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I everyone. It’s great to see so many local clubs and businesses doing well and getting involved in our great community – some are even winning national awards! This is going to be a busy month for me with lots of family birthdays and a wedding going on. If you haven’t already got plans for June, look inside and see what’s happening and perhaps make some. One event I must mention is the Portishead In Blooms’ Open Garden Weekend.

This is their biggest fundraiser of the year.

Proceeds from this event help them mintain our town and keep it looking beautiful, so get out and support them if you can.

Please email me all your news and events going on in Portishead and we’ll do our best to publish it. Hope to hear from you soon.

Deadline for July is Sunday 9th June Kim Batchelor

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Entry forms, sponsored by Reeds Rains estate agents, are available from SoleLution at 62 High Street, providing full details of the competition.

The top winning entries will be displayed in SoleLution shop window, whilst commended entries will be included in public displays at a variety of locations around the town. There will be prizes for the top 10 boots and certificates for commended efforts. For full details visit www.visitportishead.net/plant-a-welly

Open Gardens Weekend This year's Open Gardens weekend will be on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June.

This event is Portishead In Bloom’s biggest fundraiser for the year, with the proceeds helping them to maintain and improve so many areas of Portishead. This year there will be 16 gardens to visit. Many offer refreshments, including lunches, tea/coffee and, of course, cake!

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Cactus and Succulent Show The South West Cactus and Succulent show, takes place on 29th June at the Portishead Youth Club on Harbour Road. It takes place between 9.30am and 1.30pm and entry is free.

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Portishead Summer Show Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July. The Portishead Summer Show is a major event in the Portishead calendar and has continued to adapt to reflect changing times. The Show’s title has varied over the years, more recently known as the Portishead Flower Show and Country Fair. The Show has been rebranded in 2019 as the Portishead Summer Show as we felt that this better reflects what we offer - an opportunity for the Portishead community to come together in the Summer to showcase local talent and to enjoy arena entertainment which is not available at any other event in Town.

We also wanted to encourage young families to come along so the accent is very much on activities for the children in addition to promoting local country life, nature and the environment.

The Show schedule now offers over 300 classes to enter - horticultural, cookery, handicrafts and photography with something for all ages from pre-school to Senior Citizens.

This year there is live music from The Chicken Teddies, The Marionettes, Rock Choir Somerset Coast and Portishead Concert Band. Arena Events include a gundog display, ferrets, falconry, companion dog show and fun sports. Sperring’s Equestrian will be bringing along their lovely pony’s and a mini farm. In addition there will be a Bungee Trampoline, Bouncy Castle and Punch and Judy for the children (the latter is however very popular with the older generation too).

The Show is also hosting The Great Portishead Bake Off. A qualifying round will take place at The Poacher on Saturday 13 July. Exhibitors will Would love your be asked to bake and decorate a cake based on the theme of “Summer”.

The top four will then qualify for the Bake Off on Saturday 27 July. Sam pre-loved quality Cox from Heaven on the Hill will decorate a two tier cake which the clothes, accessories, books and handbags. competitors will then be asked to recreate. Think Generation Game for Bakers!.

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Message from Justin Humphreys, Headteacher St Katherine’s School St Katherine’s is a nurturing and diverse school community based on the belief that, as individuals, we all perform at our best when we feel confident, secure and valued.

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Getting Ready for Summer at Avril’s

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ITH the summer months finally here it’s time to get the garden ready!

As long as the weather is dry and warm, the weekends are an ideal time to get out in the garden and start preparing for the summer.

Larger construction projects are often undertaken at the weekends and so fencing, sheds, summer-houses and decking are often the first projects people think about during this time of the year.

There is plenty of treated timber sizes to make raised beds and edging.

The new yard surface makes it comfortable to walk round and view the ideas they have created to give you inspiration and plenty of parking. Since our last visit with the new shop, a display area of sheds, summerhouses and log/bush stores have been installed, which then flows into the furniture store, you are able to browse at ease. Then on the side of the shop is a large avery where you can view various birds and a beautiful golden pheasant – a real stunning bird.

