Friday, 14 May 2010
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
MELLS GARDENS OPEN ALL DAY ON SATURDAY 22 MAY
14 of Mells finest gardens will be open from the extended hours of 11 am to 5 pm on Saturday 22 May, following our successful first open gardens afternoon last year. On display are 5 gardens open for the first time this year and the historic formal South Court at Mells Manor will again be opening its garden gate.
One of the gardens on show:
The gardens featured range from traditional cottage gardens, large, medium and tiny, a river-side garden, a hill-side garden, a walled garden growing commercial cut flowers, a small holding with animals and several gardens with chickens.
Lunches, teas and home-made cakes are being served at the ancient Mells Tithe Barn, where there will also be a plant stall.
The proceedings will be accompanied by the ringing of bells from the fifteenth century St Andrew’s Church, courtesy of Mells Ringers.
Mells Gardens are being opened in aid of the community run Mells Village Shop which will also be open for business. Tickets with a map at £4.00 are available in advance and on the day from Mells Village Shop and Post Office, Woodlands End, Mells. Accompanied children under 16 go free.
For further information, please contact June Costelloe: junecostelloe@yahoo.co.uk 01373 812199
One of the gardens on show:
The gardens featured range from traditional cottage gardens, large, medium and tiny, a river-side garden, a hill-side garden, a walled garden growing commercial cut flowers, a small holding with animals and several gardens with chickens.
Lunches, teas and home-made cakes are being served at the ancient Mells Tithe Barn, where there will also be a plant stall.
The proceedings will be accompanied by the ringing of bells from the fifteenth century St Andrew’s Church, courtesy of Mells Ringers.
Mells Gardens are being opened in aid of the community run Mells Village Shop which will also be open for business. Tickets with a map at £4.00 are available in advance and on the day from Mells Village Shop and Post Office, Woodlands End, Mells. Accompanied children under 16 go free.
For further information, please contact June Costelloe: junecostelloe@yahoo.co.uk 01373 812199
Monday, 22 February 2010
Volunteers Wanted for Daffodil Day - Monday 5th April 2010
The Daffodil Day Committee have organized things a bit differently this year in terms of proceeds from some of the various activities. It means that any money made from within the Manor House grounds will come directly to the shop. Therefore, we need to do our best to raise as much as possible.
Firstly, we will need volunteers to man the entrance gates. We plan to ‘do’ teas in the corner of the North Court with a string trio to lend a little light music! There could then be children’s games on the lawns nearby.
We are hoping that there can be pony rides in the paddock, a fortune teller (a traditional figure in times gone by!) and there is plenty of room to allow space for any other bright ideas!
Would you be free to help on the day? If so could you gave me some idea of the times that would best suit you and which activity you would most like to help with.
Could you bake some cakes? Would you like to serve teas?
We will need a small gazebo for the fortune teller to give some protection from the elements!
If we need tables and chairs would you be able to loan some?
Do you have any garden games which might be fun and suitable? Perhaps a set of boule? We do have some other things already.
Time marches on and although the event seems a long way away it is only a matter of weeks. Let us hope that the sun will shine!
With many thanks. I look forward to hearing from you.
Liz O’Sullivan 812201 or s-eosullivan@hotmail.co.uk
Firstly, we will need volunteers to man the entrance gates. We plan to ‘do’ teas in the corner of the North Court with a string trio to lend a little light music! There could then be children’s games on the lawns nearby.
We are hoping that there can be pony rides in the paddock, a fortune teller (a traditional figure in times gone by!) and there is plenty of room to allow space for any other bright ideas!
Would you be free to help on the day? If so could you gave me some idea of the times that would best suit you and which activity you would most like to help with.
Could you bake some cakes? Would you like to serve teas?
We will need a small gazebo for the fortune teller to give some protection from the elements!
If we need tables and chairs would you be able to loan some?
Do you have any garden games which might be fun and suitable? Perhaps a set of boule? We do have some other things already.
Time marches on and although the event seems a long way away it is only a matter of weeks. Let us hope that the sun will shine!
