PLEASE NOTE: REFUSE COLLECTION MOVED TO THURSDAY OVER BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND · ROADWORKS ON MILL LANE 12th–19th September, ACCESS TO CHAPEL SLOPE POSTBOX UNAFFECTED · DOG FOULING ON RECREATION GROUND STRICTLY PROHIBITED, WASTE BAGS AT MAIN GATE · DOG FOULING ON THE STANDING STONES PROHIBITED · MOBILE LIBRARY CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, LAST TIMETABLE ON LOCAL SERVICES · VILLAGE STATION: LARKSTONE LINE 11:06 DAILY, ALL DESTINATIONS END HERE · COMMEMORATIVE STATION TICKETS MUST BE SURRENDERED BEFORE LEAVING THE PLATFORM · SEPTEMBER OBSERVANCE 11th September, VILLAGE HALL BOOKED ALL DAY, NO PUBLIC PROGRAMME · AUTUMN FESTIVAL 6th November, VILLAGE SQUARE FROM 6PM, ALL WELCOME · GHOSTS ON MAGNETIC TAPE, VILLAGE HALL 21st September · UPCOMING EVENT 22nd September, LOCATION UNKNOWN, DETAILS TO FOLLOW · PLANNING: COMMENTS ON CHAPEL SLOPE SMITHY BY 5th November · SIGN UP FOR THE PARISH CIRCULAR, VISITORS WELCOME · VILLAGE HALL BOOKING FORM NOW ON THE WEB SITE, DEPOSITS BY CHEQUE UNCHANGED · FOOTPATH GUIDANCE SHEETS ON LOCAL SERVICES, DOGS UNDER CONTROL AT ALL TIMES · NO. 42 BUS TIMETABLE UPDATED, OPERATORS MAY ALTER TIMES WITHOUT NOTICE · SPRING FÊTE VOLUNTEERS STILL REQUIRED, CONTACT PARISH CLERK · WHIST DRIVE AND BINGO EVERY FRIDAY 7PM, MAIN HALL · SHORT MAT BOWLS EVERY MONDAY 7PM, ANNEXE, FLAT SHOES ONLY · MOTHER AND TODDLER GROUP EVERY WEDNESDAY 9:30AM, ANNEXE · WI MEETS EVERY SECOND TUESDAY 7:30PM, MAIN HALL · PARISH COUNCIL ORDINARY MEETING EVERY FIRST THURSDAY, COMMITTEE ROOM · OVER-60s COFFEE MORNING EVERY SATURDAY 10:30AM, MAIN HALL · STANDING STONE COUNT DISCREPANCY UNDER CLERK REVIEW, DO NOT RELOCATE MARKERS · PARISH OFFICE PHOTOCOPIER OUT OF SERVICE, APPLY TO COUNTY RECORDS OFFICE · LOCAL HISTORY VOLUME RETURNED INCOMPLETE, PAGES MISSING FROM CENTRE OF BUNDLE · VINTAGE MAPS EXHIBITION IN CHURCH HALL, ENTRY FROM 11AM · RESTRICTED OBSERVANCES NOT LISTED ON THIS SITE, ENQUIRIES TO CLERK BY POST ONLY · BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER 1974, INCIDENT REPORT COMING SOON · CORRESPONDENCE TO MRS E. HIGGINS UNANSWERED SINCE 2012 · PARISH NEWS AND MINUTES POSTED ON THE WEB SITE, CORRECTIONS TO CLERK BY POST · BEST VIEWED WITH NETSCAPE 4 OR IE5 AT 800x600 · PLEASE NOTE: REFUSE COLLECTION MOVED TO THURSDAY OVER BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND · ROADWORKS ON MILL LANE 12th–19th September, ACCESS TO CHAPEL SLOPE POSTBOX UNAFFECTED · DOG FOULING ON RECREATION GROUND STRICTLY PROHIBITED, WASTE BAGS AT MAIN GATE · DOG FOULING ON THE STANDING STONES PROHIBITED · MOBILE LIBRARY CANCELLED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, LAST TIMETABLE ON LOCAL SERVICES · VILLAGE STATION: LARKSTONE LINE 11:06 DAILY, ALL DESTINATIONS END HERE · COMMEMORATIVE STATION TICKETS MUST BE SURRENDERED BEFORE LEAVING THE PLATFORM · SEPTEMBER OBSERVANCE 11th September, VILLAGE HALL BOOKED ALL DAY, NO PUBLIC PROGRAMME · AUTUMN FESTIVAL 6th November, VILLAGE SQUARE FROM 6PM, ALL WELCOME · GHOSTS ON MAGNETIC TAPE, VILLAGE HALL 21st September · UPCOMING EVENT 22nd September, LOCATION UNKNOWN, DETAILS TO FOLLOW · PLANNING: COMMENTS ON CHAPEL SLOPE SMITHY BY 5th November · SIGN UP FOR THE PARISH CIRCULAR, VISITORS WELCOME · VILLAGE HALL BOOKING FORM NOW ON THE WEB SITE, DEPOSITS BY CHEQUE UNCHANGED · FOOTPATH GUIDANCE SHEETS ON LOCAL SERVICES, DOGS UNDER CONTROL AT ALL TIMES · NO. 42 BUS TIMETABLE UPDATED, OPERATORS MAY ALTER TIMES WITHOUT NOTICE · SPRING FÊTE VOLUNTEERS STILL REQUIRED, CONTACT PARISH CLERK · WHIST DRIVE AND BINGO EVERY FRIDAY 7PM, MAIN HALL · SHORT MAT BOWLS EVERY MONDAY 7PM, ANNEXE, FLAT SHOES ONLY · MOTHER AND TODDLER GROUP EVERY WEDNESDAY 9:30AM, ANNEXE · WI MEETS EVERY SECOND TUESDAY 7:30PM, MAIN HALL · PARISH COUNCIL ORDINARY MEETING EVERY FIRST THURSDAY, COMMITTEE ROOM · OVER-60s COFFEE MORNING EVERY SATURDAY 10:30AM, MAIN HALL · STANDING STONE COUNT DISCREPANCY UNDER CLERK REVIEW, DO NOT RELOCATE MARKERS · PARISH OFFICE PHOTOCOPIER OUT OF SERVICE, APPLY TO COUNTY RECORDS OFFICE · LOCAL HISTORY VOLUME RETURNED INCOMPLETE, PAGES MISSING FROM CENTRE OF BUNDLE · VINTAGE MAPS EXHIBITION IN CHURCH HALL, ENTRY FROM 11AM · RESTRICTED OBSERVANCES NOT LISTED ON THIS SITE, ENQUIRIES TO CLERK BY POST ONLY · BODY FOUND IN THE RIVER 1974, INCIDENT REPORT COMING SOON · CORRESPONDENCE TO MRS E. HIGGINS UNANSWERED SINCE 2012 · PARISH NEWS AND MINUTES POSTED ON THE WEB SITE, CORRECTIONS TO CLERK BY POST · BEST VIEWED WITH NETSCAPE 4 OR IE5 AT 800x600 ·

