Now in its 4th year! Biggest One Ever!

Christmas Bazaar

Saturday 9th December at 2.00 pm

Village Hall

All proceeds go to local good causes - including the Village Path Project.

There are many different stalls selling a variety of gifts and crafts, also raffles, tombola, cake stall and refreshments.

We urgently require raffle prizes and cakes and, if anyone can help with this, their offerings will be gratefully received in the Village Shop. Thank you.

Please come along for a while and support your village and met your friends.

Jackie & Marcie

No Play Station 2 on sale

Don’t Forget!

496 villagers struck down by attack of apathy

Thank you first of all to the 14 people who kindly returned the Worm questionnaire. And sorry that 256 other forms never made it back to the Village Shop. Perhaps some rogue postman has wallpapered his downstairs loo with them.

It is a shame that we will not now know what the village thinks of its newsletter. It costs £100 a month to produce, and takes the time and effort of about 20 people around the village to prepare, print and distribute to your houses. Is all this effort a waste of time and money?

 Those who did respond were universally happy. Only 16 items out of a possible 1,008 were ticked as "not much liked" or "not at all liked". Two people thought we should spend more on it. One person objected to anonymous articles appearing (it has only happened once to my knowledge - on all other occasions what were taken to be anonymous articles were actually written by me - it would be boring to see my name appear under every piece I wrote!).

Another suggested we merge with Little Horkesley and Mount Bures - we could become "The Worm, Hawk and Molehill" perhaps. The Vicar suggested the Womble (Wormingford, Mount Bures, Little Horkesley). I for one hate the Wombles (they live in Wimbledon for a start) and am very attached to the Worm. If we did combine we could then have an even bigger apathetic readership - would that be good?

Seriously, however, it is a great shame that more of you did not reply. We weren’t looking for compliments - I would have been delighted to get a hundred forms back saying the Worm was terrible - at least we’d know what you didn’t want. As it is, all we can do is carry on as we are, or just give up altogether. Perhaps only 14 people actually managed to get through to page 6, or perhaps those other 200 copies just go straight in the bin. If so a lot of us are wasting our time every month.

Ourobouros (a worm that eats its tail)

So, unless we hear otherwise, loud and clear, there will be no more Worms - we will refund our overseas subscribers dues (and I’d just sold a lifetime subscription to someone) and repay the advertisers their money, and save the Parish Council, The Parochial Church Council and the Recreation Trust £600 a year. Pip Pip!

David Simpson
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The Worm December 2000