Walking into the large shed there is a huge range of treated timber, planed and sawn, decorative panels and trellis.

Outside in the yard there is a large stock of heavy duty and featheredge panels, heading into another yard filled with loose featheredge, waneyedge boards, stakes, rails, stock fence and barb wire.

Avrils is full of tools and ironmongery to do the job.

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401 Marathons in 401 Days The story behind the man and the adventure. Local man Ben Smith, the man who ran 401 marathons in 401 days is hosting a talk in Portishead at the Somerset Hall on 13th June as part of his UK Talk Tour which launched Sunday 12th in Weston-super-Mare. Go along and listen to Ben’s story, his inspiration behind The 401 Challenge and to find out about his next challenge in the USA. Funds raised from this tour will go towards the ‘operational costs’ of the challenge in the USA. You can book tickets at this website, it is £12 adults and £6 for children (13-16yrs) https://www.the401 challenge.co.uk/usa-2020/talk-tour We would like to advise parents with children under 13yrs that this talk WILL include references and sometimes harrowing detail around areas such as suicide, bullying, and sexuality. Parents accept full responsibility for their child’s wellbeing if they purchase a child’s ticket.

Car Boot Sale Portishead Lions Club Car Boot Sale, takes place on Sunday 2nd June, 9am to 1pm at the Portishead Show Field, Clapton Lane, Portishead. Sellers from 8am at the Clevedon Road Gate, Cars £7, Vans/Trailers £10. Buyers 9am at the Clapton Lane Gate, Entry by Donation.

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Meeting People, Having Fun and Raising Money for Charity at Portishead LeRoc Summer is on the horizon and there is talk everywhere of getting ‘beach ready’. Whether that fills you with horror or the motivation to get off the sofa, dancing is a great way to work your mind as well as your body. It improves fitness, balance, co-ordination as well as your memory and offers a great social scene too.

LeRoc – or modern jive as it is also known – is fun, stylish and can be danced to virtually any music, from current chart hits to big band swing, rock and roll, jazz and blues. Heather

runs the Portishead LeRoc classes and quarterly public dances and is keen to create a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. She says: “Often people are scared of making a fool of themselves if they’ve never danced before, or they’re worried about coming on their own, but everyone in the class is welcoming and encouraging. If you go away having had l Portishead LeRoc Glad Rags Charity fun and with a Ball. Photo credit: M D Demers-King smile on your @ Just Us Photography. face, then that’s the most important thing!”

The Portishead annual Glad Rags Charity Ball was held on 11 May, and people came from all over the south west and Wales to dance, enter – or just watch – the fun Dance with a Stranger competition as well as to raise money with a raffle. They raised £450 for the The Brain Tumour Charity to add to the overall total of over £20,000 that Portishead LeRoc has raised for charity over the years. The next big charity event is on 9 November when the 14-piece band “Bring Down the House” will be playing – put the date in your diary now!

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Slimming World So here we are – the sun has got his hat on!

Thoughts of that lovely summer on the horizon is quite exciting! After the winter we've had let's hope our summer is a good one – however, sunshine spells 'shorts and t-shirts' – is it too early to have a 'trying-on session' to see if last year's gear is still OK – the only thing to worry about is does it still fit! The good thing about winter clothes is that they hide a multitude of things – especially any extra pounds that have been added since last year.

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June 23rd 2019 will see the first ever Tickenham Open Gardens Day. Villagers have got together to open as many gardens as possible between 11am and 4pm.

As well as flowers, fruit and vegetables visitors will be able to see chickens and rabbits, water features, spectacular views and the National Collection of Passiflora (Passion Flowers). There will be light lunches, cream teas, tea and cake available at the Village Hall and plant sales at some of the gardens.

Entry will be £3.50 for adults and £1.00 for children (under 5’s free). Entry stickers will be available at all of the participating gardens, so that visitors can start anywhere. The entry price includes a booklet with a map showing the location of each garden and information about parking, refreshments and toilet facilities.

