FAKENHAM CHORAL SOCIETY All That Jazz at St Nicholas Church, Wells-next-the-sea Saturday 18 June 7.30pm The concert, led by musical director Janet Kelsey, is entitled All That Jazz and will feature, in the first half, jazz standards and popular show classics, including highlights from Les Misérables and South Pacific, with Will Todd’s amazing Mass in Blue in part two. Tickets are £12 (under 18 free) and are available from 01328 830639 or on the door.
WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIME CONCERTS IN JULY
their catkins at the ready. Oak trees are patchy, some have their catkins out and a pale green haze of new leaf, others are stubbornly in winter mode. The green of new oak leaves is a special colour, with a brilliant warmth. In Clip Street the hares are out to play, and the linnets and yellowhammers singing, wild cherry blossom is out, the cow parsley is springing up, in Bullfer Grove over in Gunthorpe the bluebells are glowing with that wonderful shimmering blue, and in my garden the cowslips are beginning to crowd in clumps. Jane Wheeler
St. Nicholas Parish Church, Wells at 12noon Followed by homemade soup, bread and fresh fruit. Cost: £3. Donations are welcome. For more information contact Alison Taylor at aliton1@btinternet.com. Binham Youth Group
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BALE GARDEN FETE
Contact: Jane Wheeler 01328 878656 design@janewheeler.co.uk
Bale Garden Fete is on Saturday June 11th at 2pm at Manor Farm. The fete is fun for all the family with lots of garden games and competitions to play. There are lots of irresistible stalls too; cakes, produce, fabric remnants, white elephant, tombolas and many more...... Homemade cakes, delicious filled rolls and refreshing cups of tea are served on the lawn and everyone can relax listening to the wonderful Sheringham and Cromer Brass Band. We hope you will come along to enjoy a really traditional garden fete.
THE PURCELL SCHOOL CONCERT All Saints Church, Bale, Sunday 19 June at 4pm Adults £10. Children free. Drinks on sale from 3.30pm. Please contact Alan Sankey on 01328 878 874 We are delighted to welcome these highly talented musicians again. Previous performers include Martin James Bartlett, Young Musician of the Year and soloist in the Proms.This year the distinguished harpist, Ann Denholm, Official Harpist to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and former head girl, will be performing.
VILLAGE HALL SOCIAL CLUB DRAW March 2016 Ann Ramm £25 Charlie Mitchell £10 John Wall £5 Anne Peppitt £5
BALE DIARY April 17th April is the cruellest month, I read appositely in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land last night. You put carrot seeds in and there is a frost - you know they won't germinate. You hope your apple trees will hold back on their blossom until the cold weather is over. Blackthorn with its delicate white flowers on bare thorn laced twigs looks like snow on the hedges. It's nearly over now so late in April; the primroses last a lot longer in a cold April though. Every spring I find it miraculous that there are so many of them in our hedge banks and ditches. The violets are hardly started yet, I can't see any in Clip Street. One of the best places for them has been ripped up by the cable trench excavations and general mess, plus the ditch has been cleaned out. There are plenty under the Bale holm oaks though, it must be warmer there. At the bottom of Cakes Lane the scrub willows have
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April 2016 Mary Turnbull Jane Wheeler Alison Courtney Will Powney
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