Fairs and Events
Thursday, 7th November 10am-4pm: Paraphernalia
Sunday, 10th November 10am-4pm: Foresta Artisan Fair
Thursday, 14th November 10am-3pm is the annual Bramshaw RDA Bazaar
Saturday, 16th November 10am-4pm: a Charity Mind Body & Soul Fayre
Sunday, 17th November 10am-4pm: Lady Cynthia’s Fleamarket
Saturday, 23rd November 10am-3pm: St Michael’s Christmas Market
Saturday, 30th November 10am-4pm: quarterly Book Fair
On November 6th Seadown Vets are holding a talk “Overweight or Underweight? Managing extremes of weight in horses and ponies”. Tickets are £3 each and include a buffet and glass of wine. To book please call 023 8084 5586 or email the Practice—there is limited availability so be sure to reserve your tickets asap. All proceeds will go to charity.
For your diaries: Lyndhurst Christmas Fun Day—Saturday 7th December—10.00am-4.00pm—Please come along and support your village.
Remembrance Day — Sunday, 10th November
The service at St Michael & All Angels Church will commence at 10.45 am. The Parade will form at midday outside the Primary School and parade down the High Street to the War Memorial where there will be a short service to finish by 12.35pm. Any volunteers to help steward traffic would be very welcome, please contact Adrian Wiltshire on 023 8028 4134.
Community Club
The Community Club Christmas Lunch will be held on Friday, 15th November.
Don’t forget to get your tickets for the outing to Stewarts Garden Centre on Monday, 25th November for shopping and a cream tea.
Men’s Shed
There will be an open meeting on December 3rd at 7.30pm at the Community Centre for all those interested in getting involved in a Men’s Shed in Lyndhurst. Please come along and support this great idea.
Films
Roman Holiday (U) — Matinee 8th November, 2.30pm
Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European Princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench… Starring Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert and Hartley Power.
Red Joan (12A) — Evening 29th November, 7.30pm
English born Joan Stanley, a Soviet and communist party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and gets recruited by the KGB in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to the Soviet Union (Russia), which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century. Starring Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore and Tom Hughes.
Other events
New Forest Art Society: Autumn Art and Craft Sale 2nd & 3rd November from 10am-4.00pm. Art works and a wide selection of crafts for sale. Stalls manned by the artists. Free entry.
New Forest Heritage Centre: the New Forest Knowledge Conference on 1st November “Built Environments in the New Forest: Past, Present & Future”. For more information and tickets (£20) please contact the Heritage Centre on 023 8028 3444.
New Forest NPA Building Skills Homeowner talks: The New Forest National Park Authority and local buildings expert Kevin Stubbs are delivering a series of evening talks for homeowners in the New Forest.
The talks are part of the Building Skills project, one of 21 projects being delivered through the Our Past, Our Future Landscape Partnership Scheme. The project is informing local people of the importance of traditional buildings to the area’s character whilst providing knowledge of specialist repair techniques. To book your place: www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/conservation/landscape-partnership/training/.