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18 Buckden Roundabout
July 2019 Village News
Bookings
We have the Village Festival running from 5th to 7th July and
a wedding reception this month, as well as all our regular
bookings. On 20th July Buckfest is taking place on the play-
ing field and on 28 th July Buckden Preschool is holding a Big
Fun Party also on the playing field (for details see below).
CCTV
There were unfortunately reports of unpleasant behaviour
and criminal damage during May’s half term caused by
young teenagers so with the summer holidays nearly upon
us, please can all parents remind their children that the Vil-
lage Hall building and surrounding area are covered by CCTV
cameras.
Festival
The fun starts on the evening of Friday 5th July with a Family
Fun Quiz night in the Hall at 7pm. Tickets on the door,
adults £6 and under 16s £1. On Saturday 6th the field and
Hall building will be full of stalls and fun activities for every-
one between 12:30pm and 4:30pm, including return of the
biggest bouncy slide in the UK! There will also be a 5-a-side
football tournament during the afternoon. On the Sunday
there will be a village service starting at 11am.
Preschool Big Fun Party
To celebrate running for 50 years, Buckden Preschool is
holding a Big Fun Party on the playing field on 28th July
11am to 3pm.
Don’t forget that as residents of Buckden you all receive
discounted rates on Hall hire. Please call or email me if
you would like to find out more information
BUCKDEN WI
In June we welcomed Nick Grounds
from Wisbech to our WI meeting. A hor-
ticultural auctioneer by day, he kept us
all amused with stories of his life whilst
at the same time creating two beautiful
flower arrangements.
He gave us tips on how auctions work and what to look out
for and some of the tricks of the trade, for example: putting a
shiny spoon in a box of of relatively worthless glassware. A
prospective buyer will see it and bury it under the glasses
hoping no-one else will spot it. When they eventually bid for
the box they will think they've got a bargain when, in fact, all
they have got is a box of cheap glasses!
Another story he shared with us was when a very rare piece of
Royal Doulton, a figurine of Anne Boleyn, was up for auction.
As the clerk removed it from the cabinet he caught it on the
edge of the case and the head fell off. With great aplomb, the
auctioneer said :
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have here a very rare figure of
Queen Anne Boleyn after her execution"!
With flower arranging Nick maintained that we should con-
centrate on the flower rather than the arrangement and we
need a different way of looking at arrangements. Start with
the vase and not the foam – the structure of the vase will give
you the structure of the arrangement. Many arrangers are
moving away from using foam and have reverted back to
chicken wire and pin holders. After a truly entertaining even-
ing he left us with the words " Enjoyment is the journey, not
the destination!"
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, 2nd July at 7.30 in the Millard
Suite. This will be our party evening and we will be enter-
tained by the "Merrymakers".
For more information please contact:
Ruth Nicholas – 07957 334142
Judith Armitage – 01480 811717
Jo Harvey, 01480 811101,
Office hours 9am to 2pm.
Burberry Road, Buckden,
Cambridgeshire, PE19 5UY
Tel: 01480 811101
www.buckdenvillagehall.co.uk
email:
A Coffee Morning with Crafts
to make for Shoeboxes.
A coffee morning with a display of sewn and knitted items to
make for shoeboxes. Some resources will be available.
Friday 26th July 10:00am – 11:30am
at Buckden Methodist Church
Donations made will help towards the Shoebox appeal.
Everyone welcome. Thank you. Carol Swepstone 810053
Did you know…?
….In 1871, 422 out of the 1,009 inhabitants were born outside Buckden; 223 from other parts of Huntingdonshire and the rest
from further afield, including Ireland, Scotland and France.
From Buckden A Short History and Plan, S.B Edgington, 1980