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After over a year of inactivity we are looking to the next Covid lockdown announcements. We hope that we will be able to reopen the band room and restart rehearsals, albeit with ‘bell covers’ on all the instruments and socially distanced seating.

Following the recent AGM, Joan Fillingham has stood down as chair of KGSH. Joan has been an excellent chair, hardworking, diligent and popular with both her fellow trustees and the staff. I am pleased to report that Joan has agreed to stay on as a trustee. We look forward to her continued input into the running of the hall.

Since our previous newsletter we are very pleased to report that the majority of our organised Ramblers Walking Programme has relaunched. This is as the country moves cautiously, step by step, towards resuming a more normal lifestyle.

To mark a new beginning of hope and freedom, the award winning Wistow Maze has been designed in the shape of a Phoenix rising from the flames.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” - Cicero

Plans are progressing for our next production. This will be a mix of sketches, songs, poems and monologues all on the theme of Christmas. It will be on the stage for two nights on 10/11 December.

April (display) through to August (young birds with adults) are the months when some of the best opportunities arise for photographing grebes.

Kevin Messenger, John Allen, Scott Pilkington and Neil Hammond have completed numerous challenges for charity in the past. This year their new found love of golf sees them doing it again! They are going to play 72 holes in one day at Kibworth Golf Club on Friday 2 July to raise money for Prostate Cancer.

How interesting to have two articles on the Mason family in Issue 429; THE MULTITASKING VICTORIAN by Glyn Hatfield
and THE VILLAS by Stephen Butt.

Dear Editor,