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MARCH 2017 ISSUE

Welcome... ...to the March edition of the Life in Buckingham

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Ok, so it's still rather chilly, but Summertime really is officially here at the end of this month – the clocks go forward an hour at 1am on Sunday 26th March. Yes, we'll lose a precious hour in bed I'm planning a lie-in and a lazy breakfast, to lessen the impact a little – but the overall result of the clocks changing is a 6

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Sunday 26th March 2017

good one for busy people everywhere.

The good thing about the clocks changing is that extra hour of daylight each evening – time to enjoy the garden, go for a run or maybe visit the park with the kids after work each day – weather permitting, of course. Heading off on the daily commute before dawn,

and returning after dusk, never seeing daylight except that tantalizing glimpse through the office window – now a thing of the past.

Enjoy the extra hour and the warmer weather – British Summertime ends for this year on Sunday 29th October.

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Pets Corner

Feathered Friends - They're Flutterly Eggcellent!

’Go to work on an egg' was the slogan that inspired a generation of breakfasts, and sadly nowadays so many people skip this essential meal, or choose cereals or fruit instead - but I'm sticking by a boiled egg and toast soldiers, as the familiar favourite to start my day.

There's nothing nicer than a freshly laid egg, still warm from the nest box - and keeping a few hens is a lot easier, cleaner and cheaper than you might think!

Their basic needs are simple - a safe, fox-proof house and run, daily food, water and attention, a place to perch, an area to scratch and dust-bathe and a straw-lined nest box for that all-important egg laying.

A second-hand henhouse can be inexpensively acquired through local classifieds, and a few ex-battery hens can be rescued for a modest donation and restored to full fitness to lay for another year or more, and enjoy the rest of their life as free range backyard hens.

Housing should be thoroughly cleaned with a proprietary disinfectant and located in a quiet corner of the garden, and

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once you’re set up with everything in place, you’re all ready to acquire your birds. If you’d rather buy a pure breed, you won’t get quite as many eggs, but there are so many pretty variations to choose from. Some councils have noise abatement restrictions in place, so you may not be able to keep a cockerel with your girls in order to breed your own replacements, but they’ll lay for the table just as happily without.

Water should be provided in abundance a hopper system isn’t costly and works well, and feed can be given in a pot or scattered along with a few vegetable peelings, to promote natural scratching behaviour, which is how the hens will also find the grit they need to assist with digestion.

Once they’re settled in and their eyes are bright and combs are looking red and perky, they will start to lay - maybe half a dozen eggs a week, per hen.

They’ll roost in their house at dusk, so shut them up securely at night to prevent fox attacks, and keep an eye out for vermin tunnelling into the run to steal your

hens’ food - rats and mink can also hurt hens, if they get into their coop.

I have always had a few hens, and I tend to keep them well past their sell-by-date, if they’re still enjoying life - my record was an old dear who still provided the odd egg at the age of 8! You’ll get hours of entertainment watching their funny ways, and delicious healthy eggs into the bargain - so what are you waiting for?

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With all the fun and feasting, racing and flipping of Pancake Day just past on 28th February, there are also two Saints' days this month – so there's plenty to celebrate!

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GARDENING THIS MONTH Your Seven Point Spring Plan

As we enter the month of March, writes Buckingham Garden Centre’s Chris Day, our thoughts move outdoors with the prospect of starting a vegetable garden, establishing new garden beds, planting just about anything, renovating the lawn and even sprucing up neglected areas.

Preparation is the key as we start the growing season. However, one of the most rewarding tasks to do right now is to get rid of the weeds before they start growing with renewed vigour. Hand weed

or hoe out new and emerging weeds regularly as weather conditions allow. Target persistent weeds such as Hairy Bittercress, Ground Elder and Bindweed with spot herbicide treatments, including the safer non-Glyphosate weedkiller options such as Neudorff Superfast & Long Lasting Weedkiller or Bayer Super Fast Weedkiller. The Neudorff product, which works well at low temperatures, is said to control problem weeds including field horsetail as well as moss and algae.

