October Comes

My, doesn’t time fly. It’s nearly October, Nature is busily preparing for Winter and it’s time to get out those Damart Thermals. So settle down with a blanket and I’ll tell you about some of the goodies on offer next month.

We kick off on Friday 1st with a feast of music - from the Celtic sounds of Irish jigs, film music, classical, jazz, gypsy, to the tangos and bossa novas of South America, yes it’s 10 String Fever returning to the Redbridge Green Fair Live Music Club, at Ilford Sports Club Cricklefields. Details.

From a feast of music to a feast of food. On Saturday 2nd it’s the World Food Day event at Holy Trinity South Woodford Hall. This is part of the Woodford Festival and offers the chance to sample culinary delights from around the world. It does what it says on the tin. Details.

Maintaining the food theme we have the Forest Farm Open Day on Sunday 10th. Debbie the resident medical herbalist will be there and there will be apple juice pressing and tasting as well as children’s activities, and chutneys, jams etc available for a donation. Details.

There is also the Abundance Project which does not have a specific date. This is where volunteers harvest fruit that would otherwise go to waste, or householders allow those volunteers to pick unwanted fruit in their garden. It will then get used in the production of jams, juice, chutneys and preserves. Details.

Moving on we have the inaugural meeting of the Wanstead Transition Initiative on Friday 15th. What’s that all about? See previous post and also see their explanation flyer here. The first meeting has a showing of the award winning film “The Age of Stupid” starring Pete Postlethwaite. You don’t have to live in Wanstead to attend. Details.

The following Wednesday 20th sees the opening of a new exhibition down at Redbridge Museum in the Central Library, Ilford. It’s about the “largest multinational business the world has ever seen” – The East India Company – and it’s 400 year association with Redbridge. Well, all right, it wasn’t called Redbridge then. Details.

But don’t pop down there on Thursday 21st morning. That’s when you should be at our coffee morning when we have the Deputy Leader of the Council, Ian Bond, as a our guest speaker. I’m sure you can come up with a few searching questions for him in these austere times. Like did Cllr Cleaver stand down as group leader merely to avoid all the obvious jokes? Tea, coffee and toilet facilities available. Details.

And that appears to be it. No Area Committee 3 or 4 meetings in October. The cllrs are all having a well earned break but will no doubt be keeping a keen eye on the government’s spending review. Except to say……

The month concludes with Halloween. Some like it, some don’t. There’s a poster here to download if you don’t want to be disturbed.

And to note that the end of October sees the conclusion of the excellent summer Green Waste kerb side collection service, to be resumed, funds permitting, in April. In the meantime you can still book a collection or use the Sunday service at Craven Gardens Car Park.

Roll on November.