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5 Feb 2010 |
Saturday 27 February 12noon – 2pm |
in St. Wilfrid's, Broad Road |
A Soup and Bread Drop-In Lunch. |
To raise funds for the Flower Festival |
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Mooring Vacancies for 2010 : Due to late cancellations the Conservancy have vacancies: see details |
LIVING IN CHICHESTER HARBOUR AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY - New booklet |
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New look Chidham and Hambrook website front page. |
| The Landscape photo is wider and a new column of FORTHCOMING EVENTS has been added on the right. This column has thumbnails about future events which will be in chronological order, most immediate at the top, furthest away at the bottom, and they will rise up with time and be deleted once they have happened.
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Tue Feb 16th
10.30am-12.30pm,
St. Wilfrid's Church Hall |
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Make your own Birdbox
with the Chidham and Hambrook Sustainability Network see details
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re posted 4/2/10 |
Pre booking necessary - email or phone Stephen Morley 572855 |
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Monday 25th Jan
Burns Night at
THE BARLEYCORN |
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posted Feb 4 |
Saturday
Feb 13th
at 10am
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Please pass on the word to your friends and neighbours who may not know about this. |
posted Feb 3
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Come and join us for a working party clearing more of the site. You will need strong gloves and tough footwear. A Chichester Harbour Conservancy ranger will be leading the working party, and will bring tools.
The intention is to encourage protected species to relocate away from areas that will, in due course, be grassed. It will be a 'hand tools only' day, which will be provided. Any qualified brushcutter-users are welcome to join in but at a safe distance from other volunteers. No other strimmers please. |
PS If you haven't joined up as a Maybush Copse Friend yet, we will be delighted to sign you up - It is a way of raising the starter funds necessary to get the improvement of the site underway. There is a voluntary (you don't have to pay, but we hope people will) subscription of £5. Cheques payable to ‘Maybush Copse Friends'. email for a membership form, phone Peter Hilton on 576310 or download a pdf here |
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Sussex Police newsletter
Neighbourhood Policing - Bosham, Fishbourne
What's been happening,
Crime Prevention ~ Bogus Callers |
Posted 1 Feb |
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Chidham and Hambrook
Parish Council Meeting |
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7.30pm
Village Hall |
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Feb 1 |
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Youth Group Quiz Night - Jan 23rd ... Seven teams, packed with the finest minds in Chidham and Hambrook, plus a few ringers, gathered in St. Wilfrid’s to battle it out to be crowned 2010 youth group quiz champions.... read more |
posted 30 Jan |
Not seeing so well?
Spectacles found at St Wilfrid's after the History Evening |
A pair of spectacles in a blue hard case was left at St Wilfrid's on Wed 27th Jan.
If they're yours Tel 572059 or email |
Celebrating 800 years of St Mary's Church, Chidham in 2010 |
Posted 27th Jan |
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St Wilfrid's Church Hall packed for local history and social evening where local historian and author Philip MacDougall gave a talk about the social history of Chidham, Hambrook and Nutbourne. |
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Philip's book 'Chidham, Hambrook and Nutbourne - A Social History' is on sale .. Price £8
(Order here) |
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Book up for the
Cricket Club Quiz and Curry Night |
at the Barleycorn
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posted 26/1/10 |
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Break-in on Broad Road |
There was a break-in, in daylight, at a house in Broad Road yesterday (ie Mon 25th Jan). Please keep an eye out for your neighbours. If anyone saw anything suspicious ie. people looking into drives etc or a slow cruising vehicle or if you have any information that may be useful, call the Police, Tel 0845 6070999 |
posted 26/1/10 |
Feb 13/14
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For reservations call 01243 572 477 |
We will be offering a 10% discount for tables of more than two....... |
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The Bosham Inn would like to offer you a two course meal fo £9.95... see details |
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New !
'Downland Village News' Website launched : |
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posted 21/1/10 |
The Ashlings ~ Bosham ~ Chidham ~ Fishbourne ~ Funtington ~ Hambrook ~ Nutbourne ~ Prinsted ~ Southbourne ~ Westbourne ~ Woodmancote. |
1210 - 2010 : Celebrating 800 years of St Mary's Church, Chidham
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Sunday
17th January
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The collection at this service raised over £700 for disaster relief in Haiti. |
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| The next Chichester Farmers' Market will be on Friday Jan 22 |
posted 14/1/10 |
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Logitech Wireless Mouse (for your laptop) - see details |
posted 14/1/10 |
Harbour Users Urged Not to Disturb Harbour Birds - read more |
posted 14/1/10 |
Bosham Chidham and District Horticultural Society |
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posted 8/1/10
updated again 12/1/10 |
Thurs Jan 7th |
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Thanks to Carol Haskett |
posted 14/1/10 |
Wed Jan 6th |
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(He's not saying) |
posted 8/1/10 |
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Sat 9th Jan |
Chidham Resident mounts Polar Expedition ..... read more |
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Would you like Ballroom Dancing Lessons for beginners at Chidham & Hambrook Village Hall?
