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9 10 All charity shops enjoy donations Hornchurch, RM11 2LG. chocolate please ensure you know Sir Arthur Sullivan. There will, of and they would not want the tap to Halloween approaches as the what you are giving your dog. course, be plenty of musical be turned off but I have heard of or local amateur drama group excerpts from the famous Savoy seen donations that defy belief. congregate in the local church Cllr LINDA HAWTHORN Operas. Dirty used underwear for example, hall to rehearse their next All programmes are held in the broken toys... Everyone will have production. 1st Floor Meeting Room at seen the Monday morning A new member arrives but Wednesday Hornchurch Library and start at dumping of donations outside everything is not as at seems, 7.30 ending at 9.30. every Charity shop. I am sure its when other members of the group Music Evenings Admission is free of charge but we left with the best intentions but it’s arrive and start to ask questions Wednesday 11th May: Edvard do request a nominal donation often left on a dark Sunday the replies pose more questions Grieg & Friends for interval refreshments. evening, by the morning the of who and what is real. No need to book - just turn up. weather has got to donations. And Performances on Thursday, Brian Luck pays tribute to If you need any more details call when the donations are reviewed Friday and Saturday 19th, 20th Norway's most illustrious Stephen Raindle 01708 470670 or you get the examples I mention and 21st May at 8.00pm (Doors composer Edvard Grieg who email [email protected] above. Clearly I balance this with open 7.30pm). found much of his musical the fact that there are some Tickets £5, bookable from inspiration among the excellent donations that raise [email protected] picturesque landscape of his Lunchtime some excellent funds for very or from 01708 725 077 country. deserving charities. Basic rule of Web site allsaintsplayers.org.uk The programme will also include Concerts thumb has to be: can someone music by some of the great Kindly note the dates for the else make use of something you composer's friends and Thursday Lunchtime Concerts at don’t want any more? Would you Dogs contemporaries such as Johan St Laurence Church. buy it? Halvorsen, Percy Granger, Ole May 5th - Phillip Simpson, tenor; I am sure that most dog owners Bull and Frederick Delius. are guilty of giving their pets a May 12th - Richard Overill, organ, Wednesday 25th May: Gilbert (Essex); May 19th - Anne little tit-bit from time to time, but Without Sullivan All Saints can I please ask that if you give Hopfmuller, violin; Stephen Raindle presents a May 26th - Jonathan Lilley, organ, Players your dog a bit of cake, check first if programme about the talented it includes Xylitol ie E967 (a sugar (Waltham Abbey); June 2nd - dramatist, librettist, lyricist and Kawashima Duo; June 9th - Paul There next production is "Acting alcohol used as a sweetener) - is poet W S Gilbert, best known for Dead” a comedy by Gary poisonous to pets. Rosoman, organ, (New Zealand); the 14 comic operas produced in June 16th - Richard Brasier & Joe Clapperton at All Saints Church There has also been a lot of collaboration with the composer Hall, Road, publicity over dogs being fed continued on page 13

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16 their work at Hornchurch Library [email protected] required which includes refreshments and LOCAL FUTURE EVENTS biscuits. This month the talk is on “Badgers (normal opening hours) until MAY and the Badger Man” by Frank Last. 10 Tuesday - NADFAS Havering welcomes Mr Saturday 7th May. Enquiries ring 4 Wednesday – Harold Wood Evening W.I Anthony Russell with a talk on Edward 01708 532 967. Flower Festival meet on the 1st Wednesday of the month at Seago: Landscape perfectionist and Royal the War Memorial Hall in Gubbins Lane, Favourite. Lecture 10.45 am. Coffee from Meetings are held in the Minor 7.30 pm for 7.45 pm. Visitors are welcome 10.00 am. Visitors welcome at £8. The Hall at Upminster Methodist and Fayre for £2.50, which includes refreshments. For meeting will be held at The New Windmill Church. Meeting fee £2 including A Flower Festival and Fayre more details please ring Marion on 01708 Hall, St. Mary’s Lane, Upminster, RM14 349038. 