With the festive season just two
weeks away, here is a selection of Christmas goodies.
In this issue:
- Christmas Services
- Christmas & New Year at The Swan Inn
- Friends of St James’ Christmas Cards
- Christmas Bin Collections
- Christmas Photo Quiz, Part 1
- Drainage Update
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1. Christmas Services
The Carol Service takes place on Sunday 16th December at
6.00pm in St James’ Church (led by Revd Alma Organ). The service will be
followed by refreshments in the Village Hall. Come along and join in singing
traditional carols.
The Christingle and Blessing of the Crib will be held
in the church on Monday 24th December at 4.00pm (with Peter Stansbie
officiating).
Christmas Holy Communion (with Canon Richard Etheridge)
takes place at 10.30am on Christmas
Day.
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2. Christmas & New Year at The Swan
Inn
Zoe Haines writes:
We
have a festive two- and three-course menu available until 24th December,
lunchtime and evening. Please ask at the bar for the menu or go online. But
don’t worry, the normal a la carte and fish blackboard will still be available
throughout.
And this New Year’s Eve join us for an evening of
celebrations to welcome in 2019. Doors open from 7.00pm, with a delicious
two-course buffet, to include favourites from our menu, from 8.30pm; then the
rest of the night is yours to be merry and dance the night away. Tickets are £25
to include entry, two-course buffet and a glass of bubbly at
midnight.
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3. Friends of St James’ Christmas
Cards
The Friends of St James’
Christmas card is still available. The card, featuring a stunning photograph of
the Church of St James taken this September by Mark Waidson of the Birlingham
Photography Club, can be viewed at www.birlingham.org/pics/christmas_card_2018.png.
If
you would like to order cards, please contact any of these members of the
Friends of St James’ with details of the number required and delivery
address:
Caryl Mills; caryl-mills@hotmail.co.uk
Felicity Collier; ifcollier@hotmail.com
Ali Hastings; alihastings31@gmail.com
Maryanne Dyer; maryanne.dyer@courthouse.online
Cards
are A5 size. They are blank inside for your own message, and identify the church
and the photographer at the rear.
The price is £1/card, £4.50 for 5
cards, £8.50 for 10 cards. All cards come with
envelope.
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4. Christmas Bin
Collections
The next collection of
green and brown bins is on Saturday 22nd December (three days earlier than
usual). On that day, you can also leave out up to two extra clear recycling
sacks. Clear recycling sacks will be available from the Birlingham phone box or
from Pershore Civic Centre.
Full details of Christmas collections are
available at www.birlingham.org/docs/wychavon_christmas_2018.pdf.
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5. Christmas Photo Quiz, Part
1
Our New Zealand correspondent,
Walter Fielding-Cotterell, has provided a photo quiz for Christmas. He has sent
a photograph of a villager carrying out a threshing operation somewhere in the
area. The photo can be viewed at www.birlingham.org/pics/threshing.jpg.
If
you can shed any light on who is pictured, where and when, please let us know at
news@birlingham.org.
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6. Drainage Update
The Parish Clerk writes:
In the last update I wrote
that for the majority of the time, during daylight hours, the only access into
the village will be via New Barn Road.
Advance road signs are in place on
the A4104 Pershore Road. A controlled barrier system is operating for the HGVs
to the farms in order to avoid their use of the New Barn Road
diversion.
The gang have asked that vehicles and their drivers heed the
road closure order. They have been making the road ‘safe’ for passage when they
are not in the area (twilight and overnight) but at other times it is for their
safety whilst working in the highway digging trenches and building new manholes.
I have been made aware that the barriers are being removed by
villagers.
Please drive slowly and carefully for Birlingham’s
sake.
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