At Sheringham town community newspaper. North Norfolk England UK.

Gardening Tips

Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors

GARDENING TIPS
FROM
G.A.LANDSCAPING
SHERINGHAM 01263 820020 (07979466378)

Gardeners tip of the month is to "buy your seeds and summer flowering bulbs for the coming season".

Plant of the month
There are few plants that come into flower in the late winter, are suitable for shade and then contribute effective foliage throughout the rest of the year. 'Soldiers and Sailors' refer to the way pulmonaria offcinalis in particular has pink buds which become violet as they open and fade.

Lawns If wormcasts are a nuisance, scatter them on dry days with a birch broom.

Hedges Cut back badly overgrown or leggy hedges to near ground level to encourage new, bushy growth.

Fruit Complete routine pruning of established fruit trees. Cut autumn-fruiting raspberry canes to the ground; cut back others to a bud just above the top wire.

Herbs Keep your herb garden neat and tidy and consider this years planting (order seeds) towards winters end, sow seeds of tender herbs indoors, also keep an eye on bay trees as they don't like extreme cold weather as it scorches leaves.

And finally while plants are dormant, maintain paths, trellis, fences and other garden structures.

Embarrassing Stories

Sheringham Community Paper

I was 14 years old and thought I looked good in my new bikini strutting around the local swimming pool in front of a boy I'd fancied for ages. I'd been showing off - diving in the pool then strutting some more.

I hadn't realised my bikini top had swung round until I heard guffaws of laughter!

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon

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Geoff Paice - A Local Man's Story

I started as a Messenger Boy in January 1946 at the age of 14years. This was how everybody started with the Post Office in those days, either that or an Ex-Serviceman. The sole purpose of the Messenger Boy was the delivery of Telegrams, which are no longer in use. We used to deliver telegrams as far away as Weybourne Camp, using the really old heavy bikes as shown in the photo. We would often get back from Weybourne only to find we had one for delivery in West Runton or Aylemerton, usually in the pitch black with a torch trying to make out the names of the houses.

		At the age of 17 years I became a Junior Postman, which meant that I got to deliver the letters, which was mostly done on foot with a huge bag on our back. We only had two cycling rounds in those days, one in Upper Sheringham and the other for the outskirts of the town, then Hilbre School.
After a year I got my call up papers for National Service and I went to serve with the Royal Army Service Corps in Aldershot, Blandford and Colchester, where I trained as a Fireman.

I served there with Brian Pegg, a well-known man about town. It was the Army Fire School then and I got put on the permanent staff until they closed it down. From there I went to Malaya during the Malaysian Campaign in 1951-2 just prior to the Korean War, then my time was up so I came home to be de-mobbed in February 1952.

After I left the Army and rejoined Post Office and delivered mail in Norwich and then Guildford. I came back from Guildford in 1958 when a vacancy came up. I remained a Postman in Sheringham until I retired in October 1996.

I am now involved with the North Norfolk Wheelers, a Sheringham Cycling Club, we have Club runs on Wednesdays 12 noon and Saturdays 10:30am, we meet up at Pretty Corner by Anglia Water (The Gibbet). We do 30 -35 miles on a Wednesday and 50+ miles on a Saturday. This is open to anyone of any ability.

For more information contact me on 01263 824315 or the Secretary Tim on 01263 514785.

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