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A much changed outdoor bowling season has just finished. I think everyone was happy to get back on the green and turnout has been very good.  Club Membership has held up very well with a good number of new members from our Open Day and Monday nights Open Bowling.

Our Macmillan coffee morning proved to be a great success making £485 for this excellent cause. The village hall was transformed into a charming café with round tables decorated with vases of flowers beautifully created by Nicola Hopkinson. Busily making the tea and coffee, and of course serving the obligatory cakes, were Philippa Britten and Jacqui Taylor. I had the lovely job of being host and welcoming everyone as they arrived.

Fiesta Sports Coaching will be hosting free indoor sessions every Tuesday evening from 26 October to 14 December in the Kibworth Grammar School Hall. Sessions will be from 5.15pm–6.15pm for 7–11 year olds, and 6.15pm–7.15pm for 12-16 year olds.

I have written previously about the impending closure for redevelopment of our nearest Recycling and Household Waste site, the Kibworth Tip.  I have now had confirmation that it is to close on Monday 1 November and remain closed for up to 12 months. The improvements will provide more bays and will make the site easier to use. A planned split-level surface meaning that customers no longer have to climb steps to access the skips. They will also improve traffic flow. HGVs at the site will be separated from the area used by the public to further improve safety. Residents are asked to use either of the centres on Wigston Road, Oadby, and Riverside, Market Harborough while the work is completed.

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As a schoolboy I was often riddled with anxiety whenever a teacher wanted answers from the class. My general fear was that if I volunteered a response I might be wrong, leading to great embarrassment. If I didn’t know the answer for whatever reason. If I’d forgotten or couldn’t work it out, then my apprehension would be even more acute. How well I remember folding my arms, lowering my head and avoiding eye contact with the teacher. Always in the fervent hope that she wouldn’t notice me.

Over the coming weeks people claiming Universal Credit will receive notifications about a cut to their benefits this autumn. Benefits experts at Citizens Advice Leicestershire, which is campaigning against the cut, set out what this means for claimants.

Kibworth Ladies Choir are finally singing again! As with many choirs and musical groups, the pandemic put a very sudden and unexpected halt to our regular choir practice with our last meeting on 9 March 2020.  The friendship and bond we have as a choir have however made us stronger and helped support each other throughout the last 18 months. We have met a couple of times over Zoom by celebrating VE Day and Christmas and singing some of our old favourites. But nothing can compare to the excitement and anticipation we all felt when given the green light that we were finally allowed to meet up and sing as a choir once again.

October and the first half of November are the most eventful periods of the year for birdwatchers seeking uncommon and rare birds. The diversity of species both inland and especially on the coast is at a peak. At times coastal ‘falls’ of migrant birds produce spectacular numbers with ‘birds in every bush’.

The parish council held its monthly public meeting on Thursday 2 September. It was held in the Studio at the Kibworth Grammar School Hall.