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Summer Sunday Teas at St Mary’s Church

Sunday afternoon teas will be starting again at the beginning of June and running every Sunday till the end of August, but

will include the Bank Holiday Monday.

2.30-5pm each Sunday in St Mary’s Church

We look forward to seeing you all again.

Platinum Jubilee Celebrations

Exhibition/Floral Display and Teas

Our Jubilee week begins on Thursday 2nd June with an tribute exhibition in Church and floral displays. Teas will be served from 2.30pm to 5pm. The exhibition and teas will also run on Friday and Saturday 3rd and 4th June again 2.30pm to 5pm. Please note there will be no Church Teas on Sunday 5th June.

Sunday 5th June

There will be a celebration service at St Mary’s Church at 11.15am to mark the 70 year reign of our beloved Queen.

Village Picnic

Please join us at 1pm on Sunday on the Millennium Green (opposite the Compton Inn) for a  village picnic to mark our Queen’s Platinum jubilee. Please bring your own picnic, drinks, seats and rugs and any ideas you might have to celebrate this occasion.

We look forward to seeing you at all or some of these events, we will not have a platinum Jubilee again for a very long time so lets make it a good celebration!

Return of Village Fete Saturday 2 July 2pm till 5pm

After two years of coronavirus restrictions preventing the village fete, the Compton Dando community is thrilled to
announce that fete is back for 2022!
Join us for classic games, duck race, community raffle, stalls, live music and much more as we come back together
and celebrate being able to be together.
All proceeds support the village hall, St Mary’s Church & the Community Association and we’re collecting donations for the raffle, cake
stand, and entrances for the jam and marmalade competition.
@comptondandocommunity

Home Energy Survey Opportunity

With energy bills rising and temperatures dropping, Zero Carbon Compton (ZCC) have secured some grant funding to provide a number of home energy surveys for the village.
The home energy surveys will be conducted by a not-for-profit Community Interest Company and are a great way to find out how to keep your energy bills as low as possible.
The surveys (which need to be conducted in winter) will use thermal imaging to show up cold spots throughout a property, so you can easily see if there are any problems to fix to help keep heat in your home and reduce your bills! We have a small budget available for quick fixes like draft proofing at the time of the survey too.
There are example images from a thermal survey attached to this email.
We just wanted to let you know that we will soon be in touch to see who is interested in having a survey and help you get one booked in. We don’t have funds to get every house surveyed, but we’re hoping to help those houses which need it the most.
We do have our own thermal imaging camera too, which is available to be borrowed, so if you’re interested in using that yourself please get in touch with us at zerocarboncompton@gmail.com
Thanks,
ZCC

January’s Craft Day was a great success, as usual. Activities were painting, knitting, kumihimo braid making, crochet and I brought some new wood block printing gear which was fun for a number of us, if a little messy!  If anyone has any photos you’d be prepared to share please email them to me with permission that I can pass one or two on to local journalist, Ros Anstey, who helps us publicise our events.  If you really don’t want your photo in the local press, then please let me know.
Before the day I sent the information about Block Printing from https://theartycraftyplace.co.uk/  where they have some good videos.   I also got some of my wood blocks from Royal Kraft: https://shop.royalkraft.com/
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The New Home of The Decopatch Place. Welcome to our little world of gorgeousness. Here for all of your Arty Crafty needs.
One or two people were interested in Jenny Smart’s headwrap patterns which teach you double knitting and a clever way of twisting.  Here is the youtube link: https://youtu.be/y7C4XgLK7QE .
Thanks to everyone who helped with washing up, setting up tables, cleaning up and generally all your enthusiasm.  Jenny’s butternut soup was delicious as usual and mine was leek and potato this time but, as usual when I make it, stuck on the bottom of the pan a bit.  Next month I’ll make something else and welcome some suggestions.  We had the windows open for most of the day and the hall felt warm but airy;  I hope everyone stays safe and continues to have negative flow tests,
If you want to come for the last event of the winter next month please let me know before 5th February so that I can get ingredients for soup, bread etc.  If anyone would like to make a cake to donate that would be wonderful, please let me know so that I can ensure that I have something suitable for those with restricted diets. The days are getting longer and Spring will be round the corner when we next meet.  After that I’ll be out in the garden and won’t be doing another Craft Day until November.   If you don’t want to remain on this list let me know and if you have friends who’d like to join then equally get them to contact me and I’ll keep them updated with future dates as life (hopefully Covid freer) evolves.
Thank you all and keep safe, Harriette Dottridge

Christmas Wreath Making Success

Earlier this month a group of people joined Sarah, from Compton Garden Flowers, to make a wreath for their front door.

As you will see from the photo they all produced fantastic results.

Thank you to Sarah for putting on such a lovely workshop.

Great Village Quiz Night

Great village Quiz Night this year – thanks to everyone who took part. Nine teams with rounds including History, Airports, 21st century pop, and Animal Facts, plus a tremendous raffle, of course! Congratulations to team: Court in the Act, pictured, for winning the trophy.

A few dates for your diary

A few dates to make a note of, so you don’t miss out:

Saturday 11th September Village Coffee Morning in the Hall 10.30-12

Saturday 2nd October a Craft Day with Harriette in the Hall 10 – 4

Sunday 10th October Harvest Cafe Church at St Mary’s 10am

Wednesday 13th October CDCA AGM with a Guest Speaker 8pm in the Hall

Saturday 13 November Village Quiz in the Hall 7pm – teams of 6