Excited to announce we will be hosting our first beer festival. It will feature at least 6 different real ales and 2 real ciders.
Music by the wonderful high milage and food on both days from Belles kitchen.
Would be great to see you all there 🍺

New Event: V’ALE’NTINES Beer festival

🍺 Exactly one month to go until the V’ale’ntines Beer Festival!
The countdown is on and the excitement is brewing…

who’s joining us 🍺

New people...

So now I've got 20 people using this ....welcome all.

Please share so that it can become a useful resource for the village.

Wine Tasting at the Pavilion

New Event: Wine Tasting at The Pavilion

Quiz night at the bells

Who's going?

My first post

This is my first post on here as a resident rather than as the bloke that built it. I really hope that Rattlesden people find it useful and easy to use.

New Event: Rattlesden International Bake Off 2026

A friendly bake off competition, everyone is welcome to come and enjoy some delicious food from international savoury and sweet recipes, outdoor games and music !

International Bake Off

📅 SAVE THE DATE! 🧁🍰
The Rattlesden International Bake Off is returning in 2026 for its 4th year — and we’re so excited to bring it back again!
📍 *Rattlesden Five Bells pub*
🗓️ *Saturday 27 June 2026*
Whether you’re baking, tasting, cheering on friends, or just coming along for the atmosphere, everyone is welcome.
✨ More details will be shared closer to the date — for now, pop it in the diary!
#Rattlesden #InternationalBakeOff #SaveTheDate #FiveBellsRattlesden #VillageEvents #Baking

Homemade butter and brioche

I made butter from 1 litre of Tesco double cream and then used the buttermilk that's leftover from that process to make brioche.

... also

I also noticed that the onboarding process (sign up and adding profile photos) was also behaving in an odd way, especially when that was skipped. Hopefully resolved.

Bug fixing

I was fixing bugs this morning. I noticed that when people tried to post from their phone, things got screwy....

bugs

Spot a bug? We’d love to fix it! Just tap the little bug icon at the bottom of your phone or click the floating icon in the bottom-right on your laptop to let us know.

I'll squash them as soon as I can.

Welcome

New villagers... welcome to the platform

Brioche/pain au lait

So this happened....which reminds me to add a feature that allows for: post edits and for multiple photo uploads.

Homemade ravioli

Beer, wine and pasta making. In that order

Coding at 5am in France

Trying to get this finished before new year....

Seafood ravioli in a bisque

The homemade pasta night continues ....

Homemade stuff...

So....I made some homemade butter using just Tesco double cream and some sea salt crystals. The leftover buttermilk was set aside to make some brioche. Super easy and perfect for a cold morning breakfast.

Snowbound....

Donald Fagen knew what he was on about. Lets stay in today ....

Build it and they will come ....

Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I just thought that an advert, cookie tracker free local social media site might be useful for local events, businesses and just staying in touch.

Merry Christmas! 🎄