Quiz Night West Ealing Saturday Jan 21st 2012


Saturday 21st January 2012

St James Church – top of St James Ave, Ealing, W13 9DL

 

£10 per ticket to include main meal

 

Programme:

6.45pm – arrival

7.00pm – dinner is served – chilli con carne + jacket potatoes (please ask for vegetarian meal)

7.30pm – quiz starts

9.00pm – tea/coffee + homemade cake (£1.50)

10.15pm – finish (hopefully on time!)

 

Please bring your own drinks (alcohol is fine)

 

Donations of raffle prizes appreciated – thank you!

 

Tickets from Martyn Clarke – martyn237@yahoo.co.uk or 020 8997 2540. All tickets must be purchased and paid for by 10pm Thursday 19th January so we can purchase enough food.

 

Please either bring a team of up to 8 people, or we can allocate you to a team.

 

West Ealing Folk class restarts at Drayton Court, Mon Sept 12

If you’re a late bloomer, returner, beginner or just curious – and you have some kind of musical instrument (guitars, ukes, whistles, harmonicas, fiddles, accordions, flutes, and anything else you can think of, all welcome) – consider coming to learn some lovely simple old trad tunes at your local pub/hotel on Monday nights. You don’t need to be able to read music. These term-time classes restart on Mon Sept 12, 7-9pm but you can join any time. We learn new tunes every week. More here: http://ealingsessions.wordpress.com/about/

Ways to respond to riots in Ealing and West Ealing

1. There’s a vigil tonight at 6pm on Ealing Green organised by Ealing Churches

2. Healing service at St James’s (back of Sainsbury’s) West Ealing Sunday (Aug 14, tomorrow) at 10.30. Come whatever your beliefs or religion to show solidarity with West Ealing community.

3. Special meeting at Council (Ealing Town Hall) to discuss riots plus minute’s silence for Richard Mannington Bowes.

Note, also this page on council website about how people can access support post-riots (well done, Ealing Council).

Rural Ealing in July + blackberries nearly there

I just went to check the blackberries in the bunny park – and got some lovely photos of rural Ealing – the blackberries aren’t far off ready (another couple of weeks till the Big Pick -if you’re interested in getting involved  in this community activity and maybe subsequent cooking, email  wenabundance@gmail.com). Anyway, thought you might like the pix (click images to enlarge).

 

Next up – Blackberry Picking

West Ealing Pickers – you know who you are! (And, if you aren’t in the know, would you like to know more? See below). Blackberries are next on the picking calendar – could be as early as mid-July (but we’re checking out the picking fields shortly).

To stay in touch, there are many ways:

Come to the Star and Anchor, Uxbridge Rd on Weds eve for social eve.

The West Ealing Abundance Blog: http://westealingabundancew13.wordpress.com/

Email: wenabundance@gmail.com

Twitter: @WENeighbours

Facebook: West Ealing Neighbours

Join in in Hanwell – for some schoolkids in Palestine

Towards a Palestinian Spring?

Hanwell Friends of Sabastiya (HAFSA)

Social Event on Saturday 25th June 7.30-10.30At HIGH5 Evershed Club (Hanwell W7 2AJ) 

It is off Boston Manor Road, take the lane opposite the Harvester and it is on your left. Bus: E8, 195. Tube: Boston Manor, turn left, 5min walk. Parking available. Come and hear from Hafsa members who recently returned from the area: How are the people doing over there? What is happening in the wake of all the upheavals in the Arab world? How can we support Sabastiya? We will also show a 20min. film: “The General’s Son” followed by a discussion. The rest of the evening will be for socialising (hurray!) over a drink and a Middle Eastern buffet. Paying bar available (please note that you cannot bring your own drink) Palestinian goods on sale, raffle. All money raised will go towards subsidising a football coach to go to Sabastiya and work with the school kids. Ticket £10 (bring friends!). It is helpful if you book in advance with Jean on 07739429754 or email Jean: jeanfitzperrin@hotmail.co.uk

 


Cinema comes back to Ealing but not as we know it…

city lights postermetropolis posterCharlie Chaplin? Metropolis? Ivan the Terrible? They’re classic films and deservedly great -best of all you see them locally at Ealing town hall on a Friday night. Put City Lghts in your diary for Friday May 13th, Metropolis for May 20th and Ivan the Terrible for May 27th – 7pm Ealing Town Hall, £7.50. You need to be a member so for membership and information : classiccinemaclub@hotmail.co.uk 020 8579 4925

Would you like to volunteer for Elderflower picking?

Diane, Gill and some volunteers from West Ealing Neighbours’ Abundance project plan to pick several hundred elderflower heads on Saturday morning, May 14th – weather permitting at a location in West Ealing. We might do a repeat ‘pick’ on Saturday morning, May 21. We’ve found a location where they’re quite prolific, in the ‘fields’ beyond Elthorne Park, although you’d need wellies to wade through nettles in some places, and a crooked stick to pull down the high branches.

We’ll be following the recipe on the WEN Abundance blog http://westealingabundancew13.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/292/ which we used last year to produce the cordial which went down very well at Hanwell Carnival and will will be selling again at this years Carnival on the 18th June, as well as Pitshanger Party in the Park on the 26th June.

Anyone who is interested in knowing more, or getting involved, please email wenabundance@gmail.com.

Cheers for now – Gill and Diane.