There will be the usual Work Party on the first Saturday of the month (Saturday Jan 4th, 10am) for anyone who has survived the Christmas holidays … so far..
There is also a Friends of Chichester Harbour Work Party at Maybush Copse on Tuesday Jan 7th at 10am which will concentrate on removing redundant plastic tree guards.
Our Midnight Mass starts at 1130pm and will be taken by Canon David Nason.
On Christmas Day there is no 8am service. The 10am Family Communion service will be led by Reverend Andrew Stamp. Do join us.
Children coming along are invited to dress as shepherds, kings or angels to join in the fun. This is a great start to Christmas and all are welcome. The service lasts about 40 minutes.
A South Sea Island evening and a showing of Kevin Costner’s film ‘Rapa Nui’. see poster. Before the film, John Wingrove will give a short introduction using his photos taken on Easter Island last year, explaining some of the artistic licence taken by the film makers with the history of this most mysterious of islands. see trailer
The Barleycorn will have a themed menu – here. Normally the “2 for 1” deal only applies to main courses, however on this occasion it will apply to however many courses you choose, provided you buy your tickets for the film at the same time as you pay for your meals in the pub. Make an evening of it.
The children’s play area on Broad Road, Hambrook will be closed for approximately two weeks as new picnic benches and seating benches will be installed which will improve the area considerably.
Early next year the Parish Council has a project to improve some of the play equipment and the rubber matting surfaces as well as to remove some of the tired old signs and cut back the foliage.
Chichester Singers under the baton of Jonathan Willcocks will perform Britten’s Saint Nicholas; Haydn’s Little Organ Mass and Insanae et Vanae Curae with Southern Pro Musica playing Mozart’s Divertimemto in D at 7.30 pm in The Cathedral on Saturday 18th January 2020. Tickets from http://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-chichester-singers or The Novium 01243 816525.
The Garden Recycling Service will stop over Christmas and New Year from Friday 20 December and will start again on Monday 6 January.
See also Christmas recycling www.chichester.gov.uk/christmasrecycling
Christmas Tree recycling: see stwh.co.uk/support-us/events/christmastrees
Raffle, Tombola, Choir, Gift stalls, Santa’s Grotto.
Santa arriving on a sleigh!
And Carols