Christmas Closing

It’s almost time for our  hard working volunteers to have a well-earned break.

This year we will close at the end of the day on Friday 20 December (after our Christmas concerts) and reopen on the morning of Monday 6 January.

In the meantime, we’d like to thank you for your custom this year and wish you all

¡Feliz Navid!
Joyeux Noël!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Buon Natale!
Feliz Natal!
Crăciun Fericit!
Счастливого Рождества! (Schastlivogo Rozhdestva!)
God Jul!
God Jul!
Glædelig Jul!
Hyvää Joulua!
Gleðileg Jól!
Wesołych Świąt!
Vrolijk Kerstfeest!
Sretan Božić!
Veselé Vánoce!
メリークリスマス! (Merīkurisumasu!)
圣诞节快乐! (Shèngdàn jié kuàilè!)
메리 크리스마스! (Meli Keuliseumaseu!)
Felicem Natalem Christi!
Nollaig Shona!

Welcome December – Dates for your Diary

Yes, it’s December already! We can’t believe it either. Another busy and eventful year at the library draws to a close and we’d like to remind you about some important dates this month:

12 December Cricklesingers Carol Concert at All Saints Child’s Hill – free carol concert by our thriving and exuberant community choir.

15 December – Carols by Candlelight at the library

20 December – Early Evening Family Concert of excerpts from The Nutcracker. Truly a cracking way to start your family celebrations

20 December – December’s Last Friday concert by Trio Taliesin

21 December – our last day “in the office” this year. We reopen on Monday 6 January

 

NHS Covid and Flu Booster Bus Visits the Library

The NHS Covid and Flu booster bus will be at the library on Monday 25 november, 1030-1600, offering vaccinations to

those aged 65 and over
those 18-64 in a clinical risk group
frontline NHS and social care workers
The will also offer free Health conversations to over 18s on

Blood glucose checks
blood pressure checks
immunisation signposting
BMI checks
smoking and alcohol
general health and well-being

Cricklereaders December 2025 – Julia by Sandra Newman

The last book of the year is Julia by Sandra Newman. 1984 from Julia’s viewpoint. London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen – cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about politics. She knows how to survive in a world of constant surveillance, Thought Police, Newspeak, Doublethink, child spies and the black markets of the prole neighbourhoods. She’s very good at staying alive.

But Julia becomes intrigued by a colleague from the Records Department – a mid-level worker of the Outer Party called Winston Smith, she comes to realise that she’s losing her grip and can no longer safely navigate her world.

Read along at home with us (places in the group are on hold for now but may open up again in the new year.