Beebombs – April 2019
Let’s bring the bees back
I have an idea about making one of the earth banks on the A4500 between Upper Heyford and the new roundabout a thriving hub for insects and more importantly our Bees. There is a large earthwork bank that makes up part of the new road layout, it can be found on the left as you approach the roundabout from Upper Heyford. My vision is to support our local Bee population with wild flowers and at the same time make the landscape beautiful.
If anyone would like to join me, could they help by purchasing a pack of seeds from the link below. I can arrange a time and tools for their distribution. I have already started by planting some seeds, bulbs as well as Lupins etc.
Steve Corcoran
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Heyford Bowls Club – Spring Quiz 20th April 2019
Heyford Picturedrome – Thursday 18th April 2019
Our next film to be shown on Thursday 18th April is ‘Stan and Ollie’, a 2019 British film starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly. Laurel & Hardy, one of the world’s great comedy teams, set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shines through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. The tour becomes a hit, but Stan & Ollie can’t quite shake the spector of Laurel and Hardy’s past; the longburied ghosts, coupled with Oliver’s failing health, start to threaten their precious partnership. A portrait of the most tender and poignant of creative marriages, they are aware that they may be approaching their swan song, trying to rediscover just how much they mean to each other.
Doors open at the usual time of 7.00pm for free tea or coffee with the film due to be screened at 7.45pm.
There will be a licensed bar for the purchase of wine and soft drinks.
There is no joining fee and admission is £4 per person.
Tony Clewett – Phone: 01327 341533
Village Signs – April 2019 Update
Village Signs – April 2019
Sue and I have put ourselves forward to help get Heyford looking pretty. We are starting with planting bulbs and flowers on all the Nether Heyford signs on the entrances into our village. The first thing we need to do is find volunteers who would like to help set this up. We could possibly have volunteers to look after the entrance nearest to where they live within the village.
You can contact me on 07912 971799 or by email at jillgarrett@hotmail.co.uk if you have any interest, We can get together to discuss the way forward and work out costs etc.
We really hope to get a reasonable response in helping to make this a reality going forward. People have tried in the past and failed for various reasons, so let’s try to make this work for all of us.
Thank you
Jill and Sue
Village Signs – February 2019
The signs into the village seem a bit drab and we would like to decorate them with containers and plants to make them more welcoming. If you have any ideas, suitable containers for the plant boxes, or any other items i.e. compost and plants, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Please contact either Jill Garratt, Sue Boutle or The Prattler
Pensioners Meal Club – April 2019 – Cook Wanted
As villagers may or may not know, there has been a pensioners meal club run in the village for many years now. However due to a change of circumstances and work commitments, my wife and I are no longer able to run the meals club.
We have run this meal club ourselves for the last 7 years approx and before that it was run by another couple from the village who left the village so were unable to continue to run the club hence we then took the club over. When we started there were around 18 members, we now have in excess of 50 members and more and more enquiries every week.
The club runs on the first Thursday of every month and is a once a month meal club but could be run as often as weekly if anyone wanted to do this, or just keep to how it is at the moment. It was a very emotional last meal club on the 7th March when we had to tell everyone that we could no longer run the club due to our immediate work commitments and also we will be very sad if we cannot find anyone to carry the club on.
So is there any one out there who would be prepared or able to take on this meal club and keep it going? We would give any advice to any interested people and explain how the club runs at the moment. There is a fantastic team of helpers who have helped us over the years to serve and wash up etc and with them the club would not have been as successful as it is, I am sure most of these will still be able to help run the club but they feel they could not fully run the club on the same scale as it is run at present. MY WIFE AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF THE HELPERS DURING OUR YEARS OF RUNNING THE CLUB.
We really hope there is someone out there who is able to cook for around fifty people once a month or more if they want and keep the club running.
