This year’s annual theme night took place at Umborne Hall on Saturday 23rd March at 7.30pm and the theme this year was una noche espanola – a Spanish Night.

Tickets cost £8 for adults and only £5 for teenagers. For this we  got an amazing 3-course meal of tortilla, paella (chicken or veg.) and creme caramel. Our huge thanks to Eleanor and Neville for masterminding this feat and all those other cooks who contributed really tasty dishes – thank you.

There was a bar ( the San Miguels were very …

MEETING OF THE UMBORNE INSTITUTE TRUST
At Umborne Village Hall
Tuesday 29th January 2013
 
Present: Neville Cheeseman, Paul Galloway, Liz Gosling, Sue Gush, Lorna Ockenden, John Pearce, Peter Rugg, Rob Summers, Teresa Wilmington-Wills, Eleanor Wood
 

Apologies

Jan Coman, Lynne Craig, Kimmo Evans
 

Minutes of previous meeting, and
Matters arising from previous minutes

This had been an informal meeting and no minutes were taken.

Any issues to discuss before AGM

Renaming of the Hall – This needs to be approved by the AGM, so the trustees discussed several names for the Hall and agreed to suggest ‘Umborne Hall’ to be put …

February 2013 developed to give a slow drying out of the
extraordinarily prolonged wet spell that effectively started last April.
No significant rainfall was recorded after Valentine’s Day, and whilst
it was usually cloudy, high pressure over Scandinavia led to us
importing some low humidity and the resulting loss of the sodden squelch
of the previous weeks. The first part of the month gave two days of
rainfall totals above 15mm, the highest being 16.1mm in the 24hours from
the morning of the 13th.  Other than a couple of dry …

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF SHUTE PARISH COUNCIL HELD AT WHITFORD VILLAGE HALL ON THURSDAY 10th JANUARY 2013AT 7.30PM.
The Chairman welcomed everyone present and wished all a happy and successful new year.
Those present: Cllrs. D Loud, B Marshall (part of the meeting), J Pearce, Ms C Miltenburg, R Orsman, P Rugg, Mrs E Sweetland and R Wood, 1 member of the public and Mrs M Thomas (Clerk).
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
Apologies were received and accepted from Dist Cllr I Chubb and C Cllr A Moulding and PCSO Amanda …