PC Minutes for July published

The minutes of the Parish Council’s July meeting are now available to read or download here.

Building Work at St. Mark's School

There are two contractors working on the site at the back of school this summer and autumn. One is Roland Hill from Aspatria, 016973 20483, who is working on a new classroom. This is being built because Cumbria County Council anticipate a rise in the pupil roll in the next five years. They have part funded the new classroom, together with Oakmere homes. The other contractor is South Cumbria Construction, 015394 43046, who will be moving an internal wall to create two even sized classrooms.

Natland residents are asked to contract either of the above contractors, or the project manager Cowan and Co., on 01772 425360, with any issues or if you notice any breach of site security.

Thank you to Natland and Oxenholme's Gardeners and Visitors

The Open Gardens event was a great success. The sun shone just the right amount, gardens sparkled, and all the people who tried gamely to go round as many gardens as possible stayed cheerful to the end.
Collin Mansfield writes: On behalf of St. Mark's Church and the Village Hall Committee I would like thank everyone for making the Garden Open Day such a success.
The total raised for St Mark's was approx £2,000.00 net of expenses and for the Village Hall £326.00. I estimate we had over 200 visitors. The most to any individual garden seems to have been about 180. Our sponsors gave us £225.00, programme sales exceeded £1000.00 and plant and produce sales, the raffle and ice cream sales made up the rest.
If you would care to send in any photos to the website, I would be glad to post them here.

Natland Parish Council Agenda

The full agenda for the next meeting of Natland Parish Council - to which you are entitled to attend though not participate - can be viewed here. It will be held in the Village Hall at 7.30pm on the 25th July.

Bumper July/Aug edition of Church Magazine is now available.

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Ten tips for Natland Gardens Open Day on 17th July

1. Buy your admission programme a week in advance from Natland or Oxenholme Post Offices and save a pound per person
2. Buy your programme a week in advance on line at http://www.trybooking.co.uk/407 and save yourself money and a walk to the Post Office
3. Wear your sun cream, we have ordered a fine sunny day.
4. Start your afternoon in Oxenholme. Drive to High Park Barn (through the stone gates at entrance to Oxenholme Station, full directions in programme and plenty of parking) next visit two gardens at 3 and 16 Fell Close. Buy your programmes on the day at these gardens in Oxenholme. Then come down to Natland and park your car on Longmeadow and walk round the other gardens
5. Ask for help from the stewards who will be at the church to sell programmes as to how to plan your walk around the village
6. Stop for an ice cream with Elspeth and Martin at 12 Longmeadow
7. Buy a raffle ticket from Cherrie and Mike at 2 Church View
8. Chat to the garden owners, they have worked very hard and want to tell you about their gardens
9. Don’t think you have to “do” every garden – we have 19 so that is quite a lot to get around -
 enjoy as many as you can manage
10. Have a well earned mid afternoon break with tea and cake at the village hall

Changing weather in June

2016		2015
Average temperatures
Temperature at 8am	15.6C		11.2C
Min temperature	13.9C		9.6C
Max temperature	20.4C		16.0C
Total rainfall	mm	in	mm	in
	107.5	4.3	31.5	1.3

Warm and dry at the start of June, the weather changed later, with heavy rain on the 20th and at the end. Still warmer than average overall.

John Dobson