With the great excuse for a 4 day weekend just around the corner and the sun starting to shine, The Dove has two great Bank Holiday events to tempt you. Whether you enjoy great food, a great country pub atmosphere or good music on your much cherished days off, The Dove is the place to be:

MONDAY 4TH JUNE – FROM 3.30pm

‘Pimms, Ploughmans and ‘Coco’ Band’

Al fresco style eating in our stunning garden at The Dove coupled with the great, chilled and relaxed sounds of ‘Coco’ Band.
If you loved ‘Paul the Other One’ you’ll love these guys! YOUNG, OLD, AND WELL BEHAVED FOUR LEGGED WARMLY WELCOME.

TUESDAY 5TH JUNE – LUNCHTIME (BOOKING REQUIRED)

‘The Great British Roast’

A Traditionally British Feast – Phill will be preparing a choice of 3 Roasts served with ALL the traditional trimmings to celebrate Her Majesty’s Reign – ‘Frightfully Good’ food to soak up the alcohol from the night before and prepare you for work the next day!

Phill and Sarah

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

Draft Recommendations

The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is carrying out an electoral review of Swale Borough Council.

The Commission’s draft recommendations report for the new electoral arrangements for Swale was published on the 2nd April 2012 and is available to view online:

http://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/south-east/kent/swale-electoral-review

There will be a ten-week period of public consultation on the draft proposals.

“Remember – your views can make a difference”

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!

Pop in for a drink and find out more!

Saturday 24th March 2012

Staging : 9.45am to 11.15am

Show Open 2.00pm Free Entry

Presentations 3.00pm followed by Auction.

Allotments are an extremely good way to reduce your shopping bills. The community that forms around allotments enables the sharing of knowledge and experience which should encourage anyone new to veg growing to give it a try. The establishment of allotments in the village would be a valuable way of enhancing our community and to increase our green credentials.

As the brave soul who suggested such a scheme and with general support from the Parish Council, I am now in search of anyone in the area who would be interested in an allotment. A traditional allotment is 10 rods (90×30 feet), but they also come in halves. Swale council’s guide to allotment rents put a full plot at £29 a year, £14.50 for concessions and £14.50 for a half plot, £7.23 for concessions. If you are interested in having a plot please do get in touch with me at Hernhill.Allotments@gmail.com , alternatively, drop me a note. One hopes that I’m not alone in my ambitions and once some other like minded individuals come forward, we can discuss the next steps.

Matt Cooper
2 Mount Pleasant Cottages
Kays Lane

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