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Nature Notes – March 2023
While admiring the spring flowers in the church yard, I noticed grey squirrels chasing each other along the church wall.
Read MoreNature Notes – February 2023
At last signs of spring: great tits, robins, starlings, mistle thrushes and song thrushes are all starting to sing.
Read MoreKing Charles III Coronation
Buckingham Palace – Have announced plans for the Coronation weekend.
Read MoreScruton Festival – June 2023
Scruton’s traditional annual Village Fete is superseded this year by a new festival organised by Scruton Playing Field Association (SPFA).
Read MoreNature Notes – January 2023
Ten years ago the sight or a photo of an otter on the Swale would have made the local newspapers. Today they are more common than kingfishers.
Read MoreFrom the Rectory – December 2022
The Christmas hype has started. I doubt many people look to the weeks before Christmas with the word ‘quiet’ in mind.
Read MoreSociable Warm Space
Volunteers from St. Radegund’s Church have agreed with the Coore Memorial Hall to hold open times this winter when Scruton residents can socialise in the village hall.
Read MoreNature Notes – December 2022
by Andy Johnson The Twelve Days of Christmas is an old English Carol* featuring mainly animals. A partridge is an English or grey partridge. Turtle doves are now rare but occasionally seen locally. French hens are thought to be Breton hens. Calling birds (or ‘colly’ in early versions) meant blackbirds. Gold rings were thought to…
Read MoreAdvent Displays 2022
Look out in Scruton windows & gardens for 24 days of Advent.
Read MoreFrom the Rectory – November 2022
November is a month of remembering, from All Saints to All Souls, to Armistice Day and then, ‘Remember remember the 5th of November’, fireworks and bonfires.
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