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Meon Valley Garden Club It seems amazing that I am already putting into the diary notice of the Spring Show. As usual, the weather is giving us problems as there are daffodils already in bloom in some places and I have a primrose in flower in my garden. So will everything be over by the time of the Show? We worry every year and every year we have a wonderful display. So no doubt there will be a cold snap soon that will put everything right again! We have started our winter season of talks. Gardeners Question Time has become an annual event, with Chris Bird, from Sparsholt College, giving us the benefit of his wisdom and wit. So if you have a gardening problem, whether you are a member or not, please let me have details and I will put it on the list for Chris to answer. Then either come along to the meeting or look on our Web site for the result. Our membership now stands at 230 but there is room for more. Our yearly subscription is only £3 and you cannot get better value than that. Olive Hathaway, Chairman meon-valley-garden-club.co.uk 8 SPRING SHOW SATURDAY 31ST MARCH Soberton Village Hall 2.00 pm Entrance 60p, Children Free A Great Display Refreshments Mid-week Communion Although it is always in The Bridge District Diary, some of you may not be aware that there is a short service of Holy Communion (CW) every Thursday morning at 10.00, held in Sprinkle some balanced fertiliser around In the garden the base of fruit trees and bushes before applying a mulch of well-rotted manure. – February �� & March Herbaceous border: Clean up dead leaves and stems that might harbour the Lady Chapel in St. Mary’s unwanted pests, and complete any Church, Droxford. Do come along and and share this quiet time with us. Pauline Quarendon Vacancy – Server I am a server in the church. My name is James and I like doing my job. I have been doing it for over 2 years. I carry a book called the Gospel and I help the rector with pouring the wine and I carry the Cross and I do lots of other things. It makes me feel happy and it makes everyone happy. I don't do it all the time, that's why we need some more servers to help. You don't have to do it, but it would be nice if you did. So if you are interested, Please call me or Rev. Stuart Holt on 01489 877867 or 01489 877512 James Matthissen Are you interested in crafts such as patchwork? Do come and join us at Tithes on alternate Wednesdays from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm February 8th; 22nd; 29th March 14th; 28th More information from Rosemary Frere-Cook on 877769 transplanting not done in the autumn. The mild winter and recent wet Plant roses and hardy lilies, plant gladioli weather, apart from delaying after mid-March, prune climbing roses some jobs in the garden, has also and hardy shrubs. Do not prune forsythia allowed many pests to overwinter and other spring flowering shrubs or successfully, so extra vigilance is spring flowering clematis such as Montana, Alpina, or Armandii, otherwise required to spot aphids and eggs of slugs there will be no flowers this year. Apply and snails before despatching them by mulch of composted horse manure around whatever means. As soon as the soil is shrubs. workable priority should be given to L �� getting bare rooted trees, shrubs and awns: In March, re-seed worn are- fruit canes planted while they are still as after first levelling, repair any dormant. It is also time to give the damaged edges and aerate the whole lawn vegetable plot a final dig over before with an aerator or fork. At the end of the preparing for sowing. month apply lawn fertiliser and after a V �� few days lightly mow, remembering to egetables: First sowings of broad set the mower blades high so that the beans, peas, and parsnips may be grass is not cut too short. If there has made, and shallot sets planted. At this been a build-up of perennial weeds and time early sowings of spring onions and moss since the autumn use proprietary lettuce can also be made. A layer of fleece weed and feed with moss killer. will provide some protection against frost, I �� mice, and birds. n the greenhouse: Sow tomato, F �� ruit: Summer fruiting raspberries;– cucumber, sprouts, cauliflower, and shorten canes to 5 feet and cut newly- summer bedding annuals such as petunia, planted canes to about 6 inches. Cut tagetes, asters, and nicotiana. Start autumn fruiting varieties down to ground tuberous rooted begonias in pots or trays, level. Prune gooseberries, white and red start dahlias in trays of slightly damp peat currants – cut back half of last year’s new or soil free compost. Chit early potato growth and trim side shoots to about 2 tubers, eyes uppermost in shallow boxes inches. Remove all wood 4 years old or of sand, ready for planting out in midmore (these stems will be very dark in March. colour) from black currant bushes. John Owen
