What a night....

A huge well done to The reverand,Rosemary and team for organising such a fabulous ball on Sat evening.It was lovely to see everyone  enjoying themselves & looking wonderful in dinner jackets and fab dresses.The food was excellent and so too were the band.Well done to the team. A Burtle night to remember...Hope you have raised lots of money for the Church

Well done to all the bad players those on the stage and those off the stage who worked so hard to produce what was a epic performance,  the audiences were a joy to perform to and made it all worthwhile.

To perform in a warm hall with new stage and curtains and new chairs for the audience to sit on  completed the enjoyment thank you everyone, see you again next year , ooh no you wont -- ooh yes you will !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Burtle Townsfolk!!

My name is Carrie Burtle Wallace and I live in the state of Illinois USA. I was wondering if anyone in Burtle knows the history of how the village was named?

When my brother Ron Burtle was in the US AIr Force , stationed in Bentwaters England in early 1980's ., he had visited your lovely village. I recall as a child seeing pics of my brother taken in front of the Burtle Inn.  Upon his visit there , he met and managed to stay in touch with a few of the locals of Burtle  even after returning to the states. He has very fond memories from his visit there...Any info you could share would be appreciated!!

BURTLE SPRING BALL

to be held at the Burtle Village Hall

Saturday March 6th

Dancing to "EYE TO EYE"

Tickets from Rosemary 722321 or Josie 722150

All our love from Spain, missing the good people of Burtle!!!  . (Krista, Rose, Anne, Hellen, Carol, the Simmons,  Ayleen, Charlotte, the Masters, Terry , Richard, Derek, Ben, Ralph, and +++++oh my God all that good neighbours) I wish I could mention all of you. We wish all the best for the 2010. LOL.  sorry for my bad english. , Hope to see you again. Love to the kids.  ( We are the spanish family who used to work at the Tom Mogg // Alex, Evita, Laura and Paula Aragoneses. XXXXXXXXXX

I loved living in Burtle.  I am now in Street and will shorly move to St Wenn Cornwall.  St wenn is like Burtle a real community with real community spirit.

I hope to be a the Christmas Eve Church service this year. Where is it this year?

I am on the committee of Kingsdown Swimmimng club (BOPA) of which Robin Howell is a trustee.  I need to contact him asap with respect to an issue affecting the club.  Unfortunately I have no contact details for him so if a message could be passed on to him to send me an email I would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Jane.

Hello..what a great village website! I came upon it by accident when trying to find a contact detail for The Polden Post if it is still running. Can anyone help with a name number or email?

 I lived in Edington for many years until 2004 so it was a delight  to browse old haunts!

I now live in Street and have opened a new Beauty Salon (Beauty at the Manse see www.beautyinsomerset.co.uk) and really wanted to advertise our new venture but support an old favourite magazine at the same time! So if any one can help please email or call us on 01458 440242   or drop into The Manse, just 2 doors up from Living Homes!

Thanks, Deborah

TO THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR PAM & COLIN MOXEY.IN CANADA,OUR EMAIL IS

MOXEYANTIQUES@HOTMAIL.COM           

CAN ANYONE IN BURTLE GIVE ME COLIN MOXEYS E MAIL ADDRESS HE LIVES IN CANADA WITH WIFE PAM. WE WERE OVER THER ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO BUT HAVE LOST CONTACT. MY NAME IS SUE BELL

Hi Martin & Mary,

I live in Burtle  and agree its a great place to live,I have several friends in the village who have dogs and walk them regularly along diffrent routes around the village,one who has several.I will pass on your message and hopefully the info may help you.

Good luck with the house hunt

To any friendly dog owners in Burtle

Hi there,

We are hoping to move to rural Somerset with our 3 lovely dogs and viewed a very nice property some while ago. We searched the area and our maps in vain for public footpaths where we could walk  the dogs but without success. When we enquired we were told that the locals walk their dogs along Catcott Drove so we returned but could only find one car park which led to a bird hide so not really suitable for dogs. We have travelled in all directions from the village and eventually decided it was not the area for us as our dogs are so important to us. However we have now viewed several other properties and none are as nice as the one in Burtle.  We also like your obvious community spirit. So our only thought is that you can tell us about a perfect spot where our dogs can have a free run in safety and we can get our excercise in pleasant surroundings. Hope someone can help

Thanks a lot

Mary and Martin Cue

Miracles still happen .(if you live in burtle)                                                                                                          

The miracle man Robin said i can replace the old cold ugly hall with anew sexy hall, it will be made from local sheep wool,straw , bottles and clay in three weeks Robin plus the odd collection of merry  followers had secured most of the finance and designed the building .

We are in a recession yet almost the entire project was built with unpaid labour but plenty of tea coffee and cakes consumed and stories told .Burtle be proud . Olympic stadium next???????????

Hello All,

We would just like to say a big Thank You, and well done to all involved in the village hall project. We had a lovely evening at the Grand Opening, and it was a real pleasure to meet so many of you, and to be so warmly welcomed to the village.

We have recently moved into Churches Farm, opposite the Burtle Inn, and are really enjoying life in Burtle!

