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Letter
JUST WONDERED if you could include an update for my mum Rose Blayney with regards to the wonderful response to her fundraising efforts this year for Help for Heroes. Towards the end of November we transferred £700 to the charity. The “official fundraising day” in October was a very wet and blustery day, but was well attended by many people. Mum has continued to make jams, marmalade, piccalilli and pickled onions since this day and has received exceptional assistance in the continued selling of produce by Bradgate Stores in Groby, for which we are really grateful.
DAVE LOWEN has sent us a photo he took whilst walking around Groby village on Sunday 2nd January 2022. The image shows a double rainbow. We looked this up on the Met Office’s website, and here is what they say: Double rainbows are formed when sunlight is reflected twice within a raindrop with the violet light that reaches the observers eye coming from the higher raindrops and the red light from lower raindrops. A double rainbow is a wonderful sight where you get two spectacular natural displays for the price of one. Surprisingly, this phenomenon is actually relatively common, especially at times when the sun is low in the sky such as in the early morning or late afternoon. The second rainbow is fainter and more ‘pastel’ in tone than the primary rainbow because more light escapes from two reflections compared to one. The secondary rainbow is also dispersed over a wider area of the sky. It is nearly twice as wide as the primary bow. A key feature of double rainbows is that the colour sequence in the second rainbow is reversed, so instead of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (ROYGBIV), the colours appear in VIBGYOR order. The dark band between the two rainbows is known as Alexander’s band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it in 200AD.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL SPOTLIGHT READERS!
Rose Blayney - Groby’s fundraising pickler & jam-maker
We are still collecting any sized screw top jars for jams and pickles for future sales. We are well on the way to making another transfer of funds to the charity, hoping to achieve £250£300. This making it Mum’s best fundraising year so far for this amazing charity. Many thanks for the superb support of local people willing to help others during this very trying time. Thank you so very much, wishing everyone a happy, healthy and safe 2022.
Wendy Lemmon
(Rose’s Daughter)
Groby Gardening Society MEMBERS should note that the Society’s AGM will take place on February 10th 2022, between 2.00 and 4.00 pm at the Groby Working Men’s Club. Please attend of you can. Discussions are under way with Groby Allotment Society with a view to organising a joint VILLAGE SHOW to be held in September 2022. Possible dates are September 10 or September 17. If any members of the society have any comments, suggestions or observations, please contact Helen Box in the first instance, via email at helen_box@hotmail.com At the time of writing, the weather is unusually mild, with New Year’s Eve 2021 being the warmest ever in the UK. More welcome was a glimmer of sunshine, which was in very short supply during December as a series of low-pressure systems brought cloud and rain across most of the country. Happy New Year to everyone. Let’s hope that the threat of Covid-19 recedes and we can return to a more normal way of life (if you can remember that far back!). Enjoy your garden when you can. Stay safe.
Keith Poole
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