DT11 HEALTH AND WELLBEING WEEK 18 th – 20th SEPTEMBER
Health information fair Thursday 18 th – Friday 19th
Exhibitors, presentations and workshops in the Sealy Suite at the Crown Hotel. Guest speakers, including the Senior Cardiologist, Dorchester, Osteoporosis Dorset, the Childrens Centre, My Health My Way and Disability Wessex. Demonstrations including The Friendly Food Club, Everyone Active, Elemental Tai Chi and many others.
Get involved, get active, try something new Saturday 20th
A range of activities taking place across Blandford including kayaking, bowls, cycling, walking and fun run with demonstrations and signposting continuing in the Sealy Suite in the morning.
The Secret Gardens of Stourpaine – 2014
Supported by the Stourpaine Gardening Club
In a few weeks time about 25 gardens in Stourpaine, Dorset will be opened to the general public. This is in order to help raise money for charitable causes such as the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance service. An entrance fee of £5 per day will be charged for each day but children will be welcome free of charge.
It is now eleven years since this event was last held and a number of “new” residents to Stourpaine will be joining in by opening their gardens.
The Secret Gardens of Stourpaine will be held over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd June 2014 when all the gardens will be open from 11am to 5pm. Visitors will be able to wander around this lovely village and have the chance to see a wide variety of gardens. Teas will be available on each day.
If you haven’t already made a note in your diary to come along with your family and friends to this wonderful event, then please do and then join us on either or both days!
A sample of what’s in store includes the following descriptions from three of those who will be opening their gardens.
“A garden of approximately 1¼ acres consisting of perennial beds, shrubbery, rose beds and a wild meadow in a woodland area. There are also hot beds with exotic plants which thrive in hot sunny positions as well as a wildlife pond. The vegetable garden consists of three greenhouses and raised beds. The garden faces south west and comprises very open wet soil, composed mainly of clay and chalk. On the south side there is a courtyard garden with a water feature and potted plants. A large wisteria covers the south wall. Beautiful views of the Stour valley can be had from many different levels but these may be difficult for some disabled persons to manage.”
“A Victorian walled garden with magnificent views of Hod Hill and the Stour valley. Set in a third of an acre with an additional third for vegetables and fruit, chickens and pigs. The large sloping lawn is bordered by mixed cottage garden plants, shrubs and trees, a delight at all times of the year – ‘“I retired last year…..to spend my life in the garden!’ ”
“A topiary garden surrounding the cottage opens into a wildlife meadow with stream, at the base of Hod Hill. The gardens have evolved over 40 years, planted and shaped by the present owners, (who happen to be biologists which may explain the several ponds and ‘dinosaur’ hedge). There is a silver/white underlying theme throughout counter pointed with purples/sharp blues at various seasons, and a progressively airy planting linking the formal garden to the meadow, with cow parsley and Crambe leading the eye towards a silver copse underplanted with ramsons, white bluebells, foxgloves, Sibirica iris and white willow herb. The white comfrey on the curved bank that divides the meadow supports a huge population of Scarlet tiger moths and the tall silver mint is also very insect friendly. On the north bank by the waterfall, giant yellow scabious (Cephalaria) are succeeded by shoulder high Devil’s bit scabious, all abuzz with insects. Wild life abounds from egrets, herons, kingfishers, owls, woodpeckers etc to hedgehogs, shrews, eels, frogs, damsel flies and slow worms”.
The Secret Gardens of Stourpaine – 2014
Supported by the Stourpaine Gardening Club
In a few weeks time about 25 gardens in Stourpaine will be opened to the general public. This is in order to help raise money for charitable causes such as the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance service. An entrance fee of £5 per day will be charged for each day but children will be welcome free of charge.
It is now eleven years since this event was last held and a number of “new” residents to Stourpaine will be joining in by opening their gardens.
