Shop Newsletter Well folks, what a weekend that was! Hopefully you didn’t notice but we had one or two problems going on, more later... 1. New members of staff on Saturday 2. Judy’s Memorial Garden 3. 150 Club subs now due 4. Carrier bags – to charge or not to charge? 5. This weekend’s problems 1. Danny Parsons of Middle St is our new member of staff, primarily for Saturdays but he has already helped us out to cover some time when other staff were sick. His mum Caroline has also been trained and will cover for Dan ...Continue Reading

Dear residents of the best village in the world! The annual Christmas supper in The Green Man is on: Friday 18th December 2015 7pm for 7.30pm Rebecca and Chris have put together a sumptuous three course meal for £25.00 per person – please see attached menu So all you need to do to guarantee your place is: • Pop into the pub ASAP • Make your menu choices and pay in full please As with previous years we will put together a seating plan and ask everyone to move between courses – it’s a great way to meet new pe ...Continue Reading

Good news! We have a new hard disk in our till computer and tomorrow (Saturday) we will be open as usual. Sorry for the inconvenience today and the uncertainty about tomorrow. The technical service was excellent. Kevin ...Continue Reading

Hello everyone I'm sorry to say that our shop computer disk crashed this morning and it appears the computer cannot be restarted. The service people will fix it but this might take until tomorrow to do so. If that is the case, we will not open the shop tomorrow (Saturday). We apologise for that. Hopefully, everything can be fixed today but we don't yet know when the service engineer will come, although the service manager just called me to say they hoped to be with us by 6pm tonight. We can only apologise for t ...Continue Reading

Please find an poster inviting you to the next talk, entitled Mr Punch in the Trenches, the escapades of Sergeant Spencer in 1914. Thriplow Village Hall, 15th October, 8pm start ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Can you spare an hour on Sunday morning? We are having brand new topsoil delivered on Friday to reshape the triangles. This will be placed in small heaps all over the triangles. We need to spread it out, even it up and put down new grass seed. This should be a relatively easy job as the soil will have been sifted and broken up – and even easier if there are lots of us to help. Be part of making Thriplow even more beautiful! · When: 10.30 Sunday 4th October · Where: Outside th ...Continue Reading

Message on behalf of Daffodil Weekend Committee and Thriplow Parish Council Dear all, A plan to rejuvenate our village daffodils for the 50th Daffodil Weekend In the next few weeks we will start work to create world class displays of daffodils on our verges and triangles. Most of the large planting displays will be at the village “gateways” to welcome people to the village and also minimise the impact and untidyness once the flowering has finished. We have selected traditional English and more robust varieties of da ...Continue Reading

The Harvest Festival service will take place at St George’s Church in Thriplow this Sunday 27th September from 10.30am with refreshments and the service will start at 11am. It will be a joint service with the congregation from Fowlmere, and we hope that many from both villages will join us for the service as learn how the local Harvest has been this year and give thanks for all God’s gifts to us. The service will be led by our Rector, Revd Angela Melaniphy, so please take this opportunity to come and meet Angela if yo ...Continue Reading

Well the summer seems to be over, but the shop keeps going. Here is the news.... 1. Big Thank You to David and Jenny 2. 150 Club winners and “re-investing” 3. Call for volunteers for Sundays 4. Winter stocks 5. Crop for the Shop 1. David and Jenny Heinzelmann. After around five years (nobody can remember what happened before then), David and Jenny are giving up their Saturday performance in running the shop for us. It has been a wild ride, especially with the unpredictable nature of David’s hatwear, but they have ...Continue Reading

Ahead of The Battle of Britain Anniversary Air Show this weekend, IWM Duxford has released some important safety information that it wishes to share with local residents: IWM Duxford takes great care to ensure its air shows are as safe as possible for everyone involved. It is not safe to occupy the fields immediately south of the runway during the air show. If you do so you are putting yourself and the display pilots in harm’s way. In support of this, Grange Road will be closed on 19 and 20 September 2015. In t ...Continue Reading