Join Ram and has team from 7am on Friday 3 July 2015 as they play host to Rutland Radio, who will be broadcasting live from Mace village shop. Share your stories about Whissendine's Feast Week. All are welcome!
Congratulations to all the runners, marshals and event organisers for a fantastic 2015 Whissendine 6ix Road Race. A full list of runners and times can be downloaded from the official Whissendine 6ix Road Race website. The 2015 race was won in 30 minutes and 55 seconds by the 2014 winner Tim Hartley. In second place, [...]
Silent Auction in aid of Whissendine C of E Primary School Parents Association 18 Holes of Golf for Four Stapleford Park championship level course Value: £240.00 (Mon-Fri, excl. PH, expires 13 Dec 2015) Bid deadline: 13 July 2015 Result announcement: 16 July 2015 How to Enter: Email your name, contact number and bid to office@rutlandbuildingservices.co.uk [...]
Our next working party to tidy up the area will be 10am Saturday 27th June 2015 meeting at the footpath "Chapel Walk" between Ashwell Road and Foxhill. We will be planting wildflowers and bulbs. You will need to be in suitable clothing that you don't mind getting messy (water proof if wet!), suitable footwear. If [...]
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The Whissendine Primary School Summer Fête 2015, organised by the Parents Association, will be held on Saturday 13 June 2015 from 12 noon to 2pm at the school. The fête is open to the public, do come and support the school and take a look around. Games and Stalls Refreshments and Bar BBQ Raffle and [...]
Grantham's very own Big Band will perform live at Whissendine Village Hall during Feast Week in aid of village funds. Come down to the village hall on Saturday 27 June to enjoy swing classics from Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and many more. Get your tickets (£8) from Mace village [...]
Anyone who has had the courage to read any of these pathetic ramblings before will know that I love to read quirky and unusual books. I have recently been reading a delightful series of books called ‘Must Try Harder’. These small and easy to read books have a common theme, written by a retired teacher [...]
Can you sing, dance, act, play an instrument, do magic? If so, you are invited to come along to the Village Hall during Feast Week on Wednesday 1st July between 6.30pm and 8.30pm to show off your talent at Whissendine's Got Talent. As well as performers we also need an audience so please come and [...]
A huge thanks goes out to all of you who helped us in any way to celebrate Johns 70th and to also raise money for St Andrew's Church. To those of you who bought tickets, gave raffle prizes or sent donations we are so grateful. I’m sure you’ll agree it was a terrific, fun, warm, [...]
Those of you who shop at Waitrose will be familiar with the green token scheme. At the end of your shop in at your local branch, you’ll receive a token to place in a box of the good cause you’d most like to support. The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they [...]
Cotton Bunting When I put the first tentative notice in the Grapevine announcing the Knit and Natter group, I was hoping for maybe three or four people to turn up and that we would have a lovely time knitting and nattering but that it would all fizzle out within a few months. The first week, [...]
‘Cottage Teas’, the usual pre-festival fund-raising event for the Whissendine Flower Festival will be held at ‘Lantern Cottage’, 77 Main Street, on 20th June between 2:30 and 4:30pm.
The Whissendine Happy Circle Club met on Wednesday the 6th May at 1:15pm in the Village Hall. A new member was welcomed to the Club, as was a visitor. A delicious meal of salad and dessert was enjoyed followed by a short business meeting. Dr. Lawrence Howard then took part in a version of “Desert [...]
Just a reminder about the Rutland Food Bank collection point in St Andrew’s Church. If you have any contributions of food do drop them into the box by the large noticeboard at the back of the church, and we will make sure they are taken to Oakham. Why not use the BOGOF or 3 for [...]
Buying new shoes can be really stressful – I have BIG feet. Assistants look at me as if I’m from another planet when I ask with faint hope for size 10. And oh, the luxury of a specialist shop for large sizes! I inherited my feet from my Dad. He took 13s. Fortunately his uncle [...]
