18th September 2025 • The HERALD • Page 43 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v COFFEE & CHAT Every Thursday 10am until 12noon ALL WELCOME Hampton Lane, Blackfield SO45 1XA OUT & ABOUT IT 4 ALL Hythe 2000’s IT 4 ALL group run sessions weekly on Mondays from 1.30pm–3.30pm. e lovely volunteers will try to help you with your technology challenges; from laptops to tablets to mobile phones they’re happy to share their knowledge. e cost of sessions is just £4 and a tea break and cake £1.50 at 2.30pm helps wash away your worries. Additionally they hold interest sessions once a month, where a short presentation/activity is provided on a range of topics the next sessions are: 22nd September - Internet Safety Quiz, 20th October - Make your own Christmas Card, 17th November - Email Basics and 15th December - Christmas Quiz. For more information please visit: hythe2000.org Copythorne Parish History Society meets on the 4th Thursday of each month, in the main Copythorne Parish Hall at 7.30pm and welcomes anyone who wishes to go along. Entry is £2 per person. eir next meeting is on Thursday 25th September for a short lm from Clare Mills followed by a Quiz with Annie Goodwin. For more information please contact Clare on: 023 8081 2167 or email: anniesapp@hotmail.com If you have an item sitting at home, not working, take it along to the Waterside Repair Café on the last Saturday of each month, the next session will be on 27th September. eir volunteers will do their best to repair it and if they can’t they might know someone who can. If your item is beyond repair the team will tell you the best way to dispose of it. From clocks, household electricals to umbrellas, they have seen it all. Go on down and say hello and enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of cake while you wait. e Repair Café takes place on the last Saturday of each month at Black eld Baptist Church Hall. Doors open at 10.30am last repair checked in at 1pm. Free parking on site. You can follow the Waterside Repair Café Facebook page for regular updates. Short Film Romsey Country Market WATERSIDE REPAIR CAFÉ Marchwood Veterans Breakfast Club Are you a service member of the Armed Forces, a Veteran, or family member of someone serving? If so, 17th Port and Maritime Regiment RLC would like to welcome you to their monthly breakfast club which is open to all current and ex-military services, all ranks, all ages and families. e aim is to come together as an Armed Forces Family, catch up with friends, help social interaction and mental health, talk about current and past experience, support towards housing (SFA’s and social), resettlement support for civilian life, job networking and o er tness wellbeing advice. Go along and enjoy a full English Breakfast at a very small cost of £5 with unlimited FREE brews at Sgts Mess, 17RLC, McMullen Barracks, Cracknore Hard Lane, Marchwood SO40 4ZG on the fourth Saturday of the month between 10am and 12noon. e next two meet ups take place on Saturday 27th September and Saturday 25th October. All personnel attending will need to book into the Guardroom on arrival and will need photograph ID, you will then be directed to the mess. Romsey Country Markets will take place at e Corn Exchange from 8.30am to 3pm on Saturday 4th October. At the Romsey Town Hall and Community Café from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Fridays 26th September and 10th October. At Braish eld Village Hall (SO51 0PN) from 10.30am to 12.30pm on Saturday 27th September. ey love to cook, cra and grow just for you, so go along for a great range of home produced items such as seasonal fruit, vegetables, cakes, preserves, plants and cra s. Please check the Facebook page: www.facebook. com/romseycountrymarket or visit: www. hampshirecountrymarkets.co.uk Railway Club of the New Forest e Railway Club of the New Forest’s next meeting is on Friday 26th September, 7pm for a 7.30pm start, in the Exhibition Room, Brockenhurst Village Hall, Highwood Road, Brockenhurst, SO42 7RY. John Barrowdale will talk about a trip in 2005 with 3 friends to the former East Germany where they toured the East German Narrow gauge and Dresden Paddle Steamers. ey visited the following railways: Harzer Schmalspurbanen Metre Gauge Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf 750mm, Mollibahn 900mm Rugensche - Radeburg 750mm, Cranzahl - Oberwiesenthal 750mm Rugensche Klanbahn 750mm, plus, the River Elbe Paddle Steamers at Dresden where they observed them from the riverbanks and also had a morning voyage on one. Visitors welcome. £5 on the door. For more information visit: www. railwayclubofthenewforest.org.uk or Facebook: www.facebook.com/ groups/2987633234865918 Credit: John Barrowdale
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