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Swavesey Institute Football Club -Sept/Oct 2005

First Team (Sponsored by Swavesey Post Office and Newsagents)
The first team have enjoyed a mixed start to their Kershaw Senior B season.  A number of experienced players have missed most of the season to date through injury.  At the end of October the team are in 9th place in a 16 team division and have been knocked out of both cup competitions.  Phil Baines is focussing his men on securing victories over the coming weeks to ensure Senior B status is consolidated by the end of the winter months. 

Reserves (Sponsored by The White Horse)

The Reserves end October in 5th place in the 14 team BIS division 4B. They remain in the Lower Junior Cup after a solid win at BIS 4A Hardwick “A”. After a disappointing start they have now started to play much better and the goals have begun to flow under the dream managerial partnership of Shaun “Pele” Land and Mark “My mother could play better” Lewin. Promotion to BIS 3B is the aim if recent form continues.

Want to play Saturday football for Swavesey?
If you do please call either Phil Baines on 200377 or Shaun Land on 201118 for details.  If you are not sure give Phil a call and come along to training to see if you enjoy it.  Training is held each Tuesday at 2000 at Over Community College.

Veterans (Sponsored by The White Horse)
The village team for players aged 35 and over produced a disappointing performance in crashing 6-0 to Bluntisham in the final pre-season friendly. The league season started with defeat under floodlights by a strong Ramsey side. Further league games will follow over the remainder of the season.  Training continues each Thursday night, followed by liquid refreshment with the team sponsor.  If you are 35 or older and wish to play, please call Jerry Ladell on 201018 for details.

Fixtures
Saturday fixtures are printed each Friday in the Cambridge Evening News with games in December and January kicking off at 1400 on The Green. Please come and support the village side and join the players afterwards in The White Horse for the post match review. 

Website
All fixtures are also now available on a new website. See:

http://full-time.thefa.com/gen/Index.do  (select 'Senior B' or 'BIS 4B' in the Division box at the top of the page)

Sponsorship
Sponsorship of the football club is always welcome.  If you wish to become a sponsor, please call Jim Foster on 232842 

Swavesey Women's Institute 

All our group activities have been in full swing over the Autumn, walking, eating out, playing scrabble, reading.  A new Culture Group has been formed who have been to the Opera, the Chinese Circus and are looking forward to the Ballet in November. The Craft Group have had a Card Making Day School and have a Japanese Folded Patchwork Day School planned for the New Year. The number coming to Keep Fit on Monday morning continues to grow and we are planning a Beginners Line Dancing Class in the village.

At our December meeting Paul Shakeshaft will talk to us about King's College Chapel and we look forward to our Christmas Dinner at the Cambridge Lodge Hotel.

January finds us partying again - this time we are celebrating the New Year with a Scottish Supper.

February we have Rodney Tibbs who will give us tips on Patio Gardening, Gardening in Small Spaces - all ready for the Spring, and Swavesey WI will be ready with a new programme of events and activities not to be missed!   Come and join us, we will make you welcome, the second Monday of the Month at the Memorial Hall 7.30pm. Ring Deirdre on 230897 or myself on 205224 and we will arrange for a member near you to come with you.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Swavesey WI.

Marian Sutcliffe

Keeping up the Standard 

It might be that from reading these reports you might have the impression that all we do in the Camera Club is sit there while we are entertained by wonderful slide shows of exotic locations, wonderful close-ups of wildlife or even a night of historical photographs from some university archive; it is probably true that about half our evenings are taken up in what one might describe as armchair photography, but for those of us with a more competitive nature there are plenty of opportunities to shine.

Throughout the year we have regular competitions, though of course there is no obligation to enter any of them. In previous years only about half of our members felt able to enter, nowadays we have so many entries that we have even had to consider reducing the number of images each person can put in. Maybe it is due to the ease with which one can produce excellent prints, thanks to digital-darkroom processes compared with the old wet-processing, but now on competition nights we are treated to one stunning picture after another, so even if one hasn't entered oneself it makes for a most enjoyable evening.

At one point we were rather concerned that digital photography might reduce the numbers of those still submitting images on slides. However some of our members prefer to continue using slide film, and lately some of those using digital cameras are using them to produce transparencies rather than prints, so after a short period when our slide competitions did not receive as many entries as in previous years, now we have so may that the judge has to work hard to get through them on time and the standard of work submitted is quite remarkable.

This is all very good news as it gives us plenty of material from which to select entries for external competitions. We are quite a small club, so when we found ourselves drawn against Ware in the Melbourne Trophy there were a few groans. Ware has many very well-known photographers and they always win everything as a result. To our surprise and delight, although they did win, they won by just HALF A MARK.

Well done, Swavesey Camera Club, both for a very good result and for the fine work all our members are producing.

Mo Hadfield
Swavesey Camera Club.

Over Tennis Club: Winter Tennis

 Would you like to play tennis through the winter? Run round, keep fit and enjoy yourself? And stay remarkable warm, despite some chilly evenings!

Over Tennis Club is offering winter sessions on Friday evenings at the All Weather Surface at Over Community Centre, in the Doles, Over. The sessions will run each week from Friday 7 October until the new ‘season’ starts in April next year.

It doesn’t matter if you are an experienced player or new to the game, if interested just turn up between 7.30 and 8pm, armed with a racquet. For those who don’t know, the entrance to the courts is via the left hand door of the dark green Portacabin building located next to the AWS.

Further information from the club’s secretary Naunton Pugh on (01954) 230393 or email naunton.pugh@ntlworldcom