1. Feed for growth Gardeners love to nurture their gardens.

Early spring is the best time of the year to give everything in the garden a good dose of fertiliser. After the next substantial fall of rain in early March, scatter slow-release or pelletised fertiliser around the base of your plants. Good feeding products to use include Osmocote and Vitax Q4. If you prefer to garden organically then opt for Blood, Fish and Bone fertiliser but do bear in mind this doesn’t contain the micro-nutrients – the so-called trace elements which will benefit many plants, including lime-hating plants like Camellias, Pieris and Acers. As these feeds break down and filter into the soil, they are absorbed by growing roots and used to fuel growth and flowering.

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2. Lawn update Apply a slowrelease complete lawn food such as Evergreen® Complete 4 in 1 to all grass areas. This product encourages a much thicker, tougher lawn, plus it kills weeds, moss and feeds lawns.

You can apply this from March onwards. Apply at a maximum individual dose of 35g per square metre (1oz per sq yard) for best results. Use a metal rake to remove any build-up of thatch (the term used to describe dead growth giving lawns a spongy feel underfoot). If the lawn is looking sparse, re-seed or returf bare areas. Before seeding, dig in organic matter and treat the area with a soil wetting agent such as Broadleaf P9 or Swelgel if your soil is light and fast draining. Our Buckingham clay soils would benefit from some John Innes Seed and Cutting Compost to provide a seed bed for new grass seed.

Keep everyone off areas that are being renovated until the new grass is growing vigorously.

Pepper or Chilli, Lettuce, Cucumber and Basil. You can start germinating these on a sunny warm windowsill from the end of March if you fancy growing your own from seed.

4. Quick colour Flowering spring annuals can be sown now to give your garden a quick fix from late May onwards. Good hardy annuals to sow directly into the borders include Calendula, Godetia, Larkspur and Nasturtium (pictured). Add instant colour with pots using Pansies, Polyanthus, named Primrose varieties, Violas and Senetti, or flowering pots of bulbs such as Daffodils and Tulips. Also, plan ahead for flowers and invest in trays of hardier bedders such as Antirrhinums, Asters and Dianthus. If you have some undercover protection, then halfhardy bedding plants can be purchased as young seedlings or slightly larger plug plants for growing on in large pots or hanging baskets for strategic bursts of colour.

3. Plant and sow vegetables Early spring is a rewarding time to plant vegetables, whether you’re starting a new garden or popping some herbs in to a sunny window box.

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5. Plant just about anything Early spring is a rewarding time to plant trees, shrubs and annuals – it is also the last opportunity to get bare-rooted hedging, rose bushes, fruit trees and soft fruit planted before they come out of winter dormancy.

Elsewhere in the garden take stock now and remove plants that have died or are past their best, or extend your garden to accommodate some new plantings. Prepare for new plants by clearing any weeds and grass, then improve the soil by digging some organic matter such as Tree, Shrub and Rose Planting Compost into it. When working out where to place a new plant take into account the amount of space that is required eventually. Always check plant labels - either on the pot or attached to the plant for information on eventual plant size both in height and spread.

6. Repot for growth Generally speaking, containergrown plants, including indoor house plants, which have been in the same pot for several years, or that have outgrown their current pot, can be re-potted now. Place plants into slightly larger pots with fresh

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potting mix or trim roots and replant into the old pot but with fresh potting compost such as Levington® Original MultiPurpose Compost.

Specialist plants such as Orchids (pictured) and Cacti would benefit from using their own specific composts.

7. Prune for growth Plants that have already bloomed or have frost damage can be pruned to encourage new growth. The general rule is to prune flowering shrubs directly after flowering so avoiding the possibility of removing flowering wood by mistake.

Also, if not already done, remove old stems from perennials and grasses to make way for fresh spring growth. To keep shrubs, perennials and annuals in bloom over the months ahead, remove spent flowers regularly unless they would produce attractive hips or berries later if the spent flowers are left on.

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Education

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With the new academic year in September drawing closer, the demand for places at the country’s top independent schools becomes frenetic from international students around the globe.

