Mountfield
MOUNTFIELD HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: They will be holding their annual Coffee Morning and Bring and Buy Plant Sale on Sunday May 17th 10.30-12.30 at 4, Eatenden Lane. Go along for some coffee, a good natter with good neighbours, buy some flower and vegetable plants, enjoy the lovely cakes and, if you have spare plants, take them along too to sell.
VILLAGE HALL FLOWERS: Chris Holden writes: “Please come along to the Village Hall on Sunday May 31st and help with the planting of flower tubs, making our Village Hall beautiful for the summer. Any donations of plants would also be much appreciated. All help and donations from 11.00 am. Help us make our hall blooming beautiful this summer.” For more info, contact Chris on 01580 389053.
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Hide AdROAD CLOSURE: Be aware that the road round Deer Park in Brightling, between Woods Corner and the junction with Sheepshaw Lane will be closed or some major — and much needed — surface patching from Wednesday May 13th to Friday 15th.
CHURCH WALKS: We will have a full report on these in next week’s Village Voice when all three have been completed.
FINALLY: A while back, we were exploring up Eatenden Lane when we came across a cant of perhaps one and a half acres which had been largely clear-felled. Doubtless helped by a good churning by machinery, the exposure to light has produced an astonishing, dense mass of broom over the entire area. On the glorious Monday Bank Holiday, this huge population was in full flower. An extraordinary sight. Which reminds us of Tim Tidmarsh’s story about when they ploughed up Niplands (opposite the gate at Bull’s Cross) for the first time since the war years and up sprang a fine crop of chicory, which was grown as a coffee substitute during the war. As ever, if you have anything for the Village Voice, we can be contacted on 880614 or via [email protected].