Fairlight

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CHURCH MATTERS: The first Fairlight service this Sunday is Morning Praise at 10.30am at St Andrew’s, with Derek Heyman as special guest. Later, in Sunday Live! at St Peter’s at 6.30pm, Derek will demonstrate and explain the variety of garments worn by the Chief Priest, with each one having its own significance and meaning. You can read all about it in Exodus, chapter 28, then come and join in at St Peter’s. Bring and share food afterwards.

There’s to be a Celebration of Light at St Andrew’s a week tomorrow, Saturday, October 31 from 5.30pm to 7.30pm. There’ll be games, crafts, songs, hot food, and parents and children of all ages will be welcome. If you’d like to book for your family call Valerie on 814428 or email her at [email protected]. If you would like to download at 20 Mbps and play a brilliant new free computer game for children from Scripture Union, just take along your laptop or tablet.

The Church is very grateful to all those who worked so hard, either on their stalls, or making and selling cakes, coffees and cuppas, and those who came and made their purchases last Saturday at the Autumn Fair. A sum in excess of £600 was raised to help maintain the fabric of St Andrew’s.

MOPP’S: Today at MOPPs you can have a look at Bonmarché’s Autumn Collection, and also see some greeting cards prepared by Sandra. There’s the free toe-nail cutting available this week, too. The lunch will consist of roast pork followed by steamed sponge. Next Friday, October 30, it’ll be time to celebrate MOPP’s 7th Birthday Party (Hooray!) and Halloween Celebrations (Eek!) with Carol George, with the added attraction of free hearing-aid maintenance. Lunch sounds tempting with gammon and parsley sauce, and then some Bakewell tart.

FAIRFEST BURGER BASH: The Burger Bash and Bop will be here tomorrow, Saturday, in the village hall from 6.30pm until 10pm, and it promises to be a really worthwhile event with food, music and a bar, and yet there are still some tickets unsold. This function is the replacement for the summer fixture that was so cruelly washed out and postponed a few months ago, and is thus acting as a fund-raiser ready for next year’s fourth major Fairfest Festival, coming on July 31. Every bit of cash taken tomorrow will be enhancing your afternoon and evening spectacle, and the fun, next year. The barbeque will be hot and the bar open right from the start, which is the time that Rye Ukulele, already popular in the village, will be performing. At 7.45pm, the Kytes, another highly regarded outfit, will be playing. Mysteriously, advance publicity says this may be your last chance to hear this excellent group, so you mustn’t miss them. Those tickets that are unsold are at the Post Office, at £8 for adults, half price for those 12 years and under, and free for those under five. If you can’t get to the Post Office, please give Jennifer Annetts a ring on 812476, and she’ll make sure your tickets are reserved.

TICKETS, PLEASE: Tickets for the Players’ November production of The Vicar of Dibley, which will run at the village hall from Thursday to Saturday November 12 to 14, are going like the proverbial hot-cakes. The play will run at 7.30pm evening with a 2.30pm matinee on the Saturday as well. There will be a bar at each of the evening performances. The cast includes most of the best known Fairlight favourite actors, playing all those telly favourites in a sparklingly funny play (and not forgetting the Geraldine and Alice tête-à-têtes in the vestry!) Tickets are £6 each from the Post Office or call secretary Carol Ardley on 814178 if you’d rather do it by phone.

PARISH COUNCIL: October’s meeting is next Tuesday in the village hall at 7.15pm. It should be well attended by local residents as a representative of Stagecoach will be joining the meeting and will address the recent problems faced by their service on route 101. The bus company was surely tempting fate when it designated our service 101, a number already saddled with the horrific crash of the airship R101, and a room made infamous by George Orwell through Winston Smith i