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Horringer Diary Winter 2018/2019 December January February Contents In Horringer Diary — Winter 2018/2019 Opinions expressed in the Horringer Regulars Diary are those of the 4 Diary Dates originator/contributor and do not 52 Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinators necessarily reflect the opinions of the Editor or the Community Council. The 52 Index of Advertisers Editor reserves the right to amend 53 Village Contacts contributions, and the decision is final. 54 Useful Information Neither the Editor nor the Community 55 Bus Timetable Council endorse any product or service advertised in the Diary. News Please note that the Diary copy cut- 8 Parish Council off date for the Spring edition is 9 Community Council Friday 1st February. Please submit all 10 St Leonard’s Church copy for inclusion to the Diary Editor by this date via email to 12 St Leonard’s Rocket Campaign [email protected] . 13 Horringer Singers Diary Advertising 15 St Leonard’s Church Bells If you would like to advertise in the 15 Neighbourhood Watch Diary and reach our diverse 18 Good Neighbour Scheme demographic to promote your business 19 Little Lottie or event, the rates are as follows: 20 Horringer & Ickworth WI 1/4 page – £12 / £43 for 1 / 4 issues 1/2 page - £24 / £86 for 1 / 4 issues 23 WI Tea Party Full page - £44 / £152 for 1 / 4 issues 27 1st Horringer Scout Group All charges are payable in advance. 28 Ickworth – National Trust The diary is delivered free of charge to 30 Horringer Pre-School all households in Horringer & Ickworth 32 Ickworth Park Primary School (nearly 500 houses), and to local 35 Horringer Hedgehogs organisations. For further details, 36 St Mary’s Church, Ickworth please email [email protected]. 39 Community Litter Pick Horringer Diary is published by 49 Gardening Club Horringer Community Council, and Features printed by instantprint.co.uk, Unit A Brookfields Park, Manvers Way, 17 Hospital Chaplaincy Manvers, Rotherham, S63 5DR. 25 Suffolk Trading Standards The front cover photograph is by 41 Ickworth’s Winter Trail Sharon Freed. 42 Remembrance Sunday 46 War and Peace 2 Editorial From the Editor As I write we are in Looking further ahead, the article on that season when page 12 outlines fundraising plans for the Remembrance is at Church, with two rather splendid the from of our concerts coming up in February and minds, and as the March, and I know there are more days get shorter we exciting plans in the pipeline – watch this look forward to the festivities of space! Christmas. Back in the Spring edition of the Diary I Remembrance has been particularly mentioned that I hope that the Diary and poignant this year with the 100th Village Website would develop in a anniversary of the end of the First World complementary way to each other, and I War, and this is reflected in some of the have been working on a new website, reports in this edition of the Diary. Two which is now nearing completion, and will things that brought home the horrors of in due course take over from the old one. that war to me particularly in a very vivid Meanwhile I have taken over from way were working with Chris Harrison to Christopher the updating of the site, but create the display in Church in memory of the old email addresses are still valid for those from the village who lost their lives the time being. (see page 43), and singing in the The new site is at www.horringer.org.uk. production Crimson Glory in the Thank you to everyone who has cathedral, which illustrated the events in contibuted to this edition of the Diary, a very personal and moving way (see and also to all our advertisers for their page 46). continued support. I have been Moving forward, Christmas is coming, encouraged by a lot of positive and as you read this the Christmas tree comments about the Diary over the last will be lit up on the village green, and we few months, thank you. look forward to a festive concert from the Finally, my thanks again to Sharon Freed Horringer Singers, Joy at Christmas , the for the cover photograph for this edition, Church Carol Service and the magical this time showing a snowy winter view Carols by Torchlight at Ickworth Church to across The Street towards Lucas Cottages name a few. If you fancy venturing and Weavers Cottages from her own further afield, the Bach Choir’s Christmas home, Ashdown Cottage. concert at Lavenham is always well worth a trip. Kevin Slingsby 3 Diary — December 2018 / January 2019 Diary Dates Saturday 1st December Monday 17th December 9:30am Farmers’ Market Community Centre 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s Sunday 2nd December 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting 9:30am Mobile Library Meadow Drive Community Centre Committee Room 11:00am Christingle Service , refreshments Thursday 20th December afterwards St Leonard’s 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s Monday 3rd December 10:00am Gentle Walkers Ickworth Park Gates 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s 2:30pm GNS Afternoon ‘Posh’ Tea & Little Tuesday 4th December Lottie Christmas Draw 10:30am Bell-ringing Peal St Leonard’s Community Centre Thursday 6th December Friday 21st December 9:15am Mobile Library Six Bells 7:30pm St