Sunday 1st  HAPPY NEW YEAR

Grand Duck Race

A New Year’s Day Tradition  Watch the ducks race down the River Lym  at noon Raising money for Lyme's Christmas Lights.  Aren't they great this year!

Rotary Lyme Lunge: Take a Plunge in the sea for Charity 
A fancy dress dip in the balmy waters of Lyme Bay, 13.00 hours at the Cobb Beach, all for charity. This year the charities supported are the RNLI and ShelterBox. Everyone welcome, whether ‘dipping’ or contributing to our charity collection. Have a go.  Prize for Best Fancy Dress.  From the Sandy Beach (time to watch the Duck Race First).  Download your 2012 Sponsorship Form or just turn up.  Air temperature forecast around 11 degrees, the sea is a balmy 10 degrees and there may be some showers - so you may as well take a dip - it doesn't get much warmer at this time of year!

Coast to Coast sponsored Bike Ride
On-line registration opens for the ride on 20th May  in aid of Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.   More info see 20th May or Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance


3rd January   Church Street closed for 8 Weeks until 26th February

Wednesday 4th Back to School

Undercliffs Work Party
Meet at Whitlands Nr Lyme Regis.  New members welcome.  Axe Vale and District Conservation Society

Friday 6th  Twelfth Night  Time to take down your decorations and Recycle your Christmas Tree - see right

Saturday 7th
Undercliffs walk
Challenging walk to the Humble Glades and Charton Bay. Meet at Whitlands Nr Lyme Regis.  New members welcome.  Axe Vale and District Conservation Society

Lyme Regis Res v Forton Rangers (2pm ko)
Followed by the live ESPN game.  Lyme Regis Football Club, The Davey Fort Ground, Charmouth Road, DT7 3DU

Friday 13th
Coffee and Talk "Beautiful Birds - A Journey Through the Rainbow"
A talk by professional wildlife photographer and ecologist, Andy Swash.  Andy is an expert on birds and he will be considering “What makes a bird beautiful?” featuring some of his prize winning images that he’s taken on his travels around the world in search of some of the most threatened and elusive species.  10:00 – 10:45am Coffee/Tea and Biscuits.  followed by talk at 11:00am  Woodmead Hall, Lyme Regis 10:00 – 12:00noon

If you have a bicycle
and are free at 2pm, please bring your bicycle to the Cobb area. At the Lyme Regis Town Council Planning and Highways Committee Meeting on 10th January, it was suggested that bicycle racks would be much appreciated in 3 locations in Lyme Regis as cyclists have nowhere to safely park their bikes. On Friday, the local press would like a photo of bicycle riders. If you think bicycle racks would be useful, please come and show your support: 2pm The Cobb



THE SECRET GARDEN 
Angel Exit Theatre:  Marine Theatre

Saturday 14th

Lyme Regis Res v Norton  Athletic (2pm ko) 
Followed by the live ESPN game.  Lyme Regis Football Club, The Davey Fort Ground, Charmouth Road, DT7 3DU
 

Wassailing - Lyme Regis Museum’s annual celebration of Old Twelfth Night
 – the West Country custom of wassailing the apple trees to ensure a good crop –  begins with mulled cider or apple juice being served in the museum. Outside, Uplyme Morris Men will perform their dances, including a new addition to the repertoire dedicated to the apple tree. Children are invited to take part in the ceremony of The Toast, and Adrian Pearson will lead the singing of the wassail song (song sheets provided).

Then comes the premiere of Mummer’s the Word!, Harry Ford’s witty revival of an ancient winter play with the comforting message that out of darkness comes light. With live music, grotesque masks, flaming torches and a real horse the mummers will perform then promenade along Coombe Street to George’s Square, with further scenes en route, finishing at St Michael’s Church with mulled ale.  Everyone is invited to wrap up warm and follow them through the streets of Lyme. Everything is free. 3pm Lyme Regis Museum

'Mummer's the Word' Lyme Mummers Play
A promenade performance beginning in front of Lyme Regis Museum to coincide with Museum's Wassailing event.  During the show a drummer and some torch-bearers will lead a procession through the streets of the old town to finish in St Michael's church.  There have not been Mummers plays in Lyme since before the second world war; a few local people had grandparents involved. This is an exciting effort to relaunch the ancient tradition with all the rhyme and ritual of the early plays. Uplyme Morris Men will provide an introductory dance and then the Mummers will enter in colourful masks (the name Mummers comes from a word meaning mask).  The seasonal theme is about how hope can conquer wintry despair and there will be plenty of opportunities to cheer the knight in shining armour and revile the villain.  Do wrap up warm and be aware that some scenes may be a bit creepy in keeping with the ancient tradition.  The catchy songs and dances should lift the mood, however, and there will be spiced mulled ale to finish! 3.30pm start in front of Lyme Regis Museum

