What’s New at Love’s Farm House

There are lots of new groups and activities to keep you busy in 2019…

Fit Mums Post-natal Exercise Class

image-25NJ Fitness and Massage are introducing a post-natal exercise class on Wednesday mornings at 9.25am for mums with babies and toddlers. The 45-minute class will give you a full body workout, focusing on effective exercises to support your body post-pregnancy. Babies are welcome to stay in their buggy or car seat, or they can come and play on the mats with the toys that are provided. Classes are £30 for a 6-week block, and booking is essential. Contact NJfitnessandmassage@outlook.com to book.

Serene Baby Massage & Yoga

These baby massage and baby yoga classes on Thursday mornings are for babies aged eight weeks to pre-crawling. Learn soothing and calming holds for your baby, learn why he or she benefits from each massage and feel more connected and bonded to your baby. Contact Sareena on 07921 154861 or visit www.serene-baby.com for more information and to book.

Love’s Farm Movie Makers

This film-making club welcomes children of all ages up to 16 who are interested in directing, producing, writing or starring in their own films. The club meets on Mondays 4-5pm. Children will learn how to use all the filming equipment, plan their own projects, grow in confidence and make new friends and have fun along the way! All footage is edited and provided on a DVD at no extra cost. Sessions cost £27.50 per 12-Week Term. Contact Iona on moviememoirs16@gmail.com or visit www.movie-memoirs.co.uk for more info.

Sakura Shotokan Karate Club

Love’s Farm House has a new karate club! It meets every Monday from 6pm-7pm and is run by Sensei Lucas, who is a Double World Karate Champion (London 2017 and Portugal 2018). £5 per session (first session free) and must be booked in advance. The club is currently adults only, but hoping to accept children and families soon. Email cambridgekarate@gmail.com to book, or to register your child’s interest.

Mum & Toddler Yoga

Join Yogabellies’ new Mum and Toddler Yoga class at 9:30am on Friday mornings. The sessions are fun, easy going classes where mums and their mobile little ones can practice yoga together, or toddlers can dip in and out while mum exercises. Ending with snacks, drinks and a chat for everyone involved. Contact niki@yogabellies.co.uk for more information and to book your space.

Sweaty Mama Fitness

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Sweaty Mama is an effective way to exercise with your child. The sessions allow you to bond with your child while you work out, using their weight to intensify the exercise. Over the course of the sessions you will gradually build up your fitness level and strengthen your core to rehabilitate your body after having a baby. The fun workouts are done to upbeat music that both you and your child will love. Sessions are on Thursdays at 11.40am and cost £40 per 6-week block. Contact elly@sweatymama.com for more information or to book your place.

Toddler Sense

From February, the fantastic Baby Sensory programme will include a new Toddler Sense class for toddlers and pre-schoolers. Toddler Sense is a whole new world of sensory stimulation, play, fun adventures and learning. The equipment encourages a wide range of skills including social, physical, emotional, creative, intellectual skills and lots more. There will be a FREE taster session on Tuesday 26 February at 1.30pm. Booking is essential so sign up at www.toddlersense.com/bedfordshire, or contact Sam on beds@babysensory.co.uk.

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Details for all of our regular activities are available on our What’s On page.

Stand-up Comedy Night

Saturday 10 November, 7:30pm

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Big Deal tito banner 2.jpgBig Deal Comedy presents some of the best new and established comics on the UK circuit.

jasonMC: Jason Stampe

Jason delivers an outstanding blend of jokes and crowd interaction that will leave you feeling he must have planned the whole thing out. Rest assured, anything can, and will happen, and Jason will be there to make it funny. Few comedians can switch so effortlessly between riffing and their set like Jason Stampe so don’t miss your chance to see him!

JustinHeadliner – Justin Panks

With a skewed observational eye and the ability to approach seemingly ordinary subjects from extraordinary angles, Justin strikes the perfect balance between the relatable and the outrageous. His tales of relationships, parenthood, and life in general are raw, honest, and above all funny.

More acts to be confirmed soon.

Strictly over 18s only (under 25s require ID). Doors 7:30pm, show starts at 8pm. Reasonably priced, well stocked bar open until midnight.

Tickets are £7.50 in advance: click here to buy online or pop into the Love’s Farm House office (9am-3pm weekdays). Please call us on 01480 262626 for more info.

British Craft Ale & Cheese Tasting Evening

Friday 16 November, 8pm – midnight at Love’s Farm House

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After the great success of our Belgian beer evening in June, Love’s Farm House is teaming up once again with Shumë, the new bottle emporium in Cross Keys Mews, St Neots, for an evening of the best of British beer and cheeses.

The new wave of British ales is exploding with character, from the big hoppy flavours of Citra and Mosaic hops to IPAs made with lactose and vanilla pods. We’ll be pairing them with some extraordinary cheeses that might just melt your heart… or make your ears Shume Beer Nightjpgfizz with pleasure.

Tickets cost £15 for a tasting menu of five beers and five cheeses for you to sample. Shumë stocks over 30 British craft beers, and the full range will be available to try at the Farm House Bar on Friday 16 November from 8pm.

Tickets are available in advance. Buy online here, from the Love’s Farm House office (9am-3pm weekdays) or from Shumë, Cross Keys Mews.

Love’s Farm House’s Halloween Disco Is Back

Saturday 27 October 6-9pm at Love’s Farm House

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Unearth your most ghoulish costumes and terrifying dance moves, as the annual Halloween Disco at Love’s Farm House is back! There will be fun and games for younger children from 6pm and a disco inferno for all ages from 7pm.

