Page 20 • The HERALD • 3rd October 2024 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v EXPERT DOMESTICS APPLIANCE SERVICES Sales and Repairs to All Makes and Models 169-171 LONG LANE, HOLBURY • TEL (023) 8089 0054 POSSIBLY THE ONLY INDEPENDENT MAIN DEALER IN THE NEW FOREST For Bosch, Belling, Britannia, Candy, Ebac, Hotpoint, Hoover, Indesit, Ice King, LG, LEC, Liebherr, Miele, Neff, Sebo, Siemens, Stoves, Whirlpool, Zanussi and more... Free Standing & Built In Sales Centre Over 300 appliances in stock www.expertdomestics.co.uk ELECTRICIAN/HANDYMAN FULLY QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN (30YRS EXPERIENCE) • Mains Upgrades • Testing • Extra/Replacement Points/Lights • Outside Lighting • Sockets • Ponds • BT/TV Points • Ethernet Points • CCTV • Fire/Intruder Alarms • Basic Plumbing Repairs • Outside Taps • Showers • Heating Problems • Blinds/Poles Fixed • Flatpacks • Loft Work Boarding, Tidying etc ALL OTHER DOMESTIC WORK CONSIDERED Call Mick on 07738 166453 or email: michaelshelley80@googlemail.com Play on Words Literature Festival: for Writers, Readers and Lovers of Words Founded by two friends in New Milton in 2018, Play on Words Literature Festival returns this autumn for its fourth year with a wide range of events for readers and writers in New Milton and for the rst time expanding to Lymington and Totton. Running from 21st October to 4th November, highlights of the festival will include the Book Lovers Lunch with Sunday Times bestseller Lucy Clarke at the Cli House Restaurant; Words, Wine and Tapas with international wine judge and ction writer Helen McGinn at New Milton Rugby Club and a catered for with writing for well-being, writing your own story and mother and baby journalling for beginners, right through to advice on marketing, applying for funding and how to self-publish. A Local Writer Showcase celebrates neighbourly talent from the forest and its fringes. e festival is run by a steering group made up of local residents, writers and organisations including St Barbe, Forest Arts Centre, Culture in Common, the New Forest District Council, and the New Forest National Park Authority, coordinated by the Solent’s literature development organisation ArtfulScribe, with other partners and supporters including Hampshire Cultural Trust, Artswork, MAST May ower Studios, Hampshire Libraries, Coda Music, the Imaginarium bookshop, Fluid Motion eatre Company and Spud. is festival wouldn’t be possible without support from Arts Council England. For more information on events and activities, how to book, how to get involved in volunteering for the festival, or ways to share your writing, please visit the Play on Words website: www.playonwords.org.uk. ey are aiming to include more events in di erent locations around the New Forest in future years and welcome your suggestions. smooth-tongued night of music and spoken word from the fabulous Tongue Fu at Forest Arts Centre. There are plenty of participatory activities for children, families and adults especially during half term week including song writing, heritage and creative writing walks, comic creating and ‘zine writing. Writers at all levels are HYTHE INDOOR MARKET As well as the very popular Hythe Market held on the High Street, you will also nd an Indoor Market every Tuesday in St John’s Church Hall from 9am to 2pm. e indoor market has been running for over 30 years, o ering a wide variety of stalls from local cra ers and sellers. e regular stalls include handmade gi s for babies and children, jewellery, homemade cakes, preserves and jams, greetings cards, wooden fairy doors and trinket boxes, wind chimes and more! You can also take a break from the shopping whilst you are there and enjoy a hot drink and a bacon bap or slice of cake from the café run by volunteers from St John’s Church. Next time you are in Hythe on market day pop along and take a look! Lucy Clarke (copyright James Bowden) Helen McGinn Tongue Fu
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