Title: Village Show
Location: Great Gidding Village Hall
Description: Village produce and flower show
Date: 2012-09-01
Contact: Sue Jarvis
Great Gidding School is holding its Summer Fete on Saturday 7th July from 12pm onwards. There will be fun things to see and do, as well as lots of food to eat. Please drop by the school if you get a chance and it isn’t raining too hard!
Little Gidding
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 July 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Seventh Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on Saturday 7 July and Sunday 8 July 2012.
The Festival is a major literary celebration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). We are delighted to welcome again this year visitors from the T S Eliot International Summer School.
See the programme for the weekend.
Tickets for the weekend are £50 (early-bird price £45 before 8 June 2012), including Saturday afternoon tea and supper and Sunday lunch and tea. Tickets are also available for Saturday and Sunday separately at £25 each day.
You can also download a flyer and order form for tickets and ticket reservations may be sent to eliotfestival@littlegidding.org.uk.
If you are staying in Gidding for the Jubilee weekend come along to the Recreation Ground on Monday 4th June. Starting at 1PM, we are hoping that people will bring along a picnic for a Big Lunch Jubilee Celebration.
The Big Lunch is a very simple idea from the Eden Project. The aim is to get as many people as possible across the whole of the UK to have lunch with their neighbours in a simple act of community, friendship and fun.
All you need to do is turn up with food and drink and anything else that you need to enjoy a picnic, but if you would like to bring something along to share, we are sure this would be much appreciated.
To keep the energetic amongst us entertained, we are hoping to have a game of rounders and look forward to other games being organised throughout the day.
- The event will start at 1.00PM, but you can join in throughout the afternoon.
- Bring along all that you need to enjoy a picnic – food/drink and all the equipment too
- If you would like to bring food to share, it will be appreciated
- We are celebrating the Jubilee, so wear a crown or a tiara, if you wish
- Make a metre of bunting to decorate the Recreation Ground and the pavilion
- There will be games throughout the afternoon – some with prizes to be won
COME ALONG AND JOIN IN THE FUN
Don’t forget it will also be a Celebration of the Jubilee too.
From the Village Hall and Recreation Ground Committee
Her Majesty invites you to play Rounders at the ‘Big Lunch’ on Monday 4th June at 2.30pm.
Teams: Youth versus Oldies (You decide which you are)!
Venue: Recreation Field
We invite you to join us on June 2nd from 7.00pm onwards to mark, in true Gidding style, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
A professional swing band will provide a taste of 1950s nostalgia and glamour, and with the company of good friends you can enjoy delicious food as well as excellent wine and beer, so what could be better?
We hope you will be able to help make this a very special night and join us at the exclusive Great Gidding Village Hall!
Dress code – posh frocks and best bib and tucker [head scarves optional]
Contribution – £15 per head including hog roast and cocktail on arrival
To reserve your tickets for family and friends please contact Sue Shepherd, phone: 01832 293479 or email: shepnsue@btinternet.com
Tickets on sale from April 28th but numbers have to be limited so please book early.
See you there
Sue Jarvis & Sue Shepherd
Last chance for tickets!
We invite you to join us on June 2nd from 7.00pm onwards to mark, in true Gidding style, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The Diamond Jubilee Dance in Great Gidding Village Hall should be a night to remember and hopefully for all the right reasons……We have a fantastic swing band called The Five Star Swing whose great reviews include Sheila Tracy from the BBC [check out their website on fivestarswing.co.uk if you want to listen for yourself] and they will be playing great sounds from Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and the Glen Miller band amongst others. Included in the price is a hog roast, delicious pudding and coffee as well as excellent wine and beer, so when you’ve danced all you can dance, you can replace a few of those calories whilst you listen to the band play on.
Dress code – posh frocks and best bib and tucker [head scarves optional]
Contribution – £15 per head including hog roast and cocktail on arrival
There are still a few tickets left so to reserve your tickets for family and friends please contact Sue Shepherd, phone: 01832 293479 or mailto: shepnsue@btinternet.com
We hope you will be able to help make this a very special night and join us at the exclusive Great Gidding Village Hall!
Sue Jarvis & Sue Shepherd
Sunday 6th May 11am Holy Communion
Tuesday 8th May 8am Matins
Sunday 13th May 2.30pm Rogationtide Procession & Service at Baptist Chapel
Tuesday 15th May 8am Holy Communion
Sunday 20th May 6pm Evensong
Tuesday 22nd May 8am Matins
Sunday 27th May 11am Holy Communion
Tuesday 29th May 8am Matins
Wassail night is on the go!
A hardy group of villagers are Wassailing the night away. Firstly in the Jubilee Wood and then onto the Village Hall for food, cider and a warm up!
Everyone’s enjoying the cider!
Paul Burgess is awarded the ‘Ale’d and Aimless’ trophy for his wonderful Wassailing poem. Sue and Patrick were close runners up.
A big thank you to Michael and Julie Trolove (and anyone else that was involved) for organising the event.
Well, what a great evening! What started as the germ of an idea way back in the summer came to wonderful fruition on Saturday 19th November with a good old-fashioned village get-together, complete with food, drink and entertainment.
When we first talked about putting on a ‘do’ we wanted to remember the many people we have lost from both Gidding and Winwick in the past few years, so the evening started with a toast to absent friends. But we knew that all those friends would have wanted us to enjoy ourselves… and enjoy it we did! The dress code was ‘as posh as you please’ and people really went to town. There were long gowns, plenty of sparkle and even a tiara or two! The hall looked equally lovely, lit with fairy lights and beautifully adorned for the event.
There was a welcome bottle of fizz on every table, plus a two-course dinner… And the entertainment… well, what can we say? It started with a Fawlty Towers style ‘Hole in My Bucket’ followed by a rendition of ‘We’re a Couple of Swells’ that probably won’t trouble Astaire and Garland’s reputations any time soon but was still greatly enjoyed. Finally, we were treated to a performance of Romeo and Juliet – the five-minute version – by the cast of the Rural Shakespeare Company. It was a tour de force with a memorable duel (feather dusters the weapon of choice!) and most of the cast ending up flat out on the stage. Then it was the audience’s turn, with a rollicking singalong to end the evening’s entertainment.
To all the people who helped, the cooks, the hall decorators, the backstage crew, (you all know who you are)… a huge thank you! It was terrific – and we couldn’t have done it without you.
Deni Underwood, Mary Read and Sue Shepherd.
