AN EVENING of comedy and song about the joy of vegetables and growing your own is promised when the touring theatre show Can You Dig It? plants itself in Lambley on Saturday 9 March 2013. This quirky allotment-based comedy and…
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Plough Play dates for January 2013
THE ANNUAL Calverton Plough Play has announced the dates and venues of its performances in January 2013. A traditional ‘mummers’ play, whose origins are lost in the mists of time and hangovers, the current Plough Play dates back to 1979 and…
Storytelling on an Olympic scale
WE MAY not be getting a direct visit from the Olympic flame in our area (although Woodborough resident David Burgess will carry the torch next week at Balderton), but we can enter into the spirit of the games at an…
Woodborough’s whistlers seek gold
CHILDREN from Woods Foundation School in Woodborough can be seen on a short video posted on Facebook, taking part in a national competition to find the best carrot whistlers in the country. Organised by the British Carrot Growers’ Association, the competition…
Cowslip Sunday photo gallery now online
LAMBLEY’s Cowslip Sunday celebrations on 6 May 2012 were widely regarded as a huge success, boosted by a welcome improvement in the weather. Local photographer Mel Smith has kindly shared many excellent high-quality photos of the Cowslip Procession and the…
Weather will not dampen Cowslip Sunday in Lambley
SUNDAY 6 May 2012 sees the return of Cowslip Sunday, Lambley’s ancient and now world-famous celebration of springtime and its native flower. Event organiser David Longford, director of the Lambley Arts Festival, tells dumbles.co.uk that this year’s festivities will be…
National coverage for Lambley event
COWSLIP Sunday, Lambley’s revived annual celebration of its native flower, has attracted national press coverage. Country Living, a major glossy lifestyle magazine with a circulation of over 200,000, devotes three pages to the event in its May 2012 edition, published today. The…
Big screen comes to Oxton
CINEMAS are thin on the ground in our area, and with the exception of the annual Lowdham Flicks in the Sticks events any film lovers in our villages have to travel to Nottingham or Mansfield. Next month, however, sees the…
Edinburgh Fringe hit comes home to Calverton
CALVERTON might seem an unlikely location for a hit comedy play to finish a UK tour but, for one night only in October, the Edinburgh Fringe comes to the Nottinghamshire village in the form of Phys Ed, a play by local writer…
Jungle Book comes to Lambley
LAMBLEY’S next professional theatre presentation will be The Jungle Book, performed by touring company the Oxfordshire Theatre Company. This new adaptation of the famous Rudyard Kipling stories presents the thrilling and heart-warming tale of Mowgli, the boy brought up by wolves.…