surrounding area
that may need support. Whether you are identified as being in a vulnerable group, self-
isolating, quarantined or have been admitted to hospital, Oakhill has a community support
network of volunteers that have offered to help out. Volunteers have offered to help with
shopping, collecting prescriptions and dog walking/caring for pets when/if people become ill
but I am sure that if there were other reasonable requests that do not put volunteers at risk
themselves they would be happy to offer other types of support.
We are very happy to help and so please don’t suffer in silence!
Beth and Alan Rowlinson-Baker (coordinator) – 07533700698
Pauline West (coordinator) – 01749840293
Cath Booth (Coordinator) – 07806780943
Others have also offered help or support on the Oakhill Village Life,
Somerset Facebook Page. Any problems, put out a request in the
group and it will get answered!
Page 4
Community corner
Our creative community... Friday shopping trips
Please do take a moment to look at to Shepton Mallet...
the photographs this month of all the I am sorry to say we have had to give up our
wonderful items the skilful members of Friday shopping trip to Shepton Mallet due
our community have produced during to lack of support. We have been very lucky
Lockdown, crafts which are new to some arranging it for 8 years, once every week.
of the artisans concerned and several of The bus company has been most helpful,
which are self-taught! We have received so and we all got very attached to the driver –
many great photographs of your Lockdown taking us from home to the shops and then
Gardens and Lockdown Crafts that we have bringing us back to our homes with all the
had to hold some over until the next issue heavy shopping. Well done all of you, it was
of The Beacon in September! Thank you greatly appreciated. Heartfelt thanks to
for your response. Whatever they are, keep all the people who did support us so well
those photographs coming – colour, and over the years with the coach fares, etc.
the best resolution available please. The coach drivers were marvellous, and I
Pam Dennis think we all got attached to them! I would
also like to thank Father Thomas (Atthill)
Tai Chi for Better Health who came every week and tried very hard
to get us more customers. He enjoyed our
with Jo Webb... company and we enjoyed talking to him.
...usually takes place on Tuesdays from
Very many thanks to all the friends who
2-3 pm in the Memorial Hall, Binegar,
did support us so well over the years with
but has been suspended during the
coach fares, etc. – Good luck to you all!
Coronavirus Epidemic. We hope to resume
when Government regulations permit. Betty Howell
In the meantime if you are interested in
joining the class please add your name to This month's cover...
the waiting list by e-mailing This month's cover is a photograph of an
jo.webb@mbzonline.net. original painting by Dawn Reader.
Please send photos for the cover
(portrait orientation, in colour) to:
magazine@beacontrinity.church . Thank you.
June was a
Weather Report: changeable month
June 2020 with some very
warm days.
Written by Highest reading 29.9°C on the 25th of June.
Gerald Esain. Mean temperature 15.6°C, rainfall total 124.5mm,
above average for June, 59mm of rain falling on
the 18th of June, the second wettest 24hrs recorded
at this site in 40 years.
Page 5
Grenville’s Ramblin’s...
With the Corona virus epidemic still in mind, and as I’ve mentioned before, we cannot be
other than impressed by the way the majority of people, individuals and groups, are caring
for and about one another. Yet sadly, or so it seems to me, there are also those who are
going to great lengths to undermine the efforts of those whose job it is to try to find a way
to get us through what is surely a unique challenge to humanity’s self-confidence of being
in charge of the world in which we live.
For instance, the media, frequently pressing their case concerning their right to freedom
of speech etc., now often tends to leave me quite irate, by the hostile aggressive way that
this freedom is exercised by some who it seems to me feel they have the right to act as
public interrogators.
Anyway, having got thus far and endeavouring to kick my soapbox into touch, at the same
time as reminding myself of that wise old saying that fools rush in where angels fear to
tread, I thought that I should at least endeavour to seek a more positive and worthwhile
subject to ramble on about. So, it is I say and with complete sincerity, thank the Lord for
people like Captain Tom! A real gentleman if ever there was one, whose actions speak
louder than all the negativity in which some would have us dwell. Who, in spite of his
advancing years, set out to try to raise £1,000 in donations for NHS charities by walking
100 laps in his garden before his 100th birthday.