Jumble Sale
In aid of 1st Lym Valley Scout Group 40p entry 2pm Uplyme Village Hall Tel 678351

 

THE SECRET GARDEN 
Angel Exit Theatre:  Marine Theatre

Monday 16th
Cry-off to choose Lyme's new Town Crier

Tuesday 17^th
Demonstration ‘Shin Han Watercolour’
by Sharon Hurst  Lyme Regis Art Group.  Demonstrations £4 for visitors. 2pm - 4pm Woodmead Hall

Thurs Jan 19th
 

The Help (12A) (146m) 
Drama. An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960's decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.  Silver Screen Spring Season. Presented in Digital Projection with 6-channel Digital sound. Tickets £3.25 including tea or coffee  10.30am. Regent Cinema
 

Friday 20th     

Presentation by John Foulkes and judging competition ‘Kitchen’  Last date for ‘River Scene’ competition entries   Lyme Bay Photographic Club. 7.30pm Woodmead Hall

Saturday 21st

 Lyme Regis Res v Beaminster Res (2pm ko)
Followed by the live ESPN game.  Lyme Regis Football Club, The Davey Fort Ground, Charmouth Road, DT7 3DU

Concert: Recital of English Song
by John Bacon, Canadian tenor and pianist Helen Mills.  7.30pm Uplyme Church

Monday 23rd
Watch the Town Mill Cheesemonger and the Old Watch House fishmonger
 on ITV series “The Hungry Sailors” Cheesemonger Justin Tunstall and fishmonger Simon Bennett were  interviewed in their shops when Dick Strawbridge and son James visited Lyme and West Bay last year.  They  were then invited on board the Strawbridge’s boat ....ITV 4pm.
 

Thursday 24th
Budapest Cafe Orchestra
Tickets £12/£10 01297 442138 or online at Marine Theatre. 8pm Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis 


Wednesday 25th  Burns Night is annually celebrated in Scotland on or around January 25. It commemorates the life of the bard (poet) Robert Burns, who was born on January 25, 1759. The day also celebrates Burns' contribution to Scottish culture. Burns' best known work is "Auld Lang Syne".

Have Your say on Health
Public meeting regarding the proposals to close some medical services at Bridport.  11am The Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport

“Care and Management of Trees and Shrubs”

by David Usher  (including pruning and garden tool care). Members, free Guests £2   Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society,  7.30pm Uplyme Village Hall Details 01297 444034

Thursday 26th
One Day (12A) (108m)
Romantic Drama starring Anne Hathaway. After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. Silver Screen Spring Season. Presented in Digital Projection with 6-channel Digital sound. Tickets £3.25 including tea or coffee  10.30am. Regent Cinema

ArtsFest Annual Meeting and Planning Session for 2012.  All those interested are invited to attend. The Guildhall 7pm  Lyme Regis ArtsFest 

Friday 27th 

Join in the fun of SOS day -
Celebrate the RNLI’s National Charity Day with the local RNLI team

Coffee Morning
Lyme Regis Society 10.30 - 12 Alexandra Hotel


  Prize Bingo Night in aid of the RNLI's SOS Day: 
Support Our Swimmers - the Lyme Regis Lifeboat Crew. Lyme Regis's target is £3,500 to buy lifejackets costing £350 each.  Lifeboat crew member and licensee of the Hunters Lodge Inn, Neville Causley, will be the bingo caller.  Prizes include vouchers for the Royal Lion and Mariners Hotel, four rounds at Lyme Regis golf course, Sunday roasts at the Cobb Arms, vouchers for the Weymouth Sea Life Centre, ten pasties from Pasty Pesto and tickets for Exeter Chiefs rugby.  Anyone who would like to donate a prize can deliver it to Neville’s pub, Hunters Lodge Inn, Raymonds Hill or the RNLI shop at the harbour.   8pm Woodmead Halls

28th or 29th January 2012   The Big Garden Birdwatch 
Watch for one hour You can do your birdwatch on your own with a cuppa, your favourite biscuit and your feet up, or try and beat the largest group that took part in 2011: 84 adults and 2 children.

