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Save the Date – Overton Scarecrow Festival & Family Fun Weekend 15th – 17th July

26 May 2022 by guest-author 0
Save the Date – Overton Scarecrow Festival & Family Fun Weekend 15th – 17th July

Overton Scarecrow Festival & Family Fun Weekend 15th – 17th July

The annual fancy dress Wheelbarrow Race is on Friday  15th at 7.15 pm /evening taking in the village drinking establishments, finishing at Bridge Street Recreation Ground where there will be refreshments, music and kid’s attractions. The Grand Festival Fete will be on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th at Bridge Street from noon to approx 5pm. There is different  entertainment, stalls attractions both days. Saturday evening Bridge Street is the venue for Scarecrow Rocks live music. There is a fun dog show on Sunday 17th.

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Hardy’s Nursery – ‘Perfect Pelargoniums’ with multi-award & gold medal winner Heather Godard

12 May 2022 0
Hardy’s Nursery – ‘Perfect Pelargoniums’ with multi-award & gold medal winner Heather Godard

Heather manages Fibrex nurseries, the holder of the national collection of Pelargoniums, the largest of its kind in the world.

Heather is a multi-award and gold medal winner for her displays of pelargoniums.

During this talk Heather will talk about the history of the genus and it’s relation to geraniums. She’ll cover the 10 subgroups, their uses in the garden and kitchen, along with general maintenance, propagation and overwintering.

 

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Borough Elections

5 May 2022 0
Borough Elections

Borough Council Elections – Your local Voting Centre is the Gill Nethercott Centre With Cllr. Lucie Follett-Maitland’s year of office up and Cllr. Ian Tilbury’s decision to retire after 20 years as a borough councillor, there will be two seats contested at these elections.

Your full list of candidates for the Whitchurch, Overton & Laverstoke ward are as follows…

Chloe Ashfield (Basingstoke & Deane Independents)

Michael Barham (Labour)

Johanna Perry (Conservatives)

Lucy Sloane Williams (Lib Dems)

Linda Stepney (Lib Dems)

Steve Williams (Basingstoke & Deane Independents)

The election count and results will take place on May 6 at the Hampshire Court Hotel.

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MOULIN ROUGE NIGHT at 909 Bar Bistro

1 May 2022 0
MOULIN ROUGE NIGHT at 909 Bar Bistro

THE MOULIN ROUGE IS OPEN FOR ONE EVENING on the 1st May,  serving 7pm until late As you may have noticed we removed the event and ticket sales last week for the Moulin Rouge event on the 17th April. We have moved our silly Sunday event to May 1st so that we can stay open even later. The perfect party to welcome the British summer, it is definitely going to get silly.

We hope to have the Garden ready for the event so you can enjoy the Sun as well.

Each Guest must dress the part as this is quite the special event! Dress Code is Moulin Rouge inspired.

If you have already booked tickets for the 17th April, they will be automatically crossed over to the 1st May.

Tickets are £10.00 and each ticket includes 1 free cocktail or glass of fizz upon entry. We will have food platters available to buy for nibbles as well as bar snacks to share between guests. All other food items are closed for the evening.

Each ticket is for one ticket holder and you must bring a receipt of the ticket with you. This is a closed event so anyone without a ticket will sadly miss out on the show.

Any guests who have purchased a ticket that cannot, for any reason, not attend, may sell or giveaway the tickets to other individuals. There will be only a set number a tickets available.

Purchase your tickets here – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/act-1-scene-1-the-first…  

 

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National Garden Scheme – Open Gardens 2022 at Bere Mill

2 May 2022 0
National Garden Scheme – Open Gardens 2022 at Bere Mill

The wonderful gardens at Bere Mill, Whitchurch are opening again for 2022 through the National Garden’s Scheme (NGS).

There are over five acres to explore where formal planting meets the wild with beautiful herbaceous borders, bog garden and Mediterranean gravel gardens with cistus, lavenders and tree peonies. Sunday 13th March Monday 2nd May Thursday 2nd June Monday 29th August Pre-booking is available at the NGS website – Search for Bere Mill on the NGS website ngs.org.uk or pay on the day.

Tickets cost £7.50 for adults and children are free (dogs also welcome!) All proceeds go to charity.

Thanks to the generosity of garden owners, volunteers and visitors, NGS have donated over £60 million to nursing and health charities and made an annual donation of £2.88 million in 2020 to beneficiaries including Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie, Hospice UK and The Queen’s Nursing Institute. See the NGS website (ngs.org.uk) for more details.

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