Shop News March 2023

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Cakes
We have a new supplier of ‘Home Made’ cakes. A selection, Coffee, Chocolate, Lemon Drizzle and more, are delivered every Tuesday. Do give them a try.

Scones – Tuesdays
Freshly baked Scones are available every Tuesday. They are very popular. So get there early or place an order.

Mothering Sunday
Plants, flowers, Chocolates and Cards (of even one of the delicious cakes mentioned above) can be bought in the Shop for Mothering Sunday – Sunday 19th March.

Wines and Champagne/Bubbly
Bubbly from Goodworth Clatford, Champagne and a wide selection of Spirits and Beers, all reasonably priced, are on the shelf next to the till. (See our special articles
promoting these fine additions to our shop on pages 16 & 17 of heh Parish Magazine).

Pizza Night
Take advantage of our ever popular Pizza night.
This month’s will be on FRIDAY 11th March.
(Order by Thursday 9th March). Pick up time between 5 and 7 pm

So, if you are having a pizza party or just wanting a quiet night in without having to cook:

Choose your preferred topping(s). Order early so as to get your preferred time for collection. We do not want you to be disappointed.

Elizabeth Howard – Shop Volunteer & Committee Member

The New King Charles III Definitive Stamps

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The image of HM The King is an adapted version of the portrait created by Martin Jennings for the obverse of the new Royal Mint coinage and shows the new monarch facing to the left. The use of the coin image is a continuation of a long tradition stretching back to the creation of the Penny Black in 1840.

Martin Jennings made a profile sculpture of Charles for the Royal Mint and a team for the Royal Mail adapted an image of the artwork, adjusting and relighting the picture for use on the new stamps.

There is no embellishment at all: a more minimalist design than used in previous years by Charles’s predecessors. The King is not wearing a crown or any other kind of decoration.

For 70 years people have been so used to seeing the image of Queen Elizabeth II there was no wish to do anything too different to what had gone before.

Colours for all four values are retained from the Machin definitive stamps that featured Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:

• 1st Class – Plum Purple
• 2nd Class – Holly Green
• 1st Class Large – Marine Turquoise
• 2nd Class Large – Dark Pine Green

Britain’s postage stamps are unique in not showing the name of the country. The new stamps have nothing except the King’s head, the price and also, now, an attached
barcode.

To minimise the environmental and financial impact of the change of monarch, existing stocks of definitive stamps that feature Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will be distributed and issued as planned and will remain valid for use.

The stamps will go on general sale from 4 April, a month before the Coronation takes place on May 6 in Westminster Abbey.

Maureen Flood – Sub Post Mistress