Herald - Issue 422

v FOR GOOD ADVICE, ASK YOUR LOCAL SPECIALISTS v 21st April 2022 • The HERALD • Page 57 ANIMAL MAGIC 38 Pylewell Road, Hythe, Southampton, Hants SO45 6AQ Tel: (023) 8084 1000 Fax: (023) 8084 5651 www.hythevets.co.uk An Independent Local Practice The Pet Healthcare Centre Mobile Microchipping Service Friendly and professional service, in the comfort of your own home. Cheaper than your local vet. Call 07727 155219 Pets as erapy (PAT) are on the hunt for more furry friends and their owners to join their volunteers in the local area. PAT is a national charity that enhances the health and wellbeing of thousands of people in communities across the UK. ey strive to ensure that everyone, no matter their circumstances, has access to the companionship of an animal. PAT volunteers and their friendly pets visit establishments such as care homes, hospitals, hospices, schools and prisons, and bring smiles to many faces. People of all ages get the chance to chat to someone - and stroke and cuddle a dog or cat. ere is a huge demand locally for On the Search for Volunteers and their Four Pawed Friends! visits from the PAT volunteers, so the local team are looking for both two and four legged volunteers to join them in spreading joy in the local community. If you have a friendly dog or cat and would be interested in volunteering, you can meet some of the PAT volunteers from the SO postcode area for a gentle walk at Deerleap, near Ashurst on Sunday 24th April at 9.30am . You can meet the volunteers and their PAT dogs and nd out more about the amazing work they do within our community. If you are unable to attend the walk but would be interested in volunteering you can nd out more about the charity on their website: petsastherapy. org or contact local Voluntary Area Co-ordinator, Roger Hammett: roger. hammett@gmail.com PAT visit to a care home Get Your Paws on Tickets to The Coolest Dog Show in Town! well as enjoying the new water retrieve splash park and the Barkour urban playground. ere will also be over 120 exhibitors all showcasing their latest products with everything your dog could possibly want as well as lots of wonderful produce and gi s from New Forest producers. To get you paws on tickets visit: www. dogstival.co.uk Dogstival – the coolest dog show in town is returning to Romsey on the 4th and 5th June - with canine ‘kings and queens’ set to descend on Broadlands for a special Jubilee celebration. is years’ Dogstival is set to be full of fun and entertainment for humans and canines alike! In addition to world class dog displays, to get everyone’s paws racing Mobile Bike Events, the UK’s best BMX stunt team will be taking to the main arena sponsored by Hoburne Holidays. ere will also be music from Love Soul Choir and Sing Now Choir, and to get everyone laughing canine comedians e Barking Mad Comedy Squad will be performing. Four pawed visitors can have fun and burn o some energy in the giant Dog Village with 5 scurries, yball, agility, canicross and hoopers, as PAT hospital visit Animals at Barry’s Farm in Frost Lane, Hythe have been entertaining local children and adults alike for over 50 years. e donkeys, alpacas, goats, chickens, ducks, geese are adored by many. Of course, we can’t forget dear old Maggie the Pig who loves nothing more than a good roll in the mud! But of course, animals take A LOT of looking after. This care and commitment also comes at a huge nancial cost, with constant food and vet bills to pay it can all add up to a tidy sum. To raise funds for this amazing cause, local animal artist and volunteer Christine Jones has put her creativity and talent to good use, producing a beautiful greetings card suitable for all occasions. On sale at the Herald Office, Hythe for just £2 each (cash please!) the card features all the animals on the farm and ALL proceeds from the sale of the cards will be going directly to the care of the animals. As a community we can all play a part in helping Barry’s Farm continue and thrive for future generations to enjoy. e next indoor meeting of the New Forest Local Group of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds will be held at 7.30pm on Wednesday 11th May at Lyndhurst Community Centre, High Street, Lyndhurst SO43 7NY (doors open 7.00pm). eir guest speaker Dr Susan Clarke will give two mini presentations about our New Forest “Silver-Studded Blue Butter ies” and “Caterpillar Survival.” e RSPB New Forest Local Group’s next eld trip is on Saturday 7th May from 10am to 1pm to observe early summer migrant birds at Pig Bush in the New Forest (SU 362 050). Meet in Pig Bush car park on the B3056 Beaulieu Road. All meetings are subject to current covid restrictions. For any further information, please email: NewFo r e s tGr oup@RSPB . o r g . uk or visit: www.rspb.org.uk/groups/ newforest. Those taking part in eld trips should wear suitable, dull coloured clothing and sturdy footwear. Admission at indoor meetings for non- members is currently £5 per evening. Barry’s Farm Needs You! Out and About with the RSPB Solent Concert Orchestra raise over £600 for Ukraine Solent Concert Orchestra recently held their spring concert at St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst in aid of the Ukraine. is concert had it all, a full house, the decimation of the violin sections due to Covid, the last-minute rallying round by local musicians to plug the resultant gaps, the passionate yet sensitive performance of Beethoven’s challenging ‘Pastoral’ symphony but perhaps, most of all, the fact that the concert was in aid of Ukraine. Nearly £650 was raised. Each player sported a blue and yellow ribbon or woven ower and preceding the main performance the audience stood whilst the orchestra played the Ukrainian national anthem transposed and arranged by its musical director and conductor, SimonWilkins. e main programme opened with Rossini’s well-known overture ‘ e ieving Magpie’, a piece which contrasts the smug and mischievous strutting of the magpie with the galloping climax as the bird’s felony is discovered. e pace then slowed with the beautiful romantic ‘Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana’ by Mascagny. e nal piece of the rst half was Vivaldi’s baroque ‘Spring from The Four Seasons’ arranged by Tony Kitcherside, a former musical director of the orchestra. e second half consisted of one of the longest but perhaps most beautiful symphonies ever written, namely, Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No.6 in F major e Pastoral’. e orchestra succeeded in conveying the complex moods and dynamics of the countryside contained in the ve movements. e bucolic tranquillity contrasted violently with an almost demonic thunderstorm followed by the relief of the country folk and a return to peaceful normality conveyed by the piece’s familiar melodic theme; a tting ending to a truly impressive performance by the orchestra as a whole. Notwithstanding the necessary hasty last-minute reorganisation of the upper-string players with guest players from the New Forest Orchestra, Romsey and Winchester Chamber Orchestras. It was generally agreed that this was probably the best concert yet from the Solent Concert Orchestra. Among the audience was Dr. Julian Lewis MP the orchestra’s patron and his continued support is very much appreciated. e next concert will be at St. Win’s Church, Totton on Saturday 25th June beginning at 3pm. For more information visit: www. solentconcertorchestra.org.uk/future- concerts.