Gateway Education is a leading company specialising in providing international students with a complete educational experience in the UK. Currently working with lots of partner independent schools in the UK, Gateway takes the students through school selection, admission and entry through to the long term dream of securing a university place.

Gateway’s total care package ensures that students can focus on achieving success and not have to worry about being a learner abroad and a vital part of this process is finding caring host families.

Emma Arthurs, Gateway Accommodation officer explained, ‘A stable home base is key to our

students’ success. We are now keenly looking for host families in Buckinghamshire to support our students attending Akeley Wood.

We look to our hosts to welcome international students into their family and provide them with a home from home environment, providing services such as full board and regular laundry. In return hosts will gain an insight into other cultures, an opportunity to help young people learn and develop – all supported by a generous care allowance.’

Besides looking for host families who can take a student throughout the academic year, Gateway are also seeking hosts for holiday cover.

Emma added,’ Students tend to go home at Christmas, Easter and of course during the summer however they are normally here in the UK over half term periods.

Although our hosts earn a higher accommodation rate over the holiday periods we understand some wish to share family time on their own occasionally. For that reason we always like to have holiday cover hosts in each area which allows a host family to go away knowing the student will be well cared for in their absence.’

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Thursday 16th March Every Monday/Thursday Buckingham & Stowe Running Club.

Please see our website for more information www.buckinghamrunningclub.com or email buckinghamrunningclub@hotmail.co. uk

Alternate Wednesdays

'Just Friends' social club for single people aged roughly 45 - 70+ Meet 8.00pm Villiers hotel lounge Walks, theatre, eating out & much more. justfriends2004@gmail.com

BRACKLEY MORRIS MEN TASTER SESSIONS Thursday evenings, 8.15pm Brackley CE Junior School, Manor Road Brackley Further details from Stephen Ferneyhough 07764 799947

Self Defence Classes

Lace Hill Community Centre 6:30pm; 7:30pm & 8:45pm Contact Julia on 07514498053 email julia@buckinghamyoga.co.uk Visit www.buckingham-yoga.co.uk

Meets on the first Saturday of each month 10am in the University Car Park Chandos Road. http://buckinghamrailwaywalk. btck.co.uk/ or https://www.facebook. com/Railwaywalk

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Orchid Day

Come along and chat with Orchid expert Dr Manos Kanellos who will be at Buckingham Garden Centre on Wednesday 22 March answering all your orchid questions. The Orchid Clinic will be between 11am-3:30pm (breaking for lunch between 1:00-1:30pm). We are also running two Orchid Care for Beginners and Repotting Demonstrations from 11:00-11:40am and 2:00-2:40pm. You are invited to bring in your own orchid for an MOT! Repotting costs £2.00, or free when you buy a pot and Orchid Focus Repotting Mix.

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Tuesday 7th 18.30 The SSAFA Lecture. Popes I Have Known.

Cormac Murphy-O’Conner. Free Entry book tickets on 01280 827522 Chandos Road Building

Saturday11th 10.00-12.30 Fair Trade Coffee Morning. The Big Brew All welcome, Buckingham Old Gaol

Saturday11th 10.00-16.00 Craft fair, Community Centre

Friday 17th 19.30 Quiz Night. This popular event with a raffle and light refreshments too. Tickets £450 for Friends of the Gaol £5 for others available from the museum shop before the night. Bring your own alcohol if required.

Buckingham Old Gaol

Saturday 18th viewing from 12 noon, 50:50 Auction. auction starts at 1pm Drop off items for sale 17th March 2pm – 7pm St Michael’s Church, Steeple Claydon www.bucksvoice.net/churches-of-the-claydons/events/50-50-auction 28

The Registrars are at Buckingham Library alternate Thursdays 10am -3pm.

Email registrars@buckscc.gov.uk or phone 01296 383055 to book an appointment to register a birth or death and for giving notice of marriage.

Saturday 25th 10.00-13.00 WI Mothers Day Coffee and Cake Morning.

All welcome Buckingham Old Gaol

APRIL 2017

Saturday 1st 10.00-16.00 Easter Events for Children from today until 18th April Buckingham Old Gaol

Wednesday 5th 19.30 Talk ‘The Grand Old Dukes of Buckingham’ by David Noy and Susan Fern.

