Colsterworth

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(Lloyds, Barclays, Co-op etc)Commission-free foreign currencyOn-demand Euros and travel insurance

House coal and bottled gas

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Want your children to have fun AND learn?Colsterwor thPre-School

at the Methodist HallEvery Monday, Tuesday, Thursday

and Friday from 9am to 3pm

Visits welcome • OFSTED registered • Not-For-Profit

For pre-school children from 2 yearswith funding available for 3 & 4 year-olds.

Call Sharon on 860046 (opening hours) or Helen on 860126

Please call Joan on 861126

GRAZING WANTED

Gunby Smallholder requires local, well-fenced grazing

for up to 30 sheep.

mid-December until about mid-March.

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News for the villages of Colsterworth, Woolsthorpe, Stainby, Gunby, North Witham and LobthorpeEdited by Trefor Williams 21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT 01476 860 936 trefor@thewilliamshome.org.uk

Issue 418 October 2009

The Stables Bed & BreakfastColsterworth

For a 10 to 20 hour week, including weekends, we will pay you £6.50/hour.

To apply please call 01476 861057

We need flexible and reliable staff with good customer service

skills for bed & breakfast andgeneral household duties.

ABACUS COACHES5 day holidays

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Quality hotels • Packed itineraryFor further details, brochures, bookings call

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Music and Dramain the Chapel,School and theMemorial Hall

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Remembering those who have died

The loss of a loved one is hard to bear. There is much pain and grief, and it takes time to re-adjust to living without that person being around.

Picking up the pieces and getting back to some sort of normality - though life can never be the same again - takes time. Each person does it in their own way though there are ways of helping this healing process. Bereave-ment involves remembering rather than trying to forget.

On the first Sunday in November, All Souls’tide, the Church has tradition-ally remembered the dead.

You are invited to this year’s Memorial Service at Stoke Rochford on Sunday 1st November 2009 at 3pm.

Starting from March 30th 2006, all those whose funeral services were in one of the Colsterworth group’s churches or at Grantham Crematorium, will be remembered. The names of loved ones associated with these villages whose funeral took place elsewhere can be included too: please contact Jim Laughton on 860618or Jo Burroughs on 530359.

The service takes about 30-40 minutes and will include hymns, a reflec-tion, and the lighting of a candle for each person named. There will be light refreshments afterwards.

Janet Steele

Drinking pays for planes at the White Lion!

Together with our customers, we raised £412 for Lincolnshire

Air Ambulance. Our August Bank Holiday Anniversary celebrations went very well – all the beer festival beers consumed and the other fund raising helped us reach a great total.

Thanks go to everyone who do-nated prizes, bought raffle tickets and helped in other ways This makes a grand total of £992 raised so far through the collection box and previous events.

Our first attempt at an Open Mic Night seemed to have been enjoyed by all. It certainly proved that Col-sterworth does have talent.

We just need a few more folks to shed their inhibitions! We’ve ar-ranged OpenMic2 for Friday 16th October. And on Friday 23rd Oc-tober, professionals will be making the music – James Joyce and his band of musicians are returning so an excellent evening of Irish music is guaranteed.

Madeleine Smith

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Practice Nurse Clinics for Diabetes and Asthma

Family Planning and Teenage Health Clinics

Travel Clinic and Yellow Fever Centre

Village Hall Surgeries at Ropsley and Ingoldsby

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The Councillors had a break in August so there was more

than usual to get through at the 1st September meeting but thanks are due to the Clerk who worked on throughout the summer.

The cost of the Time capsule is likely to exceed the original estimate – it will be nearer to £350 – but it was agreed to proceed. The War Memo-rial site would be an ideal location.

A meeting at the South Lincs Community and Voluntary Service proved to be extremely informa-tive and will be of great help to the Recreational portfolio group in compiling major grant funding applications.

It was agreed that the Parish Council should write to the Town Council of Wootton Bassett com-mending the local population for the support and respect shown by them to the men and women of the armed forces killed in action in Afghanistan.

