 GARDENING
Keep planting roses, trees and shrubs. On frosty nights protect tender plants like
hebes with sacking or newspaper. Move young trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Dig far
from the stem or trunk and wrap the root ball in paper so the earth does not fall off in
the move. Divide overcrowded plants like day lilies. Tidy up all beds. Start ordering
flower seeds. Firm down plants whose roots are loosened by frost. Pinch tips of sweetpea
seedlings sown in autumn above the second pair of leaves to make them branch. Be sure ties
and stakes are firm on climbers and shrubs. In gardening terms, January really separates
the men from the boys. Any amateur can have an attractive summer garden brimming with
bedding plants which have been bought, half- grown, from the nursery. But to have a garden
which looks delicious at this bleaker time of the year requires a considerable amount of
know-ledge and planning. In a town, where your garden is so much an extension of the
house, it is doubly important that it should look pleasing now, with a variety of
evergreens in varying shades of green, yellow and silver and with flowers and shrubs in
bloom. Those clear crisp sunny mornings, when the frost begins to melt in the first rays
of the sun and becomes glistening dew-drops on the juniper leaves, can be truly idyllic.
In fact the colour schemes in winter can be infinitely more subtle than anything the
summer could contrive.
NORTH NORFOLK CATS LIFELINE TRUST
CHRISTMAS FAIR 17th November, 2007.
We had a wonderful morning for our Christmas Fair. The sun shone. All our helpers worked
to set up the tables for our great variety of stalls in time for the 9.30am, opening and
people poured in to spend their money ! All our stalls did a roaring trade and the
raffle and tombola had an amazing array of quality prizes-all donated by local people.
We were thrilled by the sheer amount of support they showed us and by the great
generosity of their donations. There was a truly happy atmosphere throughout and so
many people went out of their way to wish us well.
Page is to be congratulated on the success of her first Christmas Fair organisation,
and grateful thanks must also go to Jenny who provides all the posters and newsletters for
us at her own expense, and for all those stalwarts who work so hard at the cattery, caring
and cleaning for the cats, all year round.
Here is a list of all those shop and businesses who supported us so kindly:
The Bake House; Beauty Box; Bertram Watts; Blyth & Wright; Craft Baker; Co-op; Dave's
Fish ''n' Chips; Discount Book Shop; Dormy House Hotel; The Garden Shop; Hastings; Icarus
Hines; Norfolk Landscaping; Papworths; RoyBoys; Solo Hair Stylists; The Sewing Room;
Starlings; Smugglers Cave; Stotters; Station Approach Coffee House; and Aylsham Cycle
centre.
Thankyou, every one! We made £1,018.07. Gay Rees. |
Readers Letter
My name is Carol Gourlay (formally Carol Hood, an ex-pupil of Sheringham High School)
and now resident north of the border because I met Doug when I was in the Royal Navy and
ended up marrying him. Although I live with him in Edinburgh, I visit Sheringham every
couple of years as I have family and friends in the area and I read "At
Sheringham" every month to keep abreast of local news and the Great Tesco Debate. It
is great to have an online avenue to find out what the hot issues are in the town and
handy so that I don't put my foot in it when I visit. You may well know my dad, Keith
Hood, my stepmother Fay or my uncle, Mike Piggot, who was a Shantyman and recently passed
away.
Anyway I wanted to tell you about a fantastic challenge I am participating in next
year. In May 2008 I will be travelling to China to spend a week walking along the Great
Wall of China to raise funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care. The minimum amount of money I
have to raise to enable me to go on this trip is £2,700, £2360 of which must be banked
by the end of February. To that end I am holding many fundraising events here in Edinburgh
but, because of my training schedule, I will not be able to fit in a visit to Sheringham
before I am due to go.
In addition to raising the sponsorship I am training by hill walking every weekend (oh
those Scottish hills) and have undertaken to lose at least two and a half stone in weight
(so far I have lost half a stone). My husband has been taking my hill walking training
very seriously and in three weeks he has already got me walking 9km with hill climbs of
over 400m.
When in China we will not be walking along the tourist areas of the wall but will be
very much off the beaten track, camping over night and coping with very basic facilities
ensuring that we protect the environment and reduce our carbon footprint. The wall that we
will be walking will be very steep and hard on the legs and knees, hence the need to train
for the trip.
If you would like to be kept up to date on my progress or sponsor me on line you can do so
by visiting my website www.justgiving.com/carolgourlay
This site includes a running total of my fundraising to date and also a weekly update
from me as to how I am getting on. I am always happy to return to Sheringham and the
smell of the sea - it just doesn't smell the same up here. On return from China I hope to
make it down to Sheringham sometime around Carnival as that is always a very nostalgic
time for me. I hope that you take the time to visit my website if only to see what an old
"daughter of Sheringham" is up to. A happy hogmany to you all. Carol
Gourlay
Lloydspharmacy Active Fit In Store Day
2nd January 1.30 - 5pm
How active are you? New Year New Start with Melanie Brown. She will be in store to discuss
with you how to get fit. Why not come in and ask for details? |