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Rabbiting On About Rabbits – Care Advice from W&T Vets 1st to 9th June is Rabbit Awareness Week so we thought we should hop along and let people know some important considerations for bunny owners.

Sudden Death in Rabbits There has been a rise in the number of sudden deaths reported in our pet rabbit population. Although we cannot confirm the cause, it may be related to an outbreak of VHD2 (rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease) in the local area.

The Rabbit Welfare Association & Fund has released the following advice surrounding this possible disease outbreak: “There are two strains of rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease known as VHD1 and VHD2. Both strains are lethal and you must vaccinate to protect your rabbits. Both strains are spread by direct contact with infected rabbits, or indirectly via their urine or faeces. The viruses can survive for months in the environment and survive the cold very well.

Vaccination is very effective and the only way to be safe.”

As a practice we currently offer VHD2 vaccination as part of our rabbit ‘Gold vaccination package’. This package also includes an annual vaccination against VHD1 and myxomatosis.

Rabbit Flystrike Flystrike (or myiasis) is a potentially devastating condition, common during the summer months, in which a blowfly lays its eggs on the rabbits skin, usually around the back end. This condition can unfortunately be fatal within 24 hours.

Following important preventative actions can help reduce the risk of Flystrike: l Regularly removing dirty litter/bedding to keep the rabbits’ environment clean l Ensuring your rabbit is not overweight so it can clean itself adequately l Keeping any wounds on your rabbit clean and dry l Booking a consultation with one of our vets if your rabbit has any problem with urination or defecation, arthritis or any other problem which prevents it from grooming itself adequately l Thankfully, there is also a product to help reduce the risk of your rabbits developing Flystrike. This can be applied to the rabbits’í backend every 8-10 weeks during the at-risk season and works by preventing the eggs laid by flies from turning into maggots.

For more rabbit information please discuss with us – www.watkins-tasker-vets.co.uk

Music From Russia On Saturday 8th June 2019 at 7.30pm in Portishead Methodist Church, Portishead Choral Society will present From Russia With Love, a wide-ranging programme of serious and popular Russian music featuring Robert Marson (bass), Damir Yabukov (guitar, dombra), Richard Lennox (piano) and our conductor Jonathan Palmer. There will be music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Borodin together with The Song of the Volga Boatmen, Kalinka, Moscow Nights, Those were the Days, Katyusha. Tickets £12.00 (£6.00 children and students in full-time education) from 01275 219133, tickets@portisheadchoral.co.uk or on the door on the evening of the concert.

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Portishead Around The Houses Art Trail PATH is a collaboration of local artists showcasing their talent, many in their own homes. After a resounding success last year this, it is back again.

There will be 27 exhibiting artists around the area and as well as just viewing the art, visitors will be able to chat to the artists and of course for those who would like to Artwork will be available to buy at affordable prices.

The trail is Saturday 29th to Sun 30th June, 10am-5pm both days. Some venues - but not all

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There will also be an App which is free to down load. More information can be found at www.portisheadsroundthehousesarttrail.word press.com

Flowers ‘Out of The Attic’ Margaret Walker will be giving a demonstration of floral art entitled 'Out of the Attic' on stage at Somerset Hall, Portishead at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 19th June. Portishead Floral Art Society welcome visitors to attend, just turn up and pay £5 on the door. For more information call 07810 203504 or follow them on Facebook 'Portishead Floral Art'.

Philatelic Society Portishead Philatelic Society is a small group of friendly stamp collectors who hold monthly meetings at the Friends' Meeting House in St Mary's Road, Portishead, BS20 6QP. At the next meeting on 28th June at 7.30pm Mr M. Elliott will give a talk on Car Thematics.

New members are always welcome. Please visit www.portisheadphilatelicsociety.org.uk for more information.

FREE ANTIQUE VALUATION DAYS Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers

17th & 18th June and 1st and 2nd July 2019

On the above days you are welcome to bring items to the salerooms for a free verbal auction estimate between 9.30am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 5.00pm. No appointment is necessary. For bulky items or large collections we are pleased to call by appointment.

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