You should have had your Pen Paper delivered by now. Spare copies are in the church. You can always find back issues here.

or perhaps you want to nominate one?  http://www.scvolunteering.com

Ian Steadman is 70 this week and will buy a drink for anyone known to him at this Friday's Pen Pub Night!

There is the update at Feb 2016.

There will be a meeting of the Parish Council in the village hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday 10 February to consider the revised planning application for the Wessex Water Pumping Station in Coombe Street (15/05122/FUL)

Adrian Carter

Vice-Chair

Rachael Whaites, the South Somerset Ranger whose team of staff and volunteers make regular visits to Moldrams Ground Nature Reserve, are looking for volunteers from the parish to help maintain and enhance the reserve. They will be visiting the Black Bin cafe on 12th February, to coincide with their next working party.

Volunteering flyer

I've been tracking usage during 2015. On average more than 460 pages are viewed each week. 

There is a spike just before the local Parish elections after a page was put up describing the candidates. The website was busier than normal during July before the Fete and Show, and also views to the page for the Horse & Dog show, which unfortunately was cancelled due to lack of an available site.

If we focus on a single normal month, October then we have…

Here is a good article from the Guardian sharing ten tips for homing in on what you want to find.

Please note a correction to the place of worship on Sunday 31 January. The Candlemas service will be held at Pen Selwood in united worship with Wincanton congregation at 10:30 am. 

The location is in error in the Pen Paper.

introduced by John Harrison

at the History Society meeting on Wed 6th Jan. See events for details.

I regret that the Rag Bag Scheme will cease with immediate effect, as the company based in Scotland will no longer collect from anywhere South of Manchester.

Thank you for all your donations throughout 2015.

Rita Capron     Tel. 840551

Check when to put your bins out here.

Penselwood Parish Council will be holding a Planning meeting on Thursday 17th December in the Village Hall at 7.30pm to discuss the planning application below:

Planning Application No: 15/05122/FUL

Proposal: Conversion and extension of former Wessex Water Pumping Station and adjacent store building to provide 1no. dwelling and adjacent garage, plus alteration of the existing reservoir…

Yay more good news, we are happy to confirm Jim and his FISH & CHIP van will be setting up outside the village hall around 8:30pm for about an hour - yummy!

**PLEASE, please let us know if you haven't got your tickets yet. There are only 2 or 3 left although there may be one or two returns - DON'T MISS OUT!…

Lucy Nelson shared her experiences of being the High Sheriff of Somerset at the recent Sports and Social Club AGM. She wore her full regalia and exhibited her swords.

Firstly a big thank you to all the villagers who have passed on commiserations at the loss(stolen) of my favourite wheelbarrow.

You will be pleased to know that I have overcome the sad loss, bounced back and placed more apples at the bottom of the drive. They are very tasty cookers.

You may be interested to know that a couple of years ago someone visited Woodlands to photograph the two apple trees, as he was writing a book on 'Apple Trees in Somerset'. He reckoned that our…

We have had a bumper crop of apples this year and for this reason I have placed a barrow load of cookers at the bottom of our drive for people to help themselves. Imagine my surprise when this morning I saw the apples lying in the road and no wheel barrow. It had been stolen overnight. Of course we never know who comes in and out of our village but how disappointing that a minor gift of generosity should be abused in such a way.

Jeremy Cox.