Category: Community

A year after our Kibworth and Smeeton WI members’ meeting in early March 2020 - just before the first lockdown - we held a meeting on Zoom. Some members had been taking part in online activities organised by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. But, for many this would be their first meeting. A chance then to see and speak to their W.I. friends, albeit on a computer screen. The committee was looking for something light-hearted and fun. They chose Steve Price, with his, “Virtually Impossible Magic Tricks and Illusions.”

In recognition of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, the union flag was flown at half-mast at St Wilfrid's Church, Kibworth in accordance with guidelines from the Church of England.

We have two large wooden framed vegetable beds in our garden in Glooston which we either never get round to planting out or have failed in what we have tried to grow (apart from runner beans). If any keen gardener is interested in using them as their own allotment, free of charge, please call us on 01858 545700.

Was it the weather? The sudden thaw? Was it a vehicular accident?

Fed-up with doing the same old walks? Walking in Leicestershire www.walkinginengland.co.uk/ leics is the website for you. 

As we remain for the time being under lock down, not much has changed since November.  Still just essential boat movements. The only  activity is generated by the visitors, who con tinue to come out, even in bad weather, as there  are so few options for people who want to es cape their four walls.  

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou (American poet)

An article last week in an international weekly paper met the experience for many and the human expectations of the present time.

Have you noticed whilst walking locally or driving that many of the hedgerows in South Leicestershire have, over these last winter months, been neatly manicured or in the case of the hedge around the new houses adjacent to the Wistow Road simply flailed.

This wine comes from Monterrei, a region of Galicia in green NW Spain - not to be confused with Monterey in Mexico (dangerous) or Monterey in California (expensive). The Godello grape nearly became extinct in the 1970s and is now the next big thing after Al-barino.