Saints Alive: Stanhoe and Barwick Newsletter

November 2013

Stanhoe & Barwick WI News

Thursday 7th November: at 2:30 pm – our Annual Meeting, when you elect your committee for the forthcoming year. The afternoon includes a participative glasswork demonstration by Mary and Mary – highly recommended!

Monday 11th November: Some members are to attend a seasonal card making session in Docking. If anyone else is interested, please contact Pamela for details on 518033.

Wednesday 13th November at 3:00 pm: afternoon tea at Unique cafe, Castle Rising. Final arrangements to be made at Annual Meeting.

Advance notice:- Friday 13th December: Christmas lunch at the King’s Head, Bircham. Advance booking required.

For further information please contact Geraldine (518025) or Pamela (518033)

Stanhoe Village Screen:-

Fri 15th November at 7:30pm Love Is All You Need (15) (romantic drama): In English and Danish with appropriate subtitles.

Set in the beautiful Italian town of Sorrento, this is a slice of sheer life-affirming magic; a chance of a new beginning for Philip (Pierce Brosnan) is an impossible boor and the irrepressible, courageous and yet very fragile Ida (Trine Dyrholm). A real Gem with comedy and tragedy intertwined.

Tickets £5 on the door to include a complimentary drink.

For further information visit the website: Stanhoe.org (or ring 01485 518191).

Macmillan charity:-

A literary dinner in aid of Macmillan with guest speaker the Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe will be held in King’s Lynn Town Hall on Saturday 16th November 2013. Tickets are £75 each and are available from Mrs Pat Worby, Whitegables, 218 Norwich Rd, Dereham, NR20 3AY, telephone 01362 693245, email: tedpat.worby@yahoo.co.uk

I do hope that you can come. Please put this information round your networks. Best wishes, Peter Coates

Stanhoe Christmas Food Fair:-

Saturday 14th December, 10:00am till 1:00pm in the Reading Room. The perfect opportunity to stock up on home-made Christmas goodies, including cakes, puddings, biscuits, sweets, jams, pickles, chutneys, pot-pourri and more! Coffee, tea and mulled wine will be served. Raffle. Entrance FREE, proceeds from sales will go to All Saints Church, Stanhoe, with a percentage to the MEHM Trust (Reading Room). All contributions welcome – please call Pen Roche on 01485 518324 if you can help!

Brancaster Camera Club:-

We have two club competitions scheduled for November:

Tuesday, 12th November – Annual Digital Competiton to be judged by Allan Livingstone

Tuesday, 26th November – Annual Monochrome Competition (Judge to be announced later)

If you are interested in what we do & would like to come along, we would be pleased to see you in Brancaster Staithe Village Hall at 7:30 pm on each evening.

Contact Jim Till on 01485 210013 or Wendy Calow on 01553 674725

And finally: Some November poems:-

November, by Thomas Hood

No sun – no moon!
No morn – no noon –
No dawn – no dusk – no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member –
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! – November!

November comes, by Clyde Watson

November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.

With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.

The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.