Thirteen members of the Growing old disgracefully group had a taster session of lawn bowling at the Titchfield park bowling green on Wednesday 4th June. Everyone enjoyed the experience and would like to thank members of the bowling club who supported them on their session.
A second group will have a taster session on 2nd July.
Maggie Huckerby
Sadly, I had to cancel the June meeting so the next meeting at St Peter and St Paul’s Church Hall will be on Monday 28th July. Members were still emailed the recipes so they could try them for themselves at home.
This group is now full and cannot take any new members for now.
Anne Wilkinson
Last month members enjoyed a lovely and interesting talk from Steffie Shields MBE. Born in Wimbledon she now lives in Lincolnshire and her talk was based on this second biggest county in the country.
Steffie is vice chair of the Lincolnshire Gardens Trust and knows many of the gardens and halls that we all love to visit. She spoke about Gunby Hall, Burghley, (of Capability Brown fame), Grantham Town Gardens and Woolsthorpe Manor, reminding us that the county is not just a flat place but full of fabulous houses and gardens.
There is also Grimsthorpe, Threekingham, Ravesby, Joseph Banks Society Garden in Horncastle, Dawber Garden, Scrivelsby, St James’ Church Louth, Imsby Manor, Marigold Garden Sutton on Sea, Harrington Hall, and the Dutch architecture of Aslackby Manor, to mention but a few! She is a very knowledgeable lady indeed!
Thank you to Helen Harvey for this report.
In July members are visiting the Dorothy Clive Garden in Shropshire.
Meanwhile enjoy your own plots, whatever the size.
Anne
Visit to Beningbrough Hall, York on Wednesday 28th May
A prompt departure from Hucknall Market place and a journey devoid of traffic jams meant that we arrived safely at our venue by 10.30 am. After a meet and greet session with one of the National Trust staff and passes scanned we set off for some light refreshments. The restaurant area was well stocked and well staffed and with plenty of seating available both indoors and outside most of the group were soon enjoying their refreshments.
The rest of the day was enjoyed in generally dry weather with increasing amounts of sunshine. The gardens were exceptionally well cared for and a pleasure to walk round with what seemed like an army of volunteers eager to talk to our group members.
The grounds presented some lovely walks for the group to enjoy over the day with some members taking in several different walks.
The House was relatively small but again the volunteers were eager to bring the rooms to light with their knowledge of the building.
The plant shop and gift shop proved popular at the end of the day and members felt that this was one of the nicest venues that we had visited for a long time.
A lovely day completed we returned to the coach for the journey home having enjoyed a lovely relaxing day.
We are taking two coaches to Powis Castle on 19th June.
Barrie
In May 15 bags of litter were collected by various members of the group.
With the onset of better weather there is an increase in food sellers, particularly on Hucknall bypass. Its just a pity that patrons of these food sellers cannot afterwards place their food and drink receptacles in the nearby litter bins – or even dispose of them at home if the bins are already full. The council are quite good at collecting the bags of litter we leave for them but if the bags are left for any length of time, even overnight, they are soon ripped open by the local wildlife and the contents scattered around. Back to square one!
Val (Gant)