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THE OKEFORD BENEFICE serving the parishes of:-

St. Nicholas, Child Okeford: St Paul, Hammoon: St. Nicholas, Manston: St Andrew, Okeford Fitzpaine: Church of the Holy Rood , Shillingstone.

In the Blackmore Vale Deanery of Salisbury Diocese . Benefice website www.okefordbenefice.org

e-mail okefordweb@gmail.com

The Ministry Team

Rector: The Rev’d Lydia Cook e mail: rector@okefordbenefice.org 01258 863774

Please direct all enquiries regarding Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals to Lydia

Licensed Lay Minister: Mrs Sue Le Riche 01258 861830

Licensed Lay Minister Mrs Sue Rawlinson 01258 863733 Lay Pastoral Assistant Ms Carolyn Angelucci 01258 860049

The Eucharist (Order 2) is celebrated in Millbrook House, Child Okeford at 10.30am on the first and third Wednesdays of each month.

St Andrew’s Okeford Fitzpaine. Churchwarden Mrs Sue Le Riche 01258 861830

Churchwarden Vacancy

Secretary Mrs Elizabeth Colls 01258 860743

Treasurer Mrs Carol Landricombe 01258 860858

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Rector’s Ramblings

I often reflect on the maxim that “You cannot talk someone into faith, you can only show them what faith looks like”.

Our world is based on huge amounts of communication. We email,

text, post, blog, tweet, share and all mostly in an instant. The sheer vol-ume of word traffic on an average day is immense.

We communicate but how effective is our communication? Much of

what is communicated to us, being personal, is also biased. We know our media has a story that they want us to hear, but how they tell it colours our perception of it. Instant communication on social media may not have got the whole story and distortions, lies even, can become “truth” in a scarily short space of time.

And how does our current communication explosion sit with those who

struggle with communication? Most children with special needs are challenged in their communica-

tion. Some have no language at all, some can make the odd grunt or whimper, others have limited vocabulary, understanding or are unable to use language in the correct way. Other people may be deaf, be suffering dementia, or had a stroke - any of these may struggle in our verbal, word dominated society.

When God came to earth as Jesus, his voice did not speak straight

away. He was a baby - preverbal, able to grunt and whimper and cry, but not much else. Communication, as for all babies came slowly and gradu-ally. In becoming incarnate he shared the frustration of the child unable to express himself clearly. He did not bypass any stage of development. The word of God waits until the right time to speak.

Jesus used words and signs to communicate. His actions often spoke louder than words. When he gave his greatest sign – when he hung on the cross – he was also barely able to speak. Yet this action speaks across

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languages, cultures and time, and communicates to anyone willing to hear. Rev’d Lydia

New Pattern of Services

From September there will be a new pattern of services across the Ben-efice (which is planned to be future proof and is entirely workable given our current staffing expectations).

The new rota means that across the Benefice there is a weekly service

from the Book of Common Prayer, a service of Holy Communion and on 3 Sundays a month a service aimed at families.

The biggest change is that services at Okeford Fitzpaine (other than the

Benefice service) will be at 10am. Other innovations are making our Fellowship Service (the most laid

back of all our worship) monthly from 2017 and introducing a new service on the evening of a 5th Sunday. This will alternate between a Healing ser-vice, and worship based on the work of the Taizé and Iona communities.

See page 9 for plan

Calling all Holy Dusters! We would love to pull together a team to clean St Andrew’s. If you

have an hour to spare once a month please come along on the first Satur-day of the month at 10am. Dates this year: August 7th, September 3rd, Oc-tober 1st, November 5th and December 3rd. Cobwebs and dust are our big-gest problems. Please bring dusters and brooms with you. A hoover is pro-vided. The Mudpie café awaits after labours are done! Confirmation Classes

If anyone would like to think about being confirmed I am planning to run some classes in the Autumn with a confirmation service early in the new year. Please contact me if you would like to talk this through further. Rev’d Lydia 863774. Holiday

The Rector is on holiday from the 9th to the 23rd August. Please direct

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any enquiries to Mrs le Riche.

