Christmas Lunch is still on
Monthly Archives: December 2017
What is there to be cheerful about this time of year?
With the nights drawing in and the temperature dropping, what with more and more football on the TV, Cricket now fading away. Even Coronation street actors becoming a rare species, there is not much to stop one being depressed. Now that the Maze work has been done you could venture out if it wasn’t so cold.
However.
If you are Pensioner. If you do now, or ever have, lived in Wing, or have been a regular attendee at Wing events. Then it could be construed that there is a bright spot on the horizon.
As was last year, this year there will be another Christmas Lunch Spectacular. An auspicious date has been chosen and I am at liberty to tell you it will be held on :-
SUNDAY December 10
As last year, assemble at the Village Hall at 12:30 for 13:00pm
In keeping with the a whole year’s tradition, the menu will be
TURKEY with all the trimmings (a new Turkey)
As it has now been decided that order and discipline is required after last year’s disgraceful carry on with several people having to be turned away. A strict check will be kept on those attending.
As part of these security measures potential attendees should give their names and their choice of Sweet, Afters or Desert to Paul Brewer.
He is to be found at the Village Hall every Thursday Morning looking after the temperature of Mrs Holden’s second cuppa and the general hygiene of Coffee Morning. Be prepared to show proof of identity residency and possibly antecedents.
This year the menu choice will be:-
Traditional CHRISTMAS PUDDING.
Refreshing LEMON MERINGUE ROULARD
Or Healthy FRUIT SALAD
Let him know what your choice is and the organisers will ensure you get a prime seat at the feast.
If you are a bit squeamish about dealing with a defrocked treasurer then you could contact Mary Rodgers directly.
An auction is taking place for the Wish Bone, sealed bits to the lad please.
This year the 100 Club prizes will feature £100 first, £60 Second and £30 Third. Richard, the club Supremo will be in attendance. your chance to lobby for a place on the restricted list.
If you wonder what gets Roger so Happy
Then Be there!
He only comes ashore once a year, why?
For the Lunch of course!
BE THERE !
From Gerry Robinson, organizer of a petition to stop the proposed one way system in Oakham
As we enter the final week of the petition before handover next Thursday, with well over 2,400 signatures, including hard copy forms, (2200 from Rutland and 1200 from Oakham alone), I have a few important points to brief you on:
Hand over has been confirmed with Rutland County Council to be at 16:00 on Thursday 14th December. It was decided last night that we will meet at the Market Square at 15:30 and march down to the Council Offices together. This may well be the first protest march that Oakham has seen in a very long time and I received confirmation last night that the BBC will be there to film it… So please, be there and show your support!
OK2WAY A formal protest group to run the wider campaign of which this petition forms a part has been formed. OK2WAY will be chaired by Tim Norton of Tim Norton Motors and will plan and coordinate all activities from now until the final RCC Council Meeting regarding the One-Way proposal in March 2018. The media, all local papers, local radio and the BBC have been briefed accordingly.
STREET STALL OK2WAY will hold their first Street Stall, in Oakham Market Square, this Saturday, 9th December, from 09:00 till 13:00. Please come along and support us. There will be hard copy petition forms to sign if you have friends / family who haven’t signed yet and bright One Way / No Way leaflets which you can display to show your support. We hope to see you there tomorrow. With 300+ supporters in each Oakham Ward and another thousand elsewhere in Rutland, I believe that the Councillors and our MP are beginning to really feel the pressure – So, let’s keep it up! Useful Contacts / Links beneath my signature as usual Thank you for your support
Gerry Robinson
Useful Links
The petition itself : https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/local-referendum-on-oakham-one-way-scheme
Sir Alan Duncan email: alan.duncan.mp@parliament.uk
Contact Your Councillor: http://rutlandcounty.moderngov.co.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1
Have Your Say Leaflets: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5F1XB5t0Xh8OHQzVUVDWkxISFE
Hard Copy Petition Forms: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mIcavpbpBglAHpkYlUjwtq3fgBEYYBGl
Local Referendum on Oakham One-Way Scheme
Rutland’s historic county town of Oakham has been steadily declining as a market town over recent years and factors such as long-term roadworks have forced an even greater downturn in trade. Rutland County Council’s Consultation Exercise received 952 responses of which 53% (504) were in favour of the one-way system and a further exercise covering only 5,500 properties had responses from just 1592 householders with only 47% (710) in favour.
Santa’s Visit
Santa came to Wing for a successful visit on December 1st but although he went all around the village we don’t have many photos of his visit. If you have any, can you email them to editor@wingrutland.uk
Nextdoor Wing – your village gossip site
We have nearly 40% of the households in Wing as members of Nextdoor Wing, a social media site that is just limited to the residents of Wing, (Lyndon and Pilton) unlike ALL the other sites where anyone in the world can see what you are talking about. It is strictly LOCAL and you can’t join unless you are invited by someone in Wing. The address is checked by Nextdoor.co.uk AND is verified by me, John Oakley.
It is for purely local use and your ID will not be available outside the village and the only advertising allowed is by people in the village to people in the village. It has a website wingoakham.co.uk but all messages can also be sent to you by email.
You can broadcast a message to everyone in the village or – and this is the most popular use – use it as a private message system, neighbour-to-neighbour with no danger of inadvertently sending the message out of the village.
This is a map of those households that are signed up. If there is a green dot then they have someone in the household signed up, if the whole plot is green the everyone registered in the house is signed up, if the green dot is not on a plot then the person has chosen to just broadcast the street name.
If there is a yellow dot they have been invited to join but declined the offer.
In the 6 weeks it has been up we have found rounded up 3 baby-sitters, 2 cats, 1 football, found transport for someone when the bus missed the village (again), recruited some elves for Santa and solicited some photos of Santa’s visit. I can’t see who are what the private messages are or who they are to/from but I can see the count of messages and there are over 50 a week, probably gossip!
If you are not yet a user try it, you’ll like it!
There is an iPhone and an Android app as well.
Wing Community 
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