For Ongoing notices , including takeaway meals, please go to the end of this email
LUNCHES DELIVERED
Friday 5 March – Homemade Steak and ale pie served with fresh vegetables and potatoes – £9
Sunday 7 March – Roast Beef served with horseradish sauce or Chicken fillet served in a creamy mushroom sauce, both served with fresh seasonal vegetables and potatoes – £9 each + Sunday desserts – Homemade apple crumble OR Chocolate and orange torte OR Pecan nut and treacle tart – all served with fresh cream – £4 each
And looking ahead….
Mothers’ Day on Sunday 14 March – delivery of an afternoon tea after 4pm for £12 per person, including a selection of sandwiches, scones jam clotted cream, and homemade cakes and quiche. Pictures are available on our facebook page.
TO ORDER any of the above, please contact, as soon as possible, Carol-Anne and Nigel on 07866 670472
FISH & CHIPS & MORE…..
every Thursday evening, with free delivery. Menu attached – text or leave a voicemail asap for Vicky at food genie on 07737326183
CHURCH NEWS
Praying Together on a Sunday (at home) at 5pm Service each week – available to download from the Parish website from this Saturday (for the Five Alive Parish website – click on a church – Services and Events – Praying Together in your own Home – view attachment).We also hold this service online on Zoom – please ask Sarah for the Zoom link – priest@five-alive.co.uk; We begin to gather from 4.45pm, ready to start the service at 5.00pm.
St John the Baptist’ Church, Fladbury, is open on Sundays from 10.00am to 4.00pm for individual private prayer . We hope in a visit, you’ll find comfort. A church is open every day for individual private prayer – the Five Alive Parish website has details. Public worship within the Five Alive Parish is currently suspended – a review for when it may resume will be undertaken during March.
Paint a Pebble for Lent, – take your pebble to your local Church path or leave it somewhere in the Village for all to enjoy – for more information, please see the attached poster – Sue Hiscocks, 860890 –and see below
A service for Richard Murray-Peters will be held on Wednesday 10 March at St Anne’s Church, Wyre Piddle. This by necessity is a private service but we all remember Richard with love and we hold Nancy in our prayers.
Sarah, Parish Wardens and Wardens
EASTER CARDS
New Easter cards for sale – if anyone would like to buy some, please contact me, Jane, by email or ring 860531. They are on view in my porch and some have already sold. I am sure we can arrange delivery or takeaway!
And that goes for Fladbury Community Orchard Apple Juice too – £2.50 a bottle (£2 for members) – everyone says it’s good!
FLADBURY PARISH COUNCIL
Fladbury – Station Road – Works and Closures
Severn Trent
A leak has been evident at the junction of Station Road and Weston Orchard for some months. Initially, WCC Highways and Severn Trent could not agree who was responsible for remedying this situation. Eventually, Severn Trent took ownership and after some investigation, located the cause a little further north up Station Road.
Unfortunately, their decision to begin the work was not accompanied by the necessary paperwork to announce a closure. Nevertheless, work commenced on Tuesday and the road reopened on Thursday morning.
WCC Highways
The Parish Council have been in discussion with WCC for some months on the PC’s request for the area just north of the railway bridge to be surfaced and kerbed. The area is uneven, often puddled and muddy and unsightly. WCC wanted to upgrade the footway all the way from the bridge to the A44 which the PC thought unnecessary and expensive when all that was required was some edging out of the grass to widen the path on most of the route. Eventually, it was agreed that the work just north of the bridge was all that was needed and required.
Work has been scheduled for Thursday, March 11th and should last three days. Confirmation is being sought as to whether the work is therefore Thursday, Friday and Saturday or Thursday, Friday, Monday; the former only includes two school days, the latter, a weekend.
Although traffic lights were requested by the PC instead of a full closure, the location, the width of the road and a footway on only one side dictate a full closure for safety reasons.
To help the process, the closure will only be in force from 8.45 am until 2.45 pm. This should allow access to the school and for residents commuting to get in and out of the village. Within these hours, only residents within the work area, are allowed access to their properties and they will need to make themselves known to the traffic management operatives on site. For everybody else the road will be closed within these times.
Walking through the works area will be permitted.
Please be patient – everything is being done to facilitate residents during this short period of working. The end result should be an improvement of the area.
