Surlingham

First comes first: HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! We would like to thank everyone for the year we had again and every word, every act of kindness & love, every support is much appreciated. THANK YOU!

Now, its time for our short Winter break so we will be back on the 11th January. On our return, we will make the barn a more pleasant and warm place to be by adding garden heaters that will be much needed this Winter.

Thank you so much and have a much more positive and healthy year full of love & great coffee and cakes 🙂

Love,

Joaquim & Ana

Due to a last minute cancellation, we have got four New Year’s Eve meals available for tonight.

call or email us and we will do it for you.

thank you

Family service at 10am on Sunday 23rd January .
Celtic Prayer at 10am on Tuesdays, 11th & 25th January

Please note Hellington is on a different exchange and is being covered in a separate scheme.Cory’s Close, Kirby Road is also on a different Exchange

This is a Government Voucher Scheme. Each property has a voucher for £1,500 and we collect the vouchers to fund the whole scheme. We need just over 50% of the properties to sign up for the build out of the whole scheme.

We are in a rural area and most of the area will have fibre cable on the posts to replace the current copper wires.

Broadband can come to your property in 3 ways:

ADSL. Copper wire from the exchange through the cabinet to your property. Slow, max 17 mbs.

FTTC. Fibre from the exchange to the cabinet and then copper from the cabinet to your property. Fast, maximum of 80 mbs download speed, the further you are from the cabinet the slower the speed.

FTTP. Fibre from the exchange, all the way through the cabinet to your property. Fastest and most stable up to 900 mbs.

The vast majority of properties in the 3 villages are FTTC and the speed you receive is determined by the distance you are from the cabinet.

If you have a BT phone line you can check your exchange by using this link

If you want to check your current service, Openreach have an online broadband checker here.

We have all the addresses and costings. The scheme is with the Government for approval to proceed. Hopefully I will be back very early in the New Year with more information about enrolling and details of the build out.

Have a Happy New Year and I will be back in touch early in 2022

Vic

We do hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas full of love and joy in these challenging times.

As last year, we are preparing a very special take away meal for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (plus our popular Portuguese wines available on this day too). Should you wish anything, please give us a ring or ping us an email.

Don’t forget this week we are closed on Wednesday.

Dear All,

Today we’re looking forward to beginning our Christmas events and worship. In place of the Christmas Eve Crib Service, we’re hosting an Open Nativity in Rockland Church between 4pm and 7pm this evening. We would like to invite you to visit the Church then to see the Crib and the Christmas Trees for the recent festival. It will be heated, lit and welcoming with festive music and seasonal treats. Please wear a mask inside church for this and all our Christmas indoor events.

There will be Midnight Mass with candlelight and carols in Rockland Church at 11.30pm. You are all very welcome.

For those who are wishing to remain at home a YouTube Midnight Communion filmed in the Barn will be made available at 11pm, using this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7-B35_vFWg

On Christmas Day, there will be 10am Family Services at Surlingham and Claxton, and 11am Holy Communion at Kirby Bedon.

For anyone who’s alone on Christmas Day, the Church of England invites you to join up online for carols and a chat. Enjoy your favourite carols, chat with online friends and hear a message from Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at 3.30pm at cofe.io/YouTube.

Boxing Day falls on a Sunday this year, and we’re worshiping together on Zoom at our 11am Presents and Praise. We’ll be singing some favourite carols, sharing prayers and a reflection, and you can share something about your Christmas gifts if you wish to!
Please follow this link to join us then
Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87304140572?pwd=WmdkQUMwL2s0cVRnYWFGemErN2t1UT09
Meeting ID: 873 0414 0572Passcode: 168554

The following Sunday (Jan 2nd) we’re welcoming in the New Year at Claxton at the 9.30am Epiphany Family Service.

Wishing you a good and peaceful Christmas and New Year,
Nick and Helen

The BT box has been sold to the highest bidder and £500 will be donated to the fund to repair the tower of St Mary’s church.

The Parish Council would like to thank all of those who took part.