Surlingham

Pictures from the Christmas carol service today at St Mary’s Church, Surlingham

HURRY UP, ORDERS FOR OUR YULE LOGS AND CHRISTMAS COOKIES CLOSE TONIGHT AT 8PM! More details below….

MENU:

THE COOKIES:

• White forest (sour cherries, woodland spices, white choc chips)
• Caramel gingerbread (gingerbread dough stuffed with homemade caramel)
• Chocolate orange (zesty orange dough, studded with chocolate chips)
• Hot chocolate (malted cookie dough, white and dark choc chips)

PRICES:

• Yummy Yule log (serves 6-8) – £18
• Scrummy Selection cookies (12 cookies) – £15

COLLECTION / DELIVERY

1. Collection 23rd afternoon/ 24th morning/ 31st morning.          
2. Local delivery, 23rd afternoon within 7 mile radius Norwich, Norfolk + £2 delivery charge (free delivery to Surlingham/Rockland)

Order anytime, via email eatscrumptious@yahoo.com or via facebook messenger or instagram.

All treats are Vegan friendly!

ALLERGENS: all bakes contain GLUTEN & SOYA, ‘hazelnut dream‘ and ‘white forest’ also contain NUTS. Please see our allergen disclaimer before ordering.

Please find attached the minutes and PowerPoint presentation slides for September’s stakeholder meeting. A progress update below:

Hardley Flood

· We are on track to submit the planning application for Phase 1 (Chedgrave Common up to the Bird Hide) by 22 December 2023. We expect the Broads Authority to make a decision on the planning application within 4 to 6 weeks.

· We will email the stakeholder group once the application is live on the planning portal, so that everyone can view the submission and provide comments/letters of support should they wish

· We are developing the Environment Agency Flood Risk Activity Permit (FRAP) in parallel to the planning application. This is a separate document.

· We are currently drafting an Invitation To Tender (ITT) document for technical drawings and construction works. We will complete this by 22 December, ready for release in early January. We will collate and score responses to the ITT w/c 29 January. Upon appointing a contractor, we will then be able to develop and provide a detailed works programme and timetable, which we will share with the stakeholder group.

· The next stakeholder meeting will be rescheduled until after the Broads Authority have responded to the planning application and a contractor has been appointed. Until these two actions are complete, we will have very little to update the group on, and are keen to make best use of time and resource.

· We have contacted Natural England for their Discretionary Advice Service (DAS) for Phase 2 works. We require their input and ecological mitigation advice in order to plan works as part of Phase 2 and develop an accurate costings model.

· We recommend complete replacement of the bird hide, which is in very poor condition. This would fall under permitted development and should be fairly straight forward to action. We have approached the Parish Council to offer our support in sourcing funding and delivering a full replacement. We believe this could be achieved through FiPL funding, at little or no cost to the Parish Council. We are currently waiting for their response.

· The Broads Authority are planning to reprofile (level and shape the banks from the dried dredged material) all the way up to the bird hide as part of Phase 1. This will begin in May 2024. NCC will sow grass seed on the PRoW as soon as this work is complete.

· We expect all Phase 1 works to be completed by July-August 2024.

Bramerton FP5

• The planning application is currently being drafted. NCC to submit to Broads Authority by 22 December 2023. A decision is expected within 4 to 6 weeks.
• We are currently drafting a 3-way agreement between BA, NCC and the landowner, as the landowner will need to agree to ongoing maintenance for the river bank.
• Tree works are scheduled for January ahead of bird nesting season and the start of construction
• We expect works to start in March-April 2024.

Well well well… why are fully stocked with our range of Christmas cakes, homemade biscuits (Scottish shortbread and Hungarian biscuits), mix and match hampers, produce from Portugal, wine, liquors and much much more!

This Wednesday 20th we are doing our last Wine Evening Tasting and due to a last minute cancellation we’ve got 5 tickets left – so if you want to join us, please ring us on 01508538892 or send Ana a message.

if you still haven’t placed your order you can do so until the 20th of December – remember: there is only one Joaquim in the kitchen.

Also we are open as usual 10 to 4 including Christmas Eve! So all as normal.

And so is the Farmshop fully stocked – including beef – for your special celebration!

See you all soon!

Time to hunt out your Christmas jumpers and don’t forget to bring your singing voices to this year’s Carol Service.

The spectacular Stars Of Wonder display is now in St Mary’s Church and the east window is adorned with stars made by the school children.

See what can be done with recycled plastic bottles, wool, card and a window flyscreen etc. How many stars can you count?

Surlingham Tornadoes Football Club are looking for Year 5 Boys and Girls to join their friendly group. Training on Wednesdays. Home matches are played at Surlingham Primary School on Saturdays.

Please contact us for more information. Details on the poster.

Just in time for Christmas our farm reared rare breed Belted Galloway fresh beef will be in the shop this Thursday so do not miss out! There will be a wide array of cuts. We also still have the special offer of the frozen mince in the stand up freezer of 2x packs for only £6.50.

There are packs of mince pies galore, a couple of packs of beautiful local Christmas Cards for Redwings Charity and lots of other Christmas goodies, but when they are gone they are gone as we wont be getting anymore in before Christmas. There will also be one more batch of Chocolate Brownies in this week, which sold out very quickly last time.

Fish Van: Alec will be here as usual 1:30PM until 3PM every Thursday. His last one before Christmas is Thurs 21st Dec just in time for the big day and then he will be having a couple of weeks off with feet beside the fire before returning as usual on Thurs 11th Jan 2024.

Our last Christmas tree was sold today so thank you to all those who took a pined friend home, we hope they brighten up your Christmas! More big bags of our delicious farm grown spuds of 12.5kg for only £5 are also being regularly topped up.

Whatever you do this Christmas, may we all at Yare Valley wish you a fabulous time.