Last updated at 15:07, Thursday, 04 December 2008

KIELDER Community Association’s Christmas bingo went with a swing-o, as usual.

A very enjoyable evening was had by all and a healthy £333 was raised for community funds.  Many thanks to everyone who helped and supported the night.

SHOWBUSINESS is so unpredictable! The Northumbrian night planned last Friday in Falstone village hall was due to start at 7.30pm. The artistes were all ready to go, the MC had prepared his introduction, the raffle ticket sellers were sitting with pens poised, but at 7.28pm only 10 people had taken their seats in the hall.
Thankfully though, by 7.38pm the audience had grown to a respectable 50-ish and the show got under way. Music from accordions, recorders, guitar, flute, keyboard, mouth organ and bowed psaltery had feet tapping all around the hall and songs, stories and poems had the audience joining in and singing along. Altogether it was a very successful evening which raised £180 for the Falstone United Reformed Church.

TOMORROW, from 11am in Tarset village hall, the Tarset Greenfingers Group has invited Deidre Cassidy to give a demonstration of tile making. 
Then, the day after, (Sunday, December 7), the group expects to roll its sleeves up, exchange green fingers for brown ones and get stuck in to making tiles. All are welcome. Please remember to bring a picnic lunch, although tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Another piece of essential equipment is a rolling pin! Intrigued? Come and join them.

THE carol season is upon us and the North Tyne kicks off with a carol service at Kielder Church at 2.30pm on Sunday, December 14.  Carols in the Courtyard takes place at Kielder Castle from 3pm on Saturday, December 20, and the carol service at St Peter’s Church, Falstone, is on December 21, at 6pm. If you enjoy a good sing, put these dates in your diary and get practising!

DON’T forget that Straw Headed Peter is coming to the Kielder community hall, courtesy of the Northumberland Travelling Theatre, on Monday, December 8, at 7pm, and the turkey trot whist drive will be held in the same hall on Thursday, December 11, at 7.30pm. 
After the hard frosts of the last week or two of November, making the North Tyne look more like the North Pole, is it too much to hope that the snow which came on the first day of December is a sign that we might be in for a real, old fashioned winter? Even Aad Wattie can hardly remember the last time it snowed in earnest.

First published at 13:11, Thursday, 04 December 2008
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