Quiz Night 2025

Our quiz night on Saturday was quite a night, raising nearly £700 for planting willow and fruit trees.

The indomitable quiz masters Andy and Amanda stretched our brains, got us talking and taught us lots of intriguing facts. We learned, for example, that Argentina means the land of silver, that Venus turns in the opposite direction to all the other planets in our solar system, that Barbados means the land of bearded ones, that we have no muscles in our forefingers, and that the Statue of Liberty has 7 spikes on her crown!

To soothe our aching brains, Billy the Celt (Bard of Glastonbury 2017) played for us beautifully and inspired us to further action to support nature, telling us how he and friends had saved a piece of Poland for nature. We were so lucky to find him (via Buttercup community café).

The bar went upmarket this year, with high quality wines and local beers. Snacks included croutons made with organic olive oil which had travelled from sunny climes on a sailing ship to Scotland! The raffle was a veritable cornucopia, bursting with bulbs and hanging baskets kindly donated by Ray and Arthur’s market stall, vouchers donated by Rudding Park and Harlow Carr, and Sally’s beautifully made rabbits and elephant.

Thank you to everyone who supported the event, and all the volunteers providing the sound system, sourcing the wines and beers, selling raffle tickets and Long Lands Community calendars, and setting up and clearing away. A real team effort.