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Bailey’s Garden Centre, Wistow, recently hosted an event in their walled garden marquee: ‘A conversation with Arit Anderson’. Arit Anderson is an award-winning garden designer who is often seen on BBC TV ‘Gardeners World’ and presenting at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show.

Dear Editor,

What a glorious spring we’ve enjoyed! Now, as the days grow longer and warmer, Foxton Community Choir is turning its focus to the joys of summer with rehearsals well underway for our annual June concert.

I’m not going to tell you about Leicester Hockey Club (based at Great Glen), because I am leaving that to some of the parents of our junior players to tell you their thoughts on their children’s experience at the club.

The beautiful voices of Tesserae filled the hall during our April meeting. This quartet consists of two sopranos and two contraltos and includes our treasurer, Clare Robinson-Hughes. They used to sing in an octet called Mosaic, with two tenors and two basses, until Covid hit. When meetings in groups of six or less were permitted, the ladies met up in their gardens and sang together - under a tree if it rained! They named their quartet Tesserae, after the individual tiles which make up a mosaic. (They have been mistakenly introduced as “Tresemme” - the hair product!)

It has been a busy term at KMA. As part of our continuous drive for further improvement since our ‘Good’ Ofsted judgement last year, we recently welcomed a team of external reviewers to KMA, conducted by Challenge Partners. These consist of a team of senior leaders from schools across the area, who spent three days at KMA looking at our strengths and how we can further improve. 

will be holding a table top sale on Sat 14 June in Kibworth Village Hall, LE8 0LN from 10am - 12.45.

Following our report on Rotary Young achievers on the front page of last month’s Chronicle, Aggie Wells, runner up in the National Young chef competition (part of the wider Rotary Young Citizen’s awards) came to our Rotary meeting at Kibworth Golf Club on Tuesday 29 April.

I was shown a packet of coffee produced by a small family coffee producing business, declaring their four commitments to help their farmers. They buy directly from the farmers; they help their farmers to improve their coffee, some of it meeting Soil Association organic standards. The last two commitments are to improve farmers’ homes and provide health and educational facilities. So why my hesitation about it? And why are they using the system called Enveritas? (sfbaycoffee.co.uk/pages/enveritas)

Well, what a fabulous night we had at our Village Variety Show. It was full of talent, laughter and fun. After supper had been served, the show opened with Phil Lee singing ‘Bring Him Home’ from Les Misérables for which he received a standing ovation. What a great start! Next came sketches, funny poems, monologues and more wonderful singing, finishing with Phil again, this time singing ‘Nessun Dorma' which was amazing.