ld april may

LOCAL NOTICEBOARD
The New Forest Quilt
Group are now enjoying
monthly meetings once more.
We meet on the 1 st Monday of
each month, 7.00-9.00pm (or the
2 nd if the 1 st is a Bank Holiday) at
The New Milton Community
Centre, Osborne Rd, BH25 6EA.
If you have an interest in patchwork and quilting
then please pop along to meet us, we would love
to see you. All abilities are welcome. Members
come from all areas of the Forest including
Ringwood, Bournemouth and Lymington. We are
now able to offer our full programme of events.
At meetings we have a library loan scheme, sales
table, raffle, sometimes a local trader and
speakers or a social sewing opportunity to display
projects. And don’t forget to bring along if you
would like to, your completed item that you have
sewn for our ‘Show and Tell’.
We regularly raise money for local charities and
are involved in making quilts for children and
babies in our local hospitals and for young people
leaving the care system. During the last two years
we have made over 500 reusable bags for our
local foodbank.
We are a membership organisation, but we do
have some spaces this year.
Our next meeting is on March 7 th which is our
AGM. On April 4th we look forward to welcoming
Jennie Rayment (from Just Hands-On TV) to give a
talk entitled ‘Nipper and Tucker’ followed on
Tuesday 5 th April by an all-day workshop ‘Fizz
Bang Wallop’. All talks and workshops are open to
visitors at a cost £5 and £30 respectively. The
programme of events is advertised on our
Facebook page
Please contact Sue Bugler, Secretary
01590670029 susanbugler@hotmail.com
Would you like to join our Governing Body?
If so, we currently have vacancies.
If you would like more details about the
interesting and rewarding work of the
Governing Body, please contact the school
who will be delighted to pass your enquiry on
to us. Carole Burwell, Chair of Governors
Pennington Infant School, Priestlands Road
Lymington, Hampshire,SO42 8HX
www.pennington-inf.hants.sch.uk
T: 01590 672910
E: admin@pennington-inf.hants.sch.uk
At Lymington
u3a we have over
forty Interest Groups
- including languages, games, history, and art
appreciation to name but a few. u3a is a selfhelp
educational charity where everyone
takes part. Everyone has some knowledge to
pass on to others, they likewise pass their
knowledge to you. So ‘teachers become
learners and learners become teachers’. Our
motto is ‘Learn, laugh and live!’
One very popular activity is Mahjong - we
currently have four active groups. This is a
game using 144 tiles that is played like
Rummy. It was Joseph P. Babcock, of the
Standard Oil Company, Suzhou, who collected
and interpreted the variations of the game
from China. He arranged for Arabic numerals
to be engraved on the tiles when, in 1920, he
imported sets of tiles to the USA. He
simplified the game and introduced a
standard set of rules, giving us the game of
Mahjong that we know today.
The Friends of The Lymington to
Brockenhurst Branch Line meet at
the Forest Hall, Brockenhurst Village Hall,
Highwood Road. 7.30pm start.
May 27th The Man Behind the Direct Line aka
Castleman’s Corkscrew. By Phil Benstead.
Why not think about joining Lymington u3a?
What knowledge do you have that you could
pass on? What do you want to learn? If there
is currently no group that matches your
interests, we will help you to set one up –
there will be other enthusiastic people willing
to join you.
Written by Hilary Robinson of Lymington u3a,
who is the national u3a Subject Adviser for
All visitors welcome £4.
Mahjong
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