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2012 Wiki Cafe (Find out what the Wiki Cafe is about... click here?)

6 Saturday mornings from 7th January to 11th February at 10:30 to 12:00

Do come along, have a tea or coffee, catch up with village life and suggest things the the reading room might do in 2012.
We already have a few great ideas lined up:

- Live @Bainton Reading Room James Goodwin.. From ragtime to Roc and role - playing and explaining the evolution of this music
- A TED evening
- Queens Diamond Jubilee in June


Live@Bainton Reading Room: James Goodwin... "From Ragtime to Rock n' Roll

Saturday 4th February 2012 at 7:30pm

Tickets £10 (Includes a Licenced Bar) NB: Tickets need to be purchased in advance since seating is limited
please contact David Hare 01780 740626 Oak House, 2 Beever Way, Bainton,PE93AP
Cheques made out to 'Bainton Reading Room'

James Goodwin will give a performance which follows the history and styles of blues piano and boogie woogie music.

'Goodwins piano playing is a joy to behold'

To hear a preview of his excellent playing see his website here: http://www.jamesgoodwin.co.uk/sounds.html


'Laura's Yoga' www.laurasyoga.co.uk


New Village Potato

An intereting article by Kerryn Ramm

Norman DePear, 78, from Bainton, Cambridgeshire got the surprise of his life earlier this year when he discovered this strange shaped potato growing on his allotment. The whopping three and a half pound Romano potato grew after being left in the ground over the winter. “I’m surprised it lasted the harsh frost! There were three of them in the ground last year so I just left them, only one was left when I came to dig them. It’s an ugly thing!” Mr DePear said. The potato measures 12 inches from head to toe but also sports many uncanny human characteristic features such as a mouth and an arm. As if that didn’t make it lifelike enough, there are also indentations for eyes and a raised area similar to a nose!

For fellow farmers wishing to grow an unusual spud like this, it had no artificial help, “It’s a self set potato and completely organic!” Only horse manure was used from horses in the nearby village of Ashton. Mr DePear has said “I’ve always used horse manure on my crops, but in the seventy years I’ve been growing potatoes I’ve never come across one like it.” It’s certainly a potato to remember and comes soon after similar news that a potato in the shape of a turtle has been found in China! So what is Mr DePear planning to do with the potato exactly? “I don’t know what to do with it, hopefully my daughter can cook it and we can all have dinner off it one day!”


2011 Archive below here:


 

2011November Parish Council minutes now available Click here or use Parish Council menu on left


2011 Werrington Joggers : come to Bainton for the annual 'Rice Pudding Run', all welcome, Sunday 27th November 9:30


A lot of chatting over tea after the talk about the work of 'Help for Heroes'


2011 Quiz Night in aid of Bainton Reading Room on Friday 16th September
(including fish and chip supper)

7.30 start, Tickets £10
Quiz Master Nigel Clough
Come as a table of 8, or join a table when you arrive
Drinks available on the evening, Good fun evening! & Raffle
Tickets from Helen Fancourt 01780 740091


2011 A special Summer Wiki Cafe @ the Allotments

To give people a chance to see how the allotments are doing we are holding

Do come allong for tea, coffee, a chat and a look around... all welcome

Saturday 9th July from 10:30 to 12:00

The Bainton Allotments are flourishing...

click to see files


2011 Come and help celebrate the Club’s 25th Birthday
at The Buttercross Birthday Breakfast!
Sunday 5th June, 10.30 – 12.30, in the Reading Room.

Take your pick from
Croissants & Coffee, Cakes & Tea, Bacon Rolls & Juice.
Entry only £2 for Adults; £1 for Children (school age)
Read the Sunday Newspapers. Browse through the Buttercross Archives.
Chat to friends and neighbours.
Competition PRIZES Competition PRIZES
Under 16? A painting or picture of the Buttercross. (Any medium on A4).
Over 16? A photograph of the Buttercross. (B&W or colour, min size 5 x 7).
Further entries on the day by 12 noon. Prize giving at the end.
The winner in each age range will receive a £10 voucher.
Comptition kindly sponsored by the Parish Council.


