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Hello Everyone

Just a brief message to say we welcome having lighter evenings and slowly we are beginning to get onto the right tract to greet Spring ! Hoping you have all kept warm and well over the last few weeks of very cold weather

We now look forward to our first Jumble Sale of the year to be held on 22nd February Doors open at 09.30 Entry 50p Saleable Donations wanted please to be delivered to the hall on the morning from 8am and we do need helpers to sort and sell on the day please from 8am also- thank you Contact Alan to collect donations if it is not possible to drop them off please as ( Alan can only collect the week of the Jumble (as we have no storage facilities).

Oliver has now completed the new schedule for our Spring flower show to be held on 15th March at the village hall so please take a look at the many classes available and see what you could enter. It would be so lovely to obtain many entries across the board in this beautiful time of year We require all entries easily to be sent online or by dropping them off to Rita Gower in the village or us here on Battle Hill Battle on or before the 12th March at 7pm

We have also arranged several lovely talks and events over this new year - which are all listed on the rear of the schedule and further details will be sent on each Newsletter here that I post to you.

The first one to be held is on May 20th - a talk and tour of the beautiful Ashburnham Place and Gardens which were initially planted/designed by Capability-Brown; at Ashburnham As always this is a FREE event for paid -up members and £3 for non-members We will meet you all at the site at 1.30 and you can have refreshments independently at the lovely Orangery either before or after the event

Looking forward to hearing from you all on all as above

We WELCOME new members who have access to most of our events FOC so is very economical and keeps the society alive.

Lets hope the weather warm up and we can see lots more sunshine as

we so need it !

Keep well and warm meanwhile !

All Best Wishes

Mary B x

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL

Keep Well and Warm The weather has certainly changed just now! Hoping you all had enjoyable festivities.

Lets hope this year will be a better growing year and that you will join us and enjoy the many visits and talks we are arranging. I am just waiting for confirmation of dates and have chased these up again today, and as soon as we have them confirmed we will inform you at once

We will be including a wonderful tour and talk at Ashburnham Place - local to us just at Ashburnham - a wonderful place which also has a lovely Orangery to enjoy tasty light meals and drinks after the talk. This serves to be a really great trip as it is such a beautiful place. Date TBC .Free to members £3 to non-members

There are several other sites to visit also and talks that will be offered to you all Something great to look forward to.

Our first confirmed event is the first Jumble Sale of the year to be held on February22nd - doors open at 9.30 - to be held at the village hall Donations of saleable items pls. required on the morning at the hall or Alan can arrange collection the week of the sale only ( as we have no storage place) We will also require helpers to sort and sell please.

The Spring Flower show is to be held at the village hall on 15th March -Oliver will process the schedule in late January in good time for you to peruse and see what you could enter, which will include photos, crafts, childrens,preserves and cookery as well as flowers and plants of course.

Help us to make 2025 a very happy year

Thank you all for your ongoing supports

Mary B and all

On this day; the shortest day of the year!

We wish you all very much happiness for this Christmas and New Year season

Enjoy all and lets hope next year will be a better growing year for us all

Thank you for your support

All Best Wishes and Kind Regards

Mary B, Alan, Oliver and Fern x

Hello all of you

Hoping you are not finding this cold spell too hard. It suddenly changed after a lovely bright early November which is hard to adjust to now.

Had a few lovely walks lately and enjoyed the beautiful colours of the trees - stunning this year as they slowly fell but have almost completed now and I loved the pretty carpets of leaves as they laid. The annoying bit is clearing them up in the garden, and keeping paths clear but they help composting our plants so all have their purpose and waste not want not !

I have planned a couple of Garden visits for next year - fairly local but dates as yet are to be agreed but hopefully they will confirm dates I have requested which will be in warmer times and I will let you know when they are fully confirmed Members will go free as usual, as the society will pay for those from funds, but all are welcome to attend but we will be charging a small fee for them Travelling by car will be the plan

Meanwhile have been trying to plan a Christmas meet-up/social for members

I have come up with the idea of going to the White Hart in Catsfield on their Curry nights. They have these on a Monday evening and the society would pay for the meal and one drink for members only but if friends/partners wish to come along also they would require to pay £10 each pls.)

Please let me know what you think asap as I require numbers to book it.

I would ideally like to arrange this for 23rd December (as Oliver can then be will us -as he misses so many of our events) But if that does not suit the 9th Dec.or16th Dec can be arranged

PLEASE LET ME KNOW

Thank you and keep warm take care of each other

Mary B x

Hello to you all

Sadly it rained again this morning, but despite this we held a lovely, busy; but fun morning at the Jumble Sale

It was a great sale and a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who donated and purchased from us and also all you very hard working helpers

You all worked so well and clearing the donations at the start of the morning and packing at the end ran like clockwork The many donations were cleared so swiftly that we could relax a little and have a cuppa before our customers all arrived !!! Wow!

We could not have done it without all you kind assistance and time

We have only just got home so later Alan will total up the monies

THANK ALL YOU ONCE MORE

Also special thanks to Phil Laimbeer who so vey kindly took all the "unsold" items for us in his van - much appreciated Phil.

Alan and I also were able to donate a few items to local charity shops who welcomed them with open arms!

The Fayre committee will be donated the many left over books for their stall at the Fayre next year Hope it helps their funds too.

After the sale Alan and I prepared the Horti. trough at the church with lovely red poppies and fresh Rosemary plants (alongside a copy of the famous poem) for this year's remembrance day on 11/11/24.

Take a look when you pass by and look out for details of the church service to support this day.

Keep in touch

Kind Regards

Mary b x