Cadon Chamber Choir

Highly recommended and you will also see St Mabyn Church's brand new lighting, paid for by the Friends of St Mabyn Church

New lighting for Church

Look out for deer!

Spotted on our way into St Mabyn this evening.

St Mabyn School Children in Need Day

The school council organised an enjoyable day of cake eating, competitions, face and nail painting, film watching and fun to raise money for Children in Need.

CHRISTMAS COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA

THE ST MABYN PLAYERS' CHRISTMAS COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA
All tickets for performances of the "Christmas Comedy Extravaganza" for Friday 9th and Saturday 10th have now been sold. Just a few tickets for Thursday 8th remain and early booking is recommended.
St Mabyn's Tony Dickinson, who has appeared and starred in a number of local productions, is performing as well as producing and directing the show, which promises to be a lively and fun evening.
Tickets are £7.50, obtainable from Tony 02108 841314 (tonydickinson@tiscali.co.uk)
or Angela 01208 841511 (a-bunney@sky.com.) The price will include a pasty supper followed by a sweet and tea/coffee. Anyone who wishes to bring their own alcohol is welcome to do so. Table reservations can be made in advance for groups of eight.

Happy Mabena Feast Day

St Mabyn Post Office & Stores - helping you get ready for Christmas!

Christmas is coming and St Mabyn PO & Stores has all you need with
cards and gift wrap from just £1! Special cards including local
scenes and work by local artists, a wide range of gifts in the Coffee
Lounge and shop combined with their ever popular range of hampers
filled with local produce ensures gifts are found for everyone.

Take a break from all the preparations in the The Coffee Lounge which
also offers a 'Wrapping Station' filled with post boxes, bags, padded
envelopes and anything else you need to send off your gifts.

Christmas stamps are now on sale. Joe and Laura are always happy to
advise on the best way to post items to loved ones both in the UK and
overseas. They can also help with an 'out of hours service' if you
need to post a number of items but just cannot make it to the Post
Office during normal opening hours. Just speak to Joe or Laura for
more details.

Orders for Free Range Turkeys are currently being taken. The turkeys
are from Keith Wickett's farm nr Stratton, Bude and are excellent
quality.

Fruit, vegetables, bread, dairy and the delicious products from Mike's
Smokehouse, as well as all the inhouse baked breads, mince pies and
pastries can all be ordered ready for collection at Christmas. Pick
up a form as well as a 'Local Shopper' leaflet with some great
Christmas deals. Take a break from the supermarket shop this year and
support your local village store!

WANTED FOR MISTLETOE FAIR

3rd December 12 - 4pm
We need donations of:
Good quality books for our 'lightly used book stall'
Soft toys looking for new owners to love them.
Prizes for the 'Grand Raffle'
Home produce - jams, preserves, chutneys.
Cakes, biscuits, scones and other home baked goodies.
Items can be left at St Mabyn PO & Stores.
Thank you.
LB
Tables are available to hire at £10 each please contact Helen on 01208841342

Christmas Carol Service

St Mabyn Pre-school would like to invite you to their Christmas Carol Service on Monday 12th December 2011 at 10am in St Mabyn Memorial Hall.
There will be children's Christmas rhymes and well known carols and it will be an enjoyable morning for all the family.
Mince pies and complementary refreshments will be available.

St Mabyn Players Christmas Comedy Extravaganza

The newly formed St Mabyn Players' forthcoming Christmas Comedy Extravaganza will take place in St Mabyn Village Hall on 8th, 9th and 10th December at 7.30pm. This will be the Players' first production and, by the first week in November, almost three quarters of the total tickets for the three performances had been sold. The essence of the show is musical comedy and includes a one-act play containing some adult humour, written by the well-known comedy writer, David Tristram.
St Mabyn's Tony Dickinson, who has appeared and starred in a number of local productions, is performing as well as producing and directing the show. Early booking is recommended for the remaining tickets for what promises to be a fun and lively evening.
Tickets are £7.50, obtainable from Tony 02108 841314 (tonydickinson@tiscali.co.uk) or Angela 01208 841511 (a-bunney@sky.com.) The price will include a pasty supper followed by a sweet and tea/coffee. Anyone who wishes to bring their own alcohol is welcome to do so. Table reservations can be made in advance for groups of eight.

For the Fallen

Book swap

Thanks to everybody who has supported the Book Swap at St Mabyn Post Office and Stores over the last few months. There will not be a Book Swap in December due to Christmas. The next Book Swap will be in January 2012, date to be advertised.

Friends of St Mabyn Church

Friends of St Mabyn Church Lunch and Talk – Friday 11th November
On Friday, November 11th, there will be a talk in the St Mabyn Memorial Hall given by Ken Gibbs, a long-term development and disaster relief worker who has travelled widely and got into all sorts of scrapes. He will be talking about work he has done in Bangladesh, Palestine, Bhutan and South Africa with some quite unconventional views on the situations he faced.
The talk will be preceded by a sit down lunch with wine which commences at 12:30. The Hall will open at Noon. Tickets are £12 (£10 for Friends). Pay at the door. Please book your tickets early as numbers are limited either phoning or e-mailing Liz & Gage Williams on 01208 841378 or gagewillms@aol.com – proceeds are in aid of St Mabyn Parish Church.
Ken was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and schooled there and in South Africa. His father was the governor of Southern Rhodesia at the time of UDI, who was kept under house arrest for four years following the event. Ken and his family emigrated from southern Africa in 1972 and he and his wife became United Nations nomads working in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Vietnam, Bhutan, Moçambique and Namibia before taking early retirement. Since that time, he has continued to be a freelance disaster relief specialist with a passport too full of esoteric country names to enumerate.
Having heard Ken speak, Liz and Gage highly recommend this event which will be fascinating, humorous and thought provoking.

Gage Williams OBE

The Winter Gallery Polzeath

Local potter Andy Titcomb will be exhibiting at The Winter Gallery Polzeath (next to the newsagents) from November 5th until end of February everyone is welcome to the opening evening this Friday November 4th 6.00pm - 9.00pm