The Annual Hernhill Fete takes place on Saturday May 5th from 2pm.

Lots of stalls, entertainment, refreshments and more in the lovely setting of hernhill village with lovely views over the surrounding countryside.

A Day in the Life of Hernhill Parish

As part of the Jubilee celebrations, Open Dawes propose a PHOTO EXHIBITION of “A Day In the Life of Hernhill Parish”, a snapshot of village life in one day, capturing the ordinary, every-day activities of everyone living, working, walking or just passing through the village.

We would like everyone to join in and photograph themselves, their neighbours, the post-man, the workmen, animals, plants, buildings, everyone and anyone, anything and everything, they see in the parish on the day, doing their every-day activities.

If you have a digital camera and are willing to volunteer as an amateur photo-journalist for the day, (or evening) please contact me. If you would like to be included in the project, or have any suggestions of what should be included, but do not have a camera, we can send a volunteer with a camera out to you on the day. We would like to include as many residence of the parish as possible (everyone, ideally!) If you do not have a digital camera, but would like to take your own photos, I do have a scanner and can scan photo prints for inclusion in the project. We will ask for photos to be submitted by 8th May, so that we can display them over the Jubilee weekend. They will then be made permanently available on the hernhill.net website. Please contact Miriam with offers of help or suggestions on 0227 752189 or

Miriam@machin.f9.co.uk

All photos should be taken on Tuesday 1st May 2012 please – get your cameras ready!

• Friday 27th April 9pm – live music with Ivan’s All Stars (Ivan is the sax player from Hullabaloo)
• Bank Holiday Monday 7th May 3pm – live music, band TBC Sunday 3rd June – Jubilee Street party on the village green, pig roast at the pub and, at 3pm, live jazz band
• Bank Holiday Monday 4th June 1-4pm – Insect Day
• Monday 11th June 7-11pm – Psychic Night
• Saturday 23rd June – Ben’s 1st anniversary party. Come and celebrate the end of a very successful first year and enjoy live music from Coco
• Sunday 15th July 2.30-5pm – live music from Hullabaloo
• Saturday 11th August – Comedy Night

Pop in for a drink and find out more!

Hernhill Horticultural Society Spring Show

Saturday 24th March 2012

Staging : 9.45am to 11.15am

Show Open 2.00pm Free Entry

Presentations 3.00pm followed by Auction.

Easter Sunday at The Red Lion, Hernhill

Hernhill Village Fete, Saturday 5th May    Toys Needed!

For the Toy Stall

Please bring any unwanted toys to TODDLER GROUP, Hernhill Village Hall, every Thursday Morning or give them to Abbie or Miriam

All Proceeds to Village Charities

Image: www.bergencountytoysfortots.com

The AGM will be held at the village hall on Thursday, February 16. After the business meeting, Len Olive will give a talk on growing and showing dahlias. Mr Olive is an RHS judge and has exhibited dahlias and narcissi internationally. Members are welcome to bring along guests for the talk.

The spring show will be on March 24 and the summer show on June 9.

Music at the Three Horseshoes:

Saturday, January 28 sees the return of the Blues Bandits at 8pm

Saturday, February 11, Run VT will entertain.

Admission free. Further details from Marc or Lucy on 01227 750842.

Photo: http://www.thanetbuzz.co.uk/content/blues-bandits

The Boughton Players will be presenting their pantomime Aladdin!

at Boughton Village Hall on Friday January 27 and Saturday January 28.
The Friday and Saturday evening performances start at 7.30pm, and tickets cost £6 (children £4).
There is also a matinee show on the Saturday, starting at 2pm; tickets cost £3.
Tickets are available at Boughton Post Office, or call Judy Collins on 01227 751742.

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Walk to Crooked Oak

Sunday 29th January

Families and individuals are invited to join us for a guided walk in Blean Woods Nature Reserve with

Local Expert David Shire

We will visit the moated site near Crooked Oak and look at other archaeological and natural landmarks on the reserve.

10.00am Meet in the car park of The Red Lion, Dunkirk

for a 1 – 1 ½ hour walk and a drink/meal in The Red Lion, Dunkirk

Roast Dinners available

Please ring Miriam on 01227 752189, or email miriam@machin.f9.co.uk if you would like to join us.

Please bring a donation for Tree Aid.

No Dogs

The Bird Walk on Sunday has been moved to OARE!

Because of the dry weather there is not much to see at Elmley at the moment so we will now be visiting Oare wildlife reserve instead, where it IS wet and there are lots of birds to see.

We will visit Elmley at a later date TBC.

10.45am Meet at Hernhill Village Green to drive in convoy

11.00am Meet at Oare Reserve Car Park

The walk will be approximately 1 – 11/2 hours, with a stop in a hide.

Directions: http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/pdfs/reserves/oareMarshes.pdf

Photo: tripadvisor.co.uk

Apologies if you are disappointed because we are not going to Elmley this time, but there really will be more to see at Oare!

Please contact miriam@machin.f9.co.uk if you would like to come.

“We are just finalising our accounts for the 2011 fireworks event, and despite the bad weather and resulting lower attendance, we have still made a profit of around £3,000.  I would like to thank all the committee and everyone who helped over the weekend, for all their hard work. It really is a team effort.

This year we will once again be able to offer a donation to the Village Hall as well as the Church Restoration Fund.

Although the fireworks event is the major fundraiser for the DCA for the year, we would very much like it to become more of a fundraiser for the whole community, especially since there are discussions in progress regarding the better joint use of both the DCA and Village Hall buildings.

There are more and more people from the village getting involved and we are keen to encourage locally based stall holders etc. Obviously the event would not be possible without the long term support of the Dawes family, but in these very difficult times, the fireworks event represents a real opportunity for more of our community to work together for the benefit of all.

This year’s date for the fireworks event  is November 3rd. I would encourage any newer and or older members of our community to get involved in any small way they feel they can. This can be help with set up on the Friday/Saturday. Help on the night or help with packing up on the Sunday morning. We are really trying to spread the load amongst more people so that no one has to give up too much time”.

Felix Krish – Fireworks Committee Chair