at the Table-Top Sale on Sunday 8th October there will be a magical stall willing to take all your Bits’n’Bobs and sell them on in aid of Village Hall Funds. You can drop them off at the Hall on Sunday from 12 noon onwards. Just ask for Gary!

For many years we had a Garvald and Morham annual trip to the Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh for the Christmas show. Your Community Council would like to know if you would enjoy the return of this trip.

This year’s offering at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh is
The Snow Queen

Aince upon a time, in a world lang forgotten, strange creatures roamed the land…
When the beautiful and fearsome Snow Queen steals young Kei away to her frozen kingdom, she leaves behind the brave and brilliant Gerda, an Edinburgh lass who will stop at nothing to rescue her best friend.
But the Snow Queen has lodged shards of her magical ice into Kei’s heart, turning him cold and mean. Can Gerda, with the help of friends she meets along the way, track her pal through the magical, wintery world of the Snow Queen and melt his frozen heart before it’s too late?
Join us for a beautiful, festive and musical adventure as we follow young Gerda on her quest to save Kei, and the world, from an eternal winter. Snow, songs, ice palaces, and a dazzling pink unicorn awaits!

Tickets are £35- £29 each plus approx £10 each for bus hire, but with Community Council subsidy, each ticket, including return bus travel would be offered at £7.50 per person. You must be a resident of the Garvald and Morham ward and the show is suitable for children over 5 and their families.
This would hopefully be a Sunday matinee in early December, depending on ticket availability.

Please note your interest on this form. Deadline is 21st October.
https://forms.gle/3ANGhkRhgkVogPDA9

More show information https://lyceum.org.uk/events/the-snow-queen-23-24

POST-SHOW LOST PROPERTY – There were a few things left over after the Show – see photo. We’ll hang on to them for a couple of weeks and then they will be transferred down to Cancer Research shop in Haddington.

TEA TOWEL ANMESTY – the village hall kitchen is like the Bermuda Triangle when it comes to tea towels. Please please if you have any that you have taken home for washing, do return to the hall (or Elaine at Whitelaws or Jo at 1 Tanderlane Cotts). Thanks!

Thanks everyone for a lovely afternoon yesterday and to all of you for participating in the Show.

The usual controversies and debates were had (don’t mention buttercream) – all carefully negotiated by the judges in the spirit of friendly competition. Some shifts and changes in hotly contested categories (tablet! beetroot!). Garvald dogs were joined by a sheep, tortoise and cat in the pet show. I was also very happy to win back for a second year some tinned peas I had put into the tombola.

It wouldn’t happen without the judges, stewards, tea helpers, washer-uppers, tombola masters, chair and table shifters, cakes and prize donators. I totted up and realised there are about 30 people directly involved in putting this event on! We especially appreciated the help with clear up.

Here are a few pictures and I’ll put more on the Show page of the website soon, along with results list. Also watch out for our photos in the Courier.

Jo, Malcolm and GHS Show Committee.