War horse trail in March

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13 members of the rambling group met today at Ormskirk station to follow the route made by the War Horses to Lathom Chapel and then onward following a circular route back to Ormskirk, a distance of just over 8 1/2 miles. Leaving the station via the path alongside the car park, we exited onto Dark Lane and then crossed the busy main road to take the road past Ormskirk Golf club. Continue reading

Digital cameras – Seascapes

We got some great photos for the ’Seascapes’ subject. Thanks to everyone
who came along to the meeting on Monday and entered your pictures. It was a challenge finding what we consider ‘the best’. Below are the pictures we selected.

The next subject ’Pens,Pencils and Brushes’  on Monday 6th March.

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Practical gardening – Spring update

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Hello everyone. Gardening is not far away, especially planning the garden. No doubt we all lost some of our favourite plants, l lost 50% of my tropical collection and the remaining ones that survived l am waiting for a sign of new growth.
We should be noticing an improvement next month so it’s a good time now to find a nice day and dig over the border lift and divide clumps of perennials. Any spare we could exchange between ourselves especially as we are going to notice a big rise in prices at the garden centres. l have ordered some new seed varieties l am going to sow hopefully I will share them with you .

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