Natland and Oxenholme W.I. Report for October

At a well attended October meeting President Kirsten Cannon welcomed all members, and introduced seven guests.

Marion Thornton gave a very comprehensive  report of her attendance at the Annual Meeting, and Joan Ratcliffe thanked everyone for their contributions over the past months to Boxes of Hope Cumbria - the children's shoe box appeal.

Forty five gift-wrapped shoeboxes were filled by members before the start of the meeting, making a total of fifty to be transported to Romania in the coming weeks. Kirsten thanked Joan for all her hard work in organising our contributions.

The guest speaker for the evening was Susan Oliver who demonstrated the various methods of gift wrapping. Simple presents were turned into exciting gifts. Members were shown how to gift wrap more difficult items instead of using gift bags.

The competition for a folded napkin was won by Marion Want.
The raffle was won by Rosemary Bateman.

The Group meeting took place on Tuesday 27th October in the village hall. As hosts we welcomed members from Crosscrake, Old Hutton, Preston Patrick and Preston Richard. Taffy Thomas MBE was the guest speaker. Taffy displayed, and wore his beautifully embroidered storytellers "Tale Coat" and hat, and entertained us with his stories and riddles.

The next meeting will be the AGM on Wednesday 18th November in the village hall (7.30pm) this will be followed by 'The Parcel Game'

Visitors always very welcome.                                      Marley Hunter, secretary.

NPC October minutes available

The minutes from the October meeting of Natland Parish Council are available to read or download here.

If you have anything to contribute for the November meeting, just contact any of the councillors or the Clerk. Their details are available here.

Yoga sessions at village hall

Subject to sufficient interest a new Yoga class will be starting up in the village hall. 

Sedbergh CDC (part of Cumbria Adult Education) ran classes in the hall until a couple of years ago, and have now found another instructor who could deliver a session on Tuesday afternoons between 2.30pm and 4pm, starting on 12 January 2016.  As these sessions will only go ahead if there are a reasonable number of participants, please contact Rosie Dent admin@sedberghcdc.org.uk, or Sarah natland.villagehall@yahoo.co.uk if you have an interest. 

An Hour's Music in the Afternoon

On Sunday the 25th October at 2pm Clive Walkley is presenting a programme of music. He will be joined by three friends from The Pro Nobis Singers (Lucy Crispin, Sarah Wroe and Allyson Fiddler) for an informal presentation of a short programme containing organ works by Bach and Rheinberger plus his own pieces, and the ladies will sing madrigals and part-songs. The programme will last no more than an hour, tea will be served and there will be a retiring collection for refugees.

October meeting of Natland Parish Council

The next meeting of Natland Parish Council will be held at 7.30pm on Monday 26 October at Natland & Oxenholme Village Hall. The agenda and papers are now available to read or download here.

Steam train coming through

On Saturday 17th October 46115 Scots Guardsman will be northbound through Oxenholme 11:43.  Pat Williams.

Natlantern Night – Save the date!

Just a quick reminder that St Mark’s School will be holding another wonderful festival of light on the village green this year on the evening of Friday 13 November, in conjunction with Appletree School and the Brewery Arts Centre. Starting from the school at 6pm, the event is called Lighting up the Natland Night and the organisers are hoping lots of Natlanders will join in with the lantern-making and come to see the children perform. More details to follow on this website very soon.

Monday Club Meeting

Jan Wiltshire is coming to talk to Natland Monday club on the 19th October at 2pm in the Village Hall. Her subject will be "Cumbrian contrasts; a naturalist explores." Click here to connect to her website.

Craftwork wanted for Craft Fair and Exhibition on the 7th November

The banner will soon be erected on Mick and Mary Taylor's garage, Sarah Roberts will soon be updating the roadside notices prior to David Peters planting them in the verges, posters are popping up everywhere, and village hall users are being contacted for offers of help. Yes, it's the CRAFT FAIR AND EXHIBITION again, to raise funds for our Village Hall.  

16th Annual

CRAFT FAIR and EXHIBITION

Saturday 7th November

10am—4pm

Free Admission   Raffle    Refreshments 

All profits to Natland and Oxenholme

Village Hall Funds

Registered Charity no. 523072

If you have made something that you would be prepared to lend for the exhibition, do please contact me or download this form. Items are well protected on the day, and insured.

There are three spare stalls at the moment, so do please get in touch with me, Elspeth Jayne, if you would like one.

St. Mark's Church Parish Magazine for October.

Click here for all the up to date news of what is happening in the parish.

A cooler September

2015		2014
Average temperatures
Temperature at 8am	9.6C		11.5C
Min temperature	8.1C		10.6C
Max temperature	13.6C		16.0C
Total rainfall	mm	in	mm	in
	51	2.0	8	0.3

Quite a dry month with some lovely sunshine but not as warm as last year.

John Dobson