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2011Joules Clothing Sale

Catalogue returns/Sample Items FRIDAY 17th JUNE 12 noon until 7pm

DONT MISS OUT ON AN AMAZING BARGAIN TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS PLEASE
call Jane Franks 740004 or Helen Fancourt 740091 if you need to know MORE !!


Stamford Shoestring Roadshow Saturday 21st May 2011 at 7:30

Proceedings start with a glass of wine at 7:30, the road show commences at 8:00 and lasts about 45 minutes.
It is entitled 'Battle of the Sexes' - and is a light hearted look at men's view of women and women's view of men
Hopefully everyone will stay and enjoy chatting after the performance

Tickets include the first glass of wine £8 from Helen Fancourt 01780740091


After much discussion about the possible options for celebrating the wedding this was thought would work and would be simple to organise

Bring and Share Royal Wedding Tea!
@Bainton House on 29th April 2011from 4:00pm

All welcome

Village photo at 5:00pm (sharp) followed by a Royal Toast to the happy couple.

To enable everyone to enjoy the event please bring:
............ what you want to drink/eat and some to share
............ your own garden chairs or rugs
............ your own mugs/cups/glasses (tea/coffee/squash will be available).
If it is raining we will change venue to the Reading Room.


Other events for your 2011diary…

May 21st An evening with Stamford Shoestring at the Reading Room
June 5th Buttercross Birthday Breakfast
July 3rd Family Day at Bainton House
July 9th Wiki at the Allotment
Sept 16th Village Quiz at the Reading Room


2011 Allotments are starting to look good, if you want to try it then we have a half a plot available.


Some great old photographs of Bainton residents
enjoying themselves from 1980 & 1981, Many thanks to Mary Birkbeck

Click image to explore large version of thes pictures.


2011 Friends of Bainton Reading Room

As you may know Bainton Reading Room receives funding from Peterborough City Council each year to help cover its’ running costs. This year due to a lack of funds itself, PCC is proposing that instead of £1,250 which we have received for many years now, only £400 can be guaranteed with may be some extra cash for special projects.

Each year it costs nearly all the money we receive from grants, donations and room hire to run the Reading Room. The loss of several hundred pounds will make a big difference and whilst there are a couple of thousand pounds in reserve for emergencies we really need to cover the running costs with income each year.

The Reading Room is so important to our villages and a facility we could not let disappear. With this in mind we invite you to become a Friend of Bainton Reading Room. We ask for an annual donation of £20 to help towards the running costs. In return we can offer the satisfaction of knowing that the Reading Room will continue for our benefit. As a token of thanks to our Friends, a 25% discount will be available when booking the Room.

If you are interested please sign up by providing the details below and return to Helen Fancourt (3 Bainton Gardens) Treasurer with your £20 donation.

Name:
Address:
Telephone no:
E-mail:


2011 Monday mornings at Bainton Reading room

Friendly and relaxed Pilates group lessons given by level III qualified Pilates instructor.
Pilates is an exercise method which was developed by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s.
Pilates focuses on breathing, posture and body awareness.
People of any age and ability can enjoy Pilates which is a gentle yet powerful form of exercise which is often recommended by physiotherapists and osteopaths

Call Chris 07966371402, sharpchr@gmail.com website www.pilates4everyone.co.uk


2011 The TED evening was enjoyed by about 20 people and we launched the 'Friends of Bainton Reading Room'

The programme for the evening was:

Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff
Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: ...
Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived
Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life ...
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music



An Evening of TED, Thursday 17th February 2011, 7:30pm

Riveting talks by remarkable people

To raise funds for Bainton Reading Room, £5, BYO

More details here...


2011 Wiki Cafe (What is a Wiki Cafe?)

Something for your new diaries - we will be running the wiki cafe each

Saturday morning from 8th January to 12th February at 10:30 to 12:00


2010 Archive below here:


 

2010 The winter sale queues start early at the Bainton Reading Room:


Werry Joggers winter 'Rice Pudding run'


Autumn tidy up around the Reading Room Saturday 16th October 2010 10:00 to 12:00
(This went well many thanks to all who participated)

As Autumn draws in the outside of the reading room needs a bit of a tidy up, weeds, plants and a bit of sweeping. A good excuse for a cup of tea.
Do join in between 10 and 12 on Saturday morning (16th)


I am please to announce that the new booking secretary is Andy Totten, he can be reached via email (Booking Enquiry) or on 740381