Telling The Bees

Notice of the next Observance.Monday 26th October, The Village Hall.The hive has been draped. The bees have been told.

00000people have told the bees

The hive is quiet.

The custom

It has always been the way in The Village that when there is a death in a household, the bees must be told.

Someone from the house goes down to the hives, knocks three times upon each, and speaks the news quietly: who has gone, and who the bees now belong to. A piece of the funeral cake is left by the hive.

Bees that are not told will take offence. They stop making honey, or they sicken, or one morning they rise up together and leave, and they do not come back. So we tell them. We tell them of births and marriages too, and of comings and goings. The bees like to be kept informed, and nothing that happens in The Village is kept from them for long.

The parish keeps one hive, behind the Village Hall. It is listening now.

Speak to the bees

Before the Observance, visitors are asked to come down to the hive and leave something with the bees: a message, a name, a memory, or a secret. The hive grows louder with every one. By Monday 26th October it should be heard from Chapel Slope.

The hive has been draped in black and the bees have stayed. You may still speak to them. They are still listening, and the hum has not stopped.

Speak to the bees

Arnold Perdrix, Parish Clerk. Enquiries about the hive may be posted to the clerk at Meadow Cottage, Chapel Slope, The Village, GG2 4PX. Please do not lift the lid.

Telling The Bees

The custom

Speak to the bees

Speak to the bees

Read out at the hive