The Parish Magazine
April '25
BERWICK ST JAMES
Welcome to Caroline Ainsworth and Moss Collins. We hope you enjoy living in Berwick.
Goodbye to Hugh McMurtrie, we are sorry you are leaving Berwick, and hope you are happy in your new life.
BARBARA LAST. Sadly Barbara died on 5th March aged 96. She will be very much missed by her family and many friends. Barbara, and her late husband Dick, lived in Berwick for many years, taking part in numerous village activities and taking much care of the village, river and farm environment. We wish to pass our condolences to her family, we are thinking of you all.
CHOCOLATE BINGO in the Reading Room.
Come along to the Reading Room on Thursday 10th April at 6pm for a fun-filled, and chocolate-filled evening of CHOCOLATE BINGO. For Children and Adults alike, the last Chocolate Bingo evening was enormous fun, as anyone lucky enough to get a ticket found out.
Watch out on WhatsApp, Facebook, village email and posters for further details of how to buy tickets etc. We will need lots of Chocolate (of all sorts)! Donations of chocolate to Jo at Appletrees, or Nicky by the eggs at Berwick Hill Farmyard. Many thanks indeed.
LENT LUNCH
We are planning our annual charity Lent lunch. It is to be held in the Reading Room on Monday 14th April between 12.00 and 2.00pm. Everyone is most welcome. Delicious homemade soups, bread, cheese and fruit will be provided free of charge.
We are supporting Naomi House Hospice for Children at Sutton Scotney and the Salisbury Hospice, both worthy charities.
This year the Lent lunch is being held in the school holidays so any adults and children are most welcome, be they from Berwick or the surrounding villages. Your support would be most gratefully received.
CHURCH NEWS
We have two services in April.
Sunday 6th April 9.30am Holy Communion.
Sunday 20th April EASTER SUNDAY 11.00. An opportunity to celebrate Easter Sunday in this Family Service and Holy Communion.
We are also delighted to be holding a private Baptism on 26th April for Tilly Miller, daughter of Harry and Rosie and granddaughter of Brian and Sally. We send our very best wishes to them all.
TEA and CAKE and CHAT in the READING ROOM
The April Chats are on Tuesdays 1st and 15th from 2.30 – 4pm, come at any time, lovely to see everyone.
The May Chats are on Tuesday 6th and 20th May. There is no charge, cakes are welcome too! We ery much welcome anyone from our other villages, and visitors too.
PLANT PRODUCE and FLOWER TABLE supporting CRUK
Hello villagers and neighbouring villages.
Well don’t know about you but it has been very much stop start, put it out bring it in I should know better, but as you gardeners know a few good days and we get carried away. My house is like Kew Gardens I am playing at musical window ledges with seed trays lol. Hope to have a few things on the table very soon so keep a look out please. By the time you read this I will have et the CEO and Treasurer of CRUK Salisbury branch at the farm shop to hand over our raised funds for 2024 they are delighted with our efforts. Copies of our certificate will be posted in the BSJ notice boards.
Weather wise well it can only get better..happy growing.
Yours Aye Christine.
THE OLD FORGE FARM SHOP
The Farm Shop will be closed on Easter Sunday 20th April.
WILDLIFE WATCH
The flock of sparrow-sized birds mentioned in last months magazine, seen at the north end of the village on farmland are identified as linnets – wonderful to see so many.
Reported a “siege” of herons at the north end of Berwick – three nests and lots of noise. Also, It would appear that the female swan from the river also at the north end has a new “younger” partner … her old and trusted partner has been given the push by the new interloper. That’s sad actually as they’ve been together for more than 17 years!!
A Great Spotted Woodpecker has been paying daily visits to a bird table in a central village garden, and in the same garden, on 21st February, a weasel was seen by the fish pond – never previously seen one in the garden.
All reports very welcome – from all our villages. Nicky Street [email protected] The Dairy House Berwick St James.