Edmundsbury In Tune Concert Elizabeth Harrison Comm Centre 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s Sunday 23rd December 10:00am WI Pop-up Coffee Shop Community Centre 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s 12:30pm GNS Christmas Lunch The Plough, Rede Monday 24th December Saturday 8th December 5:00pm Crib Service St Leonard’s 2:30pm Christmas Fayre St Leonard’s 11:30pm Midnight Eucharist St Petronilla’s Whepstead Sunday 9th December Tuesday 25th December 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s 11:00am All-Age Eucharist St Leonard’s Tuesday 11th December Thursday 27th December 9:30am- Hedgehogs Christmas Party 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 11:30am Community Centre Sunday 30th December Thursday 13th December 9:30am Mobile Library Meadow Drive 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 10:00am Benefice Eucharist 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s St Petronilla’s Whepstead 7:30pm Horringer Singers Joy at Christmas! Thursday 3rd January Community Centre 9:15am Mobile Library Six Bells Sunday 16th December 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 11:00am Nine Lessons & Carols St Leonard’s 10:00am WI Pop-up Coffee Shop 3:00pm Carols by Torchlight Community Centre St Mary’s Ickworth 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s 4 Diary — January / February 2019 Diary Dates Saturday 5th January Monday 21st January tbc Bell-ringing Peal St Leonard’s 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s Sunday 6th January 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting 11:00am Morning Prayer, refreshments Community Centre Committee Room afterwards St Leonard’s Thursday 24th January Monday 7th January 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s 3:00pm Tea & Cake St Leonard’s Tuesday 8th January Friday 25th January 9:30am- Hedgehogs re-opens 7:30pm St Edmundsbury In Tune Concert Community Centre Nicholas Martin Community Centre 12:30pm GNS Lunch Club The Plough, Rede Saturday 26th January Thursday 10th January 2:00pm Children’s Nearly New Sale 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s -4:00pm Community Centre 7:30pm Horringer Singers restarts Sunday 27th January Community Centre 9:30am Mobile Library Meadow Drive Sunday 13th January 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s St Leonard’s Thursday 31st January Monday 14th January 9:15am Mobile Library Six Bells 7:30pm Gardening Club Speaker Evening 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s Community Centre 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s Tuesday 15th January Friday 1st February 2:00pm- WI Beetle Drive Spring Diary deadline 4:00pm Community Centre Sunday 3rd February Thursday 17th January 11:00am Morning Prayer, refreshments 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s afterwards St Leonard’s 10:00am Gentle Walkers Ickworth Park Gates Monday 4th February 2:30pm GNS Afternoon Tea with a talk by 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s the Fire Protection Officer of the Tuesday 5th February Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service Community Centre 12:30pm GNS Lunch Club The Plough, Rede 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s 7:30pm WI Belly Dancing Community Centre Sunday 20th January 11:00am All-Age Service, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s 5 Diary — February / March 2019 Diary Dates Thursday 7th February Thursday 28th February 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 9:15am Mobile Library Six Bells 10:00am WI Pop-up Coffee Shop 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s Community Centre 3:00pm Tea & Cake St Leonard’s Sunday 10th February 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards Tuesday 5th March St Leonard’s 12:30pm GNS Lunch Club The Plough, Rede Monday 11th February 7:30pm WI Image and Style Consultant 7:30pm Gardening Club Daffodils – Every Community Centre show has a story Johnny Walkers, Monday 11th March National Daffodil Society Community Centre 7:30pm Gardening Club AGM – Followed by a demonstration Thursday 14th February Community Centre 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 7:30pm Bell-ringing Practice St Leonard’s Sunday 17th February 11:00am All-Age Service, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s Monday 18th February 11:30am Prayer Group St Leonard’s 7:30pm Parish Council Meeting Community Centre Committee Room Thursday 21st February 9:30am Morning Prayer St Leonard’s 10:00am Gentle Walkers Ickworth Park Gates 2:30pm GNS Afternoon Tea Community Centre Friday 22nd February 7:30pm St Edmundsbury In Tune Concert David Ingley Community Centre Sunday 24th February 9:30am Mobile Library Meadow Drive 11:00am Eucharist, refreshments afterwards St Leonard’s 6 News — Horringer-cum-Ickworth Parish Council Parish Council Colin Knight Parish Councillor As we approach the colder part of year, we Highways will be trying to ensure that the grit boxes around the village are topped up and we We would encourage everyone to report offer our thanks in advance to our highways issues, especially potholes, directly volunteers who will help try to make our to Suffolk Highways using the website - roads a little safer for drivers.