Gardening Club – Jobs for December

Now is the time for a general tidy-up.

  1. With the fresh memory of planting, move plants to a new home, at the same time splitting perennials to make more plants. Whilst doing this give the borders a good dig over, feeding the soil and planting bulbs at the same time.
  2. Containers will need freshening up for the winter, so these can be planted up with bulbs and other fresh material. Exotic plants need to be protected from frost, so either move inside or wrap next month. Don’t wait until it’s too late.
  3. Pick fruit and compost fallen fruit that is too bad to use. This in turn will remove wasps to one spot therefore making the garden safer for children and grandchildren. This is now the time to prune raspberries and blackberries.
  4. Greenhouses, especially if you have had blight, can now be cleared out and cleaned, to allow the sowing of winter salad crops etc. You could also pin up bubble polythene insulation for warmth.
  5. This is also a good time to clean your pond. Use a rod or pole to remove blanket weed by twisting it round the pole. Be careful to return any wildlife which gets caught up in it.
  6. If your lawn is the worse for wear, aerate, scarify and dress ,sowing a thin layer of seed at the same time.

Gardening Club – Assistance

Some committee members are currently working odd days at the Village Hall.

We are trying to make it a more pleasant venue for our guests and visitors.

Should you like to help either in the grounds or cleaning inside the Hall for the odd afternoon, please contact  Jan & Pete Palmer T: 01258 453 470 or Pete Jones T: 01258 458 557 to arrange a suitable time.

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Gardening Club – Suggestions Welcome

Gardening Club

We are currently planning next years’ programme

Jan would like to hear from you if you have any ideas for talks or visits in 2013.

Please either phone T: 01258 453 470 or give one of the Committee details on a slip of paper when you next see them.

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Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls poster

Guys and Dolls – Coade Hall Theatre, Bryanston School

Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 November, 7.30 p.m.

A musical fable of Broadway based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon. Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. Book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd. on behalf of Music Theatre International of New York.

Nathan Detroit, inveterate gambler, runs a ‘floating craps game’ in New York, but is running out of secret hideaways to base his illegal activities. He manages to hang on to his glamorous but frustrated show girl fiancée, Adelaide, deftly avoiding matrimony. Amongst the morally bankrupt gamblers visiting town and also keen for some action is Sky Masterson, an enigmatic legend for the ‘guys’ and a womaniser of the ‘dolls’. Somehow the paths of these two ne’er do wells become entangled with the local branch of the Salvation Army and passionate moralist Sarah Brown…

With an exciting mixture of shady gambling, evangelical soul-searching, glamorous showgirls and a quick trip to Cuba thrown in, this musical offers a variety of famous songs (Luck be a LadyTake Back Your Mink,Sit DownYou’re Rocking the BoatGuys and DollsIf I Were a Bell) and settings to keep an audience happy, laughing and singing along inside.

Tickets £10 (£8 concessions). Please contact the Coade Hall box office for tickets boxoffice@bryanston.co.uk or T: 01258 484 623.

STOURPAINE MATTERS!

This is another chance for you to help shape the future development of our Parish

The Stourpaine Parish Plan 2007 is being updated.  An Open Day was held on the 6th October in the Village Hall for residents to make comments and voice their opinions.

Following analysis of the comments made, questionnaires have been prepared that will be distributed to all residents in the Parish.

The questionnaires will be delivered between the 12th and 18th November.  We hope that you will complete your questionnaire by the 25th November and then either:

  •  return it to your distributor (you will be given their details with the questionnaires)
  • leave it in the collection box in the Village Shop
  • or wait for it to be collected by your distributor