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 […]
Month: September 2011
Young Writers’ Competitions
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 […]
Umborne Hall Trustees Meeting 6.7.11
MEETING OF THE UMBORNE INSTITUTE TRUST At Village Hall Wednesday 6th July 2011 at 8.00 APPROVED MINUTES Attendees: Rob Summers (Chairman), Ted Townsend (Hon Secretary), Paul Galloway (Hon Treasurer) Eleanor Wood, Liz Gosling, Sue Gush, Janet Coman, Peter Rugg, Neville Cheeseman, Apologies: Kimmo Evans, Paul Forster Minutes Draft minutes of the meeting on 25th May […]
Duck Dash 2011
Our annual Duck Dash and Raft Races were held at the hall on Sunday 4th September at 3pm. To say we were lucky with the weather is an understatement as, just as we were finishing, the heavens opened. During the event the sun did go in and the wind did get up and didn’t we […]
August Weather Report
August completed the picture of a poor summer. Everybody, nationwide, has been commenting on the lack of sunshine and sustained settled weather, and the statistics have borne this out. Actually, August started ‘well’ with the 2nd proving a warm day with the month’s maximum temperature of 26.8C. Coincidentally, the same date last year, saw that […]
