Articles

With winter well and truly behind us an avid walker of the course completed her seasonal collection of photographs of a single conifer tree on the course throughout the year. It makes you realise how changes are hard to notice over a long period of time and are not as subtle as you may think.

It is that time of year again when cricket begins – if this rain ever stops and the outfield dries. After wintering well the players and members cannot wait to get started at KCC.

One hundred years ago on 23 April 1923 royalty gathered in Westminster Abbey. They came to witness and celebrate the union between HRH Albert 2^nd son of King George V and Queen Mary with Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, daughter of the Earl of Strathmore. The happy couple were later to become King George VI and Queen Elizabeth following the abdication of Prince Albert’s elder brother King Edward VIII in 1936.

Much of my work in schools over the years has been in the field of developing children’s thinking skills. Even now, much of the focus of the curriculum requires children to remember facts and reiterate them at exam time. Such recollection of information is a low-level skill. Creative thinking on the other hand is proactive, diverse, enjoyable and surprisingly easy to practise.

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.

In the March Nature Note I reported on the decline of willow tits in our part of the county. With some time to spare early on 22 March I decided to visit two local sites in search of these birds. The first hour walking by the River Sence was fruitless and I eventually found myself sheltering from the wind wherever there was a high hedge, listening for willow tits. The highlights of this hour did not amount to much: three bullfinches seen and one singing chiffchaff.

Solomonar Reserve Romanian Red 2020 (Majestic £7.99)

Some time ago, when I was at secondary school, I heard a boy (it was a boys only school) give a friendly shout ‘titch’. I was at the time below average build, and I thought it was me being called; it wasn’t. I hid my disappointment, exasperated by the knowledge that the boy being called was a bully to be avoided. The boy calling was one of his cronies.

Following a very successful outdoor season, Kibworth Bowls Club has been well represented during the full-rink indoor season at Harborough Leisure Centre. In the Monday ‘outdoor clubs playing indoors’  triples league (12 teams), our two teams finished second and third. A similar, Tuesday league saw good results for three other Kibworth teams. The Harborough internal leagues saw Malcolm Moss, Richard Bateman and past-member Malcolm Johnson top the Wednesday Aussie Pairs league. Whilst Chris Hunt, Gill Beresford (and friends from Little Bowden) won the Friday triples league.

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