Day trips – last chance

Enchanting Essex  Do you really want to miss the opportunity of a short break in the rural county of Essex and we will cross into Suffolk, with nice company, a good hotel and interesting excursions.  You won’t find better value with all entrance fees included.  £380 per person dinner/bed/breakfast for five days. Departing from The Square  on the 12th July 2018 returning on 16th July 2018  Full details at our table or visit the website and click on day trips for full details..  We have just one twin room available – choose it or lose it!!!

Practical gardening

We started our April meeting discussing offers to the group from Hartleys Garden Centre where the owner has agreed to take us on a guided tour. In addition our group are to have an exclusive guided visit to a beautiful garden in Birkdale which opens in Summer under the National Garden Scheme. This garden is described as ‘a walled garden surrounding a Victorian house with formal and informal planting mainly cottage garden style, accessed by bark and gravel paths.’  It is gorgeous.

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Real Ale May Meet Up

On our next meet up on 25th May we will be visiting the many micro pubs and bars in Southport. We will be catching the 300 bus from around 1130. The bus is due to arrive at Woodend shops (just before the Meadows pub) at 1131 so you should be able to work out what time you should get to your nearest bus stop. We last visited Southport in November last year but the weather turned nasty cutting short the crawl. Let’s cross fingers for a kinder day weatherwise this time!