The Secret Gardens of Stourpaine will be held over the weekend of the 21st and 22nd June 2014 when all the gardens will be open from 11am to 5pm. Visitors will be able to wander around our lovely village and have the chance to see a wide variety of gardens. Plants grown by a number of the garden exhibitors will be on sale. A picnic area is being set aside for those who want to bring their own picnic and teas will be available on each day.
If you haven’t already made a note in your diary to come along with your family and friends to this wonderful event, then please do and then join us on either or both days!
Dorset’s Police and Crime Commissioner will be tendering for a new Victim Service for Dorset to commence in 2014. To inform the service specification we are keen to speak to victims of crime to ascertain the type of service they would wish to receive. A focus group has been arranged for Wednesday 13th November 10.00-13.00 at Dorset Police Headquarters.
If you are able attend and assist us in the important consultation, please contact me for more details.
Many thanks Susan Bickle Community Engagement Officer
Dorset Police
Force Headquarters, Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8DZ
The WHITE HORSE TROPHY for Vegetables & Fruit Frank Tomes
The LESLIE COWARD CUP for Flowers Pete Palmer
The URSULA WARREN ROSE BOWL for Flower Arranging Carol Cutting
The NAN PRESTON CUP for Preserves, Cakes and Pastry Gyda Warren
The PRITCHARD CUP for Photography Robin Clarke
The JOHN SKELLY TROPHY for Photography Robin Clarke as a Club Member
The GRACE UPWARD CUP for Handicrafts Ruth Pearce
The CAPTAIN TREMBLE CUP for Painting and Drawing Barrie Waterman
The STAINER CUP for the Written Word Margaret Williams
The JEAN CHANDLER CUP for children aged between 8 and 13 Sophie Campbell
The MRS OLIVER CUP for children up to 7 years of age Skye Hunt
The LANGDON CUP for highest overall points Peter Palmer
The IVA DIMOND CUP for the highest overall points Peter Palmer as a Club Member
The KING EDWARD CUP for the greatest weight grown from one potato Pete Palmer as a Club Member
Ride and Stride: 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. on 14th Sep 2013.
Help raise money for your local historic churches Stourpaine, Durweston and Pimperne by doing a sponsored tour of nearby Dorset churches.
RAISE MONEY FOR DORSET’S HISTORIC CHURCHES
Nearly every church in the county will be open to visit, and the newly opened Trailway will make it safe and fun for all ages. Visit as many churches as you like on foot, bicycle or horseback. If you want to join the fun, speak to your churchwarden to get an entrant pack and then get some sponsors.
If all that sounds a bit too much like hard work for you, all three churches need support crews to sign sponsorship forms for the visitors and top them up with water, orange squash and flapjacks on their way round. If you can spare an hour or two to volunteer on the 14th of September, please get in touch with your churchwarden:
Stourpaine 2013 Village Fête Sunday, 30th June 2013 12 noon until 4 p.m.
Summer is coming! Come and join us at the Stourpaine Village Fête, three miles north of Blandford, on the playing fields beside the new Trailway link between Blandford and Sturminster Newton.
There will be a wide range of events and activities for all the family: children’s games, coconut shy, duck race, ferret and terrier racing, penalty shootout, skittles, tug of war, to name but a few. We will also have stalls selling books, bric-a-brac, cakes, plants, etc. plus an impromptu dog show including the most handsome dog, prettiest bitch, owner and dog with the best six legs, waggiest tail and the dog most like their owner, so do bring your dogs with you.
In addition there will be a display of steam tractors, and you will be able to have a close look at these magnificent machines. Visitors are also invited to bring and show their vintage/classic vehicles.
Come and enjoy the Stourpaine Fête, a quintessentially English event, in our beautiful Blackmore Vale. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday 30th June, between 12 noon and 4 p.m.
Wimborne and Ferndown Singers are a ladies choir singing in 3 parts- Soprano, Second Soprano and Altos.
They sing at concerts for local charities. Entertain at residential homes and local churches.
Wimborne and Ferndown Singers with local artists are presenting a Summer’s Evening entertainment on Friday, 12 July 2013 at 19:30 in Holy Trinity Church, Stourpaine.
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