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Beccles Antiques fair is back down Beccles Quay on Sunday 30th April with a wide variety of antiques / collectables and vintage stalls. There will also be locally produced hot & cold refreshments on offer.

The Fairyland Trust are hosting their amazing Fairy Fair again this May bank holiday in Bradmoor Woods. The Fair centres on magical children’s nature learning activities, accompanied by live music, storytelling, walkabout characters plus plenty of food and craft stalls. Get out your fairy fancy dress and join them for a magical time (see pages 8/9 for more details)

Norwich Puppet Theatre have some fantastic shows to keep the kids (and big kids) entertained this Easter (see pages 16/17 for more info)

Doggy Paddle Norwich is offering swim sessions for your fur babies that can be used to help reduce stiffness, strengthen joints and treat conditions including arthritis, hip or elbow dysplasia, patella luxation or mobility problems related to age. It can also be used to improve fitness levels, assist in weight loss or swim just for fun! You can even get in and have a dip with your pup! Check them out on page 25.

Happy Easter to youdon’t eat too much chocolate!!

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Sunday 30th April 8am - 4pm

A wide variety of antiques / collectables / vintage stalls

Locally produced hot and cold refreshments

Parking available onsite and within walking distance all enquiries: KATE LEE 01502 711174 or CHRISTINE PINSENT 01502 715771 follow us on: antiquesmarketbeccles beccles.antiques.market #becclesquayantiques

30th APRIL 2023 THE QUAY, BECCLES

The Beccles Antiques Market will be back at the Beccles Quay on Sunday 30th April. There will be over 100 dealers, selling a good selection of antiques, retro and collectables, including furniture, glass, silver, postcards, pictures, clothing, jewellery etc, plus a food village, serving hot and cold food, with plenty of open space to sit and eat. It is free entry and as well as the local pay and display car park there will be some additional parking available at the Quay market site for a small charge of £2 as well as all the car parks in Beccles town centre just a short walk away. Sat Nav NR34 9BB. All enquiries Tel 01502 711174. Follow the market on facebook @ antiquesmarketbeccles for all updates and information.

Norwich Theatre teams up with the University of East Anglia (UEA) for the Green Film Festival. The annual festival aims to raise awareness and generate conversation around global environmental challenges and solutions. The festival is a four-day celebration of environmental films and filmmakers from around the world. Events include screenings of films with Q&As and guest speakers, creative workshops and a market day. These take place in locations across Norwich’s city centre and at the UEA campus. All are open to the public and are free to attend.

The partnership is part of Norwich Theatre’s Creative Matters: Climates Stories. The yearlong season focuses on pressing issue of our time, asking how we can use creativity to explore the climate crisis and presenting ways we can all influence our collective future.

Sam Dawson, Head of Creative Engagement at Norwich Theatre, said: “Creativity enables artists and audiences to imagine beyond the limitations of their own worlds, bringing voices together and revealing new paths forward. Through our theatres and other cultural venues across Norfolk, we aim to offer a safe space for audiences to contemplate, be challenged, learn and negotiate new thoughts around the climate crisis – creating an environment where they are supported to grapple with both positive and negative feelings and constructively build their own path, and bridges with others.”

Opening Night of the Green Film Festival will be hosted in Norwich Theatre Stage Two with a special screening of the film, Cow by Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold on 27 Apr. Cow unflinchingly chronicles the details of Luma’s daily life, from grazing in green fields to giving birth, making milk and everything in between. The film screening of Cow is free to attend and will feature a drink and canapés on arrival and will have a Q&A discussion after the film.

For more details about the Green Film Festival, please visit: https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/

To book or for more information about the film Cow, please visit norwichtheatre.org or call the box office on 01603 630 000.

I lost all my chickens during October last year as two were stolen and one died of loneliness shortly afterwards. Until then I had been going to the allotment every day to check on them, refill their food and water, give them some treats and, while I was there, inspect the state of any plants that were still growing. By about the middle of January I had eaten most of any remaining crops and therefore didn’t have much of a reason for visiting the site regularly.

I knew I still had some winter purslane, which, despite its name, doesn’t grow much in winter. It can survive harsh weather but needs to be a good size before winter starts, I discovered. The other vegetable still in the ground was caulifower. The plants looked sad but the growing tip was still intact. So, to give any potential ones a bit of a hand I weeded out the weakest plants and removed any dead leaves from the remaining ones. I then turned to paying attention to my compost, which is much more work intensive since there haven’t been any chickens to scratch around in the heaps and drop their little compost activators.

Imagine my surprise and delight, when I discovered this week that one of the caulifowers was beginning to produce a head. It’s very hard, still tightly wrapped in leaves and at the moment only about the size of a fist. But it’s defnitely a caulifower!

Birgit Griem