Coming Soon!

 

One Man and His Doggerel

Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere near Dundee where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash. Elvis is the 2006 World Slam Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club and is one of the poets occasionally in residence on BBC Radio 4’s “Saturday Live”.

 

King Edward's Hall

 

Saturday 4th February 2012 - 7.30pm

 

Bar!

 

Tickets £17 (with supper) or £11 (without)

 

Cythia Sherlock 0174 342432 or from The Shop (340313)

 

 

Date for Your Diary

 

28th April - The Dave Shepard Quartet

Superfast Broadband in Our Village?

Hampshire county council has been awarded over £5 million pounds by the government to enable them to drive superfast broadband connections to those rural areas that are others not commercially appealing to BT, Virgin etc. That means US! We do rural!!

 

We are hoping to ensure that our parish gets its hands on some of that funding to help bring high speed broadband to all homes in the parish.

 

Superfast broadband means speeds of 40megabits per second. The current fastest residential connections here are under 2megabits per second. Superfast broadband is a must for streaming movies, iPlayer (with HDTV, web addicts, etc). It is also essential for business that wish to host their own websites. Superfast broadband also uploads at the same high speed (currently uploads run at about a quarter of down load speeds). Existing broadband connections are shared. That means that the more people that are using it, the slower it runs. As internet usage grows, line "contention" could start to become a problem. Superfast broadband has no such bottlenecks.


If you are interested in learning more about getting a faster internet connection, then please email us here. At this stage we are trying to see just how much demand there might be. You are not making any commitment at all.

If this project is to get off the ground, then a project group will need to form. It will need the usual legal and financial advisors but it will also need people who can get involved in leaflet distribution, correspondence and eventually (we hope) digging up the village to lay fibreoptic cables!!

We will keep everybody informed via the website.



Please spread the word! If your friends and neighbours are interested, then ask them either to email us, talk to Nick at The Black Horse, or simply let one of the parish councillors know.

 

Long Term Roadworks near Romsey until end-March 2012

Going to Romsey slightly tricky; the B3084 will be closed for 4 months until end-March 2012 whilst they replace the railway bridge between the far end of stanbridge Lane and the T-junction with the A3057 at the Dukes Head. Journeys from Tytherley to Romsey mean using Danes Road from Kents Oak through Shootash to the A27. The other route is Lockerley to the A3057 at the Bear and Ragged Staff via Dunbridge.
Robert Finch (b1921)
Tim WesCott has written seeking any information on his father-in-law Robert Finch who was adopted by a family and who lived in West Tytherley. More here.
Notice Anything Different?

Suddenly there was a gust of wind...

(It's walnut if you hadn't recognised it)

First Responders are disbanded
From Jo Guy ...
As you may have read in the newsletter, we have had to disband the First Responder Scheme in West Tytherley due to diminishing numbers, and the lack of people coming forward to be trained. However, with the remaining funds raised by local people, we intend to install a defibrillator in the hallway of the Pragnells Cottages building nearest to the village shop which can be used by anyone in a cardiac emergency.

Kind regards
Jo Guy

Buying Central Heating Oil?
Did you know that W Tytherley now has an oil buying consortium?

Our aim is not to negotiate with OPEC for zillions of gallons of crude oil, but to group together the requirements of local residents for their central heating oil, and get the best deal possible from suppliers in the area. This is a free service - no charges or fees are involved.

If you need more information, or are interested in joining, please email me.
John Guy

 

Do you live in a Thatched Cottage? Hampshire Fire and Rescue have asked us to draw your attention to a letter (click to view).

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