Our December meeting is in the afternoon (don’t forget!) at 2pm on Thursday 14th – tea/coffee and mince pies with entertainment provided by a choir from Oulton Primary School. You will need a ticket for this (free) event so Helen knows how many mince pies to order. If you didn’t collect a ticket at the November meeting then give Dawn a ring to order one – her number is on the front of your membership card/programme. NB – while our meeting is free don’t forget you will need to pay for parking at the daytime rate.

We try to have a little bit of a photo competition at this time of year – just for fun, no prizes – and this year we are asking that you take a photo of something flowering on December 28th. It needn’t be in your garden; it could be a garden you are visiting or a neighbour’s garden, or wherever you happen to be, it might even be a ‘weed’ at the motorway service station on the way somewhere! Send your photos to Chris at our email address with perhaps a brief note of what and where and we will have a montage of a photos here on January 1st.

Our January meeting will be via Zoom so we don’t have to be out and about on a chilly January evening, you can sit in warmth and comfort to listen to Sally Gregson talking about Hydrangeas. This will be held in conjunction with TSGCN. There is no Christmas quiz this year but if you missed George Hargreaves talk on UK Botanic Gardens you can find a link to it on the private members page on the TSGCN website.

In the meantime the Committee would like to send you all our very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. We hope you will continue to support us and look forward to meeting up again in person from February onwards.