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Arms and the Man
On 13th November the Theatre Goers group returned to the Theatre Royal in Winchester to see G.B. Shaw's Arms and the Man, a play which some of us vaguely remembered seeing decades ago. The basic premise of the plot is that Serbia and Bulgaria are at war and a Serbian officer enters the young heroine's…
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Chandlers Ford Walk: November 2024
Monday 4th November - Chandlers Ford walk led by Lesley Wealleans A group of us met at The Hilt car park, Chandlers Ford, and walked around Hiltingbury Lakes (approx. seventeen acres of water, woodland and wildlife).
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A walk from Itchen Abbas
Dave and Jenny led a group of walkers from the 3-6-mile walking group that left the Plough Inn in Itchen Abbas for a walk through the Hampshire countryside. The circular walk took us through Avington, Easton, Martyr Worthy, and back to the Plough for a well-deserved lunch. Along the route, we walked through quintessential Hampshire…
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Visit to Sir Harold Hillier Garden
On the morning of 23 October a group gathered at the entrance of the Sir Harold Hillier Garden for a guided tour. Led by three members of staff, the tour took us through the Winter Garden, the National Collection Glade, the Himalayan Valley, and finally the Centenary Border. The colours of the foliage at this…
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Murder in the Citizens' Jury and The Lion & the Unicorn
The Theatre Goers group went to two productions in October. They were both new plays. The first, at the Maskers' Studio, was Murder in the Citizens' Jury, which was set in a future in which Citizens' Juries have been set up to discuss environmental issues in the face of an alarming acceleration of global warming.…