VILLAGE Market: On Saturday, from 10am to noon, with all the usual stalls.

BOUNDARY Walk: On Sunday, 11.30am, from the hall. Picnics can be carried by car. Well-behaved dogs also welcome.

VILLAGE Hall AGM: Thursday, October 10, from 7.30pm. Come and see the start of the improvements (a new disabled toilet is first on the list).

CHURCHYARD Working Party: Saturday, October 10, 10am, bring tools and tidy up for the winter.

SILCHESTER Players: Present Curtain up on Murder on October 11, 12, 18 and 19. Tickets from 0118 9815600 Would you like a part in the panto?

Auditions on October 22, at 7.30pm. Ages from 10 years upward.

TEA Dance: In aid of the hall improvement fund on October 13, 3pm-6pm. Tickets are £8 from Jay’s and the Calleva.

SILCHESTER Parish Church: Welcomed our new rector for the enlarged Benefice of Tadley with Pamber Heath and Silchester, The Reverend Richard Harlow and his wife Kayla, at a service last Sunday, followed at 2.30pm by a quarter peal of bells in celebration.