On this occasion I have to say full marks to the media on this one, the TV and newspapers
kept the nation, as well as the world abroad, almost spellbound, as we followed day by day,
lap by lap as that brave old soldier trudged resolutely towards his goal, and beyond it, as the
donations of millions of pounds, far exceeding his original target, came pouring in.
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one to pray that he would live to celebrate that special
birthday and indeed to rejoice when he did!
He certainly captivated the mind of the nation and beyond, in such a way that it became
obvious that there was a general feeling that there should be some form of public
acknowledgement of his labours. So, it was we heard, first that he had been awarded the
honorary title of Colonel, followed soon after by the news that he was to receive a
knighthood. Of course, it doesn’t end there, his style and determination inspired all sorts
of other people, handicapped by age or some form of disability, to follow his example.
Colonel Sir Tom Moore is surely an inspiration to one and all, as we, people and nations
of the world, look to find ways of, as we might say, picking up the pieces of what has
surely been and still is in all sorts of ways a distressing, humbling and thought provoking
few months!
Grenville Reakes
Page 6
Ashwick Parish Council
July 2020 Update – David Barlow & Charlotte Stott
The Recreation Field:
If you have recently visited the recreation field you will have noticed a difference.
For many years, the cost of cutting the field came from the school’s budget.
However, when the school purchased its own playing field this cost was taken on by the
Parish Council. This year the Village Hall Committee asked to be involved in drawing up
the contract specification to create what you now see. Somerset Wildlife Trust, working
with the Government are encouraging councils to look at their mowing policies of public
spaces. It is reported that two thirds of amenity land are short mown grass, but meadow
habitats will support up to eight times more life. By allowing more flowers in the grass
and leaving areas less frequently mown will increase biodiversity. Well done to the
VH Committee! It looks good!
Council Vacancy:
We are about to welcome Roy Bailey to the Parish Council, filling one of two vacancies.
His family has been Oakhill residents for several generations. As a youngster he worked
at the Wine and Spirits store at Oakhill Brewery, then subsequently for Somerset
County Council before starting his own business. In retirement he has given time to
the Garden Club Committee and the Village Hall Committee. He is a life member of the
Road Haulage Association and a Life Member of the Mid-Somerset Agricultural Society.
Welcome Roy. The Council still has one vacancy. We very much hope a parishioner will
be interested and contact the Clerk on: ashwickparish@hotmail.co.uk.
Food Bank:
The lockdown has brought the best out of us as a community. The establishment of the
Food Bank is an example. Does anyone know which items of food are most in demand?
Planning
Some will agree, while others will disagree with the Council’s recommendations, but
here is what has been put forward:
2020/1051 - Change of Use of land for equestrian use, erection of stables and creation
of access. The Parish Council have no concerns in changing the use of land from
agricultural to equine, or the building of modest buildings to accommodate. However,
the access to and from Pound Lane does cause some concern. Access would be onto a
narrow lane close to blind bend with inadequate visibility. Access should be retained via
the property’s current existing driveway.
2020//1149 - Erection of 1 two storey dwelling house - The Old Maltings. This
application produced mixed comments amongst Councillors, from ‘over development’
to agreeing there was space to extend the terrace. However, there was concern about
additional cars and parking required in an already congested area on the bend in the
Old Maltings. Councillors were keen not to lose the tree in front of the proposed site.
It is worth noting that if parishioners have objections to any planning application they
should send these to Mendip planners!
Page 7East Mendip Gardening Club...
All your hard work over the past few months should be really paying off now. The
plants you’ve nurtured will be rewarding you with luscious crops of fresh summer
veg and your flower beds will be glowing with colour. Take time to step back and
appreciate this … because it will soon be time to start to prepare for the next
seasons! Some effort put in now will ensure home grown veg through the autumn,
with perennials and lawns in good shape for next year. Here’s what our friends at
Thompson and Morgan advise for this month:
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Page 8...the August gardener
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for a continuous
harvest.
