Wassailing in Stamford and other events across Bourne, Rutland and the Deepings in the next week
A traditional wassailing event is among the events taking place in the next week.
If you want to include your event in our diary dates section, email: smeditor@stamfordmercury.co.uk with details before 5pm on a Monday.
Friday, January 6
Dick Whittington - Key Theatre Peterborough. Until Sunday, January 8. Tickets from £10. Box Office: 01733 852 992 or https://keytheatre-peterborough.com/event/dick-whittington/
Oakham Art Group Winter Exhibition - Rutland County Museum in Catmose Street. Runs until January 9.
Chase the Goose’ family trail - £2. Lyveden New Bield. Runs until February 6.
Saturday, January 7
Nibble and Natter - Bourne Abbey Church Hall, 10am to midday. Stalls to include books, raffle and refreshments. Proceeds to Abbey Church.
Wassail - Stamford Community Orchard, end of Christ Church Close, 4.30pm. Join in a noisy old English custom to bring a good harvest of apples. With seasonal songs, cider, apple juice, brazier, Woven Chords choir, Rutland Morris and a fire juggler. Bring saucepans and wooden spoons to bang, a mug, torch, sparklers and ribbons.
Men Can Cook - 6pm for 6.30pm start, Great Casterton Church Hall (opposite The Crown in Great Casterton). Come and join us for an evening of food and fun when the men of the church supply a tasty menu. Raffle and bar. Fundraising for the church heating system.
Tuesday, January 10
Business meeting - 10.30am, Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping. Contact Karen on 01788 342006.
The Rutland Group of The Hardy Plant Society - 7.30pm, Uppingham Methodist Church, Orange Street, LE15 9SQ. Nick Hamilton owner of Barnsdale Gardens will take as his subject ‘Essential Winter Trees and Shrubs’. Admission, for very welcome visitors is £5 with light refreshments included. Details at hpsrutland.webador.co.uk
Wednesday, January 11
Craft Club - 1pm, Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping. Hosted by Nene and Welland Oddfellows. Contact Georgina on 01778 347876.
Thursday, January 12
‘Sanctuary’ professional live music and reflective words - 8pm to 8.45pm, United Reformed Church, Star Lane, Stamford. Clare O’Connell (cello) and Eleanor Turner (harp) free but donations welcome.
Friday, January 13
Traditional French Dance - 7.30pm, Tinwell Village Hall. Featuring the Anglo-French duo of Cedric Martin from Alsace on accordion and Emily Bowden from Sheffield playing fiddle.
£10 with bookings from adam@susted.org.uk.
Deepings Heritage present a talk by Nicholas Watts on Fenland Farming, Water and Wildlife - Main Hall of the Community Centre, Market Deeping, 7.30pm. Admission £3.
Saturday, January 14
Stamford Indoor Bowls Club Open Day - 10am to 4pm at the clubhouse off Exeter Gardens. Free. All ages welcome, no experience or equipment needed. Refreshments available.
The Adult Panto: Cinderella and her Naughty Buttons! - 7.30pm, Stamford Corn Exchange. The Market Theatre Company are out to corrupt another fairytale classic beyond recognition with an evening of corny jokes, raunchy plots and blatant sexual innuendo using a minimum of set props and costume. Not suitable for under 16’s. Tickets £18 from www.stamfordcornexchange.co.uk or 01780 766455.
Sunday, January 15
Stamford Ramblers walk - 10am, from Wakerley Great Wood. An undulating nine mile walk following the road into Wakerley village to pick up the Rutland Round to Duddington via the hamlet of Tixover. We cross the A43 and steadily head uphill to enter Fineshade Woods via the North Spinney and continue through the woods until we get to Top Lodge for a lunch stop. The route then passes Fineshade Abbey, recrossing the A43 and back into Wakerley Great Wood and the car park. Underfoot is mostly well trodden paths and roadways. Further information at https://www.ramblers.org.uk/stamford
Wednesday, January 18
Friendship Lunch - 12.30pm, Crown Inn, Surfleet. Hosted by Nene and Welland Oddfellows. Contact Christine on 07714 096801
Thursday, January 19
Stamford and Rutland Photographic Society - January meeting, 8pm, Great Casterton Church Hall. Open to all interested in photography. Includes the group’s AGM.
Stamford Arts Centres screens Met Opera performance - Fedora. Book at https://www.stamfordartscentre.com/whats-on/ or call the box office on 01780 763 203.
Friday, January 20
Museum Workshop - 10.30am, Oddfellows Hall, Church Street, Market Deeping. Hosted by Nene and Welland Oddfellows. Contact Barry on 01778 560059.
Psychic medium Stuart Michael - Stamford Corn Exchange, 7.30pm, £19 stamfordcornexchange.co.uk/stuart-michael-psychic
Saturday, January 21
Bourne wassail - 4.30pm, community orchard off Beech Road.Music and dance by Bourne Borderers, mulled cider, apple juice and cake. Donations welcome for Friends of Bourne Wood.
Ketton Wassail - 4.15pm, Hall Close, Ketton.
Letz Zep: The Celebration Tour - 7.30pm, Stamford Corn Exchange. The number one tribute to Led Zeppelin. Tickets £24 from www.stamfordcornexchange.co.uk or 01780 766455.
