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Village Recycling Vote

Would you like to see a village recycling station? A place in the village that you can drop off items that can’t be recycled kerbside and so end up in the bin.

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Horticultural Society Virtual Summer Show 2021

On Saturday 24 July, the day of the Virtual Summer Show, the Nailbourne Horticultural Society will be at the Farmers’ Market from 9.00 am until 12 noon in the car park of the Red Lion.

The entries for the Chairman’s Challenge Trophy, this year a Salvia (Red Desert), will be on show and judged by Roger Austin, Chairman of the Kent Federation of Horticultural Societies, during the morning. Members should bring their entries to the stall by 10.00 am at the latest.

We will also have plants and produce for sale and would appreciate payments in cash.

Presentation of trophies for the Chairman’s Challenge and also for the recently judged three garden classes (Best Kept Vegetable Garden, Most Picturesque Garden and Prettiest Small Garden) will be at 11.30 am.

Please note that entries for all other classes are on-line. For further details, please contact Show Secretary, Kathy Walder, on 830057/07791 656539/kath@askwalder.com

League of Friends: Virtual AGM 2021

A virtual AGM of the Nailbourne Group was held on Wednesday 21 April 2021. The members all took part and agreed to remain on the committee for the coming year. Thanks to all our Nailbourne Group Friends and those who have given donations or supported the group in other ways. We raised £4113 last year, including £2000 gift aid from the donation in memory of Elizabeth Stewart.

Unfortunately, the 2021 League of Friends Hospital Fair and Grand Draw has had to be cancelled again this year.

We always welcome donations of used stamps and coins, over £118 was raised last year (Committee members are always happy to pass these on). Anyone who would like more information about our group or is considering joining us as a committee member, please contact Maggie Fairweather  01227 830320.

Nailbourne League of Friends: Online AGM 2021

Unfortunately, we are unable to hold our AGM and coffee morning in the village hall again this year.

We will, however, have a virtual AGM via Zoom at 3pm on Wednesday 21 April 2021.

If you would like to join us, please contact Pauline Pritchard on 830685.

The AGM report will be published after the event.

Report on Virtual Spring Show, Saturday 27 March 2021

We were delighted with the response from our members. For those who like statistics, we had 24 exhibitors and a total of 69 entries, including 21 who entered their Chairman’s Challenge daffodil bulbs.

The results are as follows:

Class 1. My Best Daffodil Bloom 1st Jane Millyard
2nd Linda and Peter Ellis
3rd Kathy Walder
Class 2. Any Other Flower from a Bulb
(excluding daffodil)		 1st Una Whitamore
2nd Julia Cooper
3rd Linda and Peter Ellis
Class 3. Flowering Shrub – a stem or spray 1st Julia Cooper
2nd Christine Sladden
3rd Jane Millyard
Class 4. One stored vegetable 1st Linda and Peter Ellis
2nd Rajini and Raj Dasan
3rd Tony Walder
Class 5. An arrangement of flowers for Easter 1st Rajini Dasan
2nd Elizabeth Kirkwood,
3rd Jackie Thackray
Class 6. Photograph entitled “A New Arrival” 1st Julia Cooper
(who wins the trophy for Best Photograph in Show)
2nd John Hill
3rd Kathy Walder

The Chairman’s Challenge (and the Whitten Spencer Cup) was won by Jane Lovelock. Second were the Ellises and third, Rajini and Raj Dasan.

The cup for the Best Bloom in Show was won by Jane Millyard with her entry in Class 1.

It remains to thank everyone who kept the Society’s flag flying by taking part.

Groundwater Levels

Here is this week’s graph:

GW figure remains at 86m above their base mark, still well above the trigger levels for Southern Water’s tanker operations so they continue.

The water in Church Meadow is likely away this week or next; the barriers in Mill Lane maybe a bit after that, and the warm weather will speed the trees coming into leaf.

The boundary between the dark blue and the grey is a 5% incident level: so one year in 20, just like last year!