A planning application for dwell-ings at School Lane has been ap-proved by SKDC councillors despite objections from this Parish Council, local residents and our District Councillor, Bob Adams acting on our behalf. It is deplorable that SKDC has ignored the wishes of the community, making a farce of promises to involve local people in the planning process. There are questions around the process of this particular planning application and the Council will continue to press for answers.

It is expected that the legal agree-ment between David Wilson Homes and the Parish Council for a £50,000 contribution to recreational fa-cilities will be signed in the next few weeks.

Despite further representations, the Highways Agency has confirmed it will not incorporate any lighting at the Colsterworth junctions. The clerk has written to confirm that the Council considers these junctions to be unsafe. In addition, it can only be assumed that the decision not to install the minimum lighting plan was an economic cost cutting exercise.

The new seats at the Ropewalk, Colsterworth and at North Witham have been installed and a new street

light on public footpath 9 (Bourne Road Estate) has been installed and commissioned.

Colsterworth did not make it through to the final round of the Best Kept Village Competition 2009 but achieved a very respectable 120 out of 130 maximum points. The poor state of the church doors and the untidy garden at the Po-lice station were mentioned. As a result, Lincolnshire police have kindly agreed that we can include the grounds maintenance on our schedule and that they will contrib-ute £275 a year to cover costs.

LCC Highways is undertaking several maintenance tasks in the villages at the request of the Parish Council. These include footpath replacement at the top end of the Bourne Road and dropped kerbs on the Woodlands estate. In addition, there will be new kerbing and hard standing in Stainby adjacent to the post box and notice board. Our wish list never ends but LCC Highways is co-operating with us on these and other matters – subject to budgets of course.LCC Traffic Calming Scheme

A revised traffic calming plan has been received from LCC much in line with discussions held in July. A copy has been passed to the Road Traffic Group for closer examination and comment.Youth Club

It was agreed that the £1,400 loan request from the Youth Club to replace the fire doors be in the form of a grant. The monies will be taken from the Parish Plan fund, leaving a balance of £527.81 for future projects.Vision Day

It was agreed that the Parish Vision Day be held in January 2010 at the village hall (date to be confirmed).Amenity and Recreational Group

The chairman of the Youth Club (Derek Cox) thanked the Parish Council for its continued support and for making the grant of £1,400. He reported that refurbishment of the club was almost complete. A tenancy agreement between the Youth Club and The Little Legs Nursery for the daytime use of the building is being drawn up by solicitors.PlanningReceived: Mr J Wardle, erection of sin-gle storey extension at Church Street

North Witham; Mr J Spencer, erec-tion of a two storey extension at 11 Northerns Close North Witham; Mr & Mrs V Arden for a rear conservatory at 11 Pasture Close Colsterworth; Mr & Mrs H Staunton, first floor rear extension at Glebe House Gunby.Approved by SKDC: Mr I Collinson, extension to Methodist Church to form store and lobby at Back Lane Colsterworth.Refused by SKDC: Demolition of bun-galow and erection of six dwellings/garages.Appeal lodged: Mr A Jessop & Mrs EM Jessop erection of dwelling at 5 Stamford Road Colsterworth.Other matters

The following were noted for further action or investigation: a road sign damaged on Bourne Road Estate; kerbing is required adjacent to Bede Houses, High Street Colster-worth; there are overgrown hedges on Bridge End, the Old Post Lane/Stainby Road junction and on Stain-by Road (they obscure road signs here); incidents of fly tipping; the David Wilson Homes fencing around some areas of the new estate.

Parish Council Report

Too darkto see the potholes?

Call LCC Highways direct on 01522 782070 to report

faulty street lights, heaving paths and potholes.

Sports & Social Club

The committee and members would like to thank everyone

who helped to make our Funday a great success. We made £900 for club funds.

Special thanks to those who gave donations and prizes.

Rose Wood

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Submission for Buy-n-Sell must be from households under Colsterworth & District Parish Council. You must have authority to offer (eg it’s yours or a family member has asked you to offer it). You must be in a private capacity (you’re not a trader, whether as a busi-ness, hobby or sideline) and give your name, and contact details. Acceptance is at the editor’s discretion.

In Touch Buy–N–SellThanks to the Buy–N–Sell column, everyone in the villages seems to have everything they want and too much of nothing . . . or nobody’s got round to raising a bit of cash or getting a bargain!

