Pett WI – October 2019 Update

Belinda Wood’s Pett WI October Update can be read here

Introducing the ARC – 12 October

The Introducing the ARC event on 12 October was a great success. Over 100 people came and 27 signed up to become Friends of the ARC.

More news to follow!

Pictures from the event came be seen here

M23 Roadworks Update: 13 October

ARC Audio Test File

This is a test file for ARC recordings – Football from the TV

 

This is a voice test recording

INTRODUCTION TO THE ARC: TODAY SATURDAY!!

INTRODUCTION TO THE ARC – TODAY SATURDAY 12TH! DO COME ALONG AND FIND OUT MORE AND BECOME A FRIEND!

Stolen Trailer: Three Oaks – Sunday 6 October

STOLEN
My P6E I for Williams Caged Trailer was stolen last night from Three Oaks, Eight Acre Lane. I have reported to the police and have the Trailer serial numbers. Please share.
Great way to start the week !!!

Jamie George Dobinson

Pett Community Library: Update

Focus on non-fiction

A Beautiful Question, Finding Nature’s Deep Design by Frank Wilczek is a book returned this month with the comment that it was a challenging read, brain taxing but interesting. This book questions, Is the world a work of art? Well, maybe it is. You might like to borrow the book to discover what this author thinks.

On the beautiful theme is Beautifully Real Food by Sam Murphy. Perhaps less challenging, this is a vegetarian recipe book which is reported to have useful vegetarian meals and also to be an interesting read.

Nothing to do with beauty or cooking or even nursery rhymes, The Butcher, The Baker and The Candlestick Maker by Roger Hutchinson has been borrowed from our Community Library quite often, so we won’t be sending it back to the library store just yet. It is a history of the census, encompassing wide-ranging social history and is easy to read, propulsive (a page turner!) educational and entertaining. A good all-round useful read.

Another fascinating, illustrated, historical book that we currently hold is Warrior The Amazing Story of a Real War Horse by General Jack Seely, who rode him all his life. It mirrors Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse, but is the real life story of Warrior from his birth to his death in 1948 with insightful detail of the four years Warrior and General Seely spent in France 1914-18.

Even our children’s selection has some non-fiction. We currently have the stylishly illustrated Wild Animals of The North by Dieter Braun. Appealing to adults and children alike, it is a journey of discovery about wild animals in the northern hemisphere.

We also have a varied selection of craft books and other topics, such as This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay, well-known and a ‘painfully funny’ account of a junior doctor’s working life.

If there is a subject you’d like to read about, come in and see what we have to offer. 10 to 12, first Wednesday every month, alongside the coffee morning.

Anne, Anna, Vivien

 

 

PETT VILAGE HALL BOOKINGS – CALENDAR FOR 2020

The calendar of bookings for 2020 for Pett Village Hall has now been uploaded on Pett on the Net here https://www.pettnet.org.uk/booking
To check for Pett Village Hall bookings and to see what’s on and dates/times available – both Main Hall and Catharine Hollman Room – click on the appropriate link.
If no bookings are shown for a particular day or time, then the Main Hall and/or Catharine Hollman Room as appropriate are available for hire.
Please note: bookings are confirmed on a strictly first come, first served basis, regardless of where the hirer lives. This is the only practical way of operating the booking system. But hirers who live in the Pett Parish Council area pay half the fees of those who live outside the area.
The hall is very popular – in 2019 there will only be one or two days when it has not been in use.
So if you are planning for a special event, party, celebration etc in 2020 it might be a good idea to book it now.
Tim Rothwell, Pett Village Hall Bookings Manager
07850 469314

Doorstep Calling: Warning

Rother Neighbourhood Watch News
06th October 2019
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Rother Neighbourhood Watch

Good evening to you all, please see email sent to me today regarding a Cold caller. Be aware.
…………………………………………………………………..Hi Ted,Today around 1pm we had one of what seems to be regular doorstep callers telling his story of his life’s misfortunes (this one was all about becoming homeless since leaving the Army 12 months ago, and his wife and children leaving him, etc); and trying to sell the usual range of small household items at excessive prices.  He said his name was Daniel, from Middlesbrough, and when I made it clear (pointing to our ‘No Cold Callers’ sticker) that I was not going to buy anything from him, he became rather more abusive.

Callers like this are not uncommon round here (Cooden Sea Road) and the pattern is the same.  The story may be different, but the products are not.  Last month one of the charities that I volunteer with had a talk on ‘scams’ from the Community Liaison Officer from one of the high street banks, and she mentioned this type of activity, which she said in certain circumstances was a form of Modern Slavery, with these callers working the rounds having been set up by a gangmaster, for whom they worked and who took much of the proceeds.  She said that each time we received such a call, we should inform the police, who could, resources permitting, take action to try to intercept the callers, and gain access to the gangmasters.

In this case today, I reported the matter to the police (using 101), and they took note, telling me that the delay of 2 hours in reporting meant that they would be unlikely to be able to take any further action; and that in future any similar incident should be reported immediately so that action could be taken.

I am sure that this is something you will have heard about many times, but what worries me is that older people could feel very threatened by such behaviour from people who pay no attention to notices about ‘no cold calling’.

Edward Kemp.
Chairman & Police Volunteer.
Rother Neighbourhood Watch.
Mobile:  07983 619622 Email:.
Website:  http://www.rothernhw.co.uk/
Facebook: Rother Neighbourhood Watch Association.

Murder Mystery – 7 December