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The Bathford Bulletin

The Monthly Magazine For The Parish OfBathford

July 2012

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We are always looking for interesting or unusual ones of the vil lage; particularly anythat capture a distinct character of the vil lage or are from an unusual vantage point.

Please send your submissions to: [email protected]

Keith Masdin and the Pupils of Bathford School on their torch parade

Photo By Liz Whitfield

Sundays

8:1 5am Holy Communion

1 0:00am First Sunday - Family Service

2nd, 4th & 5th Sunday - Holy Communion

3rd Sunday - Morning Worship (No Communion)

6:30pm First Sunday - Holy Communion - Other Sundays - Evensong

Mondays - Thursdays

9:00 - 9:30am Prayer Time In Church

Mondays

2:00pm 2nd Monday – Service In The Community Room

Wednesdays

2:30pm Holy Communion each 1 st Weds of the month at Shockerwick

House.

House Groups Details from the Churchwardens or Notices.

St. Swithun’s Church BathfordRev Jane Burgess - Telephone: 858325email:

[email protected]: Alison Mil lar 851 095 Joy Craine 85861 3

Readers: Gerry Mil ler 858402 Michael Craine 85861 3

Gil l Gilbert 858927 Dennis Pearson 858293

Everyone Is Warmly Welcome!

We have the fol lowing groups for children during our Sunday Services:

Crèche (0-3); Children’s Church (3-1 0); Rock Solid Youth Group (11 +).

Our 1 4+ youth group, 'Rock on Saturday', meets three times each month. For detai ls

please ring Michael Craine.


From the Registers

Baptism 27th May

Joshua Nicholls

Jesus. The play, lasting about sevenhours, is now performed repeatedly overthe course of five months during everyyear ending in zero (next in 2020). I tinvolves over 2,000 performers,musicians, and stage technicians (abouthalf of the vil lage) and comprisesspoken dramatic text, musical andchoral accompaniment.

Whilst not claiming to be quite asambitious in terms of scale as theresidents of Oberammergau, the 70residents of Bathford taking part areequally passionate and committed. Theyhope to offer al l who come to see theperformances a unique and specialexperience of seeing the story of JesusChrist come to l ife. You may be pleasedto hear the performance wil l only lasttwo and a half hours, not seven hoursnor even seven days as some of theoriginal ones did!

Performances 2:00pm 1 4 July andrepeated at 2:00pm 1 5 July beginning atSycamore House garden. Tickets fromthe community Shop £5 adults £3children

With warmest greetingsJane


From the Vicarage... .When I first arrived in Bathford one of thefirst stories I was told was about thewonderful Passion Play that had beenput on in Bathford in 2004. Very quickly Iwas shown photographs of the event andsoon realised what an ambitious andextraordinary event it had been. Icouldn’t quite believe it then when I wastold that many of the folk who wereinvolved in the 2004 performance wantedto stage another Passion Play. I thoughtproducing an event l ike this once in al ifetime would have been enough foranybody, but not for Cathy Adeane andher team.

The enthusiasm amongst those involvedin the Passion Play is amazing and Ithink we are going to be in for a treat asthe Passion Play is staged on July 1 4and 1 5 in the beautiful gardens ofSycamore House, the churchyard andChurch. We wil l be joining a very longhistory of communities that haveperformed such plays. They beganacross Europe in the Middle Ages asEaster plays but by the fifteenth centurythey had moved away from the church,were translated from Latin into thevernacular and magnificent productionswere staged in public squares, oftenlasting for days. With the Reformation,Passion Plays came to be performedmore rarely and it was only at the end ofthe nineteenth century that they began tomake a resurgence.

The chief survivor of the original modernPassion Play is the OberammergauPassion Play, first performed in theBavarian vil lage of Oberammergau in1 634, and now performed every tenyears. The town's residents vowed that ifGod spared them from the effects of thebubonic plague ravaging the region, theywould produce a play every ten yearsthereafter, depicting the l ife and death of

Welcome PacksHave you any new neighbours?St Swithun’s Church has made upwelcome packs, to be delivered to al lnewcomers, welcoming them to ourlovely vi l lage and containing informationabout our many various vil lageorganisations and activities, includingThe Bathford Bulletin, leaflets about theShop and Café, Link, the TwinningAssociation. and St. Swithun’s Church.