LENT LUNCHES 2012 February Friday, 24th St Nicholas’ Wickham, Church Hall Wednesday, 29th United Free Church, Bishop’s Waltham March Wednesday, 7th Durley Memorial Hall Wednesday, 14th Swanmore Methodist Hall Wednesday, 21st St Peter's, Soberton, Church Room All at 12.30 pm onwards Menu Soup, bread and cheese, tea/coffee No charge, but donations invited to be sent to charities that are yet to be decided CTWBA is in association with Churches Together in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight The 2011 200 Club Prize Draw: Drawn at the Beetle Drive in November, the winners of the 2011 big prizes were: £300 Liz Whiting £150 Stephen Blakey £100 Mark Masterman This year's 200 Club: The monthly £25 Prize draws are made on the first Saturday of each month. During the year there will be a £50 Midsummer Prize, and the special draw for the £300, £150, and £100 prizes will take place at the 2012 Beetle Drive, which will be held at the Meon Hall on Saturday, 24th November – put the event in your diary now ! The 200 Club raises money to help with purchases of new equipment and other improvements for the Meon Hall. If you want to join this year’s 200 Club and take part in the prize draws, contact James Morrice (877916). A huge “Thank you”: to everyone who has joined the 200 Club in 2012 – you may win one of the prizes, but just as importantly, by joining the 200 Club you are helping the Meon Hall Management Committee to make some much needed equipment purchases and general improvements. Showcase time! In this and future Bridge editions the Meon Hall Committee will be publicising the groups and weekly activities that go on in the Hall. First of all Keeping Fit – don't just go a walk, good for you as that is. Join a fitness group at the Meon Hall as well. We have a range of fitness groups to suit different personal needs and capabilities : � On Monday evenings come along at 7.30 pm for Aerobics in the Main Hall – Patrick leads this group for Aerobics to music; there's lots of floor space. Contact Michelle Waktare (878582) for information and cost per session. Patrick is a qualified instructor (contact him on 07905 524063) � On Tuesday evenings at 7.00 pm Andy Roberts runs a large and enthusiastic circuit training group in 9 VILLAGE FÊTE – YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU! The Meonstoke/Corhampton/Exton Village Fete is scheduled for Saturday, 14th July at The Meon Hall wet or fine, and it is hoped that, with planning starting now, we can surpass all previous fetes! Please will everyone note 14th July in your diaries, and start thinking NOT where else you might hive off to, but HOW and with what you can contribute? It is only by the good graces of, often the same old, and getting older(!), people, that the fêtes bring cohesion to the Community and badly needed funds to the Benefice. We have, joyously, an increasingly younger population around us, some of whom may shrink from coming forward from their busy lives. Please will they volunteer to run or help run stalls, pony and slow bike rides, bouncy castle, erecting tents, tossing the straw, dog show and so on? This is a great day out for the children especially. We need a Volunteer Band. Remember the less we need to pay for the more charity funds we raise. We have never been defeated by the weather, which is always a challenge. Early moans go with the territory, but on the day it is always fun and varyingly productive. Start thinking up original, and traditional, stalls/events and whether you have a connection to draws like vintage car or aerobatic displays, fairground apparatus, hot air balloon operators, helicopter rides, parachute drops, model aeroplane and birds of prey demonstrations, sheep dog displays , etc etc. Please volunteer early to avoid being press-ganged into something you would rather not do! Any ideas, suggestions, commitments, or queries should be submitted to Mike Hutchinson on 878702, or by e-mail at yandmhutch1@btinternet.com , the earlier the better. Repeat, together we can make this the best one. VOLUNTEER NOW! the Main Hall. In addition to the static exercises , Andy has got some boxing exercise kit – you can really get stuck into these, and punch them about. Andy is a professionally qualified personal trainer; you can contact him on 07521 692061 for information and cost per session. � On Friday mornings, if the other sessions are too tough for you, come along and enjoy something very different - a relaxed calm and gentle Workout with Wendy in the Small Hall – exercising to music. Body conditioning, stretching, hula hooping. You can contact Wendy Laurenson on 07876 361120. Finally – Are you planning a family party ...? Can we help you ? Why not order those extra tables, chairs, champagne flutes, wine glasses, china and cutlery for your entertaining from The Meon Hall. Contact the bookings secretary, Richard Booth on 877820 or at: meonhallbookings@yahoo.co.uk James Morrice
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