Christmas Craft Stalls (indoor event) at Over Community Centre Santa’s Grotto – Tombola – Mulled Wine – Mince Pies To book a stall, contact the Centre tkimber@thecentreatover.co.uk

There’s less than 4 weeks to go until Over’s Produce Show takes place – still time to think about what classes you can enter.  As well as the usual vegetables, fruit, plants and flowers, home cooking and homemade produce and beers, spirits and wines, we have the Craft section with 2 new classes this year. The themes for the Photography section are Blue, Blooms and Boats. Please encourage your youngsters to have a go in the Childrens entries. Pick up a Produce Show Programme with the Schedule and Entry Form from Over Gardening Club Stall on the Village Green at Over Carnival on Saturday 11th July. Produce Show committee members…

Father’s Day is a day when we love to spoil those special men in our families. Fathers, grandfathers, uncles or friends – anyone who plays a father-like role  in our life or in that of our children. You will obviously know their taste in special meals – my Dad loved roast beef with all the trimmings, followed by apple pie and cream. I have only met one or two men though, who don’t love a slice of chocolate cake as a treat, so I’m sharing with you a rather scrummy recipe. It’s Nigella Lawson’s Chocolate Guiness cake, which I have in her book Feast and the accompanying photo is from…

To make a simple and inexpensive gift for that precious man, how about a personalised photo frame holding a photo of him with you/your children? A wooden frame could be painted if necessary but even other frames could work. Using a glue gun, attach a few things that are appropriate to the man’s hobbies around the frame. Maybe it’s fishing flies (without hooks obviously), or nuts and bolts, or perhaps decoupage a wooden frame with torn strips from an old book no longer required. Etc. I know these suggestions are rather generic but whatever your person is interested in could probably be replicated in some way. For someone who enjoys…

Now is an ideal time to brighten up your front door or patio by planting up a pot of spring plants. A beautiful container of plants will make an ideal Mother’s Day present. The garden centres have a great choice of colourful primulas, pansies and other spring plants to make up your own display. Add some height with a few tete-a-tete daffodils. These will last longer if you can find some that are still in bud. Choose your container from the wide range of pottery and terracotta pots or pick a nice plastic pot or planter if you want something that is lighter to move around. The container must have…

Please find here some simple crafts that you can do for a loved one this valentines day.

Obviously, there are many elaborate and delicious meals and cakes one can make to treat a special person, but there are also simple ways to just make everyday food a little bit special this weekend. Heart Shapes Either free-hand or using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut a heart shaped strawberry jam sandwich, slice of toast, scone dough etc. One trick (where there’s no waste) is to cut a heart out of a slice of toast – pop the outer into a frying pan and fry an egg in the aperture, while spreading butter and jam on the cutout. Chocolate While a chocolate fondue is fun with delicious fruit, a simpler…