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Our fabulous candle lit Christmas Market is being held in St. Etheldreda’s Church on Saturday November 29th between 5 and 7pm.

Christmas MarketThanks to the Ladies Guild there are some lovely stalls already booked, as well as home made produce, Christmas decorations,  mulled wine and mince pies and of course, Father Christmas will be popping in loaded down with presents.

Latest news…… we have Horley’s very own wandering minstrels to accompany us throughout the evening and some fabulous new stalls booked to help you prepare for Christmas and get into the festival spirit

Remembrance Service

poppyHorley and Hanwell are holding a combined remembrance service at St.Etheldredra Church this Sunday 9th.

Start at 10.55am with bells at 11:00

Representative groups from both villages will lay wreathes to remember the fallen in the two world wars and conflicts since.

Horley Halloween 2014

‘Beware the wind that whistles shrill, Beware the souls that haunt us still, Watch you with care the perils of night, Pull near your children; hold them tight.’  ( or not, if you were the parents of some of the horrors below.)

Horley Halloween shrieked into gloriously gory life at the Cricket last Friday. It was a night of children spattering blood and glitter, hooting with joy, marauding near the wickets as if Kenny would never know.

We feasted on fingers and drank deep of the bar, and then we spilt out across the village, rattling doors, jumping for bells. Our cries were shrill in the pleading face of every pumpkin; we were merciless in our demands.

It was brilliant.

Thank you to Horley CC, the horribly gruesome guests, and the biggest thanks to the patience and generosity of the Horley villagers. Your pumpkin-carving skills are awesome.

Our children are still sweet-stuffed, glaze-eyed by bounty beyond their greedy-fingered dreams.

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Fabulous photos by Macer G and Will P.

 

Coffee and Cake Success

breast cancer awarenessCOFFEE 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.

 

 

Harvest Celebrations this weekend

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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.

Reported sightings – Safari Supper

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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.

red lionDespite 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…………..

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