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HOLLOWELL VILLAGE GARAGE SALE!

Raising Funds for Our Churchyard
Saturday 9th May
10am – 2pm

It’s time for a village-wide treasure hunt!
Bargains, toys, books, homeware, hidden gems and more — all across Hollowell in one fantastic day.

Want to Take Part?
£10 per garage

Clear out your clutter, set up outside your home and help raise funds for the upkeep of our beautiful
churchyard.

Coming to Shop?
£1 per map

Maps showing all participating houses will be available on the day — just follow the signs!

Refreshments at the Village Hall

Tea

Coffee

Cake

Pop in for a rest and a slice of cake while you plan your next stop.

Can’t host a garage?

Donations for the Church Stall are very welcome. To book your garage or for more details,

please contact amylouise.heap@outlook.com

Let’s come together as a community and make this a brilliant day for Hollowell!

Village Hall Lotto Winners

The names out of the hat in the January draw were:

Jack Hunt

Norah Daykin

Hugo Mesquita

Rene Hill

Neil Douglas

Freddie Morris

There’s still time to purchase your numbers for the next 6 monthly Lotto cycle.

The easiest way is via bank transfer making payment to Hollowell Village Hall

Sort code: 08-92-99 Account Number 6588 4371 and mark your payment “LOTTO”

Any queries to our Treasurer, Simon Armstong 07771 764720. 

Water Pressure Report

Watery Issues

A number of households in Hollowell had a nasty shock when they opened their water bills recently. Many had shot up with one household reporting a 200% increase since their previous bill.

Luckily for Hollowell, we have Lee Gane! When he’s not being the best bathroom fitter in the business, he’s aways at hand to help out his neighbours with a range of domestic crises, including damaged tap valves and rings and mysteriously self-filling toilet systems.

Some issues have been resolved where pipes leading to houses have been leaking and Anglian Water came out to sort them. Another issue for Hollowell is that the water pressure is very high; one house in the village was discovered to have pressure of 10.5 bars as opposed to the usual 2.5. This happens because water is pushed through Hollowell to other villages. There is nothing that can be done about it without impacting on the supply to our neighbours, but this in itself can cause issues for usage and repair.

The moral of this story is GET IT CHECKED OUT. Whilst your bill might be more expensive because of the rising cost of utilities, it might just be something that could be resolved.

Thanks Lee.

Hopewell,

from strength to strength

Perhaps it’s because Hollowell, is such a small village that it makes it feel like a caring place to live.

As lockdown loomed, five years ago Paul and Cheryl Charter got everyone organised to ensure that anyone who lived alone or was vulnerable through age or fragility, had a designated ‘friend’ in the village.

It was designed so that no one felt alone or stranded during that really strange time; there was always someone to call on. The idea came from their monthly community coffee mornings, set up two years before Covid, and called "Hopewell".

As we all moved on and the world righted itself again, Hopewell didn’t go away; it just changed.

Now Paul and Cheryl have resumed the monthly coffee mornings, on the last Friday of the month, and they bring together people not just from Hollowell, but also the surrounding villages, for barista style coffee and homemade cake.

It’s no longer wholly about social support but about coming together as a community and friendship, and it has become a well-loved gathering.

People really enjoy their time together and the homemade cake is a great way to oil the wheels of conversation.

The next Hopewell dates are Friday 24th April and Friday 22nd May. Do come and join them 10.30am to 12.30pm in Hollowell Village Hall.

Gillian Greaves (Clerk)

Tel: 07771980598

12 Berry Lane

Wootton

NN4 6JX

clerk@hollowellandteeton-pc.gov.uk

https://hollowellandteeton-pc.gov.uk/

Please note that the Parish Council has

made changes to the web site and

email links in order to ensure it complies

with audit procedures.

The link to the Council web site is now

As above

Oh the incessant rain!

Many of us have been complaining bitterly about the rain that seems to have fallen most days so far in 2026.

The roads are muddy, straightened hair swifty becomes a frizzy mass and don’t even start about the overnight appearance of the numerous and crater like potholes!

So perhaps it’s time to think about a different mindset.

The Scandinavians, who really know what a long dark winter feels like, use the term hygge to describe how they combat the difficulties of restricting weather to lean into a sense of cosiness, comfort and conviviality.

They refer to log fires and saunas but in Hollowell we have different but equally wonderful things to remind us to be happy.

The view of Ravensthorpe reservoir from the crossroad bench at the top of the village, a hellebore surviving all weathers in understated beauty, a rainw over the church, Dave the Postman’s cheery smile as he delivers mail in his waterproofs.

 And that’s before we’ve even opened the door to walk into a warm house.

So, as we welcome some sunnier days and the promise of Spring, it’s good to remember that there are worse places to hibernate than Hollowell.