2010 See our new booking calendar

See what is on, get confirmation you booking is in the calendar

The ideal steps if you want to book the reading room or hire equipment are:

1. Look on the Booking calendar to see if it is available
2. Fill in the booking form which has lots of useful information
3. Either: Email a copy of the form the booking secretary on Booking Enquiry
4. Or: phone Andy Totten 740381
5. Check your entry gets into the booking calendar

Booking calendar


2010 August & September Parish Council minutes

Now out see here


Charles Milner: 1923-2010

On the 23rd of May 2010 Charles Milner passed away peacefully.
For many years he played an active part in the work of the Reading Room - he will be missed.


2010 The Bainton Literary Festival

It all worked well, many thanks to all who helped and participated... the photos can be viewed here

General photos of Literary Festival:

Bainton history photos

Poetry submitted to the Literary Festival:

See what we did in May 2010-


2010 Bainton and Ashton Allotment Association

As of Jan 2010 we have an acre of land containing 10 allotments next to the pump house on Helpston Road.
See Allotments in Google Earth

These are starting to take shape as the tenants get established. There is still space to develop further and anyone interested in taking on an allotment or part of an allotment can ring:

Graham Fletcher - 01780-740034 ( Association Chairman ) or
Richard Harris - 01780-740886 ( Association Secretary )"


2010 Laura Goodliffe is hoping to restart Yoga/Pilates/Meditation
on Tuesday evenings

This will be a 7 week course starting on Tuesday, 7th September 2010

If you are interested please email her - lauracharlie AT hotmail.com
(just replace the AT with @, doing it like this prevents Laura getting SPAM)


About 20 people joined in the Reading Room Spring Clean 24th May 2010

Many thanks to all the Spring Cleaners who washed, mended, planted, painted, wired, swept, weeded, de-cobwebed, polished, pruned and made tea. The looks much better for it.


Dates for your diary: The weekend of 21st, 22nd,23rd May 2010

See the full programme here -


2010 Bainton Parish Council Information

Bainton Parish Council has its very own page, giving you information on how it works and the latest minutes.

March minutes now available


2010 Allotments have been allocated:

We had a great talk by one of the authors of the handbook Geoff Hodge (See it on Amazon)

See Allotments in Google Earth

Please note the actual plots are not quite as show - I will update the diagram once it has settled down


2010 Wiki Cafe season now over
We raised £490 enough to buy a Shelterbox

Many thanks


What’s new in 2010 at the Reading Room
The most significant thing is that the Reading Room celebrates 100 years of serving the community

  • Spring clean and fix: Saturday morning 24th April from 10:00 to 12:00. An annual spruce up where we sort out all the jobs that keep the place in great condition.
  • 100 year celebration with the Bainton Literary Festival: This is a weekend of literacy and historical events that celebrate the contribution of the Reading Room and enable people to participate in a range of fun activities and performances: readings, historical newspapers, poetry, book stalls, Edwardian afternoon tea, storytelling, TED, John Claire walk & talk, scrabble… We are currently working on the agenda – if you have any good ideas do let me (Ian AD) know.
    This will take place across the weekend of 21st/22nd/23rd May 2010

Walks and runs around Bainton: to see them in Google Earth download them here: Download KMZ file

See Bainton Reading Room on Google Earth Download KMZ file here and then open in Google Earth

Also new views on Google Streetview:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?utm_campaign=en_GB&utm_medium=lp&utm_source=en_GB-lp-emea-gb-gns-svn


2010 January Parish Council minutes now available:



2009 Archive below here:


Bainton Reading Room Committee Notes 3rd Dec 2009

To enable people to see what goes on to keep the Reading Room in good shape here are my notes of what we are working on (of course we also have our official minutes which we will start to put on the website)

The big news is that in 2010 the Reading Room will be 100 years old and we will be organising a weekend of Reading Room things 21st/22nd/23rd May 2010. Perhaps the smallest literary festival in the world! If you have any ideas or wish to help then do get in touch. – We are imagining things like poets reading, Stamford Shoestring doing ‘With Great Pleasure’, storytelling for children, local Mercury newspapers from 1910, book swap, TED, Joyce Grenfell performance… etc

The things we need to spend money on are:

Repositioning the fence and grassing the patio
Service the rattling heater
New Blackout Blinds
Tarmac repairs out the front
Copier cartridge
Replace kitchen window frames

Car parking was discussed: We feel that as a shared resource it should be available to everyone in the village – if you need to park your car and you are not part of a booked event then just check first with the booking secretary (Elaine 740323) to ensure it is available, there could easily be a wedding, a funeral or an activity that is just about to fill the car park.

