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December 2015

P A R I S H N E W S

FLINTHAM PARISH COUNCIL

Flintham Parish Council

Members

Coun. David Cartledge Chairman

01636 525381 Coun. Ken Russell

01636 525234 Coun. Paul Brookes

01636 525077 Coun. Sue Clayton

01636 525641 Coun. Digby Burley

01636 525247 Coun. Tony Marsh

01636 525668 Coun. Debra Pennington

7825 722905

Clerk:

Mike Elliott , 19/21 Main

Street, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5AA

Tel: 0115 937 6506 Email:

elliottnews@btconnect.com

Bits & Bobs

POLICE have been told of

an incident of criminal

damage to a vehicle parked on Spring Lane at Flintham.

The incident which involved t h e v e h i c l e b e i n g

scratched, occurred on October 17 . ++ One person died and three

others were taken to hospi-

tal in Nottingham with non-life threatening injuries after

a crash on the A46 road between Flintham and the

A6097 roundabout on Friday

evening, November 20. Traffic was held up after the

one vehicle crash.

Greetings for

Christmas from FLINTHAM

PARISH COUNCIL

HIGH INTEREST ON

PLANS FOR ISLAMIC

SCHOOL SITE PLANS for housing development on the former Islamic School site in Flintham received good sup-port from the public when scores of people turned out to the village hall last month to see what is actually being proposed. The consultation event in the village hall staged on behalf of site owners Madni Trust by the Planning De-sign Company showed plans for up to 94 dwellings, including affordable and starter homes to meet the local need in a sustainable housing development. Mr Scott O’Dell, for Planning Design, said the village hall event was held to give local residents the oppor-tunity to have an input to what they realise will be an important scheme for the village. The Design firm said the derelict brownfield site — the boarding school it housed closed in 2007 — currently detracts from the appearance and character of the village. Mr O’Dell says they intend to submit an outline plan-ning application shortly, having made any changes felt to be necessary after comments from the consultation event. The initial plans show one to six bedroomed houses, apartments, bungalows, semi-detached and detached, and 1, 2 and 3 storey houses.

SCOUTS JOIN WITH PARISH COUNCIL FOR

QUEEN’S CLEAN-UP FLINTHAM Scouts are to join the parish coun-cil in their effort next March to carry out a major clean-up of the village, to help cele-brate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen. The countrywide effort is being organised by the Keep Britain Tidy group with support from the Country Life Magazine and the Garfield Western Foundation. It will take place on Saturday March 5 and the parish council will be appealing for support from everyone in the village to ensure it becomes a worthy tribute to the Queen as she celebates her 90th birthday. Mrs Cathy Bow, of the Scouts, says all their lead-ers are happy to support the project. “We can all clean for the Queen!” is the call from the organ sers.

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YOUR

FESTIVE

SERVICES

Christmas Services at St Augustine’s,

Flintham

Sunday 13 December,

11am – Holy Communion

Sunday 20 December, 5pm – Carol Service

(Followed by refresh-ments at Flintham Hall , at the kind invi-tation of Sir Robert and Lady Hildyard. Those attending are asked to give gener-o u s l y t o t h e Church Fabric Fund as they leave the Church)

Christmas

Day,

9am Holy Communion

(Book of Common

Prayer) Also: Sunday 24 January, 11am – Holy Com-munion

SEVERN TRENT

VOLUNTEERS OUT IN

FORCE IN FLINTHAM

TO

‘MAKE A DIFFERENCE’ SEVERN Trent Water lived up to their aim of ‘making a differ-ence’ with a community effort that saw 44 of their volunteer engineers turn up in Flintham to answer a call from the village Shop and Museum to undertake a wide variety of tasks to im-prove conditions around the premises. Shop manager Sue Clayton was told of the offer from Severn Trent by the parish council and immediately set about finding the volunteers something to do. “I put together a project, applied and we enjoyed a fantastic five hours with a great group of 44 (yes, 44) engineers.,” she said, explaining that they cut the museum hedge, weeded the pond, laid some stepping stones around the pond, painted the outside of the shop, weeded a strip of ground at the back of the two buildings so that they can plant a herb garden -- to give free herbs to the customers who buy meat -- and painted the weather station.

Atmosphere Sue says they borrowed waders from Ruddington Country Park, cooked jacket potatoes in the village hall which were eaten in the scout field be-cause there was a funeral tea being prepared in the village hall -- and bor-rowed a yard brush from school, so other groups were also involved. “There was a lovely atmosphere” she added, saying it was very obvious that as well as the community benefitting from the project, the engineers had been genuinely pleased that they could get involved in something a bit different. ## Flintham Museum and Community Shop on Inholms Road, is in the Flintham Conservation area. The Flintham museum and community shop are owned and run by volunteers.

