Commumity Courses in March at March FE – call for a full list or phone 01354 653148 March Rainbow Savers (a new credit union) will
be open at the Fenland@yourservice shop, Broad Street, each Wednesday, 10am - 2pm. For more details or if you are interested in volunteering there, call Ross McGivern at Fenland District Council on 01354 654321 or email rmegivern@fenland.gov.uk
New fitness classes
Monday 7pm Fitness Bootcamp Westwood school.6 week course and pay as you go. Monday 8pm Toning class Westwood school. 2 week course and pay as you go. Thursday 7pm Pilates Neale wade school. Friday 7pm Fitness Bootcamp Neale wade school. 6 week course and pay as you go. Contact 07793942893 enquiries@finessept.co.uk and website www.finessept.co.uk
Regular Events Every Monday
• FenLenz - Photography Group meet at Georges the last Monday of every month at 7pm. A friendly group of people interested in photography, everybody is welcome.
Second Monday
• 10.30 – 12 noon - Therapeutic Art Group, Express Yourself. The Town Hall, March. Lesley Cuthbert 07540 703645 Holly Trundle 01354 610592. Everyone welcome – complete beginners upwards!
Every Tuesday
• Westwood Junior School Zumba 7pm Pay as you go
Every Wednesday
• Rugby Training 7pm at March Rugby Club – Training is free • March Dog Training Club at March FE Centre
Every Thursday
• 19.45-20.30 Armegeddon Circuit Training £6.00 payg or pre -booking on line • March Town Hockey Club 19.30 -20.30 at Neale Wade all levels welcome 13 plus age.
Every Friday
• Ballroom Dancing for Improvers 19:30-20:30. and Ballroom Dancing for Beginners 20:30-21:30. Both at - The Allgood School of Dancing Doddington Village Hall, Benwick Road, Doddington, PE15 0TG
3rd Monday of the month
• Now 4 Knitting 14.00 Free March Library 0345 045 5225
2nd Tuesday of the month
• Woman's Section of the Royal British Legion meet at the March RBL Club at 7.30pm
3rd Wednesday of the month • Folk Night March RBL
First Saturday of the month
• 10am- 12 noon Over 18s Carry out manual work in Gault Wood such as tree trimming, hedge cutting, planting and bird box erection.
March Youth Club 10 to 14 Year olds Every Wednesday 6.30pm to 8.00pm Trinity Hall, High Road, March (down the side of the Trinity Church). Contact: Debbie Hamilton - Young Peoples worker on 07500100463 or 01354 750355
Review: Hugh Lupton’s one man show ‘On Common Ground’ at the March Town Hall Arts Centre on Friday 31st January 2014.
I had recently discovered John Clare’s poem ‘I am’ while writing a school poetry resource. I was amazed how this poet captured exactly what it was like to suffer as my husband did when he showed the first signs of a disease that robbed him of his mind. I learned that John Clare, too, had lived near Peterborough and had ended his days in a lunatic asylum. Thus, when I saw Hugh Lupton was offering an evening of entertainment based on the life and work of John Clare, I had to go. I was expecting a quiet, ‘academic’ evening full of facts and poetry reading. The evening Hugh presented was much more enthralling than this! Hugh demonstrated that rare ability to tell a tale in a mesmerising way so that you cannot help but listen and be amazed. In our current bite-sized attentiondeficit world we rarely appreciate what Hugh showed us: it is much more interesting and effective if you can be drawn into the world of another, in our case, John Clare, by hearing tales that lead you on a long journey packed with colourful images, events and personalities. Before the event, I mentioned the poem ‘I am’ and Hugh immediately related it to me – he was thoroughly immersed in John Clare and his poetry. Without reference to a single piece of paper, this true story teller held us transfixed for hours. His prose was eloquent in its own right, slipping seamlessly between simple narration you would hear while sitting round the fire, poetic interludes that infused you with the rhythm and thoughts of a long journey and historical facts that put everything meaningfully in place, while the spirit of John Clare constantly appeared and reappeared providing the foundation of this wonderful event. This was indeed a rare, highly entertaining and intriguing experience that I would not have missed for the world! Fables, Tales and Folklore’ next presents Malcolm Busby telling the tale of Nancy the Waterman, a tale of sex, violence and cross-dressing in Victorian Cambridge, on Friday 25th April 2014 at 7.30 pm at March Museum, High St., March. Tickets from Johnson’s Hardware, Dartford Rd or email: bookings@ tellinghistory.co.uk
By Dr R J Westwell (PhD, MA Ed, MA TESOL, B.Mus, BA hons). PhD thesis “The development of language acquisition in a maturelearner” : http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/48/ [1] www. reviewsrjw.wordpress.com [2]; www.elyforlanguage. March 2014 41 wordpress.com
Discovering March