Page 78 • The HERALD • 118th September 2025 v WE’VE BEEN YOUR LOCAL SINCE 1994 v FAWLEY GARAGE MOTs/Repairs/Tyres Diagnostics/Servicing Call Now for your Free No Obligation Quote 023 80891057/023 8089 0552 Email: accounts.fg@btconnect.com Long established family business • MOT TESTING • SERVICE & REPAIR FOR ALL MAKES AND MODELS • CLUTCHES • DIAGNOSTICS • CAMBELTS • SERVICE TO MANUFACTURERS SPECIFICATION • FREE COLLECTION & DELIVERY • USED CAR SALES 128-132 Calmore Road, Totton. SO40 8GQ 023 8086 4424 www.calmoreservicestation.co.uk 023 8084 9370 Prospect Place, Hythe SO45 6AU • MOT’s • MOT Repairs • Air Con • Auto Electrics • Servicing • Welding • Diagnostics • Suspension • Tyres • Clutches • Cam Belts • Brakes Got Too Many Apples? Don’t Know What to Do With All those Falls, but Hate Waste? Transition Town Romsey invites you to bring your spare apples and/or pears to their annual apple-pressing weekend at 3 Station Road, Romsey, SO51 8DP (near the Nightingale pub) on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September. An apple press will be available for use from 10am – 4pm each day, to turn your apples into juice for free. Everyone is welcome to bring their surplus fruit. Any type of apple is suitable (including cookers and falls). e resulting juice will keep for 3 days in the fridge; can be frozen; made into jelly; or for the more adventurous, it can be made into cider. Please remember to bring containers, such as plastic drinks/milk bottles (2 litre is easiest), to take the juice home in. ere will also be sacks of the crushed apple pulp available to anyone who wants some for their composter, or as animal feed. If you haven’t got any fruit, go along anyway, as there will be plenty to see and do. You can have a go at juicing; taste the resulting product; nd out about Romsey’s Community Orchard; or enjoy the ‘Apple Café’ - with tea/ co ee along with apple-based cakes/ treats available to try for a donation. is year there will be Children’s Recycled Cra -making from 11am – 12noon each day, when you can make a butter y feeder. If anyone has any surplus fruit which they would like to donate, please get in touch and they will arrange for someone to come and pick/collect the fruit. For more information or to donate fruit, email: transitiontownromseyweebly@ gmail.com or call: 01794 501605. Aotearoa – The Land of the Long White Cloud Ashurst WI is an active and growing institute, where members can look forward to an interesting programme of talks and events throughout the year. The next meeting takes place on Wednesday 8th October for a talk by Mike Read titled ‘Aotearoa – e Land of the Long White Cloud’. Meetings take place on the second Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm at Colbury Church Rooms, Deerleap Lane, Colbury SO40 7EH. New members and visitors are always welcome. For more details email: ashurstsec@ hampshirewi.org.uk LIONS BOOKSTALL Romsey Lions hold their regular book stalls in e Cornmarket, Romsey. eir next book sales will be on Saturday 11th October and 8th November from 9am to 3pm. ey welcome donations of good quality paperbacks for the stall and also gi s for their bric-a-brac section. Donations can be taken along to the stall on the day of the sales or alternatively you can call: 0344 963 2463 to arrange for a collection to be made. Lions are both men and women, and there are no age restrictions to membership other than you must be over 18. ey are approachable people from many walks of life, and they enjoy an active social life. A few hours a month are all it takes to help others less fortunate in the community. If you would like to learn more about being a Lion and make new friends then get in touch with them on: secretary@ romseylions.co.uk or contact them on their direct club telephone number: 0344 963 2463. e Lions have a motto ‘Ordinary People Doing Amazing ings’. And they do year a er year. Railways of Southampton Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) and Mid Hants Railway, Solent Branch meetings are held in association with Mid Hants Railway – Southampton and Waterside Group. Meetings are held at Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road Eastleigh SO50 9FE and commence at 7.30pm. e room, on the rst oor (sorry no disabled access), is usually open from 7pm. A bar is available for refreshments. eir next meeting is on Wednesday 15th October for ‘Railways of Southampton’ from 6.30pm - 10pm. A donation of £3 is usual to help with the costs of the speaker and room hire. Non-members are very welcome at their meetings. Further details can be obtained from John Godfrey on: 07850 220009 or email: solent@rcts.org.uk
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