Please ring Pam Priston on 743499 andI wil l arrange for a welcome pack to bedelivered to them.


Breakfast is served!The Bathford Community Shop Café iscelebrating the summer by offering acooked breakfast on Saturdays, starting1 6 June. So if you l ike your eggsscrambled or fried, a delicious sausageor bacon sandwich or if you are readyfor a "ful l Engl ish" then make your wayto the Community Café and see what'scooking.

The Café wil l also continue to offer itscurrent breakfast selection includingfreshly baked croissant and pain auchocolat daily, Monday to Saturday from9 am.

And don't forget to try some of thedelicious home-made cakes available toeat in or take away.

Are you a family needing a littlehelp this summer?Celine Angot is an 1 8 year old fromArtannes who would l ike to spend thesummer improving her English workingas an au pair with a family in England. I fyou are interested or know of anyonewho is, please contact me on 01 225852444.

Maureen BreezeBathford with Kingsdown TwinningAssociation

BATHFORD VILLAGE SHOPand CAFÉThis year the AGM was a cheerfulbuzzing affair and well attended. Therewas much to report. There have beenmany changes and achievements in thelast twelve months and much is plannedfor the year to come.

The café is now open and the regularlunches, teas and events such as‘Coffee plus Café’, are proving popular.The range of goods available in theshop is increasingly tempting and moreand more items are locally sourced.

BEFA+ is very active. This group aims tooffer more services to the community,identifying and responding to needs aswell as general ly making Bathford aneven better place to l ive and grow up in.Those impressive displays of art worksin the café have been arranged byBEFA+.

So please become a member of BEFA!You would be supporting a thrivingventure and be part of somethingexciting and interesting. Only memberscan attend the AGM, be ’in the know’and influence future developments.There is a once only joining fee of £1 0.Ask in the shop or tel: 8591 86.

BEFA (Bathford Enterprise for All)would love to have more members.

Little GalleryWork by Shirley Bloomfield can beviewed at the Little Gallery at BathfordCommunity Café from 2 July.

The artist began painting twelve yearsago and likes to work in water colours,oi ls and pastels. Favourite subjects arelandscapes including those of the localarea as well as people and animals.

Shirley belongs to two art groups and herwork has been seen in variousexhibitions including the Mayor of Bath'sAnnual Exhibition.

PARISH COUNCIL NEWS01 225 859007

[email protected]

Closure of A363 for resurfacing - TheA363, from its junction with the A4 BoxRoad roundabout, to the junction atPinckney Green wil l be closed during theweek commencing Monday 30 July. Theroad wil l be closed from 1 9:00 on July30, and wil l remain closed 24 hours aday to through traffic unti l 06:00 on Fri 3August. During the work access to andfrom Bathford via the Bathford Hil ljunction with the A363 may be restricted.A diversion wil l be in place via Box.

A big thank you – The Parish Councilwould l ike to pass on its sincere thanksto everyone involved in the organisationof events to mark the Queen’s DiamondJubilee. The parish is fortunate to haveso many people who are wil l ing to giveup their time for the benefit of the wholecommunity. The Cream Tea, the BigLunch, the Fun Run, the Fun Day on theplaying field, the Heritage Walk, theFlower Festival and Art Exhibitions in theChurch and School made for amarvellous weekend as the communitygot together to celebrate.Congratulations to al l those whocontributed to and participated in thesememorable events.

Carriage of mobility Scooters on lowfloor buses – The Confederation ofPassenger Transport has developed avoluntary Code of Conduct for the Useand Acceptance of Mobil ity Scooters onLow Floor Buses as the design ofmodern buses makes them suitable forthe carriage of mobil ity scooters notexceeding a specified size and weight.Most major bus operators have adoptedthe Code. Any user of a Type 2 designof a mobil ity scooter can request anassessment with their bus operator to

check whether their scooter fal ls withinthe provisions of the Code. There are anumber of conditions which need to bemet. Anyone wanting more detai ls aboutthe carriage of mobil ity scooters on lowfloor buses should contact the Clerk whocan send them a leaflet. Users ofelectric wheelchairs that do not exceedthe standard reference wheelchairdimensions are not affected by the Code.