Tickets from Museum Shop £5 Buckingham Old Gaol

BUCKINGHAM & DISTRICT WALKING GROUP

Wed 8 March Great Brickhill Figure of Eight 10.30am Old Red Lion PH SP 904 303 As the PH has no car park, please park nearby with consideration to local residents.

Our morning walk includes a short section of the Grand Union Canal down to The Three Locks PH, returning via field and woodland paths to the village. After lunch we strike east to join part of the Greensand Ridge Walk before traversing Stockgrove Park and woodland tracks back to our cars.

Leaders: Peter & Julia Bowtell 01280 815946, 07532 295408

Sun 12 March Canons Ashby 10 Miles Circular 10.30am National Trust CP SP 576 506 Canons Ashby is signposted from A43/A5 roundabout at Towcester.

The walk is on field paths through Morton Pinkney to Sulgrave for lunch stop and PH (The Star). Return is on country roads and byways back to Canons Ashby where there is a tea room. Please bring NT membership cards if you have them.

Leader: Ray Bryant 07810 423782

Thursday 23 March Annual General Meeting Buckingham University Sunley Theatre Our AGM is on Thursday 23 March at 7.30pm.

We will be following our normal agenda, to be distributed at the meeting. Following formal business and refreshments there will be a talk on First Aid for Walkers given by Ray Bryant’s daughter Debbie. The talk can be led by from the floor, so have your questions ready.

Subscriptions Members are reminded that Annual Subscriptions are due 1st March 2017, paid at the AGM. If you cannot attend please send your subscription of £10 to Keith Tipping, 17 North St, Castlethorpe, MK19 7EW

Sat 25 March Hellidon 10.5 Miles Circular 10.30am Stockwell Lane SP 516 584 From Daventry on the A425, turn off at Staverton for Upper Catesby and Hellidon.At the Red Lion turn right (straight on) off the main road, you are already onStockwell Lane. After bending right a few times the road then bends left,Park on the right just over 1⁄4 mile from the pub, just past a small layby,near Beech Hill. We head for the lost village of Lower Catesby , then ancient byways towards Napton-on-the-Hill.

This section will potentially involve climbingover 2 locked gates and 2 broken stiles.

(There is an alternative road walk).After Lunch at Napton Bottom Lock on the Oxford Canal and a drink in The Folly,we head for Priors Marston, and back to our cars.

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Bank Holiday Monday 1st May 2017

Thornborough Fun Run and 10 mile race, Thornborough A very friendly, popular and well organised event which takes place in and around the beautiful village of Thornborough.

For more details go to www.bucksinfo.net/tssc or email race-secretary@tssc-mail.org.uk Every Sunday morning the Swan Wheelers have bicycle rides for all abilities. Starting from The Swan Pool 08-45. & Wednesday 9.15am See Swan Wheelers website

Sunday Morning

Men in Sheds Buckingham

Meet every Tuesday (10am to 1pm) and Friday (10am to 2pm) behind the Cote at the Woolpack in Well Street, Buckingham email: buckmshed@btinternet.com

North Bucks Carers Support Group Social Mornings at Buckingham Community Centre Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday's of the month 10 am until 12 noon Come for a coffee ,cake and a chat Also speakers, demonstrations and outings Contact Ann 07473766365 or 01280 308398 Brackley Morris Men Taster Sessions Thursday evenings, 8.15pm Brackley CE Junior School, Manor Road Brackley Further details from Stephen Ferneyhough 07764 799947

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Second Tuesday of the Month 10.00-12.00am Aylesbury Vale Community Bank Want to save and borrow? Free drop in session for advice on saving and affordable loans 1st Wednesday of the month 10-11am

Reminiscence Coffee Morning Share your memories over a cup of coffee 3rd Thursday of every month 10.30-11.30

Learn my Way Get on Line Sessions Improve your computer and Internet skills One to one sessions at a time to suit you

Knit and Natter Group Enjoy a coffee and a natter while improving your crafting Every Thursday 2-3 pm

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