THERE’LL be a new stall at the farmers’ market on Sunday, October 11, with an extra special product for apple day: apple bread.

Nigel Wild makes a range of organic, naturally-leavened breads and some leavened tarts and savouries.

And more good news: there will definitely be a market in November and our super Christmas market in December.

THE golf club fund-raiser that Clifford has run for two years, the 101 club draw, has finally come to an end, having raised a total of £5,000.

The winners for October are: Elsie Dixon, Philip Dalton and John Craig.

The other winners are, of course, the club members – who have had help to refurbish their club house – and the youngsters who have been encouraged to take up the sport at this, our sole sports facility in the village.

Clifford thanks all the people from the whole community who have loyally supported the club over the past two years.

THE church was also fund-raising last week, with a very successful coffee morning in Haltwhistle that raised £530, which will help to cover some of the many expenses congregations have to contribute to.

There will be another event in aid of St Cuthbert’s on Friday, October, 16, when there’s a domino drive in the village hall – excellent inter-generational fun with a supper halfway through.

IN Gilsland, on Sunday, the craft sale and lunches raised a very welcome £270 each for the Campaign to Open Gilsland Station (COGS) and the Methodist Chapel.

A further £80 was raised for COGS from the refreshments sold during the Tour of Britain in Gilsland Village Hall.

UNMISSABLE will be the Calico Hinnies’ wonderful quilting exhibition in the village hall tomorrow.

The group attracts members from far and wide and is celebrating its tenth birthday with this exhibition.

There will be tremendous prizes to be won in their anniversary raffle, but just come to admire the colours and the skills, the patterns and the stories to be found in their work.

If you are then inspired to join the group, conjuring magic out of tiny left-overs, they meet on the fourth Thursday of every month in the hall.

GREENHEAD Women’s Institute will meet on Monday, October 12, at 7pm, in the village hall for a talk about the air ambulance.

The tearoom has recently raised £165 for this cause, and Jan is about to attempt yet another distance running event, this time in Cumbria, to raise even more.

Jan’s record of fund-raising for this and other causes is amazing, and she should not be at all shy in encouraging those of us who couldn’t possibly emulate her prowess to keep sponsoring her.

THERE will be a candle-lit reception at the Quaker Chapel in Coanwood I mentioned last week, from 5pm until 8pm tomorrow – should be lovely!