January 2022

17 Buckden Roundabout January 2022 For Your Diary Buckden Gardeners Association Please note that BGA meetings are on hold until further notice Members free Visitors welcome £2.50 For further information go to our website: http://www.buckdengardeners.info/ or call Pam on 01480 811680 ALLOTMENT VACANCIES - BUCKDEN (A1) Opportunity to rent a space for producing organically grown and healthier vegetables close to home. Situated off Northbound Lane of A1, 200 yards south of the Roundabout Plot size approximately 200sq yds. 2 plots available from January 2022. Rental for 12 months (renewed annually) £10.00 per plot. Irrigation of plots from barrel - stored rain water. There is no mains water available. Contact: Maggie Murray - Smith, Trustee, at maggie.murray - smith@hotmail.com Phone: 01480 810139 Allotments owned and managed by the Almshouse Charities of James South and William Burberry Buckden Learning Group Eye of the Beholder Tutor: Ges Hartley 11th January - 22 March 2022 (half term 15th February) 10 to 11:45am Please call Bridget Hale on 01480 216391 for all other details. January brings the snow, Makes your feet and fingers glow. February's ice and sleet, Freeze the toes right off your feet. Welcome, March, with wint'ry wind, Would thou were not so unkind. April brings the sweet spring showers, On and on for hours and hours. Farmers fear unkindly May, Frost by night and hail by day. June just rains and never stops, Thirty days and spoils the crops. In July the sun is hot, Is it shining? No it's not! August, cold and dank and wet, Brings more rain than any yet. Bleak September's mist and mud, Is enough to chill the blood. Then October adds a gale, Wind and slush and rain and hail. Dark November brings the fog, Should not do it to a dog. Freezing wet December, then... B***** January again! January brings the snow Makes your feet and fingers glow! - Lyrics to Flanders and Swann ’ s comic song. It can be heard here: https://tinyurl.com/y5zwst9y A Song of the Weather