Due to the delayed reopening of the Fox & Hounds and a late harvest, the Aunt Sally Tournament is on hold and will be played ASAP.
Whilst still a fair way off, please put Sunday 16th September in your diary as that’s the date we shall celebrate the traditional Harvest Festival Thanksgiving.
This year it will be slightly different for two reasons. Firstly the service will take place in the morning at St Michael’s Church starting at 11am. Then after the service we adjourn across the road to Crown Cottage (by kind invitation of Sue Shepherd) for a ‘bring and share’ lunch.
Please watch out for more details.
Date: 2012-09-16
Location: St Michael’s Church and Crown Cottage, Main Street, Great Gidding
Come and compete in the Luddy-Olympics!
Everyone attending represents their parish. Enter as many events as you like.
Individual events including: brick-lifting, wellie flinging, paper-plate discus etc.
Team events including: Fast walk relay, egg and spoon relay, four-in-a-big-sack race etc.
Also: Wife carrying, husband wheeling and an inter-village tug-o-war finale.
Medal ceremony at 4.30pm
Refreshments available.
Location: Luddington
Start Time: 14:30
Date: 2012-08-11
End Time: 17:00
Great Gidding School is holding its Summer Fete on Saturday 7th July from 12pm onwards. There will be fun things to see and do, as well as lots of food to eat. Please drop by the school if you get a chance and it isn’t raining too hard!
Aunt Sally
The outdoor pub game is back at the Fox & Hounds on Wednesday 11th July. This will be a warm up evening so everyone welcome to come and have a go. The caveat is that it is weather related and given the miserable summer so far, well we can only hope for a dry evening. The pitch will be set up for a 7.30pm start but Gidding time will take preference.
Little Gidding
Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 July 2012
We are pleased to announce that the Seventh Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on Saturday 7 July and Sunday 8 July 2012.
The Festival is a major literary celebration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965). We are delighted to welcome again this year visitors from the T S Eliot International Summer School.
See the programme for the weekend.
Tickets for the weekend are £50 (early-bird price £45 before 8 June 2012), including Saturday afternoon tea and supper and Sunday lunch and tea. Tickets are also available for Saturday and Sunday separately at £25 each day.
You can also download a flyer and order form for tickets and ticket reservations may be sent to eliotfestival@littlegidding.org.uk.
Services for July 2012 at St Michael’s Church, Great Gidding:
Sunday 1st July 11am Holy Communion
Tuesday 3rd July 8am Matins
Tuesday 10th July 8am Matins
Friday 13th July 12 noon Holy Communion (Little Gidding Church)
Sunday 15th July 6pm Evensong
Tuesday 17th July 8am Holy Communion
Sunday 22nd July 11am Family Service
Tuesday 24th July 8am Matins
Sunday 29th July 6pm Evensong [Little Gidding Church]
Presentation by BT about rural broadband
An open invitation to Parishioners to attend a presentation by BT concerning the issues of rural broadband supply to Great Gidding. The meeting is set for Friday22nd June starting at 7pm at the Village Hall.
If you have a question to ask but cant make the meeting please forward it to giddingspc1@btinternet.com
The annual Jubilee Wood Summer Picnic
This will be the 9th annual Summer Picnic. Although the wood was suggested in 2002 planting took place the following spring and the first picnic was held in June of 2003. It has often been cold , wet and miserable but only once have the conditions been so unfavourable to not even venture to the wood.
This year the European Monsoon as its known is again spoiling early summer but we will press on and hold this much loved event.
Sunday 24th June any time after 4pm.
The picnic will be enhanced this year by a few extra goodies on offer.
A folder has been created to list and inform visitors about some of the trees and wild flowers that you can expect to see.
Activity packs for youngsters with a woodland theme.
Weather permitting we will be studying moths either trapped previously or seen live with a moth expert.
Competitions for young and old, prizes to be won!
On the evening of January the 9 th we will be exercising our pagan past with a Wassail
This is an event that has been introduced over the past few years more to reconnect with our rural history and heritage. The format for the evening has changed slightly. The very wet ground in the Jubilee Wood has meant that we will gather at the Village Hall from 7 pm for a Wassail Celebration at 7.30 pm.
Following on with entertainments of the Gidding kind. Please bring apple based drinks – or anything you fancy really and nibbles.