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Hello to you all

Thank you so much to those of you who came along to help sort and sell our "Mass" of mixed Jumble that we had donated for today's sale - much of which arrived over the morning itself !!!

Sadly I think the weather was against us as the footfall was poor for customers today.

Everyone worked so hard and we had a very happy morning supported well by Shirley's ever supply of tea or coffees which took the "pain" out of only a few customers ! Thank you Shirley

However we are glad to report somehow - with everyone's negotiations skills with customers that we did take a staggering £150 all of which will go to all our future events.

We are so pleased about that and we were so surprised but thrilled also! A HUGE THANK YOU to you all who supported us today

Also a further thank you to those helpers that very kindly took the many "left overs" to many varied charity shops around the area, to pass on and share with them for their fundraising.

A very large supply of the donations were taken to Barby Keel's animal sanctuary by Alan, myself, Tom and Shirley after the sale- where she welcomed it all (although I think was a bit overwhelmed by the amount we had !!!!!) Thanks Barby - (it helps their fundraising for the animals in their kind care) *

Much appreciated to ALL OF YOU who made this possible on such a horrid weather day!

Our next event is our Christmas Wreath making workshop in November with the lovely Marilyn

I am happy to say THIS EVENT IS NOW FULL

We had an amazing response to all of you who are booked in!

PLEASE NOTE -( Those of you who are booked to come along, Marilyn asks for MANY DONATIONS of GREENERY for the event on the day (that we all can share as we require a LOT - as 20 people are coming - so 20 wreaths will be made!!! So Please contribute !!! Thank you !!!

Marilyn also requests that you please bring along Secateurs for you to use and any floristry wire you may have which is required.

Also - in order to make your wreaths unique please bring along any Baubles, Ribbon and any other "adornments" that you would like to add to personalise your wreath which would be a great attribute to them.

Finally Marilyn would also like those of you who may have previously used wreaths (or new ones) you may like to bring them

along to use so we can re-use/recycle them and adhere to the low cost as offered for this event. Members are FREE - Visitors all £5 payable on arrival pls on the day.)Thank you.

We look forward to seeing the "Wreath Makers" on the 14th November at 2pm at the village hall. We will sure have fun and laughter on that day and enjoy the lead up to Christmas. (Should anyone be unable to attend pls. let me know asap - as we do have a small "waiting list" in case we have any cancellations)

Kind Regards to you all

I will keep in touch with you all meanwhile and we so hope the weather soon settles

It is so HORRID today!

Mary B x

PS Alan and I are taking some clothing that was sorted to the "Clothing Bank" at Glyne Gap tomorrow - with the hope we may gain a few more pounds for them (as they buy them by weight and apparently purchase "good clothing" etc). I am unsure we will get much but we feel we must try! x

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Thank you so much to those of you who attended Doug's talk on Fungi today at the village hall

It was a super talk enjoyed by all I think from the feedback!. We had a lot of visitors also which was so good to see also. People also enjoyed buying our Cooking Apples that Alan and I grew in our garden this year We did not have loads but what we had were so nice and fully organic - Enjoy them!

I have already asked Doug if he would offer us another talk same time (approx) next Autumn and he has agreed. I will shortly be booking this up for all to attend and enjoy again next year! It will probably be about "Ancient Trees." Watch out for details. His talks are so interesting and informative.He is an overall great and "fun guy.!" Thanks Doug.

Next Saturday we have our fundraising Jumble Sale 24th October @ the village hall Donations accepted from 8am and Doors open for the sale from 09.30 50p entry Kids FREE.

There will be some plants and more "cookers" for sale there also.

