Surlingham

Helen and I hope you’re well and looking forward to tonight’s Art Cafe Christmas Party! Thank you everyone who’s sent in seasonal images they’d like to share. You’re welcome to screen share or wave in front of the camera anything that speaks to you about this time of year!

Here is your Zoom invitation link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89912411400?pwd=YldRalM4dzRDTG9aSFcybFZ0WDBNZz09
Meeting ID: 899 1241 1400 Passcode: 245702

Art Cafe returns in the New Year on January 13th at the usual time of 10.30am, when our exciting 2021 programme begins.

With all good wishes,
Revd. Nick Garrard

Last call to place orders for Christmas treat boxes for delivery on the 19th & 23rd December, within a 7 mile radius of Surlingham. Orders close at 12 noon on Thursday 17th December.

MENU:

FERRERO ROCHER COOKIE – nutty cookie with cocoa praline centre, dunked in chocolate & nuts
GINGERBREAD COOKIE – soft gingerbread cookie with a crisp cinnamon sugar shell
COSMOPOLITAN OATIE – chewy orange and oat cookie packed with juicy cranberries
CHOCOLATE & TOFFEE – cocoa cookie packed with chunks of chocolate and toffee
MINCEPIE BLONDIE – better than the bog-standard mincepie! Squidgy blondie, marbled with mincemeat, topped with pastry stars

BOX OPTIONS:
Blondie box (8 slices of blondie) £14
Giant Cookie box (2 of each cookie flavour) £16
Pick ‘n’ Mix (you choose the 8 items, blondies must be ordered in two’s) £18.50
Delivery is free to Rockland & Surlingham, deliveries further a field, incur a £4 delivery charge. 

Place order by 12pm on 17th December email eatscrumptious@yahoo.com

ALLERGENS: nuts, soya, gluten. The kitchen handles dairy, soya, gluten, nuts, eggs, celery, mustard & sesame and individual ingredients may contain traces due to manufacturing methods. Thus, we can’t guarantee cookies are free from any traces. Please note we are a pet friendly household.

All the treats will last 5-7 days and can be frozen for up to 2 months.

Information received from Sadya

Two weeks ago Clive Evans was nominated as a finalist in the 2020 Norfolk Hero Awards for his work supporting charities offering end of live care and on Friday 11th he was crowned the winner and went to the cathedral to collect his award from the Lord Lieutenant.

For many years he has volunteered for end-of-life care charities, organising events and coordinating other volunteers and collectors. Two years ago, he and his wife Alexandra were invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party in honour of their long term charity work. Clive currently volunteers as an ambassador for the Priscilla Bacon Hospice appeal raising funds, managing bucket collections, giving talks, organising golf days and coordinating collection tins in the wider community.

We are lucky enough to have two excellent pubs in our village. They are currently both open, in spite of the difficulties imposted by covid. Both have taken the Tier 2 rules on board and offer uncrowded, socially distanced spaces and good service. And ‘substantial meals’ are available from about £6. So please support them so that they can keep open through this winter. Best to phone to check opening hours and book. (Obviously single households and bubbles only.)

The Ferry is currently open 7 days a week 538659

and Coldham Hall Thurs, Fri and Saturday, and Sunday lunch 538366.

The graph below shows that 13,428 vehicles travelled along The Street towards The Common between 9 October 2020 and 12 December 2020.

The 30mph speed limit was exceeded by 183 vehicles including 9 travelling at 40mph and 1 at 45 mph.

Big waves and smiles from the farm

We have not had a joke in a while… so lets start off with one… sorry.

There are three types of people in the world:

Those who can count and those who can’t.

Just to say we have lots of wonderful farm reared beef in, lots of Christmassy gifty ideas, lots of locally sourced Christmas Trees and much much more…and we are open as always 8am-9pm every single day, including bank holidays and weekends for your convenience. 

Whatever you do, have a super weekend from us all at Yare Valley

Glenn and Lily

Fred and The Ferry House were on the TV on Tuesday night on Channel 5. You can still see it on My5, Our New Puppy, episode 7. His story starts about 13 minutes in.