Category: Community

Flies and fungi haven’t often featured in these “notes”. This month two interesting flies to look out for and news of an extremely rare fungus.

‘Greens’ are having an informal drop-in session at The King’s Head on Wednesday 30 April between 6pm and 7pm? It’s a chance for folks to come and meet us and tell / ask us things about our community that are important to them.

I’m reaching out to see if your group might be able to use a bit more money, say between £200 and £500, for an ongoing or upcoming community project. Let me know if you’re interested!

Inspired by Winter Watch and Countryfile, many people added ‘Video a Starling Murmuration’ to their bucket list. Recently, the early evening spectacular in the centre of Kibworth has given much pleasure. However, spare a thought for those in the immediate area. They have not only ‘got the t-shirt’ but also the patio, car and garden covered in starling poo. Not to mention the noise!

Illston on the Hill WI invited Yuki Dixon to talk about and demonstrate Japanese food. What a very charming lady! Moved from Tokyo to USA, back to Tokyo, met her Welsh husband and moved to England some nineteen years ago. Although she has lots of academic qualifications, her great love is Japanese food.

Market Harborough based Home-Start South Leicestershire, were delighted to win the award for ‘Innovative Substantive Delivery’. Multiply commented that “By weaving budgeting, price comparisons, and portion calculations into meal preparation, the course has empowered parents to develop confidence with numbers in a practical and supportive way.” 

On the weekend of 15/16 March volunteers from the Hallaton Fieldwork Group spent many hours digging exploratory pits in the ground around Kibworth mill. With the assistance of mill volunteers, they sifted the soil looking for items of historical interest. Although the finds were nearly all modern and comprised pottery, brick/tile and animal bone. They used a metal detector on the trenches and spoil. This produced many nails, modern coins and metal fittings (some clearly from parts of the windmill). 

As part of environmental improvements around the Kibworth Mead Academy site, we planted 1,000 hedge whips around the Academy’s car park areas. A total of over 100 enthusiastic Year 8 students planted them throughout a warm March day, Thursday 20.

Kibworth Library will mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day with an exhibition of artefacts kindly loaned by local residents. The display will be open to view during normal library opening hours from late morning on Tuesday 6 May until mid-afternoon on Friday 9. We would value offers to lend us anything that is local and is WW2-related. It could be:

Those of us with a garden area or a patch of land nearby, like a grass verge, can join the battle for saving our soils, bees and insects by abandoning the use of pesticides. Instead the Pesticides Action Network www.pan-uk.org with its amazing list of alternatives, can lead us on an exciting journey into life changing alternatives.