Welcome to the August issue

Welcome to my 13 th anniversary issue!

I can’t believe – 13 years of North Weald Village Life. Who would have thought it? I started out with a few pages draft printed on my printer at home and had no idea how it would go – if it would be read etc. Having never produced a magazine before and here I am 13 years later.

Not only that but as from this issue you may have noticed that the magazine is now printed full colour. It does mean the magazine will now not cone out until 26 th of the month, it does take a little longer but it is still out before the start of the month that it covers, ie., August issue will be put on 26 th July. Hopefully you will be happy to wait just those few days longer.

So now I want to say a huge thank you to every reader, contributor and advertiser who has ever supported North Weald Village Life, without you the magazine would not be the success – so thank YOU.

Summer holiday season is upon us. With the Brexit uncertainty, many people are holidaying in the UK this year and we do have some lovely places. The only downside is our unpredictable weather of course. You need to pack swimsuit, wellies, jacket and sun cream.

The last few weeks the local area has been busy, With the Race for Life, Epping Town Show, Open Gardens in Thornwood and school fetes etc. You can see some lovely photos of the Open Gardens taken by Pete and his daughter Holly Andrews.

The schools have broken up now, so events will be taking place during the school holidays which you can find out more about later in the magazine.

I have been walking a lot more through the village or towards Coopersale, I do love walking. We are so lucky to have so many nice places and I have seen quite a few familiar faces and meet a few new ones.

I have also seen some things I would rather forget, like cars travelling so fast through the village. I also saw a car backing out from the Post office/news shop and it went so far back it mounted the kerb by the bus stop and two people waiting for the a bus jumped out of the way. I must admit I have never seen this before and I was worried that this may happen again – so please be careful when backing out of the car parking spaces.

Well I hope you enjoy this particular issue, please let me have ideas on anything you would like to see in a future issue of the magazine.

Please have a drink, it can be tea, coffee or juice it doesn’t have to be alcoholic, and celebrate with me this issue celebrating 13 years.

Kind regards June Editor