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Lots of things have been going on in the village since the last issue hit the streets. Table Top Fair and Plant Sale The very cold morning did not stop you from attending the Table Top Fair and Plant Sale on 16 th April at the Village Hall. Jan and Jeremy’s plant sale outside the Village Hall raised £87.11 for the village shop and the Village Hall benefitted from a really good £130.00 raised by the Table Top Sale inside. Thank you for all your support and help with donated plants and items for sale. Anne Gray Village Hall Committee Jan Burden, 28 th April 2016 What a day - Jan achieved her three score years and ten, with plenty left in the tank! We would like to thank everyone who rallied round under the orders of Colonel A. Ansell and produced a sumptuous meal of many varied curries in a superbly decorated Village Hall. People came from far and wide - East Street, West Road, South Street, and North Street, not to mention others from as far afield as Hatherleigh, Bristol, and Hampshire. It was a great evening! Thanks for all the presents I received. I’m sorry I haven’t thanked everybody personally, but they got mixed up, so my apologies for not thanking you before, but please accept this. So now we’ll carry on with things in the usual way - eating, drinking, and sleeping, and hopefully still misbehaving! Jan and Jeremy Burden Congratulations to Hatherleigh Silver Band Hatherleigh Silver Band will compete in the finals of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain after winning the regional final in Torquay. The West of England region is the biggest region in the competition with 83 bands competing in five sections. Hatherleigh came out on top in the 4th section. The band will now play against the best 4th section bands from around the whole of the UK in a bid to win the title at the Centaur in Cheltenham in September. 4
Goodbye and Best Wishes We have been away from Sheepwash for almost three weeks as I write and have had little time to reflect on the whirlwind of leaving and setting up a new home. The recycling centre at Anvil Corner had become almost a second home to me and now I am developing the same relationship with a site in Wilmington. If we are not at home you may well find us there or at the Boston Tea Party in Honiton where there is free wi-fi. We are, of course, waiting on BT to put a line into our new house, but at least a telegraph pole has arrived. We have had to deal with every imaginable organisation from DVLA to EDF, removals, solicitors and Torridge. All have been helpful and efficient, except BT - five hours of phone calls got me nowhere. We first found Sheepwash in 1975, when I began teaching at Shebbear College, so when we bought Wren Cottage sixteen years ago it was so good to already have friends and acquaintances in Sheepwash, Shebbear and Buckland Filleigh. Although some folk have moved away we have made good new friends in the village and we have always known that we could rely on them when we needed help and advice. I hope that we were able to offer something of the same in return. As our plans changed and changed again, when we were about to move, we managed to say a few goodbyes, but every thing seemed such a rush at the end and there were many people whom we would have liked to have seen in the last few days. This is an opportunity to thank you all. Here we are anonymous for the moment, although we are very fortunate again in our new neighbours. Soon, I hope, we will feel part of this community and will look forward to happy times with friends and neighbours as we did in Sheepwash. Freddie is still not speaking to us because we assume he is missing his friends. With every best wish to you all. John and Rita Hampshire And Welcome To ... Welcome back to Jan and Paul Tomlinson, who are returning to live in Sheepwash (on a part-time basis) because they missed it! Jan and Paul are moving into where the Hampshire’s moved out - Wren Cottage on the Square. They also have a house in France. Paul is currently Head of Art at the Oratory School, Woodcote, near Reading, but is retiring at the end of this term. They know all the “old gang” (Charles Inniss, etc.) but are moving back with an open mind and fresh expectations that they will enjoy Sheepwash in its new guise. John and Carol Ball, have bought Torridge House. They are moving up from Torpoint, and expect to move in full time during the summer. Mike and Sally Seaman have moved into 2 Cross House, South Street. Mike is a builder, and Sally is a midwife. They say: “We have been coming to Sheepwash to the Half Moon Inn for nearly thirty years – Mike is a very keen fisherman! “We have two French bulldogs (Pickle and Lilly) who were on television a few weeks ago on Vet on the Hill. “We live in Teddington, Middlesex. At the moment Cross House is a holiday home for us but we are looking to retire in the next few years.” Tammy and Bob Pettifer have moved from Bideford in to West Road Bungalows. Brian Pickett and Leisa Cohen have moved into 2 Bank Cottages, South Street. Leisa has already been active on the Sheepwash Sandwich Board! 5
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