I’ve had two letters recently from SSEN that are letting me know there will be power outages on :
– Thursday 6th November
– Thursday 13th November
I don’t have details of the timing for the 6th but on the 13th the timing is 08:30 – 16:00.
The SSEN website doesn’t seem to have details of future outages, just those in progress, so I’ve emailed them to check on details. I’ll pass on anything I get.
From : Shayne Smith
Some new information.
From : John Thorne
From : Claudine Pynn
Claudine Pynn will be carrying out ‘house to house’ collections in the village between 25 October and 8 November.
If I miss you please feel free to call at 22 Follyfield.
I will have traditional poppies, 2025 metal pins and some wooden crosses available.
Please could I ask that you are prepared for my visit by having some cash available. I don’t have a card reader but this year I do have a QR code with which you will be able to make a donation with your smart phone.
From : Michael Bromley Gardner
Interesting post from Wiltshire County about recycling in general and Zombie batteries in particular.
https://mailchi.mp/news.wiltshire.gov.uk/latest-news-5020423?e=7667957d8e
Restorative Yin Yoga class at our very own Holy Cross Church 🧘♀️⛪️🧘♂️
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Monday 3rd Nov – Thursday 18th Dec
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It’s the first Saturday of every month.
Coffee, cake, and chat.
11:00 – 12:30
Cafe Church this coming Saturday 4th October will be in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. It will be lovely to see as many of you as possible to support this worthwhile Charity.
Thank you
Valerie
2025
October 4th
November 1st
December 6th
The new Grapevine is here !
Download below, or click on their logo on the site homepage, or go to the site Grapevine page for this edition and many previous additions.
From : Elizabeth Threlfall
ADULT SOCIAL CARE WEBINAR
If you want to find out more about Adult Social Care in Wiltshire, there is a webinar on Tuesday 7th October from 6pm.
Anyone who would like to join can sign up via the link below. You can also use the link to send in questions ahead of the webinar.
Elizabeth Threlfall
Wiltshire Councillor for Brinkworth Division
I said I’d report back and here are the results :
I received 16 replies. Thank you to those people that replied, it really helped !
Of those 16 replies, all 16 felt the website should continue so that’s what I will do.
Which rather suggests that I should invest some time in making it more “visible” so that people let me know of events etc. I’ll have a think about that.
An additional development
Whilst this was going on I also received an email from the Press Association.
It seems that there was a post on the website in 2017 where I was reminding people that the church was their polling station for the upcoming election. That post was illustrated with a picture of a ballot box. There were literally hundreds of similar images that Google returned but it seems that without realising I chose an image that was copyright.
I apologised and removed the post.
They came back to advise that I must buy a licence from them for £792.50 to compensate them.
I explained that the site was not commercial, non revenue generating (it actually costs me money to run it !), and really a public service site serving around 200 residents in a small village and that there were so many similar images that if I’d known it was copyright I’d simply have used another image. They’ve replied that lack of knowledge isn’t a valid legal defence…
I have to say that my view of the media wasn’t particularly positive to start with but now ?…
If anyone knows a copyright lawyer who could advise me I’d be grateful !
Hankerton Village 