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Protect your berr
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curtains or bird sc
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from CDs tied to
strings.
your lawn mower to help
Raise the cutting height of
rry if it’s looking brown.
the grass cope. Don’t wo
en it up.
Autumn rains will soon gre
Direct sow perpetual spina
ch, corn salad
and Swiss chard for autum
n/winter crops, and spring
cabbage for next April when
not much else is ready to ea
t.
Clever tip for this month: Take lots of photos of your garden if you want to rearrange
things over the winter. It's much easier to do this if you have a reference point.
Lyn Gauthier
Page 9Lockdown crafts – part 1...
It seems that lockdown has unlocked an enormous amount of creativity in our community!
Elfy Clifford
Jo Fisher Ruth Finn
Jan Ladhams
Jan Ladhams
Above & left:
Caroline Stevens
Pauline West & Daisy Cotterrell
Page 10Sandra Pennyfather
Elfy Clifford
Dawn Reader Ruth Finn
Diane Hunt
Sue & David Stone
Anna Knight
Page 11Honey Bee Swarms(and how you can help)
Why do bees swarm? Honey bees swarm when the colony outgrows its hive.
The queen will leave the hive with a large portion of the adult bees, in search
of a new place to set up residence. It’s a natural process of reproduction at
the colony level, without which bees would die out. The swarming season
starts in spring and can continue into August.
What happens when they swarm? You may have seen (or, more likely,
heard, in the first instance) a swarm of flying bees. It’s an impressive sight, as
thousands of insects take to the air at once. They normally settle near the hive
temporarily, from where they send out scouts to investigate likely new homes.
Once a site is identified, the swarm will take off again and head there. This
site could be a roof cavity or chimney, causing problems for the home-owner.
How you can help: For this reason, it is important that swarms are caught and
rehomed by beekeepers, before they can cause problems by establishing
themselves in inappropriate places. If you see a swarm, please call a swarm-
collector as soon as possible! The best way to find your nearest swarm-
collector is to enter ‘swarm removal’ into Google and follow the instructions
on the BBKA website. Or you can make a note of my number: 07759 224503,
as I’m one of the beekeepers listed for our area.
A word of caution: Swarming bees are less likely to sting than usual, but this
doesn’t mean they won’t, so keep your distance!
Lynda Gauthier
Page 12Oakhill & Ashwick Local History Group
Knitters of Ashwick, Unite!
Perhaps you did some knitting during lockdown? In times past many
Ashwick residents were skilled knitters, financially dependent on home
working in the cloth trades. From the 1500’s to the 1800’s our part of
Somerset was a centre for the wool trade, with all its many occupations.
Ashwick’s speciality was ‘stocking making’.
Stockings here were knitted by hand, always by women, usually as ‘outworkers’,
collecting or being brought materials and working on piece work rates, so paid by the
number of stockings they could produce. Throughout the time period they got very poor pay
– in the north a common Victorian insult was “poor as a stockinger”. It was of course a different
story for the masters of the trade – Hosiers could become wealthy, second only to Clothiers in the
pecking order. Looking at the Censuses for the mid 1800’s you can see how things were towards
the end of the stocking making era.
The records show that almost all outworkers in the knitting trade were either elderly women or
young girls – those in the mid-age bracket could usually get better pay in other ways. Knitting
was definitely the bottom rung of the employment ladder. The peril of having no income
in those days was the Workhouse… Better to be a knitter.
In the 1841 Census there were 31 ‘Knitters’ in Ashwick Parish. Seven of these women
were aged 75 or older, at a time when even 70 was considered to be an advanced age.
No such thing as retirement then. The workers included 85-year-old Hannah Watts of Sion
Hill (sic). By 1851 Hannah has disappeared (perhaps dead from exhaustion), but Elizabeth Watts
of Zion Hill, aged 80, was still knitting, together with 4 other women from her family, Jane Watts
being only 16. By then they are described as ‘Worsted Stocking Knitters’ (probably no better paid,
but at least a better title.) By 1861, when the industry had started to decline, there were 13 knitters
in Ashwick. By 1871 it was down to 10 knitters and in 1881 only Eliza Small of Moorwood, aged 76,
still knitted.
