Author: Lesley Webb

Look out for Asian Hornets!

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ASIAN HORNETS FOUND IN SOMERSET

On August 25th a beekeeper in Ashcott identified Asian Hornets hawking his bees.

He sent a photo via the app “REPORT ASIAN HORNET ” and a team from the N. B U. arrived the same day and began searching for the nest. Using advanced technology (attaching a tracer to captured hornets)

They could track the direction of flight and eventually located the nest on August 28th which was destroyed. Hornets hunt within a radius of 700 meters of their nest.

Asian Hornets are very aggressive, their stings are very painful and lower the victims blood pressure. They can sting multiple times as can wasps.

Asian Hornets predate on all insect life and their larva can consume 12 to 13 kilos of insects in a season, they especially target bee hives so have the potential to devastate all our insect population.

PLEASE become familiar with what the Asian Hornet insect looks like and how to report a possible sighting, our insect population

Is at great risk now the Asian Hornet has made it to Somerset.

To view an Asian Hornet and for more information click below

Digimax A50 / KENOX Q2Download
Digimax A50 / KENOX Q2Download

Minehead & Coast Timebank is here

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Exciting times at the Minehead & Coast Timebank where every hour counts!

Timebanking enables people in communities to help one another using time, not money, as the currency. Share your skills, get help when you need it and make new friends. Membership and participation is totally free! 

For every hour given, you earn an hour in return.

In timebanking, you help someone for an hour (or thereabouts) â€“ for example by mowing their lawn or doing their shopping. 

For every hour of help you give, you earn an hour’s credit from your time bank. You can spend your time credit by receiving an hour of someone else’s time. For example, you could learn how to cook an apple pie, or get help with painting your fence. 

To see how a time bank could work for you, follow Sheila’s journey.

Everyone’s time is valued equally.

No money is exchanged, although participants may agree to cover expenses such as petrol money. Everyone’s time is valued equally: one hour of sharing your skills or helping others earns you one time credit, whatever the skill or task. 

Everyone’s skills are useful and everyone feels valued.

Timebanking works for everyone – individuals, organisations and society as a whole. People arrange to give time when it suits them, offering skills they enjoy using. It’s a two-way process of giving time and receiving time â€“ and everybody has skills they can offer. 


– What help do you need with? 

– What skills can you offer? 

We’re now live, so follow us now to stay informed of events, and please share with others who could be interested.

For more information go to https://timebanking.org/timebanks/minehead-and-coast-timebank/

Contact details:
Email: MineheadandCoastTimeBank@timebanking.org
Website: https://tol2.timebanking.org/MineheadandCoastTimebank

Free First Aid Training

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Timberscombe Parish Council have organised a FREE First Aid course on Monday 21st September at 6.30pm in the Village Hall. 

This training is open to all who would be interested, free of charge ( you may make a donation to the group, who are offering this training free of charge, if you wish but it is not required). No previous experience needed.

As I hope you are all aware, we have a village defibrillator situated in The Glebe telephone box. The Parish Council have also purchased a Bleed Kit which is in the phone box too.

The First Aid training will cover basic life support, the safe use of a public access defibrillator and use of a bleed kit.  It will be run by The Minehead Community Defib Group, who gave us such excellent training a few years ago.

Could you please email me if you would like to attend as I need to let the organisers know how many will be present: la.webb@btinternet.com

There are limited places, which will be filled on a first come first in basis.

Lesley Webb

Bin Days over the Bank Holiday week

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There will be no recycling or rubbish collections on bank holiday Monday 31 August, Somerset Council has announced.

All collections will take place one day later than usual following the bank holiday. For those who usually have a Friday collection, their collection will be rescheduled to Saturday 5 September.

Collection dayMonday, 31 AugustRevised collection dayTuesday, 1 September
Collection dayTuesday, 1 SeptemberRevised collection dayWednesday, 2 September
Collection dayWednesday, 2 SeptemberRevised collection dayThursday, 3 September
Collection dayThursday, 3 SeptemberRevised collection dayFriday, 4 September
Collection dayFriday, 4 SeptemberRevised collection daySaturday, 5 September

Resident’s bins, boxes and bags should be put out on the revised collection day or the night before.

If opening on a Monday is part of your local recycling centres’ opening days, then it will be open as usual from 9am to 6pm on Bank Holiday Monday.

To help manage the increased volume of recycling, residents are encouraged to make extra space in their recycling boxes by crushing and flattening their recyclables. This simple step can make a difference to help reduce the number of trips crews need to make to empty their vehicles.

For more information about what the Council collects or to check a collection day, visit the Council’s waste pages.