Church Re-ordering Thank you to everyone who came up to St Andrew’s last month to hear

our plans about redesigning the interior of the church. We hope you found the meeting useful and the church council certainly appreciated hearing everyone’s ideas and views. You will soon get (you may already have got) a leaflet from the church explaining what our vision and plans are and a chance to show if you would like to be more involved with your church in many and varied ways! Please take some time to read this and fill it in. It will be collected by a member of the church community.

The project team is coming together headed up by Ian Berry and the

church council had a long discussion about the plans taking into account some of the concerns raised by various members of the community.

Okeford Fitzpaine Village Hall

JUMBLE SALE

at the Village Hall 2pm Saturday 24th September

in aid of Hall funds

clothes, books, bric a brac, toys etc.... refreshments, tombola donations gratefully received

(the Hall will be open from 10am – 11:30am) to receive items) If you have items that need to be collected

please contact me

Christmas Market at the Hall Sunday 20th November

11am – 4pm, I am taking bookings for tables now, so don't miss out. Diane Burt, Treasurer/Secretary/bookings

01258 863474 - email: villagehall@okeford-fitzpaine.org

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Fippenny News Editorship

I am very pleased to be able to tell you that, following my piece in the magazine last month, we have found a new editor to take over when I retire.

Derek Day has volunteered to take over the job. Not sure that he quite

realises what he has taken on, but I am sure that the Fippenny News will be in safe hands. My last edition will be the September one, so please continue to send copy to me until then. I will notify every one of our reg-ular correspondents of all the changes, email addresses etc in due time. I expect there will be one or two glitches but nothing too serious I hope. Please bear with us during the change over.

I would like to give a hearty thank you to Derek. Other magazines

have often had a long, hard wait to find some one suitable to take over, so we have been very lucky.

More next month

Jane Tapping

Help Needed

The Fippenny News is in need of a volunteer to deliver the magazine down Shillingstone Lane, once a month.

If you could help, please ring Barbara Fry on 01258 861524

A father of five children came home with a toy. “This is a reward for being good,” he said. “Who is the most obedient one here? Who never talks back to Mum and does everything that Mum says to do?” There were a few seconds of silence, and then all of the children said: “You play with it Daddy!”

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As many of you know it has taken quite a while to get to this point but

Okeford Village Store

Will open on Saturday 6th August from 7am - 5pm.

Please come in and say hello and feel free to wander round to see

what we have to offer.

Croissants, pain au chocolate and other pastries will be on offer to go with your morning cup of tea.

There will be free tasters on the day.

We would welcome feedback on our products and suggestions of which products you would like to see in the shop, in order to continually

improve.

We are looking forward to meeting you. Regards

Vince, Sharne and Family

I am sure that everyone will join with the Fippenny News in welcoming Vince, Sharne and their family to Okeford and in wishing

them great success and every happiness in the future.

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Message sent by Kate Hann (Dorset Police, PCSO 6268, Shaftesbury Town)

For all residents of North Dorset

There are reports of an on going scam where by residents are receiving telephone calls with a pre-recorded message stating that the person answering owes the taxman and that court proceedings are being commenced. They are then encouraged to press one to speak to a

Personal advisor.

THIS IS A SCAM. PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT WITH THESE PEOPLE AND

TERMINATE THE CALL ASAP

There are also unconfirmed reports of a similar scam via e mail. Once again, PLEASE DO NOT ENGAGE.

Date for your diary

Annual Curry and Quiz Night 7th October 7pm in the Village Hall.

Teams of 6. (Vegetarian and non-curry dishes available).

All proceeds to St Andrew’s Church.

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Turning back the clock.