Ringing the changes

No longer will there be bells ring-ing in Colsterworth on a Friday

night - the practice night is moving to Thursdays from now on.

So if your excuse for never trying to tug on a thick rope with a large lump of metal on the other end was that you’ve other things to do on Friday nights, get down to St John’s at 7.15pm next Thursday.

The team would love to welcome new faces, be they beginners, learn-ers or improvers. Neither age nor gender is a bar, although the normal number of limbs is an advantage.

If you’re interested to find out more, contact Pandy Pearce on 860357.

Dog Poo

The first message from your Parish Council is Bag It & BIn It. At home,

use your black wheelie bin but you can also use ordinary street bins.

Responsible dog owners do not allow their dogs to foul the footpaths and grass verges.

The second message is never use the public waste bins in or around

areas where children play. One of the reasons the play areas on

Woolsthorpe Road and Colster Way are fenced is to ensure the surfaces remain clean.

Toxocara (roundworm) is a natural parasite of dogs and cats and new infec-tions can occur at any time. It spreads through the animals’ faeces, so children playing in open spaces where poo has not been cleared up are likely to come into contact with both the eggs and the tiny worms. In humans, the eggs infest the body through hand to mouth con-tact or an open grazes and cuts. They spread through the bloodstream and lodge in the liver, lungs, skin, joints, eyes, heart and brain. The effects of infection include blindness, joint pain and swell-ing, fever, coughing and wheezing.So Bag It & BIn It and remember that Dogs & PlaygrounDs Don’t MIx.

Parish Council

Colsterworth conundrum

It seems that a select number of villagers hold the secret to a

former resident’s mystery.When Oliver Fiennes, the former

Dean of Lincoln Cathedral, sold up and moved to Lincoln this summer, he made careful arrangements to ensure that none of the treasured possessions accumulated over many years went astray.

He packed everything in boxes and asked several friends to look after them until he’d settled in to his new home. In spite his best efforts, one vital item did get lost and he’s appealing to people in Colsterworth to help him.

The item in question is his recall of which of his friends has his boxes!

So if you are one of the guard-ians of a Fiennes treasure box, please help him get in touch with his past by contacting Oliver on 01522526036

Ed

Clearing out your wardrobes and cupboards? Moving on

not-needed ladies’, men’s, children’s clothing, bedding, curtains, soft toys, shoes, belts and handbags?

Then bring them to School by 9am on Thursday 17th November for our next Bags to School pick up. The school now gets 40p per kilo – last November’s collection raised £462 – please help us to raise more. If you can’t get the bags to school yourself, just call Marilyn on 01476 860785 to arrange collection. Thanking you in anticipation of your support.

Friends of Colsterworth School

Property was damaged at the Rare Breeds Poultry Farm on Bridgend

in Colsterworth. A number of the birds were killed too.

Diesel fuel was stolen from the Associated Timber site on Honey-pot Lane.

A window was damaged at a prop-erty on Woolsthorpe Road.

Five bottles of champagne were stolen from Colsterworth’s Co-op during trading hours.

August crime

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and Friday from 9am to 3pm

Visits welcome • OFSTED registered • Not-For-Profit

For pre-school children from 2 yearswith funding available for 3 & 4 year-olds.

Call Sharon on 860046 (opening hours) or Helen on 860126

The Ingle Charity

After over thirty years, Dr Staf-ford recently retired from

the Trustees of Ingle Charity. The Trustees would like to record their sincere thanks to Dr Stafford for all his dedicated work with the Char-ity and his many years of service to the people of the Colsterworth Parish.

Ingle Charity dates back to 1912 when Frederick Ingle left money in his Will to be invested to provide a charitable fund, paid from the interest, for residents of the Parish of Colsterworth. Originally the Charity was in three parts – the Benevolent Fund, the Nursing Fund and the Pension Fund. To benefit from the Charity you had to be sick, poor and a resident of the Parish for five years. Part of the Benevolent Fund provided a scholarship to the Grammar School for any bright pupil whose family could not afford to give them an education. It also paid for boots for children to attend school and tools for an apprenticed boy to learn a trade.

