The February edition of the Dorchester News is now available to read online

The “Dorchester News” newsletter

13th Feb 2022

Meet at the pre-school at 11am

Fancy dress: dress up as a farm animal (little or a lot). Prizes will be given for best dressed.

Dogs, picnics well welcome

Voluntary donation: £4 to enter per adult, £2 per child.

Pay at pre-school or COOP, or donate at this link https://gofund.me/8de37bf2

Special access to animals and farm experiences kindly provided by Bishops Court Farm

Parents, Grandparents, carers, supporters, villagers, anyone who loves Dorchester, please spread the word.

Bishops Court Farm have a presentation in the new farm café of the background and plans for the farm in the years ahead. If you cant attend one of the presentation sessions on Tuesday 8th Feb then pop along this week and look at the presentation and give you feedback

https://www.bishopscourtfarm.com/product/community-meeting/

Edith Stedman’s Yankee in an English Village – The Perfect Gift!

Edith Stedman, a retired American academic, visited Dorchester every summer for about 20 years. She contributed extensively to the Abbey and the village and set up the Museum. Reissued 50 years after its original publication, Edith’s charming and amusing account of life in Dorchester during the 1950s-1970s, with detailed explanatory notes by Margot Metcalfe. Beautifully illustrated with twelve pages of photos of Edith and the village during her time here. Price £9.99.

Available from the Wallingford Bookshop or Dorchester Co-op, or Dorchester Abbey Museum, via Linda Hender,11 Page Furlong, 01865 340032, linda.hender@btinternet.com

NB a few early copies of this book were faulty: if you bought your copy at the Historical Society meeting on 24 November or the Museum Xmas Shopping afternoon on 27 November, please check that it is complete. Faulty copies have omitted the new preface by Margot Metcalfe, or have this preface at the back only, or at both the back and front. Please return any faulty copies to Linda Hender (details above) to exchange for a new copy. Copies purchased after 27 November are printed correctly.

We have nearly completed all of the main civils works in the community, and anticipate that this will be complete over the next month or so, although this is subject to change. Following this, there will still be work to connect the network in areas where we are using existing infrastructure. We also anticipate the main access cabinet to become live at some point by the end of March, and shortly after this becomes live, some residents will be able to place an order. Residents will be notified individually by leaflet when their connection is live.

If residents have any queries, please contact our Network Build Care team at networkbuildcare@gigaclear.com or by calling 01865 591137.