Car ‘clocking’, the practice of rewinding a car’s mile-age reading is estimated to have increased last year. For unscrupulous traders it is an easy way to make money as a car’s value can increase up to £10,000 by reducing the

mileage of a vehicle by using a digital device that plugs into the cars elec-tronics. If you buy a car with an altered mileage then the timing for neces-sary services and safety checks will also be incorrect.

Trading Standards up and down the country investigate complaints of cars having been ‘clocked’. A Warwickshire car dealer was recently jailed for twelve months after admitting to ‘clocking’ cars and his me-chanic for six months for forging documents such as MOT certificates. These days cars that have been ‘clocked’ are less likely to be found on the forecourt and more likely to be found on auction websites, social media and small ads. such as Ebay, Facebook and Gumtree.

When buying a second hand car there are things that you can look out for:

Chips on the paintwork may indicate lots of motorway driving; Worn rubber pedals and steering wheels indicate lots of use.

The average car travels 10,000 miles a year so if the car looks like it has more wear and tear than expected it may have been ‘clocked’. Checking a vehicle’s paperwork such as the service record and MOT history can help determine genuine mileage. Check MOTs on line at https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history. Information held by the DVLA about a vehicle’s identity can be found at https://www.gov.uk/get-vehicle-information-from-dvla. Look out for trading standards approved car retailers displaying the Buy with Confidence logo, or visit the website

www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk

Call the Citizens Advice consumer helpline on 03454 04 05 06 for advice on buying a second hand car or to report something to trading standards.

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Competitive rates with no VAT

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80 years on from Berlin

The Berlin Olympic Games took place 80 years ago in the heart of Na-zi Germany.

Hitler, who had not been in power when the Games were awarded to

Berlin in 1931, aimed to use the event to demonstrate Germany’s alleged racial superiority, but this plan took a knock when the key athletics sprint events were won by the black American Jesse Owens – though stories that Hitler refused to shake his hand were probably untrue.

Hitler had attempted to disguise the true nature of the Nazi state by re-

moving all signs of his on-going anti-Jewish campaign. Two weeks before the start of the Games, 800 gipsies living in and around Berlin were se-cretly arrested and interned.

Forty-nine countries competed, but the Soviet Union did not partici-

pate, and for the first time in the history of the Olympics, there was a call for a boycott because of the host country’s abuse of human rights.

This was supported in the US by Jewish and Christian leaders, but

Avery Brundage, head of the Olympic movement in the US, was against, and in the end the motion failed by a wafer-thin margin. Short-lived boy-cott efforts also surfaced in Britain, France, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the Netherlands.

True Story My father had a medical condition that meant regular visits to hospital. The local funeral director was a family friend, and had been very helpful giving dad lifts to and from the hospital. On one occasion, a few hours before he was due to come home, the ward sister approached my father with a grin. “Your wife is on the phone,” she said; “She wants to know what time you will be ready for the undertaker to collect you? A notice outside Chichester Cathedral advertised lunchtime concerts with the encouragement that: “Sandwiches may be eaten.” Someone had scribbled underneath: “So if you are a sandwich, don’t come!

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FIPPENNY GARDEN CLUB

2016 SUMMER SHOW RESULTS

This has been a challenging year for growers with a cool overcast Spring. This meant a lot of produce and flowers are yet to achieve their best. However, the judges said that exhibitors are to be congratulated for the quality of their exhibits. Baking and preserves categories were up to their usual high standards. We were very pleased to welcome David Hurrian, Associate Editor of Gardeners World Magazine and resident of the village, to present the prizes.

