Cavenham BBQ wants Lackford villagers

Cavenham Village Green Ltd is running a BBQ on Saturday 7th June, featuring family sports and games. All the fun will start at 3pm and entry is free!! You will be able to buy burgers and hot dogs for £1.00 each, but you will need to bring your own drinks

See you there…

 

 

Simon’s splendid sign shines superbly

A message from our chairman…

Dear All,

Thanks to the hard work and steady hand of Simon Dry, the village sign has now been replaced. The old wooden, hand painted sign had deteriorated badly. Fortunately we managed to get a digital photo of the sign before it was too late and Simon spent a long time digitally “re-painting” it in sympathy with the original artists work. I think you will agree, he has done a magnificent job. The image was then handed to a professional sign maker who printed it onto both sides of a composite weatherproof backboard and covered it with an anti-grafitti coating. So, hopefully it should last a while.

The sign now stands proudly near the main road, glinting in the winter sun. Please admire when passing and say thank you to all those in the community who supported this project and made it all possible.

Happy New Year

Colin Holmes

LCC Chairman

Lackford Fireworks

Once again Lackford will be hosting a “bring a firework” party on Saturday 3rd November. The Gough family have allowed us to use the small triangular field to the right of Lackford Lane and the farm sheds again this year. 

This year, as before we would like donations of one or two large display fireworks to be delivered to 9 Holden Rd by Friday 2nd so that Graham can see what sort of a nightmare he has to deal with!

I have asked a Westley School Mum who runs a catering van to pop along in the evening and sell Hotdogs, burgers, bacon rolls etc and give us a percentage of takings for the Community Council Church Fund.

Bonfire will be lit at 18:00

Anyone who can help build the bonfire or provide transport is very welcome to join us. Bonfire building will start on Saturday 3rd at 10:00 (If you can help please meet at the Old Bury Road bus stop).

If anyone has material they would like collected, drop me an email or call 01284 728297.

Lastly, a big favour. Please spread the word… either by printing off the attached advert (Lackford Firework Party 2007) and putting it through their letterbox or by word of mouth. I shall put up the advert on the notice board and maybe a few telegraph poles.

Colin

(posted on behalf of)

Poison alert…

Appears we may all need to watch out for poison in the setaside…

Steve’s dog has been very sick and it sounds like this may be the result of ingesting poison of some sort. Since her walks are only in the setaside, that seems like a possible location of the poison.

Keep your eye on your pets and ensure they don’t go eating anything they shouldn’t.

Village party

Big thanks to everyone involved in this years village bash… RSVP delivered some good music (and instruction) as usual and fun seemed to be had by all. The local beers at the B&G bar were top – the only dark cloud was when the Old Cannon ale ran out before the end, although who would have guessed that after all those weeks of rain that the day would be so dry and thirsty. Mike did a grand job with the sports event during the day, although a re-check of the rules should be in order after he took the first place gold medal.

Lackford snappy snaps

You can now add your Lackford photos using Flickr (photos.lackford.com) and see them published on the side of the Lackford blog. No nude villagers though please, we don’t tollerate that sort of thing around here…

Welcome to Lackford – please drive carefully!

Welcome to the new Lackford Village Blog – all the info, news and gossip from the Suffolk village.  Over the coming weeks I plan to give more detail on what is happening and what it’s like to live here. I will give details about the natural side of Lackford – what with Lackford Lakes and West Stow Country Park both in walking distance of the village.

Andy.