Etchingham

The Flower & Dog Show will be held in the Church and Queen’s Garden on Saturday August 31, now is the time to start thinking about your entries. All the usual fruit and vegetable classes, lots of domestic and handicraft classes including jams and marmalade, chutney and cakes. The photography section this year has four classes “A business in Etchingham”, “Memories”, “Food” and “Sunset”, pictures to be no bigger than 21cm x 30cm, including any mounts. The Children are not left out, there are four seperate age groups in the childrens section, draw a picture of the Queen and her dogs, make a new crown for the Queen, sock puppet, a photograph of a building in Etchingham, cupcakes and several other classes. A schedule was delivered to every house recently, look through the list, find a class that interests you and start preparing for your entry, if you have mislaid your schedule ask for another one at the Etchingham Shop and Deli.

Remember your entry fee must be included with your entry form, to be delivered to Mr. and Mrs Hinde, Englefield, High Street (near the village sign), or left at the Etchingham Shop and Deli, entries to be received by August 28, late entries will be accepted by noon on August 30 for an additional fee.

Entries for the Dog Show will be taken at the ring from 1.30pm, show commences at 2pm ALL dogs MUST be kept on a lead.

There will again be a display of old photos and postcards, and some interesting historical items relating to the village and the local area, in the Church throughout the afternoon.

The Etchingham Improvements Committee and Queen’s Garden celebrate 60 years since they were founded, if you have photos of Queen’s Gardens events from the last 60 years I would like to borrow them for the display, if you have suitable photos please get them to me as soon as possible.

Get information for this column to me as soon as possible, if you have a diary of events planned for the year let me have the dates and I will put in a list of village events for the year so that people can put the dates in their diaries. There are several ways to get your info to me, but email is preferred because there is less chance of errors during copying. I need information by 10pm on Monday to be sure it will be in time for inclusion, I can sometimes add extra items on Tuesday morning, but this cannot be guaranteed. Just a little reminder, I get plenty of information about events that are taking place, but I get very little follow up information, after your event try and remember to send me brief account of how successful your event was, it can be as simple as a thank you to those that attended and how much money was raised etc. You can deliver to 2 Park Farm Close, telephone 01580 819532 or 07941 786244 or email [email protected] .