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Interesting to see upwards of 50 horses with riders in full hunting attire and a smaller number of tail-wagging beagles processing along Smeeton Westerby High Street on the morning of Saturday 26 November. A rural spectacle?

KGSH are sad to announce that at the last trustees meeting, Paul Scourfield said that he was stepping down as a trustee.

There were 60 individually decorated trees. Those who visited the church voted for their favourite tree in Adult and Children's section. The winning Adult tree was made by Anne Bloor from Burton Overy and Natalia, from Ukraine.

Rehearsals for our March Production of ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’ have begun in earnest, with a lot of work being done on the script and characterisation. Director Alison Langrick is very pleased with the progress that we are making and this is already looking as if it will be a very entertaining production. Certainly, if it causes as many laughs as the rehearsals are doing, then the audiences will be in for a very good time.

It was good to see so many people at the Remembrance Service Parade. We turned out a slightly smaller Band than normal – we were hit by Covid – and on this important day of the year it’s difficult to ‘borrow’ players because most bands are out.

Traditionally Christmas is a time to reflect on the year past and look to the future.
There have been many changes throughout the year too numerous to mention but we have still enjoyed a fabulous year and many thanks go to our team of green keepers who have done a sterling job keeping the course in pristine condition during the summer heatwave and more recently the extreme rainfall.

Our November meeting was a huge success, thanks to a wonderful member of the community, Jon Jones, who took time out from his busy life to help our group make some wooden Christmas decorations (as shown in photo).

If you are of a certain age, I wonder if you remember the radio programme ‘Round the Horne’, first heard in the 1960s on Sunday afternoons and now back on BBC Sounds. A frequent catch phrase uttered by Kenneth Williams was ‘The answer lies in the soil’ in a broad country brogue. How right he proved to be!

The Club will hold its first meeting of 2023 on Thursday 12 January at 2.30pm (doors open 2.15pm) in the Methodist Chapel Hall. It will consist of the Annual General Meeting, a short slide show of the three 2022 trips and the annual show, followed by a talk by Gary Little, ‘A Taste of the Exotic’.

If you’d like to have a go at this all-weather indoor sport, the Fleckney Spinners Table Tennis Club has weekly sessions on Saturdays 11.15am to 12.45pm with (optional) coaching on 17 December and 7 and 21 January.