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Village News                                                                                                                                 Village News


      Gosbee’s                               The Gardening Society are to hold their      they worked really hard, as did Diane. Roger   told a very old Welsh joke which might make
                                             Spring Show on Saturday 6th April. It has
                                                                                          Burgess did a sterling job with the questions
                                                                                                                                 you smile: “Doctor, doctor, I keep getting the
                                             been so mild and wet, the Spring flowers are
                                             3 weeks early, but I’m sure that exhibitors will   despite a but of the usual barracking and   urge to sing the Green Green Grass of Home”,
                                                                                          Howard Lilley took control of the Heads and
                                                                                                                                 so I asked the doctor whether this condition
      Gossip                                 still put on a magnificent display. It gives me   Tails game. Richard was brilliant as barman   was rare, and he replied “It’s Not Unusual”. You
                                             great pleasure to see the flowers. I had a little
                                                                                                                                 will have to be of a certain age to understand
                                                                                          and Heather and Pearl persuaded a good
                                             trouble with my bulbs, a badger dug them out
                                             of the pots and ate them!. As Shania Twain   proportion of the quizzers to part with £2 for   that I suppose. Ask your Grandma!.
                                                                                          the Heads and Tails game. There was sausage
      Lester Gosbee                          would say, that didn’t impress me much.      and chips or vegetable spring rolls for all,   Please take part in the Annual Easter Fun
                                             Have you ever suffered from flu?. Most people   thanks to Cranbrook Fish Bar and we managed   Run if you can on Easter Monday. It is hoped
                                                                                                                                 that up to 200 people will take part. It is a
      I will start with some good news for a   get it once or twice in a lifetime, and it can   to raise £523.20 for the Memorial Hall funds.  really joyous event and it raises funds for
      change. Hazel’s niece Ashley (George’s   be a killer. I have the flu vaccine every year,   I have always enjoyed watching the ‘Hairy   Frittenden School and Frittenden Memorial
      eldest daughter) and her husband, also   which usually keeps me completely safe, but   Bikers’ Si King and Dave Myers on TV. Dave   Hall. The Bell and Jorrocks will be ready
      called George, welcomed gorgeous baby   this year the dreaded flu has got me. It makes   Myers continued to make their shows while   with well-earned refreshments afterwards.
      Douglas to their family to join his big sisters   you feel so ill and weak, you struggle to get out   he was in remission from cancer. He thought
      Vivienne and Margot. Wishing all their   of bed, and leaves you with no interest in life.   that he’d never ride his beloved motorbike   Finally, what do you call an alligator
      beautiful family lots of love and happiness.  Someone could put a pile of 50 pound notes   again, but he did. I really enjoyed their banter,   wearing a vest?...an Investigator!. What
      Sadly some Frittenden residents and past   on the floor and you would not be interested   and the places that they visited. Their last   do you call a shy pebble?.... a stone
                                                                                                                                 that wants to be a little boulder!
      residents have lost more loved ones. Long   in it at all. I think that if I’d been able to get   programme was in North Wales, and Dave
      term resident John Walker from Bubhurst   medical intervention earlier, I wouldn’t have
      Lane sadly passed away at the age of 89.   needed and ambulance trip to A and E. I am
      Sending our condolences to his daughters   still struggling and think that it is going to take
      Anna and Sarah and their families . Former   me a very long time to get any strength back.
      residents Stephen and Tracy Jenner moved   The Memorial Hall Committee’s Fundraising
      from Frittenden to Florida with their children.   Quiz took place on Saturday 16th March,
      Their son Christopher sadly passed away   but I was obviously unable to help. It was a
      recently aged 28 after a long and courageous   fun evening, by all accounts, with a few very
      fight with cancer. Sending all our love to   kind helpers, particularly Diane Pullen, who
      the whole family at this difficult time.  put her three German students to work and
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