With all the recent excitement surrounding the latest series of Strictly .... read more |
Posted 10/1/10 |
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A Little January Joy |
The Bosham Inn would like to offer you £10 off three fabulous wines when you enjoy two main meals ... see details |
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Bosham Chidham and District Horticultural Soc.
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posted 7/1/10 |
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This month we are still focusing on bird events with two bird watching trips on the Solar Heritage, two walks and one special indoor event.
Read more and full details
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posted 5/1/10 |
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Neighbourhood Policing - Bosham, Fishbourne
What's been happening,
Crime Prevention ~ Bogus Callers |
Posted 5 Jan |
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PCSO - change for Chidham.
Our PCSO Karen Huggett has been seconded to Chichester Police Station for a period of time. In the interim our local PCSO's will be PCSO Bruce Ives and PCSO Colin Booker.
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Celebrating 800 years of St Mary's Church, Chidham in 2010
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A new stained glass window for St Mary's - read more
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Sunday
17th January |
10am
in St Mary's |
The Bishop of Chichester will attend a special inaugural service in St Mary's for for our 2010 celebrations. |
Wednesday
27th January |
7.30pm
at St Wilfrid's. |
Local history and social evening – Local historian and author Philip MacDougall will talk about ‘Chidham, Hambrook and Nutbourne – a social history'. |
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Happy New Year! |
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Spoof News section |
(or why you should not believe everything you read on the internet)
What is this word spoof? It has been defined as
1 Nonsense; tomfoolery.
2 A hoax.
3 A gentle satirical imitation; a light parody.
4 The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
But which is it? Tricky, huh?
If you have a Spoof News Scoop, please send it to us, and we will do our best to include it today, tomorrow, sometime or ......well it depends on our lawyers, who we pay handsomely for their 'I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole' advice. |
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Chidham resident mounts Polar Expedition to Waitrose, Chichester .
In any high powered polar expedition, the key to success is in the preparation, the equipment, and the timing. Being the first is nice but not essential. It's the taking part….
For our expedition, preparation had included digging away the snow and ice to get the dog sled out, and equipment included a very useful spade. I would have taken sufficient rations to allow us to survive stuck in a snow drift until spring, but unfortunately we were short on rations….. On the plus side this supplied the motivation for the expedition.
Timing was a complex assessment of the conditions on the ground, the weather forecast, and sticking a wet finger in the air – our judgement was totally vindicated as we approached the area of the planned camp for the final assault, as the place was packed with competing expeditions. There was hardly anywhere to park the dogsled, let alone pitch camp.
With our goal in sight, we set off across the ice field, and made excellent progress despite the freezing conditions. But as other polar expeditions have found, the real challenge was the return journey, although reversing the normal situation, we had extra supplies on our return journey.
Perhaps I was just a little overconfident as I stepped out on to the ice field. With hindsight we should have been roped together. Without warning I fell down a crevasse. Fortunately I was brought up short after falling about six feet, when I hit the bottom.
With no great damage done apart from some severe bruising to my pride, I was able to continue without calling for an international rescue attempt. We polar adventurers learn to take this sort of thing in our stride.
Have I learnt my lesson? Well I might try the Co-op or the Farm shop next time. |
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Currently there is not a lot of spoof news. Sometimes there just isn't any news, but it doesn't stop the BBC from filling a half hour slot at 1pm with no news and repeating the 'no news' every hour on the hour. Here at Chidham and Hambrook, we tell it like it is.
However, we promise that just as soon as one of us gets round to writing some news, we will let you have it, up to the minute, just as its breaking, raw, unvarnished, cliche free, and without any attempt to hide the earth shattering implications for the local community. |
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The Bishops' Kitchen - Cookery demonstration & book launch |
St Mary's Chidham Celebrating 800 years |
Thur
25th Feb
7pm
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History Evening - Chidham in WW2 |
St Mary's Chidham Celebrating 800 years |
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The Titfield Thunderbolt |
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C&H Film Society |
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A Soup and Bread Drop-In Lunch. |
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To raise funds for the Flower Festival |
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