Just a quick update. Female still incubating 8 eggs. Male still sleeping in the box at night. All looking good for the moment. We expect the eggs to start hatching next weekend. In the meantime, here’s a sweet picture from the other day when mum got a bit over ambition with the decor….
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Tagged volunteering, golden valley
HEREFORD
A centre providing day opportunities for people with physical disabilities is looking for volunteers to help with gardening, cookery, arts and crafts, pottery, computers and table-top games. Also, anyone with an interest in rural life, folklore etc. able to talk about any aspect of local history would be welcome.
A growing and dynamic cricket club needs volunteers to coach, score, umpire and fill a number of support roles including helping in the bar and kitchen, fundraising, grounds work and producing the club newsletter.
Help is desperately needed in the local shop run by the world’s leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. Opportunity to gain an NVQ in retail if 4 hours per week are worked.
LEOMINSTER AND DISTRICT
Have you 90 minutes to spare? Drivers with own cars needed to deliver meals on wheels. Flexible – daily/weekly/monthly, whatever time you have available. Expenses paid.
Help a group of other volunteers to run activities for 11-16 year olds in a purpose built youth centre in Wigmore, North Herefordshire, under the guidance of the youth worker. May also accompany trips etc. Flexible hours.
KINGTON AREA
Assist a well-established group in opening a unique old house near Kington to the public and give tours around the property (if the volunteer wishes), 28 June to 1 July, and 4 – 7 October. 1.00pm – 5.00p.m. Mingle and just be a presence to help. Also tea and cakes offered.
GOLDEN VALLEY
Operate a small community library in Peterchurch, open and close, keep records, deal with customers, issue items, handling cash/taking fines and charges, shelving items, keep stock tidy, use internet for information/enquiries, keep all information up to date.
ROSS-ON-WYE
Help adults by providing one-to-one support for reading, writing, spelling, language and computer skills, basic maths. Lessons are conducted at the organisation’s centre or in the home as required. Students get all their lessons free.
COUNTY-WIDE
Do you know about the effects of Motor Neurone Disease? Come and join a friendly cheerful group and help to support people in Herefordshire by being a visitor for people with the disease. The group would also welcome new committee members.
Two vacancies have arisen on the board of our local theatre, and new non-executive members with background and skills in the arts, business and/or fundraising are sought. Applications close on 31st May.
Everybody is different and some of these ideas will appeal to you and some of them won’t, but if the idea of volunteering is something you are still considering, then try logging onto the national volunteering website, www.do-it.org.uk or ring Herefordshire Volunteer Centre on its free phone number 0800 9122339 or email: volunteer@herefordshireva.org.
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Tagged Kilpeck, herefordshire, volunteering
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Posted in Noticeboard, Things to do in the area
The film this Friday 18th , 7 pm for a 7.30 start at Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall is
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITE (15)
82 mins
This is the uplifting story of one of those chance encounters that can radically change the course of your life, Germain (Gerald Depardieu) is a large, unmarried and almost illiterate man in his fifties. Marguerite is a tiny, elderly woman with a passion for the written word. When Germain happens to sit beside her on a park bench and she reads him extracts from her novels, an unlikely friendship develops. Under her tutelage, he discovers a love of literature and, with it, a wisdom that confounds his friends at the bistro, who have always treated him like an idiot. As Marguerite begins to lose her eyesight, Germain sees an opportunity to use his love for this sweet and mischievous grandmother to improve both his own life and hers.
Not to be missed !
Tickets on the door as usual, £4 a ticket.
Well it looks as though we’ve come to the end of the egg laying. Mum has started incubating this morning which means she has probably laid her eighth egg this morning and she may even lay a ninth tomorrow but that should be it now.
Incubation takes 14 days so all being well the first eggs should hatch around the 26th May.
In the meantime, I’ve been watching them for just half an hour this morning and Dad has been popping in constantly bringing Mum food and just hanging about in the box. What a guy!
‘Love you’
‘Love you more’
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Tagged blue tit, Kilpeck, nesting box, What's on in Kilpeck