TWO ROLES FOR VILLAGE MUSEUM Flintham’s Museum has two main roles, the annual meet-ing was being told. The annual report said that the roles were running a muse-um to national standards and organising educational activities. “Put like that, it all sounds rather academic, dull and dry. Far from it. Our events are fun and always a little bit differ-ent.” Some recent examples include a 1915 games evening in the village hall (by popular request a similar evening is planned before next Easter). Last month, the older children at the primary school looked at old maps of Flintham and then walked to one of the parish boundaries before trying their hands at dowsing in the fields. They described their local history sessions as 'awesome'. If you have an interest in local history or have skills in social media, fundraising or business skills you'd like to offer, please contact Sue Daly 525786 or Sue Clay-ton on 525641.

CONEYGREY POST BOX SITING CONCERNS

A number of residents have raised their continuing concern about the re-positioned location of the Royal Mail Post Box on the green in Co-neygrey Spinney. Parish councillor Debra Pennington says this has been raised with the

Royal Mail asking for information as to how to get it moved to the bus shelter area at the entrance to the Spinney, a repeat of several similar requests by the parish council. The latest response has been received which is, says Coun. Pen-nington, an invitation to escalate the issue, The Royal M ail response is: "Dear Mrs Pennington, Thank you for your further

email. I am sincerely sorry to hear of

your concerns regarding the location of

your post box. I can confirm that when customers con-

tact us requesting a post box be re-

located, the correct procedure is to con-tact the Collections Manager who investi-

gates further. As the Managers enquiries have con-

firmed that the current site was chosen because of its safe location in terms of

access and visibility, I’m afraid there is no

further action we can take.

Disappointment I appreciate that this will come as a dis-

appointment to you as this is not the outcome that you were looking for but I

hope that my explanation has been helpful in setting out why we have taken this

decision. However if you are still not

satisfied with our response you can esca-late your complaint to our Escalated

Complaints Resolution Team as detailed in our complaints handling process details

on our website. The Escalated Complaints Resolution

Team can be contacted by email

to customerresolution@your.royalmail.com. Alternatively you can write to: Escalat-

ed Customer Resolution Team, Royal Mail, PO Box 466, Plymouth, PL9 7HJ. If

you do contact the team please can I ask

you to quote your reference number 1-

3403281269. For further details regarding our Com-

plaint Handling Process, please visit our website by following this link: www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/how-do-I-

BEST WISHES FOR CHRISTMAS from the PARISH NEWS

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The Gift of Presence

Mind Full, or Mindful?

Time going too fast?

The Gift of Presence

Mind Full, or Mindful?

Time going too fast?

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I run Saturday taster workshops or

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.Flintham Parish News is delivered free to every

home in the village and is printed and published by Flintham Parish Council, 19/21 Main Street, Keyworth, NG12 5AA

December 2015 All village groups are invited to

send items in for publication in the ‘News’

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Bits & Bobs NOTTINGHAMSHIRE County Library Service has confirmed dates of the mobile library visits to Flintham for 2015 and the last one of the year is on December 2. Details of the stops in the village are:: Inholms Gardens 11.45-12.00 Main Street, phone box 12.05-12.25pm Coneygrey Spinney 14.10-14.25pm ++ The Community Shop will be supplying festive meats such as fresh turkey, goose, duck, sausages (including gluten free sausages), beef, gammon and cooked hams from Robin Tuxford. Prices per kilo and ordering dates will be available as soon as possible. ++ 100 YEARS AGO: The report from Flintham Show weight guessing competition showed Mr Chas. Barker of Flintham had supplied a pig whose dead weight was 24 stone 5lb.and Mr G.H. Black of Nottingham had won the prize with a guess of 24 stone 4lb. ++ The next meeting of Flintham Parish Coun-cil will take place on Wednesday Decem-ber 9, with a 6pm start at the Inholms Road Sports Pavilion. ++ A resident has complained to the parish council on the difficulties for vehicles emerging on to the Main Street from Woods Lane because of parked vehicles. The council agreed an item appear in the council newsletter on this, advising driv-ers of it being an offence if they park within ten yards of a junction. ++ The ‘Parish News’ can be emailed to read-ers, just let us have your email address and leave the rest to us! Send an email today, with your request, to elliottnews@btconnect.com giving your postal address as well.

SMILE AT OUR ENGLISH LAGUAGE

How can I intimate this to my most inti-mate friend?

MORE SPORTS

PAVILION USE

IS THE AIM

VILLAGHERS in Flintham are being invited to involve

themselves with new ideas to boost the use of the

Inholms Road sports pavilion -- and to consider joining

the organising committee. At a recent Management meeting those involved reviewed

the regular bookings and felt it was time to remind villag-ers that everyone living in Flintham is automatically a

member of the Flintham Sports and Social Association who run the pavilion.

