THE FARMBOROUGH FLYER Issue No 165: February 2020

WELCOME TO THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF FARMBOROUGH VILLAGE

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Notes from the Editor:

Hello everyone.

Happy New Decade! At the time of writing everything is so muddy! Squelch! Squelch! Then I met another dog walker in the fields and he called out, ‘It will soon be Spring!’ Great attitude. My mantra now!

Dog walkers have a special piece aimed at them now that there are sheep in the big ‘sheep’ field. See inside. Please take note.

This January edition is a short one. We need more advertisers and donations to cover printing costs! Remember we are not a Parish magazine. Advertising and dona-tions are the only incoming revenue to pay for printing of this magazine.

Still, the magazine is chock-a-block with information of new year goings-on, so thank you to those contributors who kept me informed. Remember, too, that unless you tell me, I often don’t know about the events going on in our local and wider community. After all, I am a newbie!!!

To inform our newbies like myself, I am collecting information about Farmborough past. I have a few bits and pieces so far and they are fascinating and will be a lovely reminder to those who have been here for years and years. Please think about times past—any little anecdotes will be of inter-est. Maybe once a month we can put something interesting in. And photos, pho-tos, photos are always of interest.

Parents (all adults, actually) are warned to be on the lookout for symptoms of a dis-ease that we once thought had almost died out—scarlet fever. It and mumps are back.

I have included a piece about flag days in this edition. I didn’t know what the flags flying on our Farmborough Church repre-sented. Am I the only one?

And there are thanks peppering this edi-tion. I am constantly amazed at what a generous community our Farmborough community is. Have a wonderful, caring year!

Very best wishes,

Sandra Byrne farmboroughflyer@gmail.com 01761 753189

On Saturday 29th February the Cam Valley Arts Trail Group will be running a day of art workshops

in Timsbury at the Conygre Hall. Info at http://www.camvalleyartstrail.co.uk

Farmborough Memorial Hall At 2.30pm Saturdays Session Dates 2020

February 15th

March 21st (Easter Special)

April 25th

June 6th

July 11th

September 12th

October 10th

November 28th (Christmas Special)

Entrance £1 (under 14’s free)

More details / transport Contact Jeannette Jones 01761 750840

Thoughts from the Rectory

Owing to Preb. Jan Knott being unwell, there are no Thoughts from her here this month. A letter from the Benefice follows:

Dear Friends

You will notice from the diary page that the pattern of services is slightly different this month.

This is to help support our Rector whilst she is unwell by reducing her work load on Sundays.

Some of the services will be led by one of our worship leaders, Chris Lovell, Judith Haywood or John Haywood and we are very grateful to them for filling in in this way.

I am sure you join with me when we wish Preb Jan a speedy recovery and will contin-ue to hold her in your prayers.

With best wishes

On behalf of the Benefice’s Churchwardens Catherine Taylor

All Saints’ Services—February 2020

Sun 2nd Candlemas 11.00am Elevenses and Christingle 6.30pm Alternative Communion

Sun 9th 6.30pm Evensong Sun 16th 11.00am Matins 2.30pm Circle of Friends Sun 23rd 11.00am Friends and Family Communion 6.30pm Evensong Wed 26th 7.30pm Ash Wednesday Communion ___________________________________

Sunday March 1st St David’s Day

Choir Practice every Wednesday at

Talent and Trading Scheme

We are so pleased to report that we raised £2020.00 for the Forever Friends Appeal! We requested that this money be put to-wards the new RUH Cancer Unit. A big thank you must go to all those people who supported T&T over 2019.

Five of us went to the RUH to present the cheque. We were given an enlightening tour of the existing chemotherapy and radiotherapy suite and were shown the computer-generated plan of the new Can-cer Unit due to open this year

We were also shown round the new RNHRD and the Brownswood Therapy Cen-tre on the RUH site. This centre includes the new hydrotherapy pool. The new NICU Unit impressed us immensely.

Laura and Lauren of the RUH Fundraising team gave so much time to us, explaining everything in great depth and we were left in awe as to what is going on at our local hospital. Thank you, Laura and Lauren.

T&T will be supporting The Meningitis Trust this year. Meningitis is disease that has affected the family of one of our mem-bers. We look forward to your support over the year. Thank you. Anita, Cheri and Ros

Tea every Tuesday at Farmborough Church from 2.30pm. Chat while eating scrummy cake with tea or coffee. All welcome.

Did you know…

...that this last decade has been the sec-ond hottest in the last 100 years?

...that there is a big push to create pet food made from insects? The EU has ap-proved insect protein for pet food.

www.farmborough.org.uk

YOUR Farmborough Community Website for events, news, village facilities, services and more. To add an event or news, please email: news@farmborough.org.uk

The Farmborough Community Shop now has a great selection of magazines for you to choose from. If there is a title you would like to order, please drop in and let us know, or feel free to browse the various TV guides, general interest, pastimes, puz-zle books and comics we have on our shelves. And, if you have any suggestions of products we can stock or services we could provide, please let us know.

