Catsfield Village Voice

A BUSY WEEKEND AHEAD -

COFFEE MORNING

The St Laurence fund-raisers will be a holding Coffee Morning tomorrow, Saturday 20th June from 10am – 12pm.  As well as homemade cakes and sausage rolls served with real coffee, there will also be a Plant stall, Gifts, Puzzles, Home Produce and the inevitable Raffle. Money raised will go towards the upkeep of our beautiful parish church.

CADS ‘MURDER MYSTERY’

A foul murder, a puzzling mystery - the CADS latest Whodunnit ‘Who Killed the Holidaymaker?’  will be held in the Village Hall tomorrow, Saturday 20th June at 7pm, come along and see if you can solve it. Tickets cost £10 each and are available now by calling Vanessa 07972360135 Bring your own refreshments and there will also be a raffle.  All proceeds to Macmillan Cancer Care

THE WHATLINGTON SINGERS

Another event for tomorrow evening, Saturday 12th June at 7pm as part of the Battle Festival, the Whatlington Singers accompanied by the Battle Abbey Chamber Choir will be performing in St Mary’s Church, Battle at 7pm ‘Songs for our time,’ an exciting selection of new and familiar works. Admission by donation please.

CATSFIELD UKEALONGIANS

Catsfield Ukealongians and friends will be holding their next Charity Fundraising session this coming Monday June 22nd from 5:45pm until about 9pm, the difference being that this time it will be on the Catsfield Recreation Ground. We invite everyone to come along for a Picnic and Sing-along. The music starts at 6pm and will be provided by "Good Company" and of course the Ukuleles. The Da Romeo's Pizza van will be there and teas and coffees will be served from the pavilion. We will be raising money for "The Willow Tree Trust" in Battle, another deserving charity that deserves and needs our support. Everyone is invited to join in this relaxed, social evening of fun, strum and sing-along with the local ukulele group.  Bring your own seats or blankets to sit on and there’s plenty of free parking. We look forward to seeing you there.

A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

On Wednesday August 19th the residents of Park Gate Manor will be holding their Summer Fayre with lots of fun and a raffle from 1.30pm – 4pm.  Do come along and help raise money to fund days out for the residents.

BATTLE CHORAL SOCIETY

Last Saturday’s performance of Handel’s Messiah by Battle Choral Society at St Mary’s Church was a joy to hear this magnificent work performed so expertly by a local choir, conducted by their musical director Vincent Wade and joined by three talented soloists, accompanied by three musicians on organ, trumpet and percussion. It was very moving to hear all the particularly well-known pieces beautifully sung such as the triumphant ‘Hallelujah Chorus’, soprano Grace Constable’s ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth’ and the ‘Trumpet shall sound’ sung by bass Peter Grevatt and accompanied by trumpeter Andy Gill, soaring in triumph to the rafters. The whole evening was a memorable experience. The audience could have been larger and that might encourage more male singers to join the choir which needs more bass and tenor choristers (no auditions necessary, just a love of singing.) The performance was free as were the programmes and refreshments, all that is asked for are donations for charity and there was also a reasonably priced raffle with beautiful hampers as prizes. The Autumn Concert will be on 10th October when the choir will perform J S Bach Magnificat in D major BWV 243.

JAN WRITES

Back in the days of our childhood there was hardly any traffic on the roads to interfere with our fun and games on the aptly named ‘Crazy Lane’.  This has a very steep hill which was ideal for careering down on our homemade go-carts with many a spill and grazed knees, which in those days we all took for granted as part of being a child with freedom to play. Skipping was another favourite past time as we girls took turns in jumping in and out of a long rope, usually with two long-suffering boys in charge of turning it at either end. There were many mantras to be heard such as ‘In comes the Bogeyman and out goes you.’ Hopscotch was another great favourite played in the road – oh, we knew how to live it up and have great fun and not a smart phone in sight!

SPORT

From Ann - Our cricketers lost to Brightling Park away on Sunday.  We reached 130 at the end of our innings with top scorer Harry Strugnell at 56.  Brightling reached 221 for 6. We were down to 10 men, but battled hard on their small pitch.  All to play for next Sunday at home against Crowhurst and it's my turn to do the teas, that should slow down the scoring.