Langton Herring

THEY are such monkeys in Langton Herring!

You can always be sure that the residents will get up to all sorts of mischief for the village fete and dog show.

Last year the village was festooned with bunting made from knickers, this year it was festooned with strings of monkeys.

To go with the fete’s wild animal theme, a veritable menagerie of wild creatures joined the monkeys throughout the village.

The bus shelter had been painted inside with a jungle scene; a huge giraffe made of beer cans greeted the visitors and the village green was more like a zoo.

Just getting to the fete with its free car parking on the Mayo’s field was quite a safari.

The Brass tacks band entertained, Jigsaw the Jester was simply amazing and kept the children and adults enthralled and the Morris Dancers even invited the children to have a go.

And what about Mick Dundee’s Crocodile Farm too where children guided their blindfold adults through a lake of crocodiles – such hilarity and such fun.

There were so many stalls, so many dogs and so much to do.

Months of inspiration and preparation had gone into this years village fete, well-done Langton Herring residents – and you were blessed once again with good weather too!

OWING to the high costs of running polling stations in Langton Herring and Rodden, the electoral service would like for residents to vote in Chickerell if they live in Langton and Abbotsbury if they live in Rodden

Rodden is actually part of the parish of Abbotsbury.

Comments are now invited from residents and they are asked to send them to the clerk of the Chesil bank Parish Council at West Elworth Farm, Elworth, Weymouth, Dorset, DT3 4HF or email her on chesilbank@dorsetparishes.gov.uk

Abbotsbury

TV CAMERAS recently came to the village filming for the BBC 2 property programme Escape to the Country

Sheila Blake returned from a few days away to pick up a message on her answer phone to say they would be filming the next day.

So it was all systems go to be really spic and span at no 2 Chesil View Cottages.

Jules the presenter and his small team arrived at 10am having filmed some of the scenery around Charmouth.

There was great excitement as you can imagine.

Sheila then had to make herself scarce while they filmed inside and out of the house.

Two teams were involved in the programme making one for the property and one, which filmed around the village.

It is due to be screened in the early spring.

If you have a home to sell and would like to take part in the programme visit the BBC website on www.bbc.co.uk/beonashow

SALISBURY Cathedral was the venue for our primary schools outing on Wednesday, July 21

I had been invited to join the trip and met up with two coaches and one mini bus of pupils, staff and members of the communities at the school on a beautiful sunny day.

Portesham Primary School, which serves our villages, organises this trip every four years so that every child in this Church Aided School has the opportunity to see their cathedral.

The children were awe inspired as their teachers and Keith Whittock guided them around this spectacular religious building.

Pupil Kitty Sinclair told her mother afterwards that her favourite part was the beautiful ‘living’ font with its mirror like surface.

She will be confirmed in the cathedral after Christmas.

I had always understood that a natural stream fed the font but the cathedral guide said not and that it is fed from a reservoir beneath.

The children had their lunch in the Cathedral Close and when we returned from a bit of shopping they were playing games on the lawns.

They were a credit to their school.

THE next ST Catherine’s Chapel service will take place on Saturday, August 7 at 7.00pm

All are welcome and good dogs on leads too.