We have had very two positive months in November and December in the Communi-ty Shop. The number of customers using us in December increased by around 200, compared to last year. Thanks must go to our volunteers, contributors and custom-ers. We look forward to a successful 2020.

Chris Bullock, Shop Manager Tel: 471811 manager@farmboroughshop.co.uk

Dates to note:

19th February 1-3pm: The new Knit and Natter Group meet on the third Wednes-day of each month at the shop. All ages and abilities are welcome, as well as any fibre-based crafter, not just knitters.

13 February 7pm: The FCS AGM will be held at the Memorial Hall. All are welcome but only members can comment and vote. Become a member! See more on www.farmboroughshop.co.uk

Farmborough All Saints’ Church’s Christmas Tree Festival—Report

WOW! The Tree Festival made £1042 and the wreaths (84 of them!)* made £681 for Church funds at the festival and through orders! Well done everybody!

So, thank you to all who supported the Church over the Festive weekend and an especially huge thank you to Liz Tyrell and Jan Jones for overseeing the organisation of the weekend.

*Please return your plastic wreath holders to Sally Davis’ doorstep at 1 Church Lane, Farmborough. This keeps a lot of plastic out of landfill and they can be re-used this Christmas. Thank you. Farmborough Church Social Committee

Day One—Caring for Climate

Take part in a community event looking at finding positive, local

solutions to the climate crisis

Everyone is invited to come along to Farmborough Memorial Hall on

Saturday March 7th 2020 3-5 pm

Let’s forget about the past and make this DAY ONE!

This is a free event Hot drinks and cakes provided

Email: charlotte@dayoneevents.co.uk Tel: 07788 788224

www.dayoneevents.co.uk

Did you know… that the European Envi-ronment Agency (EEA) has stated that “air pollution is currently the most important environmental risk to human health” ?

Almost every city-dwelling European is exposed to air pollution that exceeds healthy levels, says a Reuters report.

And now, cities/countries all over the globe are being subjected to the enor-mous travelling smoke cloud produced by the Australian fires.

Timsbury Art Group

Happy New Year 2020. A new year brings new ideas, I hope. Why not try painting?

Last year, Timsbury Art Group members had two exhibitions of their paintings, attracting many visitors and resulting in many sales of paintings as well as a dona-tion to a local charity.

There were also two art demonstrations in Spring and Autumn, as well as a Christmas get-together for members. Some mem-bers make their own Christmas cards.

Our Spring Term is 9th January-2nd April 2020 with a half term break on 20th Febru-ary. The term fee is £25 which equates to some £2.27 per session and that includes tea and coffee! We meet in The Conygre Hall, Timsbury on Thursdays 2pm-4pm, so do come along and meet us all to see what we do and, hopefully, you will join us. It's a good way to meet people, make friends and chat. Please telephone 07970 087252 for more information.

Our next demonstration is on Thursday 6 February 2020 2pm-4pm in The Conygre Hall where we will welcome guest artist Paul Weaver who will show us how he creates a market scene with figures in wa-tercolour. His primary inspirations are light and atmospheric effects, so do come and soak up the atmosphere and enjoy his demo. This is a lovely way to learn from an experienced artist. Tea/coffee and biscuits are included in the charge of £4.50. Everyone is welcome and we hope to see you there. Lesley Mannion

Sunday Carvery in Farmborough

A Carvery Lunch in aid of Hall funds is being held at Farm-borough Memorial Hall on Sunday March 1st, 12.30pm for 12.45pm.

Soft drinks will be available. BYO if you fancy alcohol with your lunch! Vegetarians can be catered for. There will be a raffle.

Tickets: £8.50 adult £5.00 schoolchildren

Please contact Sally Davis 01761 472356 for tickets.

Rural Links in Farmborough

A new social group has been formed to allow local people to socialise, tease their brains and try out a seated exercise that can become very competitive. It is called

Sheep in the Farmborough fields

There have been a few incidents of rogue sheep breaking through the hedgerow into the Church and middle fields in January.

Dog walkers are asked to be aware that this can happen and to keep their dogs under effective control and also to keep dogs on leads if walking in the big ‘sheep’ field where there are sheep at the mo-ment. This is essential if any livestock are around (see the Dogs (Protection of Live-stock) Act of 1953 on page 8).

Boccia! Volunteer Colin Allen is running the activity every third Thursday of each month at the Farmborough Memorial Hall, 10-12 am. (See our advert on p.10)

The £3.00/session charge covers the re-freshments. The sessions are supported by the Village Agents' project Rural Links.

Bath College Adult Community Learning is about to complete a Beginners Course in iPads through Rural Links at the Farmbor-ough Memorial Hall.

