5. Desserts
Traditional Christmas Pudding & Brandy Sauce
Raspberry & Chocolate Bombe with Coulis (V)
Lemon Sponge Melting Pudding (V)
Caramel Apple Pie (GF)(V)
s Festive Cheese Board (V) £3 supplement
6. Coffee & Mince Pie to Finalise (V)
Please call to book, then fill in the Pre-order form & return to us with the deposit payment of £10.00 December 2022.
Please let us know of any dietary requirements/ Allergies. For more information and to Book call us
EVENTS in December
Watch the Chalk Boards
Staff Vacancies
Bar staff wanted Call 01234 838330
Everyone from The Five Bells would like to wish all our customers a Very Merry Christmas.
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Cople Sports & Social Club
Christmas Party Night
16th December 2022
Baropens6.30pm
Live music with: -
Philla & Donna Samuels
Come for a dance & have fun
Christmas Raffle All Welcome
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Tuesday Club
Linda Scoles, After Dinner Speaker, Storyteller, Singer. A real tonic as we hit the cold winter months. Linda is American who came to England in 1971 with her husband Jim, who was an officer in the US Air Force. Once her husband retired, they decided to stay in Suffolk with their four children. Linda draws on family experiences travelling the world, living in foreign countries & on growing up on a ranch near Washington, Arizona. Her late husband Jim particularly enjoyed Christmas. Linda always tried to think of unique gifts to give to him. One Christmas she made Jim so proud when she gave birth to their first son!
Using comedy & positivity to avert many a crisis, she regaled us with many more delightful tales delivered in her own unique style.
Our next meeting will be at the Five Bells, Cople for our Christmas celebration. Tuesday 13th December 7.00pm for 7.30pm. (Bookings are now closed). Looking forward to seeing you all there.
2023 10th January will be our AGM, we will welcome Barry Goodman, giving an illustrated talk on some of the more unusual English Customs with songs and pictures! Sounds super interesting. Everyone will be made most welcome please come and support us.
Eithne Dandy.
Mother’s Union
Last month we met at a member’s house & as Jill had attended a Cluster Meeting, we put together the programme of Cluster & Cople Group Events for 2023.
In the summer, all our knitting & sewing items were collected in * sent for distribution locally & overseas.
Below is a breakdown of what we sent:Overseas—44 jumpers, 17 blankets, 26 hats & 3 pairs of mittens. Hospital—23 hats, 8 blankets, 5 sets of Bonding Cloths. Altogether a total of 126 items all knitted or sewn by Cople Members & friends. Again, our thanks go to all who have contributed to our projects.
At our festive meeting on 12th December, we shall be singing carols & enjoying mince pies at a venue to be confirmed.
Liz Buck
Prayer
Lord, bring hope to the hopeless, including those in trouble today, & comfort to the sick & those who suffer in mind, body & spirit. Be with all those who are finding it difficult to cope with the pressures of the season, through financial worry, anxiety, stress or discord.
(M.U. Prayer Diary)
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Annual Gardening Quiz – Win An Hour’s Gardening!
Thank you very much to everyone that has contributed to this column over the past year. Your questions, comments, suggestions & observations are always fascinating & as I often say, the hope is always that by addressing a particular concern for one reader it might also be useful for others. So, please keep them coming.
It’s that time of the year again for the Annual Gardening Quiz! Complete the answers & if yours is the first one pulled out of the bag, you win an hour’s gardening time from yours truly!
But before that, a couple of Parish Notices as it were:Apologies to anyone who has tried to contact me via my land line recently. I have had huge problems with my home telephone which BT addressed with all of their erm, renowned speed & efficiency! After around a month & 4 hours or of phone calls with them, thankfully, it is now working again.
The answer to last month’s just for fun question is: - your beds are still full of very happy looking summer bedding plants, but you need to plant bulbs & wallflowers to brighten up the winter months. What do you do? In short, sadly, they have to be removed.
So, if you are sitting comfortably, here is this year’s quiz: -
1. Which plant takes its name from the Italian phrase for beautiful women?
2. Which grain is used to make semolina?
3. Which plant, widespread in Britain, if touched causes a serious chemical reaction which makes skin hypersensitive to ultraviolet light?
4. Which kings lived at Kew Palace at Kew Gardens?
5. Which garden plant in the 17th century was exchanged as a form of currency?
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6. What is the art of cutting shrubs into ornamental shapes called?
7. Soil can be acidic, alkaline or what?
8. Where is the biggest tree in the world, giant sequoia, found?
9. What fruit hit, or more likely fell, near Isaac Newton and helped him develop the law of gravity?
10. I am a woody stemmed plant, usually branched near the base and lacking a single trunk …. What am I?
11. On which continent did broccoli originate?
12. What herb beginning with ‘A’ has soothing properties?
13. Roughly, how many varieties of avocado are there? 5, 50, 500 or 5,000?
14. For how long can seeds remain dormant? Months, a few days, years or one season?
15. How long does it take to produce asparagus the first time you plant it?
Entries can be posted to Lawn Doctor Garden Services, 14 Sand Lane, Northill, SG18 9AD or emailed to LawnDocGardens@aol.com, but must be received by 15th January 2023.
Best wishes all for a Merry Christmas and a very Happy & Healthy New Year.
Lawn Doctor Garden Services
Clearance, Redesign, Maintenance
Tel: 01767 627 581 or 07796 328 855
Email: LawnDocGardens@aol.com
Tree Care, Planting, Weeding, Hedge Trimming, Turfing, Jungle Clearing, Landscaping, Lawn Improvement, Patio/Drive Pressure Washing/ Weedkilling, Holiday Watering etc., etc.
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Village Contacts
Knit & Stitch
Contact: Hazel Shreeves
Tel: 01234 838817
Mothers Union
Contact: Jill Ebbs
Tel: 01234 838659
Cople Village Trust
Chair: Catherine Bayliss
Tel: 01234 838704
Cople Sports & Social Club
Chair: David Hughes
Tel: 01234 838669
Tuesday Club
Contact: Joy Duthie
Tel: 01234 838407
Cople Carpet Bowls Club
Contact: Pauline Baynes
Tel: 01234 838102
We will remember them
Cople Web Site
Contact: Ian Whiting
Tel: 01234 838347
Email: ian@cople.org.uk
Web Site: www.cople.org.uk
Village Agent
Wendy Worgan
Tel:0800 039 1234
Mobile: 07717 269440
wendyw@bedsrcc.org.uk
Cople Parish Council
Clerk: Anne Pape
Tel: 01234 376645
clerk@cople-pc.gov.uk
https://cople-pc.gov.uk/
60 people attended the joint Remembrance Sunday service at Cople.
The church was beautifully decorated with poppies inside and out (those on the wall outside were put up by GNIC –Good Neighbours in Cople)
John Cambers read out the names of those soldiers who died in the two world wars from Willington.
Mike Vacher read out the names from Cople. The Last Post was played followed by a 2 minute silence
The service ended with the National Anthem. Refreshments were served after the service and it was good to see so many staying behind to chat. Thank you to all those who attended.
Cople Village Hall & Playing Field
Available for hire for parties, meetings, conferences etc.
Main Hall and/or Committee Room - hire charge from £10 per hour.
Bookings Officer, Laura Saunders please email if possible
villagehallenquiries@cople.org.uk or phone 07967 830790
Website: www.cople.org.uk/village hall
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