TOWARDS the end of March the Upwey and Broadwey Horticultural Society held its Spring Show at the memorial hall.

There were 186 entries altogether and that included home cookery, photography and model making as well as all the flowers of springtime.

Sarah Studley won the cup for the lady with the highest points in the horticultural classes and her grandson, Ben, won the junior trophy for his model dragon, photograph and decorated egg.

Brian Marsh won the daffodil championship, Ray Hayward the Daffodil Society’s best vase and Bill Howarth won the cup for the best bowl of bulbs.

The Society’s Summer Show is in August and the organiser, Eve Morris, invites you all to have a go. If interested call 01305 813942.

The regular monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday at St Nicholas Primary School, 7.30pm. The speaker on May 6 will be Peter Reid whose subject are roses.

IT’S that lovely time of year when the creative talents of Upwey get together to make the annual well-dressing.

It’s something that many people like to join in with – making the colourful back panels which will be hung under the arches of our ancient and historic well.

Maggie Cooke, as always, has been working on an original design and this year’s theme celebrates the centenary of the Guide Movement. Maggie prepares it for us to go and spend a few hours, or more, or less, placing tiny flower heads, petals, grasses, leaves, twigs and seeds onto the clay base.

It takes a lot of hours and many people to get the job done in time for the display on Saturday, May 1. You are all welcome to come and help – any time from about 10am starting on Wednesday, April 28 ready for display on Saturday, May 1 at about midday.

A GREAT deal of work is going on in the village at present as we all get to grips with making ourselves more beautiful.

The feeling has been widely expressed that perhaps we are not taking enough care of our special environment so we’re doing something about it.

Footpaths have featured large on our agenda and we’re doing our best to ensure that they are in as good order as we can get them. We’re also hoping to be able to display a map so that visitors (and locals) can follow some of the byways, which abound here.

Work has begun to convert the old public loos, by the Wishing Well café, into a studio. So, we shall have to put up with a bit of inconvenience there, but we’re sure that the finished building will be so very much better than the rather horrid concrete structure it has been.