Santa Run: Preparations!!

Every year, we, at the Doddington Village Sports and Carnival committee, put in a call in with the Big Guy with the red suit and white beard, and ask him (very politely) if we could show him around Doddington, and do a little meet n’ greet with the Naughty and Nice children of the village.

As always, he’s super-keen to make his presence heard with some very loud Christmassy anthems to get everyone into the holiday mood, and who are we to deny him?

So, we’re already busy preparing the Sleigh, dotting the Christmas i’s and crossing the festive T’s, and generally getting ready for the Santa Run 2017!

We’ll be publishing routes on telegraph poles. on our website and Facebook Page, etc, in more detail, but essentially, we’ll be showing Santa the sights on the following nights:

Friday 8th December
Saturday 9th December
Sunday 10th December

Keep an eye and ear out for us. And definitely come out and say hello to Santa!

Comments

Welcome to 2018!

We blinked, and 2017 came and went just as quickly!We had a great year in terms of the various events that we’ve put on throughout 2017, and we have no doubt that 2018 will be any different.In 2017, we had pub quizzes and discos, the Carnival and Sports Day, finishing it all off with the Santa Run. 2018 will see more of the same, but with a different twist, as we keep getting emails and Facebook messages to say that you all love what we’re doing, and the reading makes for some humbling feelings in and around the Carnival Committee. Here’s but a few about the Carnival and Sports Day:"Thanks team loved it once again . This year bought back memories of childhood felt great lots of fun had . Water this year when I was a kid it was flour and eggs lol x" - Sarah Sellers (via Facebook)"Thank you and well done to the committee. Yesterday was another amazing day thanks to the commitment and hard work of volunteers.
Such a brilliant day. Thank you x" - Nicky Hornsby (via…

“One more trophy for the t-shirt…”

Another Carnival day has been and, quite quickly…. gone!That sounds like a very obvious thing to say, but having helped work on it for my first complete year now, it sort of sneaks up on you, and then dashes away again, until next year. But then, having said that, there’s still lots of ‘stuff’ on my “to-do” list that I want and need to do, to tidy up from the weekend’s efforts. For me, personally, I have:Winners details to put up onto the Doddington Carnival website Facebook posts to draft and send (and then Share, Share, SHARE!) Emails to thank stall holders (that I’ve been harrassing for weeks!) …and lots more. Lots of the others on Team Doddington have other things in their “to-do” lists, whether it’s counting this, folding and tidying that, etc., so the day might be over, but it’s not over-over yet.One of the post-Carnival-Day jobs that the village doesn’t see.
Our chaps taking down the signs in the village… and still smiling!People I speak to about the Doddington Carnival seem to h…

The Naughty Elf

Some-how, I have been given the role of ‘the Naughty Elf’, which means that I was the one locked up in the back of the truck that pulls Santa’s Sleigh around the village. (Although saying that, last night’s freezing temperatures made me quite glad I was the one stuck in there!)Essentially, my job during the Santa Run as ‘the Naughty Elf’, is to control the music and microphone levels through the powered amplifier in the back of the truck with me. Different Christmas music tracks need different volume adjustments, but also controlling Santa’s microphone is another job - I’m sure he waits until I’m least expecting a ‘Ho! Ho! HO!’ blast from him, and he catches me off-guard and the levels go through the roof!For years, and irrespective of where I’ve lived at the time, I’ve seen various Santa Sleighs taken around to see the boys and girls, and hadn’t given it too much of a thought about how it all works. But since joining the Doddington Village Sports and Carnival committee a couple of …

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