Photograph: Tony Keatley
Kym writes:
Window no 24.
Our last window for the year, The Bus Shelter. The weather was kind to us and Wow what a fantastic turn out thank you all so much. It made all our efforts for the month worth while. The port and sherry was supplied by the shop, thank you, I have to say the port went down better than the sherry! Going by the empty plates you enjoyed the food Jane and I prepared for you. I think the shelter itself went down very well. We had some lovely comments. I have to say a big thank you to my advent partners Jane and Lee. Thank you so much to my wonderful husband. Also our children who helped with the serving and the music.
We will let you know after Christmas how much we raised for our charity Dogs for good.
There is still our box in the shop till end of December for anyone who didn’t make it out to a window. Thank you again to all of you who did a window we did have some really lovely ones. Please try and get round to look at them. Thank you to all of you who came out over the month.
Colin Wootton writes: It seems to have passed without notice that this year’s Advent Calendar Windows event was the tenth anniversary of the first occasion when these colourful decorations and the attendant “unveiling” parties animated the village during December! As editor of the Sulgrave Village Website it has been my pleasure to attend and photograph almost every event during those ten years except for the last two or three when, as many of you know, family considerations have made this much more difficult. However, I have enjoyed continuing to feature all of the windows on the website and in doing so I have felt myself to be part of the village Christmas festivities. I would like to add my thanks to those expressed by Kym to all who have made these occasions possible and, indeed, to thank Kym and her helpers themselves. It goes without saying that none of the website entries would have been possible without the excellent photographs supplied to me by Tony Keatley and Graham Roberts.
May I wish everyone a Happy New Year!
Colin
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See here for the Bus Shelter decorations in 2018 – a pre-Covid world which now seems to belong to a different age. There is also a brief history of the Bus Shelter!