Our village email address provider, Namecheap, experienced a major outage around lunchtime yesterday (Thursday) due to a power and cooling system failure at a core data centre in Phoenix, Arizona. Currently no messages are getting through to us here at the website. My personal email has also been affected. If you sent a message yesterday … Continue reading Village Email Provider Failure

Have you a knife that needs sharpening? A vacuum cleaner that has stopped vacuuming? A clock that has stopped keeping time? A pair of jeans that needs patching? These are some of the many services offered at the Minehead Repair Cafe, this Saturday 14th August from 10am to midday in the Catholic Church Hall on … Continue reading Minehead Repair Cafe

The service this Sunday, 16th August at 6pm, in All Saints’ Church, Wootton Courtenay, is Sung Evensong - the last of our summer Evensongs for this year. The singing will be assisted and improved by Porlock's 'Friends in Harmony' and drinks and nibbles follow the service. Amanda

Photo: Woodland Trust website This long hot summer has been a boon for ticks, and Exmoor is one of the areas of the UK where they are very common. It's well worth learning how to identify a tick and how to safely remove one if you are bitten. Most tick bites are harmless, but a … Continue reading Ticks on Exmoor