Practical Gardening

At the start of June we were warmly welcomed back to Brenda (McKenzie’s) and then Maureen’s (Ward’s) great gardens. Brenda’s garden always looks good and her borders were full of colour with some new planting having taken place. Maureens’ a real plant womans’ garden; we greatly enjoyed Maureen sharing some of her extensive horticultural knowledge  and saw the (literal) fruits of her labours throughout the garden and vegetable growing areas.

On 1st July we were delighted to be invited to visit our President, Bill Howarths’ new courtyard garden. This was absolutely lovely as you will see from the photographs  below. Bill moved into his brand new house about 3 years ago and at that time the ‘garden’  was just a roughly planted (by the builders) lawn with no other plants. Continue reading

July/August Real Ale Meet Ups

July  – This month’s meet up will actually take place on Saturday 3rd August.  We will be visiting Connoisseur Brewery in St Helens and will be catching the 11:45 train from Lime Street.  Those who would like breakfast beforehand please meet in the North Western Wetherspoons from 10:45. The Brewery has an open day on the first Saturday of each month and has a good selection of dark and light real ales and also the famous Burchall’s pork pies are available.  If time allows we will also visit the Cricketers Pub.

August  – We will be meeting on Friday 30th August from 12:00 in The Captain Alexander opposite James Street Station.  This is the latest new Wetherspoons to open in Liverpool.  Note the earlier meeting time, this is so we can hopefully get enough tables together for us all!  From here we will visit a few other real ale pubs in the area.