11th May 2023 • The HERALD • Page 31 v SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES v ABOUT US Our roofers are the best in the business and are ready to give your roof a full and completely FREE inspection JIM GRASSICK Double Glazing Repairs • Locks • Handles • Hinges • Glass Over 40 years experience Tel: 07712 718343 Email: jamesgrassickSO45@gmail.com Put Your Repairs in Safe Hands Local Window & Gutter Cleaning Services PRIVATE, COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL • Fascias • Soffits • Guttering • Moss Clearing • Conservatories/Roofs • PVC • Cladding Fully Insured GUTTERS CLEANED AND REPAIRED T: 07946 222820 KDL PLUMBING & HEATING All Jobs Undertaken • Free Estimates and Advice ALL AREAS SERVED Call Kevin on 07475 128249 or 023 8009 0856 NO CALL OUT CHARGES ADDED e Library at the New Forest Heritage Centre has recently been gi ed a collection of books, documents and pictures by the Lewis Carroll Society. Carroll’s inspiration for Alice was Alice Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Carroll was at the time a Don. Alice was to marry Reginald Hargreaves of Cu nells - a large house on the edge of Lyndhurst, where she lived for most of the rest of her life, and is buried at St Michael and All Angels in Lyndhurst. One of the Heritage Centre’s most treasured objects is Alice’s mirror from Cu nells – an item much loved by Winchester Poetry Festival is calling on poets from around the world to submit their best, unpublished work to be in with a chance of winning £1000. Poems can be on any subject and in any form or style but must be written in English and be no more than 40 lines. e 2023 Winchester Poetry Prize Judge is multiaward winning poet and author, Za ar Kunial. Winchester Poetry Prize o ers prizes for poems judged as being the top three, with a special prize for the best poem by a poet living in Hampshire. Entry is £6 for the rst poem, and £5 for subsequent poems. e competition closes at 23:59 on 31st July 2023. Poems can be submitted by email or by post. Further details, including guidelines Are you over 55 and want to make the most of life once you’re no longer in full time work by exploring and sharing new ideas, skills and interests with your local U3A? Across the UK, U3A members are learning, staying active and having fun in later life. It’s local, social, friendly, low-cost and open to all. Totton U3A is now open to new members so why not join them. ey meet every second Thursday of each month at 1.45pm in the Palm Room at Totton & Eling Community Centre. eir next meeting is on Thursday 8th June for a talk by Nick Braddick ‘Would e Real Dodo Please Stand Up’. Various interest groups meet throughout the month to participate in learning and leisure activities and perhaps you can bring a new skill to share with others. Contact Christine Farleigh on 023 8086 2882 or email: cefarleigh@gmail.com for further information or just go along to their monthly meetings. Give it a try; you can be sure of a warm welcome! and how to enter can be found on the website: www.winchesterpoetryfestival. org/prize e prize-giving event will take place in front of a live audience at e ARC, Winchester, as part of the Winchester Poetry Festival programme 13th to 15th October 2023. Poetry Prize 2023 Opens for Entries Zaffar Kunial Alice Week at the New Forest Heritage Centre READY? SET. BAKE! own Cakes4Cancer fundraising pack including bunting template, recipe cards, games, cake toppers, balloons, a gi aid form and much more! For more information or to sign up please visit: www. wes sexcancer . org . uk/ event / cakes-4-cancer-2023 Bake a di erence this May and raise money for the vital services Wessex Cancer Trust provides for local people living with cancer. Cakes4Cancer is running until 31st May, you could host a tea party at home, hold a bake-o at work or run a bake sale in your local community. When you sign up you’ll receive your very Would The Real Dodo Please Stand Up younger visitors who enjoy peering into this special looking glass and dreaming of tea parties, white rabbits and frog footmen. To celebrate the Society’s generous gi , the Heritage Centre will be holding an Alice Week over the May/June half term. ere will be two evenings of talks – one of which will be delivered by Alice Liddell’s great-granddaughter – followed by a week of events for young people, including Mad Hatter hat making, Cheshire Cat owerpot painting and self-guided trails around Lyndhurst. For full details visit: www. newforestheritage.org.uk/events/ Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
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