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Tickets cost £2 per person in advance. Click here to buy online, or pop into the Love’s Farm House office during our opening hours of 9am-3pm Monday to Friday.

Bwa ha ha ha ha (and so on and so forth).

Belgian Beer Tasting at the Farm House Bar

Friday  July, 8pm – midnight

Shume-beers cropLove’s Farm House is teaming up with Shume, the new bottle emporium in Cross Keys Mews, St Neots, for an evening of Belgian delicacies. Tickets cost £10 and include samples of five Belgian beers and five cheeses. Belgian beer specialist Bart Verhaeghe, who has 30 years experience working in the industry will be sharing his knowledge.

Shume’s full range of over 50 Belgian beers will also be available to buy (and share) by the bottle, as well as plenty of cheese and schnapps. If you’re really lucky we might even throw in some Belgian pop music. Proost!

Please click here to buy tickets online.

Great Get Together Community Fun Day

Saturday 23 June
Round House school from 2pm, Love’s Farm House from 4pm

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Please come and be a part of the Love’s Farm Great Get Together Community Fun Day on Saturday 23 June between 2 and 4pm on the field of the Round House school. The afternoon will be packed full of activities for grown ups and children, with stalls and demonstrations by some of our community groups including Scouts and Guides, Hartbeeps, Baby Sensory, Little Loves, a Bhangra dance group, Katy North’s dance classes, Messy Church and more besides. The St Neots Library will be present with a display of local history as well as the Woodcraft Folk and Rotary Club.

There will be bouncy castles, water zorbs, tennis tasters, petanque, ice cream, cake from the WI, face paints, raffles and tombolas. Love’s Farm Runners will be hosting an advice, exercise and information hub and then lead a mile-long Jog, Jeff, Walk, Shuffle, Scoot ending at Love’s Farm House where live music will be playing and a barbecue cooking. The day will coincide with other events running across the country as part of the Great Get Together initiative in memory of Jo Cox MP.

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Please come and help make the Love’s Farm community day a success – bring along your neighbours and friends, host a stall on behalf of your street or plan to enjoy the barbecue together. Please get in touch with Helene (community.chaplain@yahoo.co.uk) or your Street Rep for more information (or if you’d like to help) – and do put 23 June in your diary!

Art at the Farm House: Marilyn Wood

Friday 8 June, 7:30pm

The foyer and café space at Love’s Farm House plays host to a rolling programme of art exhibitions by local artists. Our next exhibitor is Marilyn Wood.

Marilyn 1During her time spent studying fashion design at Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design, Marilyn entered the prestigious Nation Wide bursary competition held by the Royal Academy of Art. In 1961 she won this competition in the Fashion Design category. The prize money allowed her to travel to Paris and study at the Jean Darroux Academy for six weeks to learn the art of couture making by directly modelling fabric onto the tailor’s dummy to create garments. Showing at Love’s Farm House Gallery is the body of work she submitted to the Royal Academy.

FullSizeRenderSince graduating, most of Marilyn’s working life has been in the fashion industry, working variously as a pattern cutter, production manager and design studio manager. She has run a theatre wardrobe department and worked in various Colleges and Universities teaching her craft.

Now living on Love’s Farm, Marilyn is exploring and experimenting with other art expressions and will have some of her recent twig collages on display. The exhibition launch evening is on Friday 8 June from 7:30pm — everyone is welcome and the bar will be open.

Exhibition: Melina LaFirenze

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Join us on Friday 9 March, 7:30pm for the launch of our seventh exhibition by local artists. Children (accompanied by a parent or carer) welcome until 9pm.

Melina La Firenze is an artist living and working in St Neots, born in Italy and brought up in London. She is self-taught and has been a painter all her life, starting with oils at age 12. Her paintings have been exhibited in London, Barcelona and Salamanca.

He work is often informed by patterns found in nature. The colours vibrant. She is obsessed with trees. One thing that is consistent about her work is that she never paints the same thing twice. This is a collection of brand new paintings, three of which are derivative portraits of Hans Silvester’s photos of Omo valley tribes people and two of which are a playful celebration of colour and pattern. Melina does work on commission including portraits.

Visit www.instagram.com/melinalafirenze to see more of her work. Love’s Farm House’s gallery space is curated by Neotists.

GIN LAB

Friday 22 September, 8pm, Love’s Farm House

Gin Lab

Join us on a voyage of scientific discovery into the world of gin. We’ll be lining up ten bottles for you to try, from well-known premium tipples to boutique curiosities. Which blend of botanicals floats your boat? We’ll be using the power of science to help you sharpen your taste buds as you gain infinite wisdom and power over the humble juniper berry.

Tickets cost £20 per person and include a taste of ten gins, plus two double gins and tonic so you can continue your empirical studies just a little more. More drinks will be available at the bar.

Tickets will be available from Monday 21 August from Love’s Farm House. Pop in or call us on 01480 26262, Mon-Fri 9am to 3pm. Invite your friends via our Facebook Event.

School’s Out For Summer

Join us at Love’s Farm House on Saturday 22 July, 3-7pm for the return of our summer fair and garden party. Entry is FREE and there’s lots going on to keep you entertained.

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We’ll have summery crafts and flower painting, sponge toss, water balloon throwing, face painting, a treasure hunt and giant garden games. We’ll be firing up the barbecue and the bar will be open, serving a wide selection of alcoholic and soft drinks including posh G&Ts, jugs of Pimm’s and four types of lemonade. That’s just how we roll on Love’s Farm.

Tell your friends, bring your family and made a day of it!