( no used underwear or large furniture please)

So look forward to seeing many of you there

Thank you all so much

Mary B

Ps Meanwhile Enjoy the beautiful Autumn Colours and Fungi as they may appear - although due to the drought this year according to Doug. they maybe sparce sadly- so please treat them kindly and leave them to spread x

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Just asking if there is anyone else that would like to come to our next event the lovely talk by Doug.Edworthy on Fungi on 17th October @ the village hall 2 for 2.30pm ? ( Poster attached)

Please share this info. and let Alan know if anybody else would like to attend pls. Members FREE and visitors just £4 *

Thank you

Also a reminder that we have our fundraising

Jumble Sale is on 24th October @ the village hall Doors open for donations from 8am and to sell from 09.30 50p entry Children FREE Plants, seeds and any produce we may have donated will be for sale also

(Poster attached )

We do need a few extra helpers please to sort and sell at the Jumble as some that had booked have now had to cancel. "Can you help ?" please.*

Thank you

*Let Alan know on 07870525441

Best Wishes and enjoy the super bright weather we are experiencing just now with a warm sunshine and pretty coloured leaves and trees!

Mary B x

ps Out on my walks I have seen many fungi - mushrooms/toad stalls etc and so look forward to linking what I have seen to what Doug tells us in his talk (Pics attached)

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It was so lovely to see our pretty Autumn Flower Show come together so well last Saturday, despite prior concerns that we held; due to the heatwaves and poor growing conditions this summer.

We are so grateful to all of you who contributed into making this show such a success. It looked so lovely and we had so many positive comments from entrants and visitors alike that I felt so very pleased

Thank you all !!!.We had a lot of visitors that stayed on to have refreshments and the hall was full of good vibes.

The Plant stall and Raffle were very busy all afternoon and thank you very much to Chris, Mandy and Steve who kept this flowing well all afternoon. Thank you also to Shirley and Penny for running the lovely "Tea Hut"

We had some delicious looking cakes to temp everyone's taste buds this show - all kindly donated so again thank you for your kind donations. They were so appreciated and very "tasty"

Thanks also go to Mike for kindly approaching all visitors and entrants asking each to place a "pink dot" on the entry they felt was the best one as a "visitor's choice ". I was so glad to have someone take this role from me which allowed me to chat to all as requested and approach our visitors and share interest. Thank you Mike- so helpful. Fern our Honey rep. had a nice display of her local honey and that of our entrants with articles made from Wax. Well done Fern .

As you all know at this show we did not charge for entries - encouraging - we hoped for maybe more people to enter that otherwise may hold back.

It seemed to work but we are unsure just how much it helped overall .No monies were given out for prize winners but those who had overall "pink dots " on each section of classes won the awards this time by visitor's choice instead of a Trophy.

Thank you all so much again for your very kind support and assistance.

Oliver has placed some of the pictures from the show on the website already so please check them out

Looking forward to seeing those of you who would like to attend our next event the "Fungi" talk at the hall on 17th October 2 for 2.30 start please. I have a list of people wishing to attend, thank you but we have space for several more people, so please let Alan know if you would like to join us please

Also be aware that we have our Autumn Jumble Sale on 24th October Doors open 9.30 to sell and we will be sorting from 8am.

If Donations could be brought to the hall that morning from 8am that would be great. If not Alan can collect just the week before the event if you contact him direct pls 07870525441

I also would be grateful for more helpers to sort and sell on the morning ,alongside the few who have already kindly offered. Please confirm if it is something you think you could help us with also. Thanks so much

Kind Regards

Mary B Alan and Oliver

Ps enjoy the rest of the week with promises of a sunshine all week Wow! Soak up all the rays before the weather changes. Lovely time of year when the sun shines and the leaves start to colour up. Look out for the Fungi appearing in the area and prepare for Dougla's lovely talk ! x

Hello to you all,

We are so looking forward to accepting your entries by Wednesday this week by 7pm please. Thank you to those of you who have already entered online.

Hoping we have all together managed to collect enough entries to make a pretty Autumn Show - alongside the Honey ones: to put on this event after such a bad growing summer

If you have any enquiries please contact Alan direct on 07870525441

We please require also donations of Cakes, Cookies etc for the "tea hut" and any Plants and produce that you may have to sell on our plant stall

Thank you so much

See you soon!

Mary B x

ps Reminder that the talk from Fergus Garrett from Great Dixter is on on Wednesday afternoon this week also, if you wish to attend pls contact Alan Gavin as listed on the Poster without delay, as below Thanks x