In 2001 the administration of the Charity was simplified. Donations have been made to GIFTS Hospice in Grantham for the terminally ill, as any of Colsterworth’s residents could benefit from their care, coun-selling or support services, at any time.

Frederick Ingle belonged to the Ingle family who were resident in and around the Colsterworth Parish over many generations. One of his ancestors, Henry Ingle was bailiff to Sir Isaac Newton and oversaw the running of the farm after Newton’s mother died.

The family were acknowledged in the village when, in the 1980s, two semi-circles of new houses were built at Woolsthorpe and called Ingle Court.

Margaret WinnTrustee and Correspondent

September’s meeting started on a sad note as we held a minutes

silence in memory of our long stand-ing member Norma Padley. Norma has been a supportive member for well over 20 years and was a committee member of our original Horticultural Show travelling from West Bridgford come rain or shine. I’m sure she was looking over pro-ceedings on the evening, which was our Member’s Show.

It was well supported and Tony King headed the team of judges from South Witham Garden Club. They were most impressed at the standard of exhibits.This year’s winnersModd Trophy for Basket of Mixed Fruit and Vegetables Ros HibbinsHorton Cup for Vase Herbs Loraine SpencerThe Blankley Rose Bowl for Single Colour Arrangement Joanna SmithMilIfield Cup for Plate of Six Tomatoes Ros Hibbins

Clive Underwood Cup

for Decorated Muffin Gillian BurgoinClive Lunn Cup for Knitted Item Joanna SmithPat Owen Cup for Needlework Item Gillian CunningtonWatson Trophy for Any Other Handicraft Item Ros HibbinsRon Briggs Cup for Photograph Ros HibbinsRuby Bell Cup for Vegetable Figure Joanna SmithMember’s Trophy Ros Hibbins for for Best in Show her Basket of Fruit and Veg

Thank you to everybody who made the evening such a success.

The next meeting is on 12th Octo-ber and is a talk about our National Parks given by Malcolm Grey, so please come to the Village Hall for 7.30pm where tea, biscuits and a raffle will be included in your entry fee of £1.50 for members or £3 for visitors. Joanna Smith

Come rain or shine ...... Peter Smith will be at the Church-

yard on School Lane, Colsterworth by 10 o’clock on Saturday 7th No-vember.

And being the genial and gre-garious sort he’s hoping he won’t be standing there alone.

Don’t worry, this isn’t an Alterna-tive Teddy Bears’ Picnic but he would like to see another few of the village menfolk gathered there for certain because that’s the day the church-yard’s having a clean out.

Womenfolk are welcome too of course and whatever the gender, those with mowing and strimming equipment will be the most wel-come of all.

If you need to know more give Peter a call on 860218. Ed

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September, the seventh month on the old Roman calendar, had

an Anglo-Saxon name which meant ‘the harvest month’. In August this year it seemed as if the weather would mean some crops being ploughed back in, so the fine sunny start to September was especially

welcome. The year has been fruit-ful in terms of apples, plums and hedgerow berries. Branches of elder are weighed down with purple berries and, whether a tree or a bush, this plant is heavy with strangely contrasting beliefs - the curative powers of its fruits and the evil influence of its wood. It produces excellent cordials and wines from its flowers, pipes and toys from its soft-pithed twigs and fly deterrents from its leaves. Elder used to be grown alongside the family pigsty for the latter purpose.

A fungus found on elder at the moment used to be called Jew’s Ear since Judas was supposed to have hanged himself on this tree (the common names of fungi are frequently associated with legends). Dryad’s Saddle is sprouting in abundance on a stump of horse chestnut it has killed at Woodlands. It does indeed look as i f i t could provide a seat for the spirit of the woods.Marble galls are a curiosity of oak trees and have been found this

month in abun-dance on trees in Twyford Woods. They are the re-sult of a small insec t of the wasp family lay-ing eggs near

the leaf bases of oak. A white grub develops, curled up in the centre of a brown sphere which supplies food, shelter, and anti-freeze. The grub pupates in the spring and bores its way out as an adult - that is, of course, if a bird has not made a ragged hole and prized it out as a tasty snack. A third kind of minute hole can be seen on some galls where a parasite has left after liv-

Our guest speaker, Tina Lee, showed us just how lucky

present-day students are when she described the conditions and treat-ment of Victorian children in the classroom (Mind you. I remember the ruler being brought down sharply on the knuckles, even in the 1940s). Education was a hit and miss affair with children expected to take part in harvesting, childcare and other family duties while attending to the three Rs.

