Amount Raised – Cream Tea at the Dovecote
September’s cream tea afternoon at the Dovecote in Haslingfield raised £720 for Parkinson’s UK. Many thanks to all who came.
MONTHLY Green Bin Collections during the Winter
South Cambridgeshire District Council have announced changes to our Green Bin Collection during the months of December, January and February. Starting this Friday 21 November, our green bins will be emptied monthly, instead of fortnightly.
To find out more, please click on this link: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/bin-changes To see the collection dates for all bins during this period, please click on the link here: https://www.scambs.gov.uk/content/friday-0. The dates can also be found on the calendar and what’s on section of the website.
LOST
Felling Axe
From Glebe Wood
Thursday 13 November.
Return would be much appreciated
Glebe Maintenance Gang
01223 871002
Local Author gets First Book Published
Haslingfield’s own, Ruth Hatfield, has just had her first novel published by Hot Key Books in the UK. It will also be published in the USA in January 2015. Ruth was born and brought up in Haslingfield and went to the village school and Comberton Village College before starting her career as an archaeologist. She now lives in Cambridge but comes back to the relative peace of Haslingfield several times a week to write. Click Read More below for more details. Read more
Xmas Meals at the Pub
Little Rose Pub
For £10-95 you can have a two course special Christmas Meal at the Little Rose Pub every Sunday lunchtime from now until the end of December. This is a saving of nearly £4-00 on the pub’s usual Sunday Lunches including pudding. You can choose from Turkey, Beef, Chicken and a Vegetarian option, and the price includes desert. There is a discount for children’s Christmas Meals. The Rose serves Sunday Lunches from noon until 3pm every Sunday. The pub is open 7 days a week from noon until late, and it serves food from 4pm until 9pm from Mondays to Fridays and from noon until 9pm on Saturdays.
NEXT FILM CLUB MEETING – TONIGHT!
7.30pm on Friday 7th November 2014Methodist Church Rooms
Film running time 95min, Certificate U. There will be subtitles for the hard of hearing and a break for refreshments halfway through. To avoid having a fixed charge for each evening we have opted (for copyright reasons) not to advertise details of the films publicly. As an alternative we ask for a donation from those attending to cover the cost of the film, tea, ground coffee, biscuits and use of the room. Please invite friends and let me know if you would like to be included on the email list for details of forthcoming films.
Armistice Day 1918
Unsurprisingly, Armistice Day in Cambridge in November 1918 was as raucous an affair as elsewhere. The Cambridge Chronicle reported:
The news reached Cambridge about 11 o’clock, and spread like wildfire. The first signal was given by the hoisting of the Union Jack at the Town Hall [now the Guildhall], and the churches and colleges quickly followed suit in setting joy-bunting floating. In a few moments youngsters were shrilly cheering in the streets … With feverish speed all Cambridge hung out bunting, and women and children bedecked themselves with miniatures flags or trappings of red, white and blue.
An effigy of the Kaiser was paraded around the town. Unfortunately the bells of Great St. Mary’s failed to ring because a group of over-enthusiastic youths damaged them, but there was no such problem in Haslingfield. The bells there rang for two hours from noon.
Pub November Madness
Little Rose Pub
During the whole of November, the Little Rose Pub is offering 20% off all meals Monday to Saturday. Also, for its Sunday Lunches, whenever you pay for two adult meals, you’ll get a children’s Sunday Lunch for free. The price of a Sunday Lunch is Adults £8-95 and Children £5-95. The weekday menu also has a wide range of Children’s meals, all costing £3-00. The pub is now open from noon every day of the week and is serving food from 4pm until 9pm Mondays to Fridays, on Saturdays from noon until 9pm with special Sunday Lunches from noon until 3pm. Click on the link to see the full menu including prices… Pub Menu
EVENING CONCERT
Music by J.S. Bach and his son C.P.E. Bach
Lisete da Silva – Baroque Flute
Robin Walker – Organ
Friday 31st October 2014 @ 7.30 pm
Haslingfield Methodist Church, High Street, Cambs CB23 1JW
Tickets £10, under 16s free, in advance from The Village Shop, or on the door, or call 01223 872862
Longer Pub Opening Hours
Little Rose Pub
From today (Monday 27th October) the Little Rose Pub is now open from Noon until Late 7 days a week. It’s also selling food from Noon until 9pm Mondays to Saturdays and Traditional Sunday Lunches from Noon until 3pm on Sundays. As the village’s last pub is now a proper, true Freehouse, it serves a range of at least 3 real ales, plus the usual lagers, wines and spirits as well as Teas, Coffees and soft drinks. The pub also sells a wide range of Children’s meals for just £3-00 alongside a special selection of children’s drinks. It welcomes families with children of any age.
Any village club, society or group are welcome to use the newly decorated Lounge bar for meetings or get togethers for free. Simply turn up when the pub is open and make yourself at home.
Click Read More for more details on what beer and cider the pub is selling this week…
SATURDAY: Live Music at the Little Rose
Little Rose Pub
Live Music with Billy Jester aka Jockey Jim or Jimbo from the Elms in Haslingfield at the Little Rose Pub this Saturday 25th October. Free Entry. Music Starts at 8.30pm. This is the first of a series of events being held at the village’s only Pub in the run-up to Christmas. To see the full list of events, click on Read More…
Pub Petanque Team Win League
The Little Rose Petanque Team have finished the season as League Champions. The team also had a great finals day, winning both the Doubles Competition as well as the Triples competition. For more information, click on Read More…
Barrington Cement Plans Published
The planning application by Cemex to build up to 220 houses on the site of the Barrington cement works is now in. You can see the details on the South Cambridgeshire District Council website here:
http://plan.scambs.gov.uk/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=S/2365/14/OL
Click Read More to see more details
GLEBE WOOD LOSS
Some likely lads recently stole a large section of tree trunk from a bank in the Glebe Wood opposite the parish church. In the spirit of village togetherness let’s hope it went towards keeping their dear old mother warm as winter draws on. But we hope that the habit will not spread. The management plan for this bit of woodland includes felling the occasional wild damson tree to make room for planting a variety of species, and we use the timber to edge the footpath. Anything ‘just lying there’ has a purpose and is not surplus to requirements.
Glebe Gang
October 2014