NO MORE FISH & CHIPS ON THURSDAYS
From food genie Vicky – As our normal pitches have now reopened, we are unfortunately unable to commit to our Thursday slot in Fladbury but we are going to try and arrange a monthly visit instead, possibly late in the Autumn. Thanks for your custom during lockdown, with best wishes, Vicky.
And our thanks to Vicky and colleagues for keeping us fish-and-chipped during lockdown!
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BUT CAFE CRAYCOMBE RE-OPENING!
We are on site doing some renovation and decorating in preparation for when we are allowed to open for inside service in May. In the mean time, we plan to open up while we do this work, on a restricted but progressive basis, as follows – from today, Thursday 15 April, a very basic take away and outside table service offer will be available – a longer menu will be introduced when possible. Hours are as pre lockdown – Tuesday to Saturday inclusive from 10am to 3pm – closed Sunday and Monday for now but this may alter as life returns to normal. Unfortunately, we have to mention the caveat that service will be at the mercy of the great British weather so, when the elements look questionable, please do ring before coming – telephone 0136 860732. For other enquiries, please email cafecraycombe@aol.com
Finally, we at Cafe Craycombe were all very saddened to hear of the passing of Chris North. Chris was a regular at the café and we send our condolences to her family and friends. Colin Cumbers
LUNCHES DELIVERED
Friday 16 April – Homemade turkey and ham pie served with fresh seasonal vegetables and potatoes – £9
Sunday 18 April – Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding OR Roast loin of pork served with fresh seasonal vegetables and potatoes – £9 each + Sunday desserts – Homemade apple crumble OR Salted caramel and pecan nut chocolate brownie OR Lemon meringue roulade, all served with cream – £4 each
TO ORDER any of the above, please contact Carol-Anne and Nigel on 07866 670472
PUBS OPEN – OUTSIDE!
The Anchor is open every day from 11.30am for drinking outside – where there are some open gazebos – tel: 860391
The Chequers is open for drinking and eating outside – reduced main menu and pizzas – food Monday-Saturday 12noon-8pm, Sunday 12noon-5pm – tel: 861854
CHURCH NEWS
Individual private prayer – Fladbury church will be open for individual private prayer on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April from 10.00am to 4.00pm.
Praying Together on Sunday at 5’ (at home) continues on Sunday 18th April.
Public Worship – we are so very pleased to resume public worship at Fladbury church on Sunday 25th April with a Morning Service at 11.00am. There will be a Service of Holy Communion on Sunday 2nd May at Fladbury church at 11.00am.
Services will be held following Covid 19 Guidance which includes mandatory face coverings (unless exempt under the government rules), social distancing, hand sanitiser being available, and NHS Test and Trace recording.
The Service of Thanksgiving for Chris North will take place at Fladbury church on Monday 26th April – details to be available next week and with information on the opportunity for friends to show their respects. Our prayer is with Bill, Kate, Liz and Jo and their whole family.
Revd Sarah, Parish Wardens and Wardens
Fladbury Church – BOOKS -many of us have enjoyed picking up a book from the bookstand in Fladbury Church. Covid guidance requires us to remove all paper literature from churches which also means books. Regretfully we are not able to have a bookstand in church at present and may we therefore ask respectfully that no books are left at church. Our thanks.
PAINTED PEBBLES
From Vivien Taylor of Butt Furlong
My grandchildren painted pebbles and placed them in the pathway at the Church. They then went into the church and said “wow” when they heard the organist playing. He was very friendly and polite.They said their Easter prayers and then we left. My grandson wondered where the rest of the painted pebbles were?? Lovely idea! We will be back for another visit. Vivien
HOUSES WANTED
· We are a young family of 4 who have lived in the village for the past 5 years (renting a property on Paynes Lane). Our children attend Fladbury first school and we are now in the position to buy our first home, which would be the dream to stay in the village. Any support in achieving our dream would be greatly received. Kindest regards, Gemma & Phil Ryder – phone 07973 843852
· I am hoping to downsize – if anyone has a smaller 2-bedroomed property in Fladbury they are thinking of selling, please let me know Jane, tel: 860531 or email pjbugg@btinternet.com
· I also know of someone who is looking for a bigger property in the area with a large garden
FLADBURY PARISH COUNCIL
Annual Meeting
Due to the official period of mourning for HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Annual Parish meeting will not now take place on Monday, April 19th as previously notified. Although the meeting itself falls outside the period of mourning, the legal notice of seven days outside that period falls within and thus legally the meeting cannot be held. More information will follow in due course.
Network Rail – River Avon Bridge
The Network Rail project to repair the railway bridge over the River Avon at Fladbury will start in earnest next Monday 19th April.
- The materials for the haul road during the first couple of weeks of the project will access Charlton from the A46 at Hinton via Haselor Lane, then Boston/Yessell Lanes before accessing the farm tracks via Whitehouse Farm in Ryden Lane. On an ongoing basis any large heavy deliveries will use the Whitehouse Farm as an access point but smaller ones will use Sidings Lane.
- This means that, in theory, none of the hgv traffic will come through Fladbury.
- Initially the site equipment/offices/welfare cabins etc will be set up and a haul road from Sidings Lane in Charlton to the railway bridge will be created.
It has been agreed with Network Rail that:
- 5mph signage will be erected on Sidings Lane and vehicles using other tracks will have a similar maximum speed
- Currently there is no agreement for the landowner to retain the haul road material, so it will be removed from site at the end of the project
- Whitehouse Farm will be used for HGV deliveries to site this includes stone deliveries
- Sidings Lane will be used by lighter weight vehicles only, a water bowser will be used when necessary
- Footpath at the railway bridge will be closed between 25 May – 6 June 2021
- The other footpaths do not come near to the haul road, but signage will be posted around the area
- Works will commence on the 19 April to install the haul road and set up the compound.