Rosemary Bolongaro thanked her for her thought provoking talk, say-ing that her own mother had been taken out of school to sew pearls on some local dignitary’s wedding dress because she was the school’s best seamstress.

Mary Cowley, presiding at the September meeting, announced that next year’s subs are to increase yet again, but only by 50 pence this time (but there was still muttering in the ranks). Other National Fed-eration news included details of late availability courses at Denman Col-lege with a 10% reduction if taken before the end of the year and a Bee Aware action week. (to tie in with the resolution passed at this year’s AGM) during which we are asked to spend a whole day eating only foods that have been pollinated by honeybees. We received recipes for suggestions and very nice they sound, especially the honeycake.

We are also asked to join in with Cookery Capers, a competition for members and children aged between 6 and 12 to hold a cook-ery session, take a photo of what they had made and send it along to Denman. Six winners will earn themselves a free cookery course at college, so you could be a winner.

We heard of the fabulous embroi-dery exhibition at Doddington Hall

which four of our members had attended, taking in a shopping trip on the way. We also heard about the successful venture at the Sports and Social Club’s Fun Day. Winners of the bean bag competition were Liz Clarke (adults) and Bethany Wood (children).

Sales of the Waterways and Where-abouts quiz are going well (have you got yours yet?)

We chose our preferred menu for the 92nd Anniversary lunch (monies to the Treasurer next month please). But before then we have the Keste-ven Group meeting at Grantham where we meet up with our fellow Institute members to hear Deborah Hollamby talk on her life from Nun to Broadcaster. We are on duty at the door, so some of us will have to be there at 6.30pm sharp.

The monthly competition for an old ornament was won by Barbara Moore with her double-backed salt dolly, with Mary Cowley in second place. Dora Farley manned the sales table, generating a goodly sum for funds, and our tea hostesses were Barbara and Rosie.

Our next meeting is on October 15th when the speaker is Mary Wright talking on Homeopathic Medicine (perhaps she can give me something for my knees, hopefully not a saw). The competition is a bunch of herbs. We’ll see you there then? – usual time and place (the Village Hall at 2 o’clock). Visitors are most welcome.

Dot Williams

ing in the grub. There are so many kinds of miniature worlds within our larger one!

Two airborne insect-eaters are amongst observations sent in this month. The brown hawker drag-onfly was scooping up flies with its front legs over a lawn on 11th September. A bat was observed at dusk on several occasions feeding in another garden. It was thought it might have gone into the roof of the house - fortunately the observer is only too pleased to have such a scarce and clean-living resident taking up winter quarters.

To look for next monthLadybirds – on sunny days both

two- and seven-spot ladybirds will emerge from the shelter of leaves. Their numbers are declining as the alien harlequin ladybird invades. Look out for these larger variably-patterned insects which cluster on walls. If the weather is fine, fungi recording will take place on Sunday morning, 11th October at Twyford Wood. Please contact me with any-thing which might be of interest at 61 Woolsthorpe Road, on 860465) or at magdon@tiscali.co.uk.

Jane Ostler

Saturday 31st October

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COLSTERWORTH METHODIST CHURCH Tel 860 046

Mondays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall

5.30-7pm Brownies Village Hall

except 2nd wk 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village Hall

Tuesdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall

7pm-9pm Youth Group Sports & Social Club

only 2nd wk 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village Hall

Wednesdays 10am-1.30pm Open Door (2nd & 4th Weds only) Methodist Hall

6.45-8pm Anderson’s Taekwondoo School Village Hall (adults continue until 9pm)

