Category: Letters

URGENT – The Prattler’s Future

The Prattler’s Future

Due to an large unforeseen increase in the Prattler’s printing costs, we are having to look at all the options for the Prattler to continue. This could be producing editions Bi-monthly instead of monthly, cutting down on the articles and pages, charging or the worst option of all, which would be ceasing altogether.

We will be having a meeting in the next few weeks to decide the best way to continue. However, in the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions as to how we can avoid those scenarios, please get in contact with me via text or e-mail.

Many thanks

Sue Boutle

Editor

01327 342519

heyford_prattler@yahoo.co.uk

Friends of Danetre Hospital Fête Stall – WANTED Letter – May 2019

WANTED for the Friends of Danetre Hospital Fête Stall.

If you have any of the following items:

DVDs .:|:. CDs .:|:. BOOKS .:|:. BRIC-a-BRAC

and you would like to donate for the stall they can be taken to:

Jane at 22 South View, Nether Heyford

or

Angela at 16 The Green, Nether Heyford

THANK YOU.

New PCSO Matt Taylor – May 2019

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I am your new PCSO and I am responsible for the Bugbrooke and Heyford Ward. I have been a PCSO for Northamptonshire Police for 10 years working both town and rural. More recently I worked on the Early Intervention pilot, a team of PCs and PCSOs who were working with young people and their families to offer support and break the cycle of crime. I am a former student of Campion School and originate from Duston so know the area reasonably well. I live on the other side of Northampton now with my wife and our daughter. Meanwhile if you see me about in either village please say hi. If you need to contact me please email me c7115@northants.pnn.police.uk bear in mind I work shifts so may not immediately respond.

If you wish to report an incident to the Police please call us on 101 or via the online
form at www.northants.police.uk, recommended for less urgent matters.

All emergencies should be phoned in on 999.

Matt Taylor (Police, Police Community Support Officer (C7115) Daventry &
South Northants)

In memoriam: Roy Pancoust – April 2019

My family and I would like to take this opportunity in thanking everyone for all their cards and support following the sudden death of Roy.

Roy Pancoust died at home on the 6th February and will be sadly missed by all his family and friends.

Special thanks are extended to our wonderful neighbours Stuart Wade and Alex Toseland who were our rocks, we will never forget the help and support you gave us on that day.

Other people to thank are Martin Buckby for a beautiful service and Debbie and Neil Botterill for the catering at the wake.

Finally for everyone who came to the funeral thank you so much it was such a fitting send off for a beautiful man..

Kath Pancoust and family

Bee Bombs – April 2019

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.

www.beebombs.com

Steve Corcoran 

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