Our delicious farm grown spuds are finally in and looking fab this year! Unwashed and in 12.5kg bags for only £4.50. Red Desiree potatoes and a good all rounder for everyday cooking. Grab a bag when you are next in the shop.
Have a super weekend all. 🙂
On behalf of the Parish Council, Sarah & I are pleased to advise that Mrs Paris Back, Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk, will be presenting the village with a plaque to commemorate Surlingham’s exceptional response to the pandemic. EVERYONE who helped including the volunteer group, local businesses, neighbours etc are to be congratulated.
The presentation will take place TONIGHT at 7:30pm in the Parish Hall.
EVERYONE IS INVITED and refreshments will be provided.
Please pass on this invite to EVERYONE who helped in any way.
Thank you once again for all your hard work and commitment.
Clive Evans & Sarah Broom
South Norfolk District report covers.
Energy Rebate Scheme, Help with the Cost of Living, Broadly Active, Adult Learning Opportunities and Bird Flu awareness, Energy Support Payments and Warm Spaces Grants.
Norfolk County Council reports:
September report
Jubilee Trees, Beryl Bikes and e scooters, Norfolk Swift Response, The Nuffolks Food Savvy. Hazardous Waste Days, Postwick Park and Ride
October report
NHS – Choose the right care for you, Help for Families Assistance Scheme, BeNorfolk website, Anywhere, Anytime bus travel
Dear Patient
Revised short-term opening times for Rockland St Mary Surgery
Staffing is key to the safe delivery of clinical and dispensing (prescription) services from our branch surgery at Rockland St Mary.
We are at the current time experiencing staffing challenges in our dispensary team at a level which we have not seen before.
One of our dispensers is moving to pastures new and despite advertisements for qualified dispensers to replace her, we have not been able to recruit to the team. Our efforts continue.
This weekend, another of our team has had an accident requiring hospital treatment which has led to her needing a period of time away from the Practice. It is therefore not possible for us to continue to operate dispensing (prescription) services from our Rockland St Mary during all our regular days of opening.
To avoid confusion, and frustration with being open for some services and not others, from Friday 21st October, the surgery will be open the following times until our full complement of staff are available.
• Monday 8.30am to 12 noon
• Wednesday 8.30am to 12 noon
• Friday 8.30am to 12 noon
This means the closure of the surgery in the afternoons until further notice. Most of our GP and Nurse clinics are in the mornings and these remain. If during this period, you would rather your prescription be prepared for collection at our Poringland site, please let us know.
Thank you for your understanding during this period, which continues to see unprecedented demand for NHS services. We will continue to offer a full range of services from our Poringland site.
During these periods of closure at Rockland St Mary Surgery, between 8am and 6.30pm, Monday to Friday, you should contact the team at Poringland Surgery on 01508 494343. Outside of these hours (including weekends) urgent healthcare support is available via 111.
We remain committed to offering local healthcare services from our site at Rockland St Mary and will look to return to regular opening in the afternoons as soon as we can safely do so.
Yours sincerely
Garry Whiting
Managing Partner
Heathgate Medical Practice
SURLINGHAM PARISH COUNCIL
The Parish Council meetings are open to the public to observe, they are not public meetings. There is the opportunity for the public to ask questions at every meeting.
Members
You are summoned to attend the meeting of Surlingham Parish Council to be held on Tuesday 18 October 2022 at the Parish Hall at 7.30pm in line with standing orders the meeting will close no later than 9:30.
Janet Rogers Parish Clerk
Tel: 01508 538921
Agenda.
Well, those nights are drawing in and it is getting a bit cooler out there… It is time for cosy nights in with winter warming dishes and TV binges. Well… that’s if you are lazy like me because we all know that even though this is part of the charm of Autumn/Winter, getting out and about is also so important for our physical and mental health.
It is drummed into us on Social Media, T.V, Print and all other means of communication. The irony being we sit there in our pants and ice cream stained t-shirts nodding mechanically at the endless cycles of invigorating ‘Wheat Grass’ Smoothies and influences who wake as though they have just come off a cat walk and just can’t seem to find that perfect selfie angle, no matter how many pictures they take.
That fuse has to be lit and we are the only ones who can light it. Waking up all snug in your bed with that crisp air nipping at your nose screams hibernation.
‘No… I wont get up… you cant make me. Kate Moss ain’t got nothing on me! I’m not getting out of bed for less than a million pounds.’
Well, if like me you are not Kate Moss there is so much out and around the farm shop and beyond to explore. A walk can cure a thousand aches.. and a large piece of chocolate cake at the Patisserie can undo all that in a slab of gooey goodness.
Life is indeed about balance, but what makes us human is knowing we will never find that true equilibrium.
But what I am basically trying to say in all seriousness is… come to the farm shop and patisserie and spend all your hard earned money.
Alec returns to set up shop outside the Farm Shop tomorrow Thursday 13th October 10am until 2pm with his wonderful array of fabulous fish. I like many others find it easy to get stuck in to the routine of eating the familiar. The cod, the salmon and a few prawns here and there, but the choice of fish that we often overlook is vast (especially as an island nation), and with someone like Alec there to ask about new fish in regards to taste, prep and uses it really is helpful. Not only does it mean we put less stress on certain species, but also we open a whole new world of culinary experiences. Not to mention the reasonable prices and excellent fresh quality
I had never tried halibut or skate before Alec turned up and to be honest and they have now both become two of my favourite fishies.
With Halloween fast approaching we enter yet another opportunity in the quieter season for the retailer to squeeze a few extra pennies from you. ‘In my day’ Halloween was a distant cough from America with the only signs of it being the occasional egg being hurled at your front door from uniformed kids who had forgotten or had lost in translation the ‘treat’ part of the option.
Whether you like it or not, in a time not long after a world pandemic (whether you believe we are out of the woods or not), it is hard to deny that if something can bring family and friends together for a bit of silly, harmless fun and to bring a bit of curiosity, creation and imagination back into the world it can’t be all that bad. Much like that Stag/Hen do to Las Vegas to celebrate the wedding of someone you once walked past in the school hall 30 years ago, it doesn’t matter that you had to remortgage your house for the cost of flights and the grand you put on Red because your friend had a ‘feeling’. It is about stages in life, about getting together, about celebrating for the sake of celebrating, whether we need an excuse or not, because without them where would we be other than endless particles sand hurling through the wind.
In the words of the Great Del Amitri:
‘And bachelors phone up their friends for a drink
While the married ones turn on a chat show
And they’ll all be lonely tonight and lonely tomorrow.’
What I am basically trying to say it… give us your money…
We are looking at more rubs and cake mixes in the shop in the next week or two, because we all know nothing shouts excitement more than seasoning. There are mountains of pumpkins, oodles of ready meals, mountains of ice cream and chocolate, panfuls of vegetables… and a couple of eggs and pints of milk thrown in for good measure.
We are open everyday 8am until 9pm including Bank Holidays and weekends. Perfect for a shop or snack and Teles Patisserie are just round the corner for your nashing needs.
See you around you wonderful people you x
Surlingham 
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