FAMILY PRIZE Beetle Drive
The Old School at 6.30 – Friday 24th October – Raffle and Refreshments – Michael Hardinge Trust
COFFEE MORNING FOR BREAST CANCER CARE
– yet another successful Horley fund raiser
Thank you to everyone who baked, helped and came along last Saturday 11th October . There was a raffle and cake stall, as well as the advertised coffee and cake enjoyed by all.
Thanks for everyone’s support, we raised £371 for Breast Cancer Care.
This month’s film is The Butler (cert 15).
At The Old School next Friday 17th October
Door open at 7.30, lights down at 8.
Tickets cost £5 on the door.
Reminder – to guarantee a seat you can book in advance, either – call or text 07 531 534 696 or email cinema@horleyvillage.co.uk
The harvest auction took place last Friday in the Red Lion Pub, Horley. 
Over £600 was raised which will go to support the work of Save The Children in The Middle East.
Thanks very much to Dave and Natasha for hosting the event and if you donated any produce/bakes or came along and supported the event.
What a glorious morning and more reasons to be gratefully from our resident country housewife On Walking: Sunday 5th October.
…………. There were no cows but a lot of pheasants
HARVEST CELEBRATION AUCTION , 7pm onwards, at the Red Lion – Friday October 3rd. All donations of fruit, produce, cakes, preserves etc. will be auctioned to raise money for the work of Save the Children in the Middle East.
HARVEST FESTIVAL SERVICE , 11am at St.Etheldreda Church – Sunday October 5th – A traditional Harvest Festival service with the bells rung afterwards.
In Britain, thanks have been given since pagan times for successful harvests and to mark the end of the main season. Harvest festivals are traditionally held on the Sunday closest to the Harvest Moon or Autumn Equinox.
In Horley, this year we are celebrating twice over this upcoming weekend and raising money for others less fortunate than us.
Safari meaning to journey in Swahili
On Saturday 20th September, the now re-branded Safari Supper set off from the Red Lion watering hole as it turned dusk. Clutching their guide slips , all thirty-six villagers ventured to their first hosts house, meeting many of their fellow explorers on the way.
The first course is always an orderly affair, with the hosts holding back on the wine to ensure they can stay on top of the strict timings. This year was no exception, as all thirty-six villagers were promptly turned out at 8:30. Then the hosts beat a hasty retreat to get ready for the next guests, who arrived straight away, as this years hosts were all in close proximity to each other ; 1 in Little Lane, 2 in Wroxton Lane, 1 in Gulivers Close and 2 in Lower Hornton Lane.
Once dinner is served the hosts can also relax a little and so do their guests. So much so, that some hosts reported and I personally witnessed a reluctance of some of the guests to move on to their next hosts.
Despite this everyone eventually arrived at their third and final host. This is where many of them remained until way past Dave and Natasha’s bedtime, before returning to the Red Lion.
This year we had some new hosts, new guests and some relatively new guests, so seeing the supper through their eyes reminded me of what a great social event this is.
To top it all we raised over £720 for our church.
As for reported sightings, so far there hasn’t been any, however the jungle drums are sometimes slow to start…………..
Now a not so secret path…..
Today, walking down the Banbury Road, I notice the leaves on the limes are curling and starting to drop. The heavy green boskiness of late summer is beginning to lighten; the trees are beginning to draw into themselves. The banked lushness of comfrey has withered, the plants collapsing inwards, and the nettles have never been more beautiful. The smaller, higher leaves are a splotched bright green; the larger leaves are a peachy-pink, their veins and edges black, as if inked in by a child.
I can see through the verge now, to the secrets held in the wide, sandy-earthed ditch behind. The orange pixie-posts of Lords and Ladies stand beside the re-emerging crowns of primulas. Puff ball fungi swells in the dampest hollows beneath the trees.
It’s hot; the Indian summer warmth has amplified the smells of Autumn; leaf-litter, sheep-shit, elderberries, tarmac. I practically skip down the Banbury Road, it makes…
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What a great summer for cricket, we have lost hardly any matches to the weather – a vast improvement on last year!
The season is now drawing to a close, junior cricket is finished with all teams playing well and winning most of their matches, as anyone who passes our ground on a Tuesday evening will have noticed we have about 70 juniors attending our coaching and the talent and enthusiasm amongst them is a joy to watch.
Ladies cricket has also continued this season with some of the juniors now eligible to play our numbers are increasing and should continue over the next few years which is good for the club.
Senior cricket – the first team have won promotion to Division 3 of the Cherwell League and may yet go up as Champions. The second team are also on course to win promotion for the third season in a row and will hopefully play in Division 6 next year. All our senior teams consist of local players – in fact the majority of both teams have come through our junior coaching which is something we are proud of. We have now agreed a sponsorship deal with Plus-One Personnel who are sponsoring the shirts for the first team. We are also in discussions regarding sponsorship for the second team for next season.
We wrote in the summer issue about the improvements to the ground and we now have new fencing on two boundaries, and a notice board at the entrance to the ground. Our plans for the new pavilion are continuing, we have now been assessed for ClubMark and will find out in the next few weeks if we have achieved it- fingers crossed as this will help the club in finding funding streams to build the pavilion.
The Cricket Club is a thriving part of the village and we are happy to share it however we have had a lot of issues this year with dog pooh on the cricket field – an area is that is regularly used by all including children. This has become such an issue that whilst we do not particularly want to, if we see anyone not clearing up after their dog we shall have to report the owners to the Dog Warden. Please if you wish to walk your dog on our field ensure you pick up after it, there is a dog pooh bin near the entrance.
It has been a good year for the Club, lots of cricket, improvements to the ground, our Annual Dinner Dance is a sell out with over 100 attending, but let’s not forget the people who come along to watch our matches or to have a drink, we thank them for their continued support.
All our events and fixtures re on our website www.horleycc.co.uk or log on via the village website and we look forward to seeing you all soon.
Kind regards
David and Judith
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