Who employed these women? At the time the most successful Hosier in Ashwick was William
Urch. Born in Nettlebridge in 1815, William followed his father James into the trade, inheriting the
house and a modest business in 1743. By 1851 William is recorded as a ‘Hose Manufacturer’, but
by 1861 he is a ‘Manufacturer of woollen hand knitted hose, employing 10 men, 3 boys and 250
women’ (he obviously recruited from other villages as well). His ‘Factory’ was still in Nettlebridge
House and its outbuildings.
About a century before this time there were several riots in Shepton Mallet, some violent, when
masters in the cloth trade tried (unsuccessfully) to introduce machinery. Despite the strikers’
success there are no reports of strikes, certainly not riots, by the women knitters of Ashwick.
The Watts family and others seem to have accepted their lot. No Unions in those days.
Meanwhile, William Urch prospered, but not excessively. The trade declined: by
1881 he has had to diversify to become a ‘Grocer and Draper’. Plus he had had his
share of misfortune – his only child died aged 2. She is buried in Ashwick
Churchyard with others of the family, including William himself, who died in
1890 aged 74. I cannot trace any knitter who warranted a gravestone.
Lin Thorley
Page 13Bishop Ruth's
August Message
Letter from the Right Reverend Ruth Worsley, Bishop of Taunton
For Parish Newsletters – August 2020
Time for a rest
I’m tired! I don’t know about you? And yet I am getting up later and going to bed earlier than I was
accustomed to before the pandemic struck. I’m travelling less, indeed I still have an almost full tank of
petrol and have had to call out the AA three times because the battery has died! I’m at home principally,
but my working day has got fuller and more demanding as time has gone on.
So, I’m planning a holiday! A retreat and some study leave. Having been ordained 24 years I have yet to
have a period of sabbatical and I’m looking forward to it! It is not going to take the form I would have
planned. There will not be the opportunity of a trip overseas or a residential conference to attend, but
there will be plenty of time for family, rest, reading and reflection.
What about you? I know some of you might be feeling that our children have had one big holiday at home
since lockdown but I can assure you that they, their parents and their teachers have all been working hard
to ensure that learning can continue even though the normal patterns have been disturbed. Whether we
have been working from home, furloughed, or feeling alone in isolation, each of us will I expect have
experienced something of the sense of weariness that heightened anxiety, change of routine and uncertain
expectation brings.
So, I want to encourage you to take some time off. There’s a fabulous little children’s story called, Jesus’
Day Off, which you might like read as an example of the need for even the Creator to re-create. The
example of Sabbath rest which our Creator God offers us in the opening chapters of the Bible, speak to us
of the need for taking time to put down the tools of work and take space to reflect and rest.
We have spent the past few months in lockdown in order to keep ourselves physically healthy. Let’s make
sure that in these next few months we attend as much to our spiritual and emotional health, by discovering
sabbath rest!
With every blessing
Bishop Ruth
www.bathandwells.org.uk
Page 14Tales of old
From our excursion into the origins of Christian Somerset, we learnt that
Beagenhangran was granted to Ealdorman Eanwulf around AD 855. The first
record of Binegar then, is 1165 years ago.
Now, let us go back to where we reached: the Stuarts. Somerset emerged from a
Tudor century of tribulations of inflation, poverty and riots over land enclosures.
So how was Somerset in the early 1600s?
We have a guide in Thomas Gerard who wrote A Particular Description of
Somerset. It was populous: 3rd or 4th in England. It was wealthy, judging from
ship money collections and had a diversified economy.
Lead mining on the Mendips was small but significant bringing a good income
to the Bishop, as Lord of the Manor. Quarrying was important, with Ham Stone
favoured. Gerard says that miners and quarrymen enjoyed independence with
their own courts and communities.