Saturday 28^th

Annual 'Breakfast in a Bap'
Cooked by Gill Meller, River cottage Head Chef.  Farmers Market.  All proceeds to Mrs Ethelston's School.  9 - 11am Uplyme Village Hall
 

LYME REGIS WEDDING FAIR
Over 30 stalls and bridal fashion show - plan your whole wedding in one weekend! 11am - 4pm Free Entry.  Marine Theatre  and Woodmead Halls More info and to pre-register see www.lymeevents.co.uk

Lyme Regis v Combe Reserves - Challenge Cup Quarter-Final (2pm ko)
Followed by the live ESPN game.  Lyme Regis Football Club, The Davey Fort Ground, Charmouth Road, DT7 3DU

Barn Dance & Ploughman’s Supper

Annual Barn Dance with “Long Odds and Short Straws” band. Organised by Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society, Tickets £8.00 (under 12s £4.00) incl. Ploughman’s supper, available from Uplyme Stores, Ginger Beer Lyme Regis or ring 444034. BYO alcohol, soft drinks on sale.  Last year’s Dance was a sell out so please book early to avoid disappointment 7-30 pm Uplyme Village Hall 

Sunday 29th
12th Annual Farmhouse Breakfast
Traditional farmhouse breakfast using local produce.  9am - 2.30pm Whitchurch Canonicorum Village Hall Tel 01297 489375

LYME REGIS WEDDING FAIR
Over 30 stalls and bridal fashion show - plan your whole wedding in one weekend! 11am - 4pm Free Entry Marine Theatre  and Woodmead Halls More info and to pre-register see www.lymeevents.co.uk
 

Mapperton Gardens open
Teas coffee and cakes (no lunches) in the Sawmill Cafe.  £2.50 in aid of Perennial (formerly the Gardeners Benevolent Fund) 11am - 5pm, Mapperton Gardens, Mapperton

LETS Tea and Trading Event
Local Exchange Trading System.  1.30 - 5pm Hallet Court Hall.  Info Tel 560014
 

Monday 30th

Safer Neighbourhood Team Surgery
Ask for advice or report incidents. 9am - 10am Lyme Regis Police Station, Woodmead car park, Hill Road

Soup & Ploughman's
An annual event held by the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis 12 noon - 2pm in the Alexandra Hotel, Lyme Regis,  2012 charity is WaterAid.  Tickets £7 (includes coffee) from your local Rotarian or phone 444567.  Rotary extend their thanks to The Alexandra Hotel

Plans to cut  services at Bridport Community Hospital
Public meeting:  talk to Coun Ros Kayes of the Community Health Campaign 1pm - 3pm at 50 Broad Street

Tuesday 31st

MURDER IN THE ORIENTAL EXPRESS  Between Courses: Additional Performance due to the other two following nights being sold out
They’re back! The local group who brought you their own daft versions of 'Hound of the Baskervilles' and ’Around the World in 80 Days' return with an entirely new drama as a fundraiser for the Marine Theatre. 'Murder in the Oriental Express' has been specially written to entertain you between the courses of a Ploughman's and Pudding supper.  With table seating, you can bring along a group or just come and join in - everyone’s welcome. There will be live music, a raffle and the bar will be open all evening too! Running Time:  2 hours 30 mins  (includes 2 intervals for food!) Tickets £10 from the TIC  7.30pm  Marine Theatre 

Lyme Regis's Medical provision Public Meeting
to discuss,  with invited organisations and community groups, medical issues in Lyme Regis.  Woodmead Hall
 

Were you one of the brave 2011 'Lyme Lungers' who helped raise over £1,500 for charity? 






The 1^st of January 2011 at Lyme Regis was celebrated by some 85 hardy souls in fancy dress taking part in the 3^rd Rotary organised Lyme Lunge.  more..
 

Wednesday Jan 23^rd 2013

Church Street closed for 8 Weeks from 3rd January until 26th February (earlier if the work is finished). 
The X53 and 31 buses will run Lyme to Charmouth or East Devon via Hunters Lodge - which may cause delays.
The local town bus (71) will run to a revised route on a temporary timetable which can be found on the Wilts and Dorset website. www.wdbus.co.uk/damory  http://www.wdbus.co.uk/site/uploads/publications/341.pdf

Recycle Your Real Christmas Tree

Tel 01305 251010 or go to Christmas Trees

Woodroffe School Exhibition

Showcasing the work produced by students in all forms of media
14th January - 5th February

The Malthouse
The Town Mill,
Mill Lane,
Lyme Regis DT7 3PU

FRAN NORTON – ‘UNBOUND’

This work investigates the innate and attained and how built-in unconditioned reflexes account for universal elements of artistic behaviour and appreciation. Pared down to the most basic process and product, varnish and hair, a surface and a sharp instrument, Fran seeks an intercultural visual language unbound by time, place or social order. 'Please see www.frannorton.net for Fran's latest works, texts and exhibition information.'

