JOIN IN THE FUN ON JUNE 4TH....

Community Jubilee Competition for all

HAVE A FIELD DAY

MONDAY 4TH JUNE 2012

Park View 4U are having a “Have a Field Day” on Monday 4th June 2012 , this family fun day will take place on Park View Playing Fields and will have something for all the family, as well as sporting activities on the Field  Lytham Belles will be hosting traditional competitions in the marquee.

The competition is open to all with no age limits.

The categories are as follows:-

Best Jubilee Floral Arrangement - any arrangement using either real or artificial flowers along a Jubilee theme.....

Best Jubilee Cake - This can be a full sized cake,

or even a small cupcake.....

Best Jubilee Craft - We will leave this one up to you, what is your favourite craft ?

Stained glass ?......

Needle craft ?.....

knitting ?....

It is entirely up to you.......

Best decorated Jubilee crown - one for the children, make yourself a crown fit for royalty.....

And here is a link for a  CROWN TEMPLATE to get you started....

Best Jubilee picture - this is another category which is quite open, the only stipulation is that it is A4 size and has a Jubilee theme, it can be on paper, card or canvas and any medium can be used, paint, pastel, chalk, collage, embroidery....

Best Celebration photograph - we hope that you can have some fun with this one, it can be a photo of any celebration; sporting, birthday, graduation, christening etc, have a root through your photos and see what you can come up with.....

 

You can come into the marque to 'stage' your entry from 10am, and judging will start at 11am.

Park View 4U would like to encouraging families to come down to the park, so why not pack a picnic and come down to join in the fun.

I hope that this has given you a few ideas and some inspiration, we look forward to seeing you on the 4th June, pop by and say hello.....

For more details contact cath@parkview4u.org.uk or Maria Tierney lythambelles@virginmedia.com

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO A BEETLE DRIVE ?....

Are you ready for a night of breathless excitement and laughter ?...

Lytham Belles May meeting 6th May 2012

7.30pm, Victory Hall, Lytham

 Cath Powell Community Development Manager of ParkView 4U will be our speaker at the meeting.

This will be followed by a Beetle Drive, how retro can we get !

The Beetle game was massive in the 60's,with Beetle drives in venues all about the country, so it won't be surprising that many of us won't have been to a Beetle drive or even heard of one before.

My Father once told me a story of a group of pensioners who stayed in our Blackpool guest House in 1963, going to what they thought was a  'Beetle Drive' at the ABC theatre (now The Syndicate) only to be faced by hoards of screaming girls going to see 'The Beatles' !

I thought it might be a good idea to give the basic rules of Beetle :

We will be playing in PAIRS as this is apparently quicker thus enabling us to fit in the full 12 games which make up a 'Beetle Drive'

We will sit at a table of 4, the players sitting opposite will make up a pair. The tables will be numbered.

One player in the pair throws the dice, BOTH players draw the body parts on their beetle card; e.g.one player throws a 6 and BOTH players draw a body on their cards.

In the version we will use,

* 6 lets you draw the body
* 5 - the head (which you must have before being allowed to draw the eyes or feelers),
* 4 - the tail
* 3 - one leg
* 2 - one feeler
* 1 - an eye.

BOTH players score for all the body parts they have drawn. In our version the highest score for a fully drawn beetle is 39 points. E.g. if you only got a body (6), head (5), one eye (1) and four legs (12) your score would be 24 - does that make sense ?

The first pair to complete a beetle and shout 'BEETLE' are the winners of that game.

At the end of the game, the winning pair (the ones with highest score) from each table of 4 players move up on to the next table and the losing pair move down a table and pair up with the other players at that table - they do not stay as a pair but form a new pair.

THE OVERALL WINNER IS STILL AN INDIVIDUAL PLAYER - WITH THE HIGHEST POINTS FROM ALL 12 GAMES.

OK - so it might not sound like a night that could cause breathless joy and laughter, but I am sure it will be great fun and a fab way to get to know your fellow 'Belles'........

BUNTING FOR PARK VIEW.......

I was shamed today !. A lady emailed me this morning to say how she had been following Lytham Belles with interest in the press and also through this blog, but, the blog had not been kept up to date !

She was of course right, and so with my hand slapped, here I am trying to rectify my lack of blogging...

Talking of press, we are in the currant (May) issue of Lancashire Life:

 

Our last meeting (April) saw us all making bunting pennants for Park View cafe and community centre, we had been asked to work to the themes of red, white and blue, The Jubilee, The Olympics or Lytham....

I think that the pennants look fantastic and surprisingly all very different....

The finished bunting will be presented to Cath Powell Park Views Community Development Manager who will the speaker at our next meeting on  Sunday 6th May 2012...

Don't forget to look out for the bunting when the new community centre and cafe opens......