Category: Community

Once Christmas commitments have been fulfilled, gardeners traditionally use January and February to plan for the new growing year. In most domestic gardens we are thinking small scale, from microscopic fungi and bacteria that provide healthy soils, through beneficial insects that might be pollinators or pest controllers, on to garden birds which can also help us with pest control.

Life continues to be busy at the Hub.

When writing a date recently, how many times have you put ‘23’ instead of ‘24’? Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, but we know that, sadly, not everyone did.

One of the things that I follow is a website concerning gates from around the world. There are a startling number of wonderful constructions.

There was unfettered outrage generated when the beautiful mature sycamore tree that stood at ‘Sycamore Gap’ along Hadrian’s Wall was unceremoniously felled last year. Quite rightly so.

“A new year, a fresh, clean start! It’s like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… let’s go exploring!” Bill Watterson, It’s A Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Some of this advice might seem obvious, but there are some simple things we can do to help other people feel safer when they're out in public. 

Please be aware that the last collection from the Postbox next to the Kibworth Old School Surgery on Station Street in Kibworth, is now at 9:00am rather than 4:45pm.

And though the mud could not disappear, the children did play at the opening of the newly refurbished play park at Robert Monk Village Hall on Middle Street Foxton on Saturday 30th December. Rising cleanly above the mud to be enjoyed was a new functional play tower and a bespoke inclusivity play tower for children in wheelchairs. Lots more now for children to experience along with the more traditional swings and slide.

On Saturday 30 December members of Foxton Environment Group planted a young sapling to commemorate the coronation of King Charles III.