The main manufacture of the county was, however, cloth with Taunton serges
“eminent in their kind”. The industry suffered recurrent depressions, the worst
when the government tried to foster a native dyeing industry led by Alderman
Cockayne. The experiment was a disastrous failure. Cockayne could not achieve
a standard to compete with European cloths and exports and the woollen
industry slumped.
Agriculture was important and Somerset cattle and cheese were renowned and
much sought after.
Somerset was unusual in that the nobility was absent. Peers with land were
non-resident. The Phelips of Montacute and the Pouletts of Hinton St George
were the best there was. They were nobility in all but title with wealth acquired
from (usually) monastic land – either by luck (like the little Jack Horner) or by
profits from Royal service.
There was a large, thriving yeomanry whose names have not survived but who
were vital in parishes as clerks, churchwardens and sidesmen.
Finally, there were the lower orders – cloth workers, farm labourers, miners,
stonemasons, vagrants and the unemployed. They appear frequently in church
records for offences like tippling during divine service, incontinence and failing to
attend church. This, then, is the setting for our story of our parish in the 1600s.
Richard Higgins
Page 15Real, Surreal & Still Life
images by the Beacon Photography Group
JL
DC
AL
YM
JM
JD
ID
Page 16The Beacon Photography Group is currently
FH meeting online, every Wednesday at 7.30pm.
We welcome new members – amateur
photographers as well as those with more
experience. Contact Jon Durrant on 01761
232520 or email: durrantjon5@gmail.com
DB
PE
LL
RS
BV
Images subject to copyright – initials on images denote
credit as follows: AL (© Andy Ladhams); BV (© Barbara
Voules); DB (© Denise Bailey); DC (© Dave Chown);
FH (© Fiona H.); ID (© Ian Donnelly); JD (© Jon Durrant);
JL (© John Law); JM (© Julie McDonald); LL (© Lee
Linford); PE (© Patrick Emery); RS (© Robin Slater);
YM (© Yvonne Mears)
Page 17Binegar and Gurney Slade
Parish Council News
Playground
The Parish Council is pleased to announce the playground has now
re-opened. Routine maintenance has been carried out including the repair
of benches, painting of the little red train and pruning back of overhanging
vegetation. Thank you to all those who have helped with this work.
Guidance notices are in place to ensure the safety of users and others
as below:
FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF OTHERS
Binegar Parish Council
Guidance for using this Play Area
1. This equipment is checked regularly for damage, wear and tear, but
is not sanitised or disinfected. It is used at your own risk.
2. Do not use this equipment if you or any member of your household
has coronavirus symptoms, or are self-isolating.
3. Make sure you sanitise your hands on entering and leaving the
play area — as a minimum. Encourage children to avoid touching
their faces.
4. You MUST maintain social distancing from others – current advice is
to maintain at least 1m and consider wearing a face mask.
5. Some equipment can only be used by one child at a time while
social distancing. Please ensure they wait at a safe distance if the
equipment is in use.
6. Try to avoid busy times; come back later if necessary.
7. If you are wearing disposable PPE, please take it home with you or
where provided use the bins.
PLEASE DO NOT LITTER
We hope you enjoy using this play area and thank you for helping to
keep everyone safe by following these simple instructions.
Page 18Playground Vandalism
Over the last few months there has been a degree of vandalism to the rear
fences of the playground. The Parish Council would welcome notification if
this is witnessed.
Binegar and Gurney Slade Coronavirus Support Group
A huge thank you to all the volunteers who offered their support to the
group over the last three months. Luckily the majority of requests for
assistance were routine prescription collection and shopping.
Parish Council Meetings
The Parish Council had a successful “Virtual Meeting” to conduct essential
routine business. Government guidance recommends the continuation of
virtual meetings and notification will be given via the village noticeboards
and Parish website of any future meetings.
Parish Council Vacancy
The Parish Council has a vacancy for a new member. If you are interested
please contact the Parish Clerk.