Recycling of food waste – Residentsare reminded that cooked and raw foodwaste can be recycled and is collectedas part of the weekly kerbside collection.B&NES has provided all residents with alockable black bin and a smaller caddyfor the collection of food waste. TheParish Council would encourage allresidents to use the food recyclingservice. Putting food waste in thelockable bin rather than in black sacksreduces the l ikel ihood of refuse sacksbeing split by animals and birds whichwil l in turn help to keep the vil lage cleanand tidy.

Red Cross Fire & Emergency SupportService – This Red Cross supportservice is based in Keynsham. I tprovides practical and emotional supportto people whose homes have beenaffected by fire, flood or other disaster.The service is staffed entirely byvolunteers and the Red Cross is lookingfor new volunteers to support thisservice. I f you would l ike to find outmore, then you can contact the Clerk orDan Spencer at the Red Cross on 011 7301 261 9.

Date of Next Meeting – This wil l be heldon Monday 1 6 July 201 2 at 7:30pm inthe Parish Office. Parishioners arereminded that al l Parish Councilmeetings are open to the public andresidents are welcome to attend asobservers or to bring matters of concernto the attention of the Council in the first5 minutes of the meeting.



Would you like to join the Parish Council?Bathford Parish Council has 1 vacant seat that can be fi l led by co-option.

Applications for co-option would be welcome from anyone qualifying for the role ofparish council lor. The qualifying criteria can be found on the Parish Council

website www.bathford.net.

I f you would l ike to join the council , please contact the Clerk for an applicationform.

The deadline for applications is Friday 31 August and applications wil l beconsidered at the meeting of the Parish Council on Monday 1 7 September.

Ruth Holding, Clerk, Bathford Parish Council ,

c/o 54 Bathford Hil l , Bathford, BA1 7SN

Tel: 01 225 859007Email: [email protected]

SO LONG AND FAREWELL…Your chance to say “Good Bye” to Mrs Grebbyfollowing many years of outstanding service to

Bathford Primary School as Head Teacher.

Come along to the School Fete onSaturday 7th July between 1 2pm and 3pmwhere FOBS will be presenting Mrs Grebby

with a bouquet of flowers and the children willbe singing a round of “For she’s a jolly good fellow”followed by 3 cheers, in the traditional Bathford way!

Bathford Youth ClubThe new Bathford Youth Club finishesfor the summer break this month, therewil l be a the usual activities in StSwithun's Church on Monday 2 July7:00 – 8:30pm and then we wil l behaving an end of term disco in theLegion on Monday 9 July for membersonly.

Our borrowed and ancient (but muchloved!) table tennis table has not stoodup to being moved every week and issadly deceased! I f anyone has a tabletennis table that we could have wewould be very grateful.

The club is open to all chi ldren in Year 7and above. I t costs £2 which wil l be puttowards club equipment and activities. I fyou need more information pleasecontact the Youth Club on 0744 6468025.

Val Stone, Michelle Williams and KaraMaylor


BATHFORD FLOWER SHOWSaturday 1 September 201 2

We have listened to our entrants andtaken on board some suggestions. TheChildren's Classes have been split intotwo groups 3 - 7 years and 8 - 1 4years on day of show, and a cup wil l beawarded to the winner of each group.The theme for the Decorated Egg Classthis year is An Olympic Competitor, and anew class - A painting or drawing of yourfavourite toy (not to exceed A4 size) hasbeen introduced. We hope that as manychildren as possible wil l take part and getbusy on their entries during any wet daysin the School Holidays!

The floral section includes a new class"A Miniature Garden" in a standard sizeseed tray. We hope to see manycreative and imaginative entriesespecial ly from armchair gardeners.