- The haulage company have been briefed on the requirement to drive at no more than 20mph through the villages for Fladbury, Charlton and Cropthorne
Ian Southcott – Chair, tel: 861061, email: iandjsouthcott@aol.com
(Clerk – Lynne Yapp, tel: 01386 552233, email: clerkfladburypc@mail.com)
THANK YOU…..
Thank you to everyone who donated their empty ink cartridges for my Vietnam Expedition. I will no longer be collecting them but have raised approximately £50 towards my trip! Thanks again, Zoe.
FOR SALE…..
in my porch at 6 Woodward Parks – Greetings Cards – a few birthday cards for 50p or 20p each and cards for all occasions (mostly blank inside) – 20p each or 6 for £1. Please ring if you wish to buy – we can discuss when or I can deliver – Jane, 860531
FREE FOR THE TAKING!
PLASTIC PLANT POTS – small and not so small – on the front lawn of 6 Woodward Parks
FLADBURY VILLAGE EVENT
The Fladbury Village Event will be on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 July – mostly on the Saturday – to celebrate the end of lockdown (hopefully), to celebrate village life and to get to know each other – including newcomers to the village. This is NOT the Walkabout and is not a corporate fundraiser and does not depend on booking outside entertainers or outside stallholders. It will be home grown and home produced – might even include an exhibition of what you created during lockdown – so perhaps you might have to get it finished before July!
WILDLIFE
v RSPB have results of the Big Garden Birdwatch held at the end of January. Although both greenfinch and chaffinch numbers have fallen, it was a good year for blackbirds and robins. Way down the Birdwatch list are the least seen birds – did a little owl (at number 67), skylark (at number 73) or teal (at number 80) visit your garden?
v From Roger and Moyagh Hemming of Station Road – Last weekend & on Tuesday we had our first Brimstone ( Gonepteryx rhamni ) & our first Orange-tip ( Anthocharis cardamines ), back in the late 70 s, not reckoned to be on the wing until late May early June. These days it seems to have advanced by 2 or 3 weeks.Notwithstanding the late frosts it looks like Spring is just over the horizon at last..
SOME DATES TO NOTE…..
Saturday 1 May – Plant Sale for Alzheimer’s Research UK
Thursday 6 May – local elections – post office closed in Lower Moor
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 July – Fladbury Village event – more information coming soon!
A QUOTE from Jenni Murray’s article in Saga magazine
‘May be my friend has a point and it’s time to dig out a decent outfit, put on some slap and get back out there. I might leave if for a bit, but none of us must forget that company is crucial for human beings. We have to pick ourselves up and start all over again.’
KEEP IN TOUCH….
with friends and neighbours, with folk mentioned in KIT and with me, Love Jane X
KIT creator, tel: 860531, email: pjbugg@btinternet.com – news and information for KIT is welcome – deadline is early Wednesday evening for circulation hopefully early Thursday afternoon
On going…..
GARDENING
· Monty Don’s tips for April – https://www.montydon.com/tips-and-advice/april-2021
· See the wonderful Clivia flower in my porch at 6 Woodward Parks where there are also odd packets of seeds – some in date and some beyond the use by date – free !! or swap
· Rowlings, our local garden centre in Cropthorne, telephone 01386 860793, is now open from 10.30am to 4pm and then on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the spring and summer season. For new people to find them, from Fladbury, go to Cropthorne and, when meeting the main road, turn left to Evesham and then VERY soon turn left into Rowlings
· Coming soon! A PLANT SALE in Fladbury on Saturday 1 May in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK – save your divided plants, donate new plants, save up to buy! More information soon or contact Pam Foley on 860895
TAKE A WALK through the Fladbury Community Orchard & Nature Reserve and see the blossom – but please avoid walking on the wildflower meadow or in the pond to protect the new growth of spring. (For those who don’t know where the Orchard and Nature Reserve are, from the centre of the village, fork left just before the railway bridge and follow the grass lane)
FLADBURY PLAYERS are seeking new members to join the committee. If you are interested in joining us please contact me, Helen Jones, Fladbury Players Secretary on 07891443428/01386 860352 or email helenjones1956@outlook.com. Hoping to have a Murder Mystery event in late October/early November and the panto has been rescheduled for late January 2022
ROUNDABOUT – the charity for furniture donations –needs household items in good condition – staff will collect suitable items. For further information, go to www.roundaboutevesham.org.uk or email manager@roundaboutevesham.org.uk.
RECYCLING
· I wonder if someone would be prepared to arrange the collection of all sorts of small plastic bottled tops? Please let me, Jane, know.
· 3 SINGLE BEDS – surplus to requirements, a pair of very good quality and in good condition, slightly old-fashioned, single divan beds with sprung mattresses and brown velvet headboards and a single bed with sliding door cupboards underneath and no mattress. I hate sending them to the tip but charities won’t take them without fire labels. FREE for the taking or very local delivery can be arranged – if interested, please ring me, Jane, on 01386 860531
FACEMASKS – Vanessa has a huge variety of facemasks. To order, please email vanessatofield@hotmail.co.uk or ring Vanessa on 01386 860576.
PERSHORE FOODBANK is still in need of donations which can be left in Fladbury and Charlton Church porches. For further information, please contact Christine Farrell 861689 for Fladbury and Julian Hawley 860420 for Charlton.
PUZZLES
· Another word puzzle – sent in by John Prichard – see how many words you can create from M-AAIISRLC. 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 14, Good 23, Very Good 33, Excellent 42.
· Jigsaw Puzzles – Sue Hildesley still has jigsaw puzzles in her porch at Spring Cottage in Lazy Lane for borrowing and swapping. If you have any queries, please contact Sue on 861237.