Keep Safe
Diane Abbott Parish Clerk: binegarpc@hotmail.co.uk
www.binegar-pc.org.uk
Your councillors - Jon Abbott, Philip Blatchford,
Cath Law, Phill Roberts, John Scadding and David Stone
Binegar & Gurney Slade Memorial Hall
A message from the Hall Committee
The Village Hall Committee was delighted to have received a government
grant toward the continued running costs and maintenance of this much
valued village asset.
The Hall sadly though will remain closed until we are in position to open
it safely.
Page 19Binegar Scouts
August 2020
1st North Mendip is a thriving Scout Group that meets in Binegar Memorial
Hall weekly during term time. We currently have Beavers (6-8yrs),
Cubs (8-10yrs) and Scouts (10-14yrs).
Throughout June all sections have been working hard on their Great Indoors
Badges with a wide range of activities. We, as a group, also took part in the
Somerset Scoutcrow Challenge organised by Somerset Scouts. You might
have seen two of the entries on the main road through Binegar, and then later
in the month two dinosaurs handing out the certificates.
Beavers and Cubs completed parts of their Air Activities Staged Badge
(building on what they had done for their VE Day flights) and took part in a
Scavenger Hunt. They then made American style mug cakes and took part
in some crafty activities with a spiritual theme. They also spent an evening
looking at our community and learning about how local services and charities
are helping those who have been affected by COVID-19. Lots of Beavers also
did lots of baking for their Cooking @ Home badges.
Scouts started the month off making pixel drawings and then using Piskel to
animate them. The following week they made Chicken Tikka Masala Curry
from scratch (which went down very well with parents and families). We also
welcomed two special guests this month, Laura, who works for the Citizens
Advice Bureau, who not only spoke to us about what they've been up to, but
also helped us think about how we can fundraise whilst we can't meet face
to face. Pri also joined us to talk about Hindu Scouts, and how
different/similar they are during their meetings and camps.
Scouts also passed the 100 badges mark this month.
Do you have a young person aged 5, 6 or 7 that may be interested in joining
our Scout In adventure? We're looking for young people who want to make
new friends, have fun, and learn some new skills in our Beaver section.
Why not give it a try?
If you are interested in joining us please sign up via our Online Waiting List:
https://tinyurl.com/v7kz5kp or contact a member of the team:
Beavers/Cubs - Gemma (Raksha) - 01749 938321
Scouts - Natalie (Gunner) - gunnerexplore@gmail.com
You can also sign up and see what we're up to on our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/northmendipscouts
Page 20News from the
Ashwick & Oakhill
Village Hall Committee
Across the region, facilities are gradually opening again, which feels really good
and very exciting! This month the Government has announced the reopening of
playgrounds, and we are so happy to open the gates again to the play equipment at
the Recreation Field. At the time of writing, the guidance is that social distancing should
still be followed. Of course this is very difficult for the little ones, so we ask that parents
and carers consider this when using the space – you might want to come back later if it
is one of those really busy times.
Regarding the Village Hall building itself, as you may expect, there are a number of new
guidelines and additional safety measures that need to be in place before this can
safely reopen to our hirers. As a committee, we need additional time to meet all of the
new requirements, make the necessary changes to the facilities, risk assessments, and
conditions of use in order to protect our hirers. We are working towards an opening
date of mid-September, although we will of course keep you posted on any progress
on this.
Whilst we are closed, we are working very hard in the background. As well as putting
the Covid-19 requirements in place, we continue to work on the improvements to the
main hall, lobby and committee room. Recently we also held a tidy-up morning, along
with a number of kind volunteers. Together we tackled some of those jobs around the
building and grounds that needed attention and spruced up the area in general.
Thank you to everyone who spared the time to help out, it is very much appreciated. If
anyone is interested in being added to our WhatsApp group of volunteers and helpers,
“Friends of AOVH”, please let us know via Facebook, or email aandovillagehall@gmail.com
– we really appreciate the help and couldn’t do it without you all!
