We're delighted to be running Harry's lunch for the third year on Wednesday 22nd September 2010. It will be held once again at St Katherines in Parmoor and the chosen charity this year is the Child Bereavement Trust.
The menu will be a choice of Salmon with Pesto Crust, Chicken Provencale or the vegetarian option of Aubergine and Mozzarella Bake/ Towers. This will be served with seasonal vegetables and minted potatoes. This will be followed by a dessert of Chocolate Brownie with Cream or Meringue Hedgehogs with Fruit Couli. Tea and Coffee will then be served.
Please could you advise us of your choice when booking your ticket.
We do hope you can come along and bring your friends. It would be lovely to see you all again this year for this fun and sociable occasion and also to raise valuable funds for charity. As you know we do like a theme and this year is no different. It is to be Harvest time with the addition of hedgehogs!
Tickets remain at the same price of £25.00.
For tickets or more information please contact Judi 01628 483962 hithemills@clara.co.uk or Wendi on 01628 475150 wendiparcell@sabrehost.net.
Thanking you for your continued support.
Wendi and Judi
Over Easter, Marlow Merlins toured in France, playing Montigny-le-Bretonneux u15s. Hard fought, the boys played well but eventually lost to the stronger French side.
John Watson (Marlow Merlins) presented the winners with a pair of ‘Harry’s socks’ and said that the team would be remembering Harry with a minute’s silence during their game on 25th April.The French players were touched by Harry’s story and wanted to wear the socks at their next match, Thierry Lucidarme (Montigny-le-Brettoneux) sent the attached photos of his team wearing ‘Harry’s socks’ during a match the following weekend.
Steve King joined 54,000 runners for September 2009’s Great North Run in Newcastle and 2,000 entrants for the Marlow 5, running for the Meningitis Research Foundation. He completed the both races in excellent times and raised a total of £1650.
15 year old Guy Lambert ran the Marlow 5, a 5mile road race around Marlow. He achieved an impressive time of 40mins 33secs and raised £50 for the Meningitis Trust. He intends to run it again next year when his mother Jane runs for the first time – is he worried? Nah!
Vicky Tippell (on the right with Jenny - Harry's sister) and friend Michael 'Spiderman' Greene have hit their £500 target running the Bath Half Marathon. To date £680 have been raised for the Meningitis Research Foundation. You can still donate at their Justgiving site.
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| Harry's Garden July |
Harry’s Garden, part of the Future Gardens/Butterfly World Project was officially opened on 4th June by Emilia Fox & David Bellamy – both patrons of Butterfly World. Around 1000 people attended the event, including 300 representatives from the gardening and national press. Clive Farrell, founder of the project, made special reference to Harry’s Garden in his speech to the press and later introduced us to Emilia Fox who has sponsored the garden.
As the press entered through the rugby posts they were greeted by bubbles from a bubble machine and Fern Alder (garden designer) wearing some impressive butterfly wings. Many of the flowers, including the alliums and sweet peas were in full bloom and looking fantastic, others such as the wild flower bank will come into their own as the summer progresses. The sunflowers (grown by Harry’s friends) are getting much taller & sturdier but won’t flower until later on, so children from Jack & Jill Nursery produced some handprint sunflowers for us to place in the border especially for press day. June Kingsbury’s resin football and rugby balls, strategically placed in Fern’s experimental straw bales, were much admired as were Fern’s green hedgehogs. & naturalistic plantings. We were delighted that Iain & Neil from the Meningitis Research Foundation and Sue from the Child Bereavement Charity were able to come along, and hope that Harry’s Garden will help raise awareness of the wonderful work these two charities do. Harry’s Garden is open until October and will then be replaced by a new charity garden each year.
The 12 Future Gardens competition gardens are all strikingly different with themes ranging from ‘Narratives of Nature’ to ‘Urban Greening’ and created by both established international designers and some less well known. They have all been designed to develop over the 4 months that the gardens remain open. The main site is amazing and children in particular will love to explore the Very Hungry Caterpillar’s edible garden, the Theatre of Insects and the ‘Through the Flowerpot’ garden, where like Alice through the looking glass you are shrunk to Lilliputian size. There’s also a giant leafcutter ant sitting atop an anthill on the edge of the site as well as a tropical butterfly house – a temporary structure until the giant dome is completed in 2011.
Although this is just Phase 1 there is lots to see and do and makes a great day out.
It’s located just off junction 21A of the M25 on the outskirts of St Albans – around a 30minutes drive from Marlow.
Opening times:
5th June – 4th October 2009
7 days a week 9.30am-6pm
Article in the St Albans and Harpenden Review
Links to Butterfly World/Future Gardens website
