There’s a planned power cut that will affect 29 properties in the village this Tuesday 1st December. The power will go off at 9am and should be back on by noon. The village shop and post office is one of the affected properties and this will affect what the post office can do, but the shop will remain open. UK Power Networks have told this website that if you haven’t received a letter about the planned power cut, then you electricity will stay on. In an update they said that the notified time of 1pm to 4pm has changed to 9am until noon. It’s needed to upgrade some equipment. For more information check out www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk or tweet @ukpowernetworks It’s incident ref: 60953487/INCD-4000325-B. Call 01462-832557/0800-7838838/0333-2022021 for more info Alternatively their emergency faults number is 0800 316 3105, this free for landlines and mobiles.
As we make our way toward Christmas, join us on Monday mornings at Haslingfield Vicarage between 10.30am-12pm, starting Mon 30th November when we will pause amidst the busyness of the season and create something special for Christmas.
As of 3.00 p.m. today (Wednesday), there are 6 tickets left for tomorrow night’s performance of the Little Theatre panto, Mother Goose (Thursday 26th Nov) and 3 for Saturday night (28th Nov). Ticket price £9 /£6 concessions (no concessions Saturday night).
If you’d like to buy any of them, please ring the Box Office on: 01223 514849.
Tomorrow, Saturday 21st November, from 3-7 pm there will be a Christmas Gift Event at the Little Rose. Elsa from Frozen will be there from 3.30 – 4.30pm to sing and read stories to your children.
The idea is that you can buy all your Christmas presents in one go, while supporting not only Little Owls but also local businesses. Here’s who will be there: Read more
On Saturday 12th December from 11.30 am – 1.30 pm, Haslingfield Primary School will be holding its Christmas Fayre. There will be Santa’s Grotto, Stalls, a Raffle, Carol Singing, Teas, Hot Dogs, Pulled Park, Sing-along Frozen and Mulled Wine.
If you haven’t yet bought your tickets for the Haslingfield Little Theatre panto, Mother Goose, which is on at the Village Hall next week, 26, 27 and 28 November – online tickets are available for the Thursday night performance only. To buy your tickets online, please click here.
If you’d like tickets for the Friday or Saturday night performances, there are still a few tickets available for these dates in Haslingfield Village Shop and Country Kitchen. However, the Saturday matinee is completely sold out.
The Haslingfield Allotment Gardeners Association (HAGA) is holding its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 8th December in the Little Rose Pub in the village from 7.30pm. We are looking for new members and anyone interested in helping with the allotments which are on the road to Harston. The site is currently fully occupied and no waiting list. Anyone with green fingers is welcome.
Please find details of work carried out on behalf of Highways England to improve the A14 and the M11 near Haslingfield. The work will commence on Monday 16 November.
The new owners of the Village Shop take charge from this Monday 16th November. Conrad Golding and Carol have run the Village Shop for the last 9 years and this Sunday will be their last day. The shop will be closed on Monday morning and should open sometime Monday afternoon after the Post Office has carried out an audit. For more details on the new owners and their plans, click Read More:-
Enjoy a three course Christmas Meal at the Little Rose Pub for £18-95 for adults or £10-50 for Children. Includes full vegetarian and gluten free options plus the traditional Turkey Breast and Christmas Pudding. Available from 1st December until 22nd December inclusive. Don’t hesitate to contact the pub if you’d prefer something different, either email: littlerosepub@yahoo.co.uk or call: 01223-870618. For the full menu and booking form click the link below:-
The next meeting to make plans for a village celebration on 11th and 12th June 2016 will be held in the Methodist Church this Wednesday 11th November at 7.30pm.
Tentative plans for a fancy dress parade, round-the-village race, giant “Street Party” on the Rec, “Great British Bake Off”. “Haslingfield’s Got Talent”, Church service on Sunday and Scarecrows around the village. Read more
The Little Rose pub recently played host to Siv Sears. He’s set himself a target of playing cribbage in every county in the UK and then perhaps setting up a national Cribbage competition. He’s a 38 year old Englishman with a passion for Cribbage. Having just returned to his native UK from China, where he’s have lived for most of the last 15 years, he’s been interested to find that Crib in the UK is very much locally organised, rather than both nationally and locally organised as he’s seen before in the States. As such, he’s set himself 4 goals. To see them, click Read More:-
