Surlingham

You’ve seen the pictures, heard the radio interview, now watch the video from BBC Norfolk!

We hope you are all having a great long weekend making the most of the glorious weather that Mother Nature has given us 🙂

Just a little note that due to requests we will serve our Jubilee Cream Tea until Sunday. So if you wish to come down just message us.

Have fun everyone!

Friday from 1pm til 5pm listening to Bill Louis singing songs and ballards from the 50s and 60s

Saturday from 4pm with the Jubilee concert being shown inside and in the garden.

Hi All,

The fish van will be here at Yare Valley Fam Shop from 10.30-3pm as normal this bank holiday Thursday (02/06/2022)

Our farm shop is full of goodies and sweet treats should you need to add anything to your jubilee celebrations – have a great time whatever you are up to! 🙂

Click below to listen to the interview about our village’s Jubilee celebrations on this morning’s Breakfast Show.

Dear All,

I hope you’re looking forward to a long Bank holiday weekend of celebrations and gatherings in honour of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

CLAXTON

We begin on Thursday at 11am in Claxton Churchyard, with the Dedication of a newly planted tree, part of the nationwide Queen’s Green Canopy, and the opening of the ‘Flowers for the Queen’ festival in Claxton Church. On Sunday we’re also the birthday of the worldwide Church at our 9.30am Pentecost Communion service there.

SURLINGHAM

Please come and enjoy the Jubilee showcase in St Mary’s Church, Surlingham (Friday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm). There is a flower festival, a knitted street party (as featured in the EDP), photo opportunities to pose with Her Majesty and at the Teddy Bears Party, and a “find the corgi” competition. Refreshments will be available. The weekend is gathered up with well-loved hymns in the Festival Songs of Praise at 4.30pm.

CARLETON ST PETER

There will be a Jubilee Songs of Praise on Sunday at 2pm followed by a tea party from 3pm onwards. Please bring something to sit on and some food to share at this friendly community gathering.

ROCKLAND ST MARY

… is gathering as a community for a Jubilee Tea Party at Black Dyke and the Parish Room between 2-5pm on Sunday. Refreshments available. Come and enjoy the knitted bunting and good company!

With all good wishes, Nick

Please see attached for the latest edition of ElevenSays

Celebrations of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee will no doubt take all different shapes and sizes – but few will come complete with knitted Frazzles!

Members of the Surlingham community have assured fellow villagers that they are in no way pulling the wool over their eyes when it comes to their planned festivities. When the Church of St Mary’s and St Saviour’s in the village toasts Her Majesty, it will do so with a knitted street party.

Around a dozen members of the village have come together to create a stunning spread for the event, consisting of scotch eggs, sandwiches, biscuits, cakes and doughnuts. But anyone hoping to tuck into these treats may struggle – as while they were prepared with the same love and care as they would have been in the kitchen, instead they have been knitted from wool.

The project was the brainchild of 61-year-old villager Alexandra Evans, who came up with the idea while taking part in a Shakespearean production at Norwich’s Stage Two theatre. She said: “I do a bit of acting and was in a play called A Carnival of Errors in Norwich and knitted a few props for the show. They were so well received I got thinking about different ways of using them. “So I decided to start making other types of food things and that’s how I came up with the idea for the knitted street party and it grew from there.”

After sending around a rallying cry she soon found other members of the village community were pitching in with contributions of their own, until they had a spread fit for a Queen.

The ambitious display has been around eight weeks in the making, with Mrs Evans including one of her own favourite treats in the spread: knitted Frazzles. She said: “I chose to do them for no other reason than that they are my very favourite snack.

“It is such a lovely thing and I think people will really enjoy seeing normal, every day things in a slightly less normal way.”

The knitted street party will be on display in the Surlingham Church across the jubilee weekend, from today until Sunday, June 5th.

Reproduced by kind permission of Archant.

The full article can be read here