A reminder that Christmas trees will be collected with the black bag collection on Thursday, so you will need to put your tree out on Wednesday evening, 19 January.
Remove decorations and soil and cut down if over 6ft.
Because of staff shortages, trees will not be recycled. If you would like to recycle a real Christmas tree, the Vale Council is operating a drop off point in the Cowbridge Town Hall car park on Friday 21 January between 8am and 2pm.
The long awaited repairs to the church tower, which was becoming structurally unsafe, have begun and scaffolding has been erected this week. Without these repairs the church and churchyard would have had to close because of the danger of falling masonry.
The work will include:
• repairs/renewal of lead work
• repointing, rendering and lime wash of the parapet
• repairs to fractured and loose parapet corbels
• installation of new internal walkways
It is expected that the repairs and upgrade will take at least 8 weeks.
Weigh To Go is a mobile refill shop providing a range of organic foodstuffs and eco friendly products including oils, vinegars, pulses, spices, grains, flours, nuts, cereals, shampoo and household cleaning products
Plus you can have a coffee and a chat!
www.weightogorefill.co.uk
Their mobile shop will be in the village every Wednesday from 3pm to 5pm outside Little Hall Cottage
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Cut, clear and clean group
10am Wednesday, 2 February
10am Wednesday, 2 March
Every 1st Wednesday of the month (normally!). Everybody is welcome to join us – meet at the tree outside the rear door of the village hall.
Click here for the history of 3Cs
Small groups
Wednesdays 9am-10am
St Hilary Village Hall
For more information see www.pilateswithjo.com
Please call 07815046005 to book a place.
Royal Wedding Celebrations 2011
Over the last few years there has been an influx of new villagers often with young families - here are the current (November 2021) number of villagers:
• 54 children and young adults (58 including looked after grandchildren and other honarary members of the village)
• 198 adults (excluding the Manor House)
• 252 villagers in total
• 91 households
A St Hilary Book Club has been established recently, which will meet once a month.
The aim of the group will be to discuss a variety of different genres in a comfortable, friendly and social setting – perhaps with a glass of wine!
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Village Hall
11am Wednesday, 2 February
11am Wednesday, 2 March
Drop in for coffee/tea, cake and a chat. 10.30am to 12 noon every 1st Wednesday of the month
Fred and Alfie - making your car smile and gleam
£8 per car
Call or message 07719 019940
Autoglym cleaning products provided - all that is needed is access to water and a hosepipe
or, demystifying the elusive organisation!
Can you answer the question “what is the St Hilary Forum”? Probably not. So here is your crib sheet.
The short answer is that the Forum helps projects and ideas to come about by:
The Forum does not (to date) hold or undertake activities itself. But the above three “enablers” means that lots of villagers can.
Caroline Neudegg is leading the project for a picnic bench for the village which is close to fruition
Ewart Schofield and Stephen Craddock have offered to help with the construction of the table and the base respectively
The walks and strolls section of the website includes:
Lynn and Bruce Rankin are collecting food donations on behalf of the Cardiff Vineyard church in Cardiff. The food will be distributed to those in desperate need. Examples include tinned soup, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, instant coffee, rice, pasta, UHT milk, cereal, biscuits – but no fresh items
Please leave donations with Lynn and Bruce at Hendre in a box in their carport (on the right about 100 yards past the phone box on the lane towards Llantrithyd – here’s the link to the map of village houses)
Click on this link for a pdf file of a map of the location of houses in the village - useful if you need to provide directions to family, friends or delivery van drivers. There are two pages: the first is of houses in the centre of the village, the second is of outlying houses.
