Let's keep Pen Beautiful with a village litter pick. See events for details.

Charles Buckler will be shearing sheep tomorrow, Monday 6th February. Villagers are welcome to watch the process at Pear Ash Farm between 9 and 11am.

I would like to thank the people of Pen for their generosity in giving to the village Poppy Collection in 2022. We raised a magnificent £396.16.
Many thanks
Best wishes
Rosalind Buckler

Some of you may have noticed some yellow bailer twine around the gate at the end of Monarch's Way before the woods leading to Coombe Street. We have been told that this is highly likely to have been put there as a "marker" for criminal activity. We have been advised to pass on this information to our neighbours. If anyone notices anything unusual please let us know. Suffice to say we have removed the bailer twine.

Leigh & Liz - Pits Farm

Wessex Water plan some mains sewer repair/replacement works on Bayford Hill just over the brow as you drop into Wincanton.  Roughly adjacent to the new houses building site.

UK.one.network says road closure and advance notice yellow road closure signs are already out.  No indication yet of diversion.  I will update if I get more info.

Ian Steadman, parish councillor for highways, 01747 841041.

Due to Christmas holidays the next refuse collection is on Saturday 31st December.

Recycling is on Saturday 31st December and Saturday 7th January.

Garden waste collection is 10th January.

https://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/services/waste-and-recycling/

Someone received a strange comment on their Comment Wall this morning, asking them to contact a josephmclaughlin via email.

The comment is spam.  If you have received something similar, ignore it. It can't do you or your computer any harm if you don't respond.

Unfortunately I let the culprit into the website under a different name. They have been banned.

Geoff

The coffee morning held in aid of St Michaels church raised the grand total of £600.
Many thanks to all who contributed so generously.

Heather Doe

I understand Wessex Water may be back, yet again, for some repair woks in Coombe Street.  Signage and one.network suggest a closure somewhere down near Pen Mill cutting off access from and to Zeals.  Might last until Friday.  If anyone has updated info as the week progresses, please let me know and I'll post on this website.

Ian Steadman, parish councillor for highways. 01747 841041

I understand that Wessex Water are back in Pen to fix a domestic water leak just below Queen's grove.  Official info and one.network suggest a possible closure there until 25th November.  Previous experience suggests it may not be that bad or that long but exercise caution.

Ian Steadman, Parish Councillor for highways.

This Friday, 25th November there will be a sale of lovely hand-made items by locals in the lobby of the village hall alongside the Black Bin Cafe, 1030-12.30.

I was told about this website (www.travelsomerset.co.uk) at the last Parish Council meeting.  It sounded useful so I took a look.  This is how they describe it:

This service by Somerset County Council aims to provide reliable and up-to-date information about roads across Somerset to help you make informed choices about your journey.

On this website you will find our map showing current and future roadworks as well as live…

Thank you all very much to those of you that have supported Eryl’s campaign for the village funding of a new ‘Royal’(?) Oak tree, to replace the original oak that sadly lost its existence due to Storm Eunice. It was a beautiful tree ~ clearly loved & admired by many.  It stood so proudly in our lower field which – rather ironically – we had named Oak Tree field on our arrival to Penselwood.…

Bleak St west of Coombe St/Long Lane junction will be closed over some 65m from 9th to 11th November inclusive as Wessex Water carry out more work.

Please see Events for more details.

Donations      £195  00

Cakes             £127  50

Raffle             £105  00

Total                £427  50…