Following on a suggestion by Ingram Lloyd and Shrimp Christy, 24 villagers volunteered to decorate one of their windows in the style of an advent calendar. The first of these, at High Barn, Manor Road, was unveiled and illuminated, appropriately on December 1st. The chosen theme was “The Nutcracker” and more pictures can be seen on the following pages.
Advent Calendar Window Decoration at Abington Piggots, Cambridgeshire
Ingram Lloyd writes:
“This Christmas Shrimp and I are hoping that enough people will “volunteer” a window to create a village Advent Calendar. This is not an idea thought up by us but one I had heard about in a Cambridgeshire village. The idea is to have 25 houses with a window which is clearly visible from the road/pavement and that the window would have a simple (or highly decorated if wished) picture/scene similar to those depicted in an Advent Calendar.
December 1st would be the first “opening” and I am thinking that this would be done when it gets dark and that we would manage to gather some onlookers to be there at the opening. We hope that we could get together sufficient offers for this Christmassy idea to go ahead. Dec 21st opening will be the Nativity Scene in the Church as part of the Carol Service at 3pm. Probably December 25th will be in the Church as well when the baby Jesus is added to the scene. Number of window allocations will probably be done by pulling names out of a hat unless you can’t make a particular date.
Please don’t be put off by thinking that this will be a lot of work on top of everything else, it is hoped to be fun and all efforts will be much appreciated. If you are interested in offering to decorate a window to create this calendar please do contact me or Shrimp preferably as soon as possible!”
Shrimp: [email protected]
Ingram: [email protected]
See Abington Pigotts’ very classy calendar:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-25346544
Ingram
See here for location of the site.
See here for full details of the proposal on the South Northants Council website, including the opportunity to comment. Deadline for the submission of comments is 21st November 2014.
The annual Grafton Team Chase took place at Sulgrave on Sunday 19th October in weather more like summer than autumn and good going. There are only a few photographs on the next page owing to a camera malfunction!
Village ten year olds Anya and Charlie prepare to cut the cake
A large number of volunteers, together with the present and past managers, gathered outside the shop on Saturday 20th September 2014 to celebrate ten successful years of a remarkable community venture.
More photographs on the next page.
Beautiful early autumn weather graced the wedding of Rupert and Phoenix Mason at the Church of St James the Less, Sulgrave, on Saturday 27th September 2014. Rupert is the grandson of Janet and the late Kenneth Tattersall and son of Susie Mason.
More pictures on the next page
Irene Lomas’s Morris Minor 1933
Ingram Lloyd says: “We were delighted with the turnout of “wheels” and the number of visitors, approx. 215 excluding exhibitors. After some minimal expenses we raised £820 for the village church of St James the Less. Many commented on the wide and interesting line up. In all there were just over 50 exhibits.”
More details and photographs on the next page.
The ever popular Sulgrave Produce Show took place at the Church Hall on 31st August in beautiful late summer weather. See here for details of the winning entries.
Photographs on next page.
