Peter Jones has asked me to let you know that there will be a gathering in the White Horse on Monday 23 April at 7.30 pm for an update on the progress of the Stourpaine Village Fete. The Fete is on Sunday 24th June from 12 noon to 5 pm.
Please come along if you’re interested in helping in any way or if you have any ideas you’d like to put forward. If you’re not able to come to the meeting but would like to help or put forward an idea, please contact Peter: peterjones1254@gmail.com.
Stourpaine Tennis Club invites you to join us for a
delicious home cooked lasagne supper and a drink,
together with a fun-filled quiz orchestrated by our
local quiz master…Bryn
7.30 p.m. warm up for 8 p.m. play. £10 per person Bar and raffle
Contact: FELICITY COX 454840
felicitycox77@gmail.com
The Stourpaine Spring Fair, Plant Sale and Silent Auction will take place on Saturday April 14th from 10.30 to 12.30 a.m. in front of Holy Trinity Church and beside the Trailway.
Child Okeford’s traditional St George’s Day celebration takes place on Saturday 21st April at 12.00 p.m., with the Dragon procession.
All are invited to join the Mummers, maids and musicians as they make their way from the old Post Office to the village Cross, where the annual St George’s play is performed.
The Baker Arms will be providing pulled pork and apple sauce to feed onlookers. Come and enjoy a drink or two afterwards, with some live, traditional folk music, and sing along or dance to the local Baker Band.
Charles Upton
01258 861391
The Dorset Gardens Trust have hired Stourpaine Village Hall for a talk by Diana Guy, winner of the first BBC Gardener of the Year competition.
She is a specialist in hellebores and a highly sought after garden lecturer already known to DGT. Diana will give an illustrated talk looking at the range of species and cultivars of hellebores and how to use them to the best effect.
An added attraction is that there may be unusual hellebores for sale.
Stourpaine residents who are interested are welcome to come and pay on the door. Cost £8.
Strictly Swing in Stourpaine – Sunny Side of Swing, jazz/swing/blues band played in Shroton Village Hall after an introductory Lindyhop class and this was a great success, with dancers (experienced and beginners) attending from as far as Chippenham and Axminster. So Claire & Peter will be offering Lindyhop classes once a month (2 classes and social dancing with a DJ), with the band playing every 3rd month (with one class).
The next dance classes evening will be on Saturday 13th January at 7.30 p.m. [doors open 7.30, class starts at 7.45] at Stourpaine Village Hall, cost £6.
Bring your own drinks (and food, if you wish). Some soft drinks will be provided.
Lindyhop is a partner dance that originated in the 1920’s and 30’s in Harlem. It continued its popularity well into the 40’s during the Swing era and draws from earlier Charleston and Jazz steps and precedes jive and jitterbug. The Charleston routines on Strictly include several of these and are often choreographed by one of Claire & Peter’s dance teachers.
The name ‘Lindyhop’ comes from Charles Lindbergh flying solo across the Atlantic to Paris in 1927. It’s great fun and there’s no need to come to classes with a partner.
Tel: 07708 473568 or check www.sunnysideofswing.co.uk
Preparing for the future is often something people put off thinking about. This autumn sees Dorset County Council launch an adult social care campaign called ‘Prepare to live better‘.
The campaign aims to educate people about the changing landscape of social care and encourage them to make provisions and plans for their future care needs.
Dorset County Council’s Cabinet member for Health and Care Jill Haynes said:
“Prepare to live better is all about encouraging people to stay active and keep as independent as possible.
“We naturally become more independent as we progress through life. But as we get older, it is even more important to stay independent.
“When it comes to adult social care we want to help people stay in their own home for longer. By thinking about the future and preparing for the costs of care, you can have more choice and control over the care you want.”
Eight-five per cent of people aged 51 to 75 have no plans for how they will pay for their care. One of the hardest things is knowing when to talk about care, but it’s never too early to have those conversations with family and friends.
In Dorset we have a high number of older people who are isolated and lonely. By coordinating the efforts of social care, health and other agencies, we are striving to help people remain happily independent in their own homes and able to make informed choices about their support needs.
Staff will be out and about over the next few months visiting towns across the county and talking to people about planning for their future. You can find out more about living better at dorsetforyou.gov.uk/livebetter
Are you looking after someone who wouldn’t manage without your help? Or would you like to help others by sharing your experience of having been a carer? If so, did you know that there is a drop-in session called My Time for you on the first Tuesday of every month?
It doesn’t matter who you care for – partner, parent, child, neighbour, sibling, neighbour or friend – anyone who has been, or currently is, caring for someone else is invited to these monthly My Time drop-ins. These take place at Blandford Community Centre on Heddington Drive which is easily accessible by bus or by car – the X8 service passes every half hour and there’s plenty of free parking.
You can come together or on your own. Either way you will be met with a warm welcome, a drink and cake, other carers and professionals who can help with advice and information about anything you might need some support with. Very often the questions that carers ask to are those that other carers have already found answers to, so you will find that friendly advice is freely shared!
All too often, carers report that they feel isolated and alone. The My Time drop-ins are intended to ensure that no-one in the Blandford area feels that they don’t know where they can get help or advice, or that they have no-one to support them as a carer.
For more details call the team at Blandford Centre on 01258 480762.
Keith Harrison North & Mid Dorset CCG Community Health & Wellbeing Officer c/o Sturminster Newton Medical Centre Old Market Hill Sturminster Newton Dorset DT10 1QU 07825 691508
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