Other opportunities will follow, so pop along to Boccia and tell us what you would like to learn.

Contact 01275 333700 for more info.

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simon@blackdownfinancial.co.uk for advice on investments, pensions,

retirement planning, mortgages and financial protection.

As a mortgage is secured against your home, it could be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments. Blackdown Financial is a trading name of W&T Ltd.

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179 bus update

Having saved the 179 service, albeit in its basic format, we need to build on this to provide a regular and appropriate service for Farmborough and the surrounding vil-lages.

Not having a bus service affects us all, whether we are regular users or not, so please use the service as much as possible.

To keep up the momentum please would you feed back any views or opinions you might have about the current service to DamienValentine darth.angelus@gmail.com who, along with Clive Turner, has been instrumental in se-curing the extension to the 179 service. Together with the BANES Rural Transport Group, they are campaigning for a better service for all villages on the 179 route. Michael Woods

Scarlet Fever outbreaks across B&NES

People across Somerset and Bath have been urged to be aware of the symptoms of scarlet fever after an outbreak of the illness across the county over the Christ-mas period. A total of 25 cases were con-firmed in the final two weeks of Decem-ber, according to figures released by Public Health England.

In the first week of 2020 there have been six cases of scarlet fever declared in Som-erset compared to 14 cases in the previous two weeks.

The symptoms of scarlet fever include a sore throat, headache and fever accompa-nied by a characteristic pink/red rash that feels like sandpaper.

The infection is contagious from before the symptoms appear, until 24 hours after starting antibiotic treatment. It's spread in the tiny droplets found in an infected per-son's breath, coughs and sneezes.

Farmborough Church Primary School

School Meals Supervisory Assistant required

We are looking for a new School Meals Supervisory Assistant to join our lunchtime team. This would involve working from 12-1 pm to help with the children having their lunch and play time. The number of days to be worked is negotiable.

So, if you know anybody who might like to join our staff team, please let them know about this and ask them to contact the school office on 01761 470714 or email office@farmboroughchurchprimary.org.uk for more information and to obtain an application form.

Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act Category: England, Wales and Scotland Law Date: 1953 General Description:

Under criminal law if a dog worries livestock on agricultural land then the owner and anyone else under whose control the dog is at the time will be guilty of an offence under this Act. To come un-der the act the dog must have been attacking livestock or chasing it in such a way that it could rea-sonably be expected to cause injury or suffering to the livestock or, in the case of females, cause abortion or loss of or diminution of their produce.

It is also an offence, introduced by later legislation, for the dog to be at large, i.e. not on a lead or otherwise under close control, in a field of sheep. There are limited exceptions to this last provi-sion, for example sheep dogs and police dogs.

No offence is committed, however, if at the time of the worrying the livestock were trespassing, the dog belonged to the owner of the land on which the trespassing livestock were and the person in charge of the dog did not cause the dog to attack the livestock. The definition of "livestock" under this act is quite wide and includes cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses and poultry. Poultry, however, does not include game birds such as pheasants and grouse.

Conviction under this act would lead to a fine.

Civil liability arises from the Animals Act 1971. Under this act anyone who is the keeper of a dog which causes damage by killing or injuring livestock will be liable for the damage caused. The keep-er of a dog for the purposes of the act is the owner or the person in whose possession the dog is or the head of a household where the owner is a member of the household under the age of sixteen. Source: Defra

Word of the month:

‘animism’

1. the attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and nat-ural phenomena.

2. the belief in a supernatural pow-er that organizes and animates the material universe, as in ‘a village steeped in ancient animism and rituals’.

Mobile library times and dates Feb - July 2020 for Clutton and Farmborough Ward:

Route 7 – Every Tuesday. Feb 25; Mar 10, 24; April 7, 21; May 5, 19; June 2, 16, 30.

Village venues and stop times:

Farmborough The Street 10h00 — 10h30

Farmborough Hobbs Wall 10h35 – 11h05

Clutton Station Road 14h40 – 15h30 [for school]

Clutton Upper Bristol Road 15h40 – 16h10

Farmborough Women’s CAMEO

meets at 7:30 pm on the first Tuesday of the month at the Farmborough Memorial Hall. Everyone welcome.

4th February: Short AGM followed by a talk and demonstration by

Gemma from Pure Beauty.

Huge appreciation expressed

The following note was received from Ferenber-gians Mo and Gerald Curtis. Mo seems to be doing very well. Best wishes to you, Mo! Ed

Farmborough’s Butcher’s Arms Closes

At the end of January, the local pub, The Butcher’s Arms closed. Marie and her family are moving on. We wish them well and thank them for their hard work in the pub over the years. It is still not known who will take over the pub.