With many thanks. I look forward to hearing from you.
Liz O’Sullivan 812201 or s-eosullivan@hotmail.co.uk
Monday, 8 February 2010
Friday, 15 January 2010
Advent Concert CD Available
The CD of the Royal Middlesex Orpheus Advent concert (see post below) is now ready and can be purchased by sending a cheque made out to Peter O’Toole to:
1, Springfield Road
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 9AP
The price is £10 including UK p&p. If you have any questions, please contact Peter on 0208 977 0998 or by e-mail at; peter_otoole@lineone.net
1, Springfield Road
Teddington
Middlesex
TW11 9AP
The price is £10 including UK p&p. If you have any questions, please contact Peter on 0208 977 0998 or by e-mail at; peter_otoole@lineone.net
Friday, 4 December 2009
Sassoon Poem to feature in Fund-Raising Concert in St Andrew's Church, Mells
The village of Mells, outside Frome, is the location of poet Siegfried Sassoon’s grave. It is thus especially appropriate that St Andrew’s Church in Mells should be the venue for the second performance of a setting of Sassoon’s poem ‘Everyone Sang’ by Oxford-based composer John Duggan.
On the 19th December, the Royal Middlesex Orpheus will bring this new work to Mells as part of an Advent concert in support of the community-run Mells village shop and also the church. It will be performed together with Duggan’s setting of the poem ‘Requiem’ by another World War One poet, Ivor Gurney.
Royal Middlesex Orpheus music director Matthew O’Sullivan, whose own composition ‘Advent: White Full Moon’ will receive its world premiere at the Mells concert, said of John’s work: “I was immediately taken by John’s imaginative approach to choral texture, which creates the kind of transparency that one comes across all too rarely in new music. The way the music works in reminiscences of both very new and very old styles of music, while always remaining accessible, makes it a delight for the listener.”
The Royal Middlesex Orpheus is a choir of young singers, most of whom met as choral scholars at Cambridge University, and who now enjoy singing to a professional standard while pursuing careers in other fields. In May 2008 the men of the Royal Middlesex Orpheus took part in the 3rd Bratislava Festa Choralis, competing against choirs from all over the world, where they were awarded first place in the male voice section. On 19th December they bring male and female sections together in a programme where the very newest works rub shoulders with Advent classics from the 11th to the 20th century.
Tickets cost £8.00/£6.00 conc. and are available in advance from Mells Village Shop or by contacting 01373 812201 or 812320. The concert begins at 6.30.
Journalists: For further background contact Matthew O’Sullivan on 07812 019776 or matthewos@sky.com
On the 19th December, the Royal Middlesex Orpheus will bring this new work to Mells as part of an Advent concert in support of the community-run Mells village shop and also the church. It will be performed together with Duggan’s setting of the poem ‘Requiem’ by another World War One poet, Ivor Gurney.
Royal Middlesex Orpheus music director Matthew O’Sullivan, whose own composition ‘Advent: White Full Moon’ will receive its world premiere at the Mells concert, said of John’s work: “I was immediately taken by John’s imaginative approach to choral texture, which creates the kind of transparency that one comes across all too rarely in new music. The way the music works in reminiscences of both very new and very old styles of music, while always remaining accessible, makes it a delight for the listener.”
The Royal Middlesex Orpheus is a choir of young singers, most of whom met as choral scholars at Cambridge University, and who now enjoy singing to a professional standard while pursuing careers in other fields. In May 2008 the men of the Royal Middlesex Orpheus took part in the 3rd Bratislava Festa Choralis, competing against choirs from all over the world, where they were awarded first place in the male voice section. On 19th December they bring male and female sections together in a programme where the very newest works rub shoulders with Advent classics from the 11th to the 20th century.
Tickets cost £8.00/£6.00 conc. and are available in advance from Mells Village Shop or by contacting 01373 812201 or 812320. The concert begins at 6.30.
Journalists: For further background contact Matthew O’Sullivan on 07812 019776 or matthewos@sky.com
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