Thanks again,

Paul & Julie Kirkham

I am trying to contact Colin Moxey who posted a message recently about his Mum Betty. I used to live in Alliston, Ontario, Canada and was friends with Colin. When we moved back to England we lost touch. I would like to get in touch if possible and if anyone could get a message to Colin that would be appreciated.

Derek Saveall

I'd just like to say how good your new hall is looking.  I am a member of the Camping and caravanning club folk song and dance group that camped in the field next to the hall.  good luck with the opening event and I hope to see the completed hall next year when we come to the village again.

P.S.  I work at the local senior school in Corsham and have told one of the Geography teachers about your 'recycled' build as he is really interested in things like this.

Julie Bryan

 Dear  garden Club members,

Unfortunatley due to low numbers the coach trip to Heligan has  been cancelled.However don't forget the annual plant sale will be going ahead combined with Cafe Burtle on Sat 9th May 10- 12.

                            BURTLE GARDEN CLUB

                                         TRIP TO

                THE LOST GARDENS OF HELIGAN

                           SATURDAY   MAY 16TH

TICKETS

ADULTS    £8.50

SENIOR CITIZENS  £7.50

CHILD      £5.00

2 ADULTS /3 CHILD  £23.50

PLUS COST OF COACH DEPENDANT ON NUMBERS

NAMES PLEASE TO AVRIL SPILLER

BURTLE GARDEN CLUB

 TALK ON

PROPAGATING PLANTS

     11^TH MARCH 2009

           AT 8PM

    THE TOM MOGG

            BURTLE

ALL ARE WELCOME TO

     COME ALONG

to eileen & kath, thank you for your kind thoughts about Mum ( Betty).

This is Colin the eldest son who has lived in Canada for 30yrs.

We have just read this message (in Woking) and Mum remembers having a nice friendship with Betty.  She would like to send her sympathies to the family.

Kath for Eileen Higgens

I would just like to thank everyone who come to Betty Moxey funeral on Monday 5th January. She was the Heart of Burtle for many of years and will be sadly missed. Thank you to all that came and who was thinking of her.

Kind regards

Amanda (Great grand daughter), Colin Moxey (Son), Lyn Shepherd (Grand daughter) and family

All the best for 2009 x

We have just had a visit from Chris and Brenda Mockridge (Brenda is my sister) and caught up on the village news - there always seems to be plenty happening there!

Mum is Eileen Higgens who with her late husband Des helped at the Christmas parties at the village hall for several years.  If anyone remembers Mum, she would be happy to hear from you on this message board.

Kath Higgens

My name is Trish Olive, and I will start work as your parish priest on 13th January 2009.  My husband Mike and I will live in the vicarage in Shapwick.  We originally come from Kent and have lived and worshipped in many differnt places.  I trained for ministry in the Church of England at Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford: before that I was a primary school teacher.  Mike and I have three children, Sarah, Nicholas anbd Rebecca.  The eldest two are married and Sarah gave birth to our first grandhild, Daniel, just over a year ago,

We both enjoy walking and have a golden retriever called Ben, who is nearly 4 years old, and we are looking forwad to giving him long walks around all of the parishes; so please say hello if you see us.

We are excited about the move and being part of the communities of Ashcott, Shapwick, Burtle, Cilton Polden and Edington.

To all visitors to the Burtle Village web site.

We are being repeatedly attacked by a virus which corrupts the database on the web server and renders the site inaccessible.  I have now restored the database from backups on 6 separate occasions over the last few weeks and as yet have been unable to identify which visitor to the site is the carrier of the virus.

I urge you all to please check you have ant-virus software installed and that it is up to date.

After the last attack we unfortunately lost all our messages of goodwill from the Harvest Home which I was unable to recover.

Best regards

Steve - Webmaster

Hi friends

We will be in the village next week week hope to see you all then

23rd July for week

Regards

Arthur & Moira

Alan Parr, our BVH Chairman, has just had an encouraging telephone conversation with Victoria Jenks, a repreentative of the Lottery Commission.  Due to the number of applications, however, we will not know if we have reached stage two until October this year.

So keep your fingers crossed a little while longer.

many,many thanks to Jane Allen for "holding my hand" during our telephone interview with the BIG LOTTERY lady, Victoria Jenks. It lasted an hour but seemed much longer. Full report in due course.

                                 Alan Parr, chairman village hall committee

I would like to thank the organisers of the Burn's Night celebration last Saturday.  I think it was a great success with much fun and enjoyment had by all.  A very special thanks to Jane Allen for organising a spread of Faggots/Sausages, Mash and Peas to over 70 hungry guests and of course many many thanks to all those involved in the preparation and serving of the food, arranging and clearing up the hall, running the bar etc. 

I hope this will be a regular event.

Following voting for the Burtle Garden Club Community project, the most popular idea  was to have flower tubs positoned at the signs as you leave & enter the village.

We hope to organise this for spring time, if there are any volunteers who would like to be involved please contact one of the garden club committee members.

Thank you to all those who voted !

Just like to say thank you for all the great feedback about the garden club newsletter, and well done to maureen Perdue and Steve Allen for their all their hard work organising Cafe Burtle ,and the Burtle web site. It is all much appreciated.

See you all On Saturday!

Elaine G