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Village Notices for 29 March 2022

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For those of you on the mailing list, we’re sorry for the glitch in the email subject line of last Thursday’s Village Notices. Teething troubles, now fixed – we hope!

A reminder for two up and coming events …….

Thursday 31st March – Gaddesden Society Talk, Village Hall 8.15pm

Jaipur Literary Festival

Postponed from 2020, we are pleased to welcome Terri Adams and Suzi Banerji of Little Gaddesden Book Club for their talk on the Jaipur Literary Festival.  Terri and Suzi have kindly agreed to brush of their talk of their visit, harking back to a simpler time of travel and exploration!

Doors open: 8pm, talk commences 8.15pm

Entry fee £1 including cheese and wine

Everyone welcome

Saturday 2nd April – Village Produce Market, Village Hall  – 9.30 to 12.30

Lots of lovely varied local produce, crafts, bric a brac, plants, candles, and not forgetting the bargain breakfast baps with a cuppa for just £3.

Free entry ….. and a very warm welcome

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Village Notices for 24 March 2022

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Welcome to your new look Little Gaddesden Village Notices! The contents will be much as before, but the presentation has been sharpened up and made more attractive and easier to read ⏤ at least, those are our intentions. If you’ve got something of village interest that you would like to be included next time, please email Mandy Haynes at village.notices@littlegaddesden.org.uk.

For subscribers to the mailing list, the notices are now emailed to you by our mailing partner Mailchimp. And, for everyone, they’re also available to refer to on the Village Notices page of…

Our New Website

We’re pleased to say that The Gaddesden Society’s new website is now up and running at littlegaddesden.org.uk. We hope you find it both useful and usable, so feel free to have a look around. While the site is still new, the front page includes an Our New Website section containing an introduction to the new site’s contents and highlighting the principal changes from the old site. It also tells you how to report any glitches that you find.

Thursday 31st March – Gaddesden Society Talk, Village Hall 8.15pm

Jaipur Literary Festival

Postponed from 2020, we are pleased to welcome Terri Adams and Suzi Banerji of Little Gaddesden Book Club for their talk on the Jaipur Literary Festival.  Terri and Suzi have kindly agreed to brush of their talk of their visit, harking back to a simpler time of travel and exploration!

Doors open: 8pm, talk commences 8.15pm

Entry fee £1 including cheese and wine

Everyone welcome

Saturday 2nd April – Village Produce Market, Village Hall  – 9.30 to 12.30

Lots of lovely varied local produce, crafts, bric a brac, plants, candles, and not forgetting the bargain breakfast baps with a cuppa for just £3.

Free entry ….. and a very warm welcome

Celebrating the Queen’s 70 year reign

Most people are aware of the fantastic fun packed celebrations the village is organising in June.  The main events will be held on the sports fields on the Sunday. Now here is the question.

There will be a very large marquee available for a village party on Saturday evening. It would seem a real shame not to use it. Who out there would be up for a party? Help would be needed to set up and clear up and probably the easiest option would be to get ‘street’ food sales option. Pay bar can be sorted.

Please message me if you think it would be a good idea, if you would come with friends and if you could help in any way.

Let’s throw off the covid blues and party.

Sarah Gall
Email: sarahgaddesden@aol.com

Little Gaddesden Art Club & Jubilee Weekend

Draw or Paint a Picture of Our Queen!

Little Gaddesden Art Club are inviting all children in the village to draw or paint a picture of our Queen on A4 paper (no larger please). How do you see her: with a crown, without a crown, in a beautiful hat, riding her horse or with the family? 

These will be displayed at the Art Club Summer Exhibition over the Jubilee weekend in the Village Hall. 

A project for the Easter holidays, perhaps?

Please deliver these to Virginia Westmacott at 2 Hudnall Common NO LATER than FRIDAY 13th MAY.

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Village Notices for 17 March 2022

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New Gaddesden Society Website Progress

We ‘soft launched’ the new website a week ago, on Thursday 10 March 2022. We’ve called it a Beta test version as not everything is complete yet, but we’re getting there. In particular:

Clubs and Institutions

We now have approved texts and images for the web pages for most of the village Clubs and Institutions – just a few to go.