Neil & Debbie Botterill
1 The Pound, Nether Heyford
Nether Heyford W.I. – April 2019
At our March meeting we were treated to an evening of reminiscences of a working life in education – through life as a young teacher, progressing to School Inspector and ending working on white papers for the Ministry of Education. Despite playing golf retirement weighed heavy – and so an author was born! Graham Jones told us of the problems of getting books published, the sometimes unexpected reactions of people when they were and of his surprise when they were a hit in China! All this was done with great humour and the evening flew by.
There is a slight change to our April meeting. Renee Watt will still be there but will be showing us how Country Dancing is made easy! It is some years since I took part in country dancing and my joints were more supple – perhaps one or two of you younger ladies could come along and remind me how it’s done?! However, I do remember the laughter that always accompanied the effort that went into it and, as the world seems a bit short of laughter at the moment, let’s hope it still has the same effect. We will be in the Village Hall at 7.30 on Thursday April 4th and the cost for the evening plus refreshments is £5 for non-members.
In May we will be going on a W.I. Members’ visit to Rugby School so there will be no meeting in the Village Hall but it will be back to business as usual in June.
Mary Rice – Heyford Lodge – 01327 340101
Nether Heyford Baptist Church – Services – April 2019
As we enter the time of Lent and Easter we are reminded that this time of the year in the Christian calendar is synonymous with “giving up, going without and giving back – about sacrifice”. The shops of course have their Easter eggs and we are reminded by the TV advertisement that we can go on “an Easter egg hunt – to search, to find and to enjoy” – but we have to do something, go somewhere, give something up in order to potentially and possibly discover something.
Lent and Easter means different things to different people and last evening, as I watched Songs of Praise I was again reminded by an old hymn that lent and Easter is about giving and getting, about failure and forgiveness. That hymn “When I survey the wondrous cross” is special to me as it reminds me of time spent with a very dear friend who I journeyed with for a good number of years and who died in 2010. I was privileged to visit him often (a privilege I still value today) and up until his journey drew to a close. I recall the last time I was with him and he was so poorly. Just before leaving him I prayed with him and for him and in that prayer I quoted the first verse of that hymn.
When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.
To my absolute amazement, knowing that he was so poorly, after I had finished speaking he then spoke the words from last two verses:-
See, from His head, His hands, His feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
A few hours later I received the call to say that he had left us. Whenever I hear and sing that hymn I am reminded of my friend and also of Lent and Easter – giving up and giving back, of failure and forgiveness and of restoration and resting on the great and precious promises of God.
We may not find the hidden Easter eggs even if we look for them but we will find the Easter message if we take the time to look and discover – it is there for our taking.
Details of services in the Chapel are above and may I please say again – you will be made so welcome.
Bye for now and thank you.
Martin Buckby – For and on behalf of The Chapel on the Green
For more information visit the Nether Heyford Baptist Chapel page.
Meet Christian Aid – Sunday 14th April
Meet Christian Aid!
Sunday 14th April 6.30 pm
Nether Heyford Village Hall
The Parish Church invite you to come and hear more about the work of Christian
Aid from visiting speaker Wendy Wheeler.
Wendy will talk about some of her experiences working with Christian Aid, visiting places such as India, Mali, Ethiopia and Malawi, and describe how the money raised from Christian Aid Week can really make a difference to people’s lives.
Cheese, wine and nibbles will be provided, and there will be a chance to win some tasty fair-trade chocolate.
The evening is free of charge – please save your donations for the May collection !
With thanks again to all who support Christian Aid.
Shirley Waterhouse
Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul – Services – April 2019
Good Friday Walk of Witness
2pm – Meet at Nether Heyford Parish Church to walk round the village, pausing at various points to reflect on the events of that first Good Friday
2pm-4pm – FREE Refreshments and Display in the Baptist Schoolroom
4pm – Good Friday Service in the Baptist Church, led by Rev Stephen Burrow
Everybody welcome to join in at any point
The Nether Heyford Prattler 