BADSEY FLOWER SHOW ON-SCHEDULE

The schedule for the 2009 Badsey Flower Show (Saturday 25th July) is now available. A copy, with an entry form, can be picked up from the Spar Shop in Badsey, or you can see it online here.

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The main attraction at this year's Badsey Flower Show is the Mirimar Belly Dancing Troupe. Billed as 'BRINGING EASTERN PROMISE TO VILLAGE SHOW', well, Stratford on Avon, where the troupe are based, is to the east, but quite the Middle East. The other top attraction is a professional dog display team. The canine theme continues with a fun dog show so bring along your pooch. There are also fairground rides, a brass band, a rifle shooting range, grass skittles, a licensed bar, tea, coffee and cakes, ice creams and a wide mix of stalls and displays. The gates open at 1pm and the event runs all afternoon. Entry costs just £3 or £1 for OAPs and children. Car parking is free. 

This year's theme for the Badsey Flower Show Literature Competition is to 'Write a Limerick about a person, or persons who belong to a village organisation or club'. Badsey and Aldington has lots of such groups so there is plenty of scope. It only costs 20p to enter a limerick, and all entries must be written, or better still, type-written on one side of a A4 sheet of paper. Please use a large font (size 14 is good) so that it can be easily read by the hundreds of visitors to the show on 25th July 2009. The winner, judged on the day, will receive the Will Dallimore Literature Competition Cup. There is no limit to how many entries you make, but each must be accompanied by the appropriate entry fee, and you can only win one prize. All entries will be displayed on Flower Show day, with the possible exception of any which may have been regarded as a little too naughty. 

Here are a few local limericks to start the ball rolling,

A Badsey bell ringer named Pinner
Heard that ringing would help him grow thinner
But it was simply the hours
That he'd spend in bell towers
Meant he never had time for his dinner

A church chorister named Win
Found her voice was exceedingly thin
The result of the cure
Left her flat on the floor
Having gargled three bottles of gin.

An Aldington Neighbourhood watcher
Suspected caller to be bogus Doctor
As she stood in the buff
She thought, "That's far enough!"
Grabbed his toy stethoscope and said, "Gotcha!"

ODE TO 'OSSBRIDGE

Badsey born poet, Will Dallimore, moved to Horsebridge Avenue during the late 50s. He recently wrote a chapter for the Badsey Society's new book, Aldington and Badsey, Villages in the Vale: A Tapestry of Local History, (available from the Spar Shop £6).

The chapter was on Council Housing in Badsey and Aldington. Mr. Dallimore mentions in detail the houses in Horsebridge Avenue, but not the residents, who were possibly more colourful than the houses. To compensate for this Will has written a poem which names all of the 72 families which were residing in Horsebridge at the time.

To hear the poem, read by Will click here.

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