Club Anniversary Lunch - arrangement alteration

Members please note:

Our Annual Club Lunch will take place one day early, on Wednesday 3rd February at the same time & venue (12 midday at the Mill Farm)... don't forget, you've already paid!

Look forward to seeing many of you there next week.

6 Nations fixtures 2016

Here comes the world's greatest annual rugby tournament...


Saturday 6th February:     2.25pm  France v Italy     4.50pm  Scotland v England

Sunday 7th:     3.00pm  Ireland v Wales


Saturday 13th:     2.25pm  France v Ireland     4.50pm  Wales v Scotland

Sunday 14th:     2.00pm  Italy v England


Friday 26th:     8.05pm  Wales v France

Saturday 27th:     2.25  Italy v Scotland     4.50pm  England v Ireland     


Saturday 12th March:     1.30pm  Ireland v Italy     4.00pm  England v France

Sunday 13th:     3.00pm  Scotland v France


Saturday 19th:     2.30pm  Wales v Italy     5.00pm  Ireland v Scotland     8.00pm  France v England


... come on you egg chasers!

BDBC New Year Walk

A dull, damp, chill morning greets as we muster for our first stroll of 2016.  10.00 a.m. in the warmth of Cannock Leisure Centre, a 2 hour slog through the mire & slough of Shoal Hill Common & the surrounding woods beckons.  10.15 outside into a gusting wind; scything with a freezing-edge on the exposed higher spots of the walk.

Cannock Golf Course empty of folk but a maudlin dog-walker trudging a down-at-heel spaniel, yet magpie, squirrel, blackbird, & starling active, obvious.

Into the squish & splish of forest track.  Deciduous whipcrack, the soughing of pine.  Outstep the treeline to a ninja panorama - shock of the sudden!  Across pool to the Berwyns, the Wrekin, the Mynd & the Edge; cloud-topped & distant giants, policing an ordered manscape.

A breath in the teeth of the gale & the group turns for the warmth once more... but not before he takes an old-fashioned selfie... 'cos he's all alone!

I promise I will drag you stop-ins over this ground before very much longer, & you will enjoy it!  And I'll bet you'll all be at the annual club lunch next month - I do hope so!  Still, I did have a very pleasant walk though.

See you all next club afternoon.

Cannock Chase Council: free Christmas tree chipping

Cannock, Hednesford, & Ravenhill Parks play host to Cannock Chase Council personnel & their big chippers between 9.00am - 3.00pm from Tuesday 5th to Sunday 24th January (including weekends), & get your undecorated Christmas tree shredded for free.  

Cannock:  Leisure Centre car park
Hednesford:  bottom end of park (by contractors units)
Ravenhill:  corner of car park (by recycling bins)

Take a bag if you want your chippings; chippings will be made generally available to residents later: Cannock 11th, 18th, 25th; Hednesford 15th, 22nd, 25/26th; Ravenhill 13th, 20th, 25th.

It's a great idea: it encourages recycling; bought woodbark is expensive; the shreddings have a range of uses in the garden... use the service!