Halloween Pumpkin Trail 31 October

Neil and Jayne Warnock are coordinating the Halloween Pumpkin Trail around the village.

If you will be putting a pumpkin and/or treats outside your house, they will compile a list of the participating houses for distribution on or just prior to 31 October.  If you won't have a pumpkin to display but will be providing some treats for the children your house will be included on the list if you let Neil and Jayne know.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you will be participating.

So plenty of time to get and carve a pumpkin and buy some treats!

Save the date! Winter's Eve 2021 - Sunday 5 December

Planning has commenced for this year’s Winter’s Eve

The pivot of activities will be Sunday 5 December, when we hope to have the traditional children’s activities and performances by villagers

Obviously, everything will be subject to the restrictions in place at that time – but we aim to utilise the village marquee to the full

In addition, we will be including many of the activities from last year, including Christmas lights switch-on, Carols around the village, Festive homes and the Festive trail

We are planning a harp recital and we have a couple of other ideas that we are working on

The village has many talented children and adults – so if you are happy to participate with a song, playing a musical instrument, recital, poem or other performance (eg dropping your daughter from your shoulder!), please let us know

We will also be tapping a few shoulders over the next few weeks – be prepared for the knock on the door!

3Cs

Cut, clear and clean group
10am Wednesday, 3 November
10am Wednesday, 1 December

Every 1st Wednesday of the month (normally!). Everybody is welcome to join us – meet at the tree outside the rear door of the village hall.

Click here for the history of 3Cs

St Hilary Foragers Produce Market raises over £2,000

 

The 2021 St Hilary Foragers Produce Market raised an amazing amount of money which resulted in a donation of £1,500 to Ty Hafan Children’s Hospice, Sully. In addition, the Llanfair Primary School PTA ran the cake stall which raised £500 for school funds.

Strange though it may seem, the 2020 Covid epidemic and lockdowns benefited the Foragers Market. Because of the social distancing rules we had to hold last year’s Market on the village green, rather than in the village hall. We realised (obviously depending on the weather) that it was better outside because we had more room which meant we could invite more traders and makers to join us. Click here to read a detailed report of the 2020 event

So, following the success in 2020 our aim was to make 2021 bigger and better. This was possible because the village had a new marquee that was purchased from a donation from the BBC for filming Dr Who in the village. And, an event awning had been purchased with monies from the 2020 Winter’s Eve celebrations. So… plenty of room to expand.

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St Hilary Book Club

A St Hilary Book Club has been established recently, which will meet once a month.

The aim of the group will be to discuss a variety of different genres in a comfortable, friendly and social setting – perhaps with a glass of wine!

If you would like details please speak to or email Jude This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Pam This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Community Café

Village Hall
11am Wednesday, 3 November
11am Wednesday, 1 December

Drop in for coffee/tea, cake and a chat. 10.30am to 12 noon every 1st Wednesday of the month

FRALF Car Cleaning

Fred and Alfie - making your car smile and gleam

£8 per car

Call or message 07719 019940

Autoglym cleaning products provided - all that is needed is access to water and a hosepipe 

Save the date: NSPCC Walk for Children - Saturday 18 December

More details in due course

Save the date: NSPCC Valentine’s Coffee Morning - Wednesday 2 February

More details in due course

St Hilary Forum – Supporting the Village

or, demystifying the elusive organisation!

Can you answer the question “what is the St Hilary Forum”?  Probably not.  So here is your crib sheet.

The short answer is that the Forum helps projects and ideas to come about by:

1. Providing village insurance for events and activities
2. Having a constitution, necessary for applying for grants
3. Managing a bank account to pay for, build up and hold reserves for village equipment

The Forum does not (to date) hold or undertake activities itself.  But the above three “enablers” means that lots of villagers can.

Click here to read about all the activities

Help for landlines going digital

If you have a landline, you will be migrating to a digital service sooner or later – some in the village already have. This means that you will plug your phone into your broadband router instead of your phone socket on the wall. BT call this Digital Voice.

The concept is simple – just replace the router, if you have been sent one, and plug the phone line into it on the day that your service provider tells you that the service is being migrated.  Providers promise to help you through the process every step of the way, so you should get lots of notification about it.

However, we have recently provided help to a villager which suggests it might not be that straightforward. The villager’s phone had stopped working and the villager said that they did not recall getting any information about the migration date but had received a new router out of the blue.

Most migrations will be easy. But if you are technologically differently abled, have a problem, or know a villager who would like help contact Terry Dennis or Chris Jones and we will do what we can.

PS it is not in the BT instructions, but when the landline is migrated to digital, the area code needs to be added for local calls, like mobiles.

Picnic bench update

Caroline Neudegg is leading the project for a picnic bench for the village which is close to fruition

Ewart Schofield and Stephen Craddock have offered to help with the construction of the table and the base respectively

Walks and strolls

The walks and strolls section of the website includes:

• The 10 core circular walks from St Hilary ranging from gentle strolls (1 to 2 miles) to monster expeditions (over 10 miles)
• 4 different routes to Cowbridge, which can be combined for circular routes
• Strolling over The Clump for a takeaway coffee at Stalling Café or round the Garn or to Beaupre Castle

Foodbank donations

Lynn and Bruce Rankin are collecting food donations on behalf of the Cardiff Vineyard church in Cardiff. The food will be distributed to those in desperate need. Examples include tinned soup, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, instant coffee, rice, pasta, UHT milk, cereal, biscuits – but no fresh items

Please leave donations with Lynn and Bruce at Hendre in a box in their carport (on the right about 100 yards past the phone box on the lane towards Llantrithyd – here’s the link to the map of village houses)

Map of the village with house names

Click on this link for a pdf file of a map of the location of houses in the village - useful if you need to provide directions to family, friends or delivery van drivers. There are two pages: the first is of houses in the centre of the village, the second is of outlying houses.

Click here to see the two maps on this page