A reminder to al l cup holders, pleasereturn these to Bob Palmer at 49Dover's Park, Bathford, Tel 859276, nolater than 1 August 201 2.

The Show Schedule and entry forms wil lbe available from the Vil lage Shop, SteveMarriott, The Crown or any CommitteeMember from 1 August.

We look forward to seeing you at theShow.Rosemary Drewett

Are you a Social Media Addict ?We are looking for a volunteer to helpout with the Twitter and Facebookaccounts for the Bulletin.

Not a lot to it, just update the feed withwhat you think the fol lowers wil l beinterested in. Some is already automatedwith ifttt.com and posts to Facebook arealso Tweeted.

Should be fun and wil l get our Vil lage onthe Map.

I f you want to add others such asInstagram, Google+ etc that shouldn't bea problem.

If you are interested then email or Tweetus @bathfordb

The Editors


Bathford Fun Run 201 2Many thanks to everyone involved in the201 2 Bathford Fun Run on 4 June, toeveryone who entered and ran thecourse and to all who helped in someway. We enjoyed a fantastic event.Thanks to the Rugby Club for al l theirhelp during set-up and for help with themarshall ing.

I would l ike to apologise that the issuingof certificates was not as smooth as wehad hoped. We were trying a newprocess in order to provide runners withtheir time and position. We've learnt alot this year, which wil l help us improvethings for next year. Times should nowbe on the Bulletin web-site and availablein the shop.

We are planning to organise the eventagain next year and we would verymuch appreciate 2 or 3 more volunteersto join the organising team and sharethe tasks. Please let us know soon ifyou would l ike to help as we wil l haveone meeting soon to put in place anoutl ine programme for next year's event.

Contact: John Malone 859022,079741 71 007

Roll up, roll up...The Olympic-themed Bathford SummerFête is coming to town on Sat 7 July.There wil l be over 30 stal ls, incl. quadbikes, bouncy sl ide and bouncy castleand face painting. New this year are achildren's assault course, tug of war,traditional chi ldren's races eg: egg andspoon and 3-legged, and a candy flossstal l . Great raffle prizes are on offer andthere wil l be food and drinks on sale.Look forward to seeing you.

Big thank you to al l those who helpedand especial ly those who came to theRoyal Jubilee Big Lunch in ChurchStreet from the Barhford SummerFestival team

Photos By Vanessa Plain Photos By David Howells

0 The Bathford Bulletin

Film ClubThe next meeting of the Film Club wil l beon Monday 23 July at 2:00pm in St.Swithun’s Church.

The fi lm wil l be the Oscar winning THEIRON LADY starring Meryl Streep andJim Broadbent. An elderly MargaretThatcher reminisces on her l ife.

Do come along and join us for anenjoyable afternoon’s entertainment,fol lowed by tea and cakes.

Transport available if required.Contact Robert Wolsey Tel. 851 390.

Josh runs 7 Marathons in 7daysAUCTION OF PROMISESThe Crown Bathford, Tuesday 1 4 Augustfrom 6:30pm. Auction items alreadypromised include: Bath Rugby kit signedby the team, GB Olympic kit signed bythe British Modern Pentathlon team,lunch for 2 at the Royal Crescent Hotel,and champagne tea for 2 in the PumpRoom. All proceeds wil l be split betweenCancer Research UK and DorothyHouse Hospice. I f you are owner of alocal business and are able to offer anitem or service please contact MaggieBone on 859226. Thank you to all thosewho have already promised items.

uk.virginmoneygiving.com/joshbone1should you wish to sponsor me.

Thank you. Josh.

Saturday JUDO, 9-1 0 am(Following National Curriculum Guidelines)

FREE ‘TASTERS’ ages 5-1 3.

The Parish Hall, Church Street, Bathford

Check our website gleesonjudo.comfor dates and information.

Or call Finn on 0781 0790039

Look forward to seeing you there!

Diary Of Events

The deadline for receiving copy for the August 201 2 Bulletin is 1 5 July 201 2Please put your items into the Bulletin Box in the Bathford Village Shop,

email to: [email protected]

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