The Breckland Club welcomed 2018 with a well attended celebration :-
So many people turned up on the night that there was some concern that the buffet would run out – it didn’t!!
Young and not so young joined in the party
There was some dancing
Some more dancing
Some drinking
A bit more dancing
A lot more dancing and quite a bit of singing as Big Ben chimed
Cheery staff we on hand to make sure the drinks kept flowing
We’ve had a query submitted regarding a photograph on the website.
The photo in question is the 1955 Christmas party:
Can anyone recognise Tony Marsh, son of Dot and Joe who worked for the forestry commission. He was definitely in Santon then as he would have been 13 when this photo was taken.
The query came from his son Richard.
We’ve just discovered that Santon Downham was featured in 2013 in a Radio 4 program about Golden Pheasants.
St Mary’s church is visited as part of the Living World series which discusses the history of Golden Pheasants in the UK
The program is available on BBC IPlayer (As this is from 2013 unlike most Iplayer programs these seem to be available forever).
St Mary’s is the first item on the show and talks about the stained glass window (see right) in the church
On Sunday 17th Dec the owner of LIttle Lodge Farm arranged a “stroll” down to Santon Downham.
A group of about 30 dressed up their horses, children and adults to take a stroll down to Santon Downham for mulled wine and mince pies in the Club..
The weather held off until later and the event was well attended with a reporter from the EDP turning up. (will link to their story when I find it)
On Sunday 17th Dec the owner of LIttle Lodge Farm is arranging a “stroll” down to Santon Downham.
A group of about 30 will be dressing up their horses, children and adults and taking a stroll down to Santon Downham for mulled wine and mince pies in the Club..
Start time is approx 11am with the aim to be at the Breckland Club for 12:00pm
Come along to see the horses or just for a lunch time drink in the Club. (New members welcome/encouraged)
Fibre broadband has been available since May.
We’ve been a BT customer since then and were regularly achieving download speeds of 52Mbps (52 Meg / 52Mb). Not bad for what many consider a rural not-spot.
Recently BT have upgraded our service to “Upto 77Mb”.
We were somewhat skeptical about this as we were not convinced the copper wire between us and the exchange could cope with this. (it used to behave very badly when it rained).
However since the upgrade we’ve been able to achieve over 70Mbps consistently and have managed 73Mbps on occassion.
This does require some effort as both the router and connected devices need to be configured properly and using the latest/fastest wifi modes. (We needed a new Wifi dongle ~ £10 to take advantage of it).
The September Newsletter has been published – Newsletter no 32
All of the newsletters can be found in the archive
Village Coffee Mornings are resumuing
10:30 to noon in the Village Hall
bring your own mug
Questions to Maggie on 810098
Dates
The phone b
ox received it’s defibrillator yesterday.
A large number of villagers also received training on how to use the defibrillator by the Community heartbeat trust.
They debunked many myths about what a cardiac arrest is and how a defibrillator works and whether or not it’s possible to do more harm than good with one of the modern AEDs (Automated external defibrillator). Alas ER, Casualty and Holby City came under fire for missrepresenting real life.
If you’re interested in their work or how a defibrillator works details can be found on their website.
The Defibrillator is locked in a bright yellow cabinet in what was the old BT phone box. If you ever need to use it the 999 operator will have access to the code to open the box.
The defibrillator itself is orange and is stored in a small carry pack which contains other essentials in case you ever need to use it.
Their is a universal sign which indicates the location of the nearest defibrillator. This should be the same arround the world!.
A session has been arranged to give training on the defibrillator which is being installed in the phone box.
All village residents are invited.
Wednesday 23rd August at 7pm in the village hall.
Another session may be arranged is sufficient numbers are interested but unable to attend this session.