A Nice Place To Be
Where did June go? Well clearly it was busy, so if you need to wind down, chill or catch your breath why not come to the Coffee Morning in the Village Hall at 10.30 this Saturday 28th June. Be lovely to see you and as always, cakes, tea, coffee and good company. What’s not to like?
As you know we have had an incredibly successful project to preserve the very valuable collection created by Geoff Butter over the last 50 years. We now have our wonderful Adderley Heritage Website with all these items digitised for you to enjoy, plus stories and memories from people who live in or lived in Adderley. The Heritage Trail is well walked and comments suggest, much enjoyed, by many people and will be there to remind us of our heritage for many years to come.
As we reach the end of our funding, the heritage project can continue and it would be lovely to know if people would be interested in joining in via a Local History Group to continue to add to our history. If you would like to explore how you might be able to get involved in some way please contact Val or Paul Nash for a chat.
Yes, almost the last Saturday in the month. Come along to the village hall for a nice cuppa and slice of cake and, this month, a chance to grab a plant or two, or donate a plant or two to share around the village.
We are hoping that people will find this a useful way to distribute surplus plants that they may have and help each other out to fill those spaces that we all find about now in the flower bed or veg patch.
Coffee morning starts at 10.30 but if you want to pop any plants down we will be there from 10.00 am
Many thanks and see you on Saturday.
The Adderley Quizmas raised an amazing £450 for Hope House Childrens Hospice – thank you to everyone who took part. However, we have thought of a way to make this an even bigger donation if you are interested.
We wondered if you would like a copy of the quiz to share with family and friends and raise even more? We’ve posted a link to the full quiz here on this page – just click to open the quiz and you can share it with loved ones as a bit of a challenge and some fun.
Our only request is that you make a small donation to Hope House via this link If you can reference Quizmas in your donation that would be great too but if not, just the fact that you are doing this would be an amazing thing for this wonderful charity. To find out more about the wonderful work they do click on the video on Slide 3 in the quiz to hear Kat from Hope House talking about some of the amazing things they do for families in Shropshire.
PLEASE PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK WITH EVERYONE YOU CAN. The more people who know about this, the more chance there is that we can raise even more for Hope House. Thank you very much. When you see the file click on the download button on the toolbar.
Not content with entertaining you all with the Adderley Switch On, we now bring you another opportunity to get together (virtually) with the Great Adderley Christmas Quiz! Details to follow later, but can you put the date in your diary now for a family entertainment on Friday 18th December, 7.15 for 7.30pm Its going to be good, just wait til you hear who is going to host the quiz!
We can’t sing carols to raise money for Hope House Childrens Hospice this year, so we hope you will join us on the quiz with all donations to Hope House. That would be lovely.
One sleep, just one sleep until he gets here to check out our lights! Who won’t sleep tonight?
Lights are up, polished and shiny and plugged in and ready for inspection
Village Tree is up, decorated and lights are on ready for switch on
Santa has been in touch to confirm he’s definitely coming with 4 elves
Listen out for the Christmas Music as Santa comes round, and make sure those elves see your Christmas lights to check they are working well.
He should be around between 6.30 and 7.00 pm so be ready
Listen…? What was that…? No, too soon. Get to sleep now.
Oh my goodness! Its getting closer! SwitchOn is nearly here. In fact its only NINE more sleeps until Santa is coming to check out our lights and Switch on our Christmas Tree. I don’t know about you, but the excitement in our house is mounting all the time! Decorations to make, windows to decorate and lights to put up in the garden…… Its just non-stop!
When is the tree going up for our decorations?
Its all hands on deck this Saturday morning (28th Nov) when some volunteers are getting together by the village hall to raise the tree and anchor it in position. After that they will put a temporary fence around the tree ready for you to come down on Sunday morning (29th Nov) to hang your decorations on the tree.
When can I put my decoration on the tree?
If you can come down between 10.00 am and 1.00pm on Sunday morning there will be someone there to help you but if you can’t make it then, please leave your decorations in the box in the Bus Shelter at the end of Rectory Lane and we will pick them up to take down and hang on the tree. If you can put your name on your decoration that would be lovely. Please make sure you have attached something that will allow you to tie your decoration on to the tree securely. It can get very windy down there and we don’t want to lose yours.
What about the decorations at my house?
We really want everyone to have their Christmas lights and any Window Wonderland displays ready for the big SwitchOn on Friday 4th December. We think he will start his tour at about 6.30 on Station Road and then visit all the roads in the village from there. Santa has been in touch and confirmed that he is definitely coming to inspect our Adderley lights display – so exciting. He will tour around the village, with some of his elves and as he goes past he wants you to put on your Christmas lights so that he can check they are going to be bright enough for Rudolph to see on Christmas Eve.
Can I go down to watch Santa switch on the lights on the tree at the village hall?
We would love to say yes! But right now we are unsure what the rules are going to be about public gatherings, so we are suggesting that houses with children have priority, and, if they feel its safe to do so, parents can take their children down to the Green for just before 7.00pm, stay socially distanced and watch Santa do the SwitchOn. We are asking all other adults to stay away, and perhaps come down later in the evening to admire the tree and amble around the village to see everyone’s lights and window displays in a safe and socially distanced way.
We thought you might like a few ideas for inspiration if you are thinking of decorating a window for the Adderley Christmas Lights. These links will take you to some images to inspire adults or children and some of them are really easy to achieve at very little cost.
https://christmas.snydle.com/christmas-window-decorations-ideas.html
https://www.digsdigs.com/55-awesome-christmas-window-decor-ideas/
(We love the robins on the branch on this link!)
If you have the Pinterest App you will be brimming with ideas from all the posts on there, but here is a link to a sample to view. If you are inspired you can download the Pinterest App and see how they were created.
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/blindsgalore/holidays-window-ideas/
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