Rapeseed brightening up a dull day over Applegarth 02-05-2015
Coming up …
More details in church gazette and separate wel-e-bulletins
Thu 21 May WI 7.30 Village Hall
Fri 5 Jun Plant Sale with tea & scones, 5.30-7.30 pm, Village Hall
Thu 18 Jun WI 7.30 Village Hall
Sat/Sun 4/5 Jul, Scarecrow Festival, Appleton Wiske
Sat 4 Jul C-it-Off charity Hog Roast, 7 pm, Races’ field
Farewell and Welcome …
Farewell to Rachel Manders and family who moved back to Ingleby Barwick after a year at No. 4 Spring Hill, as the house was sold. Rachel says she and her children loved living in the village, particularly having got to know Betty and Brian well, who were lovely neighbours. She will keep in touch and writes: I am still riding/driving through the village so if you see someone on a lively palomino pony, that will probably be me!
Welcome back to Yvonne & Kevin Clinton, formerly of Greenacres, now at 4 Spring Hill. While they lived at Middleton Tyas for the last several years, two of their children married other Welburians and made them grandparents.
Farewell to Margery and Alan Heads who came to Welbury in 1999, first at Manor House Cottage, then Rianta House, then Meadowside, all in Shire Garth. They have now moved to Hemlington near the lake.
Welcome to Phil & Mary Heald, their daughter Rebecca and her partner Simon Orton and baby Isabelle at Meadowside. The Healds came here from North Rigton near Harrogate and the Ortons from near Darlington.
Clare Moore has moved from Well Cottage to No. 7 Spring Hill. She is looking to sell Well Cottage so please contact her if interested.
Andrew & Laura Ferriman, Dorothy and the two boys Tom and James will all be moving from the Duke of Wellington which they have made such a success. They hope to continue the micro-brewery from Dorothy’s home in Spennymoor. They will be especially missed and go with the warmest good wishes and gratitude of the Welbury community.
Quiz of the month …
Three parishes meet at Reepool Bridge – what are they?
Answers from last month (as far as we know; tell us if you know better).
Reepool Bridge? Thomas Pattison was first to answer this one, as his grandparents live near the bridge over Ing Beck just before the
Long Lane level crossing. It is the most southerly point in Welbury parish. Thomas’s mum’s pedigree South Devon herd’s prefix is “Reepool” after the bridge. We don’t know where the name comes from – do you?
Weather from Rod …
Catching up on the last couple of months
After a very dry February, there was a normal level of rainfall in March (31 mm). With an average monthly temperature of 5.8 °C, March was cooler than in 2014 (ave. temp. 7.0 °C).
There was a minimum temperature of –2 °C on the 11th and a maximum of 16 °C on the 7th. April was another dry month with only 15 mm of rain. Again, it was colder than last April with an average monthly temperature of 8.9 °C (9.7 °C in 2014). April 5th was the first day of the year to reach 20 °C and the maximum for the month was 22 °C on the 23rd. Shortly after this, on the 27th, we had the coldest night (-3.0 °C) since 30th January.
After 3 days over 20 °C, this frosty night thoroughly demolished one of our magnolias and may have wiped out our peach crop for the year! Up until 12th May it’s been wetter with 22 mm of rain so far. There was a hard frost on the 1st (-2.2 °C) and we’ve yet to reach a daily high of 20 °C in May.
Book of the month …
The Forgotten Waltz
by
Anne Enright
Having previously read ‘The Gathering’ by the same author, I
decided to giver her another go! ‘The Gathering’ is a slightly grim and depressing story, so I embarked upon this one with the hope that it would prove slightly more uplifting.
The book is certainly thought-provoking even if the material is still of a somewhat wretched
nature. Enright breaks down the anatomy of an affair between two married people and does so analytically, cleverly and carefully.
She manages to inject a wry humour throughout, in
spite of the delusion and passion in the subject matter. The characters are well-drawn but rather unsympathetic – they come across as a little cynical and hard-nosed.
We see the costs of the love affair and its compensations. It is a difficult passage for the lovers as there is a child involved who, unfortunately, witnesses an ardent kiss. This makes the whole situation much graver and it becomes one from which there is no going back – not least because the lovers now feel the need to justify their actions and to prove they are not just philandering.
‘The Forgotten Waltz’ is a very good book and touches the heart. It is definitely a page turner and one which I felt sorry had to eventually come to an end.
Sarah Hoiles
WI Report (April)
From Dervor Hanson
Sally and Sarah, who run a local care company, made a splendid double act as our speakers telling of how they came to set up their business and to what high standards they run it. This was a great help in our discussion of our National Resolution for 2015 on care. The competition for flowers in a wine glass made a delightful spring display. Next month’s speaker will be David Hall on a Charity Hike up Kilimanjaro. The competition is for a photo of Montain Scenery.
Welbury Women Walk the World photo Dervor Hanson 29-04-2015
In windy weather two groups of
Welbury WI members and a dog
set out from Welbury and Rounton to walk to Kelly Wood (near West Rounton) in aid of Associated Country Women of the World. On arrival we were given a warm welcome by Treen who had hot dogs, drinks and a fire ready to welcome us. After a sociable rest we completed our walk by returning whence we had come.
Tractor parade …
The Stank Hall Charity Tractor Run from Kirby Sigston came to town on Sunday April 26th in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research
Some 75 tractors of all types and ages paraded through Welbury and parked up in Races’ field in time for lunch at the Duke of Wellington where well over a hundred people were served.
The sun shone on the colourful sight as the visitors and villagers exchanged friendly waves.
Photos from top down:
John Hepworth, Mike O’Carroll, Pat
Wade and Emma Holborn
Snippets …
Pedigree South Devon cow and calf
born 1st of May, from Val Pattison’s herd at the farm near Reepool Bridge. See Quiz-of-the-month on page 2.
Photo Thomas Pattison 13-05-2015
From a parish electorate of 220, there were 38 postal votes and some 138 voters at the village hall polling station last Thursday, making an 80% turnout (cf. 68.5% for Richmond (Yorks), 66.1% for the UK and 81% for Welbury in 2010).
There was no parish council election with just four nominations: Roger Bennett, Paul Hughes, Adam Race & James Robson. At their first meeting on May 13, James was elected Chairman and Roger Treasurer.
The parish is indebted to retiring Councillors Rob Gaudie (Chairman), Caroline Wheatley (Clerk) and Dave Willey, who have kept the Parish Council going. Volunteers are still sought, both for a Clerk (a modest honorarium is payable) and for a fifth Councillor who could be coopted within the next six weeks. Please contact James Robson.
The Duke of Wellington Gun Club beat Great Smeaton 169-167 in their shooting league match at Welbury last Wednesday. Smeaton are a ‘Chelsea’ in the league. Some villagers noticed a man in a dark suit walking up and down shining a torch into parked cars outside the pub – don’t worry, it was just Gun Club security. Yesterday DoW beat Fox Hall by 9 points. photo from DoW Gun Club Facebook site.
Sweet dreams from the Duke of
Wellington, as we all wait
apprehensively to see how the
change of hands works out, after
Andrew, Laura and Dorothy have
rescued the village pub and made
it such a fine success over the
last four or five years.
photos Emma Holborn 26-04-2015
