grayshott.com what's on newsletter friday 14th may 2010

Dear subscriber

What a week that was, surely a hung parliament has never been so much fun. Just when it looked like we'd be Lib-Conned for sure, it seemed as though we might instead be Lib-Labbed, but then Brown resigned and David agreed with Nick that we should be Con-Demned after all.

I jest of course - it's all very encouraging isn't it, and just what we were promised, a radical change in government. Let's hope the new coalition can also deliver a more representative electoral system to ensure we put a permanent end to the old duopoly and lock in a new age of interparty co-operation.

It's not just the Camerons and the Browns who are moving home - Andrew Meehan tells us in his latest commentary on the housing market - lots of other people have decided that it is time for a change and recent activity in the local property market is at levels not seen for several years. So it's just as well Keats can do the biz with their new website.

PK Pre-School Receive a cheque for £2,600 PK Pre-School didn't just raise the roof, they blew it off, with their charity race night at the Social club last Saturday. Superbly organised by the PK yummy mummies, racegoers were also treated to several celebrity videos supporting their cause. You can read all about it, see some photos and watch a film from Clare Balding congratulating PK on raising £2,600 in the latest news item.

It's not going to be a quiet weekend - suddenly we are inundated with so many things to do, and how. Keep up if you can.

Early beers gets underway at Beacon Hill Beer Festival tonight at 6pm which continues on Saturday at noon with live music both nights. I highly recommend this beer, cider and music festival which was the inspiration behind our very own Grayshott FirkinFest which returns on the last weekend in October 2010 at the village hall. Firkintastic!

The Grayshott Gardeners are holding their Plant Sale on Saturday morning from 10am to 12noon in the Village Hall this year as the Square is still being refurbished. Do they have any frost resistant runner beans? Mine are has beans.

Grayshott Pottery are offering you another chance to 'play with clay on Saturday' - this time you can make a pot with Myra before or after lunch, but please book.

At 3pm on Saturday it's the FA cup final - Premiership leaders Chelsea take on Premiership losers Pompey, but will the true blues have the last laugh? Where are you watching it? If your knees have not gone all trembly, you might watch it at home, you could watch it at the pub, you could watch it at the beer festival or you could watch it on the Social Club's new 10 foot HD widescreen. Wherever, I'm sure you'll enjoy. The club is also screening the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday but I'm afraid you can't stay over.

Then in the evening Grayshott Concerts are doing their thing at St Luke's Church with Martin plays Mendelssohn or you could taste some wine at the village hall with Ricco.

On Sunday if you didn't get back from the beer fest you can freshen up with the Beacon Hill 'Funny' Run and later in the day back in Grayshott restore your courage and integrity with a talk from Iraq veteran Major General Tim Cross at the 6pm service of Choral Evensong at St Luke's Church.

At some point in the weekend don't forget to drop in to the Hindhead Hot Tubs & Andrews Open Weekend and take the opportunity to support the Undershaw Preservation Trust and perhaps win a new lawnmower, and maybe even meet that clean cut MP for Surrey Southwest and now secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport, Jeremy Hunt.

You can also cross your heart this weekend for the Playtex Moonwalk as some of Grayshott's finest pairs walk the walk in their bras all 26 miles around London, starting at midnight in Hyde park to raise money for a number of breast cancer charities. You may well have sponsored this already but if not please choose between Liz Cross & Julie Dalziel or Sally Smith & Kate Mackie and make an online donation.

After all that we will all need a sit down and Movies in Grayshott have just the thing with a showing of Dean Spanley next Wednesday. It's billed as a 'Shaggy dog story that will warm the heart of even the meanest Scrooge (oh yeh!) - a genuine and surprising pleasure' as a visit to the Grayshott movies always is. This time though, don't forget the flea powder.

If you've over done it, and I guess you will have, you'll need a proper lie down in which case I suggest you also make it along to the BIG meeting next Tuesday at the Fox & Pelican for a snooze.

Have an winning weekend.