Friday, December 30
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Saturday, December 31
• Watch Night Mass, Cathedral Church of St. German, Peel 11.30pm
• A 1940s New Year’s Eve Party, Peel Masonic Hall, Stanley Rd. £20. Contact: Ernie 472990, Karen 490145, Roy 483744.
Sunday, January 1
• New Year’s Day Dip, Peel Beach, midday.
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer New Year’s Day Dip, Queen’s Promenade, Douglas, noon.
• 8.30am BCP Holy Communion, St German’s Cathedral, Peel, 8.30am. Also service of closure at 10.30am.
• Family sharing service, Broadway Baptist Church, Douglas, 10.30am.
• Southern Dippers, Chapel Beach, Port St Mary, 12.45pm. Also Port St Mary Inner Harbour, 1.30pm; Gansey Beach, 2.15pm; Port Erin Beach, 3pm.
• New Year’s Day Dip, Castletown Beach, 3.30pm.
• New Year’s Day Dip, Laxey Beach, noon.
Tuesday, January 3
• MRA coffee morning with Jan Brodie, the auto harpist, Royal George, Market Square, 10.30am.
Wednesday, January 4
• Isle of Man Photographic Society, President’s Evening, Thie Ellyn, off Withington Rd, Douglas 7.30pm
Thursday, January 5
• Oie’ll Verree, Ebeneezer Hall, Kirk Michael, 7.30pm. Tickets £6 including supper.