Castle Bytham Bonfire Display : 3rd November 2012
Gates open 5.30, fireworks @ 7pm
FREE ENTRY
No sparklers allowed
Beer Tent, BBQ, Mulled Wine, Soup
Great night out for all the family!
Bonfire Night Party : 3rd November 2012
The dust – (or should that be the mud?) had barely settled from this year’s Fair when we plunged into finalising the arrangements for this year’s Bonfire Night Party. Please make sure you put down Saturday evening, 3rd November, in your diaries. The arrangements will be as for last year with the crowd area on the field at the cross roads between Little Bytham Road/Clipsham Road and Station Road/Holywell Road. There will be the usual bar/BBQ from 5.30 pm, available to keep out the autumnal chills so bring along friends to enjoy the evening. When I first started the Bonfire Night parties the Fair Committee took something of a gamble as we had no idea whether the event would be popular and had some concern that we might have to drink all the mulled wine and eat the hot dogs ourselves. Instead it has proved an overwhelmingly popular event and the numbers attending continue to grow. We rely on our sales of good food and drink and a small grant from the Parish Council to largely finance the evening and want to continue the free access to the display if we can. “Just in case” we are looking to put up more marquee coverage this year – some of our team are complaining that they are still drying out from the downpour we had on the morning of the Fair. I tell them not to worry – we are made of sterner stuff in the Bythams and can take anything the weather can throw at us – which reminds me, were did I put my long johns? Remember, remember the 3rd of November with whizz bangs, burgers and beer!
The No.10 Store : Changes to weekend opening hours
“After nearly a year and a half here at The No.10 Store, we have reviewed our opening times and have decided to make some small changes to our weekend opening hours… As of the 10th November, we will open from 08:30 – 18:30 on a Saturday, and 09:00 – 12:30 on a Sunday….These small changes reflect our customer patterns and will ensure the store continues to run as efficiently as possible…Our weekday hours remain unchanged (08:00 – 19:30). Thanks to all of you for your continued support :-)”
Willoughby Pub Quiz : 9 Oct 2012
The posters were up, flyers on the tables and the regular players were notified of the date a few weeks ago by email but was anyone going to turn up??
Tuesday 9th October 2012, the first quiz of the season took place at the Willoughby Arms, Little Bytham, we had seven teams with a total of 35 quizzers. One of the teams turned up the previous week convinced that they had the right Tuesday evening – it’s ok Ian we won’t tell anyone!!
Along with the regular players there were some new faces, I hope we didn’t go to quickly for you and that you’ll come and join us again.
With summer done and dusted the music round didn’t bring the usual moans and groans; the clue – the word hot was in the title of the song or the artistes name. A rare mix including You Sexy Thing, Hot Stuff, Snoopy versus the Red Baron, Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip, plus Girls Aloud, something for all ages more or less. The picture round was road traffic signs (nothing out of the ordinary, you might think) but we made sure we had an up to date copy of the Highway Code just in case anyone disagreed with the answers.
The final scores ranged from 78 to 137, in third place were United Staits with 123 point, followed by Haven’t Started Yet with 125 point but congratulations this month go to Big Pig who were the winners with 137 points.
To raise funds for the Alan Wood Memorial Garden, we had a raffle which included a bottle of Bells Special Reserve Malt Whisky donated by Chris Moxom, a Meerkat donated by Bub, some notelets donated by Marc from the Weird Fish team plus eight other prizes donated by the producton team including cosmetics, Thorntons fudge and daffodil bulbs.
Kip added the quiz entry fees to the fund so with raffle ticket sales and Duncan giving an extra donation to round the money up, we ended the evening having raised £100.
A special thank you to all who helped make the evening a success, by coming along and taking part, buying raffle tickets or donating prizes. To Kip for the use of the pub and Bub for keeping the drinks flowing.
We couldn’t have done it without you.
The next quiz will be on Tuesday 6th November.
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