Number 10 Downing Street Garden Opens to the Public for Open Garden Squares Weekend

http://www.opensquares.org/index.html?page=selector.php

You can only visit this garden on a tour and all places will be allocated by public ballot. When you buy your ticket, you will be asked if you wish to enter the ballot.

You can enter the ballot for a place on these tours without purchasing an Open Garden Squares Weekend ticket. Simply click on the link below. (Ticket-buyers can also enter the ballot here for a second chance to win.)

There are a maximum two places on the tour per drawn ballot. Tickets will be selected at random on 21 May and winning ticket-holders will be advised around 29 May.

Entering the ballot assumes you have read and understood the terms and conditions.

Rye–E F Benson

   

The steps from the bottom of which the Padre proffered his umbrella in a vain attempt to rescue Elizabeth Mapp & Lucia from the upturned table.

  

                                                      The Belvedere

Mallards         Quaint Irene’s cottage ‘Taormina’

 

 

Curfew Street (Watch Bell)

Lunch!

Squints

 

 

Lunch Alert! Rye - Tuesday 26th February

Provided the weather is good I think we should revert to our usual practice and take sandwiches, or buy same in Rye, as the spirit moves you.  I did a recce today and eating as originally proposed will take too long.  Id the weather is unfriendly, we’ll have to fly by the seat of our pants, but I suspect Chris and I may then be the only people  affected!

Tuesday 26th February–third time lucky?

The Mapp & Lucia / E F Benson walk

344 bus – 10.45 from station; 10.48 from Havelock Road, people join as suits them.

I am intending to lunch at The Mariners, which is in the High Street and is staffed by students/attendees of the Canterbury Oast House Trust, a charity helping people with learning disabilities such as Down’s Syndrome, to find work.

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