During Term 5.30pm-6.30pm Beavers Village Hall

Thursdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall

6pm-7.30pm Girl Guides Primary School, Back Lane

7pm-8.30pm Cubs Village Hall

Fridays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall

7.30pm-9.30pm Weekly Bingo Sports & Social Club

Saturdays 10-12noon Football Coaching Sports Field

Tue 6th 7.25pm Parish Council Meeting Village Hall

Wed 7th Church Coffee morning 56 Colster Way

Thu 8th 7.30pm WI Group Meeting Grantham

Sat 10th 1pm to 5pm Apple and Orchard Day Woolsthorpe Manor

Sun 11th 1pm to 5pm Apple and Orchard Day Woolsthorpe Manor

Mon 12th 7.30pm Garden Club Village Hall

Wed 14th 10am Open Door Methodist Church Hall

Thu 15th 2pm Women’s Institute Village Hall

Wed 28th 10am Open Door Methodist Church Hall

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The Villages’ Diary for October 2009

Copy for the November issue of In Touch must arrive by noon on Saturday 17th November 2009.

E-mail contributions to trefor@thewilliamshome.org.uk are preferred (call 860936 and check they’ve arrived) and clear typescript suitable for scanning is second best. If there is something you’d like to include but have no access to mechanical or electronic devices, manuscript can be taken.

Please ensure that you put your contact details on any submission. Send or deliver any hardcopy to Trefor Williams at

21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT (Tel 860 936).Don’t forget to add the dates of future meeting to your copy

if you want them to appear in the Villages’ Diary.In Touch 20th August 2009

Sunday School 10.30am in the Hall during school term time. All children welcome.

October 2009 Preacher FlowersSun 4th 10.30am Morning Worship Rev Tony Pick Christine HodsonSun 11th 10.30am Morning Worship Brian Gordon Betty NealSun 18th 11am Morning Worship Tony Charles Gill SeneschallSun 25th 10.00am Morning Worship Deacon Lois Bell Cheryl Sutcliffe

Open Door Every second and fourth Wednesday of the month in the Methodist Hall from 10am to 1.30pm. Simply call in for friendship, morning coffee, takeaways, light lunches and charity shop.

Open Door will be into its21styear this month. But unless we get extra help we’ll have to move to just once a month With increasing numbers of users lately, folk really don’t want this to happen. Please tell us you can help!

October 2009 Information about the dates and times of the church services this month was not available to In Touch as it went to press. Please see the notice board outside St John the Baptist Church.

Minister Rev Tony Pick, 142 Princess Drive, Grantham, NG31 9PY 564 191Lay Minister Ian Collinson, c/o Colsterworth Methodist Church 07814 712702 and 01159 892 064There’s a warm welcome to our services and events.

Church Coffee Mornings 10am to 11.30am 7th October at 56 Colster Way, the home of Bett Pope

17 Nov Bag2School collection day – by 9am at the SchoolForward diary

The Witham Group of Parishes October 2009

We hope to appoint a new Rector by the end of the year. During the vacancy, our priest-in-charge is the Rural Dean, Rev Andy Hawes (01778 591 358).

Church Wardens: Peter Smith (860 218) and Margaret Wright (860 536)

Secretary: Sarah Thomson (860901)

Please see the notice boards outside the churches in Stainby, Gunby and North Witham for the dates and times of services in October. No information was available to In Touch as it went to press.

Woolsthorpe Manor Birthplace and Family Home of Sir Isaac Newton

October 2009The House, Grounds and Science Centre are open

Fridays through Sundays from 1pm to 5pm

until 1st NovemberAdults £5.80, Children £2.90, with Family Ticket £14.50.

National Trust Members Free. Group Visits by arrangement for an additional charge. Hire of Byre £ 20 per hour.For further information contact Property Manager

Susan Haimes on 01476 860338.October eventSaturday 10th and Sunday 11th October: Apple and orchard days. From 1pm to 5pm. A weekend celebration of apples and orchard fruit

Village Hall Prize DrawSeptember Winners

North Witham Village HallSaturday 3rd OctOber

Village Show (vegetables, prOduce, crafts) Entries 10am to noon. Open 2pm

MOnday 5th OctOber Harvest Supper 7.30pm

Thursday 8th OctOber Bingo 7.30pm

Saturday 19th OctOber Coffee Morning + Bric-a-Brac 10am to noon