Month: August 2024

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3 x T’s Thornton Community Centre ~ 14th Aug

Wednesday afternoon, 14th August, 2 until 4 pm

Community Centre Thornton, LE67 1AH

Everyone is invited to drop in for a cuppa, cheese scones, cake and much more.  No charge.  Well behaved dogs on leads welcome.  It’s your afternoons. Meet new friends, exchange ideas, learn new skills or just come for the company.  Hope that you can join us. 

Gemma from the Hinckley Rural Hub will be with us again, offering advice on all sorts of things.

PC 658 Allan Charles will also be with us running a beat surgery again where people can individually speak to him about issues concerning them. 

Come prepared to ask about any concerns you have.  Gemma and Allan are there to help us.

All the usual:  Jig saws, and board games will be provided and a book swap.  Toys and a play area available for young families.

Just pop in and spend some time in happy surroundings.  Lifts available.

Children 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Organised by the village for the villagers.

For more information message me.

Shirley (shirley.garlick19@btinternet.com)

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Thornton Church services 11th & 18th August

Hello St Peter’s and Friends

Details of the next two services are as follows:

Sunday 11th August  

Refreshments from 10am.

The service will start at 10. 30am.

Sunday 18th August 

There will be a Benefice Open Air Service at Ulverscroft Priory at 3 pm. 

Please bring a chair.

This will be the only service in the Benefice that Sunday. It is a wonderful opportunity for us all to worship together in wonderful surroundings.

Delicious cake and tea & coffee after the service.

A huge thank you to everyone involved in making this happen,  particularly all at Copt Oak church. 

If you are able to help in anyway please do say.

Hope you can join in with these services.  Please do let us know if you need a lift.

Shirley (Church warden)

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Thornton churchyard working party

There is a churchyard working party this Saturday, 10th August, from 10 until 12 noon.

It would be great if you could join us, even if its only for a short time.

One of the jobs for this Saturday is to tidy the area around the external heating units. We have weed suppressing black material, gravel boards and gravel.

Other jobs include all the usual things – tidying graves, removing saplings etc.

Please do wear suitable shoes, stout gloves and bring whatever tools you think you would need. And of course a drink.

Hope to see you.

 

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Flower, Plant & Herb Cryptic Quiz – answers

Thank you to everyone who took part in another of my cryptic quizzes.

The theme of this one was to coincide with Thornton Open Gardens in July and added to the fundraising efforts in aid of the maintenance of St Peter’s Church.

This quiz proved to be a ‘bit of a challenge’ with some regular quizzers saying it was harder than my usual cryptic quizzes.

There were just two ‘quizzers’ who got all 50 questions correct .. congratulations to them – neither of them were local, but were visiting from Ilfracombe and Nottingham respectively.

But, there can only be one winner – the two names were put in a hat and Jan Ward from Nottingham was the winner of the £10 prize.

The answers are: –

  • 1. First sign of a white Christmas (8) – SNOWDROP
  • 2. A wise man (4) – SAGE
  • 3. You may see this in the blink of an eye (4) – IRIS
  • 4. Is she shrinking? (6) – VIOLET
  • 5. Clinging female (3) – IVY
  • 6. What did ‘Ben rave’ about? (7) – VERBENA
  • 7..She likes ‘keeping up appearances’ – HYACINTH
  • 8. You might have this on your hands when you’ve finished gardening (5) – THYME
  • 9. You ‘split’ these bulbs to propagate (6) TULIPS
  • 10. Prudence (6) – THRIFT
  • 11. Jeer at this fruit (4, 6) – MOCK ORANGE
  • 12.Nearly top of this football league (7) – CAMPION
  • 13. What is our ‘main goal’ about? Answering this clue of course (8) MAGNOLIA
  • 14. Chris Hoy & Chris Frome often slightly muddled can be described as this (8) – CYCLAMEN
  • 15. Sizzling card game (3, 3, 5) RED HOT POKER
  • 16. Did this summon Thomas Beckett to his death? (10, 4) – CANTERBURY BELL
  • 17.Picture this legendary Welsh creature (10) – SNAPDRAGON
  • 18. A clean sweep with this plant (5) – BROOM
  • 19. Female singer/songwriter born in 1979 (4) – PINK
  • 20. ‘Stare’ hard to see this flower (5) ASTER
  • 21. The Universe (6) – COSMOS
  • 22. Is my ding-a-ling depressed? (8) – BLUEBELL
  • 23. Watering can attachment (4) – ROSE
  • 24. Did she get hitched on a tandem? (5) – DAISY
  • 25. Females cloak (5, 6) – LADYS MANTLE
  • 26. Rubber gloves? (9) – MARIGOLDS
  • 28. Symbol of remembrance (5) – POPPY
  • 29. Go faster, better (9) – SPEEDWELL
  • 30. Remember (6,2,3) – FORGET ME NOT
  • 31.’Vain to the core’ (8) – VERONICA
  • 32. All alone in the onion patch (7) – PETUNIA
  • 33. US state climber (7) – MONTANA
  • 34. Up early to ‘egg on’ this song bird (8) – LARKSPUR
  • 35. This ‘proper’ English lady is out late in the day (7, 8) – EVENING PRIMROSE
  • 36. At its best between dawn & noon (7, 5) – MORNING GLORY
  • 37. Has she been involved in a punch up? (5,4, 5) – BLACK EYED SUSAN
  • 38. National flower of Mexico (6) – DAHLIA
  • 39. Assume this position to meditate (5) – LOTUS
  • 40. Colloquial – great, fantastic, brilliant (4) – MINT
  • 41. Head gear of a man of the cloth (9) – MONKSHOOD
  • 42. Canine coppice (7) – DOGWOOD
  • 43. Sweet food nurtured by bees (11) – HONEYSUCKLE
  • 44. There are definitely strings attached to this plant (5) – VIOLA
  • 45. Whether they are green or blue, when I am Queen, you will be my King (8) LAVENDER
  • 46. Shy and introverted especially at parties (10) – WALLFLOWER
  • 47. ‘All is ready for Mary’ (9) – AMARYLLIS
  • 48. Our late Queen always had much to do (4, 6) – BUSY LIZZIE
  • 49. Beside the lake beneath the trees fluttering and dancing in the breeze (9)   DAFFODILS
  • 50. 24 hours and she’s gone! (7) – DAYLILY

This quiz is copyright of Gill Tapping, Thornton village – and may not be reproduced for any purpose without the author’s permission.

If you are a fundraiser for your local charity I have some similar cryptic quizzes to this one, on various topics and am happy for their use in fundraising in exchange for a small donation of £10 which will be given to the Friends of St Peter’s towards the maintenance of the church and grounds.