FARMBOROUGH GOOD NEIGHBOURS offer free lifts to Farmborough villagers of all ages to local surgeries and hospitals. Child seat available. Contributions for lifts are welcome.

Contacts: Mal and Donny Allen 470277 Mike Creese 750826

DEADLINE FOR THE MARCH 2020 FARMBOROUGH FLYER :

15th February 2020

The Flags of the United Kingdom

<The Union Flag

The English Cross of > St George Flag

< The Scottish or Saltire Flag

The Welsh Standard Flag>

What to run up the flagpole by Flagman

What flag does the church fly from its flag-pole and when?

There is no law in Britain on which flags may be flown from a church but there are some customs that should be followed.

In 1938 the Earl Marshall, the Duke of Nor-folk, designated that the 'flag proper' to be flown from any church within the Provinc-es of Canterbury and York was to be the Cross of St George with the arms of the Diocese in the first quarter and that it may be flown on any suitable occasion.

The ruling did not preclude the occasional flying of the Union Flag on days of national rejoicing or mourning and, therefore, Par-ishes could decide when it should be flown in preference to the Cross of St. George. As there isn't a Flag Act in the UK there is no legal restriction on what flags may fly from a church.

An empty flagpole is a forlorn sight that suggests the building is empty, business is finished and the people have gone away and it is for this reason a pennant flies from Farmborough's church tower when no other flag is flown. Patrick Bridges Did you know……

…that, from our Farmborough Church flag-pole, the Cross of St George flag, with the shield of the arms of the Bath and Wells Diocese in the first quarter, is flown on

Feast Days of Saints and festivals such as Christmas, Palm Sunday, Easter, Whitsun and Trinity, etc.

The Welsh Standard is flown on St David's Day (March 1st) and the flag of Scotland (or Saltire) is flown on St Andrew's Day (October 30th).

The flag of the Union (often incorrectly referred to as the 'Union Jack') is flown on State and Royal occasions and anniver-saries such as the birthdays of Senior Roy-als, the Queen's Accession and Coronation, WWII VE Day and VJ Day, etc. On Remem-brance Sunday, Armistice Day and when in mourning it is flown at half-mast.

On all other days the pennant flies.

So have a look the next time you are pass-ing the Church to see which flag is flying and then check your Flag Days list! I shall be putting the monthly flag days in here.

Farmborough Church Flag Days for February 2020

Feb 2 Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) 6 Accession of Queen Elizabeth II 1952 19 Duke of York born 1960 26 Ash Wednesday

The Countryside Code: Respect - Protect - Enjoy

We are fortunate to live in an area surrounded by countryside with many foot-

paths for all to enjoy, but we should always remain considerate of others and the

environment. The Countryside Code aims to help everyone respect, protect and enjoy the

outdoors and applies to all parts of the countryside in England and Wales.

Respect other people

Please respect the local community and other people using the outdoors. Remember your

actions can affect people’s lives and livelihoods. Leave gates and property as you find them

and follow paths unless wider access is available.

Protect the natural environment

We all have a responsibility to protect the countryside now and for future generations, so

make sure you don’t harm animals, birds, plants or trees and try to leave no trace of your

visit. Take your litter home. When out with your dog make sure it is not a danger or nui-

sance to farm animals, horses, wildlife or people. Keep your dog under effective control.

Enjoy the outdoors

Even when going out locally, it’s best to get the latest information about where and when you

can go. For example, your rights to go on to some areas may be restricted in particular plac-

es at particular times. Find out as much as you can about where you are going, plan ahead

and follow advice and local signs.

For more details, please visit: www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-countryside-code

2020 FEBRUARY EVENTS Where Time

Tues 4th CAMEO –Talk by beautician, Gemma, on skincare

Farmborough Memorial Hall 19h30

Thurs 6th Timsbury Art Group—Paul Weaver demonstration

Conygre Hall, Timsbury 14h00-16h00

W/C 10th Farmborough Church Primary School Book Week and Fair

Farmborough Church Primary School

Varies

Thurs 13th Farmborough Community Shop AGM

Farmborough Memorial Hall 19h00

Sat 15th BINGO Farmborough Memorial Hall 14h30

Sat 15th Deadline for submissions for March Farmborough Flyer

To: farmboroughflyer@gmail.com

Thurs 20th Rural Links—Boccia Farmborough Memorial Hall 10h00-12h00

Tues 25th WERN Village Agent Recruit-ment Fair

Paulton Village Hall, Farrington Road

16h30-18h45

Sat 29th Cam Valley Arts Trail—Workshops

Conygre Hall, Timsbury All day

2020 MARCH EVENTS Where Time

Sunday 1st Carvery Lunch Farmborough Memorial Hall 12h30

Sat 7th DAY ONE—Care for the Cli-mate meeting

Farmborough Memorial Hall 15h00-17h00

Sat 21st BINGO Farmborough Memorial Hall 14h30