Great news from Cesana, Italy – the track on which she won Olympic Silver in 2006 - where Shelley Rudman today won the third round of this season’s World Cup events. In the process she was fastest in both heats, including a new track record on her second run, and went to the top of the FIBT Rankings … see Video.

As shown on our Calendar there are five more rounds to go in the World Cup before the 2010 Winter Olympics event  in Vancouver on 18-19 February. Naturally, all in her home village will be cheering her on again.

More at: Shelley Rudman Supporters Group

Shopping is for Life not just Christmas! …

Help PADFAC raise funds for local charities by doing your Christmas shopping from the comfort of your armchair.

Just use the links you’ll find on our SHOP page to click through to your favourite online store, e.g. Amazon, eBay, Play.com among many more. A percentage of any order you place is then automatically directly into the PADFAC bank account.

CARNIVAL PHOTO-GOODS!

The scheme includes photobox.com which is the place to go for personalised T-shirts, mugs, calendars, e.g. selected from the Carnival photo collections we’ve also linked to on the SHOP page.

So don’t delay, get shopping today!

Amazing what you can find in the nooks and crannies of the interweb – a blog I stumbled upon had this picture of the Carnival Concert in 1947.

Perhaps we should offer a prize for anyone who can name who any of these young troupers might be, mostly born in late 30s / early 40s … contact

HSE Myth of the Month

Will it be you? … someone will soon be the 100th member of the PADFAC Mailing List!

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

The Events Calendar – or top right of page – gives details of forthcoming events organised by PADFAC itself or as notified by associated local clubs, societies and charities.

These include the following notable events over the Spring period (venue Bouverie Hall unless otherwise stated):

• Sun 24th May: Pewsey Vale Running Club’s 10 Km Road Race – details of route, entry, etc from PVRC website.

• Tues 2nd June, 7.30pm: PADFAC Floatbuilders Workshop – introductory session that any would-be floatbuilder is invited to attend … learn the “tricks of the trade” from some of the old hands … and check the FAQs on this site to see that Health & Safety and Insurance requirements are nothing like as daunting as the “gloom-mongers” like to make out!

Online Shopping Shortcuts

Click-through from any of these shopping links and PADFAC will earn a commission on the value of the order you make …

Amazon | eBay | PhotoBox | shopwindow.com

LATEST – here’s a direct link to Amazon’s MP3 Download shop – we’ve selected a few marching band numbers you can listen to, otherwise just click-through on the widget below to start ordering your own MP3 tracks …

shopwindow.com searches and compares over 750 online merchants, including …

B & Q | Bhs | Boden | Boots.com | John Lewis | Marks and Spencer | Maplin Electronics Ltd | Namesco Limited | Novatech Direct Ltd. | PC World | Play.com | Robert Dyas | Screwfix Direct | Sky Digital | Toys R Us | Vodafone Ltd | Wickes

Local Directory

Local businesses – please Register then use the Comment form at bottom of page to ask for details of sponsored links from this site, or how we could even host some basic pages for you.

The HSE’s latest “Myth of the Month” seemed quite relevant so here’s a link!

Events Calendar

Thanks to a recent software upgrade we now have a fully functional Events Calendar embedded in this site, displayed as a widget at the top right margin on each page and in larger view on the Calendar page. Just click on the highlighted days for further details of the event.

May I send Christmas and New Year greetings to all carnival workers, participants, sponsors and supporters.

It was good recently to see the carnival spirit flourishing at Pewsey Christmas Fayre, and also to see a well-supported carnival lighting gang out on the streets putting up Pewsey’s Christmas lights.

The first committee meeting of the new year will be on Thursday January 8th at 7.45pm at the Royal Oak. Lots to do to plan the celebration of 2009. Come along and join us, younger members especially welcome as always.

Richard Giles, Chairman Pewsey & District Feaste & Carnival

Online Shopping Shortcuts

Click-through from any of these shopping links and PADFAC will earn a commission on the value of the order you make …

Amazon | eBay | PhotoBox | shopwindow.com

shopwindow.com searches and compares over 750 online merchants, including …

B & Q | Bhs | Boden | Boots.com | John Lewis | Marks and Spencer | Maplin Electronics Ltd | Namesco Limited | Novatech Direct Ltd. | PC World | Play.com | Robert Dyas | Screwfix Direct | Sky Digital | Toys R Us | Vodafone Ltd | Wickes

PACT Christmas Fayre

The Pewsey Area Community Trust (PACT) are staging their Christmas Fayre through the afternoon of Saturday 29th November in North Street.

PADFAC will be represented with its own stall with helpers keen to meet  carnival supporters old and new, to canvass ideas and to encourage more involvement … particularly on new events for younger people and support for would-be float builders.

A Questionnaire has been prepared [also to be available online as additional Feedback for a limited time after the event- Ed] and a pamphlet promoting our Shopping site will also be handed out … speaking of which …

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For every new customer we introduce to photobox (below) PADFAC receives £5 … so don’t delay … just clickthrough and place an order for any of their wide range of personalised photo products. You can also use promo code SAVE5 to save yourself a fiver on orders over £20.

TRADER	DESCRIPTION	PROMO CODE
	Photobox are the UK market leader in online photo sharing and printing. Just click through using the banner left to register with photobox then use one of these shortcuts to select photo(s) you want to print and/or use in customised calendars, mugs, T-Shirts, etc:  2008 Procession (Photos: D.Damper) 2008 Wheelbeero (Photos: D.Damper) 2008 Wine Race (Photos: D.Damper)	SAVE5

PADFAC is itself a registered charity (No: 1100015) that makes a distribution to local charities from the income it can raise over and above the costs of staging the annual carnival events.

Now this website can offer a new means of bringing in some much needed revenue by acting as an online shopping referral service for PADFAC supporters, including links to price comparisson sites and access to special promotion codes which could save you money on your order!

All you need to do is click through to the online merchants of your choice, e.g. below, or on our SHOPPING PAGE – any order you then place will automatically accrue a commission (very generous in some cases!) paid straight into the PADFAC bank account.

AMAZON GOODS

PADFAC is now signed-up for online shopping with amazon.co.uk, that’s right we get 5.25p for each £1 you spend as long as you click-through from here to place your order …

Click-through here to check out the huge range of goods on Amazon.co.uk …

PRICES & POPULARITY COMPARED

shopwindow.com is a site that compares the price/popularity of thousands of products from 750+ online merchants, including Marks and Spencer, John Lewis, Screwfix Direct, B&Q, etc.PADFAC earns a commission just as long as your order is completed in the same session as you clicked the shopwindow.com banner.

CARNIVAL PHOTO-GOODS!

Photobox is the place to go if you want to create personalised T-shirts, mugs, calendars using your favourite Carnival images. Use the promocode below to save yourself a fiver on orders of over £20.

TRADER	DESCRIPTION	PROMO CODE
	Photobox are the UK market leader in online photo sharing and printing. Just click through using the banner left to register with photobox then use one of these shortcuts to select photo(s) you want to print and/or use in customised calendars, mugs, T-Shirts, etc:  2008 Procession (Photos: D.Damper) 2008 Wheelbeero (Photos: D.Damper) 2008 Wine Race (Photos: D.Damper)	SAVE5

So don’t delay, get shopping, and remember …

… Shopping is for Life, not just Christmas! …