The fête season is now in full swing, and there’s no shortage of delightful summer happenings all around the Benefice. Among the highlights, St Mary’s Bruton Church Fête is on 9 July. Batcombe is going for broke this year: Raise the Roof, on 23 July, is followed a week later by the village’s annual Horticultural Society Show, and then by the Batcombe Village Fête on August Bank Holiday Monday, 29th. Bruton Art Society has its annual show at Bruton School for Girls from 20 to 28 August. The Bruton & District Horticultural Society show is on 20 August, and on Saturday 27th comes the Shepton Montague Village Fête, in new surroundings at the Montague Inn. There’s lots more going on, too – full details of all events in the Diary.
Even the most curmudgeonly (and there aren’t many of those in our Benefice) have no excuse for not enjoying themselves this summer!
This double issue, covering July and August, is quite sizeable – exactly twice the number of pages of our first issue, in February 2009. Our advertisers and subscribers, together with a grant from the Town Council, have made it possible for us to grow, and we are most grateful for their support. We cannot sustain this length for every issue, but it is extraordinarily helpful to be able to expand a bit when the need arises – as it did for the Bruton Festival of Arts issue in May, and for the extra material required in the winter and summer double issues. We wish we could expand still further – it would be good to have restaurant and pub opening times, for instance, and more details in the Useful Information pages – but this will have to wait a bit longer.
A gentle reminder: the deadline for the next issue is 1 August, all our wonderful and greatly valued contributors please note!
The Editors
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