MONMOUTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS

PRESENT

WORDS FOR THE WORLD

LEARN ABOUT BEES FOR DEVELOPMENT

Fund raising afternoon for Bees For Development

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DRYBRIDGE HOSUE • WONASTOW ROAD • MONMOUTH • NP25 5AS

Afternoon Tea • Tombola • Readings on the theme of climate change • Book signings by local authors.

GRANGE COURT

PINSLEY ROAD, LEOMINSTER, HR6 8NL

TICKET BOOKING TO BE ADVISED.

HEREFORDSHIRE WI

HEREFORD FOOTBALL CUB -EDGAR STREET. HEREFORD. HR4 9JU

BARBARA GLASSPOOLE - barbara.glasspoole@gmail.com

September and the hives are preparing for autumn. The queen is slowing down and the drones are being ‘asked’ to leave! However, this queen bee is still going strong and looking forward to creating a buzz about the honeybees to these lovely ladies!

What a beautiful part of the country. Looking forward to meeting the ladies of Clent WI to talk all things honeybees.

Looking forward to meeting the ladies at The Chaddesley Corbett WI. September is an interesting time for the honeybees, the drones are being kicked out, oh yes far more dramatic than being asked to leave, they workers literally throw them out and won’t allow them back in! Why, coz they’ve done their work and will add nothing more to the colony other than eat up the stores! The queen is slowing down on her laying and they are getting themselves ready for the winter months ahead!

UNITED REFORM CHURCH HALL

Worcester Rd, Malvern Link WR14 1SS

Anne Noble - President

Alfrick Village Hall, Clay Green, Alfrick, WR6 5HJ,

Carol Boughton - President

LEWIS CARTER

Brookthorpe Hall School

Stroud Road, Gloucester, GL4 0UN

01452 717004

Very much looking forward to meeting the ladies of St. Catherines Blackewell WI. Hopefully the weather will be better this year than 2023 and the bees will be simply buzzing with excitement with all the wonderful swathes of lavender and abundance of June flowers in peoples gardens. In June the honeybees rely on keen gardeners to supply them with the blooms they need as nature, naturally, has a gap in June as we cross over from Spring to Summer!

Absolutely delighted to have been invited to give a talk at Leominster Library. Leominster is my nearest home town and I’m eager to create a buzz about honeybees so close to home!

LEOMINSTER LIBRARY

8 BUTTERCROSS, LEOMINSTER HR6 8BN

BOOKING TICKETS TO BE ADVISED

What a lovely time of year to be talking about the honeybees. The gardens and meadows are full of flowers for our wonderful pollinators to be working on. Very much looking forward to meeting all the ladies at this WI.

Chalfont St Peter Church of England Academy

Bethany Gilbert b-gilbert@cspacademy.org.uk 01753 883982 

Penn Road, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, SL9 9SS

Christine Crease - Little Chalfont Knitting Group -

Little Chalfont Library, Cokes Lane, Little Chalfont Bucks, HP7 9QA

What a lovely time of year May is… no better time to be talking about our wonderful honeybees. Looking forward to meeting these ladies!

Absolutely thrilled to have been asked to give a talk to this wonderful charity in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

We all know honeybees provide us with a healthy diet but did you know people have used honeybee related products for medicanal purposes? It has ever been thus for thousands of years. Honey, pollen, propolis, all products produced by the honeybees, contain antioxidant, anitmicrobial, antiinflammatory and anti cancer properties.

So not only are the honeybees providing us with a healthy diet they are also important when it comes to treating wide variety of health conditions!

Long live the honeybees… long live us all!

JUBILEE HALL AMERSHAM HP7 0BT

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM SCANNAPPEAL.ORG.UK OR CALL 01494 734 161

As I sit and type this entry into my events page it’s just under a year away… but that doesn’t stop me, for one second, looking forward to meeting these ladies. In April the bees, weather permitting, are flying and gathering the pollen and nectar required to get the generation going. Last year April was terrible for the bees, let’s hope this April will be better!

So pleased to have been asked to give a talk about the honeybees here in my local village. Cannot wait to leave them simply buzzing!

Looking forward to meeting the members of The Burwarton & District Gardening Club. I think I’d better brush up on my bee plant knowledge before I go!

March… one of my favourite times of the year. We’re in to spring, the trees are starting to bloom all around and the daffodils, snowdrops, roses, primroses are all well on their way! The honeybees are busy gathering the nectar and pollen they need for the coming year. So much to talk about and who better than to a gardening club? Really looking forward to meeting the ladies of The Knucklas Gardening Club and talking all things honeybees!

Back “by popular demand!”

Eardisley CE Primary School

Hereford HR3 6NS

MONMOUTH LIBRARY

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to be an author? Four members, including myself, of The Marchers Authors will be giving a talk about being authors, their books and doing book signings. For more information visit https://marchersauthorsont.wixsite.com/marchers-authors and visit their events page.

THR ROLLS HALL, WHITECROSS STREET, MONMOUTH. NP25 3BY

Delighted to be a part of this great show again this year. Watch out for my stand. For the children’s colouring competition and of course my talk on Uganda!

Looking forward to meeting these ladies and talking all things honeybees. Our girls may be still inside keeping their queen fed and warm but I am definitely out and about attending events and creating a buzz about the honeybees!

Thrilled to have been invited to give a talk to The Herefordshire Flower Guild. It may be a cold time of year but we all need cheering up just after the hectic christmas season and what better subject to put a smile on everyone’s faces than the honeybees and of course wonderful gardens!

Very much looking forward to meeting the members of the Orleton & District Gardening Club. It may be November and the honeybees will be huddled around their queen but there’s still so much to talk about! Never lost for words when it comes to the honeybees, whatever the time of year!

This gig has been a long time coming! Booked in March 2022! Very much looking forward to chatting to all the keen gardeners about the honeybees. Maybe they can teach me a little something about plants and bees that I don’t know about!

This is very exciting. The First Independent Book Fair to be held in Stroud and I’m delighted to say I’m going to be a part of it! More details to follow…