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WI Report – May 2012

Greg Jones — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:17:07 +0000

At the Members’ Meeting Angela opened the proceedings talking about her life, from the days when she competed in gymkhanas against our local resident Anne Davies (Vining) in the 1940/50’s only to become her very close neighbour following her parents’ purchase of the house inPeak Lane. Angela’s working career took her from being an air hostess to a nanny for Kenneth More’s daughter, working withStanleyDoren the American Director and Choreographer and inFloridaat Disney World. Cathy Ingram then took over the role of Interviewer and Betty Bowles (rather reluctantly) disclosed how she is one of ten children, her father was a butcher, she came to the West Country as a Land Girl and married one of the local farmers. Joan Wright, born in Dorset served in the WRAF and following her posting to Southampton had the unenviable task of listing the names of those killed on theNormandybeaches. Mary Burt recalled her days working in the local chemist’s shop although her burning ambition had been to go toCookerySchool. Despite not achieving this goal, Mary has become one of our best and talented all round cooks. Sheila Taylor’s early working days were spent as a midwife; needless to say her stories were hilarious although Sheila could not remember how many babies she had delivered. Angela Warren’s roots are inLondon, was involved in the evacuation programme, married very young but celebrated her Golden Wedding and has lived in Compton Dundon for 28 years.

Corinne Webb judged the photograph from the past competition and Joan Wright won first and second prize with Sali Money third with a photograph of her mother.

Skittles: We lost our last match against Ashcott by 7 pins and the next match will be played at Aller on May 23.

Help with decorating the Meadway Hall for the Jubilee Celebrations will be welcomed, meet at the hall at 7.30 May 30.

Match on despite rain

Greg Jones — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:41:44 +0000

A lot of hard work went into preparing the pitch at Hayes Road for the first home game of the season. Only two dry days meant that all the mowing and rolling had to be done in a very short time.
The pitch played well and Compton batted first, making 165 for 4 wickets in their 40 overs.
Pete Lindsey : 66 not out and Chris Dean : 72
After tea and a short pause to listen to the end of the football season West Coker batted on a drying wicket,
Despite Toby Weech’s 4 wickets for 42 runs Coker passed Compton’s Total and won by 5 wickets.

First match of a new Cricket Season

Greg Jones — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:35:50 +0000

Compton Dundon travelled to Chard for the first game of the 2012 season in the Mid Wessex League Second Division

Chard batted first and made 216 for 2 in their 40 overs,
Compton made 116 for 9 in reply – losing by 80 runs

Playground is open

Greg Jones — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:31:15 +0000

Parishioners arriving at the Annual Parish Meeting were treated to the sight of Children playing in the new Playground

Jubilee Week Events in Compton Dundon

sdore — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:36:58 +0000

To see a list of the events planned for the village for Jubilee Week, click on the underlined link below.

Jubilee Programme

WI Report – April 2012

Greg Jones — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:55:37 +0000

Congratulations to Verity Linnet, who with her husband Jim has recently celebrated their Diamond Wedding. Mary very ably took the President’s chair as Angie was travelling home from her cruise and Sheila is still unwell as is Shirley – we wish them both a speedy recovery. The visit to Bucklers Mead W I will be made on Tuesday July 10^th when the speaker will be Colin Dean giving a Male Speaker’s View of the W I. Should be enlightening.

An appeal was made for help on Friday June 8^th at the Meadway allHall Hall with refreshments at a Photographic Exhibition of Compton Dundon – enquiries to Sheila.

Friday May 23^rd Skittles at Ring of Bells Ashcott versus Ashcott W I. Tickets are on sale for the Jubilee Dance and Kathy Chiffers has offered to run classes for Felting.

Mr March kept us engrossed with his Story of English Cheeses. We learnt the history of cheese production through the ages; early cheeses were very primitive and sometimes proved lethal. It was not until Louis Pasteur perfected the art of pasteurisation that cheeses became a comparatively safe method of preserving food. Cow’s milk gradually came into use, alongside sheep milk, because of its greater volume of production. There are 700 varieties of English cheeses, our production methods are among the safest in the world and we, inSomerset, live in one of the greatest counties for cheese manufacturing. Cheese is full of fat and probably not very good for the health conscious but can be eaten to accompany many other dishes and remember, Apple Pie without Cheese is like a Kiss without a Squeeze. Mr March invited us to share a taste of samples he had brought along and very nice they were too. Mary thanked Mr March.

The competition for a Cheese Related Item was won by Patricia Heap runners up Pat Maddaford and Janet Davis and the Flower of the Month was won by Wendy Edwards.

Wendy Edwards.

Annual Parish Meeting

Greg Jones — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:53:14 +0000

Wednesday 2nd May 2012
6:00pm
Meadway Hall

Reports from the Parish Council and other village organisations

Jubilee Mug Applications

Greg Jones — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:53:53 +0000

Download the application form here Jubilee Mug letter A5

Egg Rolling on Easter Monday

Greg Jones — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:11:07 +0000

F or those who went to the village school you will know what this all about. For those who didn’t, it is a village tradition…. to hard boil an egg; decorate if you wish and take it up to the top of Lollover Hill and roll it down as far as you can without breaking it. The person who rolls it the furthest gets a prize. It’s great fun and the more who come the better it is. So get boiling and we will see you on 9th April at 11.30.

Footpaths News – March 2012

Greg Jones — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:13:11 +0000

Volunteers met on Sunday 11th March and broke through clearing Hayes Lane Drove.
This is now passable by pedestrians with care.
Go on – give it a go!