Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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Plant Bulbs for Christmas. It will soon be time to think
about planting bulbs for Christmas. The most popular are hyacinths because they are easy
to grow, colourful and fragrant. Prepared hyacinths will soon be on sale and these have
been heat-treated to make them flower as early as Christmas, given the right conditions.
They need to be placed in a dark, cool place for 10 to 14 weeks after planting and should
be purchased as soon as possible. If planting in pots with drainage holes you can use any
compost, but if planting in undrained bulb bowls you must use a bulb fibre. This usually
contains charcoal and crushed shell to prevent the soil becoming stagnant. Choose healthy
bulbs that are firm and heavy. Put them closely together in the bowl so they are almost
touching. An odd number of bulbs, 3 or 5 looks best in small bowls. Use 6 or more in large
bowls. The tips of the bulbs can protrude above the top of the bowl. Fill the bowl nearly
to the rim with compost, give a little water and place it in a cool, dark place. Covering
the bowls with peat in a cold frame is perfect.
Chrysanthemums. Continue to pick off leaves affected by leaf miner and spray against
aphids (blackfly) present on flower buds. Roses. With heavier dews as nights get cooler,
powdery mildew can be a problem. Spray with a fungicide to prevent it and also black spot.
Camellias. Keep plants in pots, and newly-planted camellias in the border well watered
during dry weather. Dryness now will cause flowerbud drop next spring. Wallflowers. Pinch
out the growing tips of wallflowers to encourage bushy growth. Keep plants watered and
give a granular feed to boost growth. |
| READERS LETTER |
We have just spent a lovely weekend in
Sheringham, (again). We saw Taking Steps at the theatre it was great. Only one complaint,
Why oh Why do the chip shops close so early on a Saturday night???? We were looking
forward to walking back to our guest house eating a bag of lovely Sheringham chips. It was
only 10.30pm where we live (a village not a town) our chippy stays open until 11.00pm.
Well never mind that was the only complaint about a lovely weekend. Have been visiting
your area for many years it's the BEST!! Name and address withheld. |
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| One year ago Cromer Road Post Office faced a very
uncertain future and possible closure. Eddie and Clare Mayell are still striving forward
to improve and maintain the Post Office, which has been there for nearly a century, what
an achievement! During the last year they have held fast to their strong belief that
customers are their priority and have tried hard to improve all aspects of Post Office
service for their benefit. Despite Eddie being previously qualified as a cabinet maker and
Clare as a solicitor, with no prior knowledge and poor training it has been an upward
battle and a trade they have had to learn fast. They are grateful for their customers
support and loyalty, which from the majority, has been unfailing. The continued support of
their customers is now paramount with the changes being introduced into how benefits are
being paid. It is a long-term goal to maintain the Post Office and for it to grow and go
from strength to strength. It is an important part of the community but for it to remain
so it needs their customers input and for customers to use it regularly, and most
importantly continue to collect their benefits from it. If this does not happen then
Eddie, Clare and YOUR Post Office face an uncertain future. The Post Office is so
convenient and user friendly, you can pay utility bills, use them as you would a high
street bank to access your cash and make deposits and they are open after the banks close.
In addition they now have a mobile phone top up machine, you can also get foreign
currency, fishing licenses, all variety of stationery and one of the largest selection of
cards in Sheringham. So go in and have a look. USE IT OR LOSE IT! |
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Back in the early seventies, my friend and I were walking
down the street in our brand new 'platform' shoes. You didn't so much walk in them as roll
off the specially designed soles!
We were, as all young ladies do, showing off for the lads. It was very embarrassing when
not only did I manage to fall off them with a very loud scream, but my friend was so busy
laughing, she too fell over, displaying her undies for all. |
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Why can't they make planes out of the same material as the
black box? |
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The Shantymen played to a packed audience in the garden at
the Wheatsheaf on Thursday 14th August. The children including an overgrown one joined in
with the drunken sailor ditty and all were rewarded with a lolly! |
| Tony Randall, Paul Marriott and Brent Weller who are
members of Sheringham Shantymen are also in a group called Red Oktober. They will be
performing at Cromer Parish Hall on Saturday 6th September. |
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READERS
LETTER |
Dear Friends, Can I arrange to have your newspaper sent to
my father here in Australia? He is 75 years old. When he was about 10 years old, he and
his two brothers lived in the National Children's Home, Hook Hill Road before emigrating
to Australia in June,1939. Recently I downloaded issue number 20 which he has enjoyed
reading and he asked if other copies could be available to share with some of his friends
(who were also sent out here as orphans). Some of them are now too old or infirm to travel
back to England to try to trace living relatives. Some find their memories of leaving the
"Homes", and in my father's case, his father quite painful. (His mother had died
and his father was out of work and unable to take care of him and his brothers properly).
I would be very grateful if we can arrange to put him on a 'mailing-list'. Sincerely
yours, Rosalyn Dodds (nee Fisher) We are getting many, many letters from people who used
to live in local children's homes and would like to put together some articles. Do you
have any information you can let us have? There is obviously much interest. Melanie
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