David West Gallery

The Town Mill

November 26^th to January 3^rd 2012

Open: 11am – 4pm  Tuesday – Sunday
incl Bank Holidays
(Please contact the The Town Mill for exact Christmas opening times)

A Feast of Affordable Art

 featuring three Lyme Regis artists -

Brian Matravers’s inimitable acrylics; Michael Stride’s atmospheric watercolours
and
Peter Wiles’s imaginative photography.

Free Entry
Exhibition open daily 11am – 4pm
(closed Christmas Day)
3rd December 2011 – 3rd January  2012

 At the Upstairs Gallery,
The Town Mill,
Mill Lane,
Lyme Regis DT7 3PU
 

coast
THE SEA, THE SEA

30th December to 8th January
The Malthouse
The Town Mill,
Mill Lane,
Lyme Regis DT7 3PU

Curator's Choice

There is "Curator's Choice"  selection of paintings related to Lyme and the sea on display in the Museum's Rotunda Gallery until mid January 2012.
Lyme Regis Museum

The town’s restored 14^th century working watermill produces stone-ground flour from local organic wheat and lies within a courtyard complex in the heart of Lyme containing a variety of Artisan Shops, Studios, Galleries and a Millers Garden.

Can you spare a few hours a week or month? We need people to regularly volunteer as millers, staffing the gift shop, stewarding the gallery, and helping out to keep the environment, including the gardens and the courtyard, attractive for our visitors. You’ll find that enthusiastic, generous and friendly people make up the community at the mill.  As well as being involved with a unique heritage project you will have the chance to meet many visitors from around the globe.

 For more information please visit our website www.townmill.org.uk or contact Mags Osborn at the Town Mill on 01297 443579,  info@townmill.org.uk

SILVER SCREEN at the Regent Cinema

Spring Season

Thursdays 10.30am, The Regent Cinema, £3.25 including tea or coffee. Open to all. See relevant dates for films and  synopsis.

Walks

Daily Fossil Walks Sat - Tues with Brandon Lennon from the anchor, Cobb Gate Tel 07944 664 757

Fossil Walks

Get Fossiling on the Jurassic Coast! Join one of Lyme Regis Museum’s famous fossil walks along this historic stretch of Dorset coast with Geologist Paddy Howe and Marine Biologist Chris Andrew. Some families return time and again to search with Paddy and Chris among the sand and rocks for fossils that have been washed down onto the beach after 190 million years. For adults and children alike, it’s an unforgettable experience.

Your fossil walk ticket gives you FREE access to the museum where you will be able to see displays of rare fossils, learn all about Mary Anning, the famous early paleontologist who once lived on the site of the museum and much more. Cost: £10 adults, children and students £5.

 walks@lymeregismuseum.co.uk.
 

January 2012

•            Sunday 8 January 2012 09.00

•            Monday 9 January 2012 09.45

•            Tuesday 10 January 2012 10.30

•            Thursday 12 January 2012 11.45

•            Friday 13 January 2012 12.30

•            Sunday 22 January 2012 09.00

•            Monday 23 January 2012 09.45

•            Tuesday 24 January 2012 10.30

•            Thursday 26 January 2012 11.45

•            Friday 27 January 2012 12.15

•            Saturday 28 January 2012 12.45
 

Each walk is limited to 15 people per guide. Start times for walks vary according to the tides and take about three hours. Walks can fill up quickly on the day so before traveling any great distance please contact the museum and book a place: telephone 01297 443370 or email info@lymeregismuseum.co.uk  or call into Lyme Regis Museum shop on Bridge Street

The Big Garden Birdwatch

Taking part is simple and fun: All you need to do is watch your garden or local park: just settle down for an hour watching and recording the highest number of each bird species seen in your garden, or local park (not flying over) at any one time.  More info:
 The Big Garden Birdwatch   

Rotary Charity Golf Day

Tuesday 8th May 2012
Rotary Charity Golf Day
  Lyme Regis Golf Club
 

Please Donate them to:  

RNLI Shop, The Cobb:

Weldmar Hospice Shop, Broad Street:

Jumble Sales

  Volunteers wanted

for
Lyme Regis Regatta and Carnival Committee 
Tel. 443696 Secretary  442220

or email lymeregis.carnival@mac.com

SOS day is for everyone

Join our biggest fundraising day!
It's a great way for everyone to have some fun, whilst raising funds to help the RNLI's volunteer lifeboat crews and lifeguards save lives at sea.

Support Our Swimmers - the Lyme Regis Lifeboat Crew. Lyme Regis's target is £3,500 to buy lifejackets costing £350 each.  See Bingo on 27th.  The Lyme Regis branch of the Co-op in Broad Street has named the SOS lifejacket appeal as the store’s charity for the year. 

27th January 2012  Register now   for your FREE SOS day fundraising pack or Tel  0845 121 4999

Something in need of repair or
maintenance around town?