Category: What’s On

Date: Friday 26th May

“Sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight, it’s stopped raining, everybody’s in a play and you know it’s a beautiful new day” – Jeff Lynne, ELO, Mr Blue Sky

A conversation with Jonathan Simons, founding editor of offline publishing house Analog Sea, at Kibworth Books, 28/3/23

For over 60 years Blaston Show has been welcoming crowds for an iconic countryside-orientated day out. The 2023 show will take place on Sunday 25 June just outside the village of Slawston, between Market Harborough and Uppingham. 

Windmills and watermills are some of our landscape’s best-loved structures. These buildings are rooted in the nation’s agricultural life and are an integral part of the food supply chain. National Mills Weekend (13-14 May) will focus this year on ‘Millwrighting – Past and Present’. This celebrates the repair of wind and watermills which allows those important historical buildings to survive for future generations to come.

QUESTION: Where can you enjoy a first class night of entertainment unique to Last Minute Theatre?

Late spring is a great time to visit our gardens and we have gardens opening all over Leicestershire during May.

Bring your own picnic and enjoy a wonderful evening listening to live music from two bands, ‘Suzy Goes Commando’ and the award winning 'Hathern Brass Band', playing popular hits from across the decades.

“Morning has broken like the first morning, blackbird has spoken like the first bird” ― Cat Stevens.

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