In other news, our fundraising continues for a second defibrillator for the village - to be
located at the Village Hall - and we are very nearly at our target. Huge thanks to Nicola
Laing who baked and sold delicious shortbread for the cause, and thank you to all who
bought or donated money to help. If anyone else would like to donate, we now have a
GoFundMe account where you can donate online: https://gf.me/u/yc3nh3
Stay safe, and look after each other,
Kim Hare,
Ashwick & Oakhill Village Hall Committee
Page 21PREMIER LEAGUE PREDICTIONS
2020-21 SEASON
It's been the strangest season with many controversial
VAR decisions and post-lockdown games being played out
behind closed doors and available to watch on Freeview.
Liverpool have taken the 2019-20 league title, but with
the new season starting this month, here are a few of my
Premier League transfer and league table predictions for
the coming football season...
TRANSFER WINDOW MOVES:
I believe the Premier league season outcome will heavily
depend on which clubs are successful in the current
transfer window.
On the 15th July the Premier League announced that the dates for the transfer window will be
from July 25th until 25th October 2020.
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Jaden Sancho – expected move from Borussia Dortmund to Manchester United for an
estimated £109m; largely dependent upon the Club securing Champions League qualification
Kalidou Koulibaly – likely move from Napoli to Manchester City with the deal anticipated
at around £75m
Jan Oblak – is expected to move to Chelsea this summer, with the Club offering to pay £90m
(which would be a record transfer fee for a goalkeeper!)
Jan Vertonghen – could make a move from Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester City on a free
transfer, with his contract expiring at the end of this season. Other clubs have also shown interest.
Allan - could make a move from Napoli to Everton, with the Club reportedly offering £17m for
the central defensive midfielder. However, I believe this transfer will not happen due to the
current calibre of Everton’s squad and their performances this season.
Page 222021 PREMIER LEAGUE - TOP 10 TABLE PREDICTIONS...
1. Manchester City
I believe Manchester City will win the league next year.
Their downfall this year was insufficient depth in the squad.
If they strengthen their squad in those areas then they can
win the league. For example, signing a quality centre back.
2. Manchester United
If Manchester United carry on playing as they have since
Bruno Fernandes joined in the January transfer window,
they could be in contention for winning the league
next year. Especially with their new lethal frontline of
Greenwood, Fernandes, Martial and Rashford.
3. Liverpool
This year Liverpool had too many marginal wins against
fairly easy opposition. For example, winning 1-0 to
Norwich, 2-1 to Aston Villa, 2-1 to Bournemouth, plus a 3-0 loss to Watford. Since the restart
Liverpool have been inconsistent and have allowed their opponents too many shots on goal.
In my opinion if they want win the league next year they'll need better results against the
smaller teams. Some of their players are perhaps overrated at present.
4. Chelsea
I feel next year Chelsea could be a big contender for the top 3, or even the league title. They
have signed big players and put some quality in to their side. However, it could take at least
take a year for these players to gel as a team, which is why I haven’t placed them higher.
5. Sheffield United
Have been a real surprise this season, beating some of the big boys and finishing high in the
league for their first year in the top flight. I'd say they are a team to watch next season.
6. Wolves – 7. Tottenham – 8. Arsenal – 9. Leicester City – 10. Southampton
Researched and written by Jamie Linford
as part of the 'Skills' section (newsletter &
magazine production) for the
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award.
(With thanks to Pam & Peter Dennis in
their role as Jamie's 'Skills' assessors
– Lee Linford.)
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Tree and acorns (p4) designed by Freepik; hand-drawn icons (p4) designed by 0melapics/Freepik; sun illustration (p6, 44)
designed by Freepik; gardening illustrations (p8, 9) designed by Freepik; honey bees image (p12) by Terri Sharp/Pixabay;
knitting illustrations (p13) designed by Freepik; football images on P22 and 23 from Pixabay.com.
Sponsored by Ashwick Parish Council and Binegar & Gurney Slade
Parish Council, Massey Wilcox, Morris & Perry,
The Swan Hotel, LKAB Minerals
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