2QH. Further information on the Society, tea/coffee available from 1.30pm. entitled "A Floral Celebration of 7 Saturday – Hornchurch and Upminster future lectures and visits can be found at the Queen's 90th Birthday" on Sugarcraft have a demonstration on www.haveringdfas.org.uk “Modelling for Toddlers Cakes” by Sheila 10 Tuesday – Upminster Horticultural Society Saturday 4th June, 10am – 4pm; Trant-McCarthy at Hornchurch Library, have a Gardener’s Year by Harry Brickwood Sanctuary Day Sunday 5th June 12noon – 4pm. North Street, Hornchurch. Entrance fee Pay and a Plant Sale. Harry whose garden is in at Door £6 includes Tea and Cake. 1.30pm – Rayleigh. He has appeared on TV The Sanctuary in Pea Lane, Refreshments available both days. 3.30 pm. Programmes ‘Gardeners World’ and Best 30 7 Saturday - The Havering Branch of the Back gardens in the UK. Harry will take us Upminster welcome you to their Admission is free. All Saints East of London Family History Society through a month by month looking at open day on Saturday 4th June. Church, Ardleigh Green Road, hold meetings on the first Saturday of every flowering plants in our garden. The talk will month at Trinity Church, Station Road, take place in the New Windmill Hall, St Please see their ad on page 23 for Hornchurch, RM11 2LG. Upminster RM14 2SJ doors open at 1pm Mary’s Lane, Upminster from 7.45 pm to further details. meeting starts at 2pm. This month the talk is 9.45 pm, doors open at 7.15 pm. Entrance is ‘The Mythology of Richard III’ with Dr Free to members, non-members very John Ashdown-Hill. The Internet & welcome for a fee of £2.00. For further Model Railway Technology Group meet at the same venue information on Upminster Horticultural 11am – 1pm where a Q&A session is Society see our website Stallhoder's Kindly note this month's running followed by ‘Getting the best out of www.upminsterhorticulturalsociety.co.uk or Ancestry’ with a Speaker from Ancestry. [email protected]. day for their Steam and Electric Teas and coffees can be purchased. 13 Friday - Coffee & Conversation / (Cranham Opportunity Trains is on Saturday 14th May, Members and visitors welcome to either or Social Hall, Front Lane) are holding their both. AGM. 10.30 – 12.30pm. Free Entry. Following the success of its 2pm- 4pm at Ardleigh House 8 Sunday – Pussycat Lodge are holding their 14 Saturday – Upminster Tithe Barn Museum Village Fete on 'The Green' by the Community Centre, 42 Ardleigh Open Day at 20 Priests Field (off Common of Nostalgia Open Days , Hall Lane. Open Road), Ingrave, Brentwood, CM13 3QJ. 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Free Admission. Queen's Theatre last year, the Green Road, Hornchurch, RM11 Refreshments, home made cakes, books, 14 Saturday - Fun Morning with children's Rotary Club of Hornchurch & raffle, plants, Tarot card readings, bric-a- crafts, face painter, handmade cakes and 2LL. Go and enjoy a ride, weather brac, craft items and cards. Entrance fee: cards, refreshments, raffle 10.30 am - 12.30 Upminster will be repeating the permitting. cat food / donation. Please come and pm. Raising funds and awareness for The support us – enquiries 07751 199037. Children's Society. Please join us in the event on Saturday 2nd of July [email protected] Main Hall, St Laurence Church, Upminster, 2016.We are seeking stallholders 9 Monday – Pussycat Lodge Trust Quiz Night RM14 2BB. at the Crumpled Horn, 33-37 Corbets Tey 15 Sunday – Upminster Tithe Barn Museum who will be offered a 'site' for £20 Welcome to Road, Upminster, RM14 2AJ; cost is £6 of Nostalgia Open Days , Hall Lane. Open per table.Space is limited so sites including sausage, chips and bread and 10.30 am to 4.00 pm. Free Admission. Creams butter. You can have as many on your table 16 Monday – Little Havens Quiz Night held at as you like. We are also running a raffle; will be allocated on a first At Bell Corner, Upminster, The Crumpled Horn, Corbets Tey Road, come,first served basis. prizes for the winning and losing table. Upminster. Raising cash for Little Havens Creams are selling deserts, Places need to be book in advance contact Hospice, 7.30 pm for a prompt 8.00 pm start. Applications to Rotarian Norman Jacqui on [email protected] Tables to a max of 8 persons at a cost of £6 waffles, cakes, milkshakes, crepes, 9 Monday – Essex Wildlife Trust meeting is each and to include a superior ploughmans Ellenby, mobile 07941 899778 or etc. Further details next month. held above Hornchurch Library from 8.00 Email pm – 9.45 pm. A donation of £2.50 is continued on page 19

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