Alphingtones Choir has been going for many years now and is full of lovely (tuneful) locals! They used to meet at ACC but now meet at St Andrew’s Church just behind Grill’d off Station Street so they have more room to spread out in these Covid times …

And they need some more members - in particular bass and tenor singers (but everyone is welcome!).

If you are interested in being part of this group that meets weekly on a Thursday night just email or call (details below).

Hi all, we’re back from holidays today and we’re looking forward to seeing you in person.

It has been a very quiet holiday for me (Leanne) as I had Covid … but I am feeling less tired and ready to ease back into things.

Note that we’ve updated our booking system and are trialling a Square online shop … so you might notice some changes if you are booking into our exciting short courses and workshops available across Term 3 and 4.

And … please bear with us … and give us a call or email if you need help with anything.

You can find out more and check out our brochure here or go directly to our shop and book in here.

Our winter art exhibition is coming up in a couple of weeks. Artists … you can still join in. Register on our website. Local friends … pop past on opening night to help us celebrate 🎉 or over the weekend to check out the talent in our neighbourhood … and perhaps buy some art!

Keen to know what is coming up in Semester 2? Check out our new hot-off-the-press brochure here!

Bookings for our new short courses will open on Wednesday morning. So if you are interested in Women in the Shed, Cultural Cooking with Manu, Pattern Making with Loretta, AAA Art with Clare, Slow Stitching with Serene, Sewing Machine Maintenance or Overlocker Maintenance with Gordon or keen to update or renew your First Aid Certificate, Wednesday is the day to book in.

Just follow the links from the front page of our website to our booking page.

We’ve got our beans (perhaps a little late because of the tomatoes that had a second run …) and our leafy green pak choy and some marigolds grown from seed in the garden and they’re doing their thing slowly … and on Friday Theresa worked on potting up some cuttings from Clare’s garden … salvias and other flowers 🌺 to bring some pops of colour to our fenceline and garden.

And then after morning tea Corrado and Max kindly stuck around and we started up the (previously checked and safe) donated chainsaw (what a generous neighbourhood we live in) for a heavy duty (and hard work) pruning process - the fruit trees 🌳 on the eastern fence … (we all needed to head home for a nap afterwards!). They’ve now had part one of their two part planned haircut … we’ve tackled the width, next time we’ll lop off the top … to make sure we can reach the fruit 🍎 they produce. It’s just amazing how much they grow each year!

Also … did you see our compost on Instagram last week? It’s teeming with life. Thanks neighbours who contribute scraps … it really is looking amazing!

If you are interested in gardening and chatting to nice people and contributing to our neighbourhood come along from 10am on Fridays. We’re back after the school holidays!