ONLY A WEEK TO GO!

Hopefully you are now thinking about your entries for this year’s Summer Show – schedules and entry forms can be downloaded from our website.

We are setting up from 2pm on the Sunday afternoon and help with this is always appreciated.  Entries need to be in between 8am and 10.30am on the Monday morning and the show opens at 1pm.  The tea ladies would love as many homemade cakes as possible, so if you get chance to bake beforehand, please do.  We have lots of events on again this year including the Carlton Brass Band, a reggae band, Punch and Judy and The Dako Flying Angels.  Any help running a stall for an hour or even half an hour would be great – please let me know ASAP if you are available as I am in the process of putting together a simple rota.

Our new membership year begins on 1st September and we have another exciting year planned with varied talks, workshops and three coach trips.  At only £10 a year it is excellent value, so remember to renew your membership on Show Day, and encourage others to join us!

See you all on Monday.  Let’s all keep our fingers crossed for good weather this year.

SUMMER SHOW FAST APPROACHING

Our Summer Show is only just over 2 weeks away!

Now is the perfect time to get ahead of yourself and think about what you are going to enter this year!  The schedule and entry form can be downloaded from our website.

Any help setting up on the Sunday from 2pm, helping out for an hour at the show or tidying up at the end, as ever would be greatly appreciated.

Evening visit on 16th July 2015 to Hebbs Farm, Stoke Bardolph

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We enjoyed a most relaxing and interesting visit to the the cottage garden of Stuart Dixon (BBC Radio Nottingham gardening expert) and his wife, the visit being enhanced by lovely evening sunshine. Stuart can be seen above enjoying some fruit from his cherry tree with our own fruit and vegetable expert Adrian in the background.  The garden has extensive herbaceous borders full of perennials, with a wide variety of bush, standard and climbing roses. Added to this are fruit trees, plus other fruits such as gooseberry bushes and a vegetable garden area. There is a woodland area and open spaces in which to relax with extensive views over towards the River Trent. Towards the end of our visit we enjoyed tea and buttered scones served by Stuart’s wife from the charming cottage.

You may like to make a note in your diary that with regard to our annual Summer Show on August Bank Holiday Monday (Aug 31st), as announced by Stuart on BBC Radio Nottingham today (Sunday 19th July) he is scheduled to present the prizes at our show. So try to come along and enjoy a relaxing and sociable village show.

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HEBBS FARM VISIT

REMEMBER tonight is our Summer Social – visit to Hebbs Farm, Stoke Bardolph.  We are meeting at 7pm at Village Hall to share transport or 7.20pm at Stoke Bardolph Village Hall, where we have been asked to park.

All are welcome and the cost of the visit is free to LHS members and £4 to non members.

EVENING VISITS

Clumber Walled Kitchen Garden

On the evening of Thursday 25th June we are visiting Clumber Walled Kitchen Garden as a follow up to the excellent talk that the Head Gardener, Chris Margrave, gave us in February.   We will be treated to a guided tour of the garden, by Chris.  We are meeting at 6.45pm at Lowdham Village Hall to share transport or 7.20pm at the car park situated at the side of the Walled Garden.

All are welcome and the cost of the guided tour is £5 to LHS members and £9.50 to non members.  As this is an evening tour, these costs apply to National Trust members too.

Hebbs Farmhouse, Stoke Bardolph

Following this, on the evening of Thursday 16th July we are visiting the home of Stuart Dixon, the speaker who gave an excellent talk ‘Best Borders’ earlier this June.  We are going on this visit instead of having our programmed Summer Social, which was to have been the previous Thursday.  Tea/coffee and fresh cream scones will be provided.  We are meeting at 7pm at Village Hall to share transport or 7.30pm at Stoke Bardolph Village Hall, where we have been asked to park.

Again all are welcome and the cost of the visit is free to LHS members and £4 to non members.

We are hoping for lovely weather for both of these visits.