The Results

Show Champion – Lucy Pike

Lucy being presented the

Ken Percival Cup for the most points gained for

wins and placements across all show categories

Cup Winners for best exhibit in category

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Vegetables - Lynn Nezami (Lettuces) Fruit - Steve Corben (Gooseberries) Flowers - Alice Goddard (Succulents) Baking - Lucy Pike (Victoria Sandwich) Preserves - Jean Durrant (Pot of Clear Jelly) Pre-school Art - ‘James’ (aged 4) Potato Competition Men - Andrew Vickers (3lb 2oz) Women - Sally Faraday (4lb 9oz) From one seed potato, variety Marfona

Some of the cup winning exhibits

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Congratulations to all the winners on the day and thank you to all those who participated to make such a success. My thanks also go to the committee, and others, who helped with the organisation, making cakes and helping to serve refreshments, assisting on the front desk, setting up etc. A special thanks to David Hurrian for presenting the Cups and Prizes (despite having to get to Sussex to participate in a Charity event on the same evening).

If you would be interested in coming to any of our meetings we have professional speakers in September, October and December with our Harvest Supper taking place in early November. The cost is minimal and you would be very welcome!

Next Meeting: Monday 12th September 2016 Garden Ponds - A talk by a member of the Fat Fish Aquatics

team

FRED PHILPOTT, Chairman

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The Commemoration of the Battle of the Somme

“We were taught we had to be an example to our men and that if we went forward they’d go with you, you see. And you sort of lose your fear, thinking about other people.”

From a description by Lieutenant Tom Adlam VC, and read by his son Clive Adlam

On the 1st July 1916 the Battle of the Somme commenced which led to 19,200 British soldiers killed on the first day alone. The battle continued for 141 more days with around a million men killed. I was privileged to get a seat from the public ballot for the centenary commemoration at Thiepval where the huge Memorial to the Missing of the Somme stands with its 72,000 names. Amongst very tight security 10,000 people attended the ceremony on 1st July 2016, a rainy day which turned some parts of the grounds into authentic Somme mud. I would not have missed the experience for anything and since returning several people have told me about their relatives who fought in this battle.

Royalty and Heads of State were in attendance for the ceremony but

the focus of the service was on the men themselves. Most of the readings came from diaries and descriptions from those who had been there and there were no grand speeches. We heard about a Belfast soldier, Billy McFadzean, who threw himself on a live grenade to save his comrades. Many Irish people were at Thiepval for the ceremony as the contribution of their countrymen had not been recognised for years. A member of the German Army read the description from Germans who witnessed the appearance of the first tank on the battlefield as “a vehicle of peculiar shape and a fearsome monster.” And Sol Campbell read a letter concerning a William Jonas who played soccer for Clapton Orient, now known as Leyton Orient, who also died on the Somme. David Cameron, fresh from a Brexit resignation, read a description about moments of humanity where the Germans did not fire a single shot as a British officer rescued his comrade from barbed wire and they cheered as he lifted the wounded man onto his shoulders. There was poetry written in the field by Isaac Rosenberg and a description of the devastation by John Masefield. Even the Banks of the Green Willow, the music played as the wreaths were laid, was composed by George Butterworth who also died at the Battle of the Somme. Each grave had a wreath placed on it by children and a poppy or cornflower fell from the memorial for every man that died. As the last strains of the Marseillaise rang out across the grounds

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there was time for reflection on a beautiful ceremony but also how the First World War will be remembered as the years march on and it becomes a distant memory.

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Child Okeford Flower Arranging Club.

16 August Child Okeford Village Hall 2.15pm

Demonstration by Jo Richards,

from the Academy of Floristry in Bournemouth.

Details 01258 863775.

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Message from Action Fraud Holiday Fraud

With summer holidays fast approaching, individuals are often more ex-posed to travel booking frauds when looking for last minute package deals / cheap flights. Whether paying upfront for a family holiday or simp-ly booking a flight, payments are transferred only to discover that the holi-day / airline ticket does not exist and was sold to you by a bogus travel company. Fraudsters will often lure in potential customers with low prices and ‘one time only’ offers that are simply too good to pass up, requesting payment by the preferred method of direct bank transfer. Protect Yourself

Avoid responding to unsolicited calls, texts or emails offering holidays at incredibly low prices.