Ian Southcott – Chair, tel: 861061, email: iandjsouthcott@aol.com – for the Parish Council
Clerk – Lynne Yapp, tel: 01386 552233, email: clerkfladburypc@mail.com
WANTED
· Furniture donations – an article in the Evesham Journal says that Roundabout, the furniture re-use charity in Blackminster, is appealing for donations of essential items for those in need during lockdown. Items need to be in good condition, re-usable, suitable for modern small houses or flats and with fire safety labels where appropriate. Roundabout staff collect suitable items in a covid secure manner. For further information, go to www.roundaboutevesham.org.uk or email manager@roundaboutevesham.org.uk.
· Used printer cartridges still needed for fundraising by Zoe who thanks everyone who has already donated cartridges. Please leave in the porch at 6 Woodward Parks.
· Small pansy or viola heads – real ones growing! – for decorating biscuits – please ring Moira 861744 at The Bread Shed if you can help. And did you know….
THE BREAD SHED
Is open on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings in the garage of the Manor on Station Road for homemade bread and sweet treats? Bread can be pre-ordered – just ring Moira.
SOME DATES TO NOTE…..
Monday 8 March – Back to School!
Sunday 14 March – Mothering Sunday
Friday 19 March – Red Nose Day
Census Day – Sunday 21 March – for more information visit www.census gov.uk
Sunday 28 March – clocks Spring forward 1 hour for summertime!
Monday 29 March – outdoor ‘Rule of Six’ gatherings allowed – hopefully
Wednesday 31 March – Fladbury no-Walkabout Meeting on Zoom
Sunday 4 April – Easter Day
Monday 12 April – keep on hoping…..
BACK TO SCHOOL
All good wishes to pupils and parents, teachers and support staff at schools as they begin to re-open for all children on Monday – I think they all deserve a clap!
RED NOSE DAY…..
Is on Friday 19 March and already there are some amazing people and causes featured on television who were helped by last year’s Comic Relief collection. Has anyone any suggestions for raising funds and/or awareness this year? Vanessa of the Chantry has created some fantastic RED NOSE masks for sale – to order, please ring Vanessa on 01386 860576. How about we all wear something RED on Red Nose Day?
THINGS TO DO…..
Yoga
Tessa Bailey emails “I’ve managed to keep my yoga going on line, using Zoom, with new and existing clients, using modifications for those that find standing difficult.” For more information, see the attachment or contact Tessa on email – tessabailey65@gmail.co, or telephone 01386 860261
A quiz
Thanks to Andrew Hughes who emailed “I notice that there hadn’t been a quiz in KIT for a while, so I have attached one to keep us all occupied in the last few weeks of lockdown (hopefully). It’s taken from the Telegraph, so if the are any local readers they may have an unfair advantage!”.
Jigsaw Puzzles – please note…..
No 10 is no longer able to provide a porch in which the puzzle swaps can take place. Is anyone able to offer their porch? If you can, please contact Lou by email: louisejanebugg@gmail.com or phone 07968 252847,
Another word puzzle – sent in my John Prichard – see how many words you can create from – P – IEEHDRLS. Rules – the first letter has to be used in each word, minimum of 3 letters per word, each letter can only be used only once in a word, no plurals allowed. Target (in 3 minutes) – Fair 20, Good 32, Very Good 45, Excellent 58. Has anyone ever achieved excellence? These puzzles are available from www.wordwheels.co.uk
Paint a Pebble – and put it on show them up the Church path or somewhere round the village and share beauty and creativity and skill and words of peace and joy and hope and love and thankfulness – let’s do it! My neighbour, Carol Worthington, has done some beautiful patterns and gave me this link – https://www.facebook.com/groups/660711497845359/?ref=share. Basically, says Carol, find a rock, wash it, paint it, seal it. There are lots of designs these days on the internet, Facebook, you tube or off a photo. Using acrylic paints – or you can even use paint pens – paint the rock with your design. Try and varnish it to make it weather proof and to stop the paint falling off. – use pva. Modge podge or a spray varnish. When the shops are open, B&M and pound shops and The Range are good for art supplies
GARDENING
Moyagh Hemming spotted a yellow Brimstone Butterfly in her garden in Station Road. Let’s hope we see more and more butterflies. Any tips for plants which butterflies like?
And again, please don’t forget…..
If you need some help or information or just a chat, our Signpost people will oblige…..
Louise Bugg, Friends of Fladbury – 07968 252847, email: louisejanebugg@gmail.com
The Revd Sarah Dangerfield – 861669, email: priest@fivealive.co.uk ;
Ian Southcott, Chair of the Parish Council – 861061, email: iandjsouthcott@aol.com
or I’ll try and put you in the right direction,
Love Jane X
KIT creator, tel: 860531, email: pjbugg@btinternet.com
On going…..
