This year’s Christmas dinner will be on Friday, 4th December, at 12 Victoria Street. Please let Helen know by this Sunday if you can make it. It will cost in the region of £5-10.

As previously advertised, this year’s Guild London Outing will take place on Saturday 21st November. The programme is as follows:

The outing has been designed to minimise use of public transport, and it should be possible to walk between all the towers in the time available.

As this Sunday is Remembrance Sunday, there is some extra ringing 10:15 – 10:50 at GSM. Please email the Master (master@cugcr.org.uk) if you can come, so reinforcements can be brought in if necessary.

We’ve received details of the Southern Universities Association striking competition. It will be held in Oxford, on the weekend of the 14th November. It would be good if lots of us went, email me if you’ve got any questions. The X5 is the best way to get there, there’s lots of cheap fares, including £1 tickets at www.megabus.com. More details are available at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ouscr/new/termcard/sua.html.

There will be a handbell (with cheese and wine) evening on Tuesday 27th October, in the Master’s room, at 43 Newmarket Road. This will be a good introduction to handbell ringing if you’ve never tried it before!  Please bring some cheese, and wine/alternative. Email master@cugcr.org.uk for hopefully more precise directions, or see last week’s ‘This Week’ email.

Tuesday 20th October

Formal swaps are one of the best reasons for joining a university-wide society and the Guild tends to organise a lot of them throughout the year, starting this year at Jesus. Tickets are £7.30, and you can bring a bottle of wine (/beer/soft drink) of your choosing, or buy one from the bar. Meet at the Porters’ Lodge at 7.15 in gown etc. Formals are probably one of the best Cambridge traditions so it’d be good to see lots of you there. If you’d like to come, please tell the Assistant Master by Thursday 15th so she can organise tickets.

Saturday 17th October sees both the Freshers’ Cycle Outing and a College Bar Crawl.

Cycle Outing

Meet at 10:45 outside Great St Mary’s (further details available here).

Bar Crawl

Meet outside Corpus Christi College at 19:30.

It was good to meet lots of people at the Freshers’ Fair! Guild ringing starts on Thursday 8th October with a practice at StAG followed by the Freshers’ Squash.

If you’ve rung before, it’d be great to see you at the practice, 19:30 – 21:00, and if you’re keen on finding out about ringing, turn up at StAG around 20:45. We’ll all then walk to the Squash together.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

The dedication service for the new bells at Great St Mary’s is taking place at 6:30pm next Sunday evening (4^th October).

Guild members are of course welcome to attend. There will be open ringing beforehand from 5pm, and possibly some more ringing afterwards. The Vice-Chancellor, the donor and the Bishop of Ely will be present.

There is a reception afterwards at Michaelhouse. Please note that this is by ticket only – please contact Liz Orme via scy.master@googlemail.com as soon as possible to arrange a ticket.

More information may become available on the Cambridge Youths website.

The new Termcard is now available here. If you are new to the Guild, then do also download the Freshers’ Guide to the Guild.