bloomingyeovil

With the elections over the business of government begins, The Town Council has had it’s first meeting and the Mayor together with the committee structure is set up for the coming year, the District Council also had it’s first meeting they elected the Leader together with their committee structure. The serious side of being a councillor has started in earnest with lot’s training for everyone, except those that believe they don’t need training, it is a shame that some people think they are so much better than the rest of us. Time will tell.

Bank Holiday Monday see’s the Country Fayre at Nine Springs, a great day out for the children, and the Mum’s and Dad’s. The most important thing is that it is free for all. The event is around thew swimming pool, but goes along Nine Springs and into the woods.

Yeovil’s flower beds are being planted up with the summer bedding, the Church Yard is first, with planting radiating out from there. Some of the floral displays will be head turners, with some real innovative designs on display. The horticultural team have been hard at work for months growing the plants we will see in our flower beds, as summer approaches Yeovil will start to look like it should, with the last thing to go out will be the Baskets and Troughs.

Yeovil is twinned with three towns in Europe, Next weekend the French arrive from Herlbay, the Twinning Association has a busy schedule planned for them, taking in Weymouth, Portland also to The Bath & West Show, I hope the weather is kind, as I am taking a day off work to spend time with then, and for the first time my wife and I will be hosting, we have a French Lady staying with us, I hope my school boy French will be enough to get by. The French Twinners arrive by coach, and to our surprise they leave Sunday morning at 4:40am, is that an early start, or what. I hope we all wake up in time to meet the coach.

Thousands of bulbs and polyanthus from Yeovil’s award-winning floral displays have been given away for free, for many years now
the same give away has taken place. “Yeovil In Bloom” would rather the residents of Yeovil had some nice flowers than to just compost them, the gain
from compost is short lived but the gain from re-cycling the flowers is long lived.

South Somerset District Council, which creates and maintains the displays on behalf of Yeovil Town Council, Yeovil in Bloom initiative,
invited people to the giveaway at St John’s Churchyard. People were encouraged to bring a carrier bag to fill with Polyanthus and Tulip bulbs.

Last year thousands of bulbs and plants were collected by eager green-fingered residents within the first hour, and the district
council’s teams had given away all of the plants by 10.30am. It is the fourth year of the bulb giveaway.

“One of the responsibilities of our Horticulture Team is to keep the district looking good.
We rotate our wonderful floral displays on a seasonal basis so it’s nice to be able offer local people the chance to have some of last season’s bulbs.”

As I sit here looking out on a wet windy Saturday, I am enjoying a restful day, well so far anyway, just had bacon and egg for breakfast, (what diet), “I’ll walk it off later”. I hope the rain stops soon; it’s the Town Criers competition today.

Following the past weeks of rushing around with the elections, we have now settled in a quiet time, time to reflect and take stock. The elections are over, there has been winners and losers, some happy some sad. There are a lot of new faces on the town council this quadrennium, this is due to members retiring, there are now have 23 Lib-Dems and one Green  that is a change, that one more Lib-Dem than before, the two communists have gone, their policy’s could  not have been to the voters liking.

Our Town Councillors are now: –

 It looks like the rain may have stopped, that is good as I have to walk into town soon, I must take my camera, with all these costumes around there should be some nice opportunities for photo’s and I don’t need to much of an excuse to get it out, “my camera I mean”.

The garden needed the rain, there will be a lot of happy farmers and gardeners today after a good soaking overnight, now the ground is wet we need  steady rain for a day or too, to allow the rain to soak in and not just run off and down the drain. Everything looks so much greener today, but that is what a little rain does, after a long dry spell.

  The District Council is clearing the winter bedding, it is such a shame to see the flowers ripped up but, the ground need time to rest before the summer bedding goes in, the flowers put on such a wonderful display, it is a show not to be missed, and Yeovil is well known for its floral displays.

Welcome to  Blooming Yeovil. This is my first ever Blog so please be gentle with me.

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Did you know that in Yeovil on saturday we are hosting the Town Criers Competition, with all the rassle dassle and load voices that, that brings, the weather looks as if it will stay fair, at least for the first part and if we are lucky the afternoon as well. Come and see us in all our glory and volume.

If you have no idea what Yeovil is about Visit www.yeoviltown.com there are links to allsorts and some of it is even interesting. We even have a football team.

The link on the left to the Yeovil in Bloom Video is well worth a press, it is an 8 minute video with some well known local people in it.