FULSTOW NEWS

October 2005

CHANGE OF DATE

AUCTION – This year's auction will be held on Sunday, 6 th November from 2.00pm

Collects will be made on the Saturday before anyone who has ANYTHING to donate please contact

Nigel Larder 363749

Blue Remembered Hills Wednesday 19 th Oct at 8.00 p.m .

Laughing Orange Theatre Company is touring one of Dennis Potter's masterpieces, Blue Remembered Hills , coming to Fulstow on, which many of you will recall from the splendid T.V. production a few years ago.

It's 1943 in the West Country, with war in the air and the world of adults still a mystery. Blue Remembered Hills is Dennis Potter's acclaimed story of a group of seven-year-old children living in the Forest of Dean . The landscape of woods and hills becomes the children's playground, far from the troubles of war. Here they explore their friendships and loyalties with all the excitement, joy, cruelty and horror that children are capable of. But the peacefulness and innocence of their world is lost during a single tragic event, and nothing will ever be the same for them again…

It's funny, poignant and ominous: a starkly observed piece about children at play and their relationships with each other. It's performed by adults, playing the parts of young children. Helen Mirren and a line-up of other well-known actors, including Colin Welland, starred in the original BBC TV play.

Tickets £6.00 Tel : 363682 Booking advisable. Bar open.

War Memorial – The memorial is now complete and should be in place by the end of October.

On Remembrance Sunday (November 13 th ) we will be having our 1 st service for those that gave their lives outside the village hall at approx: 10.15a.m. There will be a short service given by both Rev Tomlin & the Chapel preacher David Robinson.

The service will also have a WW1 Guard of Honour and I hope that we will have one person to represent each of the people honoured.

This will be followed by a celebration 3 course lunch in the village hall .

Tickets are £10.00 per head and the menu is below. If you would like seat or table please fill in the slip below and return it to either Nicola Pike or Paula Vessey by October 30 th with payment cheques to be made payable to “ Fulstow Village Hall” Tickets are LIMITED so 1 st come 1 st served

Whilst on the War Memorial, due to the outstanding amounts from donations it was possible to purchase another smaller plaque which has been given to the chapel and also Leakes Masonry have very generously donated an exact copy of this for the church. The programme filmed in the village about the memorial is scheduled to be aired on November, 10 th on Channel 4 anyone interested should check www.walltowall.co.uk for details.

CONGRATULATION to Sam Watts on the birth on Joshua & Jamie, in August

Mary Wressell – Would like to thank everyone for her wonderful birthday/retirement party last month.