TisTalk Episode 8 Season II Week of 6th March 2023

TISTALK WHAT’S ON THIS WEEK

  | 6-12 March 2023 | Got an event or activity coming up? Email Liz Coyle-Camp at liz@emc2publicrelations.com  
 | Monday 6 | ·         Right, this is important, there’s only three days left to donate to Tisbury Parish Council’s Protect Tisbury Crowdfund which is £400 short of the £15k needed to pay legal fees to stop the Station Work developers pushing through their plan to build 86 houses, an unwanted care home and blocking off one arch of the railway bridge. Go to the Tisbury Village News FB page or Google: Protect Tisbury Crowdfunder.  http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/protect-tisbury  ·         The Station Works Planning Inquiry continues online this week today, Tuesday, and Wednesday. For a link to watch it email: PlanningAppeals@wiltshire.gov.uk  ·         The Footpath Club are meeting next Monday, 15 March at 9.30 in the Nadder Centre Car Parking to do some footpath clearing and maintenance. They’re also doing a 6-mile walk in the Bourne Valley via Figsbury Ring on Saturday, 18 March at 10am. For more details text Stephen Moody on 07746 931522 or call Roger Walker 01747 871105.  
 | Tuesday 7 | ·         Tisbury Youth Club gets together on Tuesday from 5-7pm at their clubhouse up behind the Swimming Pool for ages 10-18. Contact Zita Hooper on 07840 907698 or go to the Tisbury Local Youth Network’s Facebook page for more info. ·         The Fonthill Cricket Club also has indoor nets at the Nadder Centre on Tuesday evenings from 7.30 -9pm. £5 for adults, £2 juniors.  
 | Wed 8 | ·         Don’t forget during March there’s a Lenten Lunch every Wednesday at 12 noon in the Methodist Hall on the High Street.  The lovely Ladies of Tisbury will be serving up homemade soup, bread and cheese. It’s all free but donations to Salisbury Hospice are welcomed.
| Thursday 9 | ·         Tisbus has a shopping trip to Warminster on Thursday.  There’s also a trip next Wednesday, 15 March to the Whitchurch Silk Mill heritage Museum and lunch at Dobies Garden Centre in Andover. To book your seat for either trip, and door-to-door pick up, contact Dave Milas on 07500 802525 or go to the Tisbus website. www.tisbus.co.uk ·         If you care for someone with memory loss and would like to learn more about dementia and the legal aspects of caring, Alzheimer’s Support is running a morning 2-hr, 6-week online training course on Zoom from Thursday, 9 March to 13 April. For details go to the Alzheimerswiltshire.org.uk website. ·         Tisbury Youth Club also gets together for a social on Thursday evening from 5.30-8pm for ages 10-18.   
 | Friday 10 | For something interesting and free to do on Friday, there’s Messums Ceramics exhibition at Plaice Farm more info on the Messums Wiltshire website. 
| Saturday 11 | ·           The Young Nature Watch branch of Tisbury Natural History Society are doing a dung beetle survey on Saturday, 11 March at 10am. More info at Tisburynaturalhistory website.  ·           If you love 60s and 70s rock and roll and fancy a bit of dancing, local band RockForte are back on Saturday night in the Victoria Hall a fun evening of old favourites – from Elvis Presley and the Beatles to Billy Joel and The Eagles. It’s a great night out for a great cause – keeping our much-loved Victoria Hall going in the community. Doors and a great bar open at 6.45pm. Music starts at 7pm. Tickets £7.50 can be booked online at the Newvictisbury.com, call 0300 302 3090. Bar opens at
 | Sunday 12 | ·         At the New Vic@Tisbury on Sunday, The Magic Lantern Film Club is showing compelling true-story of one of Britain’s most talented yet unknown landscape artists Eric Ravilious  who was killed in a plane crash over Iceland while on commission as a WW2 artist there. The film Eric Ravilious – Drawn to War released last year, starts at 7pm, there’s great bar open from 6.45pm. Details on newvictisbury.com website or call 0300 302 3090.