Despite this year having clashes with lots of other events, we still had 33
children attending. Once Paddy Magrane found the right cable (bless him),
musical chairs kicked off the party with young Maeve Wright winning with a
teeny bit of help from Jess Fuzzard.

The second round was a well deservedwin by Jamie Porter, this being his first visit to the hall. Pictionary proved to be very competitive again with some excellent deciphering of the
children’s artwork. A little bit of cheating  from Di’s team by starting …

‘If November has to come, let it be November 2011′.
Personally, I have never liked November; the gathering
darkness, continual dampness and the first cold, dismiss any hope of
pretending that summer times still linger. But this year, ‘wow’. The
mildness has been quite extraordinary, with day maxima still reaching
17C as late as the 13th, and over 16C on the 18th.  My average maximum
temperature for the month was just over 14.7C, which would have been
good if it had been April. There were two light air frosts, the …

We had a hugely successful Harvest Supper on Saturday 22nd of October
with 65 of us gathered in the hall for a wonderful meal ( thanks Liz & and all those people who contributed something salad-wise or in the pudding department.)  What a banquet!

The table quiz of pictures and anagrams was won by the super-intelligent Trenchard family with a tiny bit of help from Bandy Woman (anagram!).

The raffle prizes seemed to be the best ever – hence a profit of £138  – well done …

October started with a continuation of the abnormally fine
weather that concluded September, and the maximum temperature of 25.4C
on the 1st made this the seventh highest reading of the year.
Thereafter the mild and dry conditions continued for three weeks,
yielding a total rainfall of just 6.3mm. As soon as we went away ( and our thanks to Ann and Chris for keeping the recordings going), the
rains began, with the last ten days having some recorded rain on all but
one of them. Even so, at 67.5mm. the total was probably 3/4 of what …

Umborne Institute Hall
Annual Report
The report this year is dominated by the demolition of the old hall & construction of this new building & the related events during this period.
At the last AGM, the decision to proceed with a new hall build was confirmed although at that time, when taking into account funds raised by the community (£38,000), & the Grants awarded by the CCD & EDDC (£27,000), the budget showed a deficit of over £20,000. To meet this deficit the Umborne Bond Scheme was launched. This scheme run under FSA …

MEETING OF THE UMBORNE INSTITUTE TRUST
At Village Hall
Wednesday 24th August 2011 at 8.00
APPROVED MINUTES
Attendees: Rob Summers, Paul Galloway, Ted Townsend, Liz Gosling, Neville Cheeseman, Sue Gush, Paul Forster, Eleanor Wood
Apologies: Kimmo Evans, Peter Rugg, Jan Coman
Minutes:

Draft minutes of the meeting on 6th July 2011 were approved – released to website
Outstanding amendment to AGM minutes is still outstanding

Matters Arising:
None
Correspondence:
None
Secretary:

Hall bookings are now accessible by trustees via a shared calendar on Google +

This allows trustees to see if the hall is free.

If approached for a booking or wishing to make one, a …

Haddon Corner, Shute

Express Dairies, Seaton Junction c 1946

Peter Rugg  c 1917 (!)

A social gathering in the old Umborne Hall  c  ?

Peter & Phyllis Rugg’s wedding  1955
Leonard Maeer and bull

Leonard Maeer and young bull

If you have any old photos of Shute Parish – its buildings, people, events and views, please can I borrow them, scan them, put them on the website and then return them to you? Many thanks – Rick

September Weather in Umborne.
The abiding memory of September 2011 will be the
final few days with their remarkable warmth and unbroken sunshine. On
the 29th, the maximum temperature of 26.6C made this the third highest
value of the year. The next highest (26.0C)  occurred on September 2nd,
and in this way September mirrored the entire summer season; two
wonderful days to start, rather in the way that March and April were.
Then, just the occasional good day surrounded by fairly average to less
so conditions, just like the ‘summer’ months, and then …

Working party & BBQ

We are planning to hold another work-in at Umborne Hall this coming Sunday (2nd Oct) from 3pm. The weather forecast looks excellent so we thought that we would do about 3 hrs of painting the outside of the hall and finishing the posts and rail by the stream. At about 6pm we would light the BBQ (Rob providing) and eat and have a few drinks till whenever. For the work aspect please bring work clothes and your favourite paint …

HONITON AND DISTRICT WRITERS GROUP

The 2011 Young Writers’
Competitions
Calling All Budding Writers in East
Devon!! Junior 5-8 and 9-11, Senior
11-14 and 16-18
“Write Us a Story on any subject you
like

Up to 750 words”
The Junior Competition will be judged by children’s writer
T. M. Alexander Author of The Tribe series of books.
The Senior Group by Sue Purkiss Author of Warrior King, Emily’s Surprising Voyage and The Willow Man
“So dust off those wonderful ideas you have been storing up and show us what you can do.”
Send your story to:
John …