Whenever possible, pay for your holiday by credit card as it offers in-creased protection.

Always remember to look for the ‘https’ and locked padlock icon in the address bar before entering your payment details.

Never feel pressured to make a booking for fear that you will miss out on this ‘low price’ opportunity. If you have never used the company be-fore, take your time to do some online research to ensure they are reputa-ble.

Should you make a flight or hotel booking through a travel company, feel free to separately check with the hotel / airline that your booking does indeed exist.

If you have been affected by this, or any other scam, report it to Action Fraud by calling 0300 123 2040, or visiting www.actionfraud.police.uk

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Date Time Venue Price

Show Contact |No

7 Aug Exchange 7.30 £17.50

‘Patsy Cline & Friends’ Tribute evening

01258 475137

10 Aug Exchange 7.30 £5

Oxford’s Bakery Demonstration

01258 475137

13 Aug Exchange 7.30 £17.50

‘The Dark side of Pink Floyd’

01258 475137

14 Aug Exchange 7pm £4.50

‘A Bigger Splash’ film Ralph Fiennes

01258 475137

20 Aug Exchange 7.30 £17.50

‘Los Pacaminos’ Tex-Mex music

01258 475137

The Entertainment Page. What’s on in the district this month

Springhead Trust, Fontmell Magna SP7 0NU

Open Gardens Sunday, 14 August, 10am-4pm

With stalls, jewellery courses, refreshments with lunches Book signing by Julian Hight of his new book, ‘World Tree Story’

Dogs on leads please. Assisted Wheelchair Access. Admission £3.50 adults, £2.50 Friends, under 16 free. Phone 01747 811853 www.springheadtrust.org.uk

KID’S WORKSHOPS AT THE EXCHANGE IN AUGUST

Wed 3 Aug

11am-12 noon £3 2-8 years

‘Giant Boogle’ Treehouse Theatre

01258 475137

Wed 10 Aug

10-30am £8 5-8 years

‘Ukelele Workshop’ With Sally Vaughan

01258 475137

Wed 24 Aug

10am-1pm £8 5-8 years

Stone Carving with Bec Freiesleben

01258 475137

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Family Favourites for the Holiday Horde

During the summer holidays my daughter and her friend bored with lunch in the garden asked ‘Can we take a picnic up the Hill?’ ‘OK.’ I replied and packed up some food Off they went with sandwiches, drinks and the 2 dogs they walked. At about 12.30 they reappeared at the back door. ‘I thought you were having a picnic’ ‘Oh that was elevenses, we’ve come back for lunch’ !!! Tapping Family Fruit Cake I’ve been making this cake for over 50 yrs. Keeps well, freezes well, eats well.

12 oz (340g) SR flour: ¼tsp salt: 5 oz (141g) butter or marg cubed: 4 oz (113g) sugar (Recipe originally said 5 but I use4): 12 oz (340g) dried fruit: 2 eggs: milk to mix.

Grease and line large cake tin, about 8-9 inches (20-23 cm). Sieve flour and salt, rub in fat, add fruit, lightly beaten eggs and enough milk to give a dropping consistency. Put into tin and bake in moderate oven (about 325°F/170 °C/Mark 3 gas. For about 1-1½ hours. Variations

8oz (230 g) dried fruit and 4oz (113g) halved glacè cherries, nuts. Brown sugar and 1 tsp mixed spice. Scatter with flaked/ whole almonds..

Rock Buns. These easy little cakes would be OK for the kids to make. A lot less sickly than cupcakes.

8oz (230g) SR Flour: ½ oz ground almonds: 1 egg: 3oz (84g) butter or marg: 4 oz (113g) sugar: milk to mix. I use 3oz of sugar.

