Category: Community

Saturday 15 November

The Well charity with café, clothing shop and foodbank in Kibworth High Street, has been going for nearly 20 years now, with a fascinating story of how it came about.

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As we celebrate this year’s Harvest Festival, we are reminded of the true meaning of community — coming together to share what we have and support one another. This season, the local food bank has been deeply moved by the generosity of our community.

The Welcome Kitchen returns at the end of the month. The first Monday that it will be operational is 27 October.

“Moving is a test of your relationship. If you can survive assembling IKEA furniture, you can conquer anything” ~ Effly

In psychology, cognitive dissonance refers to the mental state in which people hold two conflicting ideas. Current confusion in political debate seems to exemplify this.

With the departure of Dillon`s Opticians from the Square in Kibworth, through the ill health of Pratish Solanki, known to so many as ‘Tish’, the Kibworth and District Chronicle area and indeed wider afield has lost (in concise premises) a homely, welcoming, trusted atmosphere, often accompanied by a cup of tea, conversation and importantly, a vast experience and practical knowledge of the optic world; in touch with developments internationally, and always guided by the needs of the eye rather than seeing spectacles as a fashion accessory. So many in the Chronicle area offer not only to Tish but his wife and to his daughter (also a qualified optician), thanks for the past and very best wishes for this early retirement on health grounds. As circumstances allow, he hopes to maintain contact with those he knew.

We have, largely, predictable seasons and live on an island on the edge of a continent. These factors lead to large amounts of seasonal natural history and to our noticing ‘firsts’. There are letters to The Times from people hearing their first cuckoo or nightingale each year and Delius chose to compose “On hearing the first Cuckoo in spring”. In common parlance “one Swallow does not a summer make”. Botanically we notice the first snowdrops to flower and base weather lore around the behaviour of trees; “Oak before the ash we’ll only get a splash; ash before the oak we’re sure to get a soak”, a reference to the timing of leaves appearing.

Starting at Uni or college means a lot more happens online – from managing your courses to sorting out your money and social life. With so much going digital, it’s super important to know how to stay safe and avoid the common online risks.