Monday 17th August A reminder that our next meeting is on Monday when the topic will be reflecting on 'Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?' Some background notes can be found here...and there are more here. As usual we meet at 7pm in the Villagers' Stores. The bar will be open from 6.30pm. … Continue reading Thinking Allowed

Sunday 23rd August, 12.45 - 3.00pm I posted a message earlier in the week about a Biodiversity Bimble that I had planned to run this Saturday morning. However, due to an unforeseen event I have had to reschedule it. The new date is Sunday 23rd August from 12.45 to 3pm, meeting outside All Saints’ Church, … Continue reading Date Change for Bimble

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

With the persistent hot weather and my rain gauge only recording 2mm in the last two months, the risk of wildfires on the moor has reached a critical point. There are seven houses close to the moor in the Brockwell/Ford area of Wootton Courtenay. Two of us have thatched roofs. I want to ask everyone … Continue reading Fire Risk on the Moor

The next Repair Cafe in Porlock will be on Saturday 29th August. Bring your broken or damaged items for repair. Our volunteers are ready to help.

This is a final reminder that we will be holding the Village Hall AGM tonight, Tuesday 11th August at 7.30pm. Everyone is welcome! The minutes from last year’s AGM can be read here. (Only a small number of printed copies will be available at the meeting, so please read the online copy if you can.) … Continue reading Village Hall AGM Reminder

Saturday 15th August Following the People's Emergency Briefing in the hall last Saturday, I am taking action to start a regular Biodiversity Bimble in the Avill and Porlock Vale. This will involve a group of people going for a nice gentle walk in any given direction (which we would decide on collectively on the day, … Continue reading Biodiversity Bimble Group