We have a couple of mid week evenings where we could start some new activities, if you any ideas of what you want and better still someone who would like to organise it then do get in touch (Ian 740009)


Latest News on Allotments Meeting : 28th Sept 2009

Thank you for responding with your preference on the choice of land to use for allotments in the village. Just in case you were unable to attend the meeting on Monday night, the results of the survey were:

Poors land: 19 votes
Michael Bratley's land: 39 votes

Monday's meeting was attended by over 30 people where a lively debate took place over the issues raised. The Parish Council then held a meeting chaired by me because the Council Chairman registered an interest and did not participate in the meeting. At the end of the meeting the Council voted in favour of Michael Bratley's land ( voting 2:2 with my casting vote as chairman).

The Parish Council is now putting into place the agreement to rent the land from Michael Bratley, and to prepare the necessary action plans to bring it to a suitable condition for those people in Bainton & Ashton who wish to have allotments. This could well require a combined effort from the whole village so it was very encouraging to know that over 30 of you were willing to give up your time on Monday to be involved in the debate. Even though the decision might not have been in line with your own preference we hope that the true spirit of Bainton & Ashton residents will move this project forward with the required pace.

You can follow ( and contribute to) the progress of these plans by speaking to any of your councillors, or by coming to the next Parish Council meeting on Monday 9th November at 7:30.


2009 Wiki in the Porch

Celebrating the Colleweston roofing project at the Old Schoolroom, Ian and Janette had a Wiki in the porch. Thanks for those people who came and the welcome advice during the project. We raised £50 for Breast Cancer Care in support of Ocean Angels Mary's niece and friends who rowed across the Indian Ocean


2009 Village photos:

bainton photos
click image to see a what goes on in our little village

Proposed changes to the position of the fence to create a new 'patio' space outside the reading room.

Before

After


Following on from our first TED evening, here is another chance to experience some of the best ideas in the world:

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader and you will be surprise at the diversity of interesting things that are covered. The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers who are challenged to give the talk of their lives in about 18 minutes each. To attend in person costs about £3000 a seat and the conferences for the next few years are already sold out! However by the magic of the Internet we can hold our own TED here in Bainton.

TED Conference @ Bainton Reading Room. Saturday 21st February 2009 7:30pm
(note changed from Friday)


The format will be to select about four of the best speakers and show them on a big screen. The evening will be informal with time to chat as well as listen. A nominal charge of £2 per person will cover the cost of the room, electricity tea and coffee. BYO wine etc. is optional.


I hope to see you there … if you plan to come give me a call (740009) so I can gauge the numbers.
Everyone welcome.


2009 Wiki Cafe season is now over.

When Helen has counted up the proceeds I will let people know, however my guess us that it will be about £150... not bad for sitting around chatting. This will go to charrities people suggested - probably one local and one international. Thanks for attending many people said how much they enjoyed the conversation.

If you would like to participate in a Wiki in the Garden during the summer do let me know.


Sewing circle meet on Mondays

from 2:00 to 4:00
Cosy craftwork, conversation and concentration.
If you would like to know more contact Nina Dobney on 01733 253162


Table Tennis meet twice a week during the season


Tuesdays & Thursdays

contact Chris Gardiner (via Elaine Ward for details 740323)


2009 Bainton Parish Council Information

New, the Bainton Parish Council has its very own page, giving you information on how it works and the latest minutes.

Parish Council Page with minutes November minutes now available


 

See the photostory of installing the Bainton Stone: (click picture)


The Reading Room is a village facility that is used for a wide range of social, sporting and educational events and is a focal point for the village

New Google map feature for Bainton Reading Room

If you have Google earth click here to see where we are on the planet


2009 Broadband has arrived & we have a wireless hotspot...
click here for instructions
Main Hall: Xmeters by Y meters, can seat YY



One of the village walks