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Sunday July 5th
NHS Day 🏥
Today in the village
Pimms and Strawberry Cream Tea
If you have any news or other contributions you think the village would be interested in please let me know via email or the Contact Website button at the bottom of this page.
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Congratulations to Winsford's cricketers who, in their first full match of the season, showed no signs of rustiness by beating third placed Roadwater by 2 wickets.
Full details of the match will follow later
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Sunday Motoring Section
These are this week's proposed local road closures and other significant works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
This week:
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Tuesday night Cutcombe Hill, overnight 7:30pm-6am,Wessex water replacing manhole
And in coming weeks
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August 5th-6th A396 in between the two Dulverton turns, 9:30-3:30, surface dressing
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August 10th-16th B3222 Exbridge, 9:30-3:30, resurfacing
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August 17th-21st B3224 Wheddon Cross-Heath Poult Cross overnight 7pm-5am, surface dressing
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August 17th-18th road approaching North Molton 8am-6pm, Openreach
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August 29th Various roads delays, 6:30am-5pm, Exmoor Beast cycling
Dunster By Traffic Light website confirms live traffic conditions coming in and out of Minehead
Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here
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Dulverton Gardening Club are planning a visit to RHS Badminton Flower Show in Gloucester next Thursday. If you are interested in going please contact John Preston on 07794 874823
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Winsford is already awash with Brigadiers (two of them plus an Air Commodore), but did you know that one who led the liberation of the Channel Islands in 1945 also lived here after the war?
There is a movement to commemorate the efforts of Brigadier Alfred Snow, who died in 1983 aged 85 and whose final resting place has recently been identified as Taunton Crematorium
The BBC article describing the attempt to get him further recognition can be read here. Thanks to Annalise Cowley for finding this.
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June's bumper 100 Club £100 prize draw has taken place, and a list of the lucky winners can be found here
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- This Week's Diary -
Sun 5th
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2:30pm Pimms & Strawberry Cream Tea afternoon, The Close
Mon 6th
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9:00am Circuit Training/Boot Camp, probably Recreation Field
Tues 7th
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2.30pm Bowls, Village Hall
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7:30pm Bellringing
Wed 8th
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10:30am Coffee Morning with Village Agent, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
Thurs 9th
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Winn Club
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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9:00am Dulverton Gardening Club visit to RHS Badminton Flower Show
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6:00pm Table Tennis , Village Hall
Fri 10th
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6:00pm Exford Community Youth Club, Exford Pavilion
Sat 11th
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10:00am Dulverton Artisan Food, Drink & Crafts Festival, Exmoor Lawns
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2:00pm Cricket - Churchingford (a)
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12:00pm Xmoor Rox, Coppleham Cross
Sun 12th
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10:00am Exmoor Fun Ride, Simonsbath
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11:00am Communion, St Mary Magdalene's
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A message from Arwen Lewis who has coached many of Winsford's finest musicians, to anyone thinking about taking it up:
I am thinking about possibly starting a fortnightly beginner wind ensemble/ wind band (1.15-2.30pm on Wednesdays in Dulverton Parish Rooms) that might lead players on up to the existing wind band over time and can also function as a happy group in its own right.
I am thinking flutes, clarinets and saxophones, double reeds- people who can already play a few notes and produce a sound up to about grade 4. ( preparatory level-grade 4 approximate level).
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SIGN UP OR KNOW ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO, AND I CAN THEN SEE IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO START IN SEPTEMBER!
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We must thank Mr Christopher Rice for alerting us to a letter written by CS Lewis to his brother in 1940 regarding Winsford.
For those that may not know, CS Lewis was a leading author (he wrote The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe books), literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. The letter refers to an extended walk he made with friends.
The rest of this not very satisfactory day made some amends. It was down-hill: no nonsense about scenery, you understand! It led us to tea at Bridgetown, and thence on through evening sunlight on that best possible kind of road which, keeping more or less level, follows the windings of a green, narrow valley, with a river on one side and a low cliff of rocks on the other.
We came at about 7 to Winsford where we found a delightful hotel within sound of the water in a village so small and quiet that you could dawdle about in the street listening to that sound. We had to sleep in the ‘Annexe’ not the hotel proper, which turned out to be rather an advantage, for the annexe had a sitting room of its own with a ‘cosy stove’ lit in it and we had it to ourselves.
Several other places are mentioned, such as Wootton Courtney, Luxborough, Dunster, Cutcombe (a rather unpleasant village) and the Rest & Be Thankful Inn
The full letter is published in Lewis, C. S. The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. Vol. 2, Books, Broadcasts, and the War, 1931–1949. Edited by Walter Hooper. San Francisco: Harper SanFrancisco, 2004.
It can also be downloaded here
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The schedule has been published for this year's Produce Show, and will appear over the coming days in the shop, Coffee Club and church
It can also be downloaded here
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Winsford Gardening Club
Many thanks to the twelve people who attended our first Gardening Club meeting on Tuesday. The level of interest has been great as many others are interested but couldn’t make the first meeting. We all enjoyed tea, coffee and cakes, and discussed ideas for our Gardening Club which included:
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Sharing which jobs need to be done each month.
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What grows well in Winsford and what doesn’t.
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How to grow fruit and veg
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Inviting expert gardening speakers to our meetings.
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Visits to each other’s gardens.
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Sharing seeds, cuttings and plants.
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What to grow without a greenhouse.
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Organising visits to gardens of interest and other places.
It was agreed that the club would get together at 11am on the second Tuesday each month from May to October with an additional meeting in January. The cost is £2 if the meetings are held in the village hall or £1 if held at someone’s home where Gardening Club refreshments will be used.
Everyone agreed to set up a WhatsApp group to keep each other informed. If you are interested in joining the Winsford Gardening Club, please let me know, and I will add you to the group.
The next meeting is at 11am on Tuesday 14th July and will be kindly hosted by Mel and Dave in their garden.
Sharon 07535 760562
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