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Progress

We are making progress on integrating the Village Notices emails with the Village Notices page on the site. For reasons that are too boring to go into, that couldn’t be done before the site went live. In fact this Village Notices post that you’re reading now is part of the testing programme for the integration process: if the system works as intended, the post is being sent automatically by email to a few guinea pig recipients – they know who they are! If this and other tests are successful, the system will be rolled out generally, and then Village Notices will be available for reference on the Village Notices page as well as appearing in your email inbox.

Contact Details

We are often asked to include in Village Notices contact details such as phone numbers and email addresses. We’ll continue to do that on request, but please bear in mind that any contact details that you ask us to include will be available online on the Village Notices page as well as being circulated to everyone on the mailing list.

Any questions, please email Andrew Sheard at wp-admin@littlegaddesden.org.uk.

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Village Notices for 4 March 2022

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Saturday 5th March – Village Produce Market, Village Hall  – 9.30 to 12.30

Lots of lovely varied local produce, crafts, bric a brac, plants, candles, and not forgetting the bargain breakfast baps with a cuppa for just £3.

Free entry ….. and a very warm welcome

Thursday 31st March – Gaddesden Society Talk, Village Hall 8.15pm

Jaipur Literary Festival

Postponed from 2020, we are pleased to welcome Terri Adams and Suzie Banerji for their talk on the Jaipur Literary Festival.  Terri and Suzie have kindly agreed to brush off their talk of their visit, harking back to a simpler time of travel and exploration!

Doors open: 8pm, talk commences 8.15pm

Entry fee £1 including cheese and wine

Everyone welcome

Thursday 28th April – Gaddesden Society Film Night, Village Hall

Join us for a screening of “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”, a highly rated comedy starring George Clooney.   Further details to follow.

The Gaddesden Gallop – Sunday 1st May, Church Road playing fields, 10.30am

Those wishing to enter please follow the link: https://www.entrycentral.com/gaddesdengallopFOLGS

If running isn’t really your thing but you’d like to support the event by marshalling, then please get in touch with Claire Owen (claire@sixcoronationvillas.com) or 07980 614160

If you have any queries about the event, then please contact friendsoflgschool@gmail.com

SAVE THE DATE – Weds 25th May, Village Hall – the Little Gaddesden Folk, Roots & Blues Club

Live @ the Village Hall – Everyone welcome

Email:  theLGfolkclub@icloud.com to find out more

Gaddesden Diary Advertising 

We are seeking someone to help us with the advertising in the Gaddesden Diary.  It is not an onerous task as many of the advertisers remain constant.  If you think you might be able to help out, please contact Phil Heaphy philiph@audiolink.co.uk

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Village Notices for 8 February 2022

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Don’t forget to get your entry forms in for the VPA Winter Show

Saturday 12th February – VPA Winter Show – Village Hall, 2.30pm

The Winter Show is back on 12th February after missing out last year and we are keen to have as many entries as possible and to get that village feel-good factor going again.

We will have all your usual favourites, Vegetables, Floral Art, Photography, Children’s Classes, Pets, Preserves, Wines & Spirits & Cookery including of course the Gentleman’s Cake Class

The show schedule explaining all the classes and including the online entry form is now available at https://lgvpa.org Entries need to be in by midnight on 9th Feb.

If you need a paper copy there will be some at the Village Shop/Post Office or contact any of the Committee.

We would love to make this show a real success, so please do enter, especially if this is your first time. We have simplified the vegetable section this year, as a trial, to make it attractive to everyone, you don’t have to be a regular exhibitor, just join in the fun. Entries need to be put in place on the morning of the show, between 9am and 10.45 and then judging begins at 11am.

There will be tea/coffee and cake for sale and we hope you can join us at 2.30pm with raffle and prize giving at 3.30pm. Entry is just £1 for adults, free to under 16’s. See you there!

Your VPA Committee

Saturday 5th March – Village Produce Market, Village Hall  – 9.30 to 12.30

Lots of lovely varied local produce, crafts, bric a brac, plants, and not forgetting the bargain breakfast baps and a cuppa for just £3.

Free entry ….. and a very warm welcome

SAVE THE DATE – Weds 25th May, Village Hall – the Little Gaddesden Folk, Roots & Blues Club

Live @ the Village Hall – Everyone welcome

Email:  theLGfolkclub@icloud.com to find out more

Gaddesden Diary Advertising 

We are seeking someone to help us with the advertising in the Gaddesden Diary.  It is not an onerous task as many of the advertisers remain constant.  If you think you might be able to help out, please contact Phil Heaphy philiph@audiolink.co.uk