PERSHORE FOODBANK
· Donations from Charlton –.Charlton Church porch is open each day from 10.00am to 4.00 pm with a box to receive donations. Please give generously all non-perishable food items eg cereals, tinned foods and soups, tea/coffee, sugar, biscuits, pasta, rice, UHT milk, instant mash, together with basic toiletries. On entering the porch, please do ensure you adhere to Government Covid guidelines and general safety. If everyone were to regularly donate at least one item it would be a great help. Thank you for your generosity– Julian Hawley 860420
· Fladbury Church Porch – donations are welcome and are collected frequently for delivery to the foodbank – Carol Rosier 554410
TO ENJOY OR GIVE AWAY…..
New Ocean blue Signature Boxes . . . .
My new Signature boxes have been hand-picked with luxurious professional products. Perfect for you to enjoy or to be able to gift to a loved one.
I have selected four boxes just for you – The Nail, Facial, Body & Bathe and the Ultimate – for your indulgence.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and wouldn’t this be an absolutely fantastic opportunity to give the gift of an Ocean blue Signature Box?! Also available for Birthdays, Special Occasions, Get Well Soon and, don’t forget, I can personalise for your every requirement.
Available by going to www.oceanbluebeautytherapy.co.uk or ring me, Katie, on 07977181001
LITTER PICKING
Kat Powles of Woodward Parks, email katrinapowles@gmail.com, applied to Wychavon to be a local litter picker and has received
Litter pick stick
Hoop ring (to hold the bag open)
Heavy duty gloves
Roll of bags
High visibility vest
She volunteered to do Woodward Parks! But she and her two young children, Griff and Constance, have already done a little more – Kat is trying to find suitable equipment for children to use.
Please contact Kat if you would like to know more – email or tel: 861380 – and perhaps volunteer to pick up litter in another street – sadly there will be a greater need as the weather improves – but we want the weather to improve!
CHAIR YOGA
I’m trying to gauge how much interest there would be for a chair Yoga, Zoom Yoga session – initially at this stage, a one-off session with a view to more, depending on interest. There is so much you can still do from a chair which can be extremely beneficial to someone who has reduced mobility. At a time when it’s even more difficult to get out and exercise it will be useful but also an opportunity for those who perhaps aren’t able to see others at the mo, a friendly group to join while having a nice stretch. Please do contact me if you are interested
Carly Wickens of Broadway Lane – phone 07876193655 or yoga@carlywickens.co.uk
WANTED
Pershore High School are still receiving requests from families who need devices – LAPTOPS, etc – so that children can access online learning from home so if you have any old devices that you feed could donate for this use, please contact Lou on 07968 252847 or email louisejanebugg@gmail.com
CLUTTER…..
Things I might put in the green or black bins or the tip if nobody wants them…..
- Glasses – some half-pint, some wine
- Several wildlife magazines featuring some brilliant photographs and articles
- Jam jars
All free for take-away or delivery can be arranged! Email me, Jane, or ring me on 860531
LOCAL TAKEAWAYS
· Chestnut Tree Inn, Lower Moor – better now and back every Friday and Saturday 4pm till 8 pm – Fish & chips, Scampi & chips, Southern fried chicken & chips, Warm duck salad, Burger & fries – and a new one on the list – Sausage, egg, chips & beans – all £8.95 each meal. To order and book a time slot, phone 860380
· Gardener’s Arms, Charlton – 861146 – open for collection 4.30pm-7.30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, telephone from 2pm to order. Also Sunday lunch
· The Bell at Cropthorne – 861860 or cropthornebell@yahoo.com. Order by 2pm for collection between 6pm and 8pm on Friday and Saturday nights. Also weekend specials and Sunday roasts
· Kaur’s Spice Kitchen from Throckmorton Parish Hall between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on Fridays – orders must be placed by midnight on Thursday – phone 07545 392632
· Queen Elizabeth at Elmley Castle – extensive menu on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday lunchtime – phone 01386 710251
IT’S GOOD TO TALK!
Pershore Volunteer Centre run a weekly telephone chat scheme and are needing more telephone befriending volunteers. If you would like to find out more, please call the office on (01386) 554299
SUNFLOWERS in windows – drawings, paintings, craft ones – for all carers