Consequently, every villager is entitled to share in the use of the facilities. Says Mr Mike Ansell, a member of the ex-

isting committee: “As you might expect we are dependent on our income to maintain the pavilion, so the more book-

ings and the more it is used, the better.” He said that recently they had wondered whether their hire

charges were prohibitive, but said that with insurance

costing £1200 pa, rates £500 and other significant over-head it has to be understood why they charge a realistic

booking fee. “However if any villagers would like to involve themselves

with new ideas to reduce charges and increase usage we will gladly welcome them onto the committee,” added Mr

Ansell. A new cooker and extractor fan has recently been pur-

chased so the kitchen is now up to date and available for use.

Some Ideas Already

The committee have a number of suggestions for the

future which they hope would result in increased bookings.

The ideas include: # Use the Brian Fisher Room for adult education and Uni-

versity of the 3rd Age classes. # Hire the pavilion and our mini soccer goals for soccer

parties. # Try out your village venture. Free use for a one off

introductory session, be it Chess, Cake Decorating, Foreign language conversation classes or Digital Camera Clas-

ses. From then on you can hire the premises for special rates if your session becomes a regular community

event.

# Thinking of starting a junior or ladies soccer club? Once our pitch has had its drainage improved, prob-

ably in August 2016 a pitch will become available – and the facilities will be second to none!!!

If you wish to discuss any of these suggestions, or if you have any of your own please contact any of the

committee. Mike O'Neill, Mike Ansell, David Cartledge,

John Hemstock, Gail Hemstock, Helen Colby, Andy Parker, Geoff Peatfield. Contact 01636 525454

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Festive

I tried to catch some fog. I mist. ## They told me I had type A blood, but it was a type 0. ## How do you make Holy water? Boil the hell out of it! ## Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations. ## How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it. ## I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me. ## A soldier who survived mustage gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran. ## What does a clock do when it when its hungry. It goes back four seconds. ## I didn’t like my beard at first. Then it grew on me ## The song "White Christmas" holds the cred-it as the most-selling Christmas single of all time ## Santa Claus has nine reindeers counting Rudolph that pull his sleigh.

## On Christmas day 1815 the churchwardens at Flintham paid 16s (80p) for a new song book for the church singers. ## Odd Christmas games in Victorian times: Flapdragon: A candle is lit and put into a can of cider. Attempts were then made to drink the cider while the candle was burn-ing !!! ## Mrs. Claus, Santa's wife, was first intro-duced to the world in 1889 in the book "Goody Santa Claus On A Sleigh Ride" by the poet Katherine Lee Bates. ## In Australia, Christmas comes in the middle of summer and the temperature often hits a sweltering 100 degrees farenheit on Christmas Day. During this warm Australian Christmas season, outdoor barbecues have become a part of the Christmas tradition. ##

On Christmas day 1825 the churchwardens

at Flintham paid 1s 9d (9p) for candles for

the singers.

## The Christmas carol "I Saw Momma Kissing Santa Claus" was made famous by Jimmy Boyd when he was just 12 years old.

BURNS NIGHT EVENT AGAIN A BIG ATTRACTION

It's time to dust off your sporran for Burns Night 2016. You are invited to join the celebrations of the birthday of Scotland's most famous poet in Flintham Vil-

lage Hall 7.30 pm on Saturday 23 Jan 2016. Enjoy a traditional three course meal including haggis and a wee dram then round off the night with traditional Scottish dancing. (Vegetarian option availa-

ble). Fully licensed bar. Numbers are restricted for the comfort of attendees. The tickets at £12 a head are expected to sell as in previous years like hot cakes (Hot Clootie Dumplings).

So avoid disappointment by booking without delay. Anthea 01636 525315, Bill 01636 525147 _______________________________________________________________

In these days of most people using a computer — and many making inputting mistakes when

they do — the copy shown below is full of typing errors, but can you still read it. The answer

should be Yes. We are told as long as the first and last letters of a wrongly spelt word appear in

the correct place, the reader can understand what it is meant to be saying. Can you?

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was

rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig

to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in-

waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng

is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset

can be a taotl mses and you can sitill raed it wouthit a por-

belm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lte-

ter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? Yaeh and

I awlyas thought slpeling was.

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BIG EVENT IN LEAD UP TO CHRISTMAS

FLINTHAM’s annual Christmas Supper and Quiz in aid of the village Sports Association will take place on Saturday December 12 in the Inholms Road sports pavilion. It will start at 7.30pm and everyone is invited to pur-chase tickets. Tickets are £12.00 per head to include quiz entry, nibbles, a main course buffet meal and

delicious home made puddings. There will be a Christmas Draw with a magnificent Hamper as the main prize. Tickets are

available from Mike Ansell on 01636, 525454, Mike O’Neil on 526002 and David Cartledge on 525381.

#####################Christmas odd fact: Turkeys are believed to have been

brought to Britain in 1526 by Yorkshire man William Strickland. He acquired six birds from American

Indian traders on his travels and sold them for twopence each in Bristol.

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