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In celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II a celebratory peal was rung in St Petrock’s, a video of which is now available here.

Last weekend we saw the Coronation of King Charles III and as part of that celebration, our bellringers rang a special peal on Coronation Day, Saturday 6th May. Left to right : Elisabeth Powls (Tower Captain), Martin Booth, Gwynnie Poole, David Butt, Pauline Bennett , Allan Sutton and Kate Hart. We thank them all.

This Sunday, 14th May at 11am, we will particularly recognise Bell Ringing as a celebratory part of our service at St Petrock’s Church. St Dunstan is known as the Patron Saint of Bellringers due to his experimentation in the early forging of bells in the 900’s, and for this reason the nearest Sunday to his feast day (19^th May) has been chosen to introduce Bell Sunday; a day where the contribution of bells and Bellringers to the life of the Church in our village is recognised. 

A special service has been designed which includes poetry, handbell ringing and a short history of the Timberscombe bells. Everybody is most welcome to come along and enjoy the celebration and refreshments afterwards.

Marion Jeffrey and Kate Hart

Timberscombe Village Show 2023

This year the village show will be held on Saturday 19th August in the village hall as usual.

2023 Knitting Pattern

This year’s knitting pattern is a sausage dog draught excluder. It will be a great way to use up all your odds and ends of yarn. The whole project, knitted as per the pattern, takes approximately 220g of yarn but you can make the sausage dog shorter or longer, in whatever yarn you have, and in whatever colours you like. Marion will leave a bag of odds and ends of yarn in the post office to help if you are short of colours, please just help yourself.

There is link to the pattern below but if you have trouble with accessing the pattern please contact Marion on 841318 and she will help.

https://www.lovecrafts.com/en-gb/p/sausage-dog-draught-excluder-in-deramores-studio-downloadable-pdf

2023 Photographic Classes

There will be 5 classes for photographers this year;

1. Beach scene
2. Exmoor sunrise or sunset
3. Gates (black and white)
4. My pet
5. Fruit and/or vegetables

As many of us have mobile phones with cameras there is really no excuse not to enter these classes, so make the most of spring and early summer – happy snapping!

There are of course many other categories from baking to painting, craftwork, flower arranging and growing fruit, flowers and veg. More details will follow in due course.

We hope as many villagers as possible will enter this a fun event for all ages and all interests.

If you would like to be involved with helping to run the Show, please contact Kate (841745) or Marion (841318), we are always in need of volunteers! Thank you.

If you have friends who are not on-line or do not receive the village e-news letter, please do pass this information on. We will also publish it in the Dunkery Tidings.

The Village Show Committee

Benefice Newsletter 5th May 2023

	3rd MAY		WEDNESDAY	12.30pm	2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	4th MAY		THURSDAY		BOOK CLUB			SORRY FULL
	7th MAY		SUNDAY	8.30-12	BREAKFAST			£5.50 each
	8th MAY		MONDAY	3-5pm	CORANATION PARTY
	10th MAY		WEDNESDAY		2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	11th MAY		THURSDAY	7pm	BINGO
	17th MAY		WEDNESDAY		2 COURSE ROAST			£5.00 each
	20th MAY		SATURDAY	7pm	BEETLE DRIVE			£2.00each
	21st MAY		SUNDAY	3pm	CREAM TEA			DONATIONS
	24th MAY		WEDNESDAY		2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	25th MAY		THURSDAY	7pm	BINGO
	26th MAY		FRIDAY		FISH & CHIPS			£6.50each
	30th MAY		TUESDAY		PRAYER MEETING
	31st MAY		WEDNESDAY		2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	1st JUNE		THURSDAY		BOOK CLUB			SORRY FULL
	4th JUNE		SUNDAY	8.30-12	BREAKFAST			£5.50 each
	7th JUNE		WEDNESDAY	12.30pm	2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	8th JUNE		THURSDAY	7pm	BINGO
	10th JUNE		SATURDAY	10-12pm	JUMBLE SALE
	11th JUNE		SUNDAY		MEETING
	14th JUNE		WEDNESDAY	12.30pm	2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	21st JUNE		WEDNESDAY	12.30pm	2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	22nd JUNE		THURSDAY	7pm	BINGO
	27th JUNE		TUESDAY	10.30-12	NEIGHBOURHOOD SURGERY
	27th JUNE		TUESDAY	2pm	PRAYER MEETING
	28th JUNE		WEDNESDAY	12.30pm	2 COURSE ROAST			£5.50 each
	30th JUNE		FRIDAY		FISH & CHIPS			£6.50each
	2nd JULY		SUNDAY	8.30-12	BREAKFAST			£5.50 each