Scottish & Southern Electricity Networks have a power cut Friday 19th April affecting the whole village.  They plan to turn power off at 08.30 and should finish by 16.30 if not sooner.  You have probably already had a leaflet from SSEN in your mail box.  This is in order for contractors to trim/prune trees affecting our overhead cables.

Sadly this means NO BLACK BIN CAFE.  The next Black Bin Café will be on Friday 3rd May.

 Thanks to all contributors the tent is now fully funded and fund-raising now closed.

Information has come in quite late but Wessex Water will be in Pen Selwood next week, from Monday 4th March with three crews to fix three leaks.  One in Pear Ash Lane, one in Bleak Street, somewhere southeast of the Pear Ash Lane junction, and one in Coombe Street somewhere below the Queens Grove junction.  In each case there will be road closures but if you can't get out one way you should be able to get out in the other direction.  Works are due to start at 08.30am on Monday and will…

Too late for the Pen Paper just distributed, I am able to report that  money was voted at the recent PCA meeting to spend on infrastructure to support the fete and other events on the field.  This is in addition to the money raised towards a new tent at the French Evening.  A start has now been made with the PCA ordering a tent the same size as the present ‘village tent’, 4m x 8m.

Separately and coincident with this,…