The online parish magazine of Old Basing and Lychpit
Hopefully, as you read this (early March) signs of spring will have already appeared in your garden in the form of snowdrops, crocus or daffodils. The famous Belle Vue daffs showed themselves around the 19th January, so amongst the rain…
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Chineham Medical Practice Probus Club Report Rotary Roundup Basingstoke Voluntary Action – Members Update Old Basing u3a Co-Operative Basingstoke & District Disability Forum Hampshire and IOW Wildlife Trust Crime Prevention Bulletin Chineham Medical Practice Update from Chineham Medical Practice January…
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From Tim Shapland: Backing on to the Lychpit, as we do, we get quite a few visitors of varying natures, with this one looking decidedly bashful when he realised he had been spotted. We’d been wondering what had been happening…
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From Terry McAnish: Daily visitors to my garden, Pheasants.
From Terry McAnish: Had a Squirrel and male Chaffinch together and had to tell my pheasant off for trying to eat my greenhouse!
So here we are again, lock-down number 3, though it feels like we have never really been out of one. Trouble is this time that lovely walk or bike ride wearing just shorts and a T-shirt seems like dream as…
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NATURE NOTES FOR JANUARY It is always odd writing for sometimes a month in advance of a date you might read said article but when it’s a whole New Year now that is weird! I do hope you all had…
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Arts Society Probus Club Report Rotary Roundup Basingstoke Voluntary Action – Members Update Old Basing u3a Old Basing Village Nursery School Arts Society LATEST LOCKDOWN. Are you wondering how to fill your day during the restrictions of another lockdown? Why…
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I do hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, as far it was allowed, and that you perhaps enjoyed your own Boxing Day walk seeing as the organised event had to be shelved. We probably all view 2021 with some…
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Probus Club Report Crime Prevention Bulletin December 2020 Basingstoke causes benefit from co-operative donation The Pink Place Probus Club Report Probus hears a story of Tilting at Windmills The classic book by Cevantes about the Spanish romantic, Don Quixote, who,…
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