Rub fat into flour, mix in ground almonds, fruit and sugar and egg. Stir in enough milk to give a sticky consistency. Put in small heaps on a greased baking sheet and bake for about 12 mins near the top of hot oven 450°/230°/Gas mark 7. Watch carefully, they do seem to catch easily. Cool and then watch them disappear. Cakes can be decorated with a little sprinkle of sugar on the top, or a glacè cherry or whole almond before baking Lincolnshire Buns.

As above omitting, sugar and fruit. Serve split, with a knob of butter and a little brown sugar, or jam. (and cream?) Uitsmijter - Dutch Ham and Eggs We firsh met this on our many cycle trips into Holland when we were stationed in Germany. It has been a family favourite ever since. Very quick if every one is starving.

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Per Person:- 2 slices of white bread: butter: 2 eggs: 2 slices of good ham. Garnish: small gherkin, tomato, or lettuce. Mayonnaise if wished.

Butter bread and cover with the slices of ham. Gently fry eggs until they are to your taste (hard or soft I think best soft). Place on top of ham. Cut gherkin into a fan shape. Add tomato and or lettuce etc. Serve and tuck in. Also often served with a slice of cheese on top of the ham.

Cheese and Carrot Fingers Uses up hard cheese & older carrots.

4 slices of bread, toasted: 4-6 oz (113g-169g) grated cheese: 2 good sized carrots, grated: Butter: seasoning: chopped parsley.

Mix carrots & most of cheese together with enough butter to bind. Season well. Spread on top of crisp toast, cover with rest of cheese and brown under grill. Garnish wirth chopped parsely. Could try chopped coriander instead of parsley.

Economical Lemonade

2 lemons, washed: 1 oz citric or tartaric acid: 1lb (450g) sugar. Peel lemons thinly. Squeeze out juice. Put peel, acid and sugar in a

bowl and pour over 2 pts boiling water. Cover and leave to cool. Strain and add lemon juice. Pour into clean bottles with caps. Will keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

To serve, dilute as required with water or soda water. Add ice if liked.

Rhubarb Jelly This is one from the days when my Mum had jammed, bottled, made pies, crumbles, done enough stewed rhubarb and custard for a regiment and still it grew and should not be wasted.

Stew rhubard, sweetened to your taste. Remove pan from heat and add a cut up jelly tablet. Raspberry is good. Stir until melted, pour into a bowl cool and pop in the fridge until set. Serve with cream or top of the milk. Cheap or what!

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Dorset Historic Churches Trust - Sat 10 Sept

Ride and Stride

This year I want to organise something special to support our village’s beautiful St An drew’s Church building and its growing congregation with the arrival of the Rev Lydia Cook to the benefice. If you haven’t been to St Andrew's recently, do come you’ll be very welcome.

I will plan and lead a cycling route but need helpers to lead a walkers route plus a horse riders route. Each travel mode can cover different churches and have a different starting point and participants can visit as few or as many as they wish. Most churches are manned by volunteers and you often get refreshments to speed your on your way to the next. The day is a very social way of raising much needed funds to maintain and enhance our beautiful Dorset church buildings so consider Sponsor-ship from others who wish to encourage you to take part or a donation from you for an enjoyable day out. More information from me:

Dilys Gartside

(your Parish Councillor link with the Parochial Church Council)

Cyclewisesouthampton@gmail.com 01258 860157

Welcome to the Dorset Historic Churches Trust Ride + Stride

September 10th 2016

Ride+Stride is a sponsored event in which people walk or cycle or horse-ride between churches, whilst exploring our wonderful Dorset countryside and enjoying the hospitality of our church com-munities.

