We had just about a full house of all ages for our annual Autumn Supper in Umborne Hall on Saturday 26th of October. It would appear that everyone had a most enjoyable evening.

Our special thanks to Liz Gosling for sorting out the main meal and for many others for making those delicious puddings.

Tony and Antonia organised the raffle and raised the most impressive sum of £178.

Eleanor ran the “guess the weight of the pumpkin” competition and Bernard was spot on with 7.4k – which in real money is …

MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF SHUTE PARISH COUNCIL HELD AT WHITFORD VILLAGE HALL ON THURSDAY 8th AUGUST 2013
 
AT 7.30PM.
 

 
Those present: Cllrs. D Loud, B Marshall, Ms C Miltenburg, R Orsman,
 
P Rugg, Mrs E Sweetland and R Wood, PCSO Amanda Wooster (for part of the meeting), Mrs M Thomas (Clerk) plus 6 members of the public
 

 
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE
 
Apologies were received and accepted from Cllr J Pearce, Dist Cllr I Chubb and C Cllr A Moulding.
 

 
MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING
 
The circulated minutes of the Meeting held on 27th June 2013 were …

September 2013 started with five days that acted as a postcript to ‘summer’.  The maximum temperature on the 5th reached 27.3C. This figure was exactly the same as August’s high, which had occurred a little over a week earlier, and was the highest reading I had recorded in September since 2005. Then the dreaded Northwest wind returned, which almost always brings us showery days and cold clear nights, with the result that  an untimely minimum temperature of 2.3C came two nights later, on the morning of the 7th. Two further …