December Newsletter

Village People Cath Thomas now of Aylsham but previously of Wickmere has spent the last year visiting places east: she has been to Vilnius,Tallinn and Riga. Next stop Prague.

Derek Wintle of Little Barningham organised the recent casserole evening but was too ill to attend himself! Michael Gandy and Debbie Love stepped into the breech and helped make it brilliantly successful - raising over £400! It is good to be able to report that Derek is now well on the mend.

David Green’s new house in Corpusty has a splendid and even newer front garden fence and gates.

Belated congratulations to (Ara)bella Peaver who is back from having driven with two friends all the way from Edgefield to Mongolia in a very small car for charity.

They raised over £2,000 for Water Aid and a Mongolian orphanage and left the car there to help!

Congratulations too to Dawn Maydon (and, of course, Derek) of Itteringham on the safe and happy birth of Florence, their grand-daughter.

Here’s a coincidence: at Church last Sunday Hazel Barnes found out her brother was taught in Itteringham by Richard Lynam’s best friend’s mother!

And Itteringham seems to be the home of hard physical as well as mental work.

Betty Covell has done a great job in cleaning the vestry curtains and Sandra Walker has been slaving over a hot stove making cakes, jams and chutney for an Advent Stall at the Community Hall.

In Little Barningham, builders’ trenches were making it hard for Sue to get Molly to the school bus. Not one to be put off, Sue jokingly suggested the builders ought to pay a forfeit to Children in Need Day. Immediately one of them passed the hardhat round and gave her over £11 for the charity!

And the workmen’s curse struck in Itteringham too! The whole road to the church was blocked by roadworks and made impassable which prevented Wickmere’s Helen McKenzie from learning more about the organ at St Mary’s Itteringham with Margaret Foot from Little Barningham.

In Corpusty Leslie Pike was delighted when his cousin from North Walsham visited recently and cooked him a delicious lunch!

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