25th FEBRUARY 2012 - AN EVENING OF MAGIC – Dinner and close up magic – £29.99
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• FULLERS BREWERY TOUR
• CASINO NIGHT
• AND MUCH MORE…..

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In mid afternoon the roasting of the hog started, and by early evening all was ready for the arrival of the villagers. Between 130 and 140 villagers relaxed in the early evening sun, and enjoyed the excellent Hog Roast.  The Hog with particularly good crackling was superbly cooked by Mike Walker and the salads and pudding were prepared by the WI. As the evening got colder the disco started up in the barn. The excellent choice of music got many villagers onto the dance floor, and some of their moves have not been seen for years. A great day was had by all with the festivities ending in the late evening.

The choir would always welcome new members, particularly Tenors and Basses.  It meets every Monday evening at 8 p.m

in the home of it’s conductor, Robin, who would be please to discuss membership on 01420 82712 or 07811 466 722.

For 2010, we were entertained by Alton Morris – we even got to join in! In keeping with the atmosphere, the children’s’ fancy dress competition had the theme ‘In an English Country Garden’, with some wonderful imagination in evidence. Under clear blue skies, we wandered from stall to stall, marvelled at the local talent in the Flower Show, and joined in (or cheered on) the various sports, and activities. With ice creams, a barbecue, beer and Pimms and tea and cakes in the rose garden, what more could we ask for…….. another fete next year, please?

As to the purpose of the fete: community spirit is by far the most important aspect of the event. It is eagerly planned and looked forward for months in advance. There is a lot of hard work involved for a significant number of people, but also great satisfaction in working together to create an event that is enjoyed by many more people – not just from our own villages, but from many miles around. The proceeds provide welcome support to a range of village activities, such as family coffee mornings, magic shows for our senior residents and developing a village history archive. It also assists in maintaining our three lovely parish churches.

Please take a look to see what we get up to, and why not join us in 2011?

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We are required to nominate the most used 6 Foot paths in our parish that may need clearance during the growing season so please let me know which paths you feel are most in need of attention.

The Hangers Way is already a priority route so this only applies to the other FP’s.

We also have a volunteer group within the Parish who will undertake some of this work from time to time and if you would like to join this group then please contact me.

Carolyn Wilson-Webb 82712

The Valentine’s Table Top Sale  held on Saturday 13 February was a huge success!

 In aid of “Help for Heroes” 

A very successful fundraising event was held in East Worldham Village Hall on Saturday 13 February in aid of Help for Heroes.  A large selection of items had been donated for sale and many were quickly snapped up by early attendees.  Villagers were on hand to help and refreshments included mulled wine which helped to create a party atmosphere.
 
Many thanks to all.

Continue your support  fabulous official Help for Heroes merchandise is available from the Help for Hero’s website.

New members are always welcome and meetings take place in Worldham Village Hall on the third Tuesday of each month.

16th Feb is a talk entitled ‘All that Jazz’ and 16th March the speaker, Christine Salter,will talk about ‘The Seven Ages of Woman’.

For more information please contact carolyn Wilson-Webb, Secretary, 01420-82712

Thank you to all those who helped out making this a fun morning.

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This is among the findings of local historian Jane Hurst, who joined about forty- five people of all generations to stride across fields on Sunday 25^th October and discover – thanks to Tessa Gaffney and the History Project’s purposeful leadership – how the conflicts of the past affected the lives of the Worldhams community.

There was a time when history was about kings and queens, prime ministers, and international relations.  Now increasingly history is about ordinary people and the impact of large forces on their lives.  It was to the pursuit of this new kind of history that this Worldhams walk was dedicated.  For most of us it was just that, history, but the most evocative and moving moments came from the recollections of those whose knowledge was first-hand.

One of these was Arthur Bone, who led us close to the site of the crater of an unexploded bomb he had come upon as a child in 1944.  He found a bomb disposal person from the army sitting on the edge of the six-foot square, ten-foot deep crater – playing an accordion.  The boy that Arthur was wanted naturally to know whether this didn’t feel a bit unsafe.  The answer gave a stark instance of the choices so many people faced at that time – it was less unsafe than most other postings open to him.

But it was West Worldham that bore the brunt locally of enemy action in the Second World War.  That the village is here at all today is thanks to the failure of a bomb to detonate.  While consuming tea and cakes at Manor Farm, we heard from Thomas Brock of his memories of the enemy plane that had come down close by at 2.25am on 15^th May 1944, of the wall of flame that spread down the road as the spilled fuel ignited, and of the part of the fuselage that ended up against the wall of the church.    

By the end of the afternoon familiar sights were taking on new significance:  East Worldham Manor House, look-out post and headquarters of the local home guard; the village hall, the canteen of Canadian soldiers; the vicarage to which the church congregation adjourned to hear the declaration of war broadcast; the old forge next to the Shoes where the blacksmith worked round the clock – to satisfy local demand during the day and the first world war military, who needed their horseshoes spiked to cope with the ice of France,  by night …  

And, in a sense, as we walked around the afternoon weather added a comment of its own.  Mild and sunny at the end of October, many of the trees still green among the few gold and brown, very little leaf fall:  it was a climate-change autumn day – reminder of how very different already are the problems that hang over us now compared to those of even recent history.

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 THANK YOU to Betty, Christine, Mike, Victoria, Vanessa, Charlotte, Victoria, Mike, Matt, Katie, Jen, Kate, John, Elizabeth and Peter and to the ‘Double Duty Heavy Team’ Anton and Mike, for all your help;

to those who donated the cakes,
to Yvonne, Rob, Thomas and John for the loan of equipment,
to the judges Lynn and Lynn, and especially to Paul for such a lovely venue.

The Best Worldham Dog was judged to be

 The Black Lab, ‘Buttons’, shown by Georgina

Followed closely by Katie and Matt’s Border collie, ‘Maisie’

And Hermione’s Wire Haired Terrier, ‘Lufer

The Best in Show was a lovely young King Charles Cavalier, ‘Sophie’, belonging to the Parker Family who were camping at ‘Featherdown Farm’, West Worldham

The Oldest Dog Award was given to Sheila Baigent’s Chihuahua, ‘Sally’. Sally was also the Reserve Best in Show!