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Saturday the 8^th June was D Day at Adderley Village Hall. There was a superb transformation of the hall and all credit to Phil & Carol Gadd and Ben Wrathall.

We entered through war time posters and heritage boards showing Adderley at war, the Home Guard and the prisoners of war at Adderley Hall working on the farms.

Through from the bar into the main room via a camouflaged net tunnel an impressive sight greeted us with the 13 flags of all the D Day participating countries hanging from the walls and the illuminated “Lest we Forget Soldiers”.

Flags, poppies and mess tins were on the tables. The stage was set with TV screens showing a rolling sequence of the beaches and the landings.

Andrew Swindale gave a short talk on D Day and its vital role in liberating Western Europe and the role of The Kings Shropshire Light Infantry and their part in taking the German surrender from Grand Admiral Dönitz on the 7^th of May 1945.

Music was provided by the excellent Terry and his TJQ band of keyboard, saxophonist and Jan singing all the old songs plus some pre-war jazz.

Food was provided by a team from “Master Chef” with recipes from the ration book and consisted of hot pot and bread and butter followed by a delicious array of appropriate puds:  bread and butter pudding, trifle, pineapple upside down cake, apple pie, fruit salad and poor man’s pudding.

Thanks to Paul and Val Nash for providing the Heritage Boards for the D Day event.

The bar was selling well and there had to be an emergency resupply of Guinness which entailed Phil travelling to rear entrance at Morrisons.

Thank you to all who helped to make this D Day evening so entertaining and memorable.

Last week we posted information about communications from BT saying that they thought we were leaving them for another supplier. We later learned that people with Sky were also affected by these spurious e-mails. If you missed it you can read the piece here.

We contacted BT who said they didn’t know who had requested the change (companies can do that?) but they had cancelled it. Then on Wednesday we had a letter through the post telling us, again, that we were leaving BT. We contacted them again and, yes, the system said we were leaving to a company called IVS, who don’t seem to exist. This time we escalated, got an apology and reassurances that it was definitely cancelled.

What happened next? We were put in touch with OfCOM. They told us that the practice was called Slamming where a third party cancelled your line without your permission and then offers you a new service. How can this happen? OfCOM are now investigating. If you have been a victim of this Slamming you are urged to contact OfCOM 0207 981 3040. They were very helpful and have promised a response in the next 5 days. We wait and see.