{"id":15377,"date":"2025-04-09T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15377"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:03:33","slug":"keeping-the-village-tidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=15377","title":{"rendered":"Keeping The Village Tidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1979\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1979\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" data-orig-size=\"593,76\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"environment\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=300%2C38\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?fit=593%2C76\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=593%2C76\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?w=593 593w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/environment.jpg?resize=300%2C38 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Keeping The Village Tidy<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>On an overcast morning, a depleted team of six helped tidy up the rose bed on the village green. These folk have stayed loyal to their task of keeping the village tidy since 1988 when the group was formed, with the Rev Bernard Johns as chair. In those days the team was made up from pillars of the Community, clergy, doctors, councillors etc. Nowadays it&#8217;s kept alive by what can only be described in some cases as ne&#8217;er do wells. Best not to delve too deeply, especially Shady and of course, Big John who has missed two outings because of tennis apparently but we in the team know that the only court he&#8217;s familiar with has a judge and not an umpire. Racketeering is his forte. He has only gone missing since Trump announced tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>For those not on remand, we will meet again on 14th April by the Community Centre<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=15310\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15310\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?attachment_id=15310\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?fit=500%2C497\" data-orig-size=\"500,497\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Picture9\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?fit=300%2C298\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?fit=500%2C497\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?resize=500%2C497\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?w=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?resize=300%2C298 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?resize=90%2C90 90w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenvoe.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Picture9.png?resize=75%2C75 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"5\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP Keeping The Village Tidy On an overcast morning, a depleted team of six helped tidy up the rose bed on the village green. These folk have stayed loyal to their task of keeping the village tidy since 1988 when the group was formed, with the Rev Bernard Johns as chair. In those days the team was made [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47,421],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6cWjO-401","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12226,"url":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=12226","url_meta":{"origin":15377,"position":0},"title":"A Beautiful Summer\u2019s Morning","author":"Alan Williams","date":"3rd September 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP A BEAUTIFUL SUMMER\u2019S MORNING On a beautiful summer\u2019s morning the team tackled the border at the front of the Community Centre. 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