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Christmas Lights
Scouts bazaar
Lunch Club Christmas Party
Dickensian Christmas Fayre
Injured Lambs
Fiddler on the Roof
The ringing-the-tun procession from the Triangle, via the Golden Lion, to The Plough, where music was provided by
Clevedon Brass Band,
Churchill Junior Gospel Choir,
Spirit of Wrington,
and Owls of Pill singers
Photos kindly taken by Hayley Carter
So soon after the joyful photos of the first new-born lambs of the season, just 12 days before at Court Farm, distressing evidence of overnight disturbance between New Year's Eve and 1st January.
Farmer Chris Clark has to cope with aborted and premature lambs, rejected by their mothers still in shock and unable to feed them.
Fireworks were being let off in the village as late as 2.30am. The police have been informed.
Photos kindly supplied
by Bob Bowen
Tevye introduces the fiddler on the roof, and the sense of tradition of his people .....
The arrival of the Constable dispels the mood of celebration as he gives Tevye a clear warning of a forthcoming persecution of the Jewish population ..
... Perchik, appointed by Tevye to teach his daughters lessons, holds forth to them about the iniquities of the employer class ...
... and, although taken aback by his forthrightness, Hodel is clearly struck by his character ...
... having thought the matter over, however, he relents and gives his blessing to the union between Tzeitel and Motel ...
... this produces a night of doom-laden dreams, with the ghost of Golde's grand-mother Tzeitel, who's sure daughter Tzeitel will marry the tailor ...
.. and a terifying apparition seemingly intent on throttling Father ...
The news of Tzeitel's engagement to Motel spreads rapidly, and Fyedke tries his luck with loaning a book to Chava, whom he's noticed is into reading ...
Tzeitel and Motel's wedding proceeds with all due solemnity, followed by communal and - in some cases - highly athletic dancing ...
Mordcha wishes the happy couple well, and point out some of their wedding presents ...
Lazar's present of 5 chicken is gracefully accepted by Tevye - an acceptance disdainfully rejected ...
... to the point where it needs the rabbi to restore calm with an injunction for everyone to sit back down, and scolding from Perchik for everyone ...
... but the resumption of dancing is rudely interrupted by the anticipated police raid ...
... "Why did it have to be today of all days ?" Tevye complains to God ...
... things go from bad to worse when Perchik tells Hodel he must leave to do his revolutionary duty elsewhere ...
Tevye is faced with the dilemma of giving them his blessing ...
.. and explaining his decision to Golde ...
... thus causing both of them to reflect on their own mutual love ...
Tevye is persuaded by Hodel of her need to follow her love, even to Siberia ...
Whilst collecting his coat from Motel, Fyedke persuades Chava that he should ask her father for permission to marry her ...
.. but for him, even after much soul-searching, this is an impossible step too far ...
.. a decision apparently confirmed by the polic-chief's arrival to carry out his dreadful orders to clear the Jewish quarter of its inhabitants ...
.. "Get off my land" is a counter-command bringing only a brief respite, whilst each considers what the future holds for them personally ...
.. for Yente it's as a matchmaker in the holy land ...
... whilst for Lazar Wolf it's life with a despised brother-in-law in Chicago ...
. so all trudge off to railway station and dockside, leaving Tevye the last to abandon the empty home ...
. so all trudge off to railway station and dockside, leaving Tevye the last to abandon the empty home ...
