Archive for 2018
17 March, 2018
Bentworth Care Group
UncategorizedOur Care Group members on duty for medical appointments in April are: Sarah Whitley 562188: Susie Greenwood 563326; Judy Fellingham 563614 The next members meetings will be Monday 1st April 10.30am at Walnut Tree Barn and Monday 29th April at Hollingsworth, New Copse. ...
13 March, 2018
Neighbourhood Watch
The VillagerIt has been my good fortune over the past few years to co-ordinate the Neighbourhood Watch service for Bentworth. However, I have now handed over to Patrick Cornelius, who together with John Stockdale’s e-mails will continue to advise of the goings-on with the Police and the criminal element in our neighbourhood. ...
13 March, 2018
Litter Pick
Parish CouncilOnce again we will be picking up the litter that is thoughtlessly thrown out along our roads! Volunteers are needed to help us do this effectively. If you have an hour or two to spare please come along to the Green at 10am on Saturday 21st April. ...
13 March, 2018
Bentworth Pond
Parish CouncilBy the time this is published we will hopefully be firmly into spring weather and the snow and ice a distant memory. The village pond has retained its water level and there has been a lovely display of snowdrops around it and the daffodils are just beginning to show (they are probably in flower by now). ...
13 March, 2018
Bentworth Parish Neighbourhood Plan
Neighbourhood Plan Parish Council The VillagerIn late January we learned that the government had moved the goal-posts. EHDC briefed representatives of all towns and parishes in the region of changes which were being made at national level through the government’s most recent Housing White Paper and subsequent amendments to legislation, National Planning Policy Guidance and National Planning Policy Framework. You may have seen some reporting on this in the national or local press. ...
13 March, 2018
Hampshire Federation of Women’s Institutes
The VillagerThe meeting on Thursday 1st March was cancelled due to the snow, and has been rearranged for 8th March – which is after the deadline for this magazine, so no report this month. The next meeting is on Thursday 5th April when we will hear about Easter Flower Arranging. ...
13 March, 2018
Garden Notes – Vegetables
Garden Club The VillagerI have always grown vegetables and would hate to stop doing it, but I had to rethink it lately to make less work. Firstly why grow those that you can easily buy. Like onions, maincrop potatoes, cabbages etc. You need to concentrate on those that taste so much better straight from the garden. New potatoes with skin you can just push off and broad beans that you can pick before they get large and leathery and you can afford to have large bowls of them. Snap peas are great straight from the vine. The french beans both climbing and dwarf and runner beans are easily available but are so productive it seems a shame not to grow them. Like courgettes, where three plants bought from the garden centre will supply all you need. If you are very cheffy you may like to stuff the flowers. ...
13 March, 2018
Farm Diary
The VillagerIn the last few days we have had the snow and freezing winds of late February / early March. It is on such occasions that pheasant shoots are particularly helpful to the indigenous bird and mammal life. The extreme weather and frozen ground makes foraging for seeds impossible and without the shoots many songbirds would die within a few days without food. ...