The money raised ( more than £83,000 last year ) is used to help conserve Dorset’s churches, chapels and meeting houses and to help keep them active and at the heart of their communities for the use of future generations. Half of the money raised is returned di-rectly to your nominated church and the other half is used to fund our grant program. Website: http://dhct.siteview.cc/

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World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Friday 30th

September

Okeford Fitzpaine Village Hall

8:00am – 1:00pm

Enjoy a chat with friends over a nice cup of tea or

coffee and a piece of home made cake

Please come along and support

this amazing charity

DONATIONS OF CAKES MUCH APPRECIATED

on the day or call Diane or Mike on 863474

THANK YOU – YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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Common Name: 7-spot ladybird

Latin Name:

Coccinella 7-punctata

Identification: Ladybirds are

probably our most distinctive

beetle. There are 46 different types of ladybirds in the UK although only 26 take on the ‘classic’ ladybird look! The 7-spot ladybird is bright red with 7 black spots on its wing cases or on its back and two almost rectan-gular white marks that looks like eyes.

Behaviour: Ladybirds mate in May and so the female is ready to lay her eggs in June/July. You may see lots of ladybird larvae during these months but you can also see the adults still. The ladybirds bright red col-our is a warning sign to predators such as birds, spiders and other beetles of its horrible taste! When it’s threatened it secretes a yellowy liquid from its legs which is distasteful to most predators- a key survival tech-nique! Come the winter the new adults hibernate in vegetation until they emerge in Spring ready to mate and start the cycle of life again!

Eats: Ladybirds are your friend in the garden! The adults and the lar-vae eat 1000’s of aphids and so are a fantastic natural pest controller!

Where can they be found? They can be found in lots of different habitats from your garden to woodlands to parks! They can often be found just resting on leaves in amongst plants - so have a dig around your garden or local greenspace to find one!

Wildife Gardening Tips:

Here are some tips on how to help the 7-spot ladybird in your garden:

Grow pollen rich plants such as dill, parsley, angelica, caraway and thyme as this is a good food source when aphids are scarce.

They also like yellow and gold plants like marigolds.

Make a ladybird home and place it next to plants that aphids like such as lavender, chamomile and nasturtiums- the ladybirds will soon find the aphids!

Leave hollow twigs and leaves/debris in your garden for adults to hiber-nate in during the winter.

Avoid using insecticides as these will kill ladybirds as well as ‘pests’ in your garden.

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ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION STURMINSTER NEWTON & GILLINGHAM BRANCH

To join contact Tony Edmunds 01258 473823

For Hire Mini digger– various types and siz-

es of buckets 2 ton flatbed trailer: 2 ton tipper trailer

Farm Manure-bagged or trailer load Self drive hire & towed Contact: Mike Bartlett Mill Farm Bungalow Shillingstone Lane Okeford Fitzpaine

Phone 01258 861647 Mobile 07890 829645

zmbartlett086@gmail.com

THE GREEN BUILDER

SUSTAINABLE BUILDING

SOLUTIONS

*Green construction & consultation

*Lime plastering, rendering and

Pointing

*Cob specialist

*Stonework

*Yurts made to order

*Bespoke carpentry

*Restoration and conservation

Tel: 07859 075179

Email: thegreenbuilder@live.co.uk

J & T Window

Cleaning Your local traditional window

cleaner.

We also clean guttering and

conservatory roofs.

Phone

Jess and Tim On

01747 590090 / 07724455128

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For those of you who are interested in local wildlife, whether madly keen or just interested, you might like to log on to the website below.

www.fippennywildlifegroup.co.uk

Set up by our local naturalist, Kevin Cook it gives many details of

local wildlife sightings etc.

To report your own local sightings contact Kevin on e mail:

kevanddenny@yahoo.co.uk

Dorset Wildlife Trust North Dorset Event Dorset is home to all 18 species of bats native to Britain.

Join us on Saturday 6th August for an opportunity to find out more about these amazing mammals with bat expert, Chris Dieck.

The walk starts at 8pm at White Mill, near Kingston Lacy. There is a small charge of £3 (payable on the day) and all proceeds will go to the

Dorset Bat Group. Booking is essential as places are limited

– please telephone Roy Davies on 01258 880 699.

Could have been worse

A very long train with two engines was making its way across America. While crossing the Western mountains, one of the engines broke down.

Slowly, the train chugged on. Farther along, the other engine broke down, and the train shuddered to a halt in the middle of no where.

Not to be discouraged, the train driver announced:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for a couple of

days until the additional engines arrive. The good news is that you did-n't take this trip in a plane.”

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Okeford United Football Club :- Monthly Draw results.

June 2016 :- £30—[No.1] Steve Corben £10—[No.44] Ben Chant £5— [ No.133] Josh Newman

July 2016 :- £30—[No.124] James Andrews £10—[No.68] Martin Webber £5— [No.145] Jamie Bugler

Many thanks to all our supporters. Anyone interested in joining our monthly draw (cost £1 per month) - please contact Allan Frampton (860083) or any Football Club member.

Game rules During the local football game, the coach asked one of his young players: "Do you understand what cooperation is?” The little boy nodded yes. "Do you understand that what matters is winning together as a team?" The little boy nodded yes. “Okay,” the coach continued, "do you also understand that when the ref-eree makes a decision, you don’t argue or curse or threaten to attack him, right?" Again, the boy nodded vigorously. "Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain all that to your mother.

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10/11Se Cheese Festival Sturminster 10-5pm

10 Sept Ride & Stride see p 24

12 Sept Mobile Library The Cross 2.00-2.45pm

24 Sept Jumble Sale Village Hall 2.pm.

26 Sept Mobile Library The Cross 2.00-2.45pm

30 Sept Macmillan Coffee Morning

Village Hall 8.00am - 1.00 pm

7 Oct Curry Supper /Quiz Night Village Hall 7.00pm

10 Oct Mobile Library The Cross 2.00-2.45pm

24 Oct Mobile Library The Cross 2.00-2.45pm

20 Nov Village Market Village Hall 11-4

Coming events

7 Aug 10..30 am Shillingstone Benefice Communion

14 Aug

9.00am Child Okeford Holy Communion Order 2

10.30am Shillingstone Family Service

6.30pm Manston Evensong

21 Aug

9.00am Hammoon Parish H. Communion

10.30am Child Okeford Parish H. Communion

6.30pm Shillingstone Evensong

28 Aug

9.00am Manston Parish H. Communion

10.30am Child Okeford Matins

10.30am Shillingstone Parish H Communion

Services around the Benefice

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Closing time & date for copy is by 5pm on the 20th of the month

Who’s Who

Okeford Fitz paine School

Miss Alison Chant

Head 860530

Mrs Diana Sale Chairman of Governors 860230

Parish Council George Weeks Chairman george@sheephayes.co.uk

860493

Mrs Sandra Deary Clerk okefordfitzpaine@dorset-apt.gov.uk Web site okefordfitzpainepc.com

459863

Footpaths Jeremy Gartside jngartside@aol.com 860157

Homewatch Mike Wood co-ordinator 860146

Transport Mrs A Calcott 861071

Pre - school Niki Carey Manager 860023

Village Hall Mrs Diane Burt Secretary & Bookings villagehall@okeford-fitzpaine.org

863474

Okeford United F.C

Stephen Corben Allan Frampton

Chairman 861327 860083

Fippenny Fred Philpott Chairman 863419

Garden Club Barbara Knight Secretary 860656

Short Mat Bowls Club

Mrs Barbara Fry 861524

Allotment Group

Robert Corben Chairman robertcorben@outlook.com

07580626686

Fippenny News

Mrs Barbara Fry Distribution 861524

Jane Tapping Editor E-mail jktapp@talktalk.net 860095

Shop The Olde Bell Stores & Post Office

Royal Oak 861561

Surgery Child Okeford 860687

The Hill C.O. Kate Partridge & Richard Muffett

theditorhill@btinternet.com 860010

Shillingstone Magazine

Ms Diana JLewis Editor

pentridge@btinternet.com 01258 472704