This turned out to be a successful event and a Big Thank you go to Karen and Richard Baines for organising it. There were 8 entries to the competition and £57.00 was raised towards the Church fund.

Judging took place on Sunday, July 4th and the winners were as follows:

1st prize: Bella Fox

2nd prize: Steve Fox

3rd prize: Jan Powley

 

There was such great interest in testing our baking skills across all age and gender groups that another challenge was requested.

A “Christmas Chocolate Yule Log” perhaps??  Who knows! Stay tuned for details of the next event when all will be revealed.

 

‘By the pricking of my thumbs

Something wicked this way comes’………….at Preston Village Hall on October 9th.

Be there!

Margie Wall

Joan Lount  –  July 17th 1943 – July 4th 2021 (aged 77)

It is with great sadness to announce that our dear Mother, Sister, and Grandmother Joan Lount passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 4th 2021.

Joan moved from Oakham to Ridlington in 1977. She has since lived happily in her Cottage opposite the Church. Joan was well known in the community through her farming life and always enjoyed participating in regular village events.

Her funeral service will be held on Tuesday, July 20th at 11:00am at the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene & St. Andrew, Ridlington, followed by a burial in the church grounds, where she will be laid to rest with her dear husband John. The family would like to thank Joan’s friends and neighbours for the support they gave her whilst she lived in the village.

All villagers are welcome to attend as there are no restrictions on attendance. The Vicar may request that a face covering is worn during the service and that social distancing is respected.

The Lount family

A huge thanks are due to the 9 volunteers who enthusiastically embarked on the bio blitz of the churchyard on 12th June – Chris and Marta, Jacky and John, Jenny, Liz, Shelagh and Richard and Debra.

Full details of the survey results will be published in due course, and we hope to put together some information for visitors which will be displayed in the church porch.  Who would have thought that the churchyard contains over 60 different plants and that’s without counting the trees!