Our latest newsletter can be downloaded here: September 2019 newsletter
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Our next newsletter will be published in November. If you have a village event or relevant news, please send this to Pam Manfield (pamela.manfield@gmail.com).
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Doors open 7 pm for 7.30 start
All residents are invited and encouraged to come along to The Narth & District Village Hall Annual General Meeting. It’s your chance to have your say about the village hall.
Village groups will be giving reports of their activities, so it’s also a good opportunity to find out more about them and the incredible choice we have in our small village.
Refreshments will be served – tea, coffee and nibbles free, and no charge for the first wine or beer.
The agenda will be Continue reading
The 24th September meeting of the garden club will be open to all with no entry charge.
Come along to the Village Hall at 19.15 for coffee, tea and socialising.
This will be followed at 20.00 by a entertaining talk by the ever popular Alun and Jill Whitehead entitled “An autumnal romp – A seasonal look at gardens and Art.” New members are always welcome.”
The Narth Garden Club usually meets on the last Tuesday of the month (except July, August and December), and arranges visits to popular sites in the summer. Contact the secretary Wendy Hill on 01600 860121 for details or go along to one of the meetings to find out more.
There’s been some confusion about which stretches of the B4293 are closed and when, over the period 11th to 25th September. The Pelham Hall web site is keeping up to date and has comprehensive information here. With thanks to David May for doing this.
The Friends of the 65 Bus have details of the revised routes and timetable for the bus over this period on their Facebook page
The next Wye Valley Women meeting will be in the Village Hall on Tuesday 17th September at 7:30pm, when the speaker will be Sue Falconer who will be well known to many in the village. Sue’s talk is entitled “Quilting not Patchwork”
Quilting is a centuries old skill. After a brief, illustrated history of this fascinating, skill Sue will outline the main hand quilting techniques and their potential uses. Samples of different techniques and a range of quilted items will be on display.
The Footpath Project was launched in 2015 to maintain and improve the rights of way around the village for the benefit of residents and walkers, and to promote walking as a healthy and social activity in our area. This is their latest report:
“The Footpath Group has been active again through 2019. Our regular monthly maintenance group has been keeping paths accessible and in good order by cutting encroaching vegetation and we have been out with the Monmouthshire County Council Wardens to overhaul some of the paths between Pen y Fan and Bigsweir. We installed twelve new waymarking posts to make the routes easier to follow, so please give them a try. The more our footpaths are used, then the easier they will be for us to keep clear. Continue reading
The Wye Valley Women’s monthly Walk and Talks are resuming in September. The first walk will be next Tuesday 3rd September when we will do a figure-of-eight walk through the woods towards New Mills. There are no stiles and some gentle gradients which we will take slowly!
Meet as usual at 9:30am outside the Village Hall.
Please wear clothing suitable for the weather conditions and sensible footwear.
Everyone welcome, including dogs on leads.
A few years ago, Mari realised she had disappeared. Shocked but undaunted, she’s decided to use this misfortune to her advantage. Get ready for red lipstick, rubber bands and retribution as Mari attempts to right the wrongs of her community.
But there’s something else behind her crusade. Can she make peace with the past to fix her present? Can she make herself visible to those who matter most to her?
The Invisible Woman is a one-woman dark comedy about ageing ungracefully and searching for significance, written by Ailsa Jenkins and inspired by her own disappearance. It is performed by Welsh actress Nicola Reynolds.
Doors and bar open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.
Narth Lane will be closed to traffic temporarily soon, probably from 3rd September to 5th September if all goes to plan. This is to allow a BT telegraph pole to be replaced. The council’s official notice says that ‘reasonable access will be maintained for properties fronting the affected lengths of road during the period of the closure.’
Please direct any queries to the Highways Department at Monmouthshire County Council: highways@monmouthshire.gov.uk or 01633 644644.
