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 before everyone else secured their win....although they did briefly ...
'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 lower of these occuring on the 28th at -1.1C. But ...
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 Antonia with a little bit of help from her friend ...
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 we would normally expect in October, and this turned out to ...
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 guidelines raised over £13,000 in redeemable bonds to provide the ...
