The Horsington Blog

Hello everyone. We’re back after a long sleep. Your editor had a job, which has now ceased owing to the current crisis, and finds he has time on his hands. Maybe your old favorites Silas Silage and Mrs Badger can also be persuaded back from retirement. Sadly, our racing correspondent, the redoubtable Winterborne Longjohns is laid off, as racing is cancelled for the foreseeable future.

The Blog also went into hibernation because of the excellent job being done by the team on the Villager Magazine. Not many of you will know that the Blog came into existence  in 2010 because of the inordinate length of time between a Magazine  Committee being formed and a magazine actually appearing. We felt there was a need for more immediate communication. Now we are very happy to work alongside them to strengthen village communications during the coronavirus crisis.

However the technology to produce the blog is a little cumbersome, and we find social media such as Facebook does a much better job. If you haven’t seen it, the Blog’s Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/horsingtonblog/ and from now on we shall concentrate on that to disseminate news and views.  If you haven’t joined, get an account. Just make sure you sign up for the Blog.

Ed

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The Horsington Blog has emerged from hibernation to serve the village during the Coronavirus crisis.

Or, more accurately, Vicky and Tom Todd, who live in the Manor, have kicked your editor into action with a generous offer which will be welcomed by many Homebound Horsington residents with families.

They have opened the gate to a large field down Batchpool Lane, below the manor, to provide a large open space for families to roam and play. The field is just past the Ottery, and opposite Home Farm.

All villagers are welcome to use it. Vicky Todd asks people not to go near the pond at the far side of the field, and to keep a carful eye on children who go in that direction.

The manor is criss-crossed with public footpaths which everyone is welcome to use. However, please keep to them.

And of course please observe the rules about keeping your distance from people not from your household.

Have fun getting some exercise and letting off steam in this lovely spring weather.

And a big thank-you to the Todds

District of South Somerset
Parish of Horsington
Temporary Closure of Cabbage Lane
TAKE NOTICE that in pursuance of Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulations Act
1984, as amended by the Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991, the County
Council of Somerset propose to make an Order PROHIBITING ALL TRAFFIC from
proceeding along Cabbage Lane from 350m south west of the junction with Higher
Road, south-westwards for a distance of 250 metres.
This order will enable BT Openreach to carry out renewal of 2 declaying telegraph pole
works
The Order becomes effective on 13 January 2020 and will remain in force for eighteen
months. The works are expected to last for 1 day

Is there a Josh out there , probably somewhere on the Marsh, who is expecting a parcel from Amazon?? it’s addressed to, and has been delivered to, Ringmarsh House, but is not for us or our immediate neighbors.

From Monday 4^th November through to Remembrance Sunday, the fourteen perspex ‘Silhouettes’ , each one representing one  of the names from the Horsington War Memorial from WW1, will be in place in the church. The stories of each every serviceman, both from WW1 and this year, WW2 as well, will be on display. If you can, take some time to visit, sit among them and read their stories.

The aim of the 100 year anniversary last year was ‘to bring the names from the war memorials and bring them back into the places the left behind. Horsington lost 22 brave men in both world wars, come along and get to know them